Monday 25 October 2010

Welcome - The Innovation of Trueth, Lies, Tastes and Toilets.

In this post we feature an exposé on careers that were destroyed by photography and the trueths and lies that are uncovered, innovative inventions which make life easier and inventions which you could find in a bathroom,  strange foods from around the world, a look at the changes to Ten's Thursday night entrertainment, reveal the new Christmas Menu and have a few videos from YouTube.com.



COMING TO YOU THIS XMAS:
This Christmas season Ten is bringing you great food and drink options for your party, whether its for close family or work colleagues, Ten can provide the venue that's versatile enough to accomadate any event you would like to host.

For full details about our venue you can visit our 'venue hire' page which has all the information you could possibly need, simply click here.  If you have a special requests then please contact Rob, Daniel or Darryn on 01903 238 392.


STRANGE FOOD FROM AROUND THE WORLD:
Ten can organise a wide range of tastey dishes for your party or occasion, but some people have rather more adventurous pallett.  They say one man's trash is another man's treasure, and the same could be said about food: one man's nightmare may just be another man's delicacy!   From cow's tongue and pig's snout to chicken's feet, from fried worms and frog's legs to sautéed snails, the list of weird stuff we eat is endless.  If you've been indulging lately and need a reason to diet, take a read, you may just lose that appetite. Here is the list of the ten strangest foods from around the world.
 

10. Fried - brain sandwiches
Fried - brain-sandwiches

Long before the era of Mad-Cow Disease, a sandwich made from fried calves' brain, thinly sliced on white bread was a common item on the menus in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The sandwich is still available in the Ohio River Valley, where the brains are now heavily battered and served on hamburger buns. In El Salvador and Mexico beef brains, lovingly called sesos in Spanish, are used in tacos and burritos. The brains have a mushy texture and very little flavor on their own so the addition of copious amounts of hot sauce definitely helps.

 9. Haggis
Haggis

A traditional Scottish dish, haggis is made with the minced heart, liver and lung of a sheep mixed with onion, spices, oatmeal, salt and stock, and boiled in the sheep's stomach for a few hours. Larousse Gastronomique, a popular encyclopedia of gastronomic delights, claims that haggis has "an excellent nutty texture and delicious savory flavor." Haggis is available year-round in Scottish supermarkets and made with an artificial casing rather than a sheep’s stomach. In fact some are sold in cans to be heated in a microwave before eating. Similar dishes can be found in other European countries with goat, pork or beef used instead of sheep.

8. Bugs
Bugs

The practice of eating insects for food is called entomophagy and is fairly common in many parts of the world, with the exceptions of Europe and North America (though bugs are apparently a favorite with the television show "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!"). It is not uncommon to find vendors selling fried grasshoppers, crickets, scorpions, spiders and worms on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. Insects are high in protein and apparently consist of important fatty acids and vitamins. In fact flour from drying and grinding up mealworm can be and is often used to make chocolate chip cookies. So next time you think there is a fly in your soup, it may actually just be part of the presentation.


7. Rocky Mountain Oysters
Rocky-Mountain-Oysters

What is so strange about oysters? Probably the fact that they're not the kind you find at the bottom of the ocean, but rather a fancy name given to deep-fried testicles of a buffalo, bull or boar. Rocky Mountain oysters (also called Prairie Oysters) are well-known and regularly enjoyed, in certain parts of the United States and Canada, generally where cattle ranching is prevalent. The testicles are peeled, boiled, rolled in a flour mixture, and fried, then generally served with a nice cocktail sauce.


6. Stuffed Camel
Stuffed-Camel

The recipe for a whole stuffed camel kind of reads like a bad joke, with ingredients that include one whole camel, one whole lamb and 20 whole chickens. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the recipe as the largest item on any menu in the world, conveniently leaving out any concrete examples of this dish actually being eaten. Legend has it that that a whole stuffed camel is a traditional Bedouin dish seemingly prepared like a Russian Stacking Doll, where a camel is stuffed with a whole lamb, the lamb stuffed with the chickens and the chickens stuffed with eggs and rice. The entire concoction is then barbecued until cooked and served. Fact or fiction, the shear amount of food created by this dish makes it deserving of a place on the list.


5. Hakarl
Hakarl

Anthony Bourdain, known for eating some of the strangest foods in the world, claims that hakarl is the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten. Made by gutting a Greenland or Basking shark and then fermenting it for two to four months, hakarl is an Icelandic food that reeks with the smell of ammonia. It is available all year round in Icelandic stores and often served in cubes on toothpicks.

4. Fugu
Fugu

Fugu is the Japanese word for the poisonous puffer fish, filled with enough of the poison tetrodotoxin to be lethal. Only specially-trained chefs, who undergo two to three years of training and have passed an official test, can prepare the fish. Some chefs will choose to leave a minute amount of poison in the fish to cause a tingling sensation on the tongue and lips as fugu can be quite bland. Perhaps the fuss of fugu is more in surviving the experience than the actual taste of the deadly fish.

3. Casu Marzu
Casu-Marzu

Found in the city of Sardinia in Italy, casu marzu is a cheese that is home to live insect larvae. These larvae are deliberately added to the cheese to promote a level of fermentation that is close to decomposition, at which point the cheese’s fats are broken down. The tiny, translucent worms can jump up to half a foot if disturbed, which explains why some people prefer to brush off the insects before enjoying a spoonful of the pungent cheese.

2. Sannakji
Sannakji

With sashimi and sushi readily available the world over, eating raw seafood is no longer considered a dining adventure. The Korean delicacy sannakji however, is something quite different, as the seafood isn't quite dead. Live baby octopus are sliced up and seasoned with sesame oil. The tentacles are still squirming when this dish is served and, if not chewed carefully, the tiny suction cups can stick to the mouth and throat. This is not a dish for the fainthearted.

