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Almost a year ago to the day I talked about the uprising of Argentina’s gripe with the Falkland Islands. Looks like they won’t take no for an answer. Nothing to do with the 60 billion barrels of oil off its shores, of course. So they are away to grass us up to the UN. This is when we will see who our real friends are.

To me this is one way conversation, not a debate.

Argies : “We want Las Malvinas”
Us : “We (us and America) say no, jog on”

Oh I forgot who runs our country. No doubt we will end up having to pay Argentina to take it off our hands.

Looks like I was right.

Murray is in.

I’ve heard all the arguments for and against old folk driving. At the end of the day, they need to get from A to B and as long as they are not crippled by bad eye sight and can respond in reasonable time, then I have no problem them being on the road. I will even allow them to drive slow, as much as it irritates me, even in the morning. Oh yes, the morning. Over 65’s should be banned from the road in rush hour, but apart from that I’m OK with it.

What is not allowed in my book however, is the major incompetency, from endangering other road users to causing damage to other vehicles during parking manoeuvres. To me, there is just no excuse for that. So today when I witnessed an old granny reversing out a space and tearing the nose of her car down the passenger door of the car beside her, I wasn’t going to let it lie.

Needless to say she was totally oblivious to what just happened and drove off. What do you do in that situation? I think about 1% of me felt guilty about what happened next, as I wrote her number plate and my contact details on a scrap of paper and put it under the wing mirror. “Happy to be a witness” my note said.

I’m fed up of people in this country not taking responsibility for their own actions. It doesn’t matter how old she is, it doesn’t allow her to go about damaging other peoples property. She’s never too old to learn a lesson. Yeah she might not be able to eat for the next month after paying the excess. *Shrug*

While I’m on the subject of responsibility, I went to lunch after this incident and dropped my sandwich on the ground in Marks and Spencer’s cafe. Yes I sulked for a bit, it might have been karma but I never went to ask for them to replace it, it was squarely my fault. I’ve seen that happen in McDonalds before where people expect their spilled trays to be replaced free of charge. Again, this frustrates me, lack of accountability is crippling this bloody country.

There are no better sweets in the world. Sweetie engineering at its finest.

Soure : Nerdlike.com

Funny.

Ok,one amazing thing you probably take for granted. The processor in your computer.

I came across this link which does quite a god job of explaining the sizes of various organisms, cells, atoms etc. If you zoom right in, right about the hepatitis virus, is 2008-2009 processors, ribosome is 2010-2011 processors. By that I mean that in the very latest processors you have around 1 billion transistors (electrical switches) the size of a ribosome cell.

Think about that next time you are using it to browse internet junk! Yes that is irony.

Love him or hate him, OK just hate him, but did you know that James Blunt is the only person in Britain to hold 21st century 10x or greater platinum album? Leona Lewis fell just short with 9x. Its actually quite interesting to see how record sales have fallen away this century. Lady Gaga, the latest big thing, only 4x.

Whilst musing over this subject I landed on the ‘Best Selling Albums Worldwide’ wiki. Now before reading this, I knew MJ’s Thriller was the biggest selling of all time. What I didn’t appreciate is that it sold over twice as many as number two; Back in Black by AC/DC. 110 Million versus 49. Unbelievable.

Another one I was surprised about looking over the most platinum albums awarded in the States. Elvis #1, yip, The Beatles #2, yip, George Strait #3, WHO? Now I might be showing my ignorance but I honestly have never heard of this guy. A country singer apparently, worth 350-400 million dollars. Wild.

Anyway, another 2020 prediction. No-one will get a 10x or greater platinum in the UK between now and Jan 1 2020. Re-releases, charity albums, compilations don’t count. Single sourced, new material. I’ll update my original 2020 post if I remember.

I hear Tiger has checked himself in to a sex addiction clinic. Its time to stop crying Tiger, it’s time to man up.

It’s easy for everyone to turn round and say that they wouldn’t have gotten themselves in his position, and I include myself on that boat. But what Tiger needs to realise is that his position is not just about cheating on his wife multiple times, his position is also sitting on the cusp of sporting greatness, and that’s also a position not many get to. I’m of the opinion that all these great sporting icons are just wired differently to most people, they all seem to have trades something in in the brain department for that sporting ability. It ultimately leads to most of them having some massive skeletons in the closet. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to find out what Roger Federer’s is.

Back to Tiger. Tiger’s life is like a poker game right now. He’s sitting with a Ten of Spades and a Jack of Spades. The flop produced a Queen of Spades, a King of Spades, and a 2 of diamonds. That’s a spade for each one of the Majors he won and the diamonds represent wife and kid. Tiger went all in. The turn was a 7 of hearts, that a heart for every cocktail waitress he had it off with. What’s coming on the river Tiger? For me its one of two cards. The Ace of Spades, Tiger goes down as the undisputed greatest golfer of all time, or is a joker as he chases after his ex-wife that’s long gone, cries about having a sex addiction, and throws away his golf career.

I don’t believe in god, but a select few people have a their purpose to serve on the planet, the big man is one of them. C’mon Tiger get it together, the Masters is soon!

Sat down and watch ‘The Invention of Lying’ last night. I think it was meant to be dubbed as a comedy given that Ricky Gervais wrote and appeared in it. If it was, it was pretty tame from that perspective, but I’ve got to say I thought it has a brilliant sub-plot.

(Minor Spoiler)

A brief synopsis of the film. Gervais is living in a world where no human can lie, he becomes the first person who learns how to lie, and it follows his story from there and how he interacts with the world. It all then turns into a bit of a dig at Jesus, which frankly I loved. 

(Spoilers over)

After watching it, I wondered how this went down with the critics. A quick jump onto metacritic reveals reviews swinging from 88% to 20%, obviously this movie is to cinema, what marmite is to toast spreads. I noticed a lot of American publications knock it down on score, either for being too atheist or them not having a clue about the underlying agenda of the movie. The Guardian, gave it 80%. Again I wonder if this is a fair reflection of the movie or them being overly liberal.

Either way, I would recommend just to see if you loved or hated it.