Dragon Islands
Are you bored of your life ? Was the worst day of your life this, when you realised that this fat Santa Claus is your grandpa, the red Power Ranger is the porn actor and the boxing fights are set…
Category Culture
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Best of The Best vol. II
Usually, we do our everyday things like mowing the grass or divorcing, and don’t care about what a scientist does. But at the same time they observe us without any breaks. The world would probably not exist if they didn’t…
We Are The Champions
Every nation is exceptional and the best in some categories. Which is good. In times of capitalism when everybody has to earn the most and tell best jokes, each country want to be a leader in something. You can use…
The Easter Rising
Holidays. Sometimes you eat chocolate eggs, sometimes proclaim independence. In 1916 Great Britain was “the empire on which the sun never sets” and had one of the biggest territories in history*. Then Ireland started what India had ended. Not only…
Irish Decalog
Ten facts about Ireland which will surprise you more than this title I It is very difficult to pour a perfect Guinness. A “perfect pour” should take 119.5 seconds at an angle of 45 degrees followed by a rest. After…
What is the difference between Hitchcock, di Caprio, Nazis and a dog ?
The Nazis and a dog have won the Oscar trophy. It was the first voting and the movies were still silent. For Rin Tin Tin, the 11-year-old German Shepherd rescued from ‘World War I’, these times were glorious, like the…
Why they left right-handed traffic ?
About thirty five percent of the world population drives on the left. Thank you Britain. But do we have the right to judge them ? Actually, in a feudal past, when people needed letters and dove to send a Tweet,…
Teanga deacra ar domhan
Now you can ask. What does this title mean and why does it sound so strange ? Because it is in Gaelic and it means ‘hardest language to learn’. But actually there are languages which are a lot more difficult…
Who speaks fastest ?
Do you know this situation when you hear somebody speaking in a foreign language and it is quicker than Ferrari driven by Usain Bolt? Is it the result of unfamiliarity or maybe different languages have different paces? Linguist François Pellegrino…