McDonald’s prints receipts on T-shirts

The term ‘made to order’ took on a very literal meaning in a recent promotion by McDonald’s in Sweden.  To quote from one report:

McDonald’s Sweden just found a new way to let fans wear their love for fast food on their sleeves—literally. The fast-food giant allowed festivalgoers to turn their regular McDonald’s orders into custom merch.

The design was as personal as it gets—a receipt featuring each person’s unique McDonald’s favorites, printed right onto a minimalist, “Made to Order” paper white T-shirt.

This playful stunt took place during a summer festival tour, where McDonald’s installed ordering kiosks that did more than just print out receipts. After selecting their meals, fans could watch as their proof of order was printed in real-time onto a T-shirt, creating a one-of-a-kind piece of McDonald’s memorabilia akin to band tees.

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What plant-based foods may cause

The Plant Based Foods Association has released a 10,000 word leaflet about all the “epic benefits” that consuming plant-based foods may cause that starts with this ‘advice’:

If you’re not grinning from ear to ear after three days of trying all the exciting new plant-based flavors, you should definitely chat with a Plant-Based Food Provider (PBFP).

The product is intended for extended-term use only. You can take the lowest effective bite size for the shortest time necessary at first, but buckle in because once you get a taste you’ll be obsessed with plant-based for life, and your kids will be obsessed with plant-based, and your kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids will be obsessed with plant-based, and so on until forever.

You should not consume plant-based for longer than 3 days without thanking your Plant-Based Food Provider (PBFP).

If symptoms of food boredom improve rapidly consult your Plant-Based Food Provider (PBFP) immediately. Or, if you begin to experience symptoms so amazing they cause your mind to be blown, consult your Plant-Based Food Provider (PBFP) immediately and tell them how amazing they are.

And here’s a short selection of the ‘symptoms’:

An unforgettable awakening of senses you didn’t even know you had.

A rush of joy exploding through your body with every bite.

Trouble enjoying alone time with your plant-based food, as everyone you’re around will want a bite of your food.

Your delivery person wanting to become your best friend and stay at your house forever because you have so many good plant-based food options.

Children are at increased risk of being extremely excited by plant-based foods because they usually don’t even know it’s plant-based and just love the taste.

In general, the habitual use of several sorts of plant-based food can lead to amazing, lasting advantages such as realizing that life itself is just one big grocery store full of experiences to pick off the shelves and that the best ones are plant-based meats, cheeses, milk, spreads, and obviously your favorite appetizers.

As part of the campaign, there’s  also a pharma-style commercial.

‘People Like You’

A delightful recruitment ad for Western Australia Police Force.

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A HiLux Job

From Australia: Toyota finds a fun way to make the point that there are utes, and then there is the HiLux.

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Cops announce drugs find as ‘Lost and Found’

I’ll let this NY Post report explain:

A Georgia sheriff’s department clearing a highway in Davisboro after Hurricane Helene found a large stash of drugs and has cordially invited its rightful owner to come retrieve it.

“While in Davisboro last week during storm response, deputies located these items in a clearing off Highway 231 near Washington State Prison,” the Washington County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post dripping with sarcasm.

“If you would like to claim ownership of these packages, please come see us at 733 Kaolin Road, Sandersville, Georgia,” the post read, under the heading “Lost and Found Property.”

Shopping, IRL

A new spot for UK retailer Currys shows what in-store shopping might feel like, for “diehard online shoppers”.

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Gary Sinise as a couch potato, literally

And a delightful one at that, starring in a series of new spots for Pluto TV.

   -Spot 1 
   -Spot 2
   -Spot 3

‘Raccoon Invasion’

That’s the title of a video report released by a local sheriff’s office in Washington state, USA, about a  woman who called for help after she was surrounded by about a hundred raccoons and was “forced to run away in her car to escape the furry, and very hungry creatures”.  As explained more elaborately in another news report:

Kevin McCarty, a spokesperson for the Kitsap County Sheriff, said the woman called deputies Thursday because about 100 raccoons outside her home were "demanding food."

The woman told deputies she started feeding raccoons around her house about 35 years ago without any problems.

Six weeks ago, the population of raccoons “exploded.” Now, the animals surround her home day and night hoping for a meal.

“Somehow the word got out in raccoon land and they all showed up to her house expecting a meal,” McCarty said.

Kitsap deputies responded to the woman's home and were startled by what they saw.

“They were shocked,” McCarty said. “They had never seen that many raccoons in one place. Nobody ever remembers being surrounded by a swarm of raccoons. This was a first.”

Heinz Smiles

A new campaign that is timed with the release of the sequel of Joker, followed by the sequel of Smile.

Falling for Autumn

It’s the latest celebrity-starring spot for Switzerland Tourism and this time, along with Roger Federer, we get a pleasantly unhinged Mads Mikkelsen.

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From memories to photos… via AI

From Belgium: the local distributor of Kodak has launched a tool to help dementia patients transform their memories into images.  To quote from the website:

In short, ‘Memory Shots’ is a digital tool to help trigger dementia patients’ memories of which no photographs exist, to recollect and immortalize such preserved memories in newly generated pictures, as an innovative added part to the existing ‘Reminiscence therapy’. As such, “Memory Shots” allows to reconnect and stimulates interaction with patients suffering of dementia.

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Will Smith’s Farts

The topic came up on the latest episode of Kelly Ripa’s podcast, where she had director Barry Sonnenfeld as her guest.  Ripa asked Sonnenfeld for his “number one crazy story” from the ‘Men in Black’ franchise.  He went on to talk about an instance when filming had to be suspended after Will Smith farted while in a “hermetically sealed” contraption with Tommy Lee Jones.  This is part of what he said:

Will Smith is a farter. It’s just some people are. And you really don’t wanna be inside a very small hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart. You don’t even wanna be sitting next to him at the Disney ranch.

