Thursday 30 September 2010

Superman, hulk and batman, life past retirement

According to a study by Barclays Wealth, British people are more likely to carry on working after retirement age than any other nation.

The study found that over 60 per cent of people under 65 intend to work past retirement age, and those numbers will probably increase over the coming years, as 70 per cent of these are under 45, in the study they said "i would always be involved in some kind of work."

Ireland was second with 59 per cent,

Spain the number was 44 per cent,
Japan 46 per cent, but in Switzerland,
only 34 per cent plan to carry on working!





The Desciples

Ok so i always thought that the Desciples were old!

In Matthew there is a story that talks of Jesus having to pay temple tax and only Paul and himself have to pay, Which means the Desciples were all under the age of 17!!

Those guys did some amazing things according to the bible and they were soo young!


Friday 20 August 2010

This photo won the London Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award for 2009.



Then, several Spanish photographers recognized that wolf, and revealed the chance image was a setup.

Im not sure if i care because this image looks amazing.

Thursday 19 August 2010

Another fox related link but a bit more obscure

Karen O'Leary creates hand-cut city maps from paper. She just finished Paris!

This is just too amazing!

Wednesday 18 August 2010

Saw this and loved it

I saw this and loved it i have a couple of friends who will love this




You can actually buy this from www.thinkgeek.com



Im so sorry matt.

I recently discovered Fox-Tossing, a 17th/18th century European pastime that is exactly what it sounds like.
People would go out in a field and set up a little fenced-in court. Then high-society types would stand, in pairs, holding slack ropes. Then a bunch of foxes would be released into the court. When the foxes ran over the ropes, the players pulled the ropes tight, launching the foxes up into the air. Repeat until all foxes are dead.



Fleming's Deutsche Jaeger (published in 1719) produced this
image, and commented on it saying "Skilled male tossers could toss a fox 24 ft. high. At a famous fox-tossing in Dresden there were tossed some 687 foxes, 533 hares, 34 badgers, 21 wild cats, and at the end 34 young wild boar and 3 wolves...."

This is both funny and wrong!

Tuesday 17 August 2010

Richard Smith, a 41-year-old care worker from Carlisle, England, has legally changed his name to Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand: "It's just a strange name I like the sound of." English and Welsh name-changing procedures are much simpler than US equivalents: the ancient tradition of "deed-poll" name change has made it possible for people to change to all kinds of wonderful and wacky things