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Message 1504506 - Posted: 15 Apr 2014, 23:01:19 UTC

I got a laugh out of this one this morning.

London hair salon targeted by North Korean agents over Kim Jong-un ‘Bad hair day’ poster.

BRITISH police said they had intervened after North Korean embassy officials reportedly told a London hairdresser to take down a discount haircuts advert featuring leader Kim Jong-un.

Mo Nabbach told the London Evening Standard newspaper that two officials from the Stalinist state’s mission took pictures of the M&M Hair Academy in Ealing, west London.

They then ordered him to remove the “disrespectful” poster, he said. The poster featured a large picture of Kim’s distinctive short-back-and-sides hairdo with the slogan: read: “Bad hair day? 15 per cent off all gent cuts through the month of April.” “I told them this is England and not North Korea and told them to get their lawyers,” the newspaper quoted Mr Nabbach as saying.

It seems that North Korean officials don't have a sense of humour or are able recognise the fact that they're in a free foreign country.

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Message 1504511 - Posted: 15 Apr 2014, 23:27:11 UTC - in response to Message 1504506.  

“I told them this is England and not North Korea and told them to get their lawyers,” the newspaper quoted Mr Nabbach as saying.

It seems that North Korean officials don't have a sense of humour or are able recognise the fact that they're in a free foreign country.

In the US using the president in advertising is frowned upon too. White House Asks Retailer to Take Down Ad Featuring the President



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Message 1504536 - Posted: 16 Apr 2014, 1:22:48 UTC
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Heh heh heh. :)

I can't imagine anything putting me off a product more than if it featured our bunch in charge... except maybe an ashtray...? :)
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Message 1505023 - Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 1:37:35 UTC

An update to my post here yesterday.

North Korean officials have now officially asked the British government to take action against the M&M Hair Academy for their "Bad Hair Day?" poster. ROFLMAO!!!!!

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/nkorea-complains-over-barbers-kim-poster/story-e6frfkui-1226887321923

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Message 1505161 - Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 10:15:47 UTC

How does 1 lose 2349 vials of the deadly SARS virus and not notice?

Ask the French.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/french-laboratory-loses-deadly-sars-virus/story-fnjwkt0b-1226887815660

WE thought losing our car keys was bad but spare a thought for a laboratory in Paris that has admitted to misplacing more than 2000 vials containing the deadly SARS virus.

Following a routine inventory check at the Pasteur Institute in France it was discovered that 2349 tubes containing fragments of the virus that killed nearly 800 people in 2003 have disappeared.

It is not known how the samples were lost, or if they were stolen, but experts are baffled by how such a large number of samples went missing without causing suspicion considering the institute is regarded as one of the most high-security labs in the business.

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Message 1505644 - Posted: 18 Apr 2014, 16:27:08 UTC - in response to Message 1505161.  

How does 1 lose 2349 vials of the deadly SARS virus and not notice?

Ask the French.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/french-laboratory-loses-deadly-sars-virus/story-fnjwkt0b-1226887815660

WE thought losing our car keys was bad but spare a thought for a laboratory in Paris that has admitted to misplacing more than 2000 vials containing the deadly SARS virus.

Following a routine inventory check at the Pasteur Institute in France it was discovered that 2349 tubes containing fragments of the virus that killed nearly 800 people in 2003 have disappeared.

It is not known how the samples were lost, or if they were stolen, but experts are baffled by how such a large number of samples went missing without causing suspicion considering the institute is regarded as one of the most high-security labs in the business.

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:/ Huh... one of the most high-security labs in the business... I feel so much better now.

Cheers Wiggo :)
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Message 1509794 - Posted: 29 Apr 2014, 6:39:04 UTC - in response to Message 1504506.  

I got a laugh out of this one this morning.

London hair salon targeted by North Korean agents over Kim Jong-un ‘Bad hair day’ poster.

BRITISH police said they had intervened after North Korean embassy officials reportedly told a London hairdresser to take down a discount haircuts advert featuring leader Kim Jong-un.

