Complete and Utter Zebu

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

Zebu Organisations
Royal Mail clearly deserve to be singled out for their “Sorry You Were Out” cards, pushed through letterboxes, whether people are out or not. Initially, facing an imminent strike, Royal Mail’s less-than-stellar management maintained that this hardly ever happened and said that any postman guilty of such a practice would be sacked. Then a survey for Consumer Focus found that 55% of people claimed they had experienced it at least once in the past year alone. Arrange these words into a sentence: Mail pissup couldn’t in a arrange brewery Royal a management.

Zebu Regulations
According to a study by Open Europe, 100 EU regulations will cost Britain £184 billion between 2010 and 2020, more than the UK’s record budget deficit.

Zebu in the Media
An Australian show called Hungry Beast wanted to see how carefully news organisations checked stories before running them. Given the eagerness with which they ran a story about the gullibility ranking of various Australian cities, the answer was “not at all”.
DO THE MEDIA CHECK PRESS RELEASES?

Zebu Farmer of the Year (nomination)
Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacked senior drugs adviser Professor David Nutt, maintaining that it was because the professor spoke out against government policy.
WHY DID ALAN JOHNSON SACK PROFESSOR NUTT?

Most Shocking Zebu
The fatal flaw in ID cards is one that should chill our marrow, given that the government has still not given up on them and that the same problem applies to biometric passports which are raplidly becoming ubiquitous.
THE FATAL FLAW IN ID CARDS.

Dictionary of Deceit
When even our language lies to us.
WORLD SERIES

Bizarre Zebu
How coin tosses can easily be fixed, even by complete beginners.
TOSS YOU FOR IT

Funny Zebu
The singing toy mouse whose rendition of Jingle Bells sounded to some more like “paedophile, paedophile”. Judge for yourself by listening to or downloading the mp3.
THE SINGING PAEDOPHILE MOUSE

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