The Stupid Things You Do When Shopping (and How to Fix Them). It’s officially holiday shopping season, and retailers are counting on your consumer impulses to drive you to buy everything your lustful heart desires. If you’ve ever ended up with a cart full of fishbowls, bedazzlers, and life-sized giraffe statues, you know shopping fever can cause you to make some pretty stupid choices. Here’s a look at some of the most common motivators of bad shopping decisions and what you can do to put a stop to them.
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A MAN ravaged by a shocking skin disease has revealed himself in public in a bid to save his children from the same fate. Chandra Wisnu, 57, suffers from a rare disease that has left him covered in tumours resembling pink bubble wrap. The father of four – known as “The Bubble Man” in his home village in Indonesia – rarely leaves his house.
When he does, he wears three jackets, a balaclava and sunglasses so he doesn’t frighten children. “People are afraid, they are frightened of my horrible face and worried they might catch the disease,” he said. “So instead I avoid people, I rarely go out except to pick up my daughter from school.
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Leonardo drew hundreds of images of birds on the wing, trying to decode their secrets, and drafted meticulous plans for flying machines not unlike today’s gliders and helicopters. But he never figured out the physics of flight.
It took more than 300 years and many more failed experiments until Sir George Cayley, a British engineer, determined that flight required lift, propulsion, and control. He built a glider with a curved wing to generate lift. Then he ordered his coachman into it and had farmworkers pull it down a slope until it gained enough speed to fly. Control, alas, was lacking. The craft crashed after flying a few hundred yards. The coachman survived, but reportedly was not amused.
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Here is a collection of some of the most untidy desks in the World that we were able to find on the web.
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The internet reaches into so many areas of our lives that one in four people now spend longer online than they do asleep, a survey has revealed.
With huge quantities of waking hours spent plugged into PCs, laptops and smartphones, more than half – 51 per cent – admit to suffering from ‘e-anxiety’ if they are unable to check their emails or Facebook page. Men spend bigger chunks of their time online. More than one in four spend six hours or more a day online, compared to one in five women.
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