Doesn't a martyr terrorist cheat if he takes drugs??

..before he blows himself up? I think so. I think the bombs strapped around a terrorist should come with a sweat detector and if the body excretes drug substances then the bombs should deactivate permanently. A terrorist who cheats by taking drugs so an not to feel the pain of death like a true martyr would, he or she should not die and be disgraced. What do you think? :)

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hairstyle-maniac.com

How about a new website or a new Facebook application where people post photos of themselves taken with different hairstyles so that others vote for the hairstyle that looks better on them? It can reduce anxiety and shorten decision time for men and women who are finicky about how their hair looks and want to have feedback before they make up their mind on a new hairstyle.

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What's so funny it's not even funny?

When people say, "I'm so tired it's not even funny" or "my head hurts so much it's not even funny", why would it be funny in the first place? Unless someone is laughing, it's not even funny. It's odd. Say you're really funny and can make people lol with what you say then it's probably ok to say "Oh I'm so funny it's not even funny anymore".

But it sounds odd that's why you won't hear people say it. Is your mind getting a bit funny with this? Mine is. If I keep going, it'll make your head hurt so much it's not even funny...arrrrgh! Can something be so funny that it's not even funny?

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At-home mail pick up

Simple idea but not universally implemented makes you wonder why. Every letter box should have 2 slots designated as in and out. The postman delivers mail into the in-slot and takes mail from the out-slot. If you expect mail, you don't have to go to the post-office or the nearest drop box to post your mail. The postman will head back to the post-office anyway so why not take your mail. It saves time and costs nothing. Why doesn't it become universal practice?

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chameleon fabrics

can we use nano-technology to create a fabric that changes color when a substance of different color is dropped on it? use the fabric on single-color clothes (shirts, t-shirts, jeans, pants etc) to cover stains and spilled liquids. for example useful when you're out and coffee is dropped on your clothes and can't change them. if the stained cloth is white it immediately changes to the color of the coffee stain and voila the problem of bad stain is solved temporarily. want to change color back to white? use a drop of tipp-ex or use other color wite-out to change to different color

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Air garbage

I was thinking lately about pollution and the tons of rubbish that are left out of the dumbs, mainly because we are soooooo insensitive and inconsiderate...Anyway...the only solution, because even if we become environmentally sensitive and protect nature of our rubbish, it'd STILL be too much to handle...So, I thought of a better world...A dream world...A world where we could ALL throw our garbage out of the windows or the balconies without getting afraid of messing up other people's balconies, clothes or heads! And all this because the garbage would...not fall down...but instead they would lead to the space!!! Can you imagine if there was a way to do this???How wonderful would be to take a walk on the beach,the park, the woods without looking at rubbish???

Well...I think it would be GREAT!!!Ohhh...and if someone still thinks..."yeah right and what about Earth's gravity?It would keep all these around us creating a layer of garbage"...I know. I know...That's why I called it "dream world"!

Now, wake up and lift this fag you threw from your car's window or I'll send all the rubbish to your house!!!

PLEASE take care of my planet!!!

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Rain proof F1 tracks

Since I started watching F1 races with my boyfriend I always had this question and no one has yet to give me a convincing answer. Why can't the tracks be covered with roofs to make them rain proof? They can be made of glass or transparent plastic material to facilitate TV broadcasting from all angles and heights. It can help reduce accidents, allow the cars to run the fastest they can on dry surface and the races don't have to be suspended when the tracks are flooded with torrential rain. People tell me it's difficult to construct or the cost is too high. hey guys, to start with F1 is a multi-billion dollar industry and second what's so difficult engineering-wise about setting up a roof?? It's not building the Parthenon or the Pyramids. It must be something else. Can anyone here answer this?

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A New Year lovers message

If you are in a long distance relationship consider sending her this message for the New Year:

'2008 wishes and hopes have now passed most of them hopefully fulfilled or still renewable. 2009 new ones I'll inspire next in your beautiful big heart. 2009 new desires I'll soon be carving into your gorgeous figure so that we can fulfill them all together one by one as the the New Year ushers in 3 2 1...Happy New Year!'

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(: Happy-Crappy :)

Will 2009 be a happy or crappy new year for you? I decided mine will be happy so I named my new puppy Huppy :)

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My office Is the airplane

No I'm not a pilot. I'm a writer and I always get my best thoughts and ideas when I'm flying. Something about being on air brings torrents of creativity in me. My imagination runs sweet and sour faster when I find myself traveling above cloud level. I really do work better when I'm flying. At the moment, I can't afford to travel as often as I would like but when my next best-seller surpasses the Da Vince code this is what I have in mind to do.

