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Drive Through ATM Procedures

2010-07-07T07:02:00.000-07:00

Please note that Banks are installing new "Drive-through" teller machines. Customers will be able to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. To enable customers to use this new facility the following procedures have been drawn up.

MALE PROCEDURE

* 1 Drive up to the cash machine.

* 2 Put down your car window.

* 3 Insert card into machine and enter PIN.

* 4 Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.

* 5 Retrieve card, cash and receipt.

* 6 Put window up.

* 7 Drive off.

FEMALE PROCEDURE

* 1 Drive up to cash machine.

* 2 Reverse back the required amount to align car window to machine.

* 3 Set parking Brake, Put the window down.

* 4 Find handbag, remove all contents onto passenger seat to locate card.

* 5 Turn the radio down.

* 6 Attempt to insert card into machine.

* 7 Attempt to insert card into machine.

* 8 Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.

* 9 Insert card.

* 10 Re-insert card the right side up

* 11 Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.

* 12 Enter PIN.

* 13 Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.

* 14 Enter amount of cash required.

* 15 Check make up in rear view mirror.

* 16 Retrieve cash and receipt.

* 17 Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.

* 18 Place receipt in back of checkbook.

* 19 Re-check make-up again.

* 20 Drive forwards 2 feet.

* 21 Reverse back to cash machine.

* 22 Retrieve card.

* 23 Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.

* 24 Give appropriate one-fingered hand signal to irate male drivers queuing behind.

* 25 Restart stalled engine and pull off.

* 26 Drive for 2 to 3 miles.

* 27 Release Parking Brake.

Dog Fails

2010-07-07T06:47:00.001-07:00

Man`s best friend fail just as hard as man does. Seriously.

White House Hotel

2010-07-06T08:36:00.000-07:00

In Ukraine they have built a hotel that as they claim “looks almost absolutely the same as White House of United States”.

Leaving the truth behind their claims aside, we must to admit there are still plenty of people who fall for this and want to visit and spend a night in an Oval office.

They even have a Barack Obama statue greeting the newcomers.

Animal noses - Right in the lenses

2010-07-05T01:45:00.000-07:00

This is a gallery of the finest, closest, funniest animal noses you're ever likely to see!

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A few jokes

2010-07-04T11:30:00.000-07:00

The boss tells some jokes

The boss returned from lunch in a good mood and called the whole staff in to listen to a couple of jokes he had picked up. Everybody, but one girl laughed uproariously.

"What's the matter?" grumbled the boss. "Haven't you got a sense of humor?"

"I don't have to laugh," she replied. "I'm leaving Friday."

The work qualification test

Murphy applied for an engineering position at an Irish firm based in Dublin. An American applied for the same job and both applicants having the same qualifications were asked to take a test by the Department manager. Upon completion of the test both men only missed one of the questions. The manager went to Murphy and said.

Manager: "Thank you for your interest, but we've decided to give the American the job"

Murphy: "And why would you be doing that? We both got nine questions correct. This being Ireland and me being Irish I should get the job!"

Manager: "We have made our decisions not on the correct answers, but on the question you missed."

Murphy: "And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?"

Manager: "Simple, the American put down on question #5, "I don't know.", You put down "Neither do I."

Repairing the phone

A friend of mine was a frequent user of a pay telephone at a popular truck stop, and was greatly inconvenienced when the phone went out of commission.

Repeated requests for repair brought only promises.

After several days, the phone company was again contacted and told that there was no longer a rush.

The phone was now working fine--except that all money was being returned upon completion of each call.

A repairman arrived within the hour!

Paying in advance

A motorist, driving by a Texas ranch, hit and killed a calf that was crossing the road. The driver went to the owner of the calf and explained what had happened. He then asked what the animal was worth.

"Oh, about $200 today," said the rancher. "But in six years it would have been worth $900. So $900 is what I'm out."

The motorist sat down and wrote out a check and handed it to the farmer.

"Here," he said, "is the check for $900. It's postdated six years from now."

Badass Bristol street art

2009-08-26T11:57:00.000-07:00

Plastic Pollution

2009-08-13T12:38:00.000-07:00

Pilot and Aircraft Mechanic

2009-08-13T05:46:00.001-07:00

After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a “gripe sheet,” which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems; document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.

Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS ‘ pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers. By the way, UPS is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident.

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit
S: Something tightened in cockpit

P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.

P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That’s what friction locks are for.

