The 90s were a strange time. In this case, a 1998 pizza ad that featured the former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. This article on the Gorbachev Pizza Hut Adstates that he needed the money for a foundation, and it was the only high profile commercial offer he took.
Yes, that striking soul-piercing blue lake in Siberia that Instagram influencers are migrating towards in the chase for the next great selfie, is actually a toxic waste dump. The company that uses the lake to dump waste for the Heating and Electric Station No. 5 was forced to release a statement amidst the aggressive, mindless stupidity. The statement reads at one point, "you can not swim in the ash dump."
Buzzfeed even reports that one dedicated influencer described the water as "warm and tastes sweet-ish." You can't make this level of stupid up. It's as if it walked off the script of a post apocalyptic movie itself.
Are these the end times? A bunch of influencers blinded by their own lust for social media viral fame that they disregard viable statements from concerned officials; and proceed to swim around in toxic waste dumps? We sincerely hope that everyone ends up being alright.
What even is going on, and does it matter? This whole business of Russian butt slapping will make many people feel things...
Burger King apologized for a promo offering money and a lifetime of free burgers to any woman who could manage to become impregnated by a World Cup star. The idea of the now scrapped ad was for Russia to collect good football playing genes and ensure wins in the future. Needless to say, people didn't think it was as great an idea as the Burger King marketing department may have thought.
1) Take extreme care when unloading unevenly distributed weight, especially on broken or irregular pallets.
2) Always be aware of your surroundings when unloading a truck with a pallet jack. Specifically where the tail gate ends. Also the presence of cameras.
3) Misuse of work equipment could result in making it to the front page of Fail Blog.
We've learned a lot in the past year about how Russia has been attempting to use social media manipulation to its advantage in order to shape the opinions and beliefs of those in the western world.
This twitter user used some impressive investigative techniques to uncover one particularly large Russian account that is posing as a British national.
