Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Baedeker: The most riotously un-PC travel guides ever!


The guides, founded in 1832 by German publisher Karl Baedeker, contain unforgiving comments on the 'natives' a traveller might have the misfortune to encounter.
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25 August 2014

PS
During the second World War the Germans targeted British cities, apparently using the Baedecker travel guides to the UK. These were labelled by the British as 'Baedecker raids'.
PGV

Actor and film director Richard Attenborough dies.


Lord Attenborough died at lunchtime on Sunday. He was one of Britain's leading actors, before becoming a highly successful director.
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25 August 2014

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

How do they get these Pics??

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

Marriages etc.

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

1. How BEDROOM smells After MARRIAGE:

1st 3 yrs---Perfumes, Flowers,Chocolate,Fruits..
After 3 yrs---Baby powder,Johnson's, Baby creams, Lotions,Baby oils..,
After 15 yrs---Zandu Balm,Vicks,Iodex,Relispray..
After 40 yrs---Agarbatti..., incense.

2. Four stages of marriage:
Mad for each other,
Made for each other,
Mad at each other
Mad because of each other

3. What's Marriage?
Answer- MARRIAGE Is The 7th Sense of Humans
That Destroys All The Six Senses
And Makes The Person NON Sense...!

4. Definition Of Happy Couple -
HE Does What SHE Wants…
SHE Does What SHE Wants.

5. Wife: Dear, this computer is not working as per my command.
Husband: Exactly darling! its a computer, not a Husband!!!

6. Mistakes
'Laughing At Your Own Mistakes, Can Lengthen Your Life."- Shakespeare
"Laughing At Your Wife's Mistakes,Can Shorten Your Life"- Shakespeare's Wife


HUSBAND AND WIFE

A wife asks her husband,
"Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk and if they
have avocados, get 6.

A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.

The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"
He replied, "They had avocados."

If you're a woman, I'm sure you're going back to read it again!
Men will get it the first time.

My work is done here.

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Water in the carburetor
WIFE: "There is trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor."

HUSBAND: "Water in the carburetor? That's ridiculous "

WIFE: "I tell you the car has water in the carburetor."

HUSBAND: "You don't even know what a carburetor is. I'll check it out.
Where's the car?

WIFE: "In the pool"

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THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC, PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
WORRISOME IN RECENT YEARS.

25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.

That's scary.

It means 75% are running around untreated.

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HE MUST PAY

Husband and wife had a tiff. Wife called up her mom and said,
"He fought with me again, I am coming to live with you."

Mom said,
"No darling, he must pay for his mistake. I am coming to live with you."

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Today's Short Reading from the Bible...

From Genesis: "And God promised men that good and obedient
wives would be found in all corners of the earth."


Then He made the earth round...

and He laughed and laughed and laughed

Knee operations are a 'waste of time' for many patients.


New research has found many middle-aged patients in the UK with mild osteoarthritis get little, if any, benefit as a result of keyhole surgery after experts looked at how best to treat torn meniscus, part of the cartilage that helps stabilise the knee.
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26 August 2014

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Palestinians in the West Bank – a documentary.

Email from PAT Botejue



This is a 60 minute documentary narrated by Anna Baltzer of the International Women's Peace Service. She is an American Jew who spent five months living with Palestinians in the West Bank and was witness to the harassment and oppression they labor under because of the Israeli Occupation. From having to wait at checkpoints for hours or even days, to being cut off from one's farmland because of the WALL, to having to leave one's home because Israeli settlers have moved in, Palestinians have been under duress for years, their land gradually and surely shrinking as Israel carves out more space for itself. Is it a religious war? Anna says it's about resources.

Despite the narrator's pleasant voice and calm demeanor, this is a harrowing video to sit through.





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