I still have a weblog..... yea!

I've never been on for weblogs, but this thing amazingly still keeps getting hits. Well, why not breathe some (content) life into it then.... While I get my act together, here are a couple of fun clips.

1- A QVC home shopping announcer demonstrating the high quality and strength of a fake sword manages to stab himself on live TV- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e77oXjFkIs

2- Three BBC presentors take up a challenge to make their own limousines and then put them through road tests before a final, ultimate challenge. It's in a couple of parts, but worth watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyZcF9g0V1g

3- An ad from Germany which plays on the need of some to improve their English. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsCR9Y4Ymvo

Watch your step...

Press reports say that thieves in the depressed town of Charleroi have been stealing manhole covers like no-one's business this summer. In the past two months over 50 have disappeared, leaving a bunch of holes around town. Thieves reportedly try to sell the covers for their value as scrap metal. Charleroi was the same town that not too long ago saw some local criminals use a bazooka on a police station, and local vandals also burnt half of the city's police cars in just one night....

A bad hair day?

One of my favorite blogs is Pestiside. It's from Budapest, and having been there twice alreday this year, it's, well, a very unique place. Pestiside outdid itself today.....

Horrific M1 crash almost ends in dry hair

France goes Anglo-Saxon (finally)

This one passed under the radar of most of the news services, but a recent law change is probably going to open up the job market in France to non-EU citizens…. well, ones with university degrees anyway. From January 1, if you meet the conditions (which have yet to be announced, BTW), you’ll be able to get a two-year renewable permit which allows you to go look for a job in France.

Translated, that means that if the French authorities decide that you’re good enough, you can apply for this permit without having a job lined up. With the permit in hand, you can then go find a job on your own. The UK already has a system like this, and the Netherlands is reportedly considering such a program.

Anyway, we’re still building the website, but there’s more to see over at Do It Yourself Expat, the first guide for non-EU nationals on working and living in the European Union.

Nuns chase down thief

I was in Amsterdam on the weekend, and the following news item just just too bizarre to pass up.

On Saturday the 23rd of July, two nuns in habits on bikes chased a thief through the southern part of Amsterdam. One of the two had recognized the man from pictures of a theft of church offerings some weeks before. The thief guy figured that he'd had an easy time of it, and went back for second pickings.

Inquiring at the church when the next service was, the first nun recognized him and invited him in, while alerting the second nun to call the cops. The thief got itchy feet, and took off.... so the nuns hopped on their bikes and went after him.

The GSM function of one of the mobiles of the nuns was on, so the police followed the signal, not sure what was going on. The thief managed to get into the centre of town, with the nuns still in pursuit, before the police caught up with the three, and the thief managed to get away. The fuzz do have fotos, though, and are reportedly on the lookout....

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