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Don’t Wash Your Pillows in the Laundry Machine

Otherwise this will happen:

I wish this picture could capture what a mess this created.

I decided to be productive today, you know the weekend and all, so I decided to do some cleaning. During the cleaning process I thought to myself,

boy, those pillows haven’t been cleaned in a long er…they’ve never been cleaned!

So I asked myself, “how do you clean pillows?” Well, “just like everything else! In the laundry machine!” Well be advised that if you do this, all of the stuff that is in the pillow will be outside of the pillow, and you’ll have a bigger mess than when you started 😳

This is why I believe the educational system is flawed – I should have been taught this in school. What?? You say that I should have already known? Well, I didn’t – and bet you didn’t know either, at least until now!

🙄

Esenboga Airport in Ankara

Has been updated from a brick shack to one of the largest airports in Europe. I landed in Ankara on the last day the old airport was in service – and left in an immense new one. A capacity of 10 million passengers (per day), certainly an upgrade.

If you are planning on going to visit about $40 will get you from the airport to the city center which is roughly 33km (21 miles) away.

Be advised however that a cup of coffee will cost you about $4 US.

Me leaving Ankara a few weeks ago:

More pictures and info, both in Turkish and English.

Create South Park Characters

This is very old, but I thought I’d tell you the trick to saving the characters you create (as there is no save function) — just use a simple PrtScn then paste the image into MS Word, or MS paint (for you Windows users).

Then you can crop, print, and save the image.

I’m Not in this Week’s Police Report

I checked the latest police report for my county and alas I am not in it. I thought I’d check to see if there was any mention of a stolen purse around my area to perhaps get an idea of why the police showed up at my door twice last week in the middle of the night.

In the past when I’ve had to pull up the good ol’ police report I’ve found that it takes the coppers 2-3 weeks before any gets updated. I’ll keep you posted if I find anything else. Just to keep myself occupied I was thinking of calling the (hot) police lady to see if she’d tell me anything.

Or ask me on a date.

Probably not, right?

Yeah, I didn’t think so 😕

Ok, I’ll just forget about it, I could just be stirring up trouble, I don’t like to confront authority, I prefer to undermine it.

D.B Cooper

This is fascinating:

D. B. Cooper, aka “Dan Cooper”, is a pseudonym given to a notorious aircraft hijacker who on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of $200,000, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest. No conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper’s whereabouts, and several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump. The only clues to have turned up in the case are ambiguous: around $6,000 that washed up on the banks of the Columbia River, and part of a sign believed to be from the rear stairway of the plane from which Cooper jumped. The Cooper case remains the world’s only unsolved hijacking.

Today is Teacher’s Day in Turkey

Today, November 24th is Teacher’s Day in Turkey. Since so many of our readers are teachers (or once were) I’m wishing you all a happy Teacher’s Day.

Even though teachers have been my enemy since 1rst grade – none of you guys have tried to educate me, so we are on good terms? 😀

Beesides, who needz two lurn anythang frum skool dat you is can’t already be learnin on da streetz yo!

About Anil Polat

foxnomad aboutHi, I'm Anil. foXnoMad is where I combine travel and tech to help you travel smarter. I'm on a journey to every country in the world and you're invited to join the adventure! Read More

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