I'll start a new airline and I will call it Sky Author Airways. The fountain pen will be its logo. It will accept as its passengers authors journalists and writers who have published at least one book and want to use a flight as an office space. The decoration will be relaxed, something like a miniature of Google on air. There will be laptops with internet connection to use inside the plane. There will also be a printer and binder to print anything in book format that is downloaded online. This could work in partnership with a major publisher and retailer like Amazon.

There will also be a small library in the luggage compartment below which will be updated based on the passengers' preferences on each flight. Passengers will not be paying on a per travel basis but on a monthly basis. In other words the charge will be the same as renting office space. The only requirement will be that if the flight is booked on the day you want to fly you will have to take another route.

Of course passengers can use Sky Author Airways to combine it with their travel plans but the main goal of traveling with Sky Author is to use it as office space. Instead of working say 8 hours in an office you can take an 4 hour flight somewhere and come back by the end of the work day. Whoever is in the writing or creative business and in need of office space on air will be welcome to use Sky Author Airways!

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How They Won...

This is not a story of an imaginary pun. This thought association is live and taking place as I type it in the plane. I'm copying and pasting the text as I'm reading it right now from the stranger businessman sitting next to me on our flight to Zurich. He's reading the Financial Times and is too absorbed to see me typing off his copy of the newspaper which I find very amusing. The article reads "The South Korean Won lost 4.7% of its value on fears that the Korean government will stop intervening to support the currency..."

I'm thinking of the journalist who wrote these lines. Did he see the pun but left it there in the hope his readers will see it too? Why couldn't he phrase it otherwise so that the words 'won' and 'lost' don't read next to each other? How can something that is Won be actually Lost?

Perhaps he saw it but left it there intentionally. Perhaps not. My mind veers suddenly into an imaginary ad propping up the 'lost' South Korean currency. A full-page flashing George Soros and Warren Buffet side by side. The world's two most iconic and revered investors describing 'How They Won...' by investing where else in the South Korean Won!

Perhaps the story of how the South Korean Won Lost serves as the perfect metaphor of our times. Something Won Lost because it was all Made off. Who knows why the journalist contrived the sentence so that the words won and lost parade next to each other.

A few years ago perhaps no one would have noticed. But now, amidst the worst financial crisis, nothing of the sort can go unnoticed. I am too tempted to ask my neighbor if he noticed the pun but I hold back. Perhaps it's better that I keep it to myself for now.

My mind drifts again. The most unexpected associations can sometimes come just by taking a glance at the newspaper of the person sitting next to us. Even if I never read the finance and business sections of the news - I admit I find them too boring - at some funny level I guess we can all somehow find humor in words whereby we can then converge or diverge our thoughts.

It's simply amazing, isn't it? The stranger sitting next to me is too engrossed in his reading of the finance world. But what is he reading? He is reading of a South Korean Won which lost 4.7% of its value where as I am reading of a South Korean Won which is 'Lost' and making the most unexpected and unrelated associations in my mind while killing flight time. Does the guy next to me also see anything funny in them?

How can anyone not find it funny, ironic or paradoxical when something that is so Won is also so Lost? The story perhaps starts to make sense to the reader as he jumps to the next article describing how Madoff lost what his rich world clientele had won over the years.

I guess it's only when it is made off from the start that something arguably so hard won can also be so easily lost at the same time...

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extend museum hours after 5pm

most museums and galleries in australia close at 5pm during the week. this doesn't make sense because most people finish work just then. it is only after 5pm that they have time to visit during the week. by hiring more staff or temps or switching shifts museums should also stay open after 5pm. otherwise they become mostly used by students or people who can afford not to work and the general public has access to them on weekends when they are at their most crowded. that's not fair!

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good comedy Warning!

"This comedy will make you laugh very hard and without warning, so please don't drink or eat during show time. Do so at your own risk or only if you are skilled enough to eat or drink without swallow. We have tested the comedy on a group of 20 people, 2 of which choked to death from eating and drinking while laughing out loud, very loud"

Silence is gold but laugh can be fatal. I don't know if it's possible to ban eating and drinking in the movies, especially in comedies, but I happened to witness a couple choking to death from laughing out loud while eating and drinking since the start of the movie. Sounds crazy but it wasn't funny to hear them choking and patting each other in the back. Not that a warning in the beginning of the movie will avert a potential choking but at least there will be no excuse that people were not warned!

