Christmas Pop Chart number 1: to the top of a mountain ofcrap   Here comes Christmas time again, and with it all the commercials willing tomake you buy various presents for your relatives. Another warning that you havenow reach this consuming core zone is the starting of the race toward Christmaschart number one. It's just pouring out from TV and radio as a continuous cheesy flow. I guess this must happen in all the Christian culture countries. At themoment the UK is pretty b...

In transit That's my current situation. In a previous post, Idescribed in the best words I could how I moved out of my house. At the moment,I'm using the hospitality of my friends E. and Y. , both Frenchmanworking in the same department as me. This situation has been lasting since thefirst of December and it's going to end soon on the 17 of December. Although I'mmore than very grateful to my friends, I'm quiet eager to go back into a houseon my own. (it will be a shared house wit...

From Nobel Peace Prize winner to Britishheathens in 21 steps . Number of the 111 Nobel peace prize winners whohave come to the US 18 Number of the 111 Nobel peace prize winners whohave come to the UK 9 Years since Henry Kissinger won the Nobel PeacePrize, an event which prompted the American satirist Tom Lehrer to remark:"It was at that moment that satire died. There was nothing more tosay." 30 Number of Hungarian Nobel prize winner 16 Number of time ...