@Franno
Austria isn't an English speaking country!
(well not as a first language anyway.)

Perhaps you are thinking of Australia?

more to the point who on earth pays for their car insurance in cash?!

^^best comment ever^^

The article says it was mainly financed by a steel company rather than public money

love this! Very convincing effect. The entire back story for the "band" is really good too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430

apparently the study is bogus.

she has one giant hand and one tiny hand, and all the musical notes are backwards!

the cartoon was drawn based on the tweet. the tweet wasn't added to the cartoon.

I saw a very similar sight at De Eftling which is a children's theme park in Holland. Very strange to see!

the UK postal service is screwed too, for much the same reason. Certainly not thriving. Needs taking out the back and shooting through the head. CityLink and UPS are more than capable of delivering my online orders and for everything else there is email.

In England we call them kebabs!

Yes MadMolecule "to get it in the neck" means "to get in trouble, to be told off."

I'd say that this one at Il Forno in Liverpool is at least as cool as that one!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaymation/296802637/

This cricket catch is pretty brilliant as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7ZsGgF9X4
The umpire had to go on the radio to ask whether that sort of thing was allowed!

"He published all this on Facebook?"

No it was the "other woman" that published the photos.
As it says above:

"So she typed the name of the “other woman” into Facebook’s search field.
Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos."