Conkers has been voted the greatest playground game of all time. Second place in the poll of 3,000 adults was the Rubiks Cube which has sold more than 300 million since 1979. In third place was the yo-yo, which first became popular in the 1920s and made a resurgence in the 1990s. Hopscotch, the oldest [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
A Croatian shopping centre has introduced special parking spaces for women drivers. But the move has not gone down well as female motorists resent the implication that they need the extra wide bays, while men resent the fact women are getting special treatment. The bays, in the busy Emmezeta centre in Zagreb, were meant to [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
German police sport bulletproof bras… German police women are to be issued with bullet-resistant bras. The new underwear was developed as a second barrier of defence after normal bras were found to cause injuries while on duty, reports the Daily Telegraph. The officers’ bullet-proof vests, while stopping the force of gunshots in an attack, pushed [...]
Friday, August 1, 2008
Parlez Ponglish? Britain’s million Poles have made up a secret slang that no-one but them can understand. The mixture of Polish and English – dubbed Ponglish – has developed so quickly it has become a cult language with young immigrants. UK Poles no longer pay ‘podatki’ (taxes), but British ‘taksy’; they travel by ‘tuba’ (tube) [...]
Monday, July 21, 2008
Fake bus stop for Alzheimer’s patients A German nursing home has created a pretend bus stop to prevent Alzheimer’s patients from wandering off. The bus stop, outside the Benrath Senior Centre in Dusseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop but no buses call there. The idea emerged after the centre was forced to [...]
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sticky situation for fire crews Firefighters in China found themselves in a sticky situation – after an accident involving a lorry- load of glue. A truck fully loaded with buckets of construction glue crashed into a bus in Chengdu city, reports West China City News. The driver and a passenger escaped with only minor injuries [...]
Monday, June 23, 2008
Thanks to the new air routes linking Jersey to Paris, the city of lights can be all things to everyone. We sent two of our writers on a well-deserved break in the capital of chic. Zara goes in search of romance in the city of love and Kate sees if Paris can be done with [...]
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Basil Brush racist? Basil Brush is at the centre of a police investigation after an allegation that an episode of the programme was racist to gypsies. A complaint was made after an episode of the BBC show featured a gypsy character selling pegs and lucky heather and a joke about a fortune teller stealing Basil’s [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
Bored this winter? So was Kent Couch. In a bid to outdo rival Sir Richard Branson, the 47 year old petrol station owner filled 105 balloons with helium, attached them to his favourite garden chair, then sat back and drifted away. His bizarre adventure took him from Oregon in the US, to the neighbouring state [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
Breaking up has always been hard to do, but now, thanks to Facebook it’s just that little bit harder. In this cruel social network, as soon as a relationship is over, instead of weeping into a pillow and watching re-runs of Sex and the City you are forced to change your ‘relationship status’ on Facebook. [...]
Familiar with the Daft Punk Pyramid? Well I’m sorry Thomas and Guy-Manuel, but Etienne De Crecy has almost eclipsed your travelling stage with this epic installation. Those crazy french euro-house DJs, what will they think of next?
Popularity: 20% [?]
Familiar with the Daft Punk Pyramid? Well I’m sorry Thomas and Guy-Manuel, but Etienne De Crecy has almost eclipsed your travelling stage with this epic installation. Those crazy french euro-house DJs, what will they think of next?
Popularity: 20% [?]
According to our publisher, we’ve ‘had a thing’ about this video this month. I’m not sure what he means by that, but what I do know is that Gallery accounts for probably one fifth of the seven million, two hundred and eighteen thousand, two hundred and twenty nine times the video has been viewed at the time of writing. That’s 1,443,645.8 times. Yep, we’re so crazy that we watched it point eight of a time just to make the figures add up. Anyway, POWERTHIRST. It’s an energy drink for men.. MENERGY!
Popularity: 43% [?]
This month’s ‘Youtube video of the month’ was a close call between a Gallery favourite comedy classic involving a cleverly dubbed television advert and that epic new television advert featuring Brains from Thunderbirds dancing to Snap’s ‘Rhythm is a dancer’. No contest really.
Popularity: 13% [?]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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