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iDosing is a new craze that is sweeping across the world and makes use of a technique known as binaural beats. The system plays one frequency in one ear and another frequency in the other. The idea is that this then modifies the brain waves of the user to make them high. Yes, you heard me – high on digital drugs.

Just to prove that I am not making this up, here is a link to the article the Daily Mail have written on the subject: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296282/I-dosing-How-teenagers-getting-digitally-high-music-download-internet.html

Now while it has been speculated by highly reputable sources that the people doing this are just been overly suggestible and stupid, and other studies have shown that there is no effect on the brainwaves at all, this advice should be ignored. The best advice can only be lock up your kids and for goodness sake keep them away from any music devices.

This artist’s impression of an ad appeared in an Evening Times article on the 27th May this year.

But this ad will not run as it has been banned by Glasgow City Council as it has been deemed just a bit too racy for the general public. If you can’t see why, let’s take another look at it, but this time in close-up.

I think when you look at the ad a little but closer, then you do finally realise what the problem is – it does in fact contain the word ‘bum’. What Reebok were thinking when they considered posting this ad is beyond me. Maybe they were trying to court controversy, just using shock tactics to sell trainers, or maybe Reebok’s advertising agency is nothing but a cesspool of depraved filth and obscenity.

How proud I am to live in a city where we, the citizens and the children of our communities can be protected from the menace of these vile people. I’m glad I’ll never have to see that word anywhere.

Although, having said that, when I got home I did in fact see this when I was sitting down to watch some teatime TV:

Oh well….

According to Amnesty International UK, this ad was due to appear in the Financial Times today and was funded by 2000 supporters. The ad encourages people to question Shell’s activities in the Niger Delta at Shell’s AGM. But the ad was pulled by the FT at the last minute. Amnesty have in turn requested this ad be shared by as many people as possible so that they can see it and hopefully act on it as well.

Like this one, which just makes me go ‘what the hell?’

Anyway, long story short, his friend punched me in the arm and I utilised by exemplary charm and sales skills and then got a taxi before they could focus enough unmitigated hate at me to pursue the matter any further. Overall the whole incident was completely and utterly unnecessary – check out the bruise on my arm:

However, it did remind me that I had taken a photo of this excellent ad for Break the Circle of Violence – an initiative started by Strathclyde Police. The ad features a wall covered in ‘menshies’, small pieces of graffiti written by ‘neds’ (reputedly violent criminal youths from the underclasses of Glasgow society – known as ‘chavs’ in other parts of the UK.) Menshies are used to denote the presence of members of a gang in an area, to announce relationships, deaths, crushes, or to write abuse or slander about people known to the writer. In the case of this ad, it’s deaths, and it shows the risks involved in taking part in gang violence.

So there, bus stop guys – carry on like that and you’ll be getting yourselves into big trouble.

This is a Brazilian WWF ad highlighting the fact that the damage caused by the Tsunami in Asia in 2004 was comparable to a multitude of 9/11 style attacks.

I found this ad on the blog of Ashley Siegle who pointed out that everyone involved in the production of the ad said that it ’should never have been made’.

BMW doing their bit to dispel the idea that car fanatics are all sex obsessed men. I suppose it is a change from your typical used car sales pitch, but still more or less exactly Swiss Toni from ‘the Fast Show’.

This was found at motortorque.com