Mo Nabbach told the London Evening Standard newspaper that two officials from the Stalinist state’s mission took pictures of the M&M Hair Academy in Ealing, west London.

They then ordered him to remove the “disrespectful” poster, he said. The poster featured a large picture of Kim’s distinctive short-back-and-sides hairdo with the slogan: read: “Bad hair day? 15 per cent off all gent cuts through the month of April.” “I told them this is England and not North Korea and told them to get their lawyers,” the newspaper quoted Mr Nabbach as saying.

It seems that North Korean officials don't have a sense of humour or are able recognise the fact that they're in a free foreign country.

Cheers.

“Bad hair day?", is it a new fad?

DesignCrowd designers Photoshopped contest images, here. :-)

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Message 1510792 - Posted: 1 May 2014, 17:14:08 UTC - in response to Message 1509794.  

I got a laugh out of this one this morning.

London hair salon targeted by North Korean agents over Kim Jong-un ‘Bad hair day’ poster.

BRITISH police said they had intervened after North Korean embassy officials reportedly told a London hairdresser to take down a discount haircuts advert featuring leader Kim Jong-un.

Mo Nabbach told the London Evening Standard newspaper that two officials from the Stalinist state’s mission took pictures of the M&M Hair Academy in Ealing, west London.

They then ordered him to remove the “disrespectful” poster, he said. The poster featured a large picture of Kim’s distinctive short-back-and-sides hairdo with the slogan: read: “Bad hair day? 15 per cent off all gent cuts through the month of April.” “I told them this is England and not North Korea and told them to get their lawyers,” the newspaper quoted Mr Nabbach as saying.

It seems that North Korean officials don't have a sense of humour or are able recognise the fact that they're in a free foreign country.

Cheers.

“Bad hair day?", is it a new fad?

DesignCrowd designers Photoshopped contest images, here. :-)

Cheers.



Hmm... I've never been a follower of fashion before... but... :)
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Message 1538185 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 1:55:08 UTC

Vials containing the deadly smallpox virus have been found in a forgotten 1950s cardboard box at the back of a cold store.

US government workers cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.

The six glass vials of freeze-dried virus were intact and sealed with melted glass, and the virus might have been dead, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last night.

Still, the find was disturbing because for decades after the lethal disease was declared eradicated in 1980, world health authorities believed the only samples of smallpox left were safely stored in super-secure laboratories in Atlanta and in Russia.

How do you forget dangerous things like these?

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Message 1538253 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 5:09:14 UTC - in response to Message 1538185.  

Vials containing the deadly smallpox virus have been found in a forgotten 1950s cardboard box at the back of a cold store.

US government workers cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.

The six glass vials of freeze-dried virus were intact and sealed with melted glass, and the virus might have been dead, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last night.

Still, the find was disturbing because for decades after the lethal disease was declared eradicated in 1980, world health authorities believed the only samples of smallpox left were safely stored in super-secure laboratories in Atlanta and in Russia.

How do you forget dangerous things like these?

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Same way you lose 100+ files on pedophiles ... human error
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Message 1538321 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 6:32:51 UTC - in response to Message 1538253.  

Same way you lose 100+ files on pedophiles ... human error


Human error is so rarely THAT convenient though don't you think?
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Message 1538329 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 7:01:44 UTC - in response to Message 1538321.  

Same way you lose 100+ files on pedophiles ... human error


Human error is so rarely THAT convenient though don't you think?

When you are looking for something, do you find it in the last place you look?

Or, what is the sound of one hand clapping.
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Message 1538336 - Posted: 9 Jul 2014, 7:11:09 UTC - in response to Message 1538329.  
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Same way you lose 100+ files on pedophiles ... human error


Human error is so rarely THAT convenient though don't you think?

When you are looking for something, do you find it in the last place you look?

Or, what is the sound of one hand clapping.


Oh absolutely :) Oh... I see what you did there... :) No, well yes :) but I find it is always in the absolute last place there is left to look. As a method... it is extremely reliable :)
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