One would think that United Airlines would mind its P’s and Q’s in light of last year’s United Breaks Guitars You Tube hit and its pending merger with Continental. But no. In an egregious example of airline customer service United has hit a new low. Read on… Jessica Cabot, of Courtenay, British Columbia, was on [...]
Embarrassed by bad translations and tired of utterly confusing English speakers, the Shanghai Commission for the Management of Language Use has been working feverishly for the past two years to correct Chinglish, the often flawed melding of Chinese and English, on public signage and restaurant menus all over the city. Using an army of over [...]
The Europeans seem to have the most descriptive road signs in the world. Last month we saw that the Romanians had a road sign to warn of drunks crossing the road; now from Northern Italy, the province of Treviso has a road sign warning motorists of hookers. The red-bordered triangular sign shows a scantily-clad woman [...]
In a few hundred years when our simian overloads have taken over control of the Earth, we’ll have Thailand’s Safari World to thank for setting their ancestors on a path of revenge against humanity. The Thai theme park features orangutans kickboxing, pretending to be knocked out of boxing rings, and has others dressed in bikinis [...]
Disneyland Paris officials are investigating after two park employees committed suicide in the past six weeks, under working conditions which a trade union described as “humiliating”. The Disneyland division of French union Force Ouvriere (FO) believes the suicides are associated with poor work conditions. The first of the year was a chef who threw himself in front [...]
So anytime there’s a news item about Mexico, particularly about corruption or the drug cartels I check it out. I do have some distant relatives that live in some of these areas. Also, I use the articles to talk myself out of travel to Mexico anytime in my lifetime. If you’ve read my previous post [...]
What’s the best way to separate a fool from his money? Make a crazy bet that appeals to his sense of machismo and have losing that bet end up in serious injury or death. Which of course makes it easier to collect on such a bet. In Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, these simple rules [...]
The JSA staff (at this point consisting of myself and the fabulous Holly Comesoftly) made a pilgrimage to the State Fair of Texas a few weeks back. It was the day of the Texas-OU game so we got to see plenty of long faced OU fans moping about Fair Park as they munched on fried [...]
Last March, Clare Irby a descendant of the Guinness brewing family was on a Kingfisher Airlines flight from Bangalore to London. After a reported ten glasses of wine, the single mom was too busy to take care of her son who cried, ran around the plane and who went for some time with a dirty [...]
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