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The UK Tax system explained (in beer…)

I recently picked this up on Facebook and prompted by the recent LibDem conference I thought I’d share it here on the blog… Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100… If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something […]

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My last post of 2011 – Shoebox Humour

After my serious posts of late I thought I’d end the year with a bit of humour… Bought my son a new pair of Puma trainers yesterday and I wanted to share a couple of gems that I discovered on the box. The first as you can see here is “Average Contents 2” … as […]

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This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it is Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that […]

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The story of Monty Hall – and how to improve your chances in life

How many people have heard of Monty Hall? Well until last week when my 10 year old daughter asked me to help with her homework, I’d never heard of him either. However what happened next really intrigued me… here’s a definition of the Monty Hall Problem from Wikipedia: The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle […]

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Humour Innovation Technology

Does technology humour get any better than this?

Now this is what I call humour, for those like me old enough to remember, a modern day update of the “fork handles” sketch.. Brilliant!!!

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Humour

How to make the best ever christmas cake!!!

Ingredients:  * 2 cups flour  * 1 stick butter  * 1 cup of water  * 1 tsp baking soda  * 1 cup of sugar  * 1 tsp salt  * 1 cup of brown sugar  * Lemon juice  * 4 large eggs  * Nuts  * 2 bottle wine  * 2 cups of dried fruit  Sample the […]