Do we laugh or cry? Either way here are some of the crazy answers the next generation have come up with in recent years…

Funny Exam Answers

Lastly, but by no means least.

What was Hitlers first name?
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There’s not much better than hanging with your mates for ‘mantime’ and watching a film, it gets even better when that film is a classic film revolving around the world of sport!! There have been many, many failures that never lived up to expectation; Mean Machine starring Vinnie Jones is one great example! But there have also been a few corkers along they way.

Here is our take, but as always don’t be afraid to add yours below or send them to us on twitter or facebook;

10. White Men Can’t Jump (1992)

White Men Can't Jump

Probably one of the movies that stands out when I think about the first films I ever saw. Starting off as enemies on the court Billy (Woody Harrelson) and Sydney (Wesley Snipes) are two Basketball Hustlers in LA trying to make a bob or two. They eventually team up in an attempt to change their fortune, but Billy is also being chased by a couple of Gangsters to whom he owes money. Also look out for Rosie Perez who plays Billy’s girlfriend. Hot in a weird kind of way!

9. Gridiron Gang (2006)

Gridiron Gang

Yes I am afraid I am serious! Dwayne Johnson stars in Gridiron Gang, based around American Football and offering hope to the youth offenders by allowing them to play ball. Will they be able to overcome themselves, and their critics though? based on the true story of juvenile detention camp probation officer Sean Porter.

8. Never Back Down (2008)

Never Back Down

Ok I admit, not the best film by a long shot. But with the huge growth of MMA and UFC in the last few years, this is currently the best film about the subject and it is very easy to watch! Expect a Hollywood Blockbuster in the next 12 months, but until then you will just have to make do with this.

7. The Hurricane (1999)

The Hurricane

Another moving true story from the life of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter played by no other than Denzel Washington. After a troubled youth Rubin turns to boxing and becomes a very successful middle-weight, however once in his prime he is accused of murder and put away for three life sentences. Will a young boy be able to inspire the Hurricane and help release him from jail?

6. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Million Dollar Baby

Critically acclaimed, and with an all star cast including Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank. Million Dollar Baby follows the life of boxing coach, Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) and female waitress / wannabe boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Swank). Maggie want’s to change the fortunes in her life by becoming a female pro boxer and needs a coach, however will Frankie’s lost relationship with his own daughter stand in the way?

5. The Wrestler (2008)

The Wrestler

Mickey Rourke comes back into the limelight in The Wrestler. After struggling as an aging pro-wrestler Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson decides to hangup his ‘onesy’ and get his life back on track with a normal job, and hopefully his family. But will a last ditch high profile match change his life for ever?

4. Raging Bull (1980)

Raging Bull

Needing no introduction, and I am sure this will be the number one for alot of you. But coming in at number 4 is Robert de Niro in Raging Bull. Based on the life, and written by Jake LaMotta, directed by Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull follows Jake’s success in the ring, and troubles out of it.

3. Above The Rim (1994)

Above the Rim

Some of you may have probably never heard of this film, but if you do one thing today buy (download, or whatever you do!) this DVD and watch it. Following the life of Kyle Lee Watson (Duane Martin) as a promising young basketball star mixing in the the wrong crowd led by Birdie (Tupac Shakur). Luckily Leon, Birdies brother, puts his life on the line to help Kyle realise his dream.

2. Rocky (1976)

Rocky

The original and the best in my opinion. Rocky is Sylvester Stallone’s first step into the ring as the Italian Stallion, Rocky Balboa. As a struggling amateur boxer, Rocky get’s involved in an exhibition match with World Champion Apollo Creed. The thing is, nobody tells Rocky this is an exhibition!!

1. Any Given Sunday (1999)
We have had Robert de Niro, and now it is Al Pacino’s turn is the gripping American Football drama, Any Given Sunday. A star studded, young cast including Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx and LL Cool J each play their parts in a struggling American Football team coached by big Al himself. Jamie Foxx plays Willie Beaman who is given the chance of a lifetime to playing starting quarter-back. But will he take it?

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Agree, disagree? We still haven’t decided so just let us know!!!

Ok so you are stuck like every year, ‘What do i buy the missus?’. Well have no fear as we are here to help, we have enlisted the help of a couple of young ladies to help you choose what to buy your ‘loved’ one this Valentines. Plus us guys in the office have got together and have even thrown in a few of our own ideas!

From the girls;

Roses

Yes it is a touch cliche’ but it is a sure fire winner! Why not by her 12 roses? Think they are expensive? Well they are a touch but you can pick up a dozen pink roses from Tesco for less than £30 including delivery. They are even Fairtrade…

12 Pink roses for less than £30

Champagne
How about some personalised, quality, pink champagne for your Valentine? At £37 per bottle, including personal message, an image, drawing or logo and gift wrapping.

Jewellery
Always a winner and something to suit any budget. How about these White Gold Cubic Zirconia Knot Earrings tipping the balance at a touch over £25.