1. Balut
Balut

Balut seems to be on every "strange food" list, usually at the top, and for good reason. Though no longer wriggling on the plate like the live octopus in Korea, the fertilized duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo that is boiled and eaten in the shell is easily one of the strangest foods in the world. Balut is very common in the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam and usually sold by street vendors. It is said balut tastes like egg and duck (or chicken), which is essentially what it is. It is surprising to many that a food that appears so bizarre—often the with the bird's features clearly developed--can taste so banal. In the end, apparently everything does indeed, just taste like chicken.





CAREER KILLING CAMERA-WORK:
Photographs can be one of the most cherished items we possess but they can also be things that we wish never existed. This list looks at the latter and the damage that some pictures have had on 10 notable careers.


Dukakis-In-The-Tank10.  Mike Dukakis
Damaged Political Career

Mike Dukakis was the Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. During his presidential run, Dukakis was criticized for being too soft on defense. To prove that he took his countries defense very seriously, someone had a brilliant idea to get a picture of him in a tank. The plan was for the picture to become his key image for the campaign. However, it didn’t quite turn out that way. The now famous photo op was such a disaster that the Dukakis tank picture was used in television ads for George H.W. Bush’s campaign as evidence that Dukakis would not make a very convincing commander-in-chief. “Dukakis in the tank” is still used to describe a backfired public relations campaign.


Interesting Fact: In 1986, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had been photographed in a similar situation riding in a Challenger tank. For some reason, even though it was somewhat out of character the image was effective and helped her reelection prospects. You can see the picture here



An Narrowweb  300X512,09.  Shane Gibson
Damaged Political Career

In 2002 Shane Gibson was a member of the then ruling Progressive Liberal Party and was elected to the Parliament of the Bahamas as the immigration Minister. In February 2007 after the death of Anna Nicole Smith, newspapers published photographs showing the famous model and Gibson in bed together embracing. Even though both were fully clothed, the photographs fired up a controversy because it appeared that a sexual relationship between the two had expedited Smith’s application for permanent residency in the Bahamas. Gibson then resigned because of all the questions and rumors surrounding the nature of his relationship with Smith. When Gibson stepped down, he denied any wrongdoing and apologized to all persons who might have been offended by anything that he might have said or done that was perceived wrong.

Interesting Fact: Soon after Anna Nicole Smith died, the most popular taxi tour in the Bahamas was called (what else) The Anna Nicole Smith Tour. The sightseeing included the Hospital in Nassau where her son Daniel died, the home where she lived with Howard K. Stern and her five month old daughter, the Church where her funeral was and Lakeview Memorial Gardens where she and her son are buried.


Michael-Phelps-Weed-Bong8.  Michael Phelps
Damaged Endorsement Career

Michael Phelps is often credited as being the greatest swimmer and one of the greatest Olympians of all time. He has won 14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian. In 2009, a photo by the British tabloid News of the World showed Phelps using a bong and smoking marijuana. Following the publication an investigation followed but due to lack of evidence Phelps was not charged. He was however suspended from swimming competitively for three months and Kellogg announced that it would not renew his endorsement contract. The cereal company stated that his recent behavior is “not consistent with the image of Kellogg.” Cereal deals are usually worth around $250,000, but it is believed that Phelps’ deal was much more. Phelps apologized said he demonstrated bad judgment and his behavior was regrettable.

Interesting Fact: Many of Kellogg’s cereal boxes that were intended for a food bank with Phelps’s picture on them disappeared after the he was dropped by Kellogg. It was confirmed that some were kept as souvenirs and others were showing up on e-Bay. Other Phelps endorsed companies like Subway, Visa and Omega (note the watch in the photo) believed Phelps was no different than other people of his generation who experiment or make youthful mistakes, and kept him on as a spokesperson.


14 Tydings 19517.  Millard Tydings
Damaged Political Career

Millard Tydings was a United States Democratic Senator from Maryland from 1927 to 1951. In 1950, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that there was Communist penetration into the federal government and military. Tydings responded and investigated by forming and overseeing the Tyding hearings. After the hearings he published a report denouncing McCarthy and his Communist claims as a hoax. When Tydings was running for re-election, McCarthy’s staff distributed a picture of Tydings with Earl Browder who was the former leader of the American Communist Party. In reality Tydings had never met Browder before and the picture was actually a composite of a 1938 photo of Tydings (right) and a 1940 photo of Browder (left). The image is believed to have contributed to Tydings’ defeat in his bid for reelection. You can see the pictures used to create the composite photo here.

Interesting Fact: Millard Tydings is the grandfather of actress Alexandra Tydings who is best known for her role as the Greek goddess Aphrodite on the popular TV series Hercules and on its spin-off Xena.


Vanessa Williams Nude Penthouse-212X3006.  Vanessa Williams
Damaged Beauty Queen Career

In 1983 Vanessa Williams became the first African- American to be crowned Miss America. Ten months after Williams was crowned, she received an anonymous phone call stating they had nude photos of her. The photos were taken in 1982 by Photographer Tom Chiapel when she worked as an assistant and makeup artist for Mount Kisco, New York. According to Williams, Chiapel wanted to try a new concept of silhouettes using two female models. He photographed Williams and another woman in several nude poses with some in simulated sexual positions. Williams believed the photographs were private and had been destroyed and never signed a release permitting the photos to be used. Days later, the publisher of Penthouse, Bob Guccione, announced that his magazine would publish the pictures in their September 1984 issue. When the photos hit the news stand, sponsors threatened to pull out of the upcoming 1985 pageant. Williams then resigned after pressure was put on her by Pageant officials. The title then went to the first-runner up Suzette Charles who is also African-American.

