Grab Bag Of Random Posts

[SE6Ajacied]

Congratulations!

Thanks, Guys, she's home from hospital now and keeping me busy........just grabbing five minutes away after putting together the "easy" assemble Moses basket stand (anyone got a degree in advanced mechanical engineering or similar?? - would come in handy putting together some of this stuff...... )[/code]

[SE6Ajacied]

This made me chuckle.....who said that criminals were dumb?

Biker surprise for Sydney robbers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 268653.stm

"One of the guys took off... straight through a glass window, he didn't even bother pushing the button, he just ran straight through it."

[DanK]

This made me chuckle.....who said that criminals were dumb?

Biker surprise for Sydney robbers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 268653.stm

"One of the guys took off... straight through a glass window, he didn't even bother pushing the button, he just ran straight through it."

LMAO. Australia. I do miss you sometimes.

[aveslacker]

Australia rocks. It's one of my favorite places.

[SE6Ajacied]

This made me chuckle.....who said that criminals were dumb?

Biker surprise for Sydney robbers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 268653.stm

"One of the guys took off... straight through a glass window, he didn't even bother pushing the button, he just ran straight through it."

LMAO. Australia. I do miss you sometimes.

There's some film with this now........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid ... =1&bbcws=1

The TV presenters sound like they're having fun with it too . That's two of my favourite stories of the year from 'down under' now (this one and the party.....)

[DanK]

I love stories like this. That actually reminded me of an armed robbery in a place called Olinda near Mt Dandenong about 50 km out of Melbourne. The 2 guys robbed a restaurant and took a bag what they thought was full of money, but ended up being full of old bread rolls. LMAO...

The court case just finished and the guys got 7 and 8 years.
'Fools' jailed over bungled robbery
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008 ... 143733.htm

[Kowalczyk]

Brilliant...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/44411/e ... ooper.html

K.

[DanK]

Brilliant...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/44411/e ... ooper.html

K.

Nothing like an on-screen spat.

[SE6Ajacied]

News from Chelsea - Mateja Kezman aparently wants to become a monk!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7255311.stm

When football's final whistle blows
By Aimee Lewis

With a million - or two or three - in the bank it seems footballers these days are in search of an occupation a little more left field when the final whistle blows on their careers.

But a few eyebrows were raised when Mateja Kezman announced recently he wanted to become a monk.

The former Chelsea striker has declared he intends to swap his boots for the robe when his playing days end, saying he spends "as much time as he can thinking of God".

Admittedly, a few footballers have undoubtedly been saying their prayers recently for various misdemeanours but what happened to the age-old tradition of buying a pub in a quiet, picturesque village?

Former Leeds and Scotland midfielder Peter Lorimer, 61, told BBC Sport he is not surprised that today's players are thinking outside of the box when it comes to their next career move.

"Life has changed," said Lorimer - now the landlord of the Commercial Inn public house in Leeds.

"Today's Premier League footballers won't have to look for other employment. They are well paid and will have big pensions but that wasn't the case with us. We had to earn a living after football.

"I bought my pub because it is near Elland Road and it gives me the chance to still keep in touch with the fans and keep in contact with football."

Kaka, the World Footballer of the Year, certainly will not be serving cocktails in Sao Paolo.

AC Milan's Brazilian midfielder says he wants to become a preacher once he has finished converting us to the mesmerising wonders of one-touch football.

Fellow South American Carlos Roa decided not to wait until his playing days were over before making a life-changing decision.

A devout Seventh-day Adventist, the former Argentina goalkeeper temporarily quit the game at 29 to prepare for the apocalypse.

Roa, better known to England fans for saving the fifth and final penalty from David Batty to knock Glenn Hoddle's team out of the 1998 World Cup in France, believed the world would end at the coming of the new Millennium and retreated to a farm in rural Argentina to preach while waiting for the four horsemen to arrive.

"The year 2000 is going to be difficult," Roa declared. "In the world, there is war, hunger, plague, much poverty, floods. I can assure you that those people who don't have a spiritual connection with God and the type of life that he wants will be in trouble."

Thankfully, Roa wasn't as talented at soothsaying as he was at saving spot-kicks and soon returned to football with his former club Mallorca.

Not content with money, fame and world-wide adulation some footballers want to rule the world.

George Weah, a former World Footballer of the Year, has returned to the classroom in a bid to become Liberia's next president.

The ex-AC Milan and Chelsea striker narrowly lost the 2005 race to become leader after being criticised for not being well-educated enough to run the West African country.

In attempt to boost his chances of winning the 2012 presidential elections, Weah, who dropped out of school in his final year, has recently finished high school and is currently studying at a United States college in Florida.

"Education is a continual process. It's like a bicycle, if you don't pedal you don't go forward," Weah told the BBC.

"For now, I'm doing business administration and criminal justice, starting from there and then political science in the future."

Weah isn't the first to put his head back in the books.

Socrates, Brazil's bearded 1980s midfielder, has a doctorate in medicine and began working on a masters thesis that proposed football be reduced to nine-a-side in a bid to increase skill levels.

The inimitable Socrates is no stranger to the debating chamber, either.

The chain-smoking former Brazil captain, a member of the Workers' Party and founder member of the movement Corinthians Democracy, became a leading figure in the push for political reforms in his home nation and is widely regarded as one of the most influential civilians to challenge, and ultimately end, the country's dictatorship.

Readjusting to life after football is not always easy, however.

Injury forced the former Arsenal and Newcastle United striker Malcolm Macdonald to retire before he was 30 and he initially struggled with the adaptation, turning to alcohol when the pain in his knee became unbearable.

Once asked if he missed playing, Macdonald said it was "like asking an OAP if he wants to be young again".

