Archive

Posts Tagged ‘… in Plain English’

Why is Pluto not a Planet?

June 7th, 2012 No comments

Pluto lost its place from Planet family in 2006. It’s been categorized as Dwarf Planet.

Why is Pluto not a planet? Here is the explanation

Pluto is not a planet

Egg printing explained

May 17th, 2012 No comments

Egg Printing Explained

Have you ever read the code printed on the eggs you buy, from shops? Do you know the meaning of this code?

Whether you buy cage, barn, free range or organic, a code will be printed on your egg.

The first number refers to the farming method; 0 = organic, 1 = free range, 2 = barn, 3 = cage.

This is followed by the country of origin and then the farm identification which is a specific code denoting the actual farm where your eggs were produced.

Social media websites explained using a DONUT

February 7th, 2012 No comments

Donut

Twitter: I’m eating a #Donut
Facebook: I like donuts.
FourSquare: This is where I eat donuts.
Instagram: Here’s a vintage photo of my donut.
YouTube: Here I am eating a donut.
LinkedIn: My skills include donut eating.
Pinterest: Here’s a donut recipe.
Last FM: Now listening to “Donuts”
Google+: I’m a Google employee who eats donuts.

What is Bailout? – An easy explanation

December 9th, 2011 2 comments

Euro Note

What does Bailout mean? Learn Financial jargon in a funny way.

It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.

The guy at the Farmers’ Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him “services” on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.

The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works.

What is Banking – In easy terms

December 6th, 2011 No comments

What is Banking is no more a complex thing to explain.

What is Banking - In Plain English

Image Credit : MTTS

The History of English in Ten Minutes

October 17th, 2011 No comments

Where did the phrase ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts?

This video ‘The History of English’ squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet.Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century.

What is the difference between United Kingdom, Great Britain and England?

February 4th, 2011 4 comments

If you are interested in History, especially about United Kingdom or Great Britain or England, this is the video to watch.

Excellent explanation about the difference among these three and lot more in a five minutes video from Grey’s Blog