Moving With Your House…

So I moved house recently, and while there’s many things to get bothered and flustered about, surely the two main stressors when it comes to moving house are a) finding a new house and b) packing all your belongings up.

What if you didn’t have to do either of those things? Say you really like your house itself and just wanna move to a new neighbourhood? Not really likely to work over here with all the brick buildings and more confined spaces but over in the States – and New Zealand judging by the number of clips – this idea of moving your whole house thing is a genuine alternative:

So, Been Boating For Long?

Sometimes you see something that just seems so wrong it makes your headache looking at it.  For me it’s something like this:

The Best Exam Answers Yet?

Some people might look at the state of politics and be concerned for the future. I got emailed this today, which I think causes even more worry for future with the intelligence levels of tomorrow’s leaders…

The following questions were set in last year’s GCSE examination in Swindon, Wiltshire ( U.K. )

These are genuine answers (from 16 year olds)

Q. Name the four seasons
A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar

Q. Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink
A. Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large  pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists

Q. How is dew formed
A. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire

Q. What causes the tides in the oceans
A. The tides are a fight between the earth and the moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins the fight

Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on
A. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed

Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections
A. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election

Q. What are steroids
A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs

Q. What happens to your body as you age
A. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental

Q. What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty
A. He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery         

Q Name a major disease associated with cigarettes
A. Premature death

Q. What is artificial insemination
A. When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow

Q. How can you delay milk turning sour
A. Keep it in the cow                                    (Simple, but brilliant)

Q. How are the main 20 parts of the body categorised (e.G. The abdomen)
A. The body is consisted into 3 parts – the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels: A, E, I, O and U                        

Q.. What is the fibula?
A. A small lie

Q. What does ‘varicose’ mean?
A. Nearby

Q. What is the most common form of birth control
A. Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium  

Q. Give the meaning of the term ‘Caesarean section’
A. The caesarean section is a district in Rome

Q. What is a seizure?
A. A Roman Emperor.        (Julius Seizure, I came, I saw, I had a fit)

Q. What is a terminal illness
A. When you are sick at the airport.     

Q. Give an example of a fungus. What is a characteristic feature?
A. Mushrooms. They always grow in damp places and they look like umbrellas

Q. Use the word ‘judicious’ in a sentence to show you understand its meaning
A. Hands that judicious can be soft as your face.                

Q. What does the word ‘benign’ mean?
A. Benign is what you will be after you be eight

Q. What is a turbine?
A. Something an Arab or Shreik wears on his head

The Honda Gopher Concept?

The thing with concept cars is that they don’t always look quite like a car. Does anyone else thing that Hondas CR-Z concept car looks the spitting image of a Gopher?! Not sure what their design stimulant was in the beginning (big nose – slitty eyes) but it’s quite the puzzler.

Difficult Is Worth Doing

Ah Honda, always the best for adverts. They surpass any others really – Citroen had my vote with the car robot and Skoda with the cake- but Honda have a knack for ads that leaves em all behind.

This advert is advertising the new Honda Accord. Kent is home to loads of these saloons but I’ve never really thought they’re worth throwing yourself out of a plane for. Still, another cracking ad from the guys (and girls) at Honda’s ad agency.

How To Guarantee A Test Drive?

I stumbled upon this and had to laugh, it’s the look on the guy’s face from about 2 seconds in all the way through and just the idea of someone coming out to find their car upside down on an otherwise normal day.

Is Yellow Acceptable Now?

Not so long ago yellow used to be an appalling colour for a car. Like the Clint Eastwood / Charlie Sheen film The Rookie pointed out, the real criminal is someone who’d paint a car such a horrific colour. Now though you can’t escape it – the Ford Focus RS is a lurid fluorescent-like green and Renault’s new Megane  is belter of a car – in bright yellow.

Though I think this may be the one car it works with:

Suzuki Going For Something… Different?

Suzuki have a bit of an odd reputation here in the UK. I think it’s safe to say that they’re not considered as one of the bigger and more solid build manufacturers but they’re clearly trying to up their ante, especially as the Scrappage scheme has helped them shift more of their smaller motors.

As for the US though, I’m not really sure what kind of a rep they have but they’re clearly going for a younger generation with this ad:

The Weirdest Looking Car On The Road?

Driving home down the motorway I don’t normally pay too much attention to the appearance of other cars on the road – just what they’re doing. However, one car I overtook last night was just so weird looking I had to share it.

I really don’t know what happened with the styling of this one, it started out back in the sixties as a pretty quirky but good looking MPV, took a detour and was relaunched looking like something had slipped in the design department:

Things Not To Do With A Prius Pt.1

Stretch it. Really, why would you consider this? Is it so more people can enjoy being eco-friendly in ’style’ ?

Surely there’s not all that much style offered by this:

Perhaps it’s another attempt to appeal to those celebs that love and endorse Toyota’s Prius, perhaps it’s real, perhaps it’s a photoshop. I really hope it’s a bit of pixel manipulation.