Was it Kim who broke up?

See article, just out!

If we may believe our Asian friends, it was Kim who broke up, she dumped him over the phone. And Kim apparently had already cancelled her wedding dress weeks ago.
Bye bye big media event.

Ramadan privileges for all of us!!!!

I got this mail from a friend of a friend of a friend. It's about a person in a company who - as I have been told - has the reputation of doing his very best to find excuses for not to work, with success. He permits himself 20 minutes smoke breaks every hour. He smokes like a chimney, drinks coffee like a giant percolator, and eats the biggest rubbish. Apparently he is also super arrogant, has a big mouth, but accomplishes nothing. And fortunately for him his manager, afraid to be accused for racism, admits with everything he asks. This is a striking example... see what his manager sent out to the department:

Hi,

Just to inform everybody that Ramadan is approaching. During this period I have agreed special working hours with Mehdi so he can work under optimal conditions (considering he cannot eat nor drink during daytime).

As of this Thursday/Friday till October 30th Mehdi will start his working day around 7am (therefore ending around 15h) Form October 31st till mid November Mehdi will start his work around 6.00 am and his day will end around 14h.

Please, whenever possible, keep this in mind when contacting Mehdi, and especially when planning meetings that require his attendance.

Glenn

ps. considering his cafeine and nicotine habits .... be careful till the first withdrawal symptoms have eased ... keep stress balls available :-)

This is a company where people get in between 9 and 10 am, and leave between 5 and 6. So nobody will be there to check if he's there at 6 am. I think I will also apply for a job at this company, I will say I belong to the Swedish "party-party" religion, and I have to sleep in till very late in the morning, so I can only arrive in the office around 2 pm. Of course I will stay till 10 pm!!!

Starbucks coming to Brussels? Please!

Some years ago in San Francisco I discovered that coffee in America is not that bad as some Europeans might say. On almost every street corner there was a good coffee shop. Some are independent, others are franchises of "Coffee Bean & Tea leaf" or Starbucks. Starbucks is the market leader, they have their HQ in Seattle, not very far from Microsoft. How much I liked to just sit there, reading a magazine while sipping a Latte, a Mocha, or a Macchiato. I read that Starbucks plans to open more than 1500 new coffeeshops next year, many of them in Europe. I hope they also come to Brussels. Not because I cannot find decent coffee in Brussels, but because I like the Starbucks atmosphere and I hope it will be smoke-free, as in the US.

Belgium better country for sex?

The results yearly Global Sex Survey, organised by Durex, are known.

Here some highlights:
Age of first sex:
Sweden is nr 3 together with Brazil and Holland with 16,4 years old. Belgium is in the middle with 17,2 years.

Number of sexual partners:
People around the world have had an average number of 10.5 sexual partners.
More than a quarter (27%) have had only one partner while 21% have had sex with more than 10 people.
The Chinese have had more sexual partners than anyone else - 19.3 compared with the Brazilians (15.2), the Japanese (12.7) and the Danes (12.5).
Those in Vietnam have had the fewest sexual partners - 2.5 compared with Hong Kong (3.5), India (3.7) and Malaysia (4.2)
Men have had more sexual partners than women - 12.4 compared to 7.2.
Belgium has a low score of 6.1. Sweden is nr. 7 with 12.3. Hurray!!!

Frequency:
Globally, people are having sex an average of 103 times a year with women (106) having sex more frequently than men (101).
35-44 year olds are having the most sex (116) compared to just 91 times for the 16-20 age group.
The French (137), Greeks (133) Hungarians and Serbian and Montenegrins (both 131) are having the most sex, while those in Japan (46), Hong Kong and Singapore (both 79) are the least sexually active. Belgium is above average with 105, while Sweden has a disappointing score of 94.

So living in Belgium will be beneficial for me!!! Although I will have less sex partners, I will do it more often. And, last but not least, 30% more chance of having an orgasm during sex.
I think I'll stay here for a while.

Jacques Derrida is dead

I was just listening to "Asylums in Jerusalem", first song on the album "Songs to Remember" from Scritti Politti, and suddenly I hear on the radio: "French philosopher Jacques Derrida is dead". And guess what's the 3rd song on this album? Exactly!!!
Am I telepathic???

Quote of the day

Quote of the day comes from Dutch cyclist Erik Dekker. When a French TV interviewer asks him in French about his victory he responds: "I don't know any French, but in English I don't have any words for it."

Bush was wired?

Rumour goes that Bush was wearing an earphone during the first debate in Miami, so Rove or another adviser could tell him what to say to Kerry.
Here and here some articles.
It could explain his long pauses and some of his repetitions. When his whisperers realised they couldn't keep up over the earphone, and that Bush was getting confused, they may have reduced it to just telling him stuff like "say how hard the work is".
There have also been many previous reports of Bush using a wireless earphone for speeches. In one amusing incident, they actually somehow picked up the wrong feed, and there were several seconds of two-voice broadcast, with someone else saying the speech a few seconds before Bush.
I propose that next time the two candidates go through a metal detector.

Report: Video shows Bigley killing

A video viewed by Reuters news agency shows the beheading of a man in Iraq, identified as British hostage Kenneth Bigley. (see CNN)

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Museeuw sanctioned

On some sports events on Flemish TV I often saw the same guy who was invited in the studio. He has the most ridiculous hairdo and the most stupid and fake grin on his face. My Belgian friends told me his name is Johan Museeuw and has been "a great champion". I also heard that he's being involved in a doping affair, but that the verdict from the cycling federation was still waiting. In the meantime he gave a press conference saying that he had no blame at all, like it was official. Now today in the news I heard that he has been sanctioned, together with 3 other cyclists. (see CNN)

It's so scandalous that these cyclists asked that the court session would be behind close doors. When the truth is said, nobody may hear. And when they're on TV, they lie. Shame.