"However, personal safety clearly wasn’t a consideration when these inventions were built, and some of them look like they might explode right in your face!"
And in that sentence we see what has become so wrong with the human race today. Time was that people (outside of China) took risks. These days it is the norm to look upon life's risk takers as if there is something wrong with them.
The risk averse are becoming dominant and if this continues the human race will stagnate.
I presume that, just like the Yorkie campaign, this is supposed to be ironic. The clever thing about the Yorkie campaign was that market research suggested that the campaign sales to women actually increased. It seems British women got the joke.
I've never seen shark fin on the menu around here, but I've just checked and it isn't banned. This would suggest that there is no demand.
I feel you could read this story a different way. The fact that the soup has has to be banned suggests there is considerable demand. California should be proud that they have banned shark fin, but they should also be ashamed that there are clearly still many people in the state who want to eat this.
As soon as I see the name Cracked in a Neatorama link I don't bother following it. I've found in the past that their articles are written with almost no research.
We're continually being told that nobody is buying paper books and that everybody owns and ebook reader. Yet I don't know a single person who owns an ebook reader.
Is it yet another one of those media myths? Along with the "facts" that everybody has uses Facebook and Twitter and everybody owns an iPhone and/or iPad. What's that you say, the popular media are lying to us? Who knew?
Really who cares? All this back story stuff is a help to the writers in order to make relation ships work and often to maintain continuity. It shouldn't matter to viewers at all. It certainly shouldn't make any difference to the way you respond to the movie. Sad.
And in that sentence we see what has become so wrong with the human race today. Time was that people (outside of China) took risks. These days it is the norm to look upon life's risk takers as if there is something wrong with them.
The risk averse are becoming dominant and if this continues the human race will stagnate.
I feel you could read this story a different way. The fact that the soup has has to be banned suggests there is considerable demand. California should be proud that they have banned shark fin, but they should also be ashamed that there are clearly still many people in the state who want to eat this.
Is it yet another one of those media myths? Along with the "facts" that everybody has uses Facebook and Twitter and everybody owns an iPhone and/or iPad. What's that you say, the popular media are lying to us? Who knew?