Posts Tagged ‘UK’
Hard To Say Goodbye
….. To our mobile provider. I have been Mrs. Maciphone since last year, and having so much fun using it. The first time I had it I didn’t really like it because it failed on basic mobile phone function, namely texting. It didn’t have a function to forward the message, let alone to copy and [...]
Little Something For Christmas
Recession? What recession? Some people are literally showered with money, and if you and your mega-rich friends have an extra million or two to spend, British newspaper’s The Sun’s has some ideas about the most opulent and OTT presents for Christmas this year: Iphone 3GS Supreme, contains 271g of 22-carat gold and almost 200 diamonds. [...]
Lockerbie Bomber Released
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from Libya was jailed for murdering 270 people after Pan Am flight 103 exploded 31,000ft over Lockerbie (a Scottish border town), 38 minutes after take-off from London en route to New York in 1988. He is found guilty of murder after the historic trial under Scottish law in the Netherlands in 2001 [...]
When I Grow Up I Wanna Be… A Playboy Bunny!
I remember when I was in primary school I wanted to be an astronomer (looking for objects up in the sky), archaeologist (looking for objects down beneath the earth), or architect (building things up or down), when I grow up. The first two were clearly and highly influenced by reading too much Hergé and Agatha [...]
Homecoming Scotland
I was surprised that I haven’t mentioned about the biggest event in Scotland yet. Homecoming Scotland 2009 is a series of events designed to attract people of Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland. The campaign, organised by EventScotland and VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, claims that [...]
Old Superheroes
From The Telegraph. Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti imagines the later years of superheroes, with hilarious results. His brilliant cartoons have been collected into a book, available here. Now, can you guess who they are?
An Orgasm A Day Keeps The Doctor Away
NHS (National Health Services), the publicly funded healthcare system in the United Kingdom, believes that regular intercourse can be good for school pupils’ cardiovascular health and they have a “right” to an enjoyable sex life. clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk The advice appears in leaflets circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers and is meant to update [...]
New MI6 Chief was Exposed in Facebook
The wife of the new head of MI6, Britain’s secret intelligent agency, has caused a major security breach and left his family exposed after publishing photographs and personal details on Facebook (foreign office staff are warned about using social networking sites when they join but MI6 advises its agents to maintain even tighter secrecy, telling [...]
UK Teenager Saved By Facebook
I know I have been publishing stories about facebook a lot lately, and here is another one! clipped from news.bbc.co.uk A British teenager who took a drugs overdose has been saved after the American girl he was chatting to online raised the alarm. The 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire had sent her a message suggesting he [...]
Top 10 Funniest Exam Answers
Now that’s what I call creative! clipped from www.thesun.co.uk SOME schoolkids are in a class of their own when it comes to silly exam answers. Test chiefs in the UK yesterday claimed GCSEs need to get tougher to stretch pupils. But plenty of bright sparks out there are already getting pretty creative. New website funnyexam.com [...]
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