P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you’re right

P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

P: Aircraft handles funny. (I love this one!)
S: Aircraft warned to: straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

London Tube Drivers

2009-08-13T05:41:00.001-07:00

A list of actual announcements that LONDON TUBE train DRIVERS have made to their passengers :

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologise for the delay to your service. I know you’re all dying to get home unless, of course, you happen to be married to my ex-wife, in which case you’ll want to cross over to the Westbound and go in the opposite direction”.

“Your delay this evening is caused by the line controller suffering from backside and elbow syndrome, not knowing one from the other. I’ll let you know any further information as soon as I’m given any.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, we apologise for the delay, but there is a security alert at Victoria station and we are therefore stuck here for the foreseeable future, so let’s take our minds off it and pass some time together. All together now….’Ten green bottles, hanging on a wall…’”.

“We are now travelling through Baker Street, as you can see Baker Street is closed. It would have been nice if they had actually told me, so I could tell you earlier, but no, they don’t think about things like that”.

Beggars are operating on this train, please do NOT encourage professional beggars, if you have any spare change you can give it to me.”

During an extremely hot rush hour on the Central Line, the driver announced in a West Indian drawl: “step right this way for the sauna, ladies and gentleman… unfortunately towels are not provided”.

“Let the passengers off the train FIRST!” (Pause…) “Oh go on then, stuff yourselves in like sardines, see if I care….”

“Please note that the beeping noise coming from the doors means that the doors are about to close. It does not mean throw yourself or your bags into the doors.”

“We can’t move off because some idiot has their f***ing hand stuck in the door”

“To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage – what part of ’stand clear of the doors’ don’t you understand?”

“Please move all baggage away from the doors (Pause…) Please move ALL belongings away from the doors (Pause…) This is a personal message to the man in the brown suit wearing glasses at the rear of the train – put the pie down, four-eyes, and move your bloody golf clubs away from the door before I come down there and shove them up your a**e sideways”

The hostess was in jeans - imagine!

2009-08-11T13:28:00.000-07:00

Theatre

Let's start with opera. Opera's quite posh, innit? They must have some reassuringly solid guidelines. "Actually, we don't," responds the plummy press officer for Covent Garden's Royal Opera House. "People can wear what they like." Even if I was wearing smelly Birkenstocks, ripped shorts and a bag on my back as big as a soprano, you'd let me in? "Um, OK."

"We hope men will wear DJs and women will wear dresses, but there are no codes," says the spokeswoman for Glyndebourne, which is about as posh as opera gets. Sounds as if opera is more relaxed than I had thought. "Oh, yes! Women even wear trousers here! Ladies! In trousers!" Surely not.

Populist theatre is a more complex proposition. Take Mamma Mia! at the Prince Edward theatre in London. If you think this would be just a casual night out for you and the rest of the American tourists in town, you're headed for a fashion faux pas on a Fergie scale. "People get dressed up, particularly on the weekends. Lots of Lycra," says Tom Littlechild, account executive for the show. "Seventies gear, you see." Philip Tuten, the theatre house manager, passes on the hot fashion tip that "lots of the ladies come in big wigs."

Court

Courts seem to have pretty fixed ideas about what is and isn't appropriate dress. "No, we don't have a dresscode," says the Old Bailey's spokeswoman. "I've seen jurors in shorts. A bikini probably wouldn't be appropriate, but it's really up to the judge." In the public gallery, anything goes ("We don't have any jurisdiction up there."), although layers should be avoided because "someone might think you're concealing a bomb". What if you're up in the dock? "If the accused is standing there in tattered jeans and a smelly T-shirt, that might not work. I would recommend smart casual." Funny, I had always thought "smart casual" was a criminal offence.

Dinner parties

"Oh, I just hate smart casual!" expostulates networking queen, Carole Stone, who, fortunately, does not have any immediate plans to be up in court. She does, however, have many dinner parties: "I had one for three couples - no, I can't divulge any names, but you'd recognise them," she begins. "One woman came wearing bunny ears and fairy wings, another wore a brocade train, and the third wore a skirt and cardie. No one felt uncomfortable!"

Stone speaks of a whirlwind world where ladies can "whip fine brooches out of their pockets to smarten up" and gentlemen can "rip off their neckties, when they're feeling overly formal." She also suggests "dressing down when in doubt". "Once I was going to a regatta and I felt underdressed, so I bought a £400 jacket on the way. But when I got there, the hostess was wearing jeans! Can you imagine?" No, Carole, I can't.