Earrings for Valentines at £25

Or how about pushing the boat out a touch further with this Vivienne Westwood Tiny Orb Pendant coming in at £105.

Vivienne Westwood Tiny Orb Pendant

Personalised Valentines Card
If you are on a budget, how about going for a personalised Valentines Card from someone like Moonpig. it shows you put that touch more thought into it, even though you didn’t…

From the Boy’s

Lingerie
Always a winner? Well in our eye’s it is! If you want to keep things pretty low key, you could go for your standard Black Lace Lingerie Set at less than £20.

Black Lingerie

Valentines Maid Outfit

iPad
As with most of the blokes choices, you will no doubt appreciate this just as much, if not more. it will be late, but you could always order the new iPad from Apple.

Apple iPad for Valentines

Invite her single friend round
Girls love girly nights right? Well why not make Valentines a special night for everyone. Tell her you didn’t want her hot single friend spending the night alone, so you thought it would be nice to invite her round for food, champagne, lingerie…. This is what is commonly known as a winner!!!!

Valentines threesome

Any other tips? Just let us know and we will grow the post!

Well Christmas is now over, and while you are progressing with your new years resolution of losing the mince pie & beer weight (Or breaking them within a day as I did!) February has come round like a shot. Which means only one thing in the world of Rugby Union, the 6Nations is back. Ugly men battle it out again to be crowned the top national side in the Northern Hemisphere. As the late Bill Mclaren would have said ‘It’s a Marvellous Occasion’.

How will the teams fair this time around? Find out below.

Italy

With talismanic Captain Sergio Parisse injured, The Azzuri will struggle. However it may give some of their younger players the chance to step out of his shadow and come to the fore. As always they will be difficult to beat at home. As their pack are strong and abrasive. But their game will all hinge on the performance of Craig Gower, the Australian rugby league convert has chosen Italy as his adoptive home and if he plays flat to the gain line and moves their backline, they could take a scalp at home. However I think in the first game away in Ireland they will be outgunned and outclassed.

Final 6Nations Position – 6th (Ever improving, the loss of Parisse will hamper their efforts significantly, people say one man can’t change a team, in this case – they can)

Ireland

Many are tipping Ireland to be in with a shout of the Championship and I tend to agree with them. They have an exciting backline, 3 of which were part of the British Lions starting backlines against South Africa in the summer. With Jonathan Sexton injured, Ireland have looked to Ronan O’Gara to stand in and steady the ship at 10. In my opinion he is a weak link, top sides target him in attack and pressurise him in defense and he crumbles, however against Italy at Croke Park he will have an outstanding game, its when he confronts a French back row on the top of their game he will not fancy it.

Final 6Nations position – 1st (Consistent and Solid)

France

With a dynamic and skilful back row trio of Dusautoir, Ouedraogo and Harinordoquy, and the physically imposing and abrasive Bastareaud and Jauzion in the midfield, France will be a tough nut to crack. And with having a side good enough to leave wing Vincent Clerc on the bench is going to be handy. Their downfall will be their gameplan. With coach Marc Lievremont insisting on playing Francois Trinh-Duc at 10, their game will resort to more of a kicking for territory game rather than using their strengths.

Final 6Nations position – 3rd

Scotland

Scotland are becoming rugby’s fastest declining nation. Throughout the last decade they have failed to make it into the top two of the Six Nations table. Now is the time according to head coach Andy Robinson, to stop the rot. They need to put in the same performance every week as they did against Australia in the Autumn, and hope that every side will self destruct like the Wallabies did. I can’t see that happening in a 6Nations fixture though. Scotland will rely too much on the influence of Chris Paterson – who earns his 99th cap when he steps onto the field against France on Sunday. If their pack can compete and disrupt the French, Paterson can kick the goals and keep them within touching distance of les Bleus.

Final 6Nations position – 5th (Only 1 win away to Italy, maybe a point in it)

Wales

With Lee Byrnes farcical 2 week ban for walking onto the pitch when he shouldn’t being rescinded, the welsh full-back will start on Saturday against England, which is a huge boost to them. He is arguably the best full-back in the world when on form, and if they can get the ball moving and get Ryan Jones going forward at No.8, they will make yards. With my player of 2009 Jamie Roberts being a perfect foil for the pace men outside, they should play some exciting rugby. I personally think that having James Hook at 13 is a mistake, and I hope I’m not proved wrong at the weekend! With their two first choice scrum halves injured, Gareth Cooper, whilst not being first choice for Cardiff Blues, has been selected to wear the number 9 Jersey. He has 44 Welsh caps to his name, but I think being slightly rusty at test level will prove to affect him. I hope England can get a shock win over Wales on Saturday but unfortunately I can’t see it.

Final 6Nations position – 2nd

England

With the six nations coming up and Martin Johnson named his Elite player squad I got a bit excited at the prospect at seeing a young and dynamic side playing, with players like Dan Ward-Smith, Courtney Lawes, Dan Cole, Ben Youngs and Chris Ashton. This looked to be a bold decision, to move forward with young players with a view to blooding them for the world cup, might have a few losses but never mind.

