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Lake Namtso, one of two holy lakes in Tibet, forms the centre of the valley floor and is surrounded by the Nyanchen Tanglha mountain range. In 1986, Robert Hefner, President of the Bradshaw Foundation, found himself standing here on top of the world (or what felt like it) a little while before he made a remarkable discovery. This is how he described it: "The deep blue Tibetan sky encompassed barren, craggy, rocky peaks, full of spectacular geological structures typical of the Tibetan plateau. Beside the road was a pile of carved religious rocks and a pole with many fluttering prayer flags. Only 300 metres below was a sapphire lake enclosed by snowy peaks: the great valley of Lake Namtso." http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/section-blog/42989-a-note-on-the-rock-art-of-lake-namtso-tibetLake Namtso, one of two holy lakes in Tibet, forms the centre of the valley floor and... more
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It's no secret that the rich despise the poor. This hatred stems from a couple very different, very dark places in the place that at one time may or may not have housed a soul. Either 1) the rich person was once poor, and the very sight of the un-monied sends shivers down their spine, reminding them of the life they fought out of, frightened every day that someone will take it all away from them and send them back to the horrors of non-richness. of B) they have never known a minute of want in their entire privileged life and are so out of touch, with no reference for the plight of the soiled dirty people, they don't understand how everyone doesn't own a drawer full of platinum dipped, emerald encrusted cock rings, except that their abject lazy and unwillingness to make something of themselves makes them despise them and their worn more than once clothing.
There's really no other way to explain the mind rapingly unnecessary extravagances that the rich continue to treat themselves to when surrounded by a world that at best is barely scraping by and is at worst, scraping off a bite of those who failed to scrape by.
The latest luxury item being offered to the bored rich collector of things that they should be ashamed of is this beaut...
Feast your eyes on the majesty of the only razor greater than yourself.
Now, you may be asking, "Why has a razor for the wasteful wealthy pissed you off so very much Mr. Blog? It's just a razor, what harm could it possibly do to you and your constantly yelly face?" And it's a fair question. Just looking at this face deforestation utensil, it looks no more special than your average Gillette. Frankly, it actually looks kind of ugly. A razor is generally a fairly harmless bathroom expenditure and this one looks like you could probably buy a bag of three of them for five bucks at CVS. But if that were the case, I wouldn't have been shouting at the sky for the last three hours, now would I? Well, okay, I probably would have, but at least this gave me a somewhat defensible reason.
You see, if you'd like to scrape the whiskers from your face in the most luxurious, exclusive way known to the abhorrent excess of man, you can get yourself your very own Zafirro Iridium for the bargain basement price of JUST... $100,000.
No, I didn't just have a stroke and lean on the zero key for a comically long period of time: that's the real fucking price. For only $100,000 you can stride confidently across the face of your own bought and paid for planet with chops as smooth as a starving child's malnourished ass cheeks.
And you know what, you get your very last penny's worth, because the Zafirro Iridium isn't made with space age technology, that's for poor assholes. No, the Zafirro Iridium is made from fucking SPACE! See, if Zafirro's razor sounds sort of familiar in a weird, sci-fi kind of way, that's because it gets its name from the material it's made from "Iridium". What is iridium you may be wondering? Well you see, most of the iridium found on our planet is "the result of crashed meteorites"... That's right, this razor is made of space rocks. Actually, scratch that. The HANDLE is made of space rocks. The fucking handle is made of iridium, an "extremely scarce and expensive metal that is so dense, it could survive a drop into molten lava". Not the business end of this $100,000 indestructible face smoother but just the HANDLE, the LEAST IMPORTANT PART of this thing is made of a Superman metal from a doomed planet far, far away that has crash landed on Earth.
So then, if the thing that holds the blade is made of metal that can leap tall buildings in a single bound, what the hell fuck could the actual blade be made of? Sharpened unicorn bones? Laser carved shards of a brown dwarf star? Jesus' finger nail clippings? No, that's ridiculous, nothing quite so extravagant and fantastical, the blades of this $100,000 dollar shaver are simply made from artificially grown sapphire... That's all... I don't even know what that means or if the reality of what the blades actually are is even less insane than the other options I threw on the table.
Zafirro, which apparently only exists to sell these razors, is only offering 99 of these grotesque impulse buys to the money soaked "public", adding one more irresistible feature to lure in the bahudratrillionaires: exclusivity. The only thing the super rich love more than buying more comically expensive things that shouldn't cost nearly so much, is knowing that they will be one of only a handful of people on the planet to own it.
To say this is unnecessary is a gross understatement, but that doesn't mean that people don't have the right to spend their money how ever they see fit. What makes me so angry is when I see something like this and then, foolishly, put it in perspective. The poverty line in the contiguous United States for the year of our lord 2000 and 11 for a family of 4 (with all family members 18 years of age or over) is $22,350. So, give those four families a couple extra bucks in walkin' around money to waste on frivolous nonsense that the poor are known to throw their money away on, such as food and electricity, and 16 people could live the lavish life of the just barely not impoverished for an entire year for the price of a single, solitary, volcano proof grooming tool...
It's better not to think about these things, I wish I didn't. But I do, and that's why I'm angry all the time. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go get a ten pack of Bics at the dollar store and try to resist the urge to cut my hands off with them... BYE NOW!
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Only diamond is harder than sapphire.That's why sapphire is being tested as a sensor that could relay critical information about extreme conditions present during gasification, the process of heating coal until it becomes a gas.
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show shares our own 90 Second Oscar Picks for this year's Best Picture nominees, which include:
-"Avatar" James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
- "The Blind Side" Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Producers
- "District 9" Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
- "An Education" Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
- "The Hurt Locker" Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers
- "Inglourious Basterds" Lawrence Bender, Producer
- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
- "A Serious Man" Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
- "Up" Jonas Rivera, Producer
- "Up in the Air" Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesThe Rotten Tomatoes Show shares our own 90 Second Oscar Picks for this year's... more
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show takes a 90 Second Oscar Peek at the noms for Best Adapted Screenplay:
-"District 9" Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
- "An Education" Screenplay by Nick Hornby
- "In the Loop" Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
- "Up in the Air" Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesThe Rotten Tomatoes Show takes a 90 Second Oscar Peek at the noms for Best Adapted... more
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Tonight saw the 2010 awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts take place at London’s Royal Opera House. The BBC have broadcast the ceremony since, both in the UK and on their BBC America channel though - rather appallingly - this broadcast was purposefully scheduled to not take place live but after a two hour delay. Imagine if the Oscars were broadcast in this way…!?
After the break, the full list of winners and a few tidbits about the ceremony as broadcast.
Here are the main awards as listed on the BAFTA official winner’s list - so not in show order at all.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/21/the-2010-bafta-film-awards/Tonight saw the 2010 awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts take... more
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "Precious."
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen... more
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