joshnii 2 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Are we sure that is a real jellybean, though. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Originally Posted By: pie-eater Kate found in jelly bean before the big day Nah that's Wayne Hussey of The Mission. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Quote: The Sunday Sport is expected to begin publishing again in early May, with the paper's founder, David Sullivan, on the verge of buying it from administrators for less than £1m. A contract for the Sunday Sport deal – but not for its sister title, the Daily Sport – is understood to have been issued although Sullivan, the co-owner of West Ham, has not yet signed it. One source familiar with the deal said it is "highly likely" to go through. The Sunday Sport is expected to return to newsstands on 8 May, just over a month after its previous owner, Sport Media Group, ceased publication of the paper and its daily counterpart. SMG ceased trading and put the papers up for sale on 1 April, after admitting that an "insufficient recovery" since poor sales during the inclement weather at the end of last year left it cash-strapped and "uncertain of support" from its bank. Following unsuccessful talks with Royal Bank of Scotland, the company appointed BDO as administrator for the business. One of BDO's first moves was to make the papers' 80 employees redundant. A BDO spokeswoman said: "Negotiations are ongoing. We are not in a position to announce a sale or confirm a sale." Sullivan launched the Sunday Sport in 1986 and its daily sister title five years later. He sold his 50% stake in the business in December 2007, a deal that valued the Sport papers at about £40m. But in 2009 Sullivan saved the business by loaning it £1.68m in return for a 9.9% stake. No news without the Sunday Sport! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 Haven't seen one of those for ages. What's it like these days. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 ah the world would be a worse-er place without the concise, accurate and totally true reporting of the Sunday Sport! Even the TV guide used to have scantily clad or topless women in them.....with captions like "Busty Barbara can't wait to see the next episode of Eastenders at 7pm tonight" Quality Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Mate of mine at uni used to buy that every Sunday so always had a good laugh at it. What a load of utter bollocks! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 the summer after leaving Uni I got a job labouring with my mates mum's company. Usually it was me and my mate and an old boy that were working together. Every lunchtime we'd agree to buy a different paper each so's we could swap (and inevitably read the same news again!), we'd let old George go first at the till and pay for his stuff, then we'd lay our papers plus the Daily sport down then shout loudly...."Oi George!! You've forgotten your Daily Sport!!", he'd go bright red as everyone in the shop would turn and stare at him as if he was a pervy old man! Childish....yes! but funny as **** every time we did it! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Quote: Nicolas Cage arrested on abuse charge Abuse to cinemagoers, no doubt. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Is Goodluck Jonathan's first name really Goodluck (and his family name Jonathan)? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Quote: It brings new meaning to going 'flat out' on the motorway. A man wearing a blue dressing gown and slippers made the bizarre decision to do a spot of extreme ironing in the central lane of the M1 this morning. Thankfully there was no chance of the mystery man being run over, as it was on a section closed off to vehicles on the weekend following fire damage. The bare-legged man was captured pressing a white shirt at around 9am by a surprised ITN cameraman who had been covering the M1 closure for ITV Well if you can't do your ironing on the M1 when it's closed, when can you? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 whats the M1 closed for? Other than the usual ironing duties of course Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 "According to the official website, extreme ironing is 'the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt'." Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Tubby: The Highways Agency said today that all southbound lanes between junctions one and four will remain closed 'until further notice'. The chaos followed a blaze at a scrap-yard under an elevated section of the motorway on Friday morning. The fire caused significant damage to a road bridge’s structure and forced the closure of junctions one to four. One northbound lane reopened on Saturday evening and a second northbound lane was opened yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Extreme ironing Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 I think it deserves its own thread: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/408685/Extreme_ironing.html Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Originally Posted By: pie-eater Kate found in jelly bean before the big day He's shown off his Kate Middleton jelly bean to the world and now a British man is hoping to fetch a pretty penny for the confectionery on eBay. The yellow jelly bean speckled in the faint shape of the future princess of England has been making rounds on the internet with split screen photos comparing the two: long flowing hair, a faint grin and discernable facial features are stippled in a pattern of red dots. In an interview with Britain's The Daily Telegraph, Wesley Hosie, 25, said he was tucking into a bag of jelly beans from The Jelly Bean Factory with his girlfriend Jessica White when he immediately noticed Kate's face in the candy. "As Jessica opened the jar, I saw her immediately. She was literally lying there staring back at me," he told the paper last week. The bean has yet to appear on eBay but royal watchers are sure to be keeping an eye out. Hosie, a trainee accountant, said he plans to sell it for £500 (€567). In 2004, a decade-old grilled cheese sandwich bearing the likeness of the Virgin Mary sold for $28,000. