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The Greater Glasgow Neds go Deer Hunting!! 2007-02-16 17:09:00 I must admit that this is one of the most strange and disturbing news stories that i've heard in a while!
Maybe it's time to turn the tables and start the sport of ferral ned hunting. All this talk of the a deer cull certainly makes me think that maybe the cull should be aimed at something else... Read more:Glasgow
Interesting Fact of the Day! No. 13 - Freefall Records 2007-02-15 12:15:00 Well, you've most likely seen skydiver Michael Holmes' brush with death. If not, have a gander at the movie below...
VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE DUE TO COPYRIGHT CLAIM BY ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LTD!!
Although Michael fell 12,000ft with a half open parachute, the all time free fall survival record is held by a Serbian woman called Vesna Vuloviç.
In 1972 she was an air stewardess on board a JAT Read more:Records
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Interesting Fact of the Day! No. 12 - Valentines Day!! 2007-02-14 12:24:00 Happy Valentines
Day!
Here are a few Valentines facts for your day... 15% of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.Since AD 496 the feast of St Valentines has been celebrated, some believe to suppress an older pagan fertility festival held on the 15th of February. But the feast was more of a Christian celebration rather than the romantic day we now it as now. The association Read more:Interesting Fact
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Top ten wealthiest football clubs by revenue!! 2007-02-08 11:22:00 Here are the ten wealthiest
football clubs by revenue!
The figures below take into account income from ticket sales, merchandising and broadcasting contracts but do not include transfer revenues and does not calculate profitability.
1)Real Madrid: £202m2)Barcelona: £179.1m 3)Juventus: £173.7m 4)Man Utd: £167.8m 5)AC Milan: £165m 6)Chelsea: £152.8m 7)Inter Milan: £142.8m 8)Bayern
songtapper.com - more like songcrapper! 2007-02-07 17:26:00 www.songtapper.com
Right, the tag line is "It's fun, it's easy, it's helpful"!
In short, IT'S NOT! And why is that woman holding the keyboard in the palm of her hand?? Who does that???
The guys in my office have been trying for a while now and so far songcrapper has only managed to recognise the Star Spangled Banner...
Give the old songtapper a blast and by all means let me know how you
Plato's Places to Go No.2 - Dunure Village and Castle 2007-02-05 17:35:00 If you're ever in Ayrshire in Scotland, make sure you have a stop of at the village of Dunure. It's a great little place just a ten to fifteen minute drive south of Ayr.
I must confess that there's not really much to it. Dunure is a traditional fishing village and it's current form dates back to the early 1800s. It has a small, stone walled harbour (with three swans in residence who aren't Read more:Plato
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Interesting Fact of the Day! No. 11 - Some facts about being left-handed 2007-02-01 10:44:00 Here are some facts
about being left-handed
....
1. Being left handed seems to be a bit of a dodgy thing in Japan. Researchers have found that less than 2% of people in Japan admit to being left handed, when the world average is 10%. Traditionally a man could reject his prospective wife on the grounds of her being left handed. It was said that left handers wouldn't be able to master japanese Read more:Interesting Fact
Plato's Places to Go No.1 - Portmeirion 2007-01-26 17:16:00 In short, this place in amazing.
In the 1960's TV series "The Prisoner" the protaginist is basically knocked out and dumped in this strange place. If it happened to you and you woke up there on a sunny day, you probably swear blind that you were in Spain. Well until you spoke to anyone who worked there anyway, then you'd realise that you were in Wales I guess.... Anyway, it's got stunning Read more:Plato
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Interesting Fact of the Day! No. 10 - Rabbie Burns 2007-01-25 10:54:00 Well, it's Burn's Night the nicht. So here's a fact or two about the bard...
He penned his first verse at 15.
There's a statue of Robert Burns
in Central Park.
Auld Lang Syne' was originally set to a different tune but the publisher rejected it so Burns set it to the one commonly sung today, which the Japanese claim as their tune.
If you need some tips for your Burn's supper, here's a few Read more:Interesting Fact
Interesting Fact of the Day! No. 9 - Vietnam 2007-01-23 13:25:00 Despite the lyrics of Paul Hardcastle's 1985 No.1 claiming.....
"In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26...
In Vietnam
he was 19."
This is in fact not true, the actual average age of an infantryman serving in Vietnam was actually 22.8 years.
The World War II figure is in fact correct.
Another interesting comparison between the two wars is that during WWII, the average Read more:Interesting Fact
Aplogise and Move on... 2007-01-19 14:30:00 I was reading an article on the beeb there about how Robert Redford has called for the US leaders to apologise for the war in Iraq.
I must admit though that after reading this article and thought about the whole thing, i'm quite puzzled as to who should be apologising to who?
I think Redford's point is that the American people trusted the government to act on their behalf after 9/11 but the
Interesting Fact of the Day! No. 8 - Global Unemployment! 2007-01-18 16:50:00 Here are some unemployment figures from around the world...
Faroe Islands 1%
Bermuda 2.1%
Vietnam 2.4%
United Kingdom 4.7%
United States 5.1%
Australia 5.1%
India 8.9%
Germany 11.7%
Argentina 11.6%
China 20% (Estimated overall unemployment)
Monaco 22%
Zimbabwe 80%
Liberia 85%
The World Average sits at around 30%
Quite mad when you try and imagine what it would be life to live Read more:Interesting Fact
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Movie Reviews - Rocky Balboa 2007-01-18 12:11:00 What can I say? You know the score, it's a Rocky
Film, it doesn't need much of a review!
