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16 June 2006
Finnish trucks are 5cm too wide
Finland has ratified the EU directive that illegalized the over 2,55m wide and trucks in Finnish roads. The current Finnish standard is 2,6m -huge difference, eh?- but they can get special permit if they narrow their cargo space to maximum 2,51m. The Finnish, and Swedish by that matter, trucks are already too long for the [...]
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16 June 2006
Stop, like, saying like
This message was brought to you by Acadamy of Linguistic Awarness Should we start pasting these to Knocknaheeney?
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16 June 2006
Just enslave them – there’s nothing we can do
The supreme court of US has decided that it’s within constitution to imprison someone for 7 months without a reason. The court deserted a complaint filed by eight muslim men after the september 11th strike -which I think is more and more justified on the light of resent happenings; like I thought when I first [...]
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12 June 2006
Patience, England. Patience.
So the World Cup is upon us. I know football posts here aren’t common, and nor should they be, but for me it is medically impossible to let this wonderful time go by without at least posting some of my views. And since I reckon I know best, I figured I would impart on the [...]
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12 June 2006
Unorthodox warfare
Check this out. Three detainees have hung themselves in Guantanamo (suicide seems to be rampant there), and what does the commander say? That those pesky little arabians are committing acts of war against America! Class! “This was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetric warfare committed against us.” said Rear Admiral Harry [...]
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11 June 2006
It is now proven
An Ukrainian man did it. He solved the big question with selfsacrifice. The big question is of course: “do(es) god(s) exist?” The man made an empirical test by climbing to a lion cage and ran towards lions. He shouted “God will save me, if he exists”, according to the zoo officials. It didn’t take much [...]
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9 June 2006
Upcoming Russian elections
Russians are a weird nation. They tend to like dictators. According to resent survey (1600 people from 128 locations) 59% would like Duma to override constitution and make it possible for Putin to have third presidential term. 29% opposes the third term. The support has gone up since the winter. On the other hand the [...]
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30 May 2006
The first smiley
Hey all! This is going to be a short post, but found an interesting piece of history and wanted to share it :-) The first ever smiley :-)
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25 May 2006
Priceless
Aaaaaaahahahaha! Do you think it works against knackers? In that case, I think I’ll buy one.