Interesting Fact: Williams is officially recognized today as “Miss America 1984″ and Suzette Charles as “Miss America 1984b”. The photos netted Bob Guccione a huge profit of $14 million. Williams filed a $500 million lawsuit against Chiapel and Guccione but eventually dropped the suit to avoid further legal battles choosing to move on with her life.  Williams is quoted as saying, “the best revenge is success”.


Medium Kate Moss Cocaine5.  Kate Moss
Damaged Modeling Career

Kate Moss is a British supermodel and has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. On September 2005, the Daily Mirror ran a front page and inside photos showing 31 year old Moss snorting cocaine at a West London recording studio. The images were captured during a Daily Mirror undercover investigation which revealed that Moss, who repeatedly denied using cocaine, was an avid user. She reportedly prepared up to 20 lines of coke on the back of a plastic CD and snorted five lines in 40 minutes. Within a short time after the photos were published, Moss lost major modeling contracts with several international companies including H&M, Chanel and Burberry. Moss quickly issued an apology but stopped short of admitting drug use and said “I take full responsibility for my actions.” In June 2006, after an investigation, British police dropped the charges for lack of evidence because photographs of alleged drug-taking are not admissible evidence in English courts.

Interesting Fact: Apparently the damage to her modeling career did not last long. In 2007, she came in 2nd on the Forbes top-earning models list, earning an estimated £6,500,00.00 ($9 million) in one year.


Rihanna-Beat-Up14.  Chris Brown
Damaged Singing Career

Chris Brown is a very popular American singer and actor. On March 5, 2009, Brown was charged with assault and making criminal threats. The police report did not name the female in the incident but stated that a woman had “suffered visible injuries”. Sources identified the alleged victim as his girlfriend and fellow R'n'B singer Rhianna. A leaked photograph from the Los Angeles Police Department obtained by TMZ revealed Rihanna had sustained visible injuries.  After the photo was released, many of Browns fans were disgusted and outraged. Following his arrest and the release of the photo, several of his commercial ads were suspended and his music was withdrawn from multiple radio stations Brown also withdrew his appearance at the 2009 Grammy Awards. On June 22, 2009, Brown pled guilty to the felony assault. In exchange for his plea, Brown received five years probation and was ordered to stay fifty yards away from Rihanna, unless at public events, which then will be reduced to ten yards.

Interesting Fact: In a 2009 interview, Brown said that it is “tough” for him to look at the famous photograph released of Rihanna’s battered face, which may be the one image to haunt and define him forever.


Gary Hart3.  Gary Hart
Damaged Political Career

Gary Hart was a United States Senator from Colorado and was the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 presidential election. Soon after he announced his candidacy for President, rumors began to circulate that Hart was having an extramarital affair. Hart responded to the rumors by daring the press and said “Follow me around. I don’t care. I’m serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’ll be very bored.” Previously to that meeting with the press, two reporters from the Miami Herald observed a woman who was identified as Donna Rice coming out of Hart’s Washington D.C. townhouse. The paper was able to publish the story on the same day as Hart’s challenge. Hart claimed that the reporters had no knowledge of exactly when the woman arrived or why she was there. Two days after that story, the Herald obtained a photograph of Rice sitting on Hart’s lap in Bimini aboard a yacht ironically named Monkey Business. The celebrity tabloid National Enquirer immediately published the photograph and within five days, Hart dropped out of the Presidential race.

Interesting Fact: Because of the scandal, Donna Rice lost her job as a marketing representative for a pharmaceutical company in South Florida. She refused many opportunities offered to her after the scandal including an appearance in Playboy magazine.


Chen-Chung2.  Edison Chen
Damaged Entertainment Career

Edison Chen is a very popular Hong Kong-based Chinese Canadian film actor, singer and a pop icon Chen has a total of 16 albums and has appeared in 28 films. In January 2008, Chen was involved in a widely publicized sex scandal when sexually explicit photographs of himself and several actresses became widely circulated on the internet. The pictures were taken from Chen’s laptop by a technician that was repairing it. There were approximately 1,300 pictures which included actresses Gillian Chung, Bobo Chan, Cecilia Cheung and many others. Mr. Chen had originally claimed that the photos were faked but then admitted to taking the photos. Chen then held a press conference where he said that he was ashamed and was leaving show business indefinitely. Following his apology Chen attended a rehab center in Utah, for “sex addiction.”

Interesting Fact: Due to the photo scandal, the Google search engine rankings for 2008 resulted in Chen’s Chinese name being the number 1 search term in China.

Nguyen1.  General Nguyen Ngoc Loan
Damaged Entire Career

The photo above was taken in 1968 and is one of the most famous images of the 20th century. The picture was taken by photographer Eddie Adams and won the Pulitzer Prize. It is also included in the 15 Incredible Historical Photographs list. Many have seen this photograph but most are not aware of the full story behind it. The man on the left shown executing a prisoner is South Vietnamese national police commander, General Lone. Before the execution it was reported that the prisoner had been the captain of a terrorist squad that killed the family of one of his deputy commanders. After shooting the prisoner, the general walked over to a reporter and said, “These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive me.” When the photo was shown on television and appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world, it was seen as an act of savagery and symbolized an unjustified war. Three months after the photo was taken, General Loan was severely wounded and taken to Australia for treatment. There was such an outcry against him that he was moved to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. During the fall of Saigon in 1975 he asked for American help in fleeing with his family but was ignored and had to escape with his family in a South Vietnamese plane. Gen. Loan, whose right leg had been amputated, settled in northern Virginia, where he eventually opened a pizzeria restaurant. Loan was then forced into retirement when his identity was publicly disclosed. Eddie Adams (the photographer) stayed in touch and recalled that on his last visit to the pizza shop, he had seen written on a restroom wall “We know who you are, f**ker.”

