Friday, 8 April 2016
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Sends Internet Into Overdrive With Mayo and Banana Sandwich
Watch the whole video here : abcnews.go.com
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
10 Most Haunted Places in the World
10. Berry Pomeroy Castle, Totness
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There are a number of legends associated with this 14th-century castle, and it has a reputation of being haunted. It has 2 famous female ghosts; the White Lady and the Blue Lady. According to legend the White Lady is the spirit of Margaret Pomeroy, who starved while imprisoned in the dungeons by her jealous sister. Apparently she haunts the dark dungeons, and rises from St Margaret’s Tower to the castle walls. The Blue Lady is not confined to specific areas and is supposed to lure people into parts of the ruin. Apparently it’s a very bad idea to follow her!
enjoy the slide here : smashinglists
Monday, 4 April 2016
The Ten Best Highways In The World
Most highways are pretty boring, but these ten are not most highways.
10.) Interstate 40
Crossing America is a road trip you never forget. If you're from Jersey, it's I-80, and that's gonna suck. If you're crossing from anywhere else, good for you, and I-40.
Suggested By: Jonee, Photo Credit: walkinguphills
9.) Colorado 90/141
Yes, there are roads around here as well as a beautiful scenery, but no people. Welcome to Paradox Valley, and feel free to floor it a bit.
Suggested By: ColoradoFX4, Photo Credit: roy.luck
8.) Interstate 70
If the Rockies welcome you with some snow, just get into the tunnels.
Yes. Yes. Yes. I was going to post this. I 70 from Eisenhower tunnel to damn near it's terminus at I 15 in Utah is lovely. The part in Glenwood canyon is spectacular. Going through eastern through central Utah is lonely and beautiful. The goddamn Rockies. Divert off to Moab and Arches. I love this section of interstate.
Suggested By: Enginerrrrrrrrrrrr, Photo Credit: dherrera_96
7.) Turquoise Trail
New Mexico's scenic byway has cool small towns along the way and barely any traffic. You don't need more than that.
Suggested By: Autojunkie, Photo Credit: the norse
6.) A75 Motorway
Driving in France usually sucks thanks to their lovely police force targeting foreigners and all those automatic speed cameras, but the A75 with the Millau Viaduct is worth the risk for 200 miles.
5.) U.S. Route 1
The East Coast coast road. Because lobster feast.
Suggested By: My X-type too is a real Jaguar, Photo Credit: Dougtone
4.) Transfagarasan Highway
Most Romanian roads would not make the cut, but this Transylvanian one is better than the Stelvio Pass could ever be.
Suggested By: macanamera, Photo Credit: bortescistian
3.) Hawaii H3
Waterfalls, tunnels, rain on one side of the mountain, sunshine on the other. You'll stop many times just to enjoy mother nature.
2.) Pacific Coast Highway
Just avoid the RVs. maximum_sarge:
I've driven some great cars down this road, and enjoyed it immensely, but unless you hit it right (at night, early AM off season weekdays, etc) it's just clogged. The best might have been in the worst car (of all the ones I've driven that road in), a Saab convertible, but we did it overnight with the top down and a full moon. Pretty epic, although trips in the faster cars were pretty epic too. The moonlight thing was another world though. Fog/clouds below... was like a movie.
1.) The Autobahn
Duh!
courtesy by : jalopnik
Saturday, 2 April 2016
Top 10 female entrepreneurs
Despite the fact that women own 46 percent of all privately owned businesses in America, female entrepreneurs are still often considered unfundable. Here are 10 women who ignored the critics, overcame obstacles and became extremely successful.
continue to see the slides : sheknows
Thursday, 31 March 2016
7 most ridiculous lawsuits: Nike, Susan Boyle, McDonald's coffee & outrageous cases that made it to court
Details emerged this week of a 59-year-old woman is suing her company’s landlord after she was badly injured in a vicious attack - by a seagull.
Cathie Kelly says she lost her footing and fell heavily after losing her shoe in the feathered assailant’s attack.
The project officer, who works in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland was left upset and injured by the bird’s dive-bombing and now suing the owner of the office building, claiming it did not take sufficient care for her safety.
She’s not the first to take legal recourse over something that on the surface seems quite trivial.
Coffee
In probably the most famous example of a seemingly trivial legal action is Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants,also known as the McDonald’s coffee case and the hot coffee lawsuit
In 1992 Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, bought a cup of coffee from a drive through McDonalds and as she removed the lid spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.
She was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks, and groin.
Hospitalized for eight days while she underwent skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment she sued the fast food giant claiming it was too hot and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.
She won an astonishing £1.7million.
Pearson v. Chung
Better known as the “pants lawsuit”, was a civil case filed in 2005 by Roy L. Pearson, Jr., an administrative law judge in the District of Columbia in the United States.
It came as a result of a dispute with a dry cleaning company over a lost pair of trousers.
Pearson sued for £40million for inconvenience, mental anguish and fees for representing himself, as a result of their failure, in Pearson’s opinion, to live up to a “satisfaction guaranteed” sign that was displayed in the store.
Pearson lost the case but only after after four years of trying every legal avenue to win.
Nike
In January this year a 26-year-old pimp from Portland, Oreogan sued Nike for £60million claiming the shoe manufacturer is partially responsible for a brutal beating that helped net him a 100-year prison sentence.
Sirgiorgiro Clardy claims Nike should have placed a label in his Nike Air Jordan shoes warning consumers that they could be used as a dangerous weapon.
He was wearing a pair when he repeatedly stomped the face of a man who was trying to leave a Portland hotel without paying Clardy’s prostitute in June 2012.
In 2013 he was found him guilty of second-degree assault for using his Jordans to beat the man’s face to a pulp.
The man required stitches and plastic surgery on his nose.
His mammoth sentence also includes time for beating a 18-year-old woman he forced to work as a prostitute so badly she bled from her ears.
Susan Boyle
In August last year an American advertising executive is sued her boss for £3.9million over a claim he accused her of looking like Scottish singing star Susan Boyle.
Laura Ziv, 45, from New Jersey, said she was so upset by the comparison to the I Dreamed A Dream singer that she started legal proceedings.
She says he boss mocked her about her age and weight, saying on one occasion in front of a large group of people: “Fatty here is having a cupcake”.
He is also said to have told her she was “worthless, overpaid, and that her days her numbered”.
The constant attacks are alleged to have taken a toll on Ms Ziv’s health, and she began suffering from severe anxiety, headaches, insomnia, tremors, and increased blood pressure - something her doctors said was the cause of a near-fatal brain hemorrhage is April 2011.
Rock
In January a mystery rock which looked like a jelly filled doughnut was spotted in photographs taken on Mars by NASA’s Opportunity rover.
Scientists said the reason it hadn’t been there before was it was most likely something which had been moved by the rover.
However the explanation wasn’t enough for Rhawn Joseph, a neuropsychologist and author, who filed a lawsuit in a California court demanding NASA “thoroughly scientifically examine and investigate” the mystery object that seemingly appeared out of nowhere on the surface of Mars this month.
Joseph claimed the rock wasn’t moved into view by anything; it was already there and grew to its present size in 12 days adding that it was “inexplicable, recklessly negligent, and bizarre” that NASA did not take close-up photos from a variety of angles, and requested that “100 high-resolution photos and 24 microscopic in-focus images of the object’s exterior” be provided to him.
Scientists later decided that a rover wheel had rolled over a rock, broken off a bit of it, and sent the chip downhill to where it was seen days later.
The dark red “filling” could have formed geologically recently after erosion exposed the rock at the surface, scientists said, or it could have formed long ago deep within Mars.
Looks
This one is little vague as to it’s truth but here goes.
Apparently at first, he thought his wife had cheated on him because there was no way a good-looking guy like him could have or even produce an unattractive baby.
After his ex-wife proved that the baby was his through a DNA test, she let him in on a little secret – that she had undergone about £70,000 worth of cosmetic surgery in South Korea.
It was reported he sued her for not telling him about the plastic surgeries and making him think she was actually beautiful and apparently won the case and £80,000.
There have been no names attached to this and rumours it was made up but it such a good story if true.
Napkins
The firm behind the golden arches are in the firing line again.
A man is suing McDonald’s for £1million because he says he suffered emotional distress after only receiving one napkin with his order.
Webster Lucas, ordered a Quarter Pounder Deluxe in Pacoima, Calif., lin January this year, and confronted the manager to ask for more napkins.
When the manager allegedly refused, Lucas apparently he said that he should have gone somewhere else.
African American Lucas says that the manager then made a racist comment, mumbling “something about ‘you people’,”.
courtesy by : mirror.co.uk
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Top 10 ways to use up ripe bananas
A limp banana turning the wrong shade of brown is a common sight – the slim turnover period between the perfect banana and over-ripeness means we’re sometimes caught short. When a banana loses its firmness it becomes hard to eat as a snack, but it can be mashed and used up in a number of thrifty ways.
Buying and storing bananas
Consider the shelf life when buying bananas. If you want to eat them over the course of the week, choose ones that have green tinges on the ends as they can be ripened at home. To eat straight away, choose bananas with small patches of black on the skin, which is a sign of ripeness. Store in a fruit bowl rather than the fridge, as the cold temperature will make the skins go black. They’ll also make everything else in the fridge smell like bananas.
Our favourite ways with over-ripe bananas...
Banana bread
A popular way of using up bananas is in a loaf or bread, and we have no shortage of recipes to keep you busy. Try a traditional loaf with icing, team it with Brazil nuts, or go healthy and eat a trimmer versionwith low-fat spread for breakfast.
Baked bananas
Let your soft and squidgy bananas meld in heavenly fashion with chocolate buttons in these whole baked bananas. If it’s not barbecue season, they’ll cook perfectly well in the oven. Contrast all the steaming gooey sweetness with a dollop of ice cream.
Microwave banana pudding
The mashable nature of over-ripe bananas means they can easily be worked into a cake batter. This cheat’s pud takes merely 20 minutes in the microwave, making it an ideal low-maintenance midweek pud.
Quick banana ice cream
You don't need a fancy churner to enjoy homemade ice cream. For this version, chop your ripe bananas then freeze on a tray. Once frozen, whizz in a food processor with milk. It even counts towards your five-a-day - what more could you ask for?
Banana smoothie
Another way of getting benefits from nutritious, potassium-rich bananas is to blitz them into a smoothie. Hazelnuts, mango, citrus fruits and berries all complement bananas in rather fine fashion.
Banana pancakes
Go stateside at brunch time and flip up some fluffy pancakes with banana two-ways - sliced into thin rounds and mashed into the batter. Team with crispy bacon and syrup. Elvis would approve...
Banana fairy cakes
Use up your mushy bananas in a traditional sponge. These cake sale-friendly cupcakes with retro icing will go down a storm with kids.
French toast
This decadent fried sandwich will work as a brunch dish or pudding, but it’s not for the faint-hearted - double cream, maple syrup, chocolate and mashed banana combined will knock your socks off.
Feelgood flapjacks
Be a little more virtuous with a nutritious flapjack, packed with hidden apple and banana, healthy seeds, chewy apricots and peanut butter.
Banana & blueberry muffins
Earn brownie points by tucking one of these fruity muffins into a lunchbox. If you prefer, you can swap the buttermilk for yogurt.
courtesy by : BBCgoodfood
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