How To Get Young Gentlemen,

to wash their hands more often?

 make a soap bar with one of their favorite video game Arknights in it concealing their “assets” that become clearer as you use the soap, sexists? yes, but for heavens sake, if this is making people wash their hands more frequently, just this once let it slide,

  they only reveal their secret the more you use them, so if you want to see the heroines in all their glory, you have to go through the entire bar of soap, what better excuse to keep the coronavirus off of your hands and body?

the acrylic soap comes in three variants, or rather contains one of three female Arknights characters, out of the box, they are completely opaque, but once you start using it, the bar becomes translucent, and then transparent,

in the video above, you can take a knife and split the soap in half even without using it once, or you can just melt it in hot water, but what would be the point of that? sadly, the soaps seem to be sold out everywhere online, but I have found one place, strangely enough in India, that lists it for sale, but I do not know if they will sell outside of the country.

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and you thought fish were fun!

well if you thought one Billy Bass talking fish fish was fun, how about 75 singing and choreographed Billy Basses? 

and here they all are, singing "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees and "Once In A Lifetime" by the Talking Heads, all filmed at the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Chicago, what a neat piece of work or would you call it art?

It Was Found Off Of,

the western coast of Norway,

by three divers, it is about the sizeof a human being, but what is it? apart from a huge gelatinous blog, the divers found this blob, which is really a squid’s egg sac, off the western coast of Norway, inside the blob are numerous eggs holding baby squids, which are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands, a video captured and shared on YouTube on Oct. 6 by Ronald Raasch, a diver with the Norwegian research vessel REV Ocean, shows a diver slowly circling a spherical blob surrounded by a transparent membrane, with a dark mass suspended inside, just think if this is the size of the egg, how big is the Mum! Video Credit: Caters Clips/ YouTube.

This Looks So Cute!

it is a piglet squid.

and what did the discoverers say about it? "It kind of looks like it has a nose and eyes, right? And hair? ... And lipstick." "It's like a weird reindeer head." that was the reaction of those aboard the research vessel Nautilus when they came across an interesting-looking squid in the central Pacific Ocean, the video was recorded at about 4,544 feet below the surface of the ocean near Palmyra Atoll, the Nautilus expeditions are funded by the nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust, they explore the deep ocean waters of the Marine National Monument, and if cuties such as this are to be found, keep looking! not very scientific I know, but you have to agree he is rather cute!

Do Not Mess With Fish 246,

and you thought fish were fun!

 well not the fish themselves, but their skins when made into leather that could help the environmental costs of land clearance and methane emissions involved in cow leather, 

 the tanning process takes between three and four weeks, and 19 employees now produce 10,000 skins, or nearly a tonne, of fish leather a month, the company gets all its fish from sustainable stocks, via Icelandic, Norwegian and Faroe Island fishing fleets, fish skin is the fruit of several attempts of the Gunnsteinsdóttir family, owners of the Icelandic company Atlantic Leather, it has already processed lots of skins from different types of fish such as salmon, perch, cod, and wolffish, since 1994, 

and a conception about fish skin not being tough is put to rest, Ms Gunnsteinsdóttir says it is a misconception that fish leather must be delicate and easy to tear, "Fish leather's actually nine times stronger than lamb or cow leather of similar thickness," she says, "This is because the fibres in fish skin criss-cross rather than just up and down... it makes it much more durable leather for products that have to be really strong like shoes, belts and bags." next question, do the bags smell fishy? "The fish smell disappears in the early stages, then it smells like any other leather," adds Ms Gunnsteinsdóttir, who is the daughter of the founders, well if the skins are good enough for top European fashion houses Jimmy Choo, Dior and Ferragamo they cannot smell that bad! for the full story have a look here.

As All Of Our Friends Know,

 we keep fish,

 which like most pets need a degree of maintenance,

 but here are some that do not,

because they are made of resin, they are the work of Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori, the 40-year old Yokohama-based artist will be making his debut solo exhibition in New York alongside his single obsession: goldfish, Fukahori’s goldfish are not real, they are made from an incredibly meticulous process of applying layer after layer of paint, each separated and held in place by resin, what a gift he has.