Interesting Fact: Eddie Adams said this in a Time magazine interview: “The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.  Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn’t say was, ‘What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?’” When General Loan died of cancer in 1998, Adams praised him and sent flowers with a card that read, “I’m sorry. There are tears in my eyes.”


20. Anti-Slip Banana Peels

SLIP NO MORE
Your restroom is no place for slapstick slip-and-fall routines. To ensure a sure-footed shower, peel these bananas and apply them to the floor of your bathtub or shower stall. Turns out, bananas are good for your health. Three life-size stickers in each peggable package. Designed by our clever friends Ivan Duval and Jean-Sebastien Ides of Atypyk Paris.  Buy here at $6.

19. Magnetic Soap Holder

Magnet Soap Holder
Eliminate that ugly, messy soap jelly and buy a magnetic soap holder here at $16.99. This looks as if the soap is actually floating in mid air, providing a futuristic look. Using these magnetic soap holders makes the soap last longer. You could rather go for liquid soap to do away with the bar and the mess that goes with it. But where is the fun in that? These soap holders look interesting and definitely provide a sense of sophistication to your bathroom.

18. Toothpaste Squeezer

wall-mountable-toothpaste-squeeze

Are you one of those people who flies into a frothing rage if a guest (gasp!) squeezes the toothpaste in the middle? Do you lay the almost empty tube on the side of the sink and gently push the last of the minty gloop towards the opening, or even slice the tube open and scrub your toothbrush onto the newly-bared interior to mop up the last of the precious fluids? Then you need Toothpaste Squeezer. This wall-mountable guy, a little plastic device that winds and compresses the tube evenly, allowis for maximum usage of each tube. The design comes in four different colors. Buy here at $4.39.

17. Stuck Bath Plug

stuck-bath-plug
Having a bath can be such a relaxing treat when you’re in the mood, but let’s face it, once you’ve sat there stewing for a few minutes and the water’s started to go a bit cold, the whole experience can become boring. Unless that is, you’re the proud owner of what must be the coolest damn bath plug on earth. Stuck will fit any plug, anywhere and is quiet simply, very cool. No fish were harmed in the making of this product. Stuck Bath Plug measures 9cm from plug to fishy tail. Buy here at  $15.75.

16. The High Tech Toilet Seat

japanese toilet
You hit the noisemaker button that makes a flushing sound to mask any noise you might be making in the john. You hit the button that starts the blow-dryer for your bottom. Then you hit the bidet button and watched helplessly as a little plastic arm, sort of a squirt gun shaped like a toothbrush, appeared from the back of the bowl and began shooting a stream of warm water to wash your butt. Yes this is the high tech Japanese toilet. If you need one, get one here at $400.

15. Bath Crayons

bathcrayons
Are you artistic during bath too? This set of six multicoloured bath crayons can be used safely to decorate the sides of a bath tub with your own messages, games or works of art. Each crayon slides into its plastic case for clean storage and crayon marks can be washed off bathtub surfaces after use. Note: although bath crayons will wash off most fabrics, it is recommended that the crayons are only used on the bathtub. Buy here at just $8.31.

14. Bubble Scrubber

Bubble Scrubber
Introducing Bubble Scrubber, the bathing brush with an anatomically correct bubble wand hidden right inside the bristles. And, as everybody knows: bubble wand + washing up liquid + water = Bubble City. Brighten up bathing time and blow a few bubbles at just $11.72.

13. Goatee Saver

Goatee_Saver

If you want to have the perfect goatee?  Catch the GoateeSaver for only $20. You just chomp on this bit and then you can shave around it for perfect results every time. And you adjust three rollers’s width, flawlessly conforming to your face, and also to your notion of what a real goatee looks like. Inventor by Scott Bonge. A Hannibal Lecter-looking device. A clever kit for men those want to have the goatee.

12. Motion Activated Toilet Light

LavNav

An innovative solution to finding your way to the loo at night. It’s called the Lav Nav. Short for Lavatory Navigator. The Lav Nav turns on when you approach in the dark, and turns off after you leave, shining with gentle yet sufficient light where you need it, when you need it. The Lav Nav makes the toilet easy to find without blinding yourself with light in the middle of the night.  Bathroom lights can be painfully bright in the middle of the night. So why switch them on? Perfect for those nights where you are staggering around trying to find the loo. The Lav Nav incorporates a nightlight, visual targeting system, and Put-The-Seat-Down reminder technology The Lav Nav uses a red or green light to cleverly show the position of the seat. A red light means the loo seat is up, green means it’s down. It’s bright, fun and very useful! Buy here at $19.95.

11. Swipe

swipe
Is your bathroom mirror steamed up again? Just give it a Swipe! This handy little razor has a squeegee instead of a blade, so swipe it across your misty mirror so now you can do your dirty work with clear vision. Stick it up when you’re done – it comes with a strong double suction cup that’ll cling to both mirror and tile. Swipe! is packed in a mirror-style peggable, recyclable clear box.  Defog your mirror at just $5.95.


10. Geekie Bathroom Duck

colour-changing-rubber-duck

The rubber yellow duck is the all time favorite bath buddy. But if you bored that the duckie cannot do nothing, just say “Peeeeep” when you squeeze it, you may need something new. A fun original gift idea the magical mini colour changing rubber duck changes colour when in contact with warm liquids and this duck can sing 5 songs in the duck language. Believe it or not, it can sing the Che Che Kule, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Good-Hearted Duck and My Grandfather’s Clock song. Wither cute eyes, she also can blink her eyes. The most weird feature is the Splash feature. This little duckling can splash water from her head. It’s a duck, not a whale and it’s weird to see a duck splash water. Although this feature is not appropriate, it’s funny. Buy here at $18.

