Archive for August, 2008

When your pedicurist is a fish

Fish that give you a pedicure

When your pedicurist is a fish – International Herald Tribune

Sorry, I don’t know if it’s just me, but as someone who’s never had a pedicure in all my life – this would make me think about it. Because it’s just so freaking hilarious! From the article:

Customer Patsy Fisher, 42, admitted she was nervous as she prepared for her first fish pedicure. But her apprehension dissolved into laughter after she put her feet in the tank and the fish swarmed to her toes.

“It’s a little ticklish, actually,” she said.

Ho said the hot water in which the fish thrive doesn’t support much plant or aquatic life, so they learned to feed on whatever food sources were available — including dead, flaking skin. They leave live skin alone because, without teeth, they can’t bite it off.

There you have it: the fish pedicure. Somewhere between the beautician’s dream, and everyone’s nightmares.

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Oh, no! Now everyone knows what’s going to happen!

South Korean television footage shot at a dress rehearsal this week breached the secrecy surrounding the Beijing Olympic Games’ opening ceremony and offered a first glimpse of the elaborate production.

Spoiler alert: Viewers can expect a dramatic countdown, giant whales, an illuminated globe and performers flying above the audience.

Secret’s out about opening ceremony of Beijing Games – International Herald Tribune

Did anybody else hear about this and think that this is possibly the poorest attempt at a spoiler in the history of the world? A big countdown. Giant whales. An illuminated globe and performers that fly around the stadium. What is it, some kind of opening ceremony?

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Racism alive and well in Australia

This is the sort of atrocious behaviour you’d expect to maybe hear about still happening in South Africa, not New South Wales.

AT THE 2007 NSW Liquor Store of the Year, staff were instructed to keep “coloureds” out of the shop unless they were willing to come in individually and be searched – and to call police if they refused.

Tim Leonard, owner of Old Bar Cellars near Taree on the NSW north coast, wrote a memo to staff in February outlining new rules for Aboriginal customers, “due to the fact that we have now had three known incidents of shoplifting involving the one coloured girl plus friends”

Store staff told to bar ‘coloureds’ | theage.com.au

The disturbing part is that the trigger for this abomination was that “one coloured girl” had been involved in three separate incidents. It’s pathetic.

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