You know the tune, you know the montage scene...
If you fancy a trip down memory lane, knock yourself out! Read more:Balboa
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Interesting Fact of the Day! No. 7 - The Top 5 Military Spenders! 2007-01-16 16:25:00 Here are the top 5 nations for military expenditure per annum...
1. United States $518,100,000,000
2. China $81,470,000,000
3. France $45,000,000,000
4. Japan $44,310,000,000
5. United Kingdom $42,836,500,000
It's a lot of doh innit! Some more stats include, Sweden's military budget ($5,501,000,000) is bigger than Iran's ($4,300,000,000). Kuwait's is $3,007,000,000 and despite it's neutral Read more:Interesting Fact
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Movie Reviews - Mission Impossible 3 (sorry, MI3) 2007-01-15 21:49:00 I find the whole Mission
Impossible franchise a bit baffling sometimes. I remember seeing the first one and thinking that it was the greatest thing since plain bread (it's a scottish thing, a toast experience you must try at some point!). The pace of the film, the stunts and the cast were amazing. I mean, killing off Kirsten Scott Thomas and Emilio Estevez in the first sequence just set the whole Read more:sorry
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Movie Review - The Good Shepherd 2007-01-13 18:28:00 Well, De Niro seems to have taken the most exciting period of international espionage the world ever saw and made it incredibly dull and boring.
Couldn't even finish watching it... Read more:Shepherd
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Movie Reviews - The New World 2007-01-12 15:17:00 Well, I watched this last night and to tell you the truth it was an odd experience. It sounds really strange to say this, it was an incredibly slow film but at the same time really good.
By the end of it the senses were slowed down the point that it became and experience rather than a story...
I remember trying to watch Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" before and having to switch it off Read more:World
Good Old Technology! 2007-01-10 14:50:00 Well, seen as everyone's talking about the iPhone (well worth looking at this blog to see all of the previous artist's impressions of the iphone) and the 2007 CES, I thought i'd this chance to talk about some Russian technology! Yes, I never thought i'd say it but I miss the cold war. This war on terrorism just isn't the same. Civilians dying left right and centre, AK-47s and machete beheadings, Read more:Technology
The North Korean Kingdom of Kim Jong-il 2007-01-09 15:17:00 Had a look at this site that shows you a number of pictures that someone took whilst in N. Korea...
The first link below is a guide to the photos (they were taken by a Russian businessman)
The second link is to the images (you can click forward and backward on the links below the images)
Let me know what you think....
Guide to the photos
Link to the photos
Oh yeh, just to show you what's Read more:North
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How good is your memory? 2007-01-09 14:54:00 Well, I know I wouldn't be able to draw a city-scape of Rome from what i'd seen on a 45 minute helicopter ride.
I actually remember seeing this guy (Stephen Wiltshire) on tv years ago when he was just a kid. Well worth a watching this to see what the human mind is capable of...
Oh yeh, if you want to check out his site it's www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk and there's also a few other movies about
Movie Reviews - Night at the Museum 2007-01-08 12:34:00 A night at the museum, can't fault it. Went to see it with my niece the other day there for her 6th birthday party. Thought it was great and made a big change from having to sit through yet another animated feature with small zany 3D characters in their small zany 3D world, voiced by zany overpaid actors who do zany faces and hand gestures as they provide the zany soundtrack to a movie that you Read more:Night
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Movie Reviews - Chromophobia 2007-01-08 12:24:00 Ok, what to you get when you take performances from Penelope Cruz, Ralph Fiennes, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Ian Holm, Rhys Evans, Ian Holm, Damian Lewis and Ben Chaplin? Well, not much to tell you the truth.
I took some time out last night to sit and watch Chromophobia. I'd actually read a few reviews as well that said something pretty similar to my comments above but then I thought to myself,
Plato's Places to Go No.3 - The Drovers Inn, Loch Lomond, Review 2007-02-20 10:48:00 What can I say, if the Drovers Inn is good enough for Terry Nutkins and Rob Roy then it's good enough for anyone...
Sitting at Ardlui at the very top of Loch Lomond, i've never heard a bad word said about the Drovers Inn. The Drovers Inn is certainly dusty, it's old and the rooms could do with some upgrading but I wouldn't change the place for the world.
On a cold winters evening when you're Read more:Plato
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Well, it was bound to happen at some point....! 2007-02-21 17:13:00 It was only a question of time before something like this happened. To tell you the truth i'm surprised it isn't a common occurrence?
Click here to find out more... Read more:point
Banged Up Blogger - Free Abdel Kareem Soliman! 2007-02-23 11:14:00 Feel pretty bad for this guy. There you are just expressing your opinions online like we all do and then you're banged up for it!
Insulting the president and Islam? They're pricks, the both of them!
Free Abdel Kareem
Soliman! Got to hand it to the guy, he's even managed to break a smile from behind bars... Read more:Banged
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Rock Ness, Loch Ness 2007 lineup announced... 2007-02-28 13:18:00 Well, looks like Rock Ness is over two days this year and they've certainly bumped up the number of acts; over 60 this year apparently.
Last year it was a great gig, headlined by Fatboy Slim. I for one was there and it was a great day, I recall there being a wee bit of rain but on the whole a great experience. The only down side was the local transport links which were practically non existent Read more:lineup
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