9. Swan Hand Cloth and Towel Holder

swan-hand-towel-hanger

This simple design from will bring a smile to your face everytime you use it, whether you hang it in the bathroom to raise a smile from visiting guests or in the kitchen to cheer up dish drying time, you will always get a reaction! This holder can be wall mounted by screw or with a sticky pad (both included). Buy here at $25.99.

8. Talking TP Holder

Talking TP holder

Talking TP is a electronic toilet paper spindle that allows you to record a 6 second message for playback whenever someone grabs some toilet paper. It didn’t take long for this product to be repackaged as the Potty Mate Talking Toilet Roll Holder. This version includes a potty training guide and reward stickers. Press the record button and start talking. Then replace the spindle on your existing toilet roll holder with the Potty Mate. Whenever toilet paper is pulled, the Potty Mate will rotate and trigger the playback of your recording. You can record a new message over the old one any time you like. Example messages listed on packaging and marketing materials include: “Dan! I’m so happy to see you’re going potty in the toilet.” “Great job Joey way to go!” “Take your time, there’s no need to hurry!” “Oh, but we can do better than that, can’t we?”
What message would you record for your toddler to hear? Please, don’t let your child’s fragile psyche hinder your brainstorming. Movie quotes are fair game, too.  Make your TP talk for only £9.98.

7. Arse – Face Soap

Arse - Face Soap

Avoid embarrassing arse/face contamination with this ingenious gift! With Arse written on one side and Face on the other, this soap allows a degree of Arse /Face separation never before seen. How did you ever live without it? Make sure you never wash your face with the wrong side of the soap again! Buy here at just a half pound. If you like this, you might also like face-butt towel here.

6. Temperature Controlled LED Shower Head Light

Temperature Controlled LED Shower Head Light

Temperature sensitive LED shower head provides a visual indication of water temperature. Temperature Controlled LED Shower Head Light with hot, warm, cold water detection colors. The LEDs change with the temperature of the water to show you the exactly what to expect before you jump in. The LEDs will even flash red if the temperature is too hot, above 114.8 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees C), to warn you of a potential burn. It’s great for nearly any shower. No batteries are necessary and the energy source is strictly from the water current. When water flows through, the LED will light instantly and automatically. Buy at just $13.48 here.

5. Fun Toilet Papers

cool toilet papers

Do you need hours of distraction like Sudoku in your washroom because you just take too much time or you might like cleaning it away with a hundred dollar bill toilet paper? Or do you turn your bathroom into a crime scene from time to time and don’t want any one to fall victim of your deadly stench. Each roll contains 130 feet of printed 2 ply toilet tissue. Perfect unique and funny toilet papers for parties. Buy here at just $6 a roll.

4. Toothpaste Dispensing Automatic Toothbrush

toothpaste dispensing automatic toothbrush

A toothpaste dispensing automatic toothbrush involves revolutionary technology that delivers a specially formulated liquid crest to the bristles automatically with just a push of button instead of manual putting of toothpaste. It includes a head member mounted atop a body member with a brush head releasably coupled to the head member. A reservoir for containing toothpaste is positioned in the body member along with a pump assembly and first motor. The first motor is connected to a battery and drives the pump assembly when actuated by depression of a first switch whereby to urge toothpaste from the reservoir through a channel and onto bristles of the brush head. The brush head includes a rotor with rotor bristles that is operatively connected to a second motor. The second motor may be energized upon actuation of a second switch to cause movement of the rotor. A recharging base may be included for recharging a rechargeable toothbrush battery. Buy here at $129.88 with free 3 toothpaste refills.

3. Nose Shower Gel Dispenser

Nose Shower Gel dispenser

Just squeeze or press it and green shower gel oozes out of the  nostril. Gross and funny at the same time! Rubber nose attaches to flat surface with suction cups. Easy to fill; includes 5.3 oz. green shower gel and instructions. I think I can also put this 9-inch-high Nose Shower Gel even  in my kitchen to dispense lime Jello Mello. Too bad it only exudes gel out of the right nostril. Buy here at only $12.95.

2. The RSStroom Reader

rsstroom_reader

Combining your RSS addiction with your daily trip to the can has never been easier, with the RSStroom Reader, from Yi Tien Electronics. It’s this crazy machine that hooks up to your computer wirelessly, and prints random RSS posts right to your toilet paper, for you to read before you, eh, use it. The best part of it is, it integrates “biometrically” with your toilet bowl. When you sit, it’ll weigh you, and according to the result, deliver your customized feed. And then, of course, the rest goes back to nature. The thing looks like it might be a Taiwan only offering, but who knows how long it’ll take to make its way here.

1. Breast-Shaped Shampoo Dispenser

Breast-Shaped Shampoo Dispenser

Do you fancy fondling a pert pair of bosoms in the shower every day? Actually that’s probably a silly question. Shower Breasts are guaranteed to make you want to wash more often. These breast-shaped shampoo dispensers are a teenage boy’s best friend. This naughty nipple-topped pair attaches to your shower wall with the suckers provided, with each bosom having a compartment for shower gel, shampoo or conditioner. To dispense, simply squeeze away – but be warned, you could run out of shower gel very quickly. Space saving and fun. £14.95 ($26) gets a pair.


SOMETHING ELSE:
Whilst at Ten today I was talking to the manager about pics of us when we were children, and I begun to cast my mind back - and thoought about what I wanted to be when I 'grew up' - assuming of course that one day I will actually grow up.  That's me in the pic to the right in my 'dismantle stuff' stage.  I miss the career innocence that we all must have had at one time or another, at one time it was perfectly acceptable for a kid to want to be a dustbin-man, (or 'refuse operative' if you really give a monkey's about being PC) a bus conductor or maybe the hallowed Iced-Cream man.  Personally I wanted to be many things including a forensic pathologist, oceanographic researcher specialising in sharks, but prior to that it was Stuntmen who had attracted my focus the most.  If I had the access to the technology we have today I would have been like the guys in the following videos, and would have thought that I was just as cooooool as these guys.





