Posts Tagged ‘fun’

The E.U is a funny thing. I don’t mean that in an “oh isn’t it funny that Romania and Bulgaria still aren’t full members.” I mean that in a “ha ha, that looks like a ….” way.
Norway remain as non-EU members, sitting happily above Sweden and Finland who are full members. Accordingly, it’s not featured [...]

Somehow, despite my numerous alerts and scans of the news pages, I’ve only just heard about this. Surely the best news story that has emerged this year.

In Brazil late this February, a man named Gustavo (great name) took a woman hostage at gunpoint and held her for a 10 hour hostage-negotiation ordeal with the police [...]

This was a shocker, but UK tv channel Gold commissioned a survey that today announced that us “cheery, stuff-upper lip” Brits are in fact the angriest nation in Europe. 
The survey found that, on average, we get angry four times a day while those hot-headed Italians only manage 3.5 bouts of anger. How do you manage [...]

For a company once so deep in the quagmire of jokes, bad pr and general ugly cars, it’s good to see that Skoda have finally learnt how to sell a new car – stock the display stand with scantily clad women. And a yeti. 
 
To me there’s three things of note in this. One, it’s great [...]

While I wouldn’t swap my weekend (I spent it in Paris, the city I’m lucky enough to know as my second home) with anything, I do wish I’d been able to attend a treasure hunt that happened this weekend.
I’ve been on precious few treasure hunts (or scavenger hunts, call them what you will) and the [...]

Coming back from holiday and heading to work in the cold and snow is never easy. The last thing you need to find when catching up on your emails is this:

My favourite source of comic glee – Cyanide and Happiness – proclaiming me dead. I was tempted to run this post with the title “Rumours [...]