{"id":311,"date":"2010-05-31T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/05\/31\/so_confused_i_want_to_vomit\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:03:46","slug":"so_confused_i_want_to_vomit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/05\/31\/so_confused_i_want_to_vomit\/","title":{"rendered":"So confused I want to vomit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice distraction from the Monday morning woes (not the normal woes, but that the wireless doesn&#8217;t like me: it&#8217;s not working at home for the second time in 6 months, and my work wireless doesn&#8217;t like my account either.Grrr)<br \/>\nBut once I got into work, I found myself looking at part of the Gruaniad&#8217;s Life and Style section. Not my normal reading, but how can you resist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/may\/30\/ask-hadley-ted-baker-bilious-suit\">this question&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nbq. Why does Ted Baker have a jacket-and-trouser combo called Sterling Bilious? Last time I looked, bilious meant nausea- or vomit-inducing. Has Ted Baker decided to just be honest? Is this the way forward for advertising? Absolutely Disgusting Slacks by Marks &amp; Spencer? Cheap Tat Jeans by Topman? What&#8217;s going on?<br \/>\nThe answer given (which is far more entertaining than what I&#8217;m about to write) is that &#8220;, the collection was inspired by nature and the suit was called &#8220;bilious&#8221; after a beetle&#8221;.<br \/>\nBut the only reference to a bilious beetle is to a cartoon character, and a photo of an assassin bug (i.e. not a beetle).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/File:Rhynocoris_iracundus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/df\/Rhynocoris_iracundus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A suit, yesterday. Or a beetle. Or a true bug. I&#8217;m confused.<\/em><br \/>\nDoes a bilious beetle even exist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice distraction from the Monday morning woes (not the normal woes, but that the wireless doesn&#8217;t like me: it&#8217;s not working at home for the second time in 6 months, and my work wireless doesn&#8217;t like my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/05\/31\/so_confused_i_want_to_vomit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","tag-coleoptera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}