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01 July 2011 - Brie à la Carly and Jean!
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21 April 2011 - John Cleese on ‘Alerts to terror threats in 2011 Europe’ – very funny!
It sounds like geopolitics, but it actually is very very funny… It will enlighten your day!
“The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.”
The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out.
Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The Scots have raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s Get the Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.
The French Government … Read the rest
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16 February 2011 - Chinese companies mass producing fake rice out of plastic…
… well, that’s what Natural News has reported. Like a previous story about fake eggs being produced in China, we don’t know if it’s true, but it’s still worth reading. Check by yourselves:
“According to a report in the Korean-languageWeekly Hong Kong, the manufacturers are blending potatoes, sweet potatoes, and plastic industrial resin to produce the imitation rice. A report inVery Vietnam states that an official from the Chinese Restaurant Association has announced that eating three bowls of this fake rice is the equivalent of eating an entire plastic bag. Consuming such plastic material is obviously a serious health hazard, and officials are allegedly gearing up to conduct an investigation into the factories accused of producing the phony rice.”
The article rightly recalls that this “scandal is not a surprise when considering China’s long legacy food problems, including the 2008 melamine-tainted milk incident where roughly 300,000 people were injured and at least six … Read the rest
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21 January 2011 - Contest! Guess who are these smallest-eggs-ever from?… There is a prize for the winner!
Check this out – our flatmate just found these eggs behind the books on her shelf.
To give you a better idea of the size, we’ve added a 50 cents coin by their side…
So what kind of eggs do you think these are?… Leave us your answer in the comments, and we’ll offer a surprise to the first who provides us with the right answer
Come back in few days to get the answer!…
UDPATE:
We have a winner here! In addition to the comments visible hereunder, we’ve also received a number of emails – but all provided wrong answers though. So the correct answer is given by Kimmie, who rightly guessed that the tiny eggs you see in the picture are gecko eggs. Kimmie, we are happy to announce that you’ve won kefir grains, so that you can now make your own kefir at home! We’ll … Read the rest
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16 January 2011 - Yuk!… How long do you think you can keep a McDonald hamburger without it decomposing?
So, how long do you think you can keep a McDonald hamburger on your shelf, without it decomposing? 2 hours? 8 hours? 2 days? 2 weeks perhaps?
Nope, you are still far from the truth…
Believe it or not, according to Karen Hanrahan, you can keep it for 12 years! And counting! As you can judge by yourself on the picture below, it looks exactly like a fresh one…
The hamburger on the right is from 2008; the one on the left is from 1996.
So let’s make sense of that. We know that any food decomposes rather rapidly right? Think of leaving your bread on your kitchen bench. It goes hard, and then mould develops pretty fast, doesn’t it? So why is the McDonald hamburger resisting any decomposition?
Dr Mercola puts it best: “Part of the embalmed-like feature of the meat patty can be explained by the … Read the rest
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24 December 2010 - US sought to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds (Wikileaks)
“U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the Bush administration drew up ways to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds. In 2007, then-U.S. ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France’s decision to ban cultivation of genetically modified corn produced by biotech giant Monsanto.”
“… unfortunately, the Obama administration has not been better than the Bush administration, possibly worse.”
“Not only were the scientists at the US Food and Drug Administration aware that GMOs were different, they had warned repeatedly that they might create allergies, toxins, new diseases and nutritional problems. But they were ignored, and their warnings were even denied, and the policy went forth allowing the deployment GMOs into the food supply with virtually no safety studies.”
We leave it to you to make up your own mind… Click here to read or watch the whole interview by Democracy Now. And you can … Read the rest
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27 September 2010 - Dictator International Fashion Show
Foreign Policy has a string of nice pictures showing some of our preferred authoritarian leaders in different outfits. When the magazine stated that “shoes are height enhancers for the diminutive [leader]“, I first thought it was referring to President Sarkozy, but I was wrong, they were talking of the Great Leader Kim Jong-Il.
Please note that “the chest full of medals [remains] the ultimate dictator bling”, and that “the walking cane is this season’s hottest accessory”.
Anyway, enjoy these pictures even if you are in the office. Given the traditional seriousness of Foreign Policy magazine, you can still pretend you were reading international analysis.
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25 September 2010 - Global warming? Gays are the cause of it!
Well, this is apparently what some Samoan clerics have stated: “Clerics in the South Pacific have fingered the key cause of climate change – homosexuals. The revelation came at a conference at the University of the South Pacific considering the implications of Climate Change and Creativity.” The clerics haven’t explained the rationale of their arguments though – although the Register suspects “their latching onto climate change as a consequence of gayness is informed by a more biblical sense of cause and effect.”
Or maybe, as a blogger funnily posted elsewhere “Global warming is a gay issue. [...] The heat generated in discos, bath houses, the manufacture of interior furnishings, leather tanning and the result of … um …. friction, is a major contributor to the global rise in mean temperature. There are also lifestyle issues, such as homosexuals’ liking for gas-guzzling Jeeps and the environmental impact of frequent vacations in … Read the rest
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18 September 2010 - Have you ever heard of ‘undercover marketing’?
Imagine that you are walking along an out-of-the-way trail in a national park. A group of young hikers is standing at the side of the trail talking to one another in loud, excited voices. You cannot help but overhear them. “They would be talking about the great backpack they are wearing,” says Jonathon Ressler, CEO of marketing firm Big Fat, “how [with other backpacks] your back hurts after you hike 84,000 miles… [but] with this backpack it has a special da-da-da-da… it’s really comfortable. Boom,” says Ressler, they “have just delivered the message” to you – and you have no idea that you were just pitched a product by a group of professional actors working for Big Fat.
Undercover marketing, the name of this technique, “is happening everywhere,” according to Ressler, the man credited with its invention: “It happens in bars, it happens at soccer games, it happens in shopping … Read the rest
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