Clever or poor taste? You decide

I've just been reading some news website and I've seen a story which is about an idea which is really clever or in really poor taste. Basically in order to celebrate the 2009 oscar season some organisers, well.. organised a screening of Titanic in HD in a special venue. Now what could be considered poor taste about that? Well the venue for this screening was swiming pool and the audience in victorian clothing watched the films from lifeboats. There were even 'icebergs' in the pool and as the event was sponsered by Sky some of the audience were even issued life jackets which had Titanic printed on them with the phrase 'Sky + HD' underneath. The head of the sponsers said " 'Combining the excitement and intensity of watching movies in High Definition with the unique swimming pool setting should have film fans feeling like they are actually taking part in the film.'"
You have to wonder if someone did remind him that this was a film about a actual disaster and possibily not the best choice for trying to push HD.
Still clever marketing or poor taste? You decide!

Also in a " I really don't want to ask how they investigated this or came to these conclusions" newstory the vatican has just issued a new report that states when it comes to captial sins they believe men are most likely to commit Lust followed by gluttony, sloth, anger pride, envy and avarice. For women the most dangerous is pride and then envy, anger, lust, gluttony and the last is slothfulness. The only reason I happened to notice this is that the headline to the story was "The gender divide in Hell" which I thought meant that the vatican had decided to say men don't get punished for their sins as much as women. However the one interesting thing I learned was that apparently the Vatican added seven new capital sins last year to the list which include genetic modification, human experimentations, polluting the environment, social injustice, causing poverty, financial gluttony and and taking or selling drugs.

Next in a " must have seemed like a good idea at the time" new story, a church of england school has sparked an uproar because as part of a anti bullying exercise a teacher ahd a group of ten year olds write down all the rudest and most offensive words they knew, they list them in order of offensiveness, from 'harmless' to 'really upsetting'. Cue a lot of parents getting a nasty shock that night when their kids returned home with the lists in their exercise books and proceeded to ask what the words meant.

That's teachers in trouble.........

Later folks!