#there is a certain brand of straight guy who discovers that i fly fish and IMMEDIATELY perks up with interest

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There are a lot of jokes (not without reason) about straight men holding fish in their online dating profiles, but tbh based on anecdotal evidence straight women should give it a try

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The Daily Tulip

The Daily Tulip – International News From Around The World

Sunday 30th July 2017

Good Morning Gentle Reader….  And I thought I was the only one to get up at this time of the morning, Good to see you, want to come on the walk with Bella and I?? OK, Company will make a change, normally it's just the two of us, we'll head towards the sea  and watch the lights from the cruise ships passing through the Straights of Gibraltar and see the little one man fishing boats that ply the coastal waters and provide the fresh fish for the local restaurants.. a walk along the promenade, it's cooler here than in the town, but we have to wander through the "Old Town" with its hanging baskets of Geraniums of just about every color, the smell is quite "Heady" but I love it.. The bells, calling people to mass are loud here, not that many stir from their beds these days.. I imagine it's only the Priest and maybe if he's lucky, four of five regulars, then it's back to the house and coffee, water and whatever you want to drink, so let’s have a look at the "Papers" and see what the world has in store for us today...

FLIGHT ATTENDANTS REALLY WANT YOU TO STOP ORDERING DIET COKE WHEN ON A PLANE…. You can order any other soft drink, but Diet Coke makes their jobs a lot harder. There are several things which are guaranteed to annoy a flight attendant . Drunk passengers, rude passengers, foolish passengers trying to earn their 'mile high' stripes to name a few. It's not just acts of belligerence, however, which can incur your flight attendant's wrath. Your choice of drink may very well have this effect too. What's more, it's a popular soft drink , rather than an ill-advised glass of booze. One cabin crew member kindly revealed what this drink is on These Gold Wings - so you can avoid angering the staff member manning the refreshment trolley. Flight attendants dread a passenger ordering it because it takes a lot longer than other carbonated beverages to pour. In the time it takes to pour just one Diet Coke, a cabin crew member could have served three other passengers. The reason for this is because of a cabin's lower air pressure making it even easier to release the CO2 in the drink, making even fizzier than usual. The flight attendant explained, "As you may know, the aircraft cabin is not pressurised to sea level, but rather to the equivalent of about seven or eight thousand feet. "This means some passengers might feel a little light headed or that alcohol affects them almost twice as much as it would on the ground.

ROBOT 'DROWNS' IN FOUNTAIN MISHAP…. A security robot in Washington DC suffered a watery demise after falling into a fountain by an office building. The stricken robot, made by Knightscope, was spotted by passers-by whose photos of the aftermath quickly went viral on social media. For some, the incident seemed to sum up the state of 21st Century technology. "We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots," wrote one worker from the building on Twitter. "Steps are our best defence against the Robopocalypse," commented Peter Singer - author of Wired for War, a book about military robotics. It is not the first accident involving Knightscope's patrolling robots, which are equipped with various instruments - including face-recognition systems, high-definition video capture, infrared and ultrasonic sensors. Last year, a 16-month-old toddler was run over by one of the autonomous devices in a Silicon Valley shopping centre. And earlier this year, a Californian man was arrested after attacking a Knightscope robot. The man, who was drunk at the time of the incident, later said he wanted to "test" the machine, according to Knightscope.

THE END: YORKSHIRE DALES 'BOOKSELLER FROM HELL' QUITS HIS SHOP…. A man who earned a reputation as Britain’s rudest bookseller is to quit and “not a moment too soon”, according to relieved residents fed up with him driving tourists away from their Yorkshire Dales village. Hawes, the home of Wensleydale cheese, is saying goodbye to Steve Bloom, who admits he is a man who “doesn’t butter his parsnips” when dealing with members of the public. The 63-year-old hit the headlines earlier this year when the was criticised for asking visitors for a 50p entry fee to Bloomindales, his secondhand book shop in Hawes. The chairman of the local parish council branded him “the bookseller from hell” following a stream of complaints about his behaviour. Bloom admitted he was wrong to call one customer a “pain in the arse”. “I regretted it as soon as I said it,” he said. Bloom, who has said he is “not really a people person”, is selling up – partly to escape complaining customers. His policy of charging 50p entry – designed to stop browsers from wasting his time – caused constant rows with his customers, but he refused to back down. After a storm of protest about his Basil Fawlty-esque rants at those who dared question his entry fee, he managed to avoid offending anyone for almost four months. But lately the outraged letters to the council have started again. This month two customers complained about him – one of them saying a group of 15 customers were so shocked by the “rude and patronising little man” they packed up and left town. But even as he announced he had sold up, Bloom was unapologetic and refused to accept he had been driven out by his enemies on the local council. ”I hope that none of the people who have been trying to drive me out are claiming any kind of victory, because it isn’t. I have left of my own free will,” he said. “It got very difficult sitting in my shop listening to people talking about me as the man who charges 50p entry. I will not miss the moaning. I’d be sitting there and have to listen to people saying ‘this is the shop that was on the news’ and ‘he’s the one who charges entry just to look at his books’ and it gets to me. “I gained a certain notoriety and I suppose much of it was of my own invention but I don’t have regrets.” He added: “The council were desperate to get rid of me but they didn’t manage. I won that battle.” Councillor John Blackie, who represents Hawes on Richmondshire district council, has led the campaign to force Bloom to either change his ways or leave the town, and once described him as “the bookseller from hell”.

BODIES OF SWISS COUPLE MISSING FOR 75 YEARS FOUND ON GLACIER….  Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the parents of seven children, discovered perfectly preserved near ski lift by worker.. The frozen bodies of a Swiss couple who went missing 75 years ago in the Alps have been found on a shrinking glacier, Swiss media said. Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the parents of seven children, had gone to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on 15 August 1942. “We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day,” their youngest daughter, Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, 75, told the Lausanne daily Le Matin. “I can say that after 75 years of waiting this news gives me a deep sense of calm.” Valais cantonal police said two bodies bearing identity papers had been discovered last week by a worker on Tsanfleuron glacier near a ski lift above Les Diablerets resort at an altitude of 2,615 metres (8,600ft). DNA testing would be carried out to confirm their identities.

RUSSIA TO INVESTIGATE FIDGET SPINNERS AMID CLAIMS OPPOSITION USING THEM TO LURE SUPPORTERS…. Russia’s consumer rights watchdog is to investigate fidget spinners amid claims on state TV that the gadgets could be used by political opponents to lure children.  According to the official statement published on Rospotrebnadzor’s website, the investigation was prompted by “concerns expressed by community of parents and teachers” and aims at researching how fidget spinners influence children’s and teenagers’ health and whether they can have any negative effects on it. In the meantime, the watchdog advises parents to supervise children playing with fidget spinners and to buy them from sellers they trust.

Well Gentle Reader I hope you enjoyed our look at the news from around the world this, Sunday morning… …

Our Tulips today are so bright they are looking to leap off the page....

A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it's always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of "Colombian" Coffee and wish you a safe Sunday 30th July 2017 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…

All good stuff....But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in

Be safe out there…

Robert McAngus