Tuesday, December 28, 2010

10 things not to do when drunk....

10 Things You Mustn't Do When Drunk

By Jahnabee Borah, Team iDiva posted Dec 29th 2010 at 6:00AM | Avg Rating

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Yes, we are ready to party, let our hair down and drink up. While we want to go all out to bring in the New Year, let's not get a little carried away with the celebrations and say goodbye to 2010 on an embarrassing note. Here are things you mustn't do when drunk and deranged.

1. Drunk dial your crush

The more alcohol we consume, the less inhibited we feel. So, there's this guy who's on your mind and he likes you too, but you aren't going to give in that easily because you want to keep him on the chase ;) Then came New Year's Eve and you got drunk. What followed next was you drunk-dialed this boy and poured your heart out. Or worse still made out with him!

2. Get a tattoo

Always planned to get a tattoo but never had the guts to sit through the process. Then you got high on New Year's eve and made up your mind to welcome the next year with art on your body. Except that when you woke up next morning to find out that the 'art' seemed more like somebody's name tattooed on your body, in a place you never want to see! Or hold on, is that a piercing?!

3. Go on a long drive

Drunk and in need of some fresh air? You feel you have got the green light to go on a long drive with your equally drunk friends and the sound system belting out your favourite numbers in blaring loud volume! All's good till you drive into the ally of your friendly neighbourhood traffic cop who will perhaps show you the way to the police station.

4. Meet your parents or landlady/hostel warden

After a long hard day of partying you come back home longing for your bed and ready to pass out. Little did you know that your mother will be waiting for you at the door because she has stayed up all night worried about your whereabouts. And then it happens, you say, "Opps sorry Mom!" and throw-up the night's spoils! We have kept our fingers crossed so that this never happens to you because if it does you will never be allowed to go for any parties in 2011.

If you are living away from home in a hostel or PG, seek refuge at a friend's place whenever you are drunk. At least your mother will let you into the house but a merciless hostel warden or PG Aunty will throw you out and complain to your parents!

5. Mix it with other 'other-worldly' elements

How high you are on alcohol is equivalent to your rebel quotient! So if you are really drunk on New Year's, will you give into the temptation of flouting rules and experiment with illegal substances (read drugs)? Alcohol mixed with other substances can be a lethal concoction for you. So, drunk or not, stay far, far away from substances. Get yourself a sitter who will make sure you don't do anything foolish when you are dunk.

6. Get married

This one is a lesson learnt by watching re-runs of the Friend's episode when Rachel gets married to Ross on a drunken, romantic night. If such reel incidents become real on New Year's Eve, the consequences won't be as comical!

7. Hit on the boss or the co-worker

Do you feel a few extra tequilas helps you find the flirt within? And when you have made a connect why not flaunt your seductive powers. However, if your chosen subject (or victim) is that hot colleague (fodder for subconscious lust) or your Boss (God forbid) you are in for some professional trouble in the New Year!

8. Use your credit card

You have been thinking that you are going to live well in the coming year. Then your wish came true on New Year's Eve when you were drunk and ordered several rounds of cocktails, drinks and shots for your party mates. Next you called up your travel agent and booked a flight to your dream destination. Wow, the credit goes to your credit card! Don't you think it would have been a better idea to have hidden it at home before the party?

9. Go skinny dipping

Yeah you live life to the fullest! And just to prove a point you jumped into your friend's pool in completely butt naked on New Year's Eve. Need we say that you were drunk and funny!

10. Click naughty pics of yourself with someone else's camera

You thought you were camera shy till you couldn't remember the number of drinks you consumed. Then you stunned your friends with flamboyant pouts and naughty poses. Of course the shutterbugs caught you and you'll find yourself all over Facebook the next day!

Have we instilled alcohol-fear? Hehehe! Well, the truth is all we want is for you to party safe and stay out of trouble on New Year's Eve.

Female Czech politicians pose for calendar

Female Czech MPs pose for calendar

Female members of the Czech parliament have posed for a glamorous calendar to highlight the growing presence of women in Czech politics.