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For UK police dial 007 or 1-800-Superman (USA)

For psychological reasons why not change the universal emergency telephone number in every country to something more inspiring and reassuring taken from pop culture?

For the UK the number can be 007 and for the US something like 1-800-Superman. Imagine you are in an emergency in the UK and your friend asked you to call 007 for help! Wouldn't you pick up the phone right away to talk to 007? :) Give your suggestion for a 'cool' emergency phone number in your country :D

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Robots to fight poverty?

I read this article about this guy named Wu Yulu in China that figured out how to build robots that do the work for him. The amazing part is that the guy has not even finished highschool.

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Un-tighten sheets in hotel bed corners

They can cause crams on the legs as they leave very little space for moving toes and feet freely. Every hotel has a customer questionnaire in the room, so if we all mention this idea and recommend it to the management, it might happen. It's simple but maybe the reason most hotels, including 5-star ones, have bed sheet corners tightened so strong is because people don't ever mention it. While most people won't think it is a major thing or don't notice it, I am sure they will if suddenly hotels loosened the bed corners.

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burning smell in fire drills

most people walk slow, slouch, take time to talk and finish what they are doing before they decide to make their way to the exit. this doesn't really make anyone ready to respond well to a real-fire situation. the experts can not see what problems will be created in a real-life emergency evacuation. people need to be concerned and hurry in order to test the building. an attack on the senses would help do the trick by letting the fire alarms release a pungent smell of something burning. smoke-simulator machines and bright red and yellow lights can also be used to alert everyone that the drill must be taken seriously.

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spiderman/batman sky scrapper tours

a fun way to make use of tall buildings and sky scrappers in big cities. allow sky scrapper-hopping games to give people batman or spiderman-like experiences. i imagine it as a new kind of parcouronly with ropes, uniforms and equipment added for use in sky scrappers. obviously there will be safety measures and licensing and training will be required. if popular as a sport it can spawn a new tourism industry, visiting big cities around the world and staging games and competitions or simply touring.

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madoff hitman fund for companies

the name for a hitman fund after bernard madoff. basically investors and shareholders in a company set aside money to pay hitmen to take out swindlers, crooks and fraudsters. make it a requirement for banks, hedge funds, insurance and investment companies of any kind. benefits? delivers swift justice and guarantees efficient functioning of the markets as fraudsters must think about their life before they decide to swindle.

usually the real culprits behind big-time frauds tend to write books, give seminars, stay famous and continue to live in luxury a few years after the scandal. so instead of innocent investors who have been defrauded committing suicide, how about the real culprits get punished for a change? the current state of affairs is pitiful. hitmen contracts must be written in the bylaws of companies and kick-in automatically. if they don't prevent people from committing fraud, they will apply rightful justice after!

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baby stroller racer

maybe motorized baby strollers already exist. i was thinking of a remote-control baby stroller with 2 soft pedals on its end (brake/accelerator) for the baby to play with its feet and train as a racer. The stroller is motorized which makes it easy to use on uphill slopes. The max speed of the stroller will be no more than 2-3 miles/hour and the parent can jog or walk next to it hands-free. it will also be mp3/mobile phone/iPod compatible to allow parents to turn it left and right by using the navigation buttons of their device. just don't let kids use it without supervision :)

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toilet paper thoughts here

do you ever think of toilet paper? we use it so much it's a necessity. we love to abuse, scratch, stain, scrub and tarnish it, don't we? we molest rile and rag its lovely white color on a rolling basis every single day...if products had rights, toilet paper rights would by definition of use be absolutely shitty and toxic! perhaps if we could reverse the effects of use by coming up with a new kind of toilet paper that comes in crap color and switches to clean white after use. you know, it goes from maculate to immaculate and from molested black to extra virgin white. imagine swiping your... black with it and the paper comes out white instead. that would be The revolution in toilet paper rights!

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curious to know if benjamin (un)button(ed) lolita?

the story is brilliant and the movie is perhaps a very smart way to sneak in 'lolita' back into america but from the front door this time. as you know, the story of lolita is the story of an old man falling in love with a little girl. it was judged too immoral to be allowed to be seen in america. the brilliant trick with the benjamin button movie was that they convinced people that an old man could develop a connection with a young girl because he was a little boy inside. if old-looking is not same as old yet all old men are old-looking and if all old-looking old men develop into little kids anyway as they age, then what's to stop old men now from openly pursuing hidden lolita dreams and sexual desires? did benjamin unbutton lolita? i think so.

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McPerfume

Perfume smells different from person to person. It be nice to have a perfume that smells the same no matter who wears it.

