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British American Tobacco has infuriated the Australian Attorney-General Nicola Roxon by branding some of its European Winfield packets with a kangaroo and the slogan: “An Australian favourite” … As BAT prepares to launch a legal battle against the Australian federal government’s plain packaging laws, the Attorney-General said the packets were outrageous. Roxon, who got her rocks off in her previous post as Health Minister by banning branding from cigarette packets from December 2012, is using it as an example of why branding should be scrapped. If they needed a smoking gun this was it…
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Tags: cigarettes, plain wrapper, Roxon, smoking
““Ve haf vays of making you talk… …”, but apparently they didn’t quite work out in the case of the graduates of the Nazi Germany dog school, the Tier Sprechschule ASRA, based in Leutenburg near Hannover. This high docile canine academy was set up in the 1930s and continued throughout the war years as a curious demonstration of the irrational standards of the era. It wasn’t the Alsatian and German Shepherd students who were barking mad….”
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Tags: Blondi, canine curiosities, Eva Braun, Hitler, speaking dogs
Chefs can be naked but out of work teachers must keep buttoned up when in both the public and private eye. A former Auckland teacher has been deregistered after posing nude in Penthouse, a glossy magazine for which there is probably no great pent up demand these days, displayed (coyly wrapped, unlike the former teacher) at a wide range of non-porn shops… Apparently one picture showed her draped over an old fashioned school desk, though this was surely a political statement about antiquated furniture in an antiquated education system…
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Tags: Ms Whitwell, New Zealand Teachers Council, NZTC, Penthouse teacher
Is a teacher who picks up on a pupil’s nasal piercing just a nosey parker? The Leadership Group of New Plymouth Girls’ High School has issued an edict allowing facial piercings as part of the school uniform, permitting one lip and one nose piercing per pupil (or should that be per student?)….
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Tags: MJ Hodson, New Plymouth Girls High School, piercings, school uniforms, Stella Bond, studs
The plane taking the Black Caps to the Cricket World Cup a few days ago was considerably more than a mile high when Tim Southee and an aspiring female player took an unscheduled drinks break in the First Class Bar. …After a pretty average Black Caps’ season at least this was a first class performance…
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Tags: Black Caps, Tim Southee
Education fit for a King?
…Education New Zealand, as part of a campaign to poach disgruntled British students, has just offered a New Zealand university education for Prince William and Kate Middleton’s first born in a quarter-page advertisement in The Times* which lays it on with an anachronistic trowel…If, in due course, a royal child is duly born and ENZ is successful in its quest for royal business, then I can offer some help design the ermine curriculum…
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