Posts under ‘Fun & bizarre’

I don’t usually read management literature (not for the little dream team at my office that could easily work without me), but even I have noticed that Asia has been pretty hip in management literature for quite some time.
 
However, it wasn’t until my last couple of weeks off plus a number of fun trips [...]

Plus… Plus… Plus? Yes, we vaguely remember… the doomed-to-disappear discount banner from Germany that has only survived in Romania and Bulgaria, as well as in a rapidly declining number of locations in Germany, following its merger with Edeka’s Netto chain. Today in a years’ time, it may only live as an undead monster in Mexico [...]

Year of solidarity: Abstract polar bears huddling up in the cold (Artist: West Africa Trade and Import Export Portal, digital photography, 14.6 x 11 cm, frozen Chilean surimi on ice cubes)

Always nice to be in London and spend some days working at Emap’s Greater London House, as I did from Monday to Wednesday this week! But again, I returned home with a decent cold… and again, that was mainly due to the environment provided by the nearby Travelfridge Euston hotel, so to avoid repetition I’ve [...]

My new analyst colleague Søren (and really it’s Søren, not Soren, because he’s Danish) had some good fun yesterday when he found out that the world famous Big Mac index from the Economist is under competitive fire from his Scandinavian home region in the shape of the Ikea Billy Bookshelf index.
 
It’s probably unfair of me [...]

…nobody!
 
(Silence)
 
Who would have thought that! Last week’s quiz really turned out to be too tricky for this educated audience! Don’t you go to cinemas? Don’t you watch TV?
 
Flashback: Last week, I asked which company’s advertising campaign was behind this beautiful picture below, and in which year the campaign was launched:
 

 
Several readers tried and [...]

I’ve received feedback on my last couple of posts, from Brazil. The colours of Brazil are ‘green and yellow’, not ‘yellow and green’, I was told – got that and will remember it forever, cheers André!
 
The second piece related to the fact that I uploaded space pictures of Europe, North and Central America and Asia [...]

Holiday season, which is good news for those actually travelling! And a time that feels like the iron hammer of big fat fate coming down on those left behind, sweating away at 30 degrees over nothing but a bottle of Coke (or was it Pepsi?), big piles of paper, and a dry black and dusty [...]

Somewhere in Northern Germany, there is a small sleepy village called Wacken. First mentioned in written form in 1148, the village has grown enormously during the past millennium and is now home to 1,850 inhabitants. Pastoral scenes of blue-rinse grannies drinking tea in their front gardens complete the atmosphere of peace. If a cow yawns miles away, [...]