June 01 2010
Touchy PR Man and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:52 am
Named: Screen grab goodness.
Picture this: Light bulb shaped candles. Warning DO NOT to put it into a ceiling mounted light socket….
Video Link: Ozzy Osbourne pretends to be a wax work and scares the bejesus out of people. (NSFW language)
Strange new products: Fake nipples.
WTF? Police cover murder suspect’s man boobs in his mug shot…for the sake of public decency.
Ha, ha: One of these real estate folk is not like the others…
TV Geeks: The end of Lost explained in a simple animated gif.
Great coffee cup: The design belies the text.
Video link: News reporter encounters several stubborn car windows during a news segment about car theft.
Video: An investigative telly reporter door-knocked hospital administrators after allegations they had used money donated to patients inappropriately…then the PR guy stepped in…
June 1st, 2010 at 10:12 am
you know i hate news people who think they have some god given right to annoy people. I’m with the PR guy.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:14 am
Massive PR fail.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:19 am
The Ozzy clip is awesome. I can’t wait for his new album!
And the PR guy is a wanker. That is just bad PR.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:42 am
I’m with Tristan. The news guy was the one being a dick.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:57 am
Tristan/Susan: You people cannot be serious.
June 1st, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Tristan and Susan are right. How dare that big, nasty journalist do his job like that. He has no right to ask questions of a hospital chief that allegedly used money donated to patients inappropriately. He should have just stopped doing his job and gone home to knit as soon as the sweet, kind and lovely hospital chair told him she didn’t want to answer his questions. The public doesn’t deserve to know whether or not the hospital did anything wrong – because the nice hospital chief and her friendly PR man don’t want them to know!
Yay for public relations and for physically intimidating journalists who are just mean and annoying and have no reason to be nosey.
June 1st, 2010 at 1:43 pm
That could quite possibly be Ozzy Osbourne’s best work.
June 1st, 2010 at 3:22 pm
I think they’re both in the wrong… the pushy current affairs journo with the “guilty until proven innocent” questions and the all too touchy PR guy. God bless America eh?
June 1st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
I cringe at PR guy.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:27 pm
If someone asks you not to touch them and you keep doing it anyway, that pretty much automatically makes you a douchebag. Or is that not the rule now?
I think the journo showed amazing restraint in not nutting the little twirp.
June 2nd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
As much as I hate what he’s doing, PR guy is smart. Did a good job of making Journo angry and distracted.
June 2nd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
hahaha..
Journo : “YOU’re the one causing the problem”
Live leak at it’s best!!
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I’m with moata, I don’t know how the news guy stopped himself from decking the PR twirp.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I must of missed his “guilty until proven innocent” questions. He was just asking for an interview so I don’t know how you can read that much into it.
The PR guy makes the hospital look very dodgy.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I think the Journo is a doosh, he is fully using his size to intimidate the chair into talking to him at the end and getting in her way which is not on. Not that i condone misusing funds or anything. The pr guy is just funny in every way. How good is the very last touch on the shoulder, awesome.
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:46 pm
I’m with the reporter here. The director had agreed to talk to him after the meeting and if the PR guy hadn’t been such an idiot – it would never have escalated at all.
In any case, there seems to be some sort of wierd touching thing going on there, because from about 1:42 to 1:48, some other guy comes into the room and proceeds to touch a couple of people before he sits down. A little creepy all round.
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:01 am
The gif is taken from one of Jimmy Kimmel’s monologues from his show.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:04 am
You’ve assumed quite a lot there Captain Obvious. Nowhere did I say anything like you infer. Just think he was a bit of a dick about it.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:06 am
And physically intimidating is a bit of a stretch there dude.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:50 am
USA USA USA USA
June 5th, 2010 at 10:00 am
What is a doosh?
And if someone was repeatedly touching you even when you asked them repeatedly to stop would you find that intimidating?
June 5th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Interesting… thats a technique used in hypnosis and NLP amongst other things. The constant unwelcome touching by the PR guy actually constitutes assault in many countries around the world. The journalist was wel within his rights to request the PR guy cease the unwelcome and unwarranted touching. I personally would have the PR guy charged with assault and then (as you can in America) I would sue him for the shirt of his back.