Sounds 'right' but far from right...

"Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups."
-- found on the Internet

Yesterday, I posted stuff about salt-laden hawker food. I thought I should also check out what are the sugar-loaded stuff. This website below seems to be quite informative on this sugar issue as well as on health matters generally:

Top 10 foods highest in sugar

http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/high-sugar-foods.php

Molecular link between high fructose corn syrup and the obesity epidemic

Molecular-Link-between-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup-and-the-Obesity-Epidemic

Today's Insanity Streak (I always look out for this very creative cartoon strip) has something to say about the issue of high sugar level too:

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When is 'big' much bigger than 'big'?
How many at the opposition's KL rally? One newspaper said "100,000"; the other said "big crowd" and (in the text) "tens of thousands":

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Meanwhile, some other headlines, ads and a poster these past few days could have been done with more care...

KA pointed this one out. Strictly, it's a good headline but look carefully... the spacing between two of the words are so close that the word "stepson" seems to be the result!

As for this one, if your mind's eye sees "correct" being used as a verb, no problem. But what if you see it as an adverb (since the intervening article "the" -- Correct the imbalance -- is absent)? That makes the headline look funny. So why not use "Redress" or "Rectify"? No ambiguity then!

Angie pointed this one out. Again, technically, it is not an inaccurate headline. But one's mind's eye may play tricks -- in the manner of Insanity Streak cartoons -- and one is left imagining a poor medical student being physically strung up on something called "clinic postings"!

This ad below simply fails to live up to my strict test of redundancy (free gifts, advanced planning, common border, etc)...

This one below implies that there are two types of people: natural people (who all live in Perth) and unnatural people (who, presumably, populate the rest of Australia and possibly the whole world)...

  Maybe this card in the ad below will save us from the unnatural people...

  
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Finally, it is Speak Good English season again. But I have a problem with the campaign's poster:

The tagline is flawed! Even if I were to try and rectify it by replacing "consciously" with "attentively", that still does not convey the idea of learning (how?) from speakers (who?) of good English (as defined by whom?).

Just to give an illustration, the morning radio presenters on FM93.8 all sound very convincing as speakers of good English. But they have this irritating habit of proclaiming "We have an accident between two vehicles at the junction of..."

We? What's wrong with "There is an accident..."? There might well be FM93.8 listeners who, persuaded that mellifluous voices equal good English, consciously and unwittingly imbibe such silly usage.