From the damaged branches of the trees the experts could tell that he must have fallen from great heights and had been dead before his body hit the forrest ground. We can only assume how it happened; the most likely theory is that he had been a stowaway, hidden in the wheel well of a plane. How desperate this man must
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I've used the last bit of L'Occitane's "Thé Vert" yesterday, so I had to go Eau-de-Toilette-hunting today. I could hardly curb my enthusiasm...
Perfume departments are the antechambers of hell, where sales assistants wait for their victims like funnel-web spiders for their prey. The scent of a thousand perfumes intermingles, and the result is an
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If you ever watched "Taking the Flak" (scrap that - if you ever watched the news, period.), the following will look very familiar. And it's twice as funny if you imagine Rory Wallace filming this. OK, maybe not, but I'm still grumpy with the BBC for axing the show.
That was interesting! It's fun to learn what's ok where and what's done completely different elsewhere. :-) There are always new things to learn about other countries and their customs. The basic things aside (don't wear a mini-skirt and a bikini-top when visiting St. Peter, for example), it could be useful if travel guides contained information
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sf_drama discusses supermarket chain Tesco's decision to set up a "dressing code" in one of their shops (if I got that right, I refuse to click a link to the Daily Fail). You're not allowed to wear your pajamas for shopping and you have to wear shoes.
To my great surprise, almost everybody in that thread thinks this is a stupid idea and that it doesn't
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