Weekend Paranoia: Under Britain’s Watchful Eyes
You know how Britain’s been doing all the craaaazy stuff with the video monitors? It seems they’ve had a long history of being Big Brother to their citizens. This campaign seems not to have been a hoax and was run in 2002!
Um.. who thought that was a good campaign??
September 9th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Eh, no matter how SAFE they make the buses, they’ll always smell of B.O. and pee, so really, what difference does it make?
September 9th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
LOL! You know I don’t think I ever took the bus in London. Always tubed, walked or cabbed. I guess I’m glad I never did now. :)
September 17th, 2007 at 9:34 am
[...] freedoms in the name of self protection. Britain seems to be well ahead of the curve with all their crazy cctv work all over the place, but NYC and the states seem to be looking to catch [...]
September 28th, 2007 at 6:35 am
[...] we all know that the UK loves it some CCTV surveillance of it’s citizens, the criminal lot of ‘em. We thought that kinda Big Brother was confined to the loonies [...]
November 9th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
That is a hella funny hoax poster.
Like, if it was a serious poster I would LMAO. But, I still LOL even though it’s a hoax, whoever made it did a great job!
November 10th, 2007 at 11:34 am
blacklight - heh! Is it a hoax? I couldn’t find anything one way or the other. I’m very impressed if it was a hoax! Topical and a really fantastic photochopping job!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
It was also published in National Geographic last year, and they made light of the fact that many assumed that the posters were a lark since they had such “orwellian” overtones. But NO, it is not a hoax!
November 13th, 2007 at 9:34 am
GBP II - thanks! Man, I wish they had that piece online - can’t seem to find it. :)
March 19th, 2008 at 8:18 am
[...] What the hell is up with the UK? It isn’t enough that they want to surveil their entire citizenry, now they want to create a database of children who might one day grow up to commit crime?? This [...]
May 7th, 2008 at 7:39 am
[...] buttresses. I love a flying buttress. But anyhoos, you’re going to have to travel to the land of paranoia to see this bad boy, since it’s in the Legoland Windsor theme park. Or you can just look at [...]