Pictures of Paris Hiltons arse

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Helium stocks to be depleted in 8-20 years.

I heard on the radio last week that we are currently running out of Helium at a quite alarming rate and within 8-20 years it will all be gone. Now initially you might not think this is very important and we can probably survive without floating balloons. That is exactly what I thought but then found out helium is used all over the shops from Deep Sea diving to MRI scans to numourous scientific experiements. In fact I was a little shocked at the way we are currently wasting such a limited resource.

this proves all:

http://www.scenta.co.uk/home/1712358/what-happens-when-the-helium-runs-out.htm

This article explains why Helium is running out

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media-releases/archive/archive-release/?balloon

may explain something which I found a bit confusing today e.g. why is helium becoming scarce, well the quote below explains it

“Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe but it is so light and fast-moving that it's able to escape from the Earth's pull of gravity and leaks away. Instead, the chief source of helium is from natural gas where the element is trapped by the rock surrounding the deposit.”

E.g its so light it escapes the Earths pull of gravity and would thus explain why it isn’t regenerating perhaps. Also it’s a natural gas trapped by the rock surrounding the deposit, which is how we can currently harvest it (or how ever we get it)

I also found this article

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=15431

So get hoarding balloons etc because the will be very valuable in 10/20 years time and the squeaky voice trick will really be impressive.


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Zelda Parody

Over Christmas I was playing my nephews DS Zelda game, awesome stuff, The Zelda games rock. It reminded me how good and familar the Zelda story and game is. Anyway here are some parodies of Zelda

the legend of zelda real life


The Legend of Zelda: A Pain in my Ass (Part 1 of 2)


Zelda Spoof - The Legend of Neil 1


This one is thirty minutes long and takes a while to get going

Legend of Zelda: Parody of Time



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Comedy Review - The Office (American version)

Review - The Office (American version)

As the new year has arrived I have been on the lookout for some new comedy to watch. I noticed that one channel was showing the American Office so I thought I would tune in to see what it was like. I did have some misgivings about the American Office because I haven’t seen any good shows the American’s copied from an English original, especially considering the documentary nature of the office. One of the reasons I would attribute to quality of the show is Steven Merchant and Ricky Gervais were executive producers on the few episodes I have seen so far and I think they have made sure the core qualities of the show are intact.

I was pleasantly surprised at how good the show was, the office building itself is exactly the same, the names of all the main characters have been Americanised to Michael Scott (Brent), Jim (Tim), Dwight (Gareth), Pamela (Dawn) and the rest of the gang plus there are new American characters. All the characters have all been slightly twisted and pinched into American versions but they all look like general office workers and for people who have seen the English version of the Office its an added bonus having new characters to get to know.

The David Brent character is played by Steve Carrel (40 year old Virgin, Anchorman) and he is brilliant, his character is a bit more human and a more sad and overall the character is more believable. The other actors all do a good job and its interesting to make comparisons of such a popular show.

What I realised whilst watching the American Office is what a good show it is and particularly the setting and filming style of the Office, I always felt it was a pity there were so few episodes of the Office in England but later on the show was hyped up so much I think the writers wanted to leave it before they disappointed people with a bad episode. This is one of the key reasons I enjoy the American Office, it’s a very enjoyable lo fi comedy without silly repeating catchphrases. The other excellent point of the American Office is it has lots of completely new episodes.

I don’t think the American version is quite as in depth as the English office, which is layered with lots of little jokes you don’t get first time round but this works to the shows advantage because you can sit down and enjoy the show for what it is, which is light hearted feel good entertainment. To augment the lo fi style of the American Office is the feeling that you are not sure what is going to happen because the other non Brent characters are often driving the plot as well as the Brent character, plus it’s not Gervais focusing all the attention on Brent.

The few episodes I have seen saw Michael Scott (Brent) arrange the Dundies (the company is called Dunder Mifflin) and then hands out boring awards to all the workers, who describe the Dundies as “like a childrens party, you don’t want to go but you can’t leave because the child is so happy”. The other episodes have seen a fire happen in the Office (which Michael Scott legs it out first, to show equality to women) and the last episode I saw was the Office Olympics.

I have been enjoying the show so much I am tempted to dig out my Office (English version) to compare the two different shows and I think they are both good shows in their own different ways, I definitely recommend watching the show as its the best thing on the TV at the moment.


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Worst Records Ever

A buddy at work said he use to listen to a show from Kenny Everett called ‘Worlds Worst Record Show’ on Yeuchy Green Vinyl in 1978 I’ve been searching out those songs

http://www.kennyeverett.co.uk/rec_yuktr.htm

The album’s contents came from Kenny’s Worlds Worst Wireless Show on Capital that you can hear here: http://www.chronoglide.com/wwwshome.html

Tremendous stuff – they’re so bad they’re good!. Here are my particular favourites (if you can stand them)...

