I just overheard something this morn on the radio - it’s was Sandi Toksvig doing one of those mildly humerous news quizzes that I just had to look into this story for it was so beautiful.
A while back Ed Balls - who I wouldn’t trust to run a whelk stall let alone provide services for children - unveiled the government’s new website for small kids involving a -presumably - cute dog Called Buster. The site they named “Buster’s World”.
Alas they hadn’t done their homework. If you type “Buster’s World” into Google the top result is a gay fetish site. And I mean gay in both senses of the world - it caters for men into ballon fetishism. Nope, it’s a new one on me too. Not that it surprises me because since the internet nothing to do with sexual kinks surprises me. Even the ones that are so weird they don’t even seem like sex as much as a very odd hobby. Note whilst that link is probably NSFW (not least because if any of your colleagues spot you looking at it God knows what they’ll think*) the site seems essentially harmless and perhaps even a little whimsical.
When I started this post I thought it would end about here with the usual comment about government incompetence and that really is idiotic of them not to even run the name through Google. But then government is incompetent and when it comes to IT schemes you can at least notch the buffoonery-up an order of magnitude. I mean they make Fred Carno’s Circus look like the Trooping of the Colour.
But then I saw this. The government’s Buster’s World is a load of leftie and Green propaganda.
One is a website designed by people with very strange obsessions and the other is about blokes who like balloons.
I know which of the two is more dangerous to young minds.
PS. I have fought the good fight here and refused to make any humerous references to blow-jobs. I deserve a cigar for that.
*At a fair guess you’ll return on Monday to find your workstation festooned with balloons and you will die of shame.
“…your workstation festooned with balloons…”
Only if your colleagues are merciful/sane. Some of the characters I work with have imaginations of such foul complexity that I recoil from exploring the possibilities…
Just been for a look, will play properly with the children later, always good to find fun ways to teach them about the dangers of propoganda.
It’s now amazingly called directgovkids and the dog isn’t buster anymore he’s called Top Dog.
You get round the town by clicking on “go right” or “go left”.
Little Eddie Balls is still insisting on calling everyone who is involved in education the Young People’s Learning Family (YPLF). A quick google indicates this is totally not an approptiate acronym, with no amibuity attached. Once might be careless, but twice? I think it’s deliberate.