Zebu review of the year – part 2

A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009

Zebu Organisations
British Telecom make the list, primarily for telling the villagers of Hambledon in Oxfordshire that it was impossible to provide them with broadband. That might not have been so difficult to live with, had they not then discovered that BT made an exception in the case of one solitary resident.
NOT SO BROAD BAND

Zebu Regulations
EU regulations on food are incredibly tough, except in one area – “filth”. Amazingly, it does not cover extraneous matter like insect fragments and animal hair. According to the American Agricultural Law Association, “it isactually illegal for anybody to prohibit, restrict or impede foods on the grounds that they contain bits of insect, animal hair or other extraneous matter.”
WHY OUR FOOD MIGHT BE FILTHIER THAN WE THINK

Zebu in the Media
JFK, while still a senator, sunbathing, while around him naked women frolicked. It a “photo that could have changed history” trumpeted TMC.com. It was also a fake.
JFK NAKED PHOTO IS A HOAX

Zebu Farmer of the Year (nomination)
Politicans telling us lies? Nothing new there, perhaps. But to keep repeating the same lie, despite being told by the Office for National Statistics that it is wrong and that she “may undermine public trust in official statistics”, sets Harriet Harman apart from the herd.
IS HARRIET HARMAN A LIAR – OR JUST PLAIN STUPID?

Most Shocking Zebu Story
Why on earth would the BBC invent a story about a heart-rending famine in Africa?
THE FAMINE THAT NEVER WAS

Dictionary of Deceit
When even our language lies to us.
RINSE AND REPEAT

Bizarre Zebu
How can calorie-free water help you slim by having stuff added to it?
DIET WATER

Funny Zebu
The glorious case of the Identity Minister who forgot her own identity

ZEBU REVIEW OF THE YEAR – PART ONE


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