To lessen the shock of retirement some players have started to prepare for the inevitable.

Former Manchester City midfielder Jim Whitley is treading the boards as an all-singing, all-dancing stage star.

A serious knee injury sustained two years ago has halted his footballing career and, although he has not given up hope of playing again, the 32-year-old can currently be seen as Sammy Davis Jr in the tribute act The Rat Pack's Back.

"It's all a bit bizarre," Whitley admitted to BBC Sport.

"My brother-in-law, Dave Simpson, has a play out called Naked Truth and the producer of that show needed someone to play Nat King Cole for a show called Christmas Crooners. I went for an audition and got the part."

Whitley toured Britain and Ireland with Christmas Crooners before being asked to take on the role of Sammy Davis Jr.

"I'm singing and dancing with singers who have sung in the West End and sometimes I wonder what the hell am I doing but I enjoy it," he said.

"I've not been doing it for that long, so at the moment it's still like a hobby and I'm still taking each day as it comes."

So, what next for the likes of David Beckham and Wayne Rooney?

Maybe Becks will announce he is to follow in his mum and sister's footsteps and spend his retirement working at a hair salon (perhaps called Short Becks and Sides) in east London, while Rooney and his fiancée Coleen McLoughlin could become the new Richard and Judy.

OK. Perhaps not. But as Becks himself says, nothing is impossible and there is little that could surprise us when it comes to the barmy world in which footballers inhabit.

[SE6Ajacied]

I know politics is a bit of a non-subject on here but just want to post how ashamed I am to be from London now we have elected the bigotted buffoon Boris Johnson as mayor

[Berg]

He has a great tackle though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA

I hear Ajax are still looking for defenders. Maybe we can tempt him away before Arsenal or Chelsea get wind of him.


(But seriously, sad to see a man like this take control of a city like that...)

[SE6Ajacied]

The best stories all seem to come from down under right now......

Aussie straps in beer, not child

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 397867.stm

[Kowalczyk]

Right. Do you ever get annoying telemarketeers on the phone?

Here's what you do next time...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/18691/a ... prank.html

*LOL*

K.

[Kowalczyk]

Okay, it's Friday afternoon, we're all bored and waiting for the weekend...

Let's play the Ctrl-V game!

What's under your Ctrl-V? Don't copy something nice first. No shit. Just post it now.

Here I go:

109491877

K.

[GangstaRiB]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/KLM-Asia ... 1355283/L/

[DanK]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/KLM-Asia ... 1355283/L/

Great Pic btw...

For the record - ctrl-v (or in my case apple-v):
Hohenems

[aveslacker]

Nothing, apparently.

[gordonvandekamp]

C:\Documents and Settings\bennett\Desktop\CL - Manchester United v Chelsea - Final + Trophy Presentation - English Comm - XviD - 05.21.08


- Must have been from yesterday

[Cedric]

Surface en sol nu pendant l'hiver (% SAU) 15% 45 12% 34 6% 22 12% 17 6% 18 5% 26 14% 22 12% 23 2% 16 12% 18 12% 16 4% 17 3% 1% 3% 5% 4% 7% 5%

(Well, it just means I'm supposed to work with Excel... )

[ajaxusa]

OK, here goes:

http://intranet.***.com/news/rock-the-vote-rocks-cms.html

(Sorry, I had to star-out the domain so I don't get in trouble with work.)

Aw, booooring!!! (Rock The Vote just launched on our CMS product. Actually I'm pretty proud of that. See http://www.rockthevote.com)

If I had done this yesterday, you might have gotten

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonvanho ... 129840617/

... She was a fellow participant in the Bay to Breakers 10 run in San Francisco on Sunday last. I competed as Captain Marvel, Earth's Mightiest Mortal. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonvanho ... otostream/ (I'm the git in the middle.)

BTW, if you ever want to visit SF Bay Area... THIS is the event to not-miss. Fuck Fleet Week; THIS is when the real party happens. (Well, Gay Pride is also an amazing over the top spectacle, but the eye candy is of a decidedly different bent.) Here's a little video from the 2008 B2B:
http://flickr.com/photos/maidelba/2504721170/

[DanK]

...
If I had done this yesterday, you might have gotten

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonvanho ... 129840617/
...

Holy schamoly Batman!!! Beats Eartha Kitt

[aveslacker]

That's awesome that you ran Bay to Breakers.

Let's see if I have anything to paste now that the day has passed.

Carolyn Rodal

No idea where that came from.

[SE6Ajacied]

http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2008/05/1 ... hats-over/

[SE6Ajacied]

I had to laugh out loud. Ever looking to improve my weak grasp of the Dutch language I bought this cheap interactive CD Rom "Dutch Vocabulary Builder". It's meant for kids so I thought it would suit my present language skills.

Anyway, amongst the cartoon images for "plurals" we have 5 x Kakkerlakken

(so I can now insult F-word fans with perfect pronunciation......)

[gordonvandekamp]

I had to laugh out loud. Ever looking to improve my weak grasp of the Dutch language I bought this cheap interactive CD Rom "Dutch Vocabulary Builder". It's meant for kids so I thought it would suit my present language skills.

Anyway, amongst the cartoon images for "plurals" we have 5 x Kakkerlakken

(so I can now insult F-word fans with perfect pronunciation......)

Nice


I've been doing the same and would love to hear if anyone has any recommendations for learning Dutch, specifically with pronunciation.

I took German for years and am able to see similarities in a lot of word/vocabulary. Pronunciation, however is a completely different story, where I think knowing German and English can make things more confusing. I can read something in Dutch but if I hear the same thing I can usually only pick out a few words. I'm guessing it may just be one of those things you have to be repeatedly exposed to before it starts to set in.