Violent IKEA Gnome Ad Upsets British Viewers

Gnome Idea?-)

Nine Kinds 

of Naked

"An Ikea commercial showing a couple at war with garden gnomes has upset British TV audiences, who have sent in dozens of complaints. 
The "Say No To Gnomes" ad shows a couple attempting to clear out old furniture and ornaments from their garden — but facing a revenge attack from a small army of furious-looking gnomes. 
The gnomes eventually lose, but not before viewers are treated to slow-motion shots of their squat ceramic bodies smashing against a fence or under the jet of a garden hose. 
Britain's Advertising Standards Authority said it received nearly 50 complaints that the two-minute ad was "offensive, unsuitable for children, frightening, violent and encouraged emulation and anti-social behaviour", BBC News reports. 
The authority said it was "surprised" by the reaction and had no plans to take any action....
Ikea's UK marketing manager, Peter Wright, said the ad was a "light-hearted" way of showing a family breaking away from "the ultimate embodiment of everything that's tired and dreary about British gardens — the garden gnome"."
Violent gnome ad upsets British viewers  
I'm glad that I broke away from that "tired and dreary" place, too.
Unlike Jack;-)

If they ever make a sequel to The Shining IKEA would be the perfect place to film it.
I could see Jack fitting right into management at that place ... and with pretty much the same results too.

9 Kinds of Naked 

(Part 2)

Were These Posts a Premonition of the Boston Bombings?

 I saw that a blogger had read this old post tonight, so I had a re-read to see what I had written -

Countdown to Doom:1981, Episode 21?

The scene of the light aircraft crash
 at Lismore Airport, March 24th

I remember the creepy feeling I had writing this post thinking a much bigger event was coming not too far down the track, and it was somehow related to this plane crash and the runners that got hit by falling tree branches in the 10 km run at St.Lucia in a vicious hail storm.

The Hailstorm that claimed the life
 of Joe Kelly, March 24th, 2013

The Iceman Cometh in March Sync

 

Fredric March and March Syncs  
It all started with my post about Fredric March and his movies on March 23rd.

March played Death in the movie Death Takes a Holiday, and oddly enough the Boston Marathon was run on a bank holiday.
March also died on April 14th 1975 (age 77), so the anniversary of his death would have been the day before the Boston Marathon bombing.
The Titanic would also get hit by an iceberg on April 14th, but wouldn't sink until the morning of April 15th. 

But tonight, when I Goggled "Iceman+Boston Marathon" I got the trailer to a movie called The Iceman that came out just after the Boston Marathon, plus this article that was written before the Boston Marathon, but after the runner that got hit in the Brisbane storm of March 24th had died from his injury -
Racing to Boston

Steve Martin and Tanya Carter
are competing in the
Boston Marathon on April 15.

"April 9, 2013
Sheri LAMB
Citizen staff
Tanya Carter will have some support from above during her inaugural jaunt in the 117th running of the Boston Marathon next Monday. 
The 45-year-old, a graduate of Kelly Road secondary school, was encouraged to pursue qualifying for the historic marathon by former Prince George Y volunteer running coach 
Joe Kelly, who passed away in Australia on April 1 after being injured in a race eight days earlier. 
"He's just a great inspiration to myself and to all of our running friends and triathlon friends and the Iceman group," said Carter. 
"Joe has just been a great person in my life and a great motivator. 
"It's going to take a long time for us to get over him," she added. 
In Boston, Carter will be joined by fellow Prince George runner, and coworker at Ritchie Brothers, Steve Martin. 
Both Carter and Martin qualified for the Boston Marathon at the Kelowna marathon in 2011. 
The marathon in Kelowna was Carter's ninth marathon overall, and the fourth time she had tried to qualify for Boston, having tried twice at the Calgary marathon and once in Sacramento, Calif. 
In Kelowna she ran the 42 kilometre race (26 miles) in three hours, 47 minutes, 56 seconds (3:47.56). 
Martin's qualifying time for Boston was three hours, 23 minutes.
(3/23)."
The 23rd of March was when I wrote the first post about Fredric March and Joe Kelly was injured in this race below and later died.

http://www.intrainingevents.com.au/default.asp?contentID=21

I couldn't help but notice that Joe Kelly (Joke-Kelly?)
died on April 1st (April Fool's Day).

"April 15, 2013
Sheri LAMB
Citizen staff
Steve Martin and Tanya Carter and their families are safe at their hotel near Boston. 
The two Prince George runners completed their race before two explosions at the finish line killed two people and injured dozens at the Boston Marathon on Monday. 
Carter had crossed the finish line about seven minutes before the first explosion happened. 
She said when she turned around all she saw was "a ball of smoke" after what sounded like a cannon. 
Amid the "mass hysteria" Carter worked her way to the family gathering area where husband Kevin, as well as Martin and his wife, were waiting for her."
 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/update-local-marathoners-safe-in-boston-1.1032790

Steve Martin and Tanya Carter and their families are safe at their hotel near Boston - See more at: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/update-local-marathoners-safe-in-boston-1.1032790#sthash.tgXy4ISd.dpuf

Maybe Joe was running with Tanya, and helped get her to the line 7 minutes faster?

