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British Politeness Translation Table Goes Viral
06 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The British have become known as quite a polite group of people, well, some of them anyway. Their sometimes too-polite phrases give the illusion of class and a well established set of manners. However, a translation table that has been making the rounds on the internet recently, might change the way you listen to them.
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Places You Want to Go, But Can’t [PICS]
02 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Check out this list of awesome historical sites and secretive spots that you can’t visit. From government bunkers, to underground cities, and exclusive clubs, even if you really want to visit these places, you just can’t.
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Watch: Videos Showing Past US Presidents Declaring War
02 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With America on the verge of dropping bombs on Syria, we thought we’d bring you a taste of what Obama’s speech might sound like when he announces they’re going to war.
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Probably Not Wise: Assad’s Son Dares America To Attack In Facebook Post
30 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Things are tense between Syria and America right now. That may be the under statement of the century, but what isn’t making it any better is the dare the Syrian president’s 11-year-old son posted on Facebook, daring America to attack.
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Brilliant UK Businessman Actually Charges Cold Callers To Phone Him
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Every time the phone rings, this UK man hears cha ching! After getting sick and tired of receiving numerous calls from telemarketers, he figured out a way to make money from the whole ordeal.
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Kim Jong-Un Just Had His Pop Star Ex-Girlfriend Executed By Machine Gun
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reports coming out of China are that a dozen people, including Kim Jong-Un’s ex-girlfriend have been executed by machine gun on the order of Kim himself. Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin, head of the Unhasu Orchestra, were arrested on Aug. 17 for violating North Korean laws against pornography […]
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Not Quite Mars: China Is Sending A Rover To The Moon [PIC]
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Arriving a little late for the space-race aren’t we China? While NASA is looking at photos of Mars taken by their Curiosity rover, the China National Space Administration has been sending lunar probes into orbit around the moon… And they’ve announced they’re ready to land an unmanned probe on the surface
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Before America Bombs: Get A Summary Of The Entire Syria Situation With Anderson Cooper On Letterman [VIDEO]
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Are you a bit lost as to what’s going on with this Syria situation everyone’s talking about? Well, it’s time to get up to speed. The US are blaming the Syrian government for the shocking chemical attack we saw outside the capital of Damascus last week. They’ve got some shaky evidence backing them up, but […]
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This Is What The Rest Of The World Thinks About Possible US Action In Syria
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With tensions rising in Syria, key countries are weighing in on where they stand as to next steps and conflict resolution. Here’s what some of them had to say:
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According To al-Assad’s Instagram There Is No War, As He Continues To Feed The Hungry [Gallery]
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is on Instagram, and he wants everyone to know what he’s been up to. The shots he’s posted so far show the President and his wife doing charitable work, feeding the hungry, embracing children, and being swarmed by loving crowds.
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Harbouring A Mistress Is Too Expensive These Days
27 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The economic crisis in Italy has really reached crisis levels. We know this because now it is officially too expensive for Italian men to keep their mistresses. This must be one of the harder aspects to deal with because, if The Sopranos has taught us anything, it’s that the Italians like them some mistresses.
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NASA Releases Epic Music Video Tribute In Memory Of Neil Armstrong [VIDEO]
26 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Sunday marked the one year anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s death, and NASA released this music video as a tribute to the late astronaut. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon as commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
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Michael Jackson’s Glove And Equatorial Guinea Dictator’s Son
26 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The very dodgy son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, wants Michael Jackson’s famous bejeweled glove back.The very dodgy son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, wants Michael Jackson’s famous bejeweled glove back. Last week the US government attempted to seize over $71 million (R726,863,226) worth of assets from Nguema
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Cancel Your Diving Course: Google’s Street View Goes Under Water
23 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has conquered Earth, so it’s only natural that they set their sights on the waters. If you were thinking about becoming a certified diver, don’t bother, Google’s new project brings the ocean to you.
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Massive Sinkhole Eats Trees [VIDEO]
23 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Want to see an astonishing disappearing act? This video shows 25 trees saying goodbye to the light of day, as they get sucked into a massive sinkhole in Louisiana. The sinkhole showed its first bubbles last June, and in August gobbled up about 24 acres of land. It’s latest victims were these 25 unsuspecting trees. […]
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Shocking Footage Emerges of Alleged Gas Attacks in Syria [WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEOS]
22 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Videos are emerging online following an alleged poison gas attack outside Damascus on Wednesday. The Huffington Post has reported that the footage can not be independently verified. A Syrian activist, Mohammed Saeed, said in an interview with the Associated Press: The visit by the U.N. team is a joke. … Bashar [Assad] is using the […]
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TRICKERY: Kremlin-Funded Network Crosses To Protesting Reporter [VIDEO]
22 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
American reporter, James Kirchick played a clever trick on the the Russian RT news network, and was kicked off the air. He was supposed to be talking about Bradley Manning, and instead offered his opinion on the Russian government’s anti-gay laws.