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Bloody hell some real nutters. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 It does look like here though... Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 News item: "KATE Middleton snapped up some discount panties for her honeymoon with Prince William - after she saw them going for a thong at £3.90. The half-price "Brazilian-style" lacy briefs were part of another pre-wedding shopping trip for the thrifty bride-to-be." Comments from users: "I bet she goes like a rattle snake!" Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 The Royal Wedding Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 A few people have sent me that one. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Pope Benedict XVI has made history as the first pontiff to take part in a televised question-and-answer session. The pre-recorded programme was broadcast on the Italian Rai channel on Good Friday afternoon. Seven questions were chosen from thousands submitted for the Pope to answer during the 80-minute programme. Most of the questions, from people across the world, dealt with the struggle with suffering. TV viewers saw a split screen, with the Pope sitting in the Vatican library and those asking the questions filmed near their homes. The first question was asked by a seven-year-old Japanese girl traumatised by the recent devastating earthquake and tsunami. She asked why she and other children should have to feel afraid. The Pope replied that he had also asked himself the same question. "We do not have the answers but we know that Jesus suffered as you do," he said. Another question came from the Italian mother of a boy in a long-term coma. She asked if he still had a soul, to which the Pope replied that, yes, his soul is still present in his body. "The situation, perhaps, is like that of a guitar whose strings have been broken and therefore can no longer play," he said. "The instrument of the body is fragile like that, it is vulnerable, and the soul cannot play, so to speak, but remains present." To a Muslim woman in the Ivory Coast who asked his advice about how to cope with the conflict that has afflicted her country, he said people should look to Christ as an example of peace. "Violence never comes from God, never helps bring anything good, but is a destructive means and not the path to escape difficulties," he said. He told Christian students in Iraq - when asked how to encourage fellow Christians not to flee the country - that the Church was encouraging dialogue between religions. The BBC's Duncan Kennedy, watching the programme, said it would be viewed by critics as very controlled and a little sanitised. There was no opportunity to ask tough questions of the Church, such as about the priestly sex scandals that overshadowed the Church's Easter celebrations last year. But the Vatican will have viewed it as a first step in their overall effort to be more accountable and transparent, arising from accusations that the Church was failing to be open about the abuse scandal, our correspondent adds. Until now, he has only ever taken questions from journalists on planes during foreign trips. The programme was recorded in the Vatican library a week ago, and was timed to go out on Good Friday afternoon - around the time Jesus is traditionally believed to have taken his last breath. The show's host Rosario Carello said the project initially seemed "crazy", but they saw "something in Pope Benedict's style that caused them to at least propose this idea to him". "We proposed it and he accepted," he is reported by the Catholic News Agency as saying. Link to post Share on other sites
snowbender 3 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Why do people believe all that any more? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 This is interesting -- Peter Lawrence's The Making of a Fly, published in 1992, is supposed to be a great book for developmental biologists. But no matter how great and how rare it is (it's out of print), a new edition probably doesn't cost the $23,698,655.93 it was listed for on Amazon. The used book sells for only $35! How did this happen? Apparently, it was algorithmic pricing strategy of two companies, Bordeebook and Profnath, that had new copies of the book listed on Amazon. Michael Eisen, the man who tracked this ridiculous pricing, says: "On the day we discovered the million dollar prices, the copy offered by bordeebook was 1.270589 times the price of the copy offered by profnath. And now [after another price jump] the bordeebook copy was 1.270589 times profnath again. So clearly at least one of the sellers was setting their price algorithmically in response to changes in the other's price. I continued to watch carefully and the full pattern emerged. Once a day profnath set their price to be 0.9983 times bordeebook's price. The prices would remain close for several hours, until bordeebook "noticed" profnath's change and elevated their price to 1.270589 times profnath's higher price. The pattern continued perfectly for the next week." So it just kept going up and up! Eisen theorizes that Profnath wanted to have the lowest price on the market, but not too low, thus the .9983 strategy and Bordeebook wants to be 1.270589x higher than the lowest price because they don't actually have the book in their store. Link to post Share on other sites
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