Requiem for a Dream

Fun Bit 008 - Babes Suffering

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Fun:
Obviously just a typo but the image of 432 babes getting sick off contaminated milk is funny. All that talk about Microsoft buying over Yahoo must have had the staff pretty distracted.

Fun Bit 007 - Gong Li looking for freedom

News:
News broke out about 2 weeks ago that Gong Li, the famous-to-Chinese-speakers actress, had become a Singapore citizen. And last Sunday, the Sunday Times ran an article about how Singaporeans are supposedly divided over this bit of extremely important news.

Extract from this gem of an article:

A Sunday Times online poll reveals that only 36 per cent of the 33 respondents think she should give up her China citizenship.

One netizen, Ramzi, wrote on a forum: 'She probably prefers Singapore because we have more freedom and a better quality of life. I have worked in Hong Kong and China and seen life there. It's definitely much better here.'

Fun:
1. More freedom here than in Hong Kong and China? Ramzi must surely not be referring to media freedom and freedom of expression. So fucking blatantly obvious and transparent.

2. 33 respondents?! That's all the people the Sunday Times could get in a week to respond to their online poll and they think it's worth running a second story? Pathetic.