Name game shame
Culture, we’re stuffed full of it and it’s top drawer. Online rating service TripAdvisor have named two Scottish museums as among the best in Britain. The Travellers’ Choice Awards names Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh in the UK top 10. First place went to London’s V& A. With Dundee about to open its own £80million V& A next year, we might just sweep the boards in 2018.
Now, it’s’s not funnyfunnyWayneWayne Rooney was drink-driving. And it’s not amusing his poor missus has been humiliated yet again. But the idea of bighead Rooney lifting litter for community service – that does make me chuckle. There’s no designer label on a pair of rubber gloves and a high-vis vest suits no one. Still, he’ll get to go home to his millions and his mansion. Maybe he’ll learn to value what he’s got. Nerf guns. Toy guns that fire spongy darts. My boys have about 30 of them. And in the name of sexual equality, even my daughter has one. Now medics at London’s top eye hospital fear someone could be blinded by a Nerf “bullet”. Nah, there’s a solution. Insist theyy wear safety goggles for Nerf battles. Cinemainema 3D glasses if goggles are unavailable.able. They’re so embarrassed, they playy with something else. Result. I’d like to sharpen a stiletto and aim a high kick at the trolls targeting Susan Calman on Strictly. She doesn’t really need me as her attack dog, to be fair. The Glasgow comedian is doing a pretty good turn at defending herself against the scumbags and their vicious bodyshaming. But not everyone’ss as strong as Susan. No woman should have to take the abuse andd no girl should learn to expect it. Here we go again…yet another big-boy firm having a bash at a local little-guy business.
This time it’s cosmetics heavyweight L’Oreal coming down like the proverbial ton of bricks on tiny Fife firm The Naked Soap Company.
L’Oreal, who are fronted by the pop star now known only as Cheryl, claim they own the copyright on the
word Naked. Eh? What next? Will the Naked Rambler have to change his name to Silly Exhibitionist?
Anyway, I reckon soap maker Gary Lee Rushforth and his 12 staff should play the corporate bullies at their own game.
Change their business name to one of Cheryl’s old ones.
She doesn’t need Tweedy or Cole or Fernandez or Versini any more.
Cheeky, I know, but worth it.