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Look how far we’ve come….
It’s been all over social media recently about Ricky Gervais using the word mong in his tweets. It actually really infuriates me. It’s a word; and yes, it has been used as a negative term, but i'm pretty sure it wasn't his intent in this instance, although not his wisest move. It was a stupid…
Somebody needs Duffy The Writer…
I saw this sign in the window of a shoe shop in the middle of Sydney City. Seriously, If you are going to promote your business in a busy, bustling shopping centre why oh why would you think its OK to scribble something like this on a piece of A4…
Lost in translation….
Working on an article around the perils of facebook and stumbled across these. Whether they are true or not, they made me smile! To illustrate just how incredibly bad copy can go when meaning is ignored, here are some astonishing examples from the world of advertising: Coors decided to use…