1. "I was staying at a nice hotel in North Wales while travelling for work. They had a great pool. I went in one morning and started messing about, recreating the opening scene of Jaws, then engaged in lots of splashinglike the shark had come back for the second go. Then I tried a bit of synchro, kicking my legs up in various shapes. Then I did a bit of goalkeeper practice by throwing my goggles and diving to catch them. Then I saw a window overlooking the pool and a family of six people eating breakfast and watching me. I'm a 51-year-old man."
2. "When I was in primary school I called my crush and sang the Celine Dion song from Titanic on his answering machine. A few days later I'm sitting in front of him and his mother and she says, 'Oh so you're so and so; I love your voice'."
3. "I'm a professor of computer science but a few years ago I had never heard the term 'meme' spoken. During a lecture I kept referring to it as 'maemae' and everyone just had this confused look on their faces. At one point, a student piped up and said, 'do you mean 'meem'?"
4. "I have a social-worker friend who was interviewing for a job. The interviewer had a picture of Martin Luther King Jr on the wall behind her. He sat down and said, 'That's a nice-looking man, is that your husband?' Somehow he actually got that job." (Via reddit.com)
You say sell-by, I say hello bargain - Danes ignore the rules
A new grocery store chain in Denmark sells only "expired" foods and items with damaged packaging. Supermarkets routinely throw out foods that are still fine for consumption because of the "sell-by" dates on the packaging. This is often a waste of perfectly edible food. WeFood's products cost about 30 to 50 per cent less than the same foods at traditional supermarkets. "It is not just aimed at low-income shoppers but anyone who is concerned about the amount of food waste produced in this country," noted Per Bjerre of Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, the Copenhagen nonprofit behind WeFood. (Source: Mental Floss)
Correction. (Via Bad Newspaper)
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