QUIRKY WORLD ... Jobseekers list TV and Facebook as pastimes
Britons have used their résumés to reel off a list of pointless pastimes including making milkshakes, online dating and eating takeaways.
Bosses warned applicants who make the misplaced boasts risk being laughed out of the job market and should spend their spare time picking up more useful skills.
Updating their Facebook profile topped the list for the worst interests listed on CVs according to a survey of 1,000 HR specialists, followed by shopping, and playing with pets.
Lovely jubbly
A film of a fancy dress pub crawl with a pedal-powered “Del Boy” yellow Reliant Robin car has gone viral with over 6m online views, the BBC reports.
Joiner Ian Jones and friends made the van and dressed up as characters from the BBC TV comedy Only Fools and Horses for a Christmas party.
He said the response to their antics in Old Colwyn, Conwy county has been “unbelievable”. “I always say with fancy dress it’s the props that make it,” said Mr Jones.
Paying dearly
Some employees in a Massachusetts school district feel like they got a visit from the Grinch.
Instead of receiving their pay cheques via direct deposit on the day after Christmas, Plymouth Public Schools workers awoke to find that the amount they were to be paid had instead been withdrawn from their bank accounts.
About 1,300 workers were affected.
The school said the issue was caused by human error.
Feeding the pigs
Police in Massachusetts have arrested a woman who they say smeared uncooked bacon and sausage all over a police station window, offering to “feed the pigs”.
Framingham Police Lieutenant Harry Wareham said that Lindsey McNamara entered the station with a Dunkin’ Donuts box full of raw bacon and sausage.
He said she approached an officer with a “great smile on her face” and said she was there to “feed the pigs”. She then took the meat from the box and smeared it on the window.
She was arrested and charged with malicious destruction of property.
Border barring
Gaza’s Hamas rulers have barred a group of children from travelling to Israel for a conciliatory trip.
Eyad Bozum, a spokesman for the Islamic militant group, said the children were prevented from travelling to “protect the culture of our children and our people” from normalising relations with Israel.
He said Hamas turned the children back when they arrived at a crossing into Israel. He said Hamas would make sure such an attempt “will never happen again”.
Yoel Marshak, the trip’s Israeli organiser, said the 37 children were meant to tour Israel and the West Bank.
The trip was meant to show a positive face of Israel and promote peace.
World of Wedgewood
The Wedgwood Estate in the Potteries is to get a new £34m visitor experience.
The World of Wedgwood will open in time for Easter 2015 at the estate at Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.
Visitors will have an interactive hands-on factory tour and a chance to spend time in the Wedgwood Museum at nearby Barlaston whose future has just been secured thanks to funding from arts groups and donations from the public.
Milk mayhem
An ice-cream store listed in the Guinness World Records book for its 863 different flavours has become the latest victim of Venezuela’s economic crisis.
“We are closed during the season due to shortage of milk,” the famous Coromoto ice-cream store in the highland town of Merida announced on Facebook.
Locals confirmed that the shop, hugely popular among tourists for its exotic and strange flavours ranging from beer to beans, had been closed since Christmas Eve.
A sign on the door asked customers’ forgiveness “for not attending you due to the lack of milk.”
Confirmado..Cerrada la heladería Coromoto por falta de leche..Turismo Cheverito en Merida.. pic.twitter.com/pXfJtToFqz
— Leonardo León (@leoperiodista) December 26, 2014
Venezuelans have been suffering acute shortages of basic goods, from toilet-paper to spare tires, all year due to an economic slowdown, the highest inflation in the Americas, and the impact of strict currency controls.
President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government says foes in Venezuela’s opposition and wealthy elite are exacerbating economic problems by hoarding and price-gouging in what he terms an “economic war” against him. The shortages have annoyed Venezuelans and contributed to a fall in Maduro’s popularity.
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