as with all great events, there are some crazed world cup fans out there with a lot of time to kill.
my bro found this somehow or another:
1. Brazil won the World Cup in 1994; before that they also won in 1970. Adding 1970 + 1994= 3964
2. Argentina won its last World Cup in 1986; before that they also won in 1978. Adding 1978 + 1986= 3964
3. Germany won its last World Cup in 1990; before that they also won in 1974. Adding 1974 + 1990= 3964
4. Brazil also won the World Cup in 2002; before that they also won in 1962. Adding 1962+ 2002= 3964
5. Therefore if you want to know what nation is going to win the World Cup in 2010, you only have to subtract 2010 from the magic number that we have determined: 3964.
3964 minus 2010 = 1954... In 1954 the World Cup was won by Germany!!!
Not at all scientific... but pretty interesting..
LETS WAIT & WATCH......
and here's a diagram:
haha. i'd like to see germany get slaughtered by spain, but who knows. my family were joking today, imagine if uruguay randomly won the world cup. how random would that be.
i really want octopus paul to start predicting other matches as well, not just germany's because that's really lame.
oh yeh, my dad told me that some guy committed suicide because brazil lost, and so he wouldnt be surprised if any argentinians suicided as well, i mean 4-0 is pretty humiliating.
but seriously... suiciding over a soccer match? wattheheck. wats wrong with these people. wat has this world come to.
theres more things in life than a game. they take this so seriously, like religion or sumthing. once their team is down theres no point in life.
i guess if they made bets with the wrong guys then theyre in deep trouble i might have suicided because of their debt, but honestly. that is the stupidest thing ive ever heard of.
UPDATE. Octopus Paul predicted Spain to win over germany. HOWEVER. you know how i said it has an 80% success rate from like 2008 games, yeh the downfall, the 20% wrong that he got was predicting germany to win over spain. so hahaha. id laugh if this prediction was false too. that'd be sooo hilarious. not really. but yeh, i do not believe in that octopus.
so yesterday i went to fitness first at carlo for the induction thing and i saw alex yip there! wow, been a while hasn't it. so yes, i shall be going there more often and get super tanked up. although i didnt go today cuz there was some soul purpose leader thing on. btw, any year 10s interested in becoming soul purpose leaders?!?!
uhm on..sunday? i think. me and my mum went to north rocks westfield and saw this shop, cakes connoisseur. and they had the prettiest mini cupcakes in the world so we bought 6 and golly. so expensive. individually they are 2.50 but for 6 they are 14. and wow. i mean yeh, some were good, but they werent as divine as i'd think theyd be. i shall post pictures later and tell you more about them!
genius #19: velcro
ahhh, don't we all LOVE velcro; that ingeniously strong fastening, the simplicity, and of course, the beautiful ripping noise produced. honestly, i get an adrenalin rush when i rip velcro. cuz i'm awesum like that.
no but seriosuly, i love the idea of it sooooooooooo much. and its so strong!
wiki: George de Mestral named his invention "Velcro", which is a portmanteau of the two French words velours and crochet, or 'hook'. The term Velcro is a registered trademark in most countries. Generic terminology for these fasteners includes "hook and loop", "burr" and "touch" fasteners. However the Velcro brand is an example of a genericized trademark as its brand name has become the generic term. The Velcro company headquarters is in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
The idea came to him one day after returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps. He took a close look at the burrs (seeds) of burdock that kept sticking to his clothes and his dog's fur. He examined them under a microscope, and noted their hundreds of "hooks" that caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. He saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion, if he could figure out how to duplicate the hooks and loops.
Originally people refused to take him, and the idea, seriously when he took his idea to Lyon, which was then a center of weaving.
well, that's not surprising, i mean most ingeniuities are dismissed when first heard of right. they're so absurd and insane they can't possibly work, right? haha obviously not.
