From last.fm:
Loveninjas are four or five Swedish boys in their mid 20′s with dirty hair and black clothes. They are determined to make love with Japanese girls and then write songs about it. Loveninjas’ songs sound like classic schlagers that have been forced through a dirty indie filter and then had its lyrics replaced by pornographic manga. The live experience is even greater! Singing songs about broken penises dressed in a giant heart is… well, very funny to say the least.
http://www.last.fm/music/Loveninjas
I beg your pardon?
What?
“Recession is a test of character”
I’m sorry WHAT?
“Recession is a test of character”
Jesus H. Christ, you prick. You get us into this mess by deliberately
sinking inflation in house prices to keep the recorded levels low, in
order to generate an artificial feeling of economic prosperity; you
fail to regulate the City, which was clearly taking the piss (evident
long before the collapse); and now you say that pushing through the
crap you’ve been complicit in generating is a test of our character?
The test of character is avoiding recession, a test which you have failed.
Call a general election now and let’s get this over with.
You and Tony – we should string up the two of you for what you’ve
presided over.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7801665.stm
As the chaps at Global Dashboard point out, this graph really does not require much comment. It sure as hell requires an explanation though.
It’s really enough to make me cry and be thoroughly depressed.
The positive side is that we have proved we can get it together to act fast and spend lots of money when we think we really need to. The question then becomes what will be the trigger than makes the world realise that a slow burn is still a burn? Much like the economic “bailout”, a problem plenty of people saw coming years off (myself included, I’m pyrhhically proud to say – I actually has a long debate with the Treasury and FSA about it in Aug 2007), it will probably come way too late.
Seriously, just LOOK AT THAT GRAPH. What the hell? RAGE!!
Source: Oxfam Blogs
I’ve said for a while now that a lot of graphs have been going exponential for the last 50 years, and we ignore these slow trends at our peril.
http://jenslapinski.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/being-a-tech-start-up-in-2009/
is a dramatically well illustrated example of how messy things have become.
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