And this one is one of my all time favorite videos...



Slightly off-topic are these videos which I just had to share with you!...and yes I know its wrong, and yes I'll see you in hell - by the pool.




Ok, last video, I've got a little carried away. A little background I think is necessary considering its in a different language. The man being interviewed had a horrible incident in a hospital - unfortunately for him the doctors had ACCIDENTLY removed his testicles. Although quite how that was an accident I don't know - I've heard from one source that it was a case of the wrong name on his file. So, the poor orchidless man goes onto a talk show to tell the nation about his 'accident', and the presenters reaction is sooo priceless!!!!



Thanks for reading!!

Tuesday 12 October 2010

Welcome - JUMBO POST! Future|Present|Past

Welcome to Ten's blogspot. Here we proudly present our unique venue, cocktails, staff, parties and much more.

Updated twice a week this site shows you what's going on, how to book your celebration or event, a bit of fun and looks back at some of the past events at Worthing's ultimate party venue.

In this JUMBO post we take a retrospective look at paradoxes that we bet you can't solve! look at some of the some of the things you wish you thought of in the past which could have made you billions, browse the world uncovered by Google Maps.  Do you know what 'Engrish' is?  Ten explains in an article about typo's, we have a predicted look at the facts the US need to face up to in the future (co-written by Jen Green), reveal which member of staff was posted in the 'Guess the Baby Photo' competition, announce the present winners of our FITC competition, and show you couple of videos from YouTube.com. So if you have room for all that, pull up a chair and I shall tell you a tale of time.


FITC COMPETITION:
There was no FITC competition last week so in its place we posted a picture of one of our staff members when they were all innocent.  Guesses included Hannah, Darryn and Kelvin.

The answer which I'm sure you've all been waiting for is.....Lukas.  Yes that's me, and I've got no idea what we were up to.


PROPOSTEROUS PARADOXES TO PONDER:
Life's little conundrums are at times mind bogglingly paradoxical or puzzling, not just little things like why men have nipples but more crutial concepts such as the idea of being free, and that you need rules and restrictions to keep freedom from becoming anarchy or what the hell are the principles of thermodynamics all about?  And just in case that happens to be one of the questions you happen to be asking, then click here for an explaination - good luck.

Swinging back from the tangent, the following are questions to which there are answers which will challenge your lateral thought.  Perhaps this is what Theologists do at their Christmas party - assuming of course that they could avoid the debate of the existance of an omnipotent entity or a regenerating messiah. 

1. Free will


If God is omnipotent and knows what we will do before he created us, how can we have free will?

ANSWER: This paradox is explained by God being outside of time–he knows the future just like he knows the past and the present. Just as the past does not interfere with our free will, neither does the future.

2. Crocodile Dilemma



A crocodile steals a son from his father, and promises to return the child if the father can correctly guess what the crocodile will do. What happens if the father guesses that the child will not be returned to him?

ANSWER: There is no solution. If the crocodile keeps the child, he violates his rule, as the father predicted corretctly. If the crocodile returns the child, he still violates his rule as the father’s prediction was wrong.

3. Grandfather paradox



A man goes back in time, and kills his grandfather before the grandmother can meet his grandmother. This means that one of the man’s parents will not have been born, and the man in turn, will not have been born. This would mean that he could not have travelled back in time after all, which means the grandfather would still be alive, and the traveller would have been conceived allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather.

ANSWER: The moment the time traveller changes something in the past, a parallel universe splits. This is supported by quantum mechanics.

4. Paradox of the heap



There are 1,000,000 grains of sand in a heap. If we remove one grain, it is still a heap. If we remove another grain, if it still a heap. If we continue removing one grain at a time, when we’re left with one grain, is that still a heap?

ANSWER: Set a fixed boundary. If we said 10,000 grains of sand made a heap, then anything below it would not be a heap. Yet, it seems unreasonable to distinguish between 9,999 and 10,001 grains of sand. The solution can therefore be altered to say there is a fixed boundary, but they are not necessarily knowable.

5. Omnipotence paradox



Can God create something so heavy He cannot lift it? If he can create something so heavy he can’t lift, then his lack of strength means he is not omnipotent. If he can’t create something so heavy he can’t lift, than he is not omnipotent.

ANSWER: The most common response is that as God is omnipotent, “can not lift” does not make sense. Other answers include the question being a contradiction, like a “square circle”.

6. Epimenides paradox



Epimenides, in a poem wrote: “The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!” However, Epimenides himself was a Cretan. If Epimenides is a Cretan and a liar, then his statement, “The Cretans, always liars” is a lie. This means all Cretans are truthful, then Epimenides’ statement is the truth. The paradox will infinitally regress.

ANSWER: If Epimenides knew of at least one Cretan (other than himself) who is not a liar, his statement is a lie (because he asserts all) even though it correctly describes the speaker as a liar.

7. Unstoppable force paradox



What happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object? If the force moves the object, then it is not unmovable. If the force doesn’t, the force is not unstoppable.

ANSWER: This situation can never happen, as if there is an unstoppable force, there couldn’t be an unmovable object and vice versa. More interestingly, there can never be an unmovable object. An unmovable object would have to have infinite inertia, and therefore infinite mass. Infinite mass cannot exist in our finite universe, therefore an unmovable object cannot exist.


ENGRISH:
Engrish refers to grammatically incorrect variations of English, often found in East Asian countries. From poorly translated signs, menus, and instruction manuals to bizarrely worded advertisements and strange t-shirt slogans, here are the top 20 engrish pictures.




