Signs that civilization is about to fail(part III)

I found the following helpful advice today written on the side of a box of Weight Watchers ice cream bars:

"This product, when extremely cold, may stick to warm lips or tongue. Allow to warm slightly before eating"

Something is wrong, deeply and irrevocably wrong when consumers need instructions on how to eat an ice cream bar. Stop the world, I want to get off.

Wait, which one are we again?

If you want to show off your city's environmental credentials, why not spend thousands of tax payers cash on printing a leaflet about recycling with a picture of the wrong city on the front? The 720,000 residents of Birmingham, England who were sent the leaflets by the local council were suprised to discover the entire city had apparently spontaneously changed into Birmingham, Alabama.

I went to university in Birmingham (the English one). They have two boring football teams and until they knocked it all down, one of the ugliest city centers in Europe (Soviet-Bloc style but with more drunks) and funny accents. So maybe pretending they're another city wasn't such a bad idea.