Recently Air New Zealand found themselves in some hot water over an advertisement shot as a faux-nature documentary about Cougars and their younger prey. Some declared the advertisement was disgusting and degrading and promoted sexually predatory behaviour.

As part of the collective new year’s resolution for the FACTOR168 EVENT TEAM going into 2010 is to eat more fish and in particular oily fish like our pal the Salmon. Insread – we are happily munching on Kit Kat chocolates… We blame ‘geezer’ movie star Jason Strathman.

Some of our faithful readership have been emailing us wondering what’s go’in on… no musing on the muse for sometime. We’d like to apologise for that… we’ve kinda been preoccupied with contract work in Hong Kong and Shanghai and… well we’ve been tardy to say the least.

Following on from the recent post about Cockney prompting ATM cash machines in East London – we bring direct to you from the Land of the Rising Sun – the ‘Hello Kitty’ ATM. In all of its Pink glory. Well certainly the Japanese know all about this and the legion of ‘Hello Kitty’ fans but [...]

Reading the South China Morning Post, I came across a curious report that told of automatic teller machines in East London offering customers the option of Cockney rhyming slag as part of their transaction. Cool.