Articles by Flamin' Carrot
Mob, or Shrovetide, football as it as practised in Medieval England had no limit to the number of players and no actual rules, often turning into riots. The sport was so violent and problematic that …
Option 1: Sneak it in with Dry Food
1) Buy a packet of treats that you think drives your cat crazy. (Trust me, there is a treat out there that will make your cat jump hoops …
The earliest recorded version of Football was played by the Celtic Tribes. The game was played by kicking around a “Brainball” mashed from the brains and skulls of beheaded enemies and bound in hide or …
Football, as it was practised in the Mayan civillization, involved beheading the entire losing team with a sharp bone club. Incidentally the head rarely came off in a single strike and the act itself was …
Medical Diagnostic Lab on Amman street opened about four months ago and are having a complete health profile for 15 KD. This “general health profile” normally costs 36 KD and their promotion at this discounted …
Since football flu sprung on the 11th, a friend has been entertaining us on facebook with ancient football trivia almost at the rate of a fact a day. Eye brow raising, sometimes jawdropping and often times troubling …
8 days into the game and the official FIFA website already seems neglected / damaged. Evil Knievel and me were trying to figure out who is leading in each group only to realize that the page is …
After recently getting my hands on Adobe CS4 (Yes, I know I am way behind as CS5 is out already), I have been exploring my first love, adobe illustrator again after a very long time. …
I fell in love with them the first day I ate them. Couldn’t stop. Seriously. Had to share them with someone. My sister was the only person who responded to a garbled message about who wanted …
Got this via email today. Whoa!!!!!!!!!!
Extremely important advice and recommendations to be passed on to wives, girlfriends, fiancés, mothers, sisters, daughters, etc. (to all women in general) These rules are to be communicated prior to …
So as we all know, Rayboy, our dear irreplaceable and indispensable IT Genious of all things virtual and great has been busy scouring the sands of Kuwait seeking the sleekest solutions for his beloved and unending list of clients.
I …
Everything is on sale right now! It’s the month of not saving a fils and maxing out your credit card! Turns out a few of my friends didn’t know about some of these sales, so I …
It’s a storm outside. Not a cacophonous midnight thunderstorm that will herald its presence with apocalyptic screams of thunder but leave the world generally glossy the next morn’. It’s not one of those, this one approached in silence. Seeping underneath the …
When I joined the company I work with now about 4 and a half years ago, the one thing that tortured my nomadic soul was the 14 days off in a year I would get. …
1) Demand your indemnity
2) Accept whatever crap indemnity you are getting if it is even 50-75% of what you are supposed to. The crap involved with shoon is a long and trying journey and will …
A dinner at Seven Bars on Thursday,and a sportsmans dinner at the British Embassy on Friday; Derek Whyte, former scottish football player and Rob McCaffrey, British Television presenter have both been spotted around Kuwait raising awareness about the …
It’s not just my sister calling me from the landline to the cellphone (when it just goes beep beep beep or the jihaz muglaq (sp?)…. It’s also when I’m at work trying to call clients …
So you know when there’s two days left for your hakama to expire, and your mandoop tells you that if there’s any fines you’re going to have to bear it unless you give him 2 …
I haven’t had such a lazy day since eons, or even since the word eons came into existence. Such a fried day, only like Friday can be. I can’t pull any late nights tonight as …
Many people I have spoken to seem to be under the impression that you can get hair extensions for about 50 KD if not more. It’s the truth but not the whole truth. The cost …
I recently had my pc at work formatted and it returned a changed system, complete with the amnesia of the existence of word 2003. Instead, there it was with it’s shiny new interface, sat staring …
Got this picture at around 5.30 on the 17th evening. I took the Subhan exit hoping to bypass the cause of the traffic jam and beat it to an empty ring road like I had done twice …
I never really knew there existed fast forward yoga. This form of yoga is based on Ashtanga yoga and while very closely related to power yoga , to me it seems like boot-camp-yoga. Hup two three four down get …
Poor Morissey! She was one of the cats that had escaped from the fire and only found a few days later at the wrecked shelter. She had probably returned to her “home” to find nothing …
Mowissey has continued being utterly adorable the last few days. Her foul breaths gotten so much better after we switched her food and her trimmed claws are now harmlessly cute. She’s turned out to be …
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