by sumac | Jul 7, 2016 | Sports Apologies
The Big Freeze fundraiser is an annual event in Australia. Celebrities, particularly people from footy – Australian rules football – plummet down a slide into ice water. This raises money to fight motor neurone disease (MND), better known in the USA as ALS. On June...
by snarly | Apr 18, 2016 | Celebrity Apologies
If a sixth grade non-fiction book report and a proof-of-life hostage video got married and had a baby, it would look like Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s apology video. Background: In Australia’s “War on Terrier” (HA HA), Johnny Depp’s...
by snarly | Aug 30, 2014 | Scientific apologies
The news is making me so sad right now. We have any number of terrible apologies we could talk about, but instead, can we focus on a good one? (I realize we’ve had a lot of good apologies on the site lately. I DO NOT APOLOGIZE.) This lovely apology is from...
by snarly | May 5, 2014 | Corporate Apologies
A Facebook pal alerted us to customer service expert/social media maven Marc Watson’s blog post today about Australian clothing company Black Milk’s strategic dumbassery. Black Milk makes what might be described as sexy nerdware — skintight dresses...
by snarly | Feb 26, 2014 | Personal Apologies, Political Apologies
One of our first posts was about Australia’s National Day of Healing (aka Sorry Day). It happens every February 13, the anniversary of the Australian Parliament’s decision to apologize to the indigenous peoples they’d had screwed over and abused for...