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Unique scents

Wouldn't it be nice to make our own unique scent to wear? Instead of buying standard commercial brands we buy individual scents to mix and thus come up with our own unique scent to wear. I would like to start a business that teaches people at the shop how to mix scents and create their own unique aroma to wear depending on the occasion.

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Antique shop with modern furniture

Antique and modern? Sounds like a total contradiction but if one knows how to combine antiques with modern furniture in an interior space the result can actually be very nice, depending on your taste of course. I've never seen it anywhere yet, but an antique shop that showcases antiques and modern furniture and shows people how to combine the two would be a very interesting new concept I think.

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Press conferences going Japanese

Following the shoe incident with Bush in Iraq, press conference organizers are thinking of instituting new rules and manners. All participants will be asked to take their shoes off and wear paper-thin slippers. The measure is expected to improve the hygiene and ambience of the press room and make everyone relax and feel more comfortable.

Initially the idea was to ask participants to tie their shoes and hang them on power lines and phone wires outside the venue to give it western-style semantics but the fear this could be interpreted as a gangs-in-town sign or a drug dealer's marking made everyone revise and adopt symbolism-neutral Japanese manners on room hygiene.

I guess the most symbolic and heard-out-loud kind of peaceful protest to a future Bush-style US president, might be to hang shoes from power lines and telephone poles everywhere in town so that the message is visible from everywhere no matter what route the presidential motorcade will take to get in and out of town. It will be a spectacle to remember and the number of shoes hanging in protest a new Guinness world record countries will compete in!

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How to cut down a pirate's pi/e/

The best way for companies and governments to recover the huge amounts of ransom money paid to Somali pirates is to use inter-pirate rivalry to get the money back piece by piece. Here's the real story first:

"Pirates seized the Sirius on November 15. A $3.5 million ransom payment, down from the initial demand of $25 million, was dropped by parachute onto the ship Friday, but the pirates delayed the vessel's release after the drownings. Other pirates on the shore wanted a tip from the pirates on the Sirius Star, so they started to fire in the air as our people approached the land"

Going from $25 million down to $3.5 million is great savings but $3.5 million is still Sirious money. Wanna have a pirate's pi and eat it too? Here's what you can do. This is a Sirius proposition after all.

You negotiate with a rival team of pirates to give them the $3 million and you keep the $500,000. You actually hire them and sign a contract with them. It's all about enticing them to really go after their own ilk. You give them immunity from any prosecution if they fetch you back the $500,000 they get to keep the $3 million which in effect has been money-laundered and can be used tax-free anywhere in the world! Or so you say to them anyway :P

But before they get to use the money and as soon as that first contract is signed, you immediately start negotiating with rival teams of pirates to steal the money from the pirates who held it last. As the process of signing successive contracts and watering down the initial amount goes on, at some point you will have recovered the full original amount paid in ransom and in the process you will also have gotten rid off of most pirates.

I see no problem signing second-time and third-time watered-down contracts even with the same team of pirates if you run out of rivalries. I also see no problem agreeing to cover funeral expenses for any pirate losses incurred and sibling re-trainings in non-pirate activities. Somali funerals are cheap and sibling re-training in non-pirate activities means that spouses and kids will be taken off piracy!

Take it from a pirate. Deceit is the language they can understand. You better use it if you want to speak the same language and get your work done successfully and not put your men in harm's way :)

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head-spanking chairs for shorter meetings

if time is money, then it's time to put an end to people who talk talk talk and talk talk taaaaalk...i don't care if there are people who love their voice too much or if they think they have important things to say. talking time gets fixed, stays same for everyone and is kept short. only the chairperson of the meeting can extend time. if time's up and someone is still taaaaalking he gets spanked by the head-spanking chair, flaaaap!! ok, what's next, what about no one is allowed to cover their neck with cushion. bare necks will make for great spanking sounds. those who become rednecks are out of the meeting :)

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Opera Geishas

I would be interested to see famous operas like Madama Butterfly performed by real geishas trained in opera. When a story centers around the life of a geisha why not have real ones perform it? Geishas are supposed to be trained in all the arts. I read that they are in decline in Japan so demand for a new genre of opera-trained geishas could help revive the tradition!

