Here’s a great bunch of reasons to never skip the ad breaks. Today’s Friday Funny video is a collection of some of the best adverts you’ll ever see, featuring our friends from the animal kingdom.
Friday funny: The best animal adverts
Tag Archives: gold
The GC returns for second season
Everyone’s favourite “mozzies” look set to return to New Zealand’s television screens, with Mediaworks announcing The GC has been given the go ahead for a second season. Funded by Te Mangai Paho, the second season will follow many of the same tanned and trendy Maori whose contribution to society included a new meaning for the word “aunty”.
Album review: Holy Fire – Foals
HOLY FIRE Foals (Warner) Like Talking Heads busting out a collection of Duran Duran covers and injecting that alt-cool shimmy to the Le Bon grand-pop swagger, My Number (the standout hit from these Oxford-born English indie kids’ third full-lengther) is a joyous invocation to the goddess of breakups. But these Foals, who could have been forgiven for cantering along their glitchy, artsy track off the back of such critical acclaim, are in full gallop throughout the album with a huge, loud and artful collection which begs to be listened to over and over
Watch: Ladi6’s new single Ikarus
Ladi6 today dropped the first single from her third studio album.
Lady Gaga Arrives In Bucharest Embellished In Gold
Lady Gaga arrived at Bucharest’s Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel decked out in gold, looking like quite the fashionista. The “You and I” singer, wearing a gold embellished dress with sky-high heels and sparkly tights, will be performing a concert in Romania tomorrow night at the Piata Constitutiei Square of Bucharest. Aside from traveling the world […]
Why Do Olympians Bite Their Medals?
Olympians sometimes pretend to bite their medals while posing for pictures, Olympics expert David Wallechinsky says that photographers actually request the pose.A possible reason for the beginnings of this trend is emulating the biting of coins that handlers used to do, as to verify the authenticity. Gold medals for the 2012 Olympics contain only 1.34% gold or about 6 grams. The […]
Olympic Flame Extinguished – While the Torch Was Being Carried on a White Water Rafting Boat
It’s quite remarkable, in hindsight, to think no one predicted the outcome of this stunt. As the Olympic torch splashed through the canoe slalom venue in Hertfordshire today on board a raft as part of its journey around the country, spraying water splashed out the famed Eternal Flame. Day 50 did not go smoothly for […]
Olympics: Colliding Myths After a Dozen Years
Two weeks after Claudia Losch of West Germany won a 1984 Olympic gold medal with a shot put of 67 ft.
Peru’s Financial Panic: Fear of a New President
Peru is a mining country.
Chemistry: Mining the Sea
Chemists located the treasure long ago, and the knowledge that many valuable elements, including gold, are found in sea water has nourished a long dream of riches. But try as they would, no seawater miners could recover precious metals in practical quantities