Do Not Mess With Fish 192,

and you thought fish were fun!

well a lot of fishermen at Lake Meadows in Billericay, Essex, did not as the fabled 'Beast of Billericay' that had eluded them for decades, was finally caught by Pete Hudd, 26, who has managed to bring the beast from beneath the waters at the popular park, the fishermen was left speechless after seeing the sheer size of the catfish which weighed in at an amazing 50lb 4oz, it makes you wonder how many other lakes and ponds in Great Britain have monsters like this lurking in their depths? but what a great catch, now I will say it where are the chips?

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and you thought fish were fun!

angler David Griffiths did when he hooked this super sized skate off of Oban, western Scotland, although it was considered to be a record-breaking fish this could not be confirmed as it was not weighed on the quayside or a bank which has to be done e if it is to be considered to be a record catch, but at 7ft 6in long by 6ft it was thought to weigh 235lb and was considered by the skipper of the boat that it broke the old record by 8lb,

Ronnie Campbell, the skipper of the Oban-based charter boat, the Laura Dawn II, said: 'it's a great achievement to bring in any fish over 200lbs so to land one that is 235lbs is quite something',

I was going to say where are the chips? but the good news is I cannot say that as David put the fish back in the sea, what a great once in a lifetime catch.

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and you thought fish were fun!

but they are not in Guernsey when the Bailiwick Bass Club Open Competition is on as Matthew Clark, 29, pretended that he had caught a 13 lb. bass in a gruelling sea fishing contest found out, he did not catch it from the sea at all, he had infact scaled cliffs and climbed a rope ladder to reach the island's St Peter Port Aquarium building before he entered the aquarium through a back door and stealing the fish from one of the aquariums, the enormous fish tipped the scales at 13lb 13oz - trouncing the nearest competitor who only managed a catch of 10lb 3oz so the first prize of £800 was in the bag, but a sharp eyed fellow competitor rubbled him,

fellow entrant Shane Bentley, 38, thought that he had seen the winning fish before, speaking before the hearing, he said: 'Me and my wife were taking the kids to the aquarium and we'd seen a bass in a tank - it stood out because it had some very distinct markings on its head, it wasn't until the bass was lifted out of the tank for the photo that I thought "that's the fish from the aquarium", I immediately informed club members of my suspicions but they laughed, the next morning I took ten minutes off work to go to the aquarium, they hadn't opened but the women let me in and I said, "where's that big bass with marks on its head?", I looked in the tank but I couldn't see the fish, then the woman looked as well and she couldn't find the fish She then called the owner down and he couldn't see the fish,'

Mr Bentley, who has been fishing for more than 25 years, immediately contacted the competition organisers, who alerted police, officers seized the head from the winning fish carcass and photographs of the missing bass as evidence as they investigated, sadly instead of putting the fish back into the aquarium Clark panicked, he took it to a fish seller who didn't realise it was stolen and chopped it up, only the head and tail was left but it was enough for Clarke to be sentenced to 100 hours of community service after he admitted burglary and fraud charges.

Do Not Mess With Fish 161,

and you thought fish were fun!

well Jo Green did when she caught this record breaking carp from a lake at Les Graviers in France, weighing in at 84 lbs the fish returned to the water alive meant that Jo was now the official holder of the title of the women's biggest record rod caught carp, well done Jo!

keeping to a fishy theme, how about sleeping with the fishes, (not the mafia version), if plans go ahead in Dubai you could well be doing so if you book into the 'Water Discus Hotel' - a spaceship-shaped building perched in the water and looking not unlike a Jame Bond villain's lair - is set to be the first of several planned across the region,


the hotel "discs" are to be located up to 10m below the surface and will include 21 rooms next to an underwater dive centre and bar, building company Drydocks World has signed a contract with Swiss firm BIG InvestConsult to develop underwater hotels across the region,

just think in a few years time this could be your view when you sleep with the fishes!

