Posts Tagged ‘bridge’

The Haizhu Bridge in Guangzhou, China has been smeared with rich, creamy butter to stop suicides.

Chinese workers covered the giant steel bridge with butter because officials are fed up with traffic jams caused by people who slow down to watch suicide victims leaping to their death.

A Government spokesman said “We try employ guards at both ends but that not work. We put up big fences and tell people not to commit suicide here. So now we have put butter over the bridge and it work very well. Nobody can get up there and anybody who tries fall down”

Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers

In one month alone eight people committed suicide on the bridge and numerous others had climbed up threatening to commit suicide before changing their minds.

The bridge guard said: “Each time somebody threatens to commit suicide to get media attention or sympathy over personal problems we end up with several hours of tailbacks and there were lots of complaints. Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers.”

$7000 for WHAT? A Chair? Are you Crazy!?!

Apparently not. There is a chair in where you sit and someone else plucks the strings on the back. The German creation called the Acoustic Resonance Massage Chair is suppose to relax you.

How can I be relaxed in a chair that cost Seven Thousand Dollars? It’s all wood – no padding. And why can’t you be reclined just a bit?

There are other harmonically neumatic fads that cost less than Seven Grand. Heck, I got a bridge to sell you for seven grand. In these economic times, where we loose seven thousand in the market in one day, is a chair the right investment?

The chair doesn’t even play itself. You have to get a Harpist to help out. Can’t get the kids to do it, they would start banging on the strings to make the chair more annoying than relaxing.

The Chair is specifically tuned to the key of B or D. As a musician, I know that strings don’t stay in tune – not to mention that strings break. That means getting a professional tuner out there to take care of this chair. How much more is that?

I suppose if you have the extra cash and someone that really wants to learn to play an interesting instrument, then this chair is for you. Otherwise, spend the seven grand on an actual harp or piano, donate it to an orchestra that needs it, then go to the mall and get one of those massage pads that tie to the back of the chair. It would be a better investment.

In honor of the new Star Trek prequil trailer, we have this: A guy in London takes his flat (aka apartment) and turns it into his own Captains Bridge. Actually a “Voyager Style” Studio apartment, designed by Tony Alleyne.

What inspires a man to change his apartment like that? I suppose you could have put up some french pattern wallpaper or pad the walls with egg crate padding (like I did for audio). So why not Trekkin it?

Read more about the Apartment here. Complete with before and after pictures.

Star Trek comes out May 9th. View the Trailer here.