Dispensary Corner 08 Nov 12
November 8, 2012
BLOOD needed?
The Romanian National Tourist
Office is promoting the fact that
HRH Prince Charles is in fact
directly related to the father of
vampire legend, Vlad the Impaler.
The promotion is designed to
lure Brits into the tourism
clutches of Romania, and even
features the Prince himself in an
interview joking “Transylvania is
in my blood, so I do have a bit of
a stake in the country”.
The connection comes via
Prince Charles’ great
grandmother Queen Mary, the
consort of George V, to Vlad IV,
the half brother of the infamous
villain.
STOCK up on deodorant.
Pilots in China are facing a rather unusual interview process to get the job, with Hainan Airlines announcing it will be sniffing for body odour during recruitment tests. The company’s new zero-bodyodour requirement has caused some raised eyebrows in the airline community, but Hainan has defended its policy saying “our staff work very closely with the public, and no passenger wants to smell a pilot’s armpits”. “And if they can keep their cool in this test, they aren’t going to sweat in the cockpit,” the company added. The rudimentary test basically involves a recruitment ‘sniffer’ to take a deep whiff of applicants armpits to check for odour. Other key requirements for the job include: being able to fly a plane, 20/20 vision, a max height of 1.87 meters and a very good command of the English language. After leaving an interview, one would-be pilot told media “I passed everything, but I was doomed by my armpits, which are always a bit whiffy”.
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