December 20, 2008
· Filed under Everything else
A Sheffield man who lent a penniless Australian tourist £5 to pay for a ferry trip in 1969 has been repaid his debt nearly 40 years later.
Isn’t this remarkable? It certainly gives hope that values are still held on to in this day and age.
Not only was the debt of GBP5 repaid, it amounted to GBP200 as the debtor paid GBP5 for every intervening year. The Sheffield man was shocked but was not at home when the debtor turned up to pay him.
Read what he has to say, and the full story – bbc online news
What do you think?
August 27, 2008
· Filed under Everything else, Uncategorized
Would you eat rats?
In Cambodia, due to rising food costs globally, people are turning to eating rats. In fact, the demand is such that the price of rats have increased four-fold. They are also long being eaten in Thailand and Vietnam. It is also eaten in Bihar, India.
Take a look at this article here.
Would you eat rats when there is other food available?
Would you eat rats if there is no choice?
August 10, 2008
· Filed under Everything else
Ebay.com started off as an auction site. It grew tremendously.
Now, since allowing big companies to sell at fixed prices on its site, Guardian reports that eBay auctioneers are mad at the site for doing so and not keeping to its original aim as an auction site.
Read the full report here.
Time flies…things change…applies to everything, doesn’t it?
So what has changed in your life?
July 7, 2008
· Filed under Everything else · Tagged forgiveness
Clare was sent back to her father when her mother realised Clare was not her daughter from her current marriage, but from her ex-husband.
By Clare’s own account, her father sacrificed and brought her up well. Her internalized anger at her mother exploded into teenaged drug abuse and rejection of her father.
Now an adult in her late twenties, she writes what all this has done with her relationship with her father and her mother.
Among which, she writes she learnt forgiveness from her father.
Forgiveness. Never learnt the easy way, isn’t it?
Read the details here - Guardian.
June 25, 2008
· Filed under Everything else · Tagged auction, monet, painting, water lilies
You are looking at a painting that has been bought for Pound.Sterling40.1million.
Guardian, UK reports “..It moved up in £500,000 leaps until ending in a fight between three bidders, two on the telephone and one woman at the front of the room.”
Who won the auction? Read the news in full. Also, find out who buys at such a high level, and what wealth they own.
June 22, 2008
· Filed under Everything else · Tagged car, reliable, safety
The BBC reports that from a survey of 90,000 cars around the globe, Japanese cars are found to be the most reliable. What is average? Well, top makes like BMW, Mercedes and Audi. Honda, Toyota and Daihatsu are the top three.
What car are you driving?
June 22, 2008
· Filed under Everything else · Tagged dishonesty, good cause, honesty, lost tribe
The Guardian, UK reported that the man behind the pictures of the ‘lost tribe’ has admitted that the ‘lost tribe’ has in fact been known since 1902. He disclosed that he had described them as a lost tribe just found in order to stop logging around that area.
Is it justifiable, to be dishonest for a good cause?
“They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an ‘undiscovered tribe‘ in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border brandishing bows and arrows at the aircraft that photographed them.
Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being unknown, the tribe’s existence has been noted since 1910 and the mission to photograph them was undertaken in order to prove that ‘uncontacted’ tribes still existed in an area endangered by the menace of the logging industry.
The disclosures have been made by the man behind the pictures, José Carlos Meirelles, 61, one of the handful of sertanistas – experts on indigenous tribes – working for the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency, Funai, which is dedicated to searching out remote tribes and protecting them.” – Guardian, UK.
June 18, 2008
· Filed under Everything else · Tagged eyelashes mascara fashion women
..your mascara! Yes, Guardian, UK reports that – believe it or not – “..Estée Lauder will be launching a battery-operated, vibrating mascara in the US..” !
You must realise, of course, it is how one sweeps your eyelashes that counts!
Read the full article at the link above to get the impact of this invention.
June 16, 2008
· Filed under Everything else · Tagged Add new tag, dog
“A street-sweeping truck has sucked a dog up through its bristles on a New York street, leaving its horrified owner holding nothing but the lead…” – BBC reports on its website.
Ginger (centre) in the above photo from BBC, the poor dog that got sucked up in the street sweeper truck in New York.
Robert Machin, 57, the owner is considering contacting his lawyer and the Humane Society.
