Spelling mistakes cost lives

August 17, 2005 3:19 AM

Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.
posted by sgt.serenity (23 comments total)

Worth a visit for the santa advert.
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:35 AM on August 17, 2005

While I agree with the sentiment, I'm not sure that it's well expressed by the message "Santa gives more to rich kids than poor kids".

Surely from a kid's point of view, that just reinforces the whole "money=good" meme which capitalists want to program them to believe?

I guess the execs at ClearChannel (an evil group of capitalist pigs if ever there was one) must have thought so, or they wouldn't have agreed to put up the poster.

A message like "Expensive toys are crap" or "Santa murders children in Africa so you can have expensive toys" might be better.

Good post though.
posted by cleardawn at 4:01 AM on August 17, 2005

There's at least 3 spelling mistakes in that site. Although it reeks of silly teen mentality, I liked the War on Terror reduction to "Good teeth v Good beards". The santa thing is probably not a bad thing either, in a way, although directly scaring/menacing kids is arguably as similarly bad as the santa = consumerism idea. I used to see a stencilled logo sprayed outside a Sydney railway station that said: "Don't buy what you don't need". I didn't.
posted by peacay at 4:05 AM on August 17, 2005

I couldn't find any spelling mistakes that cost lives. Or any spelling mistakes.
posted by poppo at 4:05 AM on August 17, 2005

peacay, i stand corrected. could be that i saw it was a jumbly bunch of crap and closed the tab immediately.
posted by poppo at 4:07 AM on August 17, 2005

The second page of "i love arms" is pretty funny -- obviously made by a good-natured chick (not that i'm into that sort of thing).
posted by gorgor_balabala at 4:13 AM on August 17, 2005

..and Hull is certainly growing in stature on the tags page.
posted by peacay at 4:16 AM on August 17, 2005

and oops...that should be: "nice teeth v nice beards".
posted by peacay at 4:17 AM on August 17, 2005

I couldn't find any spelling mistakes that cost lives.

Agreed. Disappointing.
posted by grouse at 4:58 AM on August 17, 2005

Stick it up her product!
posted by furtive at 5:14 AM on August 17, 2005

This guy's stuff was one of the (very) few good things at this year's Glasgow School Of Art degree show. And if you can get a hold of the Christ 'zine that he's involved in, do so; one of the funniest things I've read in a while.
posted by Len at 5:32 AM on August 17, 2005

The Kate Thornton parody raised a smile.
posted by fire&wings at 5:43 AM on August 17, 2005

It's a jumbled, infantile site, but I like some of it precisely because it's pointless and stupid but clearly doesn't care.

A few years ago I was featured on a Channel 4 site intended to inspire and help young people getting into creative industries. They edited out any mention of anything on my site that might be considered too 'adult' (such as the wonderful competition entries I'd received), but I managed to sneak the Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives link in, which was childishly satisfying.
posted by malevolent at 6:06 AM on August 17, 2005

could be that i saw it was a jumbly bunch of crap and closed the tab immediately

It was a jumbly bunch of crap. And depressing.
posted by WaterSprite at 6:42 AM on August 17, 2005

My Horse Has No Legs is hilarious. And there are spelling mistakes. This is clever.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 6:49 AM on August 17, 2005

Horrendous web design costs lives too.
posted by watsondog at 9:32 AM on August 17, 2005

The great thing about the internet, other than commerce and communication and other similarly boring pusuits, is that people with way too much time on thier hands can amuse me when I'm supposed to be working. More power to 'em!

KILL YOUR TELEVISION!!!
posted by wavespy at 9:49 AM on August 17, 2005

Looks like crap in Firefox. Otherwise amusing.
posted by altolinguistic at 10:25 AM on August 17, 2005

Damn, I was hoping it was going to be a mad rant site where an English teacher threatens his students with grevious bodily injury if they don't learn to spell properly.

Oh well, still interesting and I did enjoy their breakdown of the advertising force behind Santa.
posted by fenriq at 11:50 AM on August 17, 2005

i found one.
posted by mrgrimm at 2:28 PM on August 17, 2005

Christ! What an ugly website. Christ! What a great fanzine.

And 50p from each issue goes to No2ID, unles he's lying about that bit.
posted by jack_mo at 4:11 PM on August 17, 2005

Looks like crap in Firefox.

That's what I was thinking until I loaded it in IE - that's just how it looks.

Way cool site - I just looked through all the drawings and they were highly entertaining.
posted by nTeleKy at 8:38 AM on August 18, 2005

bandwidth exceeded.

that's the end of that one.
posted by punishinglemur at 11:23 PM on August 18, 2005