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08-25-2010, 10:55 AM
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5. VHS vs. Betamax vs. Video 2000
 A triple-threat match, Extreme Championship Wrestling-style! You’ve heard of VHS, you’ve probably also heard of Betamax, but trailing both of these was Video 2000 a.k.a. the VCC (Video Compact Cassette). The VCC was Phillips/Grundig’s attempt at getting involved in the video wars. To demonstrate how terribly they failed, consider the fact that until 10 seconds ago, you didn’t even know that VCC existed. That’s how people in small non-football playing countries like Bhutan feel. Betamax, which some say was the superior system, famously lost out to VHS. It a shame, cos I like words that have “Max” in their name. 
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08-25-2010, 10:55 AM
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4. Blonde vs. Brunette
 Question, do you go with the hot blond with dazzling smile and possibly low I.Q or do you go with sensual, sun-kissed brunette? Answer: You go with the one with the biggest cachungas. Obviously. This debate has been going on as long as man has been able to debate and it is truly one time when the term ‘there is no right answer’ actually applies. Unless the choice is between an ugly blond and a hot brunette-then choose the brunette hands down, and vice versa.
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08-25-2010, 10:55 AM
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3) Watch vs. Clock on Mobile Phone
 (Warning: the following contains made-up facts) Time was people used to wear watches to actually tell the time and not just to look good, and if you weren’t wearing a watch you went all ‘farmer’ and guessed the time from the position of the sun in the sky. Not any more, everyone carries a mobile phone, which now serves not only as your one-stop communication device but also your watch. And a torch for finding you’re way round in the dark when you come home late at night. Did you know that with every 10% uptake in mobile phone sales has resulted in a 10% downturn in sales for watch manufactures? Incredible!
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08-25-2010, 10:55 AM
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2. Axl Rose vs. World (particularly Vince Neil)
 In addition to alienating friends, band members, and fans, and waiting years to release a great album that he won’t even bother to promote (he’s too cool for that!), Axl Rose’s main pastime is feuding. He loves it! One of his most well known feuds was with Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil. This is how things went down: GNR guitarist Izzy Stradlin tried it on with Vince’s wife backstage at the 1989 MTV music awards. Considering that one of the permanent fixtures of Vince Neil’s life has been messing around with other people’s women, I see nothing at all wrong with this. Vince, however, was somewhat displeased and punched Izzy. Though Axl wasn’t on the scene at the time, and though it didn’t involve him in anyway, he obviously had no choice but to challenge Vince to a fight outside a record store after the show. My own preference would have been to viciously batter Vince without warning while he slept. Apparently sharing my laziness and poor time keeping habits, Axl couldn’t be bothered to turn up, but he and Vince did continued to call each other out on television (check the video in gallery on the right). Everyone said that Axl would break Vince into a million little pieces. The evidence? Well, has Vince Neil ever caused a Riot in St Louis? I rest my case.
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08-25-2010, 10:56 AM
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1. Man vs. Laziness
 The never-ending battle that is laziness. Sometimes I think laziness is more addictive than nicotine, when faced with opportunity of shoveling snow from a road in arctic conditions or lying on the sofa in a warm house watching TV…laziness always win. (See that, laziness made me miss the ‘S’.) Laziness is a curse; the inability to do any real work before you have read your email, checked Facebook and had a cup of coffee, has surely stifled man from the dawn of time. It’s a real shame being lazy is so fun, because that is why mediocrity is celebrated so much in our society – we could all be big time if we just could get of the sofa for two minutes and do stuff, unfortunately only uber geeks and morning people have found the way to battle laziness. If you like this list, Darius writes for the ‘Daily Different’ on Becks.com. Yes, the beer website. Beck’s realised that no one goes to a beer website, so they ran a competition to get someone in to write content for their site to provide something different and interesting. Darius has been writing articles such as this and making videos etc. and it’s not about beer, promise! Please check out the Daily Different at Becks.
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