Fly Stick Van de Graaff Levitation Wand available at Think Geek. Wow, like totally magic. I want one. Goes on a bit long so you’ll probably just want to watch 30 seconds of this. Makes you wonder if magic stuff like this is available as a kids toy, why can’t I have a flying car?
Thought I’d keep the blog updated. Now that I don’t really have time or money to be a financial guru anymore, maybe it would make more sense to publish regularly on other topics. Today’s is this – the madness of advertising. To the left is an ad, a pretty bad ad supposedly advertising a beer. … Read more
This was going to be a huge diatribe about ethics in sport, rising above the travails and strains of constant training, dieting and practice to excel in an activity, and how there are those in sport who take the short cut and circumnavigate the rules to prosper in their chosen field. But I can’t be … Read more
Morning all – I think I’ve just discovered the tiny flaw that could possibly sink the Chancellor of the Exchequer (what does that mean by the way, surely he is the Minister of Finance like most countries call it?). Spirit duty. Yep, spirit duty hasn’t been increased in a budget for the last 10 years. … Read more
Cricket World Cup – 1st GameGood Solid Kiwi boys 210/4 bt multi-millionaire playboy drunken bum louts still dining out on ashes success of 2 years ago against aging and weakened ozralian outfit sans Mr. McGrath 209/7 Woohooo!!!! Now that was a great start to the world cup. The boys done good, played hard, played well. … Read more
The boys chased down a massive total of 336 today to win the 2nd one dayer over the decimated Aussies. Awesome stuff. Soon-to-be living legend Ross Taylor (pictured) top scored with 117. Even if it is the 2nd team we’re playing that’s still an impressive win. Boding well for the world cup then. NZ 337 … Read more
Australia crushed by New Zealand “New Zealand have handed Australia their first ever 10-wicket defeat in one-day internationals with a crushing victory in the opening Chappell-Hadlee series match in Wellington. The Kiwis raced to victory with 23 overs to spare after fast bowler Shane Bond had destroyed the Australian batting line-up by taking 5-23 in … Read more
Poms 42 – Skirt wearers 20 While the scoreline made it seem like a one sided match the skirt wearers played well for about 50 minutes and looked like creating an upset. They reasoned however that Wilkinson would fall apart after 60 (which he unfortunately didn’t), and that they themselves wouldn’t make any mistakes. However, … Read more
It’s a great day to be alive as the boys bounced back from those devastatingly close losses to the aussies and delivered a mightly blow to England. Oram back into the team and at last we start to have more options in bowling and batting. Now we have more than one chance of scoring runs … Read more
Morning all, yesterday afternoon I braved a trip to a certain scandanavian furniture store that shall go nameless as they don’t really deserve any more promotion than they already get. After all they are constantly on the telly with their rubbish ads and they even make it into movies. For instance, fight club devotes a … Read more