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[Lokasenna]

I think someone has been watching too much of Pixar's Up...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-balloons.html

[hillwalker]

And I have just read that, in preparation for the FIFA World Cup, the South African football team (the host nation to those of you out of the loop) have appointed a choreographer to help the team perfect their reactions when (or possibly if) they score a goal!

Some players from other nations already perform standing somersaults in celebration, or some may mime a particular activity like nursing a baby or playing a fiddle, and some do a little jig.
Presumably the final team selection for the South African squad will depend on a player's dance technique rather than his footballing skills.....

[Musicology]

Galileo, Copernicus and NASA are my favourites for the next world cup. They can spin and rotate the ball with amazing skill and there will always be fools enough to follow them - even when the whistle blows because they are faking it.

LOL

[cgrillo]

R.I.P. Gary Coleman

[BienvenuJDC]

R.I.P.
Art Linkletter

[hillwalker]

RIP

Ray Alan - ventriloguist famous over here for Titch + Quackers, and the hilariously stiff-upper-lipped Lord Charles (catch-phrase 'silly arse').

[DanielBenoit]

Dennis Hopper died today. The cinema has lost one of its greats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHGLBy2CdjI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAixFYnDh4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8FEZvaiAI

[BienvenuJDC]

Okay, people...stop dying here....

[hillwalker]

Dennis Hopper died today.

Wow - that has to be this week's greatest loss. The man was an absolute legend as actor and director. He contributed to so many iconic films - and never failed to inject a certain extra something to each role he took on.

Such a loss.....

[TurquoiseSunset]

And I have just read that, in preparation for the FIFA World Cup, the South African football team (the host nation to those of you out of the loop) have appointed a choreographer to help the team perfect their reactions when (or possibly if) they score a goal!

Some players from other nations already perform standing somersaults in celebration, or some may mime a particular activity like nursing a baby or playing a fiddle, and some do a little jig.
Presumably the final team selection for the South African squad will depend on a player's dance technique rather than his footballing skills.....

Bafana Bafana never score enough goals to make the choreographer necessary, lol! It's a total waste of money!

On that note...I read a article about the ridiculous demands all the soccer teams have...I'd post the link here, but the article was in Afrikaans and I couldn't find an English one...but it's safe to say they are a bunch of DIVAS!!!

[Scheherazade]

Music for Dogs, to be held outside the Sydney Opera House, is billed as "an inter-species social gathering on a scale never seen before in Australia".

The bizarre recital in June will be largely inaudible to the human ear.

The couple said they have experience making music for at least one dog - their rat terrier, Lollabelle.

"She likes things with a lot of smoothness but with beats in them,'' Ms Anderson told the Sydney Morning Herald.

She said the inspiration for the performance at the Vivid Live festival in Sydney came while she was backstage at an event and thought: "Wouldn't it be great, if you were playing a concert and you look out and you see all dogs?"

The show, created by Ms Anderson, will last for 20 minutes as she says "dogs don't have a giant concentration span".

The sounds will be played at high frequency like a dog whistle, setting dogs' ears twitching but barely audible to their owners.

It is billed in the festival programme as "an absolute must for any dog and their two-legged friends".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...c/10181186.stm

[The Atheist]

Those Aussies are a bit peculiar.

[Scheherazade]

Those Aussies are a bit peculiar.

Aussies???

What about Reed himself?

[Scheherazade]

Women on the dole are being offered a £1,150 fashion and beauty makeover and membership to a dating agency to help them find a wealthy husband.
Dutch jobseekers are being given a new hairstyle and outfit and tips from a lifecoach on how to attract a new partner.

The scheme has been slammed by local politicians who criticised the deal as unethical and a waste of taxpayers money.

Under the scheme, the women will be given instructions on how to present themselves socially and offered a place on an exclusive matchmaking website called Mens & Relatie (People and Relationships).
They will have professional photographs of their new image to boost their dating profile.
The scheme is being offered by three councils in Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands.
They estimate that if 70 women find a solvent husband, the council can save £330,000 on welfare payments.
They also believe that finding love will help get the unemployed off state benefits by improving their confidence and ambitions.

So far, just one candidate has signed up for the voluntary scheme, which is aimed at women but open to men as well.
Managing director of dating website Mens & Relatie, Radboud Visser, said that people in relationships have 'better health, more happiness, make more money and live longer lives'.
He told The Times that the councils would spend 650 euros registering an unemployed woman on their site - the average they pay them in jobseekers allowance each month.

More than 600 people in the area are eligible for the scheme but, following some adverse publicity in local media, one council has put the plan on hold.
In 2008, jobless Dutch in Maastricht were given a 10-week course of 'regression therapy' at a cost of £720 in the hope that coming to terms with their past lives would help them find a job.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...t-husband.html

[Revolte]

Women on the dole are being offered a £1,150 fashion and beauty makeover and membership to a dating agency to help them find a wealthy husband.
Dutch jobseekers are being given a new hairstyle and outfit and tips from a lifecoach on how to attract a new partner.

The scheme has been slammed by local politicians who criticised the deal as unethical and a waste of taxpayers money.

Under the scheme, the women will be given instructions on how to present themselves socially and offered a place on an exclusive matchmaking website called Mens & Relatie (People and Relationships).
They will have professional photographs of their new image to boost their dating profile.
The scheme is being offered by three councils in Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands.
They estimate that if 70 women find a solvent husband, the council can save £330,000 on welfare payments.
They also believe that finding love will help get the unemployed off state benefits by improving their confidence and ambitions.

So far, just one candidate has signed up for the voluntary scheme, which is aimed at women but open to men as well.
Managing director of dating website Mens & Relatie, Radboud Visser, said that people in relationships have 'better health, more happiness, make more money and live longer lives'.
He told The Times that the councils would spend 650 euros registering an unemployed woman on their site - the average they pay them in jobseekers allowance each month.

More than 600 people in the area are eligible for the scheme but, following some adverse publicity in local media, one council has put the plan on hold.
In 2008, jobless Dutch in Maastricht were given a 10-week course of 'regression therapy' at a cost of £720 in the hope that coming to terms with their past lives would help them find a job.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...t-husband.html

I can honestly say this makes me want to slap them all in the face, take their money and burn it before their eyes, give the unemployed people what they NEED. And maybe help them learn that they shouldnt be so stupid as to think they are going to get any lasting love that way. That made me sick, idiots.