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The "Grand Designs" appreciation topic

published by You on 13 October, 2010 - 23:11

Does anyone watch this?

Its about middle aged men mostly, who have a mid life crisis and decide to build something ludicrous, often with good results. Real achievements even.

(so like "changing rooms" - but for men.)

You can watch some of the episodes on 4oD

Today is was a midlife crisis couple who decided to build an eco home. Their initial budget was £200k, and they in the end spent approximately £340k.

I thought the rooms could have been a bit bigger, morespacious.

Caravans Of Royal Gifts (Surre Alayi)

published by You on 12 October, 2010 - 17:48

The word surre means the gifts and precious goods that were donated by the Sultan and citizens of the Ottoman Empire every year and which were sent to Mecca and Medina during the pilgrimage season.

The Surre caravan was sent along with the pilgrims on the 12 of Rajab, the first of the three blessed months, so that it could arrive in Mecca in time for the pilgrimage. The caravan spent the holy month of Ramadan in Damascus, and then distributed the gifts in Mecca. After performing the pilgrimage, the hajj, the caravan would depart for its return journey.

OBL goes green, tries to bomb climate change!

published by You on 2 October, 2010 - 02:02

Bin Laden goes green to exploit Pakistan flood aid frustrations

Advocates of action to combat climate change have a new champion, though it is unlikely they will be inviting him to campaign on their behalf any time soon. He is Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qai'da, the terrorist group that has specialised in a brand of global destruction all of its own.

Bin Laden is heard focusing on the issue of greenhouse emissions in a new audio tape that surfaced yesterday on several Islamic militant websites. "The number of victims caused by climate change is very big," he expounds on the tape, "bigger than the victims of wars."

Muslim almost appointed as UN ambassador to Extra Terestrial life

published by You on 29 September, 2010 - 20:00

Some news outlets recently reported that the UN had decided to appoint an ambassador to extra terrestrial life "out there", and as a coup to the Muslim community, this ambassador was to be a Malaysian Muslim called Mazlan Othman.

This sent bookmakers scampering, seeing it as a sign expecting there to be human alien contact to be soon and some even lowered the odds of first contact being in the next year down to much lower odds.

Alas, this story is too good to be true and has since been denied.

An eight-year-old Kashmiri went out to play. He came back home dead

published by You on 23 September, 2010 - 21:38

A few days back I travelled to Batamaloo neighbourhood in Srinagar, the capital city of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Coils of barbed wire blocked the desolate roads; thousands of Indian soldiers patrolled the streets to enforce a strict military curfew. I couldn't reach the man I wanted to meet and finally managed to speak to him on the phone.

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