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.

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‘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’