The South Australian government has launched a campaign to poach stressed and bored Brits for a number of interesting jobs and no previous experience is required. The jobs on offer include: beer taster, koala catcher, a Fairy Penguin home remodeller on Kangaroo Island, shark personality profiler, a ‘roo poo’ harvester and shark tagger….STORY…
Groom mows down guests
As is not uncommon in Turkey, the groom at a wedding in the village of Akcagoze decided to fire a volley of shots into the air to celebrate his nuptials. Unfortunately for his guests, he lost control of his AK-47 and ended up killing his father and two of his aunts. He also managed to wound another eight people. He …
Let it all hang out
In Southend-on-Sea, 102 people took part in a fund raising event in which they set a new record. The event raised £22,000 as well as a few eyebrows….Naked rollercoaster record smashed….
Blessed be the voice
A successful social media campaign means that it will soon be possible to download the dulcet tones of Brian Blessed onto your TomTom SatNav system.
Never before seen photos
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This year is also the first time a representative of the US representative has participated in the annual commemoration. LIFE magazine has also published a series of never before seen photos from both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The blind watchdog
Apparently, the Food Standards Agency’s future is in doubt after the recent cloned cattle fiasco, the agency admitting to having absolutely no idea how many farm animals in Britain were descended from clones. First it was milk from cloned cows, now it’s meat from cloned animals entering the food chain, both illegal without the prior permission of the FSA. There …
Google to kill off Google Wave
Google has decided to end support for Google Wave, its real-time collaboration and communication tool, because of a lack of users. Google Wave was launched last year amidst much hype, although it was only initially available to a small, limited number of users. The company acknowledged that despite huge internal excitement over the possibilities offered by Wave, users did not …
A pint to knock your socks off
One week after small Scottish brewery Brew Dog produced a beer called ‘The End of History’ with 55% alcohol by volume, a Dutch brewer has gone one better with ‘Start the Future’ at 60% alcohol by volume, or 120 degrees proof. Only 12 bottles of End of History were produced and carried a price tag of £500 per bottle. The …
Compensation culture gone mad
Ian Huntley, dubbed the Soham killer, who is serving two life sentences for the murder of 10 year-old friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, has launched a legal bid against the Government for compensation after his throat was slashed in prison. Whilst one can argue that the prison service should do all within its power to protect the …
The inquiry rumbles on
Interesting to see a headline: ‘Prescott Iraq intelligence doubts’, although there are many who would doubt Lord Two-Jags on any subject and some who would maybe point out that the word ‘Iraq’ is actually superfluous in this sentence. Lord IWouldNeverAcceptAPeerage has been giving evidence at the Chilcot inquiry into the War in Iraq and stated that intelligence on Iraq’s weapons …