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What tribe are YOU in?

I never thought of myself as belonging to any tribe apart from Caucasian, I suppose, until I discovered this page on the BBC website via B3ta/links, and now I don’t know what I am!

Apparently I could be  a Mosher, a Sportie, a Hoodie, an Indie; or even, God help me, A Nu-Raver.

Please go and watch these cringe-worthy videos of different “tribes” of kids, they are hilarious. When will the BBC learn they don’t have the required qualification (youth) to make programmes about Youth?

Actually, now I’ve had time to think about it I probably am a Nu-Raver: I like their avant-garde approach to spelling. Us Nu-Ravers are so cool we don’t use conventional spelling like the rest of you useless fackurs.

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There’s a group on Facebook called "Lower Fuel Price Petition..please sign..(its a real government petition)" on which an amusing discussion has arisen.

It was started by a fella called Marcus Powell who asserts that because of economics, the OPEC cartel and something called "demand elasticity" (this gets mentioned A LOT) "this is not only going to fail, but fuck you all over"

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Marcus has his detractors in the discussion; My favourite of whom is Hamish Dorethy-Jones Robertson, who has this to say:

"although i vaguely, understand all the cartel buisness etc. for one I do understand the idea of supply and demand. It simple guy. lets say and ice cream man pulls up in ur street. 30 kids (those guys in the trading centers) run up to him. they all want a double cone £1. He has 40 but decides to tell them he only has 15. He says the highest bidders (countries/companies/traders, whatever) can have them! so they start bidding and cos theres 30 of them and only 15 cones, the price rises until it reaches £1.50!! The pay their price. The ice cream guy goes home, and then the kids sell it to their rents. But the rents have to pay a fixed rate of VAT/tax 10p. The parents complain about the VAT not the price, I dont understand. If the government used all the 10ps and paid for a giant ice cream machine, and all the parents shared it. The price of ice cream(travel) wud fall for all them, plus there wud be less cones(cars) on the road, and wud free up the road for magnums(bicycles) and also giant triple layered chocolate smothered ice cream sundaes(trains buses etc), and the ice cream man wud be pissed off!!"

I hope Hamish is taking the piss: If he is, he is a genius; If not, I don’t want to meet him!

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What’s hilarious about this is how many people are up in arms about such an obvious joke. (have a google)

ChildTrader.Com is a website for swapping your kids, if you’re unlucky enough to have a kid that doesn’t quite fit. As they say on their site:

"Child Trader Child Exchange Network isn’t about not loving your children. Its about finding a family that can love them more. "

Have a good browse - There’s lots to giggle at here, especially this from their ‘Dispelling The Myths’ page:

"Myth: Trading kids has bad long term consequences

This is absolutely not the case. We don’t follow up with of our past shoppers, but we have found that many parents benefit so much from the experience that they come back to trade kids again and again, some as often as once a year."

Fwa ha ha!

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Otherwise known as HumanBrainCloud.Com; See how your word associations compare with the rest of the (English speaking) world.

It’s really good fun and my doctor informs me its really good for your BRAIN.

What is hotlinking? Its when you place an image or file of any sort on your website and directly link to where you found it, instead of placing it on your own webhost’s servers.

Why is it wrong to hotlink? Because, basically, its theft. All webhosts charge for bandwidth usage (in one way or another) and so if you hotlink to another website’s images or files you are stealing their bandwidth instead of paying for it yourself.

Also, they might pull a switcheroo on you if they find out about your stealing activities. And what is a switcheroo? Its when the actual owners of the file change the file to be not what you thought it was: Here’s an example:

An Italian politician found a nice image of the pantheon online and used it on his website, it looked like this:

The owner of the image got a little miffed as his hits sent her bandwidth through the roof. So, after no replies to her ‘cease and desist’ request, she pulled the old switcheroo which resulted in his website looking like this:

Pfffff! Today’s lesson is: Don’t Hotlink

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