In a letter of 1819 to his friend Douglas Kinnaird, Byron wrote this of his poem Don Juan:
"I had such projects for the Don, but Cant is so much stronger than Cunt now-a-days, that the benefit of experience in a man who had well weighed the worth of both monosyllables, must be lost to despairing posterity."
Nearly 200 years on, and Australia'sMacquarie Bank carries the torch for the humbugs. Watch the fellow behind the interviewee on the left – especially his computer monitor:
Totally Safe for Work – unless you're an Australian who gets his or her rocks off over a thumbnail image of a non-nude person called Miranda Kerr.
"I had such projects for the Don, but Cant is so much stronger than Cunt now-a-days, that the benefit of experience in a man who had well weighed the worth of both monosyllables, must be lost to despairing posterity."
Nearly 200 years on, and Australia's
Totally Safe for Work – unless you're an Australian who gets his or her rocks off over a thumbnail image of a non-nude person called Miranda Kerr.
7 comments:
Classic set up.
Looks like it was a bit of a piss take, indeed, Nonnie. My daughter saw the name of the bird and immediately said, "That's Orlando Bloom's girlfriend". She obviously enjoyed my riposte (I'm sure that's what the friendly punch in the kidneys meant), "Oh, I thought he was gay".
According to the Grauniad, the employee's safe.
I like the way C*nt is Cunt in your "recent comments".
A widget with the right attitude.
That widget will never get a job with Macquarie's. A friend sent an email to a bunch of people and the one he sent to the "millionaire's factory" was returned unopened with the message "We do not accept electronic messages that contain lewd and lascivious material"! He'd used the word fuck in the text of his email.
The same thing happens at most banks. E-mail someone with a fuck or a cunt in the text and it will be bounced back.
I suspect almost all e-mails to RBS are returned unopened.
Unless the email has "bonus" in the subject heading ...
Typical lazy hacks - the information given in the headline is contradicted by that given in the article itself.
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