Swollen Pickles

What the freakin hell do I know about drug treatment centers or “rehab”? The quick answer would be nothing, but if I said that, this post would be a little on the short side.

So here's my comprehensive list of things I know about rehab.

1. It's a great place to meet burnt out celeb starlets. Case in point: Lindsay Lohan.
2. Perfect place to hook up with aging rockers to form a super group. Case in point: Any "super group" currently doing the rounds.
3. TV has taught me that high class rehab looks very similar to a day spa. Of course TV is always an accurate representation of real life.

Thanks to television and trashy gossip magazines that is all I know about rehab. I'm so enlightened.

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Billiards is one of those games that I'd like to be able to play a lot more of if only I had more time or resources. If you are going to go out and buy all the gear you need, including the table, billiards quickly becomes a rich mans sport. At least, that's what I learned today.

From what I can tell www.borderbilliards.com is a relatively new site. It does not yet have a page rank, and its Alexa ranking is in the millions. Obviously whoever is behind it is out to create a quick buzz, and I'm more than happy to oblige.

The website itself is well designed, looks the part, and technically seems to function ok. The major problem is that the owner seems to have decided to 'go live' with the site, before all of the content was ready. So what you find is that when you click on some of the links, take the information page as an example, you end up with no content, just a white space where the content should be. (more...)

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"Tell us about the most romantic experience you have ever had, and the importance of romance in relationships."

Well, there was this one time, I was seated at a restaurant, for the sake of the exercise, lets call it 'McDonalds'. I had finished meal, but was still hungry. As I approached the counter the waitress smiled, and asked, "Another cheeseburger sir?” (more...)

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Millionaire Memorabilia is an online retailer that sells a massive range of collectible memorabilia, ranging from hand-signed and unsigned, movie, sports, music and historic collectibles.

One of the things I loved about visiting the Hard Rock Cafe was browsing through the huge amount of music memorabilia. As a music freak, it was heaven. That's what I like about the Millionaire Memorabilia website. There is a lot of music related gear up for grabs... if you can afford the price tag that is!

As of writing this, they currently stock a guitar mounted and framed, hand signed by Aerosmith. Granted, the guitar isn't a proper Fender Strat, and it was probably never taken onstage by Joe Perry, but it'd still be a pretty cool addition to the pool room... if you have $3,995 lying around that is.

For sports nuts, the Millionaire Memorabilia website also has some nice looking framed and mounted sports memorabilia. I noticed quite a bit of material relating to Miami Heat basketballer Dwayne Wade. Some nice photos of him signed, throwing it down Michael Jordan style. The wide range of Miami Heat merchandise makes me think that the company might well be based in the Miami area (not that I'm that knowledgeable when it comes to US geography).

Anycase, if you're into collectible memorabilia of any kind, check out their website, it's an old school sort of design and layout, but some of the products offered are quite cool.

This post sponsored by  Millionaire Memorabilia.

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Do you like equestrian? Does it make any sense to you? I have to say, I find equestrian (or dressage) to be a truly confusing sport. The horse seems to do all the hard work, yet the rider gets the medal and glory. Every time I hear equestrian, my mind immediately wanders off to that episode of the Goodies where Tim Brooke Taylor became obsessed with fox hunting and ran around in those pompous looking horse riding pants? Ahhh... so many memories. Let's be honest, 'style' and 'horse riding apparel' are not two terms that go hand in hand.

For this post I thought I'd dig through YouTube to see if there was any funny horse riding/equestrian videos. Well, there weren't many that made me laugh.

This one got close though...

But this little guy popped up when I just typed "horse" into the YouTube search field. It's the Lil' Superstar remix... well at least 'horse' appears in the lyrics!

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"Botox for headaches"? Now I've heard freakin everything. Until I saw this I didn't even know there was a place called the New York Headache Center, let alone that plugging yourself full of Botox could help relieve headaches. I guess one of the things I find a little concerning about the whole thing is this quote from their website:

"It is not clear how Botox relieves migraine headaches."

Now if you're not sure about why something works, I'm not sure that it is something you necessarily want to be playing around with, particularly when it comes to your body.

Let's not forget, Botox can go wrong? Take this exhibit as an example.

Next time your thinking about plugging your face full of Botox, maybe you should recall the image to your right here, and ask yourself, is it really a good idea?

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When I first saw this opportunity for RC airplanes, I assumed they were just expensive kids toys. That's when I got onto YouTube to have a look for some remote control plane footage. Naturally I added "crash" to the end of the search term, in the hope of seeing something spectacular.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of footage available in the way of spectacular crashes.  There was this lame clip of a guy standing in the wrong place...

There was this also kind of lame video of an RC plane exploding (although stop it at 0.17 and you can see that something was fired at it mid flight - conspiracy perhaps??)...

But then there was this video of some nut jobs flying a remote control plane through a tunnel in Stockholm. The plane was 2 meters wide, and the tunnel 3.9km long. Interesting statistics, but as far as 6min long videos go, this one is also kind of lame.

Anyone know of remote control plane videos on YouTube that aren't lame?

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