In this day and age of high oil prices, and environmental concerns, one person is not afraid to speak the truth. Matthew DeBord argues that the GM behemoth Hummer - often mistaken as a male attempt to cover other…um….shortcomings - needs to be saved; as a symbol of American male virility, or something:
GM desperately needs [...]
In more ways than one. These aren’t scenes from some pop-concert, as might be expected, but the most misleadingly named World Youth Day being held at Sydney.
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Update: To elaborate briefly, what dispppoints me is that young people are embracing a religous hogwash with fervor one expects them to associate with a say, Christina Aguilera (or [...]
One of my recurrent peeves with bars down under is how so many of them misuse their ‘top-shelf’.
And it is not just restricted to local pubs, but many of the classier, up-market establishments are guilty as well.
The ‘top-shelf’ is supposed to be reserved for the superior quality (and thereby more expensive) spirits and liqueurs; your [...]
Even giving consideration to the fact that these are Delhi-ites, this has to be one of the weirdest protests I have seen (via a proud Delhi-ite):
Activists of the Shaktipunj Foundation, an NGO, break computers, printers and other electronic items during the protest on the occasion of Radiation Safety Day at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi [...]
The idea of a women-only IIT sounds absurd and retrograde.
The suggestion to start India’s first all-women IIT at Amravati near Nagpur in Vidarbha had in fact been mooted by Saint Gadgebaba University vice-chancellor Kamal Singh. Patil followed it up when she became the country’s first woman president last July.
‘A recommendatory note from the president’s office [...]
….(well at least through the hallway of our floor, or more exactly by the two people in adjacent cubicles)… was me venting after having read this.
I suppose I should grin and bear the pj, having heard worse in my lifetime. But I feel a sense of indignation; after all, people seem to be getting upset [...]
The Lord calls it “feebleminded, vacuous” and “lunatic”.
But he is being too kind to the insufferable drivel.
As such, the farcical post (where it has taken 30 comments for someone to point out the bleeding obvious lack of clothes on the emperor) does not deserve a full fisking, but this one particular line of idiocy merits [...]
Slightly dated news, but with a general relvance to India.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Intel’s billion-dollar Vietnam bet along the Hanoi Highway - its biggest semiconductor manufacturing plant ever - is rising up from the flatlands of former rice fields.
The Santa Clara chip giant jolted the tech world two years ago when [...]
Speechless, we simply sit and shake our head in dismay:
(more on the Knight Riders here)
The comments section at the Youtube host site provides a good competition for Rediff. Enjoy gems such as:
This ad-vid is awesome!!! Ignoring the stupid commentaries that underestimate our king, I hope that to these boys all turns into gold. Is so [...]
While the Sydney Morning Herald continues to embarrass itself by its near apoplectic harping on the ’scartching’ non-issue (see the previous post), one of its writers, Greg Baum, cuts through the crap (via):
“There are a lot of young people sitting here, and it was inappropriate,” one spectator told The Age. “If he wants respect, he [...]
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I am adding a few further categories to my previous gym peeves, mainly to do with gossipers:
Women Gossipers: Yeah - call me sexist, call me a chauvanist, but I have had it with the gaggle of twenty-something, usally skinny and lissome women who treat the first hour of morning in [...]
Updated: Here is the actual mp3 of the Hayden interview from Bisbane’s triple M (via). Apart from the comment on Harbhajan, Hayden mocks Ishant Sharma, mimicking an Indian accent, while inviting the 19-year old into a boxing ring. As I said, real classy behavior from one of the seniormost Australian players.
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Matthew Hayden, otherwise [...]
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