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I always thought the Spanish were a bit hairy, but it seems not hairy enough as gorillas and monkeys now have the same rights in Spain as humans.
So watch out for who is driving the car next to you on your next driving holiday to Spain, carries your bag at the hotel (Manuel) and even vote in the next election.
I guess it is only a matter of time before we see great ape politicians - though some would argue there have been several in the past. [Read more →]
Mr Rude, a new Mr Men character with a French accent and a flatulence problem, is reportedly threatening Anglo-French relations.
The new bright orange cartoon is the first with a foreign accent to join the children’s book and television series, whose more traditional characters include Mr Happy and Little Miss Helpful.
“Oh, parr-donne me!” says the ball-shaped figure in a heavy Gallic accent, after noisily breaking wind in a game where children are invited to pull his finger on the Mr Men website.
Imagine the uproar if you could not get some of the coinage of your own country at home but had to buy it from a foreign bank halfway around the world.
This is just the situation that has people of the tropical islands of the romantically named Cook Islands have been faced with - and it is upsetting their love life.
It seems a silver Cook Islands St Valentine’s Day coin ‘Love is Precious’ has been minted for release this month, but the perfect Valentine’s gift coin is only being sold in all places, the cold and one would have to say decidedly very un-laid-back country of Bulgaria.
Men in the Austrian city of Salzburg are finding refuge from the worries of shopping by being placed in an adult ‘creche’ by shopping-mad wives and girlfriends.
A local Salzburg man Andreas Stadlbauer came up with the idea last year and it has proven to be a big success, with 1500 men corralled there last Christmas shopping season.
It is just one more example of how women regard men as nothing more than accessories, easily dumped like a coat in a cloakroom. In fact the simile is so true that the women even get a numbered ticket that they must present to checkout their man.
Questions on sexual activity are planned by the European Commission because says it needs better quality data on how people live in order to improve policy making.
Questions on sex and duration of ‘unions’ is amongst the range of questions to be asked.
However concerns are being raised over the number of extra pages that will need to be printed in the survey that active prostitutes are expected to fill in.