Glastonbury is nothing but a middle-class, middle-aged orgy of consumerism says Fleet Street Fox - Fleet Street Fox. Two hundred quid a ticket?
To sleep in a field, get your iPhone stolen and poo in a hedge? Thanks, I'll take eight. Could you throw in a tent I'll never use again, being pestered to get my hair braided by a girl off her box on shrooms and beer for breakfast which I'll have to carry three miles and then won't get to drink because someone will nick it first? SOLD. It's the last weekend in June and therefore the Glastonbury Festival.
The BBC are screening 250 hours of it, the Rolling Stones are rolling their zimmerframes on to the main stage, and a million teenaged girls are perfecting their Kate-Moss-is-wasted face. Trouble is that it is no longer cool. Eric Pickles' department fined for £217m overdraft - FrontMotion Firefox. 28 June 2013Last updated at 09:19 ET.
Voyager's epic journey: How long would it take you? - FrontMotion Firefox. It's official: That new Terminator movie is a reboot AND a trilogy. Arnie may be back, but Terminator itself is going back to square one.
Cover Story: Bert and Ernie Celebrate Gay Marriage : The New Yorker - FrontMotion Firefox. 10 types of irritating advice for parents - FrontMotion Firefox. 27 June 2013Last updated at 20:52 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent, parent The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are about to have their first baby.
There are plenty of things in short supply in this situation. Sleep, for example. But there is one thing that will come in unwelcomed abundance: advice. Family, friends and more or less total strangers feel a compulsive urge to give advice. Here are some of the worst forms of advice. 1. Have new parents been robbed of their decision-making powers? Why else would there be so many irritating books telling them how to behave. Drill sergeant... or childcare expert? These experts don't want to help young parents, they want to become leaders of cults. 2.
Make that ex-friends, because it's not normal to have life so well organised. You know the sort. Australia v Lions Second Test: 5 key battles. Ben Alexander v Mako Vunipola Vunipola has been a revelation this tour.
He was a bit of a wildcard pick initially, but in the warm-up games his ball-carrying ability and willingness to offload caught the eye, and with injuries to Cian Healy and Gethin Jenkins he soon became a lot of people’s first choice at loosehead. There are, however, doubts surrounding his technique in the scrum, and last weekend he was part of a reserve front row that had serious trouble in the final quarter, almost losing the game for the Lions. Ben Alexander, while not renowned for his scrummaging, will certainly fancy his chances in this area as he has a wealth of experience to call upon. Is this the weekend the Australians finally put to bed the theory that they can’t scrummage? Voyager surfs Solar System's edge - FrontMotion Firefox. "It could be any day, but it could also be several more years.
" Ed Stone cannot say when the Voyager-1 spacecraft will leave the Solar System, but he believes the moment is close. The latest data from this extraordinary probe, reported in this week's Science journal, suggests it is surfing right on the very edge of our Sun's domain. The particles streaming away from our star have reduced to a trickle at its present location, 18.5 billion km from Earth. Particles flying towards it from interstellar space, by contrast, have jumped markedly in the past year. It all points to an imminent departure, which would make Voyager the first man-made object to cross into the space between the stars. "It's hard to imagine there's another layer between the one we're in and the outside," Dr Stone told BBC News.
Launched way back in 1977, the probe has now travelled so far from home that its constant chatter of data takes 17 hours to arrive at the US space agency's receiving network. Lena Headey explains why nudity means power on Game of Thrones. Lena Headey, who plays Queen Regent Cersei Lannister on Game of Thrones, has spoken out about how nudity—or lack thereof (she has yet to get nekkid on the HBO show)—is basically synonymous with power for her character on the series.
*Possibly mild spoilers ahead* In an interview with Vulture, the actress made some revelatory comments about her character and nudity on the hit fantasy series. First off, Lena Headey spoke about her twincest scene with twin brother Ser Jaime Lannister, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, which took place in episode one of season one. Headey revealed that her fully-clad sex scene was in fact done by a ... body double (the actress being pregnant at the time—except for the close-ups, obviously—see exhibit A above). Rugby Union News, Live Rugby Scores, Results & Fixtures. Within reach: The Lions could claim their first series win in 16 years The ball is in Australia's court as the hosts have no margin for error in the second Test against the British and Irish Lions in Melbourne on Saturday.
Indeed, unlike on their previous two tours, the Lions have managed to draw first blood and take a 1-0 lead in the three-Test series, but let's call a spade a spade: victory in Brisbane came thanks to a healthy dose of good fortune. Or, more accurately, a combination of some wayward kicking and awful luck for the Wallabies. This tour had been billed as a showdown between the Lions' power up front and the Wallabies' attacking arsenal amongst their backs, but, enthralling as it was, the first Test didn't quite go to script. Lions 2013: George North apologises for try gesture - FrontMotion Firefox.