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Mind Boggling Common Sense
Reading a post ‘tip’ about how to wash a lot of greens. The tip is to fill your sink and swish the greens in the water and let the sand and grit settle. I’m with one of the commenters who said “You mean most people don’t wash their greens this way?”. But this isn’t the boggling thing.
The boggling thing is another commenter who thinks their sink is too filthy to wash their greens in and asked for tips on how to wash their sink.
You wash your dishes, cutlery, glassware, pots, pans, knives, cutting boards and other utensils in your sink. Most of these things you eat off of, or have direct contact with your mouth at some point. Some of these things you prepare raw food on. For the things that need to be heated to cook your food, sure heat kills germs, but heat does not kill mank.
So seriously, if your sink is too filthy to wash greens in, how can you bring yourself to do anything food related with what you wash in it? Or if you think the things you wash in it are safe, then wash the sink the way you wash your dishes?
This is like the thing where people think eating offal is manky, but happily eat eggs[1].
[1] This link is safe for work, but if you like eggs but are squeamish and may get turned off eggs by a technical definition for what eggs actually are (if you have never thought about it before), then don’t click on this link.
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Chinese businesses are hiring westerners to give the image of ‘Being Connected to the West’. (via Sylvia)
And so I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give a speech espousing a low-carbon future. Another was flown to Shanghai to act as a seasonal-gifts buyer. Recruiting fake businessmen is one way to create the image—particularly, the image of connection—that Chinese companies crave. My Chinese-language tutor, at first aghast about how much we were getting paid, put it this way: “Having foreigners in nice suits gives the company face…”
That’s a sweet gig. I would love a job like that. Travelling around China, being paid to watch movies in an office… If only I was white… er… yeah that didn’t sound right to me either.
Any western companies looking to hire Asians to loiter around and make them look ‘Connected to the East’? I can send you my résumé. And just to clarify, I didn’t mean that as a euphemism…
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How innocuous ice-breaker questions at interviews might (or might not) tilt things in your favour.
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Forbidden Images (higher resolution) (via CineGraphic) (via @sandysandy)
The short was made as a comment on how current censorship will look to future generations. It is a series of scenes cut from old films because they didn’t “meet the local moral standards of the time”.
I can understand why some of these scenes were cut. There was a time when bare ankles and shoulders were considered risque and suggestive. For some, it still is.
Silhouettes teased the imagination and eroticism was about what you weren’t able to see as much as it was what you did.
But aside from the query about whether future generations will think what we censor is ridiculous, I have to wonder if it can also be construed as a comment on how crass and overt modern society has become.
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(via IDEA*IDEA)
In Amsterdam, one company places etchings of a fly at the bottom of urinals. They have worked out that giving guys something to aim at reduces spillage by 80%.
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How to slip a little creativity into your day to day activities. And a little always leads to a little more. An interesting way to look at creativity in our lives.
One thing I noted as interesting is that they mention decorating your cubicle or work area in blue because blue is known to encourage creativity. From colour therapy though, blue is to encourage calm and some blues help you to sleep (and dark blue bedspreads will make it harder to get out of bed). Oranges on the other hand encourage activity.
I suppose activity isn’t actually creativity, but fire is an element that inspires creativity and passion and its colours are red/orange/yellow.
Curious!
I think this warrants further research…
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