It's really amazing all the things gummint can think of to waste money on. For example. Got the link from Dick.
A CHEEKY artist has been given a £20,000 National Lottery grant - to look at girls' bums.
I wonder if I could get a grant to study women's breasts?
Sue Williams was given the cash to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks".She will create plaster cast moulds of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture.
Swansea-based Mrs Williams, 53, will also examine different racial attitudes towards bums in Europe and Africa. She said: "The project is taking on the issues around the bottom."Emma Geliot from the Arts Council of Wales, which awarded the grant, said: "This produces a tee-hee response but there is a serious point."
There is? Well, I guess wasting £20,000 is serious. But we here in the states can top that.
The federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don't like to wear condoms, a project government watchdogs say is a nearly-half-a-million-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
If I tell them the answer will they give me half? They don't have to do all this research. All they have to do is ASK SOME MEN! I told my friend Cindy about this on Saturday and she thought I was making it up. Even she knew the answer.
Posted by denny at June 29, 2009 02:38 PMWow. This is too stupid to be made up.
Posted by: evan on June 29, 2009 05:09 PMI'm female, but I think I could hazard a guess. They don't feel as good and they're a pain to put on in the heat of the moment? Just an uneducated, unfunded hypothesis.
Posted by: PeggyU on June 29, 2009 05:12 PMPeggy - Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winnah! And the gummint is gonna blow over $400K to find out what you just guessed and what all men know.
Posted by: Denny on June 29, 2009 06:45 PMI'm going to go out on a limb and venture that even they are not this stupid. However, some agency probably had some money leftover in their budget which they had to spend in order to not have their government funding reduced for the next fiscal year. I've seen this "spend it so they don't cut our budget" justification used in public education spending.
Posted by: PeggyU on June 29, 2009 08:32 PMThe rubber Czar. Cuming to an idiot near you!
Posted by: CharlieDelta on June 30, 2009 01:17 AMIf government funds a study to disprove a cultural trait you know it's the idea of some Liberal asshole trying to excuse the criminal or anti-social behavior of some sub-human minority group.
Besides, well all know which social group has FAT ASSES!
Now this ties in to why their sex partners (notice the plural) don't use condoms and therefore they have lots of brats sitting around government financed, roach ridden apartments watching Dr Phil and smoking crack-cocaine.
You don't buy rubbers with food stamps when you need them to buy corn starch so's you can find the damp spot.
Posted by: Toejam on June 30, 2009 03:51 AMI understand there are a lot of websites devoted to the female bum. My wife doesn't allow me to study them but I know they are there. Seems the Brits could save some money and just do some web surfing.
Posted by: Peter on July 2, 2009 03:50 AM