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boobies food

Ladies and gentlemen, out of munching boredom and eating delights, I present you with what I think can become the next revolution in food research. Food stuff that gets stored only in certain areas of the body. Boobies food augments breast size by storing fat in the breast area and is guaranteed to sell like hot cakes among women. For the gentleman, how about men's bananas that store the extra carbos and fibers in the genital area? Just pick the food by preferred size...I have no doubt in my mind that the market for such kind of food stuff will be huge. So it might actually worth spending time and money coming up with these fat-storage properties in food :)

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shark-bitten surf boards

mount it on the wall and you have a story to tell about how you fought off a shark attack. a lot of girls will be impressed by it. what about a new surf shop where you can buy shark-bitten boards and skis, fake or real. usually genuine survivors of shark attacks would not part with their mementos but some of them might sell them for the right price. since there will be few of those surfers around there will be a need to create fake shark bites and scratches on the boards. the concept of showing off a personal sporting item that came out of a fight with an animal is something that doesn't yet exist and if you are not good making up a fancy story to sell to your friends then you can download one online or use the one that comes with the board you just bought!

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unicycle paraglider

a paraglider with a unicycle as its seat so that you can pedal with your legs as you fly. from down below, if you crop the parachute part on the video, it will give the impression that you are cycling on the air and that you are flying using your legs only :D

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skydiving smile tip

the free fall will make your teeth dry very fast which makes it harder to pull the skin on and off and give good smiles. what about spreading vaseline on your teeth to make the gums slide easier? this is a trick used by beauty contestants which I think can be used by sky divers as well!

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subliminal advertising

suggested to me by a friend. most hollywood movie classics that have jungle scenes in them use the sound of kookaburra birds even if the setting is not in australia. the laughing kookaburra bird is to be found only in australia though. ignorance or conspiracy? a zoolander-kind of a covert mission to advertise australia to the world perhaps? :)

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Did you fart?

Of course I did! Do you think I always smell like this??

hey guys, don't get too embarrassed if you happen to fart in public. use the above line and let the shame drop on others :)

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Strippers and hookers in prison

Don't you think we should seriously consider allowing strippers and hookers to visit prisons and physically engage with inmates in private sex rooms or cells designed for this purpose? I think it can help them to sexually rehabilitate. Some prisoners become sexual offenders as soon as they get out of jail. Gradual sexual rehabilitation after long years of depravity could help them. What's your view?

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sexhausted...

a new word to describe exhaustion from too much sex. for people who spout too much sperm or semen during intercourse they can refer to the tool as a sexhaust. if you think about it, the term is quite descriptive. it describes the shape, the exit property as well as the process. and when the sexhaust goes dry that's when you know you got sexhausted :)

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The Best Transition President

If only Bush had governed the same way he handled the transition period, he would have made a much better president. All Obama said about Bush in his speech was to thank him first for his service to the country (way too general) and then for his generosity and cooperation during the transition (as good as it gets). He basically acknowledged that Bush existed and that he was at his best as a president-in-transition. Obviously Bush was not as good in transition when he 'snatched defeat from the jaws of victory' from Al Gore in 2000 but 8 years changed him a lot. In any case, what a cordial thing of Obama to say about Bush..

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More fun to play ice hockey than watch it

I ve always thought that its more fun to play ice hockey than watch it. The action is too damn crowded and it difficult to see much of the putty. Except for the pushing around and fighting part most of it is boring. If you havent played it yet you must give it a try its a riot. I feel over the moon whenever I play ice hockey even if I am playing alone. The way the hockey sticks glide across the turf to the way you control your speed just enough to focus on where you are want to place the putty, its total fun.

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Save last words in the black box...

A very macabre thought, nevertheless one that needs to be spoken out. With airline accidents, plane crashes and terrorist hijackings on the rise, a passenger's last words might be the only thing left to be passed to the bereaved families. Where's the best place to store last words then? hmmm...black box flight recorder? It's the only thing that certainly gets recovered after a plane crash and it records everything that goes on in the cockpit, so why not store records of passengers' last words too? I can't think of a better device to store the data. Passengers can use the hand sets on their seats to speak their last words with voice data passed and stored automatically in the black box.

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ironysms...

Ironer, the person who causes the irony...
Ironee, the person who picks up/receives the irony...
Ironoo, the person who refuses to acknowledge the irony...
Ironknee, the person who doesn't get intimidated by irony...
Ironbroke, the person who runs out of irony...
Ironoceros, the person who can't help horning out irony...
Ironotaurus, the person who bull fights on acid and irony...

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Set your own credit card spending limits

The banks set the maximum amount of credit you can have but it be nice if they also gave their customers the option to set their own daily weekly or monthly spending limits. It can be offered as an extra service in the customer's online banking account. This way people can have more control over their spending.

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