 I also feel the storm warnings pointed to the Moore tornado as well, which was a killer storm killing 24 people and injuring 240 people.
Whole neighborhoods razed by Oklahoma tornado that killed 24

"Disney's Frozen hits theaters in November 2013, and Beyond The Trailer host Grace Randolph gives her review of some of the recently leaked footage!"

Let's hope this isn't indicating something bad for November.

 "What does the S stand for?  Hope!"

Fredric March's last film was The Iceman Cometh,

where he was Harry Hope.

"Greed is good"? ... Is it?

Life is full of choices ... and not all good, that's for sure.

Episode 86: Rodney Ascher . . . Room 237

05.28.13 Episode 86:
Rodney Ascher Room 237

2 Minute Description: 

Room 237 Poster 

for Mondo

A Day at IKEA

The Greatest Stories 

Ever Told?

Eric Brew- Artist

http://www.brew42.com/gallery2/main.php

Brew, that sounds like a great surname to me;-)

The Greatest Stories Ever Told?

This church
reminded me of sitting in a cinema,
 contemplating life

The Victoria Point Cineplex
 just outside Brisbane

The Victoria Point Cineplex
just outside Brisbane

The Story - AKA The Best Wedding Video Ever  
I saw the above You Tube yesterday on the net and it reminded me of the post I wrote the other day about the spiritual experience of religious shrines and the cinema -
St.Kevin, Hollywood, 42 and Reflection... 
There is a nod to King Kong in the above video too, which reminded me of this bit of synchromysticism -

420 KONG

And of course 420 reminded me of this clip -
420 Bullseye
And this post about 420 -

My 420 Session in Oz;-)

ARMED With a DREAM - Peace of Me                                                     "ARMED With a DREAM "/42 Sync

Charles Durning:

The Red Shoe Connection?

Stargate of Oz

Scene from The Place Beyond the Pines

Amen to synchromysticism and cinema I say;-)

Danny McGinlay

If you watch Danny's show-real bear in mind that I live in Logan:-)

Checking the brew’s gravity

Not only did this article get uploaded on April 20, but to me personally there is something very syncy in being 
"Celebrity Brew Day"

Repo Man/127 Sync

http://www.xxxx.com.au/

Football Syncs

The photo of the Spurs programme
Mike Perry commented to me about

The other day I wrote a post about football syncs between myself and Mike Perry and the name Kevin -
Kevin, Walls and Bridges

Mike knowing that I was a Tottenham fan left this comment at the bottom of the post -
"Was looking through some old football programmes, many from my dad and came across Spurs v Newcastle from 1955 - thought you might be interested so scanned it and put it on a post I don't use:
http://www.67notout.com/2009/12/3rd-post.html"
Looking at the programme I found it odd that there were some famous movie star surnames in both teams that played that day, like Crowe, Cowell, Hopkins, Reynolds and Brooks.

My wall above my computer

On top of my bookcase

Tonight, on Mike's post  
How Cosmic Ordering Worked For Noel Edmonds
Helios left this comment -
"Hi Mike,
About synchronicity, I found this article, a psychologist's point of view
Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence – An Interview with Dr. Kirby Surprise
What do you think, you and your readers about it?"

To which I wrote back -
"@Helios
Here is an article I wrote about Dr. Surprise last year -
Steering Synchronicity by Surprise  
and the funny thing is that my team is playing
Russell Crowe's team again in less than 9 minutes ... so I'm off to watch the game on the TV.
Go the Sharkies!!!"

Russell Kruger;-)

Now the funny thing is Russell Crowe is a part owner of the 
South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Brendan Cowell  is a mad Sharkie fan, like me -
How It Feels??? Synchronistic That's How! (Part 1)

Brendan Cowell and Rose Burne
wearing a Sharks jersey

Rose Burne and Bradley Cooper
in The Place Beyond the Pines

St. Kevin, Hollywood, 42 and Reflection ...

 Tonight, our teams played each other and the Sharkies 

came out winners 14-12. 

On the programme of Mike's, Crowe is #6 for Newcastle and Cowell is #2.

6 + 2 = 8.

Six Degrees of 

Kevin Costner

Rose Byrne

Brendan Cowell

Hollywood couldn't write a better dream script if they tried,

James and the 

Giant Peach Syncs

as there was a happy ending as well ... not for Russ though;-)

"Those f#@%!n Sharks!!!"

I see Rose is filming Insidious 2 at the moment

The Insidious 

Sallie House

Synchronicity+

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