Sunday Funnies 2010-05-23: Gorilla has Message for Markets; Video on Quangos; 25 Cents a Poop in Canada
by ilene - May 23rd, 2010 9:23 pm
Sunday Funnies 2010-05-23: Gorilla has Message for Markets; Video on Quangos; 25 Cents a Poop in Canada
Courtesy of Mish
The 800 pound gorilla is large and in charge. He has this message for politicians and their short selling bans, austerity programs, job programs, affordable home programs, economic bailouts, and most of all recovery announcements.
Image from Funny Chill.
On Reducing Quangos
In response to 300,000 UK Public Sector Jobs Face Axe; No Sacred Cows Including Quangos; What the Hell are Quangos?
"SS" writes …
Quangos are quangos. I don’t think they are as big as the GSEs are in the US. There is a BBC serial (from the early ’80′s) Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, a comedy series and I remember one of the episodes was on Quangos. I found some on You Tube. Humor is typically British and was a big hit in India.
The first 3.5 minutes of that are hilarious. After that not much. Give it a play. It’s very funny for a third of the video.
On the subject of quangos, Nadeem at Market Oracle writes "The number will be more like 600,000. There will be riots next summer in Liverpool and Newcastle and elsewhere where the public sector is nearly 3/4 of the economy."
25 Cents a Poop in Canada
Here is an interesting development in Canada, courtesy of government bureaucrats who have never ending ways to spend your money. At $400,000 each, Automatic public toilet debuts in Toronto.
For those who can give two bits, Toronto’s first automated pay toilet is now taking customers at 25 cents a poop — er, pop.
“They are modern, state of the art washrooms — they actually clean themselves after each use. Now try that at home,” Mayor David Miller said before cutting a blue ribbon to open the loo.
A large crowd of press, officials and curious onlookers were on hand for the grand opening of the automated john, the first of 20 planned across the city over the next 20 years.
The new bathroom automatically cleans itself and will also get visited by an attendant three times a day.
The Automated Public Toilets will take any coins up to and including toonies and will provide change. They will also work with tokens that the city plans to distribute to homeless people through