Comments on: There’s no such thing as innocuous http://bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/ This is my blog. Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:06:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Johnny http://bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Johnny Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:18:00 +0000 http://www.bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/11/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/#comment-449 What does it mean that we have invented ways to destroy all life on Earth? nothing much. We have <em>dreamed</em> this as an escape from the contemplation of our own individual deaths. What does it mean that we have invented ways to destroy all life on Earth? nothing much. We have dreamed this as an escape from the contemplation of our own individual deaths.

]]> By: The Bureauista http://bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/comment-page-1/#comment-448 The Bureauista Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:24:00 +0000 http://www.bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/11/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/#comment-448 Tim: I suspect the phrase 'On June the first, the spastic will die' will live long in my memory. Still laughing as I type this.<br/><br/>Johnny: I thought 'your day' was still to come, or have you given up on armageddon? Tim: I suspect the phrase ‘On June the first, the spastic will die’ will live long in my memory. Still laughing as I type this.

Johnny: I thought ‘your day’ was still to come, or have you given up on armageddon?

]]> By: Johnny http://bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Johnny Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:56:00 +0000 http://www.bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/11/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/#comment-447 They're just now whingeing about Prince Harry's racist remarks on "Sky News." Apparently it's important to the modern British Army to kill ragheads in a culturally sensitive way. It must have come a <em>long</em> way since my day. They’re just now whingeing about Prince Harry’s racist remarks on “Sky News.” Apparently it’s important to the modern British Army to kill ragheads in a culturally sensitive way. It must have come a long way since my day.

]]> By: Tim Footman http://bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Tim Footman Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:12:00 +0000 http://www.bureauista.com/blog/2009/01/11/theres-no-such-thing-as-innocuous-2/#comment-446 There was a fantastic fly-on-the-wall documentary about a bunch of wannabe advertising creatives who were shadowing the rebranding of the Spastics Society. They had to create a dummy campaign for the launch of Scope, and the best one would get a job at the agency.<br/><br/>Two moments stand out in my memory. The first was a brainstorming (also no longer an acceptable word) session for promotional events to encourage the idea that people with learning difficulties could achive great things. The phrase <i>"spastic bungee jump"</i> will haunt my dreams forever.<br/><br/>The other was when the aspirants were asked to devise a poster campaign for the countdown to the changeover. One bright spark stood proudly by his flipchart and with a flourish revealed: <i>"ON JUNE THE FIRST, THE SPASTIC WILL DIE"</i>. There was a fantastic fly-on-the-wall documentary about a bunch of wannabe advertising creatives who were shadowing the rebranding of the Spastics Society. They had to create a dummy campaign for the launch of Scope, and the best one would get a job at the agency.

Two moments stand out in my memory. The first was a brainstorming (also no longer an acceptable word) session for promotional events to encourage the idea that people with learning difficulties could achive great things. The phrase “spastic bungee jump” will haunt my dreams forever.

The other was when the aspirants were asked to devise a poster campaign for the countdown to the changeover. One bright spark stood proudly by his flipchart and with a flourish revealed: “ON JUNE THE FIRST, THE SPASTIC WILL DIE”.

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