Top Five Most Sung-About Premier League Teams (FanChants.co.uk) Liverpool (50) Tottenham Hotspur (42) Manchester City (39) Sunderland (35) Manchester United (34) [Liverpool Echo]
Empirical proof that the club with the biggest following (Uniturd) sing more songs about Liverpool than their own team.
Always thought it would have been poetic justice to let Mark Chapman out of prison and get him to target the drone.
For some reason I thought you said Mark Corrigan when I first read that. please log in to view this image
Villagers Baffled After Three Mysterious Black ‘UFO’ Balls Fall From Space please log in to view this image Three mysterious black orbs have fallen from the sky on the village of Villavieja in Murcia, Spain. Speculation about the origin of the orbs ranges from something left by UFOs to space debris. Locals found the first ball last week, and the Guardia Civil were called to investigate. Jose Velez, the mayor of Calasparra, asked the authorities,'I think it is a more serious issue than it seems. Where are these objects coming from? Why are they falling here precisely? Will more of them fall?’ 'Citizens have real concerns about what is happening and deserve an explanation.' “And what would happen if any of these balls fall into a highly populated area?” Officials in biohazard suits investigated, but the balls have not been found to be radioactive or toxic. They have been taken away for investigation. Local farmers claim to have seen ‘seven or eight’ fireballs streaking across the sky, the Olive Press reported.
Adolf Beck please log in to view this image When Adolf Beck left his London flat on December 16, 1895, he was surprised to find a woman named Ottilie Meissonier accusing him of stealing from her. After Meissonier notified a policeman, the confused Beck was taken to the nearest station for questioning. Meissonier claimed that Beck was a con artist who’d identified himself as “Lord Willoughby.” Three weeks earlier, he had used his charms to swindle her out of £30 worth of jewelry. Beck claimed she was mistaken, but by this point, the police had reports from 10 other women, each with a similar story. When these women also identified Beck as the perpetrator, officers charged him with fraud. The police believed that Beck was actually a man named John Smith, who had served four years in prison for a series of crimes in 1877. Beck had been in South America in 1877, but he was still found guilty and sentenced to seven years in the same prison where Smith had served. Beck was paroled in 1901, but history repeated itself three years later when another woman confronted him with the same accusation of conning her out of her jewelry. Beck went back to prison, but while he was locked up, the real “John Smith” was arrested for committing another crime. Smith bore a very striking resemblance to Adolf Beck, and when he confessed to all of Beck’s crimes, Beck was finally exonerated and compensated for his wrongful imprisonment. Discover a universe full of ridiculously interesting facts with Listverse.com’s Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Top 10 Lists at Amazon.com!
OLDEST PERSON LIVING 115 YEARS. please log in to view this image Courtesy of Michael KinlochJeralean Talley and godson Tyler Kinloch pictured with one of the seven catfish she caught at the Spring Valley Trout Farm in Dexter, Mich., on June 16, 2012. Here's what 115-year-old Jeralean Talley of Michigan had to say about the news The last two known people on Earth born in 1898 have passed away just five days apart, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Following the death of 117-year-old Japanese woman Misao Okawa last Wednesday, Gertrude Weaver of Camden, Ark., became the world’s new oldest living person at 116 years old. But she passed away Monday morning at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center after complications due to pneumonia, the Associated Press
You're more open minded than this usually mate You could go around every single country in the world and edit just to bad responses We have plenty of thickos in England
Yes we do DR, and many people of average or above average intelligence. Same in the U.S.,plenty of Americans with interesting stuff to say. However,it's not urban myth that a fair old chunk of folks in the U.S. ermm..........lack in basic geographical and political knowledge.
I agree. Although I think when it comes to geography and international affairs Americans are below average. Schools don't focus on geography (my kids wouldn't even know simple things like the continents if I didn't teach them). Also "world news" in the US is 99% US with 1% stories of women in Thailand who own 20 cats and similar fluff. It's not that Americans are stupid they're just insular.
A lot of people are afraid of getting hit by lightning. please log in to view this image Digital Vision/Thinkstock The odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are a tiny 1 in 12,000, yet astraphobia is the third most common phobia in America, behind acrophobia (fear of heights) and zoophobia (fear of animals). But beware: Scientists say climate change may increase the chances to about 1 in 8,000 by year 2100.
I hear lizard footsteps approaching. October just measured the average warmest global temperature for that month on record of all time. (since records began at least... I'm sure it was hotter in other geological ages)
Given the size of the US and its generally inward-looking culture, it isn't that big a surprise that people point to Australia when trying to find France. My response to videos like that is more apprehension than mockery or bewilderment. For whatever reasons, such a lack of awareness of the world you live in is alarming. Whilst I'm a firm believer in democracy in principle- sadly, allowing people to vote on issues -the repercussions of which they have no knowledge of, or interest in- seems a dangerous policy to me. None of us has the right to decide who can or cannot vote, so the answer has to be to better educate people. The US has the greatest influence on the rest of the world of any nation- it's people ought to know more of what is done in their name. Of course, all governments prefer to manipulate their people rather than educate them, so I don't see much improvement in the offing.
Americans are educated. Just not in humanities or current world events. I put on BBC world service in car driving my son and his classmates in. Hoping some of the world events will sink in. Its funny... Even watching the Olympics. They only show events where Americans are expected to do well. Its as if the US is the only country there. If America doesn't have someone competing the event isn't shown. Everything is so insular.
Of course there are plenty of highly intelligent, well-educated people in the States- however, its worldwide rankings are dire considering the wealth and advanced technology of the country. 29th (last time I looked) on the global schools ranking is frankly embarrassing. Even the UK on 20th is pretty dismal- in my view largely because we've chosen to follow failing US models. Something we've done in many areas- not just education.