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Newly Released Tapes Reveal Nixon’s Anti-Semetic And Racist Dialogue
22 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
What is it with politicians that they feel the need to say/text/email really inappropriate things, when they know it will be recorded and archived forever? The latest of these is from ex-American president Richard Nixon. Tricky Dicky, as he was known after the Watergate scandal, was no stranger to controversy – like, you know, Watergate scandal.
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Watch: Obviously A Giant Military Hovercraft Landed On Crowded Russian Beach [VIDEO]
22 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Meanwhile in Russia, a 550-ton military hovercraft lands on a beach full of people… and everyone’s chilled. The craft in question one of the world’s largest hovercrafts, the Zubr. It can carry tanks and up to 400 troops when its fully loaded. But what it was doing on a crowded and apparently public beach, no […]
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Man Kills Girlfriend, Posts Her Pic On Whatsapp
21 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A copycat killer in Costa Rica, known only by his surname, Macotelo, is accused of killing his girlfriend Melissa Zuniga. After a heated argument, he apparently strangled his girlfriend to death, took a picture of her body, and sent it to her sister via Whatsapp.
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South American Mashco-Piro Tribe Make Contact With Outside World [VIDEO]
21 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Footage of yet another isolated South American tribe has emerged. Last week we brought you rare footage of the isolated Kawahiva Tribe from Brazil. This week, a tribe living near Peru is making a second attempt at contacting the outside world. The Mashco-Piro tribe were caught on video trying to cross a river, and venture beyond the border of their isolated community in Manu Nationl Park.
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North Korea Has A Massive Crystal Meth Problem
21 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
North Korea is experiencing something of a meth “epidemic” at the moment. Kim Seok-hyang, the man who wrote a report titled, ‘A New Face of North Korean Drug Use: Upsurge in Methamphetamine Abuse Across the Northern Areas of North Korea’, said: “Almost every adult in that area (of North Korea) has experienced using [crystal meth] and not just once.”
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Kim Jong Un To Defectors: Come Back To North Korea – We’ll Be Nice
20 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army is reaching out to defectors, and letting them know they always have a home in North Korea. Kim has promised that returning defectors will not be harmed – on the contrary, talk of cash rewards is being thrown about.
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Romanian Princess Arrested For Masterminding Cock Fighting Derby
20 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Behold the royal mug shot of Romanian Pricess, Princess Irina. She has been arrested for masterminding a large cockfighting ring in Eastern Oregon, because what else is there to do in Oregon?
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China Is Super Embarrassed By Citizens Travelling Abroad – Passes Law Forcing Them To Be Polite
20 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
China wants their nationals to be more polite when travelling abroad. They are so concerned about their reputation that the Xinhua News Agency ran reports five days in a row, airing videos designed to coach Chinese tourists on how to be more polite abroad. The government is so serious about this that on 1 October a […]
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Russian Athletes Engage In Podium Kiss Fest In Violation Of Anti-Gay Laws [VIDEO]
19 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
With a growing number of people calling for the boycott of next year’s Sochi Olympics because of the much criticized anti-gay law which bans anything that could be seen as promoting homosexuality, the victorious Russian relay team marked their win at the 4 x 400m relay at the World Athletics Championship in Moscow with multiple kisses on the winner’s podium.
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The Chinese Zoo With The Fake Lion Has Closed Its Doors For “Rectification”
19 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Surprise, surprise, the Beijing zoo that brought us the Tibetan Mastiff disguised as an African lion has closed its doors. Unsuspecting zoo goers, realized that the “African lion” was really a dog when it started barking. Since this incident has made world-wide news more impostors at the zoo have been revealed!
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Should We Pity Drug Mules? Grandmother Tells Of Her Jail Hell
19 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A British grandmother is wasting away on death row in Bali for smuggling cocaine. Housed at Kerobokan jail, which is nicknamed ‘Hotel K’, 57-year-old Lindsay Sandiford is awaiting her death. Lindsay was sentenced in January of this year for smuggling £1,5 million (R23,702,674) worth of cocaine into Bali.
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Yep, The World’s Oldest Man Lives in Bolivia – and he’s 123
16 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If records are correct, a Bolivian sheep hearder is the oldest man alive. Born in 1890, Carmelo Flores Laura is said to be 123. Carmelo credits lots of walking, eating barley and drinking water from the fourth highest mountain in Bolivia, Illampu, for his long life.
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They Think They’ve Found 5,000 Year Old Game Tokens, Dice
16 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gaming pieces have been uncovered in a 5,000 year-old burial site in Turkey. They could be the oldest gaming pieces found, ever. Small sculpted stones in the shapes of pigs, dogs, pyramids, dice, and so on were found in the site that was inhabited as early as 7,000 BC.
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