Deformed person???



"Eliminate horniness"



"A time sex thing"??.. a horrible translation for what it should read "articles for (daily) use"



"Keep out of children"



"I'm cock"



Dishonest trick? 
 

"Don't fall down"



"Enviro Mental Protection Area"... yeah, we hate those enviros!



"Horny Care" 
 

WTF?!



On a T-Shirt



Interesting service...



So profound...



Those STUFF people...















Want to fill your car's fuel tank in Italy? No problem -- just make sure you "out to the spy of the select bomb, to take the supplier."




FACING THE FACT FOR THE FUTURE (U.S VERSION):
A good friend of mine worked on the Barrack Obama Campaign trail 2008, and has privelidged acces to information from the vaults of the US government.  Often we sit and discuss American politics and how, by comparison, its much nicer living in England!

It could be suggested that the U.S bully is about to leave the playground and all the nerdy kids are going to take charge.  And that a life of complacency, Illuminatés, and mass conglomoration is no more infalable that the economic structure of Iran.
"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?"

Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"


The Spirit was immovable as ever. -- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Even the United States of America is not immune to the rules of nature and commerce that govern other nations. Over the last few decades, our country has made some very foolish economic choices. It seems as if they have come to believe that the rest of the world is going to finance our government spending in perpetuity (a situation where there is no definite ending), even as it becomes clear that they have no intention of getting spending under control or paying back their debt. Because the wheels of history turn very slowly, the U.S has got away with this for a long time, but as the baby boomers are starting to hit retirement age, the time to pay the piper is drawing nigh. In the next decade or two, they're likely to face a financial crisis more dire than any that nation has ever seen.

What is that going to mean in real terms? It means that barring an unforeseen miracle, out-of-control spending is going to lead to some very painful decisions that will make a lot of people, including conservatives, very unhappy. What you're about to read are the ugly truths about behavior today and logically what means for the home of the brave.

1) Entitlements must be cut. By 2030, the Congressional Budget Office is estimating that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will make up 75% of the budget spending. In other words, unless they regain control of entitlement spending, it will be impossible to get their deficits under control. That means the age eligibility for these programs must be raised and the amount spent per person will need to be dropped to try to close the gap between what they take in and what they pay out.

Given how explosive this issue is politically, it's not going to be easy to accomplish. However, it's not realistic to believe that future generations of Americans are going to be willing to live like servants for decades to support their own personal senior citizen who's lying around in a hammock somewhere, enjoying a 25 year long retirement. The sooner changes are made, the easier it will be on everyone and the less shock there will be to the system when the inevitable changes start to take place.

2) Their military is going to weaken. By historical standards, the United States is not spending an extraordinary percentage of the budget on defense. However, they are spending an extraordinary amount of money on defense for a nation that's flat broke. Is this sustainable? Is China going to keep loaning the money the U.S need to keep their military going when it's the only thing standing between them and Taiwan? Are Americans going to keep spending billions to defend foreign countries that are ungrateful for our help when they don't have enough money at home? The answer to that question is, "No, they're not." And that's a shame, because the United States military is doing more to promote world stability than any other 20 nations combined, but they simply can't afford to keep it up. They'll be forced to cross theirr fingers, cut back on military spending, and hope that the world doesn't completely fall to pieces when the sheriff hangs up his guns.

3) Taxes are going up. Ronald Reagan was right when he said that, "The problem is not that people are taxed too little; the problem is that government spends too much." Unfortunately, the U.S government has spent so far beyond its means for so long that it's going to be almost impossible to close the gap by merely cutting spending. Taxes must go up on the rich, the middle-class, and, yes, even the poor man too. The whole idea that more than 40% of the population can avoid paying any income taxes at all when they're running trillion dollar deficits is sheer madness. Everybody is going to end up having to pay more - and sickeningly, it won't even be for more services; it'll simply be to pay for what they've already spent.

4) Economic growth is going to stagnate. The bigger the government grows and the more it borrows, the less virile the economy becomes. We've seen this in Western Europe where policies - the type of which the Obama Administration is now pursuing - have led to the kind of perpetual sluggish growth and jobless rates we associate with economic downturns in the U.S. As the Congressional Budget Office has said:
Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress economic growth in the United States. Over time, accumulating debt would cause substantial harm to the economy.
Less growth means less jobs, less prosperity, and handing future generations of Americans a country that doesn't hold as much promise as the one that they grew up in.

5) They will have a world where the United States isn't a super power. As the growth of the US economy slows, the military declines, and they become ever more dependent on the foreign powers that hold their debt, the United States will cease to become a super power. They won't have the cashflow to engage in another Marshall Plan, the manufacturing capacity to gear up as they did in World War II - eventually - or the dominant military needed to score decisive victories over their growing opposition opponents.

Certainly, the United States won't become completely insignificant, but Reagan's description of the nation as a "shining city" above the rest of humanity will no longer be true. Instead of being a colossus striding the globe - They'll be like Russia, China, France, Britain, or Germany - just one of many.

Are these events that "will be" or "may be?" If they depart from the course the nation is on, will "the ends" change for the nation or are they too far gone down the road to poverty? Sadly, the U.S have run so aggressively towards a socialist oblivion that the country may be on a downward slope and unable to climb back to the top. Time will tell, but after all the privileges they've had growing up as 'Americans in this great nation', they have a solemn duty to bear whatever they must as a country to pass on the promise, the potential, and the dream of 'America' to future generations

Oh, and then there's this guy on the right, the Cheif Risk Officer for the U.S, Michael Alix.  He doesn't really have anything to do with the article, he's more of the 'Brussels' of the U.S, but he is well worth watching as he is becoming the next brilliantly inappropriate representative of a major nation.  During an interview Alix was quoted as saying "The public is so stupid!  America sucks".

