Category: Fun, Funny or Weird

Sperm Donors Needed

A free trip to Australia in return for sperm !
Now that’s a pretty interesting offer, lol…

In an advertisement that has been running in Canada’s University of Calgary student newspaper Gauntlet, an Australian fertility clinic is offering men between 18 and 40 a two-week holiday in the rural city of Albury in return for sperm.

And, There’s no catch — the men just have to be healthy, mentally fit, pass a blood test and a semen analysis and undergo counseling.

In return, they have to be prepared to produce semen every second day and be identified as the donor.

Now i think that’s one hell of an offer.
For a trip to Australia, i’d be willing to do a lot more than just donate sperm 😛

[Via CNN]

Free PC, Nasty Catch

A British company is offering a brand-new computer for free to every UK household and even promising to replace it with a new machine after three years.

The catch ?
London-based Metronomy says that in return for a free IBM personal computer worth 800 pounds ($1,400 U.S.), customers will have to bear with one minute of on-screen advertising for every 20 minutes of computer use.

And each household will have to use the computer for at least 30 hours a month (about an hour a day).

Ouch !
Now that is a true pain in the neck and a bunch of other places.
I don’t think i’d manage to stay sane having to watch a 1 minute ad every 20 minutes. I’d end up throwing the damn thing out the window.
But i imagine a lot of people would be interested in this offer.

Digital IQ

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Well this little test says my Digital IQ is 111, which makes me out to be a Digital Ace.
But, well, i know i deserve more 😛
If i only had the money to buy all the gadgets i want and were in a country where i could hook up to wireless hotspots and networks, i’d have aced the test, lol…

You can take the test yourself over here, then come back and comment your score 😉

Computer One-liners

These are some of my favourite computer one-liners:

  • A user friendly computer first requires a friendly user.
  • Bug? That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
  • Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.
  • Computer analyst to programmer: “You start coding. I’ll go find out what they want.”
  • Computers can never replace human stupidity.
  • Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?
  • Every bug you find is the last one.
  • If your computer says, “Printer out of Paper,” this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the “OK” button.
  • It works! Now if only I could remember what I did…
  • My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
  • Who’s General Failure and why’s he reading my disk?
  • To be, or not to be, those are the parameters.

For more go to: 150 Computer One-liners.

The Final Decision

Last night, a new game show started on Tunisian TV, which i have to say is the best game show i’ve ever seen on Tunisian TV in my whole life.

The show is called “The Final Decision”, and it’s kind of a hybrid of “Who wants to be a millionaire ?” & “The Weakest Link”.
The grand prize is 200 Thousand Dinars, which is pretty neat, i don’t think any other Tunisian game show threw away that much money, but well i just said it they’re Tunisians, so they’re not gonna just throw that away, they’re gonna make it damn hard and frustrating to get it.

The game starts with 6 contestants who are asked a number of multiple choice questions. The person who answers right the fastest gets to give any other player a yellow card, and if he answers wrong, he himself gets a yellow card. And of course, just like in football, 2 yellow cards means they’re out of the game.
This goes on until only 2 players are left, and they move on to the next round.

In the second round, each player is joined by a partner, and they are each asked 5 multiple choice questions. Each question has a value of 40000 Dinars, and they can split that 40000 and bet it on different answers if they’re not sure.
In the end of round 2, there’s another fastest answering question that decides who moves on to the final round.

The final round is all about putting your money where your mouth is, which is very frustrating and nerve wrecking.
The contestant and his partner are seperated, and the contestant has to answer 5 multiple choice questions, betting his money on the answers he thinks are right, and losing any money he bets on a wrong answer.
The partner has only one chance to veto the contestant’s answer, and if they do, they have to answer the rest of the questions alone.

Yesterday was the first show, and a young couple won. They got out of round 2 with 160000 Dinars, and lost most of it in the final round, only winning 15000 Dinars at the end.

The questions are mostly general knowledge questions and they aren’t that hard. But then again, home spectators always think so 😛

I think it’s really great and fun, and i’m truly considering giving it a shot.
Maybe, just maybe, i could get out of it with a nice amount of money 🙂