Thursday, February 01, 2007

Keep a 1000 or give it back?

Here’s a sneaky question for yous. It should be a real eyeopener. So here goes:

“Suppose you found 1000 dinars (1345 UK pounds) in cash that you knew had been lost by a billionaire. Now, let’s assume that the billionaire would never be aware that he lost it, and there would be no way that anyone else would know if you kept the money. And let’s say you knew there would be no reward or other indirect benefit in returning the money. Would you give it back?” ;)

If you ask this question in a group, I assure you that a lot of people would say they’d give it back. But if you ask people privately, you might be surprised to discover how many of your mates are infact cunning thieves. :D

In my experience, most of the people who say they’d give back the cash are the ones who don’t need an extra thousand dinars "So basically I haven't found a mate who said no, scary huh ?". And the ones who say they’d keep it, all had a good idea of how they’d spend it. :D

So what do you all think ? Keep or give back ?

Penny for your thoughts :) ;) I'll tell you what I'd do in the end ! :P

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Would you Sell your DNA ?

I've recieved this rather intriguing email entitled "American FDA agrees on cloned food" ! It seems that the FDA is going to approve food from cloned animals. Which is a bit confusing ? Is there a problem with this in the first place ?:o I mean what's so wrong about eating cloned animals and crops ?

Well, apparently eating clones makes some people uncomfortable. Their thinking might be within the following lines:

“I sure enjoy eating beef, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable eating beef from that other cow.”

Eating clones got me thinking about the intellectual property of human supermodel DNA "Bloody hell ! How random was that?". At some point it seems inevitable that billionaires will start cloning supermodels so they can grow their own girlfriends. Someday it will surely be legal in some country. "hmmmmmmmmmm, scratching my chin while thinking" :P :D

If you were a supermodel who had wasted all of your money on various addictions and surgeries and you were now too old to model, and some billionaire offered you a hundred million dollars for your DNA, would you sell it? Assume you know in advance that the billionaire is a disgusting pig who will be raising your clone to be a brainwashed sex slave.

Assume also that your clone won’t be forced to do anything against her will. She will simply be raised to believe the billionaire is a godlike creature and the rest will happen naturally. No laws will be broken. And she will live like a princess except for the part about being a clone mistress to an old, rich fat guy. In other words, the quality of her life will be in the top 10% of the planet if you consider the wretchedness the average human’s life around the world.

So this leaves me with the following question, Would you sell your DNA for $100,000,000?

Penny for your thoughts ;)

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Stalker or modern lover???

It’s been a while, but it’s always great to be back on the writing scene. I’ll tell you all about my trip in my next post.

Anyways, I was reading one of the papers the other and one article struck me big time. I have never read such a story before, which made it all that interesting and this is why I’d like to share it with you.






This is just a picture of a bored commuter with his mp3 player on the way back home. But wait, for one woman, this is not just any guy. The story goes as follows:

On a typical day, German tourist Melanie Speth was taking a tube journey (a trip to London is never complete if you don’t take the tube ;)) until she encountered the man above. Being very shy, she wasn’t able to go and chat him up, but she did end up taken a shot of him using her mobile. That wasn’t the end for Melanie, there’s no way she’ll just settle for that. What did she do instead???

Launch a worldwide email campaign to find him!!!

Now that’s what I call persistence. This email with his picture has been forwarded to thousands of Londoners with the hope of tracking him down. In broken English, the email read:

“Now I haven’t neither his name, nor his email address, because I don’t had the trust to speak to him! I have only this one picture! And now I am back in Germany and I can’t forget him! That’s why I have this crazy idea! I hope you send this to as much as possible that I find him! And maybe to mingle with him, if he wants this!”

All of this took place between Tower Hill and Embankment, amazing!!! Even experts say this will trigger a chain reaction and might well end in the guy’s inbox.

If you’re curious, this is the lady herself:


I’d honestly have to say this is just impressive, crazy and definitely, wild. This brings me to my question: Is she a stalker or just a modern lover??????

Oh ya, Melanie, if you do ever see this, I did my job as a Londoner and anonymous guy, call 020 7651 5242 :D.

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