So tweets the Swiss Tourism office after Oprah cries racism when a shopgirl deems a $38,000 handbag "too expensive" and steers her toward other merchandise. Racism has many manifestations, some terribly subtle. Who can tell the difference between a rich lady in don't-you-know-who-I-am mode crushing a humble retail employee and a woman imbued with racial memory vindicating centuries of suffering by perceiving the last nuance of insult?
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Friday, 9 August 2013
"We are fuming - this person acted terribly wrong. We are sorry this happened to @oprah!."
Posted on 09:35 by Unknown
Sunday, 28 July 2013
"Stand still. Stand steady. Stand clear."
Posted on 11:21 by Unknown
"Don't let this happen to your child."
A 1970s public service announcement warning you not to do what Mayor Bloomberg is actively encouraging. What used to be following basic safety is now regarded as anti-social:
A 1970s public service announcement warning you not to do what Mayor Bloomberg is actively encouraging. What used to be following basic safety is now regarded as anti-social:
"Able-bodied people standing on the downward escalator are in effect robbing the people behind them of time," says Hamilton Nolan, who writes for Gawker and regularly uses the New York subway.People seem to have forgotten the horrors of the escalator.
"Their presumptuous need for leisure may cause everyone behind them to miss a train they would have otherwise caught. Then those people are forced to stand and wait on a subway platform for many extra minutes. Those are precious minutes of life that none of us will get back."
Friday, 26 July 2013
Kitty Tongue, the Glove.
Posted on 08:00 by Unknown
"Just like the surface of a cat's tongue: gentle, gradual and soothing grooming action."
That's something someone bought through my Amazon portal yesterday. Please consider giving me some gentle, gradual and soothing grooming action by doing whatever shopping you may have today through that link. Hear my loud purrs of gratitude for all who stroked me thusly Thursday.
That's something someone bought through my Amazon portal yesterday. Please consider giving me some gentle, gradual and soothing grooming action by doing whatever shopping you may have today through that link. Hear my loud purrs of gratitude for all who stroked me thusly Thursday.
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Continued carnage by pro executioners.
Posted on 09:39 by Unknown
After yesterday's post about the The Executioner PRO Fly Swat Wasp Bug Mosquito Swatter Zapper, I see that 4 of you readers decided to step up and get your wasp-swatting done. And that's just those of you who bought your executioner's tools through the Althouse Amazon portal, where readers can shop and — in the muddled mind of Althouse — appear to be saying, we love you, even after you imposed the death sentence on the whole comments section in a draconian reaction to the infestation of wasps, mosquitoes, and bugs.
And if you'd like to add that you love my Lawnboy too, here's his recommended reel mower... and here's the fancy Fiskars mower he's contemplating. Meade assures me all the unusual looking parts are functional. It does have less of the classic look that's functional when your enterprise is making romanticized photographs.
"I remember my father's reel mower," I say. "It had a wooden handle."
Meade moves the headphones off his ears — he's listening to "Brokedown Palace" — and I repeat myself. He says: "Oh, yeah. I would love to have one of those."
Ebay? Nah. All the wooden-handled reel mowers seem to have the words "antique" and "vintage" attached to them, like you're just supposed to lean them up against the wall for decoration in your brokedown palace.
And if you'd like to add that you love my Lawnboy too, here's his recommended reel mower... and here's the fancy Fiskars mower he's contemplating. Meade assures me all the unusual looking parts are functional. It does have less of the classic look that's functional when your enterprise is making romanticized photographs.
"I remember my father's reel mower," I say. "It had a wooden handle."
Meade moves the headphones off his ears — he's listening to "Brokedown Palace" — and I repeat myself. He says: "Oh, yeah. I would love to have one of those."
Ebay? Nah. All the wooden-handled reel mowers seem to have the words "antique" and "vintage" attached to them, like you're just supposed to lean them up against the wall for decoration in your brokedown palace.
Fare you well, my honey, fare you well, my only true one.Cue to my exiled commenters to say Althouse is mourning the loss of all the commenters.
All the birds that were singing are flown, except you alone.
Going to leave this brokedown palace,
On my hands and my knees, I will roll, roll, roll.
Make myself a bed by the waterside,
In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll.
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
The Executioner PRO Fly Swat Wasp Bug Mosquito Swatter Zapper.
Posted on 06:37 by Unknown
Is this a sport? Is it wrong?
Of all the things bought at Amazon through the Althouse Amazon Portal yesterday, that's the one that caught my eye... and kind of scared me.
Remember: When you swat at the wasp, you must kill him.
And: Thanks to all who do their shopping through the Althouse Amazon Portal. It feels like a vote of confidence in this blog and inspires me ever onward, swatting (if not executing) all manner of insectoid foolishness found on the web.
Of all the things bought at Amazon through the Althouse Amazon Portal yesterday, that's the one that caught my eye... and kind of scared me.
Remember: When you swat at the wasp, you must kill him.
And: Thanks to all who do their shopping through the Althouse Amazon Portal. It feels like a vote of confidence in this blog and inspires me ever onward, swatting (if not executing) all manner of insectoid foolishness found on the web.
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