One thing you can rely on in the world. The minute something really gets going there will be a swarm of otherwise unemployable nitwits hired to make things more difficult.
These people usually end up in a department called “compliance” – a word which I believe is derived from the ancient Thracian phrase meaning “Place for useless drones.”
This yowl of pain is not prompted by the demented new legislation in the US which makes it difficult if not impossible to use testimonials; it is because of something that happened today which suggests somebody’s brains have drifted off into outer space.
I’ve been using a firm called Vertical Response to send out my emails for a while. One of the most successful subject lines I’ve ever used is, “Would you just like me to shut up?”
Vertical response have run this happily a couple of times in the past. Then on Friday they suddenly said it was unacceptable. I’m too damn busy to argue with halfwits, so I just let it slide.
But I ask you: is it obscene? Is it offensive? Is it libellous? Is it blasphemous? Is it even politically incorrect?
No.
It’s just had the misfortune to be read by someone with half a brain.
… But it’s OK to advertise the film ‘The Spy Who Shagged Me’ on the side of a bus
Make fist at eye level
Elevate middle finger
Vertical Response