Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

TeeFury T shirts

Neat shirt

From the ModernMet write-up:

What I Like About It: This is a hilarious design by Aaron Hogg for Tee Fury. This illustration plays off the popularity of Facebook and status updates. This is the reason you shouldn’t post everything on Facebook, especially if you are friends with your boss and most definitely if your boss is Darth Vader. The sad part about this is there are a ton of people who actually makes these types of posts on Facebook and Twitter. A few other funny details here are the Z-Harmony and Contractors Wanted ads, and the fact that the Storm Trooper is friends with R2D2.

Size 4 model: I was fired for being too fat

Seriously, do you think this girl is fat?

Filippa Hamilton is 5′ 10″ and 120 pounds, and was fired for being too fat by Ralph Lauren. So much so that they mutated a picture of her to look like this:

Here’s her interview this morning:

Here’s another story on the subject.

It’s a damn shame fashion morons think this is what a woman should look like.

For some contrast, here is an example of an attractive woman who actually exists in the real world.

Also, a video from former Baywatch star Nicole Eggert reacting to asshats who have mocked her weight gain.

Amen

If you berate them for not closing Guantanamo fast enough, not ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell fast enough, not evacuating Iraq fast enough, not passing a health care bill fast enough, and so on…do you not expect one their number to at some point push back and point out that making these kind of changes takes time and is a bit difficult?

I firmly believe that a lot of Obama’s liberal critics are a) progressives who don’t realize Obama isn’t a liberal or b) PUMAs who won’t let it go. BooMan addresses all of them in what can be called a nice breath of fresh air.

Seems like the company is missing a “K”

Turns out you can be fired at an office supply company for voting for a black guy. This is what a guy found out at (K)KK Office Supplies last year after his CEO “jokingly” told his employees that he’d fire people for voting for Obama.

After bringing in around $300,000 in new business, he got sacked weeks after the election. He says this has much to do with him being a vocal Obama supporter.

If that’s why he was fired, he’s got a case. I figure he put himself on a short list and that’s a tad harder to prove.

That said, I work for a bunch of conservative Aussies and one Kiwi who is actually very American conservative and not that European and First World kind of conservative that makes you a raging liberal by Republican standards. The company donates to the GOP against the will of many of the workers here. We have some Talibangelical prayer circle sanctioned by the higher ups that has a calendar where they pray for us “heathens”. Apparently I’ve been on that.

So yeah, I’m smart enough not to wave a huge “O” flag up in here. If asked, I’m not going to lie, but I’m also not going out of my way to get fired either.