By Atlas Al Malta. Biggest tease on Earth. I returned home after visiting The Hunger who’s doing a working holiday in Malta. We caught up, discussed future plans for the site, drank (a lot), and naturally, I scoped out the local scene for any talent. We met a cool Canadian guy named Andrew at a beachside hookah [...]
Continue ReadingBy The Hunger The World Cup schedule is a flagger’s menu. What better way to meet someone from Cote d’Ivoire, Mexico, Australia, or any other country you fancy than heading down to the local World Cup village and checking out the international soupe du jour. As Atlas Al already pointed out in his Ready. Aim. Flag! post, [...]
Continue ReadingBy Atlas Al The World Cup always attracts heaps of visitors and earns the host country billions in state revenue. The one industry South Africa won’t make money on is prostitution. In the article, Prostitutes flock to South Africa ahead of World Cup 2010, The Christian Science Monitor reports sex workers from all over southern Africa, even [...]
Continue ReadingBy Atlas Al Fans of basketball, baseball, tennis, American football, the annual Lumberjack World Championship – all are God awful when compared to soccer fans. You won’t see more beautiful women at any sporting event other than the World Cup. Yes, this is a fact. The well known cliché goes “…is as easy as shooting fish in [...]
Continue ReadingBy The Hunger Having arrived in Malta a couple of days ago, I was greeted by the furnace-like heat this quaint little island is famous for. Naturally, the bevy of Maltese women sunning themselves like flamingos on vacation lured me to the beach. After spending the last couple of months in Spain, I was reminded that the [...]
Continue ReadingBy Atlas Al Congratulations to German pop singer, Lena, who at the age of 19 has won the 2010 Eurovision singing contest in Norway with her song “Satellite.” However, I lost some respect for the largest singing contest in the world. To call something Eurovision, shouldn’t it be European? Countries from Morocco to Jordan are eligible to [...]
Continue ReadingBy The Hunger June 11th is just around the corner and the whole world (even New Zealand) is getting ready for FIFA World Cup 2010. Whilst everyone with a passport has an automatic favourite, the tournament is limited to only 32 nations. With 30 countries destined not to make the final and 161 nations without a [...]
Continue ReadingBy Atlas Al It looks as if there’ll be no end to the Cyprus crisis. Dervis Eroglu, the prime minister of the occupied Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, won the recent presidential election. And why should I care about all this? Because he’s a nationalist who’d prefer not to reunite with the rest of Cyprus, and he represents [...]
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