Come to selection for the Welsh game on Saturday and it seems as if all these players were forgotten, Tim Payne is brought in at Prop, the Spring Chicken Simon Shaw partners the ‘Coaches Captain’ Steve Borthwick, and Nick Easter trundles into the number 8 slot. My question is where is the dynamism to get go forward ball for our exciting backline to play? With Riki Flutey and Matthew tait in the midfield they need go forward ball for them to attack Wales on Saturday. Unfortunately I think that England need a rethink and some players need to stand up and be counted a la their current coach under Clive Woodward, where that side was driven by the players, and guided by the coach.

I am pleased for Matthew Tait that he has been given another chance at 13. It has been a few years of finding himself after his baptism of fire against Gavin Henson in 2005. I think he is a cracking player, and hope he can shine against James Hook on Saturday.

Final 6Nations position – Unfortunately 4th. The prospect of watching boring up the jumper rugby and giving the backs static ball is too 2003. The game has changed.

Week 1 Predictions

Ireland vs Italy – Ireland by a mile, Italy will unfortunately crumble in the Croke Park cauldron

England vs Wales – I would like to say England but up against a side that has included 10 Lions in its starting line up, I’m going to have to say Wales

Scotland vs France – Will be very close, but France will take it.

So there we have it, controversial? Have you already stopped reading as you think rugby is naff? Watch a game over the weekend, then tell me its naff!

Til the next time!

Youngsy

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Mercedes F1 2010 Car and Michael Schumacher

Early this morning, Mercedes GP unveiled their new F1 car for the 2010 season. The relatively small launch in Valencia, by none other than Michael Schumacher and this seasons team-mate Nico Rosberg marked the start of official testing at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo this morning.

The 2010 car is a far cry from the 2009 Brawn car, with a longer body (to accommodate more fuel), a new nose cone (similar to the 2009 Red Bull nose) and a newly designed wing over the engine cover.

We hear that Rosberg will be the first, with Shuey taking over this afternoon. Overall the session will last 3 days, and is the first of four testing sessions before the season opener on 14 March in Bahrain.

Not all of the teams are ready for the first test session, with Red Bull missing for certain. Also we don’t expect to see Button or Hamilton, although we expect McLaren to be at the event with reserve driver Gary Paffett. Tactics may be playing a part, but surely drivers want to maximise their time at the wheel?

We will keep you updated with news throughout the week…

The Apple iPad

OK so amongst all the rumours it seems there is no smoke without Fire. A little while ago Apple announced the launch of the iPad, I mean tablet, I mean iPad!

In terms of details, what we know so far is it is a little over a centimetre thick, and weighs in a little over 1 and a half pounds. As standard it comes with a 9.7-inch touchscreen IPS LCD display, and is powered by a specially built 1GHz Apple “A4″ chipset. Bulleted details below;

• 16, 32 and 64 gig sizes
• Huge 1 month standby (by which time you would have lost it!) and 10 hours battery life
• Connectivity via Bluetooth and 802.11n WiFi
• Built in speaker and microphone
• Accelerometer as expected

You can also run iPhone apps straight from the box, though they will be with limited pixels, though developers can already update their apps to the new larger screen size.

10 years in development, maybe this is 5 years to late? We will see!

Update -
Interestingly Jason Calacanis (@Jason) has broke today he has been a beta Apple Tablet tester. And before you laugh this off, the guy is the founder of some off the biggest tech stuff out there including Weblogs, TechCrunch50 and Engadget. Although he hasn’t put up any pic’s he is reporting;

Is it all true? He also said 3 guys dropped it off 10 days ago as he is doing a press release with CNBC tomorrow. WOW, let us know your thoughts.

Well the rumour mill probably started over 5 years ago, and today we are still none this wiser, but this evening will we finally find out what Apple are going to pull out of their shiny little bag of tricks?

There is probably no one better in the tech world at creating a buzz and a storm than Apple, ‘conveniently’ dropped leaks at various times, unprecedented gossip on blogs and social media sites such as twitter, but never quite enough to let you know exactly what they are talking about.

SO what do we know;

• At 18:00 GMT Apple will be holding a press conference in San Francisco to launch a new product
• We believe the code-name for this project has been K48
• Chances are it will be a gigantic iPhone, also known as a tablet

You could argue that with a total worldwide market of less than £600 million per year, it may not even be a tablet. But then you could also argue that the tablet market now, is not all that dis-similar to the MP3 Player market all those years ago before the birth of the iPod

A few pictures surfaced on Engadget this morning, for me they are a bit coincidental to be the real-deal, leaked on the morning of the announcement but who knows. Go check them out if you fancy it.

Price wise, if it is a tablet you could be looking in the region of £400 – £800. Which sounds a lot, especially when added to your i-Phone and your laptop… All we currently know for certain is Apple has billed the new gadget as “a major new product”.

We will of course have more information as it is released, and do let us know if you would pay a premium for a potential ‘Apple Tablet’…