Religion

Lost in a swirl of foggy advice, where to turn but to one's rabbi? "Why, hi, Hadley, we haven't seen you round here for a while!" says Rabbi Mark Winer at West London Synagogue. Any old ways, next time I, ahem, come to synagogue, what would be appropriate dress? "Modest and proper," are Winer's bywords, which translates to a dress for women and jacket for men. Displaying an almost Diana Vreeland-esque talent at fashion planning, Winer suggests: "If it's a wedding and there's an event afterwards, wear your smart outfit to the ceremony. But really, we're so glad when people come we don't mind what they wear."

Moving swiftly on, what do the Catholics have to say? At Our Lady Queen of Peace in Bournemouth, people tend to be "reasonably dressed, although we do see shorts in the summer," says the housekeeper.

Is the C of E more prescriptive? "No, we're very relaxed," chirrups Dr Martin Dudley, rector of St Bartholomew's church, in the City of London. No rules at all? "We don't allow men to wear hats - except if they're builders and they're doing some works for us."

Sport

Perhaps sport is now the opiate of the masses, so maybe it is to the stadiums insteads of temples that we should turn for guiding light. "Nope, all very casual round here, not head-to-toe designer," says the press officer for Fulham Football Club. Should the light of heaven shine and you are invited into the corporate box at Fulham, don "jeans, jackets, smart shoes". Is this, by any chance... "Yes. Smart casual." The All England Club advises that Wimbledon spectators should "just be reasonably dressed and enjoy the game. I can't understand what else you want to know."

The Marylebone Cricket Club is more specific. "We don't allow any musical instruments and flags at Lords," says the MCC. "If you were sitting next to someone with a French horn, why, your enjoyment of the cricket match would be ruined! Flags obscure people's view, and it's the same with mock Viking hats, which seem to be quite the fashion item in certain quarters."

First-class air travel

A judge this week dismissed a juror for wearing an FCUK T-shirt. But what is appropriate dress in court? And while we're at it, what should you wear in a few other places? Hadley Freeman made some calls

"If you want to be bumped up to first class, dress formally," advises British Airways. "Skirt or trousers for women, jacket and trousers for men." If you aren't a blagger and actually fork out £6,000 for a first class seat you are "allowed to wear whatever you like".

The bank manager

Let's ask my bank manager for his opinions on appropriate dress - his views tend to be hard and unswerving. So, Mr Browne, what is appropriate to wear to a meeting with one's bank manager? "Oh, Miss Freeman, what have you done now, eh?" But Mr Browne does indeed have some views. "Best to look smart. As long as it's not offensive you should be fine."

Does he find "FCUK" offensive? "Well, a French Connection shop is right next door to us, so it wouldn't be very sensible if I did, would it?"

Mileştii Mici Wine Cellar Complex

2009-08-11T13:19:00.000-07:00

Stretching for 250km (160 miles), of which only 120km (75 miles) are currently in use, the Mileştii Mici cellar complex in Moldova is also the largest in the world. In 2007 Mileştii Mici wine cellars were noted in Guinness World Records 2007 Yearbook, for having the largest wine collections in the world. Overall, the complex holds nearly 2 million bottles. More than 70% of the stored wines are red, 20% are white and about 10% are dessert ones. The most valuable items of this collection, worth €480 a bottle, were produced in 1973-74; they are now exported only to Japan.

Mobile bike bar

2009-08-10T09:28:00.000-07:00

This mobile bar has ten seats. Everybody on board must pedal to keep it going. The upshot is you get served beer while you travel. This really redefines the road dog.

Feather Paintings

2009-08-09T04:34:00.000-07:00

Gross Fashion - Long Hairy Eyelashes

2009-08-06T12:22:00.000-07:00

China needs to learn how to spell

2009-08-05T04:41:00.000-07:00

Bored at work - Have fun with money

2009-08-04T02:30:00.001-07:00

How not to win a marathon

2009-08-02T10:37:00.000-07:00

How to pull a office prank in 5 steps

2009-08-01T06:44:00.000-07:00

Lenticular clouds

2009-07-18T10:14:00.001-07:00

Unreflections

2009-07-16T06:27:00.001-07:00

New Russian Stealth Jet

2009-07-14T07:20:00.001-07:00

Bullets hitting stuff

2009-07-13T02:59:00.000-07:00

Colorado River Bridge

2009-07-12T04:06:00.000-07:00

Zipper Pond

2009-07-10T09:04:00.001-07:00

After the First Shot of Vodka

2009-07-09T05:12:00.001-07:00

Living Statues

2009-07-08T08:35:00.001-07:00

Russian Police Academy Students

2009-07-05T04:32:00.000-07:00

Wacky Chair Designs

2009-07-04T07:07:00.001-07:00

What’s Inside Your Bags and Pockets?

