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fluffymark*amused* Just got back from seeing The Ig Nobel Tour - for those who don’t know, these are prizes given for discoveries or ideas that make you laugh, then think. Highly amusing. The Vatican has a prize for the fantastic idea of outsourcing prayers to India. Really. And a study into “The Effect of Country Music on Suicide”. All good stuff, I assure you.
Anyway, there were some short, sweet and silly presentations by some of the best of previous prize winners. However, the only discoveries they decided to make presentations of were of the more...ahem...rude kind. *rollseyes* So, I’ve had a whole delicious evening listening to a lesson about farting herrings, looking at photos and examples of scrotal asymmetry, a bizarre discussion on the hidden sexuality of the human yawn, watching actual videos of MRI scans of a couple having sex, and listening to the fascinating tale of The First Scientifically Recorded Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck. Shocking really. *amused*
Not to mention a real life performance of the Atkins Diet Opera which featured two women in cute cat ears singing meow a lot, and later doing a cancan about coffee. So cute! *squeee*
Anyway, there were some short, sweet and silly presentations by some of the best of previous prize winners. However, the only discoveries they decided to make presentations of were of the more...ahem...rude kind. *rollseyes* So, I’ve had a whole delicious evening listening to a lesson about farting herrings, looking at photos and examples of scrotal asymmetry, a bizarre discussion on the hidden sexuality of the human yawn, watching actual videos of MRI scans of a couple having sex, and listening to the fascinating tale of The First Scientifically Recorded Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck. Shocking really. *amused*
Not to mention a real life performance of the Atkins Diet Opera which featured two women in cute cat ears singing meow a lot, and later doing a cancan about coffee. So cute! *squeee*
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Date: 2005-03-17 10:34 am (UTC)Must try to catch the igNobel tour next year.
As for the Vatican outsourcing prayer to India... You should read the Financial Times more often. The 'Home' section in the Saturday edition now consults the same economist as the Agony Aunt column, and the ugly question of visas for nannies arose (again).
Essentially, The Other Papers are whining about immigration, the problems of childcare by Foreigners who speak funny lingo, Polish teenage au Pairs, Mexicans, Filipinas, cabbages and kings. The Financial Times pointed out that importing foreign labour makes no economic sense whatsoever; busy professional couples in the developed world should 'offshore' their children.
Obvious, when you think about it. Some countries - Italy in particular - have taken the next logical step: manufacturing has gone offshore. That is to say, the whole tedious business of childbirth and childrearing is carried out in low-cost third-world counties, with the finished product being imported to fill the labour shortages of their demographically-challenged society.
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Date: 2005-03-17 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-17 02:35 pm (UTC)Now the real reason to colonise Mars becomes obvious.
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Date: 2005-03-17 02:34 pm (UTC)Pole Position
Date: 2005-03-18 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-18 10:45 pm (UTC)I'm hopeless at the plumbing, though I'm good at chivvying plumbers into fixing the damn place before the bath ends up unusable.
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Date: 2005-03-18 11:02 pm (UTC)I should have guessed from seeing that adorably pretty photo of you being attacked by the gay hair fetishists (yes I did go back and find it). I don't know about Poles being good at plumbing, but all Poles I know create the most divine meals in the whole world. As well as being pretty.
I so want to go back to Poland now. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
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Date: 2005-03-18 11:07 pm (UTC)Come on MSN and chat, pretty one?
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Date: 2005-03-18 11:22 pm (UTC)