God bless the USA! 


THE WORLD OF GOOGLE MAPS:
Its seems like an everyday occurance, that we find a new way of sticking a camera to something, or someone is publishing our image all over the world for all to laugh at.  Google has provided us with another way to look busy at work and the opportunity to catch something amusing.


You'd walk your pet dog, so why not a pet boa constrictor? Leon Kidd, 25, who has five snakes, was photographed by Google Street View with his 10ft red-tailed boa Nibblez as he carried her along Clarkson Road in North Earlham, Norwich.


If you're out cruising in Spain with the company Ford Transit Connect, try not to get busted by the Google Street View car when soliciting a lady-of-the-night wearing a barely-there thong.

Woman caught on Google Street View allowing young boy to lie in road outside Gateshead's law court.


If you are driving in upstate New York, there's a good chance you'll see deer crossing the road. The Google Street View car did just that and more, while recording it all on their 360 degree camera. Google admitted that one of his drivers hit the deer but stated that the animal was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived.


Let's just say he might habe forgotten his keys!


Nate Heagy, a musician from Saskatoon, Canada, decided that the best way to promote his career was to get pictured on Google Street View. So he followed a Street View picture-taking car around his town until he could predict its path and get his image captured.


Google Street View caught an image of a transient crapping on a D.C. sidewalk. Outside 519 H Street, in the middle of the day.


A Google Street View Car in Bradford, England, got pulled over by the police. The vehicle's roof-mounted camera captured the moment it is stopped by a marked patrol car Godwin Street in Bradford. Eyewitnesses described how the car entered a 'bus, bicycle, taxi only' lane before it was followed by a police patrol vehicle with sirens blazing.


A young Canadian elevator mechanic named Stephanie was trying to sell her car on the internet. She didn't have any photos of her 1978 Lincoln so she decided to use images from Google Street.


WISH I THOUGHT OF THAT!:

The concept of genius has changed.  Back in the day, you need to develop some magical and fantastic thing like an operating system to become a Millionaire. The internet has changed that. Nowadays, all you needs is some cute or weird concept of a website and you will find yourself receiving hundreds of thousands of dollar walking to your door.

Below is a list of the weirdest and craziest website ideas that unbelievably made people millionaires. Read them, it’s… wait for it… amazing.

10. I Do Now I Dont


idonowidont Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:Joshua Opperman
Joshua Opperman was heart broken when his fiancee and him separated shortly after he proposed.
With nothing to do with the engagement ring, he went to a jeweler who said he will get about 32% of what he paid for.  Losing the girl was hard. Losing the money is just unacceptable so he set up a site where people with the same fate can go and sell their ring.
He may have lost a girl… but he gained millions. I’ll take the trade.

9. LaserMonks


lasermonk Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:Our Lady of Spring Bank Cistercian Abbey
If you ever find yourself running out of ink, turn to God.
Well, not quite. Turn God’s soldiers – the monks who refill empty cartridges. Although the monks don’t earn a dime out of the millions worth of transaction they do, be assured that your money goes to the church.

8. Trade Paper Clip To A House


paperclip Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:Kyle MacDonald
According to Reader’s Digest, it all started when Kyle MacDonald took a photo of a little red paper clip that was sitting on the desk and put this notice in the barter section of the local craigslist, the classified-ads website: “I want to trade this paper clip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. If you promise to make the trade, I will come and visit you.”
Someone actually agreed to trade the clip to a pen… the pen to a knob… the knob to a camping stove… the stove to a neon bar sign… and so on. He put up a site – oneredpaperclip.com to attract more people and he did.
The appeal of the whole thing is the silliness of it. So silly, in fact, that you just can’t help but be a part of it. You can’t argue with a formula… that’s his final trade up there – a house.

7. PickyDomains


picky Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:I don’t Know
The most expensive URL is insure.com. It was sold for $16million. That only goes to show you that it is a freakin’ serious business.  Pickydomains knows this and set up a business where people who are thinking of a url for their business can go to ask other people for a suggestions. If what you submit gets picked, you get paid.

6. Doggles

Owner:I don’t know
They sell goggles for dogs. The owners are millionaires now.
Don’t ask me.

5. Antenna Balls


antenna Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:Jason Wall
They sell balls that you put on the tip of your antenna.
It’s… well… the… you see…
Oh darn it. I have not explanation as to why people are even buying for them. Why would you want to put a ball on your antenna? And why would you go online to buy one?!

4. Positive Dating


positive Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner: Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin
So the concept is… you can go online and set up a date with people who are HIV positive.
You don’t have to be positive to be a member, you just need to want to go out with someone who is positive.

3. SantaMail


santa Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:Byron Reese
Byron Reese is the online Santa Clause. He purchased a P.O.Box in the North Pole. Then set up a website where you can log on and ask him to write a letter to your kid… for $10.00

2. Lucky Wishbone Co.


wishbone Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:Ken Ahroni
If you ever find a time when you are in dire need of a wish but you don’t know how to get it…
Or of you are a vegetarian and feels the world is unfair for not making it possible for you to make a wish from the turkey wishbone…
Get in touch with Lucky Wishbone and they will gladly send you an artificial wishbone – for a fee.
Wish away.

1. Million Dollar Homepage


million Top 10 Weird Websites That Made The Owner A Millionaire Owner:Alex Tew
So this kid wants to become a millionaire, right?
So he put a website called milliondollarhomepage.com. It has 1million pixels. He sold each pixel for $1.
When you buy the pixel, you know what will happen? Nothing. You can just put a photo of whatever you want there and it will stay there forever.
Again, the novelty of it worked so well that he is now a millionaire.


SOMETHING ELSE:
With the theme of time, here are a few videos about things that you could happily waste your time with. Apparently its all about the neodymium supermagnets.







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