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Jan 13 / 6:26am

The Worst Car Stunts in Films

Getting a car stunt to work is harder than it looks. For every Casino Royale flip or Bourne Identity chase through a crowded city, there are 10 examples like the ones below. In order to be a real stinker, the participants in the creation of a car stunt must believe, wholeheartedly, that what they are doing is ruddy brilliant. It’s only blinded by notions of their own brilliance that artists can create something genuinely shite. So, below are the 10 car chases that elicit the most extreme ‘whu?’ reactions in the history of film.
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Jan 13 / 6:23am

Last Minute Valentine's

We’ve all been there. Before Christmas, Valentine’s Day seems like a far distant occasion, safely wrapped in the mists of the remote future. Then all of a sudden you can see the whites of its eyes; like those frightening ‘Weeping Angels’ from Doctor Who, you blink and it’s staring you reproachfully in the face. It’s tomorrow – and this is one tomorrow, unlike most of the others we talk about, which is definitely going to come. You haven’t put any thought into it, and you don’t have a gift for that special person in your life. What makes it worse is that you just know that he or she will have one for you. So what’s a slap-dash lover to do in such a predicament, when Cupid’s arrow is meant to land unerringly in the right place on that special day?

Some much needed Valentine's advice.

 
Dec 21 / 4:02am

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via Ping.fm
 
Dec 16 / 6:58am

Sewage into the sea? Still a problem in the UK

David Davies:

To give you an idea of the scale of our sewer system in the UK, every day we flush nearly 11 million tons of raw sewage down our toilets. This is 77 million tons per week, or 4,004 million tons a year. That is just shy of half a billion tons of raw sewage, just in the UK, channelled through nearly 400,000km of sewer systems. We are clearly a dirty bunch, and it is not exactly something we can decide not to do. Unfortunately, despite having nigh on half a million kilometres of piping lying underground waiting for our outpour, it appears that is still not enough to protect our beaches.

Read the rest here.

 
Dec 15 / 1:12am

Car Rental Lot Etiquette

David Davies discusses car rental lot etiquette:

There are few industries more depraved, more mad, than the car rental industry. The straightest, most honourable car rental business owner is still more crooked than the lowliest politician. If you are to engage these fiends, you need to prepare - meet them at their level, look them in the eye, make them wonder what to make of your cocked eyebrow - bemusement? Indignation? Fury? At every chance you must maintain the facade of total, inscrutable mystery and you must always, always have an ace in the hole.

 
Dec 15 / 12:40am

Can You Still Be Friends?

Can you still be friends after breaking up with someone? Chas Parker has the answers.

 
Aug 8 / 5:01am

Twitter Not Hipper Enougher

According to Nielsen's data, Twitter reached 10.7 percent of all active Internet users in 2009 "despite a lack of widespread adoption by children, teens, and young adults." The firm notes that people under the age of 25 make up almost a quarter of all US Internet users and yet only 16 percent of Twitter's audience in June of 2009, meaning that Twitter is "under-indexing" the youth market compared to the Internet as a whole. Conversely, the large majority of Twitter users (64 percent) fell into the 25 to 54 age group, and 20 percent were 55+. That's right: there were more Twitter users who are our parents' age than those who are in high school or college.
via arstechnica.com

 
Aug 4 / 11:45am

Is Catching a Fish Bad For It?

We get knocked by the anti-anglers who say that fish feel pain, and I believe some university bods have proved that some fish do feel pain, but until you sit me down next to a carp and it says to me 'I feel immense pain', then it's an open-ended question.
via news.bbc.co.uk

Find me a better quote than that.