Muller Alcohol Corner

Muller corner yoghurts are revolutionary. They give you complete flexibility in designing your own flavour.

If you are not familiar with them, the packaging separates the natural yoghurt from the fruit flavour. You can add as much or as little of the fruit to the yoghurt.

This amazing technique has many applications.

I would recommend a Muller Alcohol Corner. On one side is a Beer/Whisky flavoured non-alcoholic fluid. In the other side is pure high concentrated alcohol.

You can add the meths to create a drink that matches your mood (or just drink it neat).

Benefits: People with different tolerances of beer can get drunk together, at the same speed; A single product meets the specification of teetotallers to hell-raisers.

200 Cocktails

Tankard

Yoghurt Maker

Respect Countries Names

There are currently 196 countries in the world, but they have more than 196 names.

Different languages may have different names for the country. For example, England is called England in England, but is Angleterre in French, Inglatierra in Spanish, Anglicko in Hungarian, Tinglizt in Swahili, Lloegr in Welsh, Sasana in Irish and Whinging-Pom-land in Australian.

You would not do this to a person. If a bloke is called Rodney, you don't call him Dave.

The inhabitants of each country should decide on what they want the name of their country (and capital city) to be, and the rest of the world should respect this.

Benefits: More respect between countries – some current names are insulting to the country's citizens; less confusion in international business; no need to learn different names to describe where you come from when you travel.

Related Links:

http://geographybook.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/vratoyn/

World Map

Mother Tongue

Kill All Pandas

Pandas want to die. Perhaps its their Emo black mascara look.

They don't reproduce easily, they only eat a very special kind of bamboo, they are very sensitive to the environment they want to live in.

They must be very frustrated with the huge efforts we make to prevent their death wish.

There are around 2000 pandas left, if we charge $1 million each to hunt them, that would produce $2 billion.

This money could be used to protect endangered species with a bit more fighting spirit.

Panda Facts

Emo T-shirt

Banksy Panda

Death Penalty for Downloading

Why do some countries have the death penalty, it is a combination of deterrent and ultimate vengeance.

Sadly the sort of crimes that carry capital punishment are not the crimes that carried out based on rational considered decisions. They are either crimes of passion carried out by rational people, or based on the warped perspective of irrational people.

The threat of facing a death penalty does not worry these people's mind when they commit the crime.

If a death penalty is to be used as purely a deterrent it should apply to crimes where the criminal has weighed up the pros and cons before deciding to do it.

Illegal downloading of movies, software, music is one such example of this. The downloader acknowledges that it is a naughty, but balances the reward of getting the item for free against the small chance of getting caught, and the likely small punishment – a written warning.

If a government introduced the death penalty for downloading it would stop it overnight.

Don't worry, no one would actually get the lethal injection for this.

Even the biggest multimedia corporations most affected by piracy would never want to see it carried out, but just the threat of it would put off most people.

The benefits of this in relation to the film industry would be that big budget movies would get their deserved income, while low-budget movie makers would be a bit more open-minded and offer their films for free online.

Effects – more people employed in film industry / cinemas; Studios get feedback on what films people really want to be made and can channel resources into this; independents can compete against the big studios.

Related Links:

Irresistable forces


Copyright and Piracy


Debating the death penalty

Practical Jewellery

In some some animal species it is the male that fusses over its appearance. This is not true of us generally, where women enhance their beauty by eating right, wearing make-up, not farting in lifts.

If this was not the case, and men had needed to accessorise, I bet the jewellery would combine decoration with utilisation.

Men would wear the earrings, but there would be a phillips screwdriver dangling off the left ear and a selection of allen keys plated in white gold around their ankles.

Two of their bangles could be stuck against each other to quicklight a fire, and every broach would have a compass woven into it's design.

Pashminas would contain a secret pouch of stones, for an impromptu David sling.

Age-defying skin cream would any be available in a warpaint edition.

If these products existed today, men could tidy their look up a bit, but have the backup defence that they were approved by Bear Grylls.

Related Links:

Living Wild

Fire Steel

The Arranged Marriage Dating Agency

One of the main reasons that people use dating services is to get married, or at least to make it a possibility. According to a Match.com survey, nearly 18% of people using dating websites married someone they met there.

How could this figure be increased? By forcing 'em!

If there was an arranged marriage service, you could bypass the cinema visits, the flowers, the clever texts, the uncertainty and skip straight to the big day.

Here's how it would work: Users would stipulate who they would NOT marry, maybe by location or personality type / star sign / favourite colour.

The service then matches a suitable suitor and that's it. Users would be legally obliged to marry that person.

I'm guessing that this would be one dating website that had more women members than men.


Understanding women


All the rules


All the rules

2 Star Rating

Review systems in critical magazines come in many different sizes. Marks out of 5, a score out of 10, a percentage.

Is this really insightful? Is a 3DS zombie game that gets 87% better than an art film that gets 4 out of 5?

A reader only wants to know: should I buy this?

All ratings systems should therefore be out of 2. 1 star means do not watch this movie / drive this car / eat at this restaurant. 2 stars means please do play this game / hire this man / sleep on this pillow.

Stu's 2 star recommended products:


Music Box with your own tunes


iPod in the Bath


Penny Pusher