2009-07-03T06:19:00.000-07:00

What do you hide in bags and pockets? This interesting project gathered some random people, who agreed to show their personal stuff. Thus, these cool still life photos were created.

Amazing Grass Sculptures

2009-07-01T10:25:00.000-07:00

The Most Bizarre Beards and Mustaches

2009-06-04T06:27:00.000-07:00

The Human - Body a dissection

2009-02-23T08:31:00.000-08:00

Bloggers Humor

2009-01-13T11:50:00.000-08:00

Masters of disguise

2009-01-11T11:57:00.000-08:00

The Best Restaurant

2009-01-10T12:47:00.000-08:00

Airline Food

2008-12-07T03:11:00.000-08:00

Till Bartels is a German journalist, who spends most of his life jet-setting between countries. Needless to say, he has had the opportunity to sample all types of cuisine offered by the airlines. Here are some of his food experiences 30000-feet in the air.

Emirates Airlines, First Class Suite Airbus A380.

Air Berlin, Economy Class.

Air Canada, Economy Class.

German Airlines.

Continental Airlines, Business First Class.

Emirates Airlines, Economy Class.

Etihad Airways, First Class.

Gulf Air, Business Class.

KLM Airlines, Economy Class.

Lufthansa, Business Class.

Lufthansa, Economy Class.

Lufthansa, Economy Class.

Martin Air, Economy Class.

Singapore Airlines, Business Class A380.

Singapore Airlines, Business Class.

Singapore Airlines, Business Class.

Turkish Airlines.

Thai Airways, Economy Class.

United Airlines, Economy Class.

Self explanatory broken arm slings

2008-12-06T14:39:00.000-08:00

Are you tired of explaining to everyone how you injured your arm? Then just get one of these and you will never have to recount your painful story again.

Invisible Art

2008-10-16T11:49:00.000-07:00

This Chinese artist does his artwork on people by making them become a part of their environment. Kinda like body art but with guys and they are not naked.

Light Phenomena

2008-10-15T09:10:00.000-07:00

Amazing Spider webs

2008-10-13T10:55:00.001-07:00

A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web or cobweb (from the obsolete word "coppe", meaning "spider" sometimes with the connotation of being a dusty, abandoned web) is a device built by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets. Insects can get trapped in spider webs, providing nutrition to the spider; however, not all spiders build webs to catch prey, and some do not build webs at all.

Creative Road Ads

2008-10-11T03:43:00.000-07:00

Capacitor Bikes

2008-09-27T01:31:00.000-07:00

Miniature models of bikes made from circuit components like capacitors, resistors, ICs and parts of lighters.

Salem Sue - The World's Largest Cow

2008-09-25T10:20:00.001-07:00

Overlooking Interstate 94, on top of a hill, on New Salem, North Dakota stands a cow. She neither grazes nor moves for she is made of six tons of reinforced fiberglass and measures 38 feet in height and 50 feet in length. She is Salem Sue - the world's largest cow. Salem Sue was built in 1974 for $40,000 by the New Salem Lions Club as a tribute to the local dairy farmers.

Another World on Socotra Island

2008-09-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

Socotra is a tiny archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa, about 350 kilometers south of the Arabian peninsula. It is apparently one of the most remote land mass on the earth. Like the Galapagos Islands, this island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which are highly unique and found nowhere else on the earth. Socotra is home to more than 800 species of plants where the climate is harsh, hot and dry. Check the amazing glories of mother nature.

Steampunk PC

2008-09-20T08:53:00.001-07:00

Look how an ordinary 24″ wide screen monitor and a bunch of hardware can be converted into a unique steampunk-style full-working computer by hands of the pro. An amazing work of Jake von Slatt from the the Steampunk Workshop.

Modern Catapults

2008-09-19T09:51:00.000-07:00

Unique Gypsy Architecture

2008-09-18T09:56:00.000-07:00

Almost 2% of the Romanian population are Gypsies! While switching to the settled way of life, their establish new architectural trends, some of the examples of which we would like to show you.

Spectacular Dubai Projects

2008-09-17T07:23:00.001-07:00

Mini World

2008-09-16T05:55:00.000-07:00

Classical Lego Photography

2008-09-15T04:17:00.001-07:00

The Amazing Solar Tower of Seville

2008-09-14T00:55:00.001-07:00

Located in the Andalusian countryside of Southern Spain, near Seville, is a giant 115 meter high concrete tower surrounded by a field of 624 huge mirrors. These mirrors collect the sunlight and focus it at the top of the concrete tower, where it heats water passing through pipes, converting it into steam. This steam drives a series of turbines that produce electricity. Simple, efficient, environment friendly and spectacular!

These 624 parabolic mirrors each having a surface area of 120m² are heliostats, that track the sun throughout the year, precisely focusing the sunlight to the top of the tower at all times. The temperature at the top rises to over 400'C (750'F).

The current capacity of the Solar Tower is 11MW. The plant when completed in 2013, will produce around 300MW – energy enough for 180,000 homes, equivalent to the needs of the city of Seville, and saving 600,000 tonnes of annual carbon dioxide emissions. We urgently need more of these.

Restaurant in the Sky

2008-09-10T00:48:00.000-07:00

If you are looking to make an event highly memorable, how about a dinner in the sky? Dinner in the Sky offers event organizers a new and unique way of organizing an event: a restaurant with a table for 22 guests, is suspended from a crane 50 meters (164 feet) above ground. The specially built table is surrounded by chairs of the type usually found on roller coasters, with four-point seat belts.

Safely buckled up and floating mid-air, guests can enjoy a meal or meeting, with three chefs, waiters, presenters and/or entertainers standing in an open area in the center of the table.

Table, crane, logistic and security staff are available for EUR 7900 (prices as on 2006) for an eight hour session, which can be organized anywhere a large crane can be placed. What happens if you need to use the toilet? Well, the whole table comes down!

Dinner in the Sky's services are available in 17 different countries.

Popular Logos in Real Life

2008-09-09T01:20:00.001-07:00

14 Biggest Statues in the World

2008-09-04T10:04:00.000-07:00

14. Height: 62 m (203 ft)
Name: Mother Motherland
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Description: Stands on a 40 m pedestal. 102 m (335 ft) total monument height

13. Height: 71 m (233 ft)
Name: Leshan Giant Buddha
Location: Leshan, China
Description: Construction started in 713.

12. Height: 72 m (236 ft)
Name: Great Standing Maitreya Buddha
Location: Emei Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan

11. Height: 80 m (262 ft)
Name: Awaji Kannon
Location: Awaji Island, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Description: Stands on a 20 m pedestal. 100 m (328 ft) total height

10. Height: 85 m (279 ft)
Name: Rodina-Mat’ Zovyot! (Mother Motherland Calls)
Location: Mamayev Kurgan; Volgograd, Russia
Description: Finish-1967

9. Height: 88 m (289 ft)
Name: Dai Kannon of Kita no Miyako park
Location:Ashibetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan

8. Height: 88 m (289 ft)
Name: Grand Buddha at Ling Shan
Location: Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China
Description: Finish 1996

7. Height: 96 m (315 ft)
Name: Peter the Great Statue
Location:Moscow, Russia
Description: Finish 1997

6. Height: 100 m (328 ft)
Name: Sendai Daikannon
Location:Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

5. Height: 106 m (348 ft)
Name: Emperors Yan and Huang
Location: Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Description: Finish 2007

4. Height: 108 m (354 ft)
Name: Nanshan Haishang Guanyin
Location: Sanya, Hainan, China
Description: Finish 2005

3. Height: 110 m (361 ft)
Name: Ushiku Daibutsu
Location: Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Description: Includes the 10 m (33 ft) lotus throne. Placed on a 10 m (33 ft) pedestal. 120 m (394 ft) total monument height.

2. Height:116 m (380ft)
Name: Laykyun Setkyar
Location: Monywa, Sagaing Division, Myanmar

And the winner is

Height:128 m (420 ft)
Name: Spring Temple Buddha -Foshan Golden Buddha
Location: Lushan, Henan, China
Description: It includes a 20 m (66 ft) lotus throne. Placed on a 25 m (82 ft) pedestal/building. 153 m (502 ft) total monument height.

Leopard v.s. Crocodile - Who Wins

2008-09-01T02:12:00.001-07:00

Guns And Equipment From Westerns

2008-08-28T12:39:00.000-07:00

If you like tough cowboys from Clint Eastwood movies and wild wild west this post is for you. Great still life photography of the equipment, necessary to shoot a good western.