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Karolina Peake, 34, Czech Member of Parliament, posing for the calendar

By Matthew Day in Warsaw 9:43PM BST 12 Jul 2010

The 2011 calendar features four women MPs from the Public Affairs party wearing little in the way of clothing in a series of images that dispatch the traditional image of staid and serious parliamentarians. The country returned its highest ever number of women MPs at the last general election.

Two other women, one the party's candidate for the mayor of Prague, make up the numbers, with each politician photographed twice for the calendar, which will be sold for charity.

"We want to draw attention to the fact that we have women in politics," said MP Lenka Andrysova, who appears in one shot in a thigh-high dress kneeling on a shelf.

Katerina Klasnova, the 32-year-old deputy speaker for the lower house of the Czech parliament, is photographed lying on a bed wearing a loose-fitting robe.

The Czech elections in May saw a record 44 women elected into the lower house of parliament. In a significant political shift, young parties such as Public Affairs, in which women have a stronger presence, entered parliament for the first time.

Shoplifter hides shoes under breasts....

Shoplifter hides shoes under breasts

A shoplifter in Florida stole a pair of shoes and hid them under her breasts.

CCTV showed the woman and a male accomplice stealing items from Beall's Outlet, reports nwfdailynews.

The man rolled each item and passed them back to the woman, who hid a pair of shoes under her breasts and the rest of the items in her purse.

The man had merchandise worth $17.99 concealed on him, the woman $159.88 of merchandise, and were charged with theft.

Monday, December 27, 2010

BK introduces the Brussels Sprout whopper....

Burger King adds Brussels sprouts to Whopper in UK; Surprise Sprout Whopper garners tepid reaction

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Burger King is rolling out a new flavor sensation for the holidays: Brussels sprouts.

This fiber-friendlier version of the Whopper is similar to the original but contains the green vegetable and Emmental cheese.

Sadly – or happily for the many who loathe brussel sprouts – the Surprise Sprout Whopper is only available in the UK until the end of the day Friday.

On Facebook, many believed the Surprise Sprout Whopper to be a joke. Others were appalled.

"Well done, you've taken the nations least liked vegitable [sic], gonna fry it, and sell it for an extortionate [sic] price, congratulations bk. You never cease to amaze me. Ultimate fail 2010," a disgusted FB poster wrote.

So far, that does not seem to be the case. The company posted a response to its revolted customers, pleading with them to give sprouts a chance.

"Hi BKers – sorry to hear some of you weren't too keen on the idea of the Sprout Surprise Whopper yesterday, but we're confident that The King can make even Brussels Sprouts taste good!"

Customer seems dubious, to say the least, judging by their replies.

Still, one has to admire Burger King's love of a vegetable that few claim to like.

"We believe that taste is king, and as such, we wanted to create a recipe that would challenge existing sprout perceptions, and genuinely make sprouts a flavor to be reckoned with," Paul Rowland, culinary development manager at Burger King UK told Marketing Magazine.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Man finds £255,000 in old bank under renovation...

Man finds £255k in old bank

A Belgian man renovating a former bank found £255,000 in cash that had been left behind in a vault.

Ferhat Kaya, 33, had paid £153,000 for the property, a former branch of the Dexia bank in Ghent, as a base for his accounting firm.

Before accepting the keys, he turned down the estate agent's quote of £3,000 to remove an old safe, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Instead he called two close friends, brothers Murat and Hurun Tufan, to remove the metal vault.

"When the vault was open it revealed bags of 20 and 50 euro bills," said Murat Tufan. "The receipts were still there, dated December 31, 2001. We started counting, and it came to some 300,000 euros."

After speaking to his Turkish father, Mr Kaya decided to call the police even though the money had been left by the bank nearly a decade ago.

"My friends and I thought we would really make a statement with it: that even immigrants are people that say honesty is the best policy," he said.

Dexia Bank spokesperson Ulrike Pommée said that an investigation had been launched.

