Current Events - September 2007

(by the way i'm not sexist its just a bit of fun which should all in some form or another be able to relate to)
How we differ!

1. NAMES
If Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara go out for lunch, they will call each other Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara. If Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

2. EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom will each throw in a £20 , even though it's only for £32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. When the women get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

3. MONEY
A man will pay £2 for a £1 item he needs.
A woman will pay £1 for a £2 item that she doesn't need, but it's on sale.

4. BATHROOMS
A man has five items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Marriott. The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

5. ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that... is the beginning of a new argument.

6.CATS
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

7. FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

8. SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

9. MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change , and she does.

10. DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the rubbish, answer the phone, read a book, and get the post. A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

11. NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

12. OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

13. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

2007-09-23 23:10:02 · 20 answers · asked by Agent Zero® 5

Dr David Payne has had a flashback and now remembers seeing Madeleine put to bed at 7.00pm on the night of her disappearance. This has come just as it is revealed that from 2.30pm onwards noone saw Madeleine but her parents. Isn't it lucky for the McCanns that their friend has suddenly remembered this important detail just in the nic of time. I wonder why he and the McCanns had a lapse of memory over this important piece of information until now. My question is, Will he now be considered an unreliable witness like Jane Tanner who also keeps changing her story. I mean, is it realistic that he "forgot" this vital piece of the jigsaw. I find it hard to believe but that's just me.

2007-09-23 23:02:05 · 21 answers · asked by trancebabe 4

In my opinion they should, For cold blooded murder and child rapists.

2007-09-23 22:33:59 · 41 answers · asked by Smurf 7

2007-09-23 22:14:53 · 6 answers · asked by Faith 6

Blair is saying that the prospects look good, though I doubt it.

2007-09-23 22:14:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/19984

2007-09-23 22:13:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Pro McCanns" dont answer this with, yes because the police are incompetant and cocked up, thats bullshit. They know more than you, me and anyone else what happened. They have the facts, thats why their confident but just waiting to build up the case so it's fail proof, then they'll pounce

2007-09-23 22:10:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1285386,00.html

2007-09-23 22:06:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

The police have siezed it as evidence.....What kind of book is that to take on a family holiday.

2007-09-23 21:44:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Z1tevub9I

''I don't know'', that's the answer that the U.S ''President'' could Give, ''I DON'T KNOW''. Is G.Bush mentally Retarded or does he just like to play stupid ?

2007-09-23 21:43:12 · 6 answers · asked by B 4

The UN is absolutely worthless. They stood by and did nothing when a million people were slaugtered in Rwanda and now they invite that terrorist from Iran into our country. Let the Swiss have them. Everybody likes the Swiss, anyway.
However, if you are about to face a Holocaust, then don't deposit your money there.

2007-09-23 21:27:50 · 5 answers · asked by big_scott_larock 2

Would all you McCann bashers hang your heads in shame and eat your words, or would you lay low for a while then pop up and say 'I always believed in their innocence'??
BTW,I'm not on about the neglect thing.I'm on about all the accusations.Before you throw that one in.

2007-09-23 21:24:38 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

AN American family has applied for political asylum in Finland, immigration officials said yesterday.

The five-member family arrived in the country on Tuesday from Germany.

Local media have speculated that the parents possibly were escaping serving in the US armed forces in Iraq.

This article: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1517532007

This was in my local paper but I've had to take the snippet from the scotsman (which is at the other end of the country) as I couldn't find it.

I've never heard of Americans claiming asylum in a European country before.

How do you think they will stand? Will it be rejected or accepted?

2007-09-23 21:20:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-23 21:03:13 · 2 answers · asked by Two Pints Lager 4

They have brought in crack detectives to follow the leads the Portuguese police failed to investigate Thoughts? I feel a glimmer of hope, you?

2007-09-23 20:57:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I always see what I would consider to be thw wrong height conversions when giving someones height.

I.E. I hae just read a news report from a world-famous news service who quoted someones height as 5'9" (175cm).

The conversion into cm is wrong - 5'9" is 179cm, not 175.

I see this all the time, across a lot of different mediums, including sports.

Why is this, when clearly the conversions are WRONG? I know this question is a bit lame, but this is just annoying me a bit because so many media insitutions when quoting heights always seem to convert inches into cm wrong.

Or am I converting inches wrongly?

Thanks for your help.

2007-09-23 20:49:59 · 6 answers · asked by mick dundee 2

What happened to freedom of speech?

2007-09-23 20:47:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

at those who "change their stories",
has it occurred to you all that the McCanns & their friends (including, or rather especially, the Tanners) may have been instructed by investigating officials to plant red herrings as an attempt to outwit the abductor???

