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…and a much more “benign” purchase: at least people stupid enough to believe false claims about a Calabrian chilli are not funding organised crime, murders, and the extinction of endangered mammals!
Reggio is famous for its allegedly-aphrodisiac chillies and for its particularly delicious tomatoes.
The tomatoes are indeed notably sweet and flavourful.
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The “rainforest” was crass, ersatz.
So was just about everything in this “suitably” enormous, multi-storey shopping centre in Guangzhou.
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Typically, signs of the “Do not…”/Strictly prohibited…” kind are dull and stern.
Rarely does one encounter even a failed attempt at humour.
So hats off to Transperth – the Perth (Western Australia) public transport authority – and to whomever won the advertising contract for the “no vaping on trains, buses, ferries and their stations” campaign!
Comments closedThe roadside billboard pictured above is in the foothills of the Nilgiri Hills.
It hopes to lure travellers into what is in fact merely yet another of the world’s millions of franchised purveyors of junk “food”, “soft” drinks, and lousy coffee.
What’s actually on offer is drearily “global”, but the billboard-hyperbole has an unmistakably Indian flavour.
Where else would a brand name even attempt to associate its burgers, pizzas, sandwiches and fizzy drinks with drug “trips” and rock music’s first “supergroup”?
Comments closedYour three key needs are all equally urgent: an alcoholic drink, getting your hair “done”, and your clothes washed.
There is a place where all three of those needs could be met, simultaneously, at the same address, early in the day.
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Occasionally, one encounters an “instructive” sign.
Comments closedIn northern Namibia – and just about anywhere else in Southern Africa – the pictured takeaway food outlet’s “alarming” sign would cause no unease whatsoever, nor would its meaning be unclear.
”Russians” – with or without chips – have long been a great favourite of southern Africans, whether “dining out” or “cooking up” in their own homes.
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Looking for a harder-edged, “no-frills” retail therapy experience?
Northern Namibia has a cornucopia of “eminently suitable” venues.
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There is at least one of the world’s “malls” which Paris Hilton has never shopped.
It is surely safe to assume that no visiting North American tourist will ever feel compelled to enter this mall for a dose of “retail therapy”…
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“Retail therapy” may be a flawed, hollow notion, but it has been bought by billions.
It would appear, however, that this kind of message is a little harder to sell to northern Namibians than to Southern Californians.
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