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Ginja Ninja · 15-03-2011 9:07am

The resource that is Gaming

jefreywithonef · 16-03-2011 12:04am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcoZ4wvdjj4

An audio of Tom Waits revealing some rather strange / funny / interesting tidbits about various topics.

Screaminmidget · 25-03-2011 4:52pm

This really got me thinking for a while....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTFKpIaQhM

Jackobyte · 26-03-2011 8:24pm

Screaminmidget wrote: »

This really got me thinking for a while....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTFKpIaQhM

A woman from EIL Ireland showed us that in relation to the VolunteerAbroad scheme they run.

Arcade Panda · 22-04-2011 12:11am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnfNkfQKRmU

Carl Sagan · 22-04-2011 8:03pm

Not sure if this should go here. I'm now prepared..

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/04/first-contact-alien.png

It's an image with lots of writing that would have stretched the page so I left it as a link.

Screaminmidget · 06-05-2011 4:32pm

Pygmalion · 29-05-2011 4:14pm

This.

Strong language, but pretty awesome.

Insect Overlord · 29-05-2011 7:15pm

Pygmalion wrote: »

This.

Strong language, but pretty awesome.

Worth reading for

(18) ***** you or I’ll take away your teddy-bear.

alone!

suitcasepink · 29-05-2011 8:10pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0

illiop · 30-05-2011 10:17am

I'm trying to follow the Spanish revolution. It's kinda silly, I should just go down and join in but, I don't know I just don't. They're using peaceful camping protests and the internet to campaign for political reformation and real democracy, which is something most European countries need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRBwLIWo2pU

The only violence I've heard off was in Barcelona where the authorities wanted to "clean" the square.

Aperently it's only beginning to make the news outside of the continent despite the fact it's been going on for like 2 weeks.This is something (in English) specifically about the one where I am. The pictures are pretty cool.

Jackobyte · 30-05-2011 4:09pm

That is the first I've heard of the protests.

Lawliet · 30-05-2011 6:42pm

http://technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26824/

SarahBeep! · 30-05-2011 11:46pm

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-things-that-will-make-you-feel-old?s=mobile

Wow.....

SarahBeep! · 06-06-2011 4:16pm

DEAR LORD!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Axzxe1a78E

Arcade Panda · 07-06-2011 9:14pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZIlJN0JVro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I

Well worth watching!

Ginja Ninja · 07-06-2011 10:15pm

http://www.ted.com/talks

loads of these are really interesting,I wish i had time/internet to go through and watch loads of them

Colm! · 07-06-2011 10:19pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75w6p7cKB8

Jackobyte · 09-06-2011 3:14am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

Just stumbled across this in my old posts in the JC forum.

jefreywithonef · 10-06-2011 12:21am

D'awwwwwwwww. The seal was probably eaten alive two seconds later but still, d'awwwwwww.

Grindylow · 10-06-2011 12:32pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzIBZQkj6SY

jefreywithonef · 11-06-2011 1:42am

Gahaha, just spent the last half hour reading ninety selected Prince Philip quotes. Some are absolute crackers (though if you're a politically-correct type they might not be up your alley).

Ninety gaffes in ninety years
From Papua New Guinea to Stoke-on-Trent, Prince Philip has left his mark around the world. As his 90th birthday looms, Hannah Ewan recalls the soundbites that could only have come from one man

Saturday, 28 May 2011

1. "Ghastly." Prince Philip's opinion of Beijing, during a 1986 tour of China.

2. "Ghastly." Prince Philip's opinion of Stoke-on-Trent, as offered to the city's Labour MP Joan Walley at Buckingham Palace in 1997.

5. "You managed not to get eaten then?" To a British student who had trekked in Papua New Guinea, during an official visit in 1998.

11. "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves." During a trip to Canada in 1976.

12. "A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now that everybody's got more leisure time they are complaining they are unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want." A man of the people shares insight into the recession that gripped Britain in 1981.

13. "British women can't cook." Winning the hearts of the Scottish Women's Institute in 1961.

14. "It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right - are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it!" On the issue of stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary marking the 50th Anniversary of V-J Day in 1995.

15. "What do you gargle with – pebbles?" To Tom Jones, after the Royal Variety Performance, 1969. He added the following day: "It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs."

16. "It's a vast waste of space." Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

17. "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.

19. "You ARE a woman, aren't you?" To a woman in Kenya in 1984, after accepting a gift.

20. "Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" To a wheelchair-bound Susan Edwards, and her guide dog Natalie in 2002.

21. "Get me a beer. I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!" On being offered the finest Italian wines by PM Giuliano Amato at a dinner in Rome in 2000.

22. "I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family." In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

23. "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" In a Radio 4 interview shortly after the Dunblane shootings in 1996. He said to the interviewer off-air afterwards: "That will really set the cat among the pigeons, won't it?"

36. "And what exotic part of the world do you come from?" Asked in 1999 of Tory politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose parents are Jamaican. He replied: "Birmingham."

40. "Do you still throw spears at each other?" Prince Philip shocks Aboriginal leader William Brin at the Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland, 2002.

41. "Where's the Southern Comfort?" On being presented with a hamper of southern goods by the American ambassador in London in 1999.

44. "So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs." To a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.

60. "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard." To a young fashion designer at a Buckingham Palace in 2009.

71. "It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on." Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.

89. "My son...er...owns them." On being asked on a Canadian tour whether he knew the Scilly Isles.