Notably, after he had narrated this incident, Ripa had this to ask:

Did the stench emit out, like, were you able to smell it?

And this:

You think he’s, like, on one of those high protein diets?

Stealing Solution

Last week, Oklahoma Highway Patrol put out this post explaining the rather strange circumstances of an arrest that they made.

Here’s one you don’t see everyday. Trooper Ryan Long #541 arrested Kody Adams earlier this week. Adams was at a gas station in Stillwater asking people for a ride to Pawnee County for his court date. When he couldn’t find a ride, he decided to hop in an unoccupied LifeNet ambulance supervisor vehicle that had been left running. Trooper Long caught him at the court house walking in after Adams ditched the vehicle. Trooper Long arrested him after he admitted to “borrowing” the vehicle, took him up to his court date and then took him right back to Payne County.

And guess what the court date was for??? Possession of a stolen vehicle.

And here’s an extract from one noteworthy comment to that post:

The irony of the situation is vaguely amusing, but the reality of someone having so few options that they feel desperate enough to do this is really sad.

Kickassery, literally

From Canada: a new spot for Kicking Horse Coffee.

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RIP John Ashton

Midnight Run (1988)
  -‘The Dumbest Bounty Hunters’

RIP Kris Kristofferson

To quote from a 2009 Rolling Stone piece by Ethan Hawke:

Kris Kristofferson is cut from a thicker, more intricate cloth than most celebrities today: Imagine if Brad Pitt had also written a Number One single for someone like Amy Winehouse, was considered among the finest songwriters of his generation, had been a Rhodes scholar, a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger, a boxer, a professional helicopter pilot — and was as politically outspoken as Sean Penn. That’s what a motherfuckin’ badass Kris Kristofferson was in 1979. And now if you go online and watch the video for his 2006 song “In the News,” it’s obvious he is still very much that man.

RIP Maggie Smith

A very short selection — for those who remember her (or would like to) for much more than Downton Abbey and the Harry Potter movies.

Travels With My Aunt (1972)
  - ‘Surrender to extravaganza’

A Private Function (1984)
  - Pig doing its business

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
  - On Indians

Hot Millions (1968)
  -‘A woman’s place is in the home… making money’

Baby oil defence

Probably the most talked-about seizure at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ properties has been that of the “more than 1,000 bottles” of baby oil.  When asked by the New York Post about this, this is what Comb’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, had to say:

I don’t think it was a thousand. I think it was a lot. I mean, there is a Costco right down the street. I think Americans buy in bulk, as we know.  And you know these are consensual adults doing what consensual adults do, you know, we can’t get so puritanical in this country to think that somehow sex is a bad thing because if it was there would be no more people.

Then there was this exchange with TMZ:

Marc Agnifilo: They call them ‘Freak Offs’.  But, you know, back when I was a kid in the late seventies, they were called threesomes.

TMZ: If these are genuinely threesomes, how you explain a thousand bottles of baby oil?

MA: I don’t know where the number of 1,000 came—

TMZ: The US Attorney said it.

MA: I can’t imagine it’s thousands.  And I’m not really sure what the baby oil has to do with anything.

TMZ: They’re essentially saying it’s a lubricant—for an orgy.

MA: I guess—I don’t know what you need a thousand… One bottle of baby oil goes a long way.  I don’t know what you need a thousand for.  I mean, he has a big house.  He buys in bulk, you know, I think they have Costcos in every place he has a home.  Have you sat in a parking lot of a Costco and see what people walk out with?

TMZ: Not a thousand bottles of baby oil.

MA: I don’t think it was a thousand. I think it was, I think it was—let’s just say it’s a lot.

And this is what TMZ eventually reported about the Costco connection:

A spokesperson for Costco tells TMZ ... none of the company's U.S. locations carry baby oil, even though Diddy's attorney Marc Agnifilo told us the rap mogul might have bought the item in bulk at the members-only warehouse retailer.

The proof is in the pudding, so to speak ... as a quick search of the store's site shows there's nothing akin to baby oil offered at Costco. There is, however, hair and cleansing gel sold for babies, but it'd be a stretch to confuse that with baby oil.

Oh, and nothing pops up when you look for "body oil," either ... which could be mistaken for baby oil.

For good measure, we also took a peek at the Sam's Club website ... because it's entirely possible someone mixed up the 2 retailers. Yet, like Costco, there's no baby oil for sale there either.

Although, there is a Johnson's Moisturizing Pink Baby Lotion with Coconut Oil available for purchase ... though, this product is not mentioned in the federal indictment.

Shirt Insurance

From Sweden: luxury shirt brand Eton is offering travel insurance for wearers of its White Signature Twill Shirt.  To quote:

Every year, millions of travelers face the frustration of lost luggage. At Eton, we understand that this isn't just an inconvenience; it's a setback for your personal style. That's why we've created The Phoenix Service: a free lifetime travel insurance for your White Signature Twill Shirt. Should your bag go missing, we'll ensure your shirt is replaced, so you can secure your signature style no matter where your travels take you.

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Old Jamaica ginger beer bids farewell

There are signs that this may be a stunt (“Like Ozzy with his Final Tour in 92’… it’s the end of the road for us”).  Nevertheless, the ‘farewell’ videos—there may well be more—are fun to watch.

   -Farewell Speech
   -One Last Hug