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You’ve seen it on Oprah. You vaguely remember seeing it on a map somewhere when you were ten. You might have even seen it in awful crocodile-themed films produced in the eighties. So why not see it with your own eyes? Release the shackles of the nine-to-five rat race and take a trip down under, or if you’re stationed on the Antarctic base, up over, or if you’re South American, due west. How about you just head in whichever colloquially-named compass bearing that applies to your nation of residence and come on down to Australia. Or is that come on left? Nevermind.
Due its considerably large geographical area and relative abundance of nothingness, not to mention the various poisonous marsupials, reptiles, mammals and plants, it is advised that international tourists develop a clear itinerary. By doing this, we can maximise sales of toy Koalas, Kangaroo T-Shirts and cheap boomerangs your holiday will be efficient and cheap, and you’ll avoid a fate worse than death: getting lost in the Outback with no food or water. Or even worse — getting stuck in Adelaide. (more...)
Yesterday's Featured Article - Student loan
A student loan is, ostensibly, a financial device utilized to enable aspiring professionals to attend institutions of higher education, even when they lack the funds necessary to pay for their tuition and fees. In reality, student loans are a mechanism for modern day indentured servitude, as thousands of indebted students graduate into a marketplace that is either unable to employ them, or is only able to under-employ them.
The end result is that students are becoming slaves to debt that they cannot discharge in bankruptcy and that will cripple them until the day they die. They will spend their days toiling in coffee shops for minimum wage while going home every day to sleep in their parents' basement, living off of cheap fast food and driving used Honda Civics with hundreds of thousands of miles on the odometer. (more...)
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Did you know...
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- ...that some studies show males are more inclined to risky behavior than females? (pictured)
- ...that a hair across your ass is, in the short term, more annoying than Bono?
- ...that Ironing blows no matter how much you try to hide it?
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January 29: Echo Day Day.
- 1200 BC, BC, BC - Moses hears his own echo on top of Sinai and believes it to be the voice of God.
- 1939, 39, 39 - Yet today, day, day...I consider myself, self, self...the luckiest man, man, man...on the face of the earth, earth, earth.
- 1956, 56, 56 - Syd Barrett writes "Echoes."
- 2007, 07, 07 - System of a Down and U2 are finally respected for their obnoxious repeating lyrics.
- 2009, 09, 09 - Man scale officially discovered again and again and again
- 2010, 10, 10 - Ducks are officially banned from the Earth on Echo Day Day for their lack of an echoing quack.
- 4567, 67, 67 - Goats Goats, after their invasion of Earth Earth, kill everyone who celebrates Echo Day Da...
- 4570, 70, 70 - Small all all cult ult of of goats oats celebrate rate Echo echo Day ay in secrect ret....
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