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Jock Swon & the Metres New wave band


Telly Savalas You've lost that lovin feelin


Mrs Miller Lovers Concerto



Jess Conrad Why am i living ?



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Comedy Review - Star Stories – Series one

Star Stories – Series one

I remember seeing the adverts for the show when it was on TV but I never seemed to caught any of the episodes, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it was very funny when I watched this on DVD last week. The premise of the show is each episode is a story of a Celebrity (Star) or Celebrity Couple and then it takes you through a part of their life. If like me you are a wary of shows which do “impressions” because they usually consist of someone doing a good impression but with a script that stinks more than a full nappy from a baby feed solely on a diet of sprouts and Kebabs. Well fear yer not my friends this show suffers from none of that because the cast only have a passing resemblance to the stars. The result of having dodgy looking doppelgangers enhances the show because the show works on the strengths of story telling and quality comic acting, it also seems much more amusing and adds to the fun of guessing who they are.

Half of the show is selecting what star story you are going to choose and the list is

David & Victoria: Our Story, George Michael: Watch Without Prejudice Vol 1, Catherine Zeta Jones: 'Her Quest to Prove Herself... and Also Find Love', Madonna: The Wife's Life, Brad and Jen Aniston: The One Where Jen's Husband Dumps Her for a Total Bitch nifer, Sadie Frost 'Her Side of the Story'. I found the David and Victoria and George Michael episodes easily the best ones. The other stories are good but I don’t know if it was the underlying story of the stars or whether I didn’t find those stars as interesting.

The David and Victoria episode is fantastic, The characters are also distorted versions of originals, it’s the kind of characters that would result if the League of Gentlemen did something like this, they are all a little grotesque or odd in some way or another. Daisy Beaument plays Victoria Beckham brilliantly (and later Evil Angelina Jolie) and really masters the looking and pouting. Beckham is a slightly chubby Oliver Maltman which makes it deliciously silly. Kevin Bishop (comedy sketch show out later this year) plays a deranged Alex Ferguson and completely steals the show.

Bishop in the next episode plays George Michael and easily the best performer over the whole series. The George Michael episode highlights what the series does well, it treats the stories with good mix of silliness and satirical fun by twisting the story and the characters in it to make them unexpectedly entertaining and unusual. There are also film references dropped in for you to look out for, in this episode Boy George keeps popping up like the women in the horror film The Ring and telling everyone George is a gay. I really like the writing for this show and although the later episodes are not as good as the early ones, the writers work hard to make a story about Sadie Frost entertaining. It’s the small bits they add like Bono, Paul Weller and Sting threatening to beat up George Michael because his lyrics are serious enough and then in comes Bob Geldof shouting “give me your money” and “your not bigger than the Boom town rats” and everyone ignoring Midge Ure.

The final episode about Jennifer and Brad Pitt was very funny and the parody of Friends was spot on the money. In the episode Angelina Jolie is a vampire preying on the men and Brad Pitt is seen going out with every leading lady he does a film with before taking advice from Anthony Hopkins. The Madonna episode was a bit average but is kept entertaining by Bishops impression of Sean Penn.

Overall I enjoyed the series and I think it could be improved by choosing better subject matter because the writers are excellent and the acting was very good as well. I’m glad to hear that there is a second series on the way and four of those shows have been shown on TV already and hopefully they will be repeated, so keep you eyes peeled to make sure you catch it if it sneaks onto the TV schedules again.


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Are you havinng a roast for xmas!!!!!

I have no idea what the hell this is about but in some local paper they asked people if they would be having a roast dinner for xmas, man alive I wouldn't not like to live their




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Funny David Blaine Parody

One of my buddies sent me this today and I thought it was pretty funny and put it here

David Blaine Parody part 1


David Blaine Parody Part 2



David Blaine Street Magic Part 3


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pictures of Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft

I watched the second Lara Croft film this week and it was very daft but fairly enjoyable. There was one really funny scene where Lara was trapped in an under water tomb and the baddies had destroyed her propeller thing. So she cut her arm, took a deep breath and swam out. Then a Shark came along, did one lap and then attacked her, Croft punched the shark on the nose and then got a lift on his back to the top of the sea, brilliant.

Watching Angelina jump about dressed as Lara is good whatever the plot







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Funny Video - To Drunk to Fuck

What do you get when you take a fantastic song from the Dead Kennedy's and someone with some clever bones in his body and access to the internet, you get the link below, enjoy

Dead Kennedys Too Drunk To Fuck



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