The media, unwittingly laps up all data as scoops with no thought to the truth or context behind, resulting in the unsuspecting public being fed...um...red herrings for breakfast, lunch & dinner...

That explains why it is only NOW that we hear that Gerry McCann believed the abductor was hiding in the room when he went to check on his Madeleine. Surely, if he had proclaimed from day 2 that he believed that the abductor was in the room it would have
given the abductor insights to the investigation. BTW, that the evil scum hasn't been yet nailed yet should NOT discredit the investigating methods used at that time.

It also explains why Jane Tanner kept changing her story.

Apart from the shock, disbelief, confusion, grieft & utter lack of knowledge as to how to react in such a situation, which are the reasons normally why witnesses make lots of inconsistent observations, i do believe that planting red herrings as an attempt to hide info privvy to the investigation explains a lot of the inconsistencies...that have been misinterpretated as indications of the McCanns/ their friends' guilt.

2007-09-23 20:18:42 · 4 answers · asked by Faith 6

I have heard many people who are emmigrating due to the stem of voilence and the way we are scared to go out, not a counutry for my children I am also contemplating moving,

2007-09-23 20:14:54 · 15 answers · asked by gsc1ugs 2

We read that for the McCanns its no longer about finding Madeleine anymore, its a 'propoganda war' against the Portuguese Police.

In a 'propoganda war' with the McCanns on one side and the Portuguese Police on the other and the British/Portuguese general public in the middle - where does Madeleine fit in ? Is the McCanns hiring of ex-SAS private investigators a genuine attempt to search for Madeleine ? or just another PR excercise by the McCanns ?

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2518096.ece

2007-09-23 20:08:10 · 17 answers · asked by 17pdr 4

to him.

http://www.dailysnack.com/news_article.html?fSKU=7809

2007-09-23 20:07:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it true that McDonalds put a (harmless) type of slug in their milkshakes as a thickening agent?

Someone told me when I was younger and I never looked into it.

2007-09-23 20:04:56 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems to me. Everyone is going.

"Oh my god! Some 'black' people beat up a 'white' kid! See, they *are* horrible and violent!"

However, hardly anyone talking about it on Yahoo Answers talks about that horrid tree and the nooses.

Now. Let's say you wanted to sit under a tree but you couldn't because it was the 'white tree' and only 'white' people can sit under it. (How do they decided whom is 'white' and 'black'?) So you get permission and sit under the tree.

The next day there are nooses hanging from the tree.

Now I don't know about you, but I would be mighty pissed off.

Sure the 'Jena Six' could be charged with bashing the kid up. But not 'attempted second-degree murder' for God's sake. Imagine if the 'colours' were reversed. How would people react then huh?

2007-09-23 19:57:56 · 15 answers · asked by magicalnightingale 2

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-me-pierce22sep22,1,1474331.story?track=rss&vote32723669=1

2007-09-23 18:43:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have seen very covincing evidence and heard firefighters accounts of bombs going off all over the building, There are even videos showing demolition squibs going off as the towers fell!!! Then when the support beams were uncovered the found them severed at an angle commonly used in demo!!! clean cut steel supports??? makes me ask some questions!! How about molten steel that should not have melted unless a heat source much more powerful that jet fuel!! Thermite and thermate traces were found on the beams. I would love to believe my government but their story doesn't fit at all!!!

2007-09-23 18:07:32 · 11 answers · asked by stonehouse421 2

Really, your friends, nieghbors, family members are dying in places like this and others. I bet you have a political stance on it, why don't most of us know where it is?

2007-09-23 17:54:38 · 13 answers · asked by Rubber Cranium 3

It may have been a wonderful symbol of reconcilation from the Arab world that might signal a much-needed end of the so-called "Islamist" jihad against America and our endless war on terrorism too . . .

2007-09-23 17:39:14 · 9 answers · asked by taowhore 4

I am writing a report on this but I cant find out why he did this?

2007-09-23 17:38:43 · 3 answers · asked by Envy? 3

mel gibson made a few comments about the jews and liberals demand his head. don imus made an off color remark on the radio and he has been hogtied and whipped by the liberal media since. micheal richards made an angry slur at black hecklers and liberals freak out. trent lott made a birthday toast to strom thurmond and liberals demand his firing. and john rocker made a few nasty remarks about immigrants and he got booed at every game he played.

yet kathy griffin made a nasty offensive hateful remark at christians and liberals say she's "she's exercising her freedom of speech" .

i don't want to get into a religious debate with this question, i'm just asking. doesn't this prove that liberals are total hypocrites when it comes to free speech? if you condemn hate speech from one side but excuse the other, you are being a hypocrite.

why weren't the above mentioned "exercising their freedom fo speech"?

2007-09-23 16:47:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lots of info because i will put your interview in my project : )

2007-09-23 16:40:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous