When the Google ads on your blog post blatantly and unashamedly disagree with said blog post:
“Quality Cruises to Antarctica Amazing Wildlife and Scenery”
Yep. Also (with equally unacceptable grammar): “Free Penguins Easily Destroyed Moss Beds”.
Have you maybe considered Alaska as an alternative?
I know, I know. You had other plans for this evening anyway. Me too: I’ve been told that there might be something history related on the History Channel. Granted, this was by the same person who suggested that there would be some music on MTV last week, but it’s got to be worth staying in, just to witness what would be an… er… historic event.
And if you were wondering how you’d even get there in the first place, you should remember that there is a scheduled flight service from Cape Town to Novolazarevskaya Station, so it’s not as hard as you might imagine.
But lousy TV and ease of access to available flights aside, you still shouldn’t go to Antarctica, because tourism is destroying the place. And that’s a bad thing.
Scientists say walking on moss beds will leave footprints that could last for centuries.
Fortunately, this important news is now being shared, thanks to a new commercial from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight:
Not quite sure that green oval at the end works so well, given that it completely misses including the widely-suggested alternative destination, but at least the primary the message is quite clear.
On an altogether more serious, certainly more edgy and somewhat longer note, his hugely interesting piece on the US Wealth Gap is sublime.