"We want to determine what happened. It is probably a human error. But the investigation will not be easy, because the money is from 2001. A repeat of this incident is not possible with current procedures," she said.

"We will carry out the investigation and then see if there will be a decision to give him a reward for reporting the money to police straight away."

Hef,84, pops question to playmate,24.... but who's counting.

'She burst into tears': Hugh Hefner, 84, surprises girlfriend Crystal Harris, 24, with engagement ring

By GEORGINA LITTLEJOHN
Last updated at 11:06 AM on 26th December 2010

He's had his fair share of women over the years and only got divorced from his second wife in March.

But Hugh Hefner knows how to bounce back in love, and yesterday he announced that he is set to get married again.

The Playboy tycoon, 84, Tweeted last night that he and his girlfriend Crystal Harris, 24, had got engaged.

Betrothed Bunny: Hugh Hefner took to his Twitter page yesterday to announced he and his girlfriend Crystal Harris got engaged on Christmas Eve

In the early hours of Christmas Day morning, he wrote: 'After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve.'

Then last night he added: 'When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory.'

Not to be outdone by her fiancé, Crystal then took to her Twitter page to say: 'The most memorable Christmas.'

And later on, to clear up any confusion, Hefner wrote: 'Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring. I didn't mean to make a mystery out of it. A very merry Christmas to all.'

She also added a photograph of a present she gave Hefner, a portrait of her and him and their King Charles spaniel, which was commissioned by playmate Victoria Fuller.

Announcement: Hefner took to his Twitter page to tell the world he had proposed to Crystal

Crystal was born to British parents in Arizona, who moved back to the UK after her birth, but then came back to the States a couple of years later and settled in San Diego, California.

While she was studying psychology at San Diego State University, she started modelling and was noticed by Playboy.

She met Hefner on Halloween in 2008 and started dating him in January 2009 while he was also dating identical twin glamour models Kristina and Karissa Shannon.

But he ended his relationship with the twins in January this year and has remained monogamous to Crystal since.

Crystal once said that she believes she and Hefner were able to bond because she lost a long-time boyfriend in Iraq and he was going through a break up with Holly Madison, whom he dated for 8 years.

Hefner, who founded Playboy in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe as his first cover girl, has been married twice before.

In 1949, he wed Mildred Williams with who he had two children, Christie, now 58, and David, now 55.

before their wedding, Mildred confessed to Hefner that she'd had an affair while he was away serving in the Army, so she allowed him to sleep with other women because of her guilt over her infidelity, but they divorced in 1959.

Then in 1989 he married Playboy Playmate Kimberley Conrad, who gave him two sons, Marston Glenn, 20, and Cooper Bradford, 19, but after 11 years of marriage, Hefner filed for divorce from Conrad stating irreconcilable differences, which was finalised in March this year.

Driver 32 times over the limit with 15 sheep in vehicle....

Drunk driver with 15 sheep in his vehicle '32 times over alcohol limit'

A drunk driver was caught behind the wheel of a Mercedes Benz Vito with 15 sheep in the back of the vehicle.

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The motorist, who was 32 times over the legal drink-drive limit of 0.05g/100ml in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, also had five boys and a woman in the back who were arrested with him.

South African driver caught with 15 sheep in vehicle

According to The Times Live, the baa-rmy man had allegedly stolen the sheep from nearby farms.

It would appear this man isn't the only sheep fanatic out there, as earlier this year a new book revealed a flock of the farmyard animals was one of the purchases a new millionaire Lottery winner made.

Danny Buckland's offering, We Won The Lottery, outlined some of the bizarre spending habits of those newly in-the-money, including one who splashed out on a flock of sheep after winning a prize.

A spokesperson for the National Lottery said: 'Everyone thinks that winners automatically splash out on designer clothes and fast cars, but it isn't always the case.

'Winning the jackpot allows winners to follow their dreams, whether it is setting up a stud farm, getting Diarmuid Gavin to design your garden or collecting Action Men.'

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