I was at a free bar on Friday night, American Apparel have opened a new shop in BCN, so they threw a night.
Every two-bit mod in the city was out - they’re so not used to free booze here - so due to the queue at the bar - it took so long to get to the bar, I only got one solitary beer all night! And if you’re wondering why I didn’t ask for something a bit stronger than a beer on that occasion, well, when I got there they reported that they had no clean glasses - I nearly said gimme a dirty one then - but anyways - tis a handy way to control free drink, with no available glasses.
… hard to believe. Quite bloody frightening. More here.
I was in Berlin at the weekend, and I picked up a copy of “Der Tagesspiegel”, a broadsheet struggling to communicate the message “Ireland” and “No”, visually. They did it in the following way:
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Interesting to see yesterday the national quality daily “La Vanguardia” of Spain calling Taoiseach / Irish prime minister Brian Cowen, a Biffo, though they translated the “Fucker” in Biffo (the first “F”) as “Fellow” instead. Last paragraph sees them calling him Biffo in the context of the story. Bizarre. I can’t see the Irish media calling Zapatero a Fucker from Valladolid! (Click on thumbnail for larger version).
