News of the World - Mixed Messages?
Jul. 3rd, 2009 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pathology_doc1. The Naked Passenger: A US Airways plane was forced to divert from its path after a naked passenger began running around inside. New Yorker Keith Wright, 50, stripped down in front of 148 passengers and refused to put his clothes back on. Rather distracting, wouldn't you say? The naked maniac was eventually brought to heel, of course...
Passengers helped to hold him down while Wright's ankles and wrists were handcuffed to a row of seats.
...but was it just what he wanted all along?
2. The Naked Crew: Thousands of Air New Zealand passengers will from this week get their flight safety instructions from staff wearing nothing but body paint. The airline has decided to expand its use of body painted staff from advertisements to the in-flight safety video used on 737 domestic flights. Sounds enticing, until you realize that given Air NZ's cultural context, what you're possibly going to get is a 6ft, 250lb muscle-rippling specimen of maleness in Maori war paint, quite possibly armed. Read the safety card or else!
3. Michelin-starred British chef and television personality Gordon Ramsay's restaurants in Britain have suffered a 90 per cent drop in profits as the recession began to bite, it has been revealed. Viewers in Australia at least will know that Gordon Ramsay is as famous for spicy language as culinary talent, so I think it's less about the f****ng c*** of a recession we're going through and more about the f*** language he f*** well uses.
Passengers helped to hold him down while Wright's ankles and wrists were handcuffed to a row of seats.
...but was it just what he wanted all along?
2. The Naked Crew: Thousands of Air New Zealand passengers will from this week get their flight safety instructions from staff wearing nothing but body paint. The airline has decided to expand its use of body painted staff from advertisements to the in-flight safety video used on 737 domestic flights. Sounds enticing, until you realize that given Air NZ's cultural context, what you're possibly going to get is a 6ft, 250lb muscle-rippling specimen of maleness in Maori war paint, quite possibly armed. Read the safety card or else!
3. Michelin-starred British chef and television personality Gordon Ramsay's restaurants in Britain have suffered a 90 per cent drop in profits as the recession began to bite, it has been revealed. Viewers in Australia at least will know that Gordon Ramsay is as famous for spicy language as culinary talent, so I think it's less about the f****ng c*** of a recession we're going through and more about the f*** language he f*** well uses.