Do Not Mess With Fish 160,

and you thought fish were fun!

this one was for Andy O'Connor, 20 when fishing at Wykeham Lakes near Scarborough, East Yorks when the fish he caught was found to equal a record weight set in England by a CF Gifford at Brewood, Staffs, who landed a 46lb pike in 1822, Andy said: 'as soon as I got a feel of it I knew it was a big one but when it came towards the net I saw just how big it was and nerves nearly got the better of me', the record has been equalled, so hopefully if Andy is lucky enough to catch it again next year and the fish (nicknamed the Wykeham Whacker) gains a bit of weight the record will be broken, you never know it could in a years time be a British record, beating the one set in Wales, set by angler Roy Lewis, whose 46lb 13oz pike in Llandegfedd, Wales, in 1992 it still stands today.

Do Not Mess With Fish 159,

and you thought fish were fun!

it would have been better fun had Nathan Adams caught this potential record breaking tuna when his boat was registered to catch it, but as it was not he will not get a penny for the 335kg bluefin tuna, it appears the fish was landed in the one month of each year Nathan de-registers his boat with the authorities, to allow him to fish for protected marlin, as it is illegal to sell fish caught from an unregistered fishing boat, Nathan is not allowed to profit from the whopper, in January this year a 269kg bluefin caught off the coast of Japan sold for around £500,000, still at least it will look good on the wall and the local cats around the taxidermist will be fat for a few weeks!


if you want to try for one yourself a trip to Houhora, off Northland's east coast of New Zealand might do it as that is where he caught the fish.

Do Not Mess With Fish 158,

and you thought fish were fun!

oh dear it has happened again! drugs being smuggled with live tropical fish, many years ago a company who's name I forget were offering fish to the trade at knock down prices, on the understanding they would keep the polystyrene boxes the fish arrived in, it later turned out that the boxes and lids had drugs in them, the polystyrene formed around slabs of some substance, well it has happened again in a slightly different form,


drugs worth an estimated £1.6m at wholesale prices, came from from Colombia into the UK, the ruse this time was that the drug would be dissolved in a liquid, the bag then put inside another bag with fish in, luckily the pair of criminals were caught, the sad news is that more than 16,000 fish paid with their lives, just 34 survived, police who followed the pair to a house in Nottingham later raided the property and found fish dead or dying in colanders inside,


so the pair of criminals were jailed for 11 years each at Nottingham Crown Court today after admitting conspiracy to import cocaine at an earlier hearing, might I also suggest another 16,000 days each, one day for each fish they killed, prosecuted under one of the cruelty to animals acts?

Do Not Mess With Fish 157,

and you thought fish were fun!

well former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry does as he unveils plans for his 4 new aquariums in his soon to be built home, the aquariums are 15ft long by 3ft wide, assuming they are say 8ft tall, (to allow space for lighting and maintenance), each will hold 2,250 gallons,

the French footballer is the latest in a long line of celebrities including Madonna, the Beckhams, Cher and Premier League footballers Stephen Ireland, Joe Hart and Micah Richards, to splash out on opulent fish tanks, but back to
Thierry's four aquariums, looking at the plan there is going to be a line across the view in the floor that is between the reading area and the sung/playroom if the floors are going to be the dividing line between each aquarium if you see what I mean, but in any event I hope it all works out well, fish keeping is so relaxing.

During The Day We Popped Over To See Slim Jim,

who returned home yesterday,

the operation a complete success, feet up in the afternoon to watch a DVD, then in the evening into the Secrets taxi for a meal out,

to Ali Baba which is in Pattaya Central near Beach Road,

 poppadoms and a slushy for starters.

 followed by prawn puri, butterfly prawns and chicken chat, we were joined by Mr. Tony as well,

 'Cheers!' from all of us,

then the main courses arrived, lamb madras, chicken tikka massala, chicken jalfrezi, aloo gobi, rice and naan bread, it was all so delicious,

we were also given a business card,

the good news is that is has a calender on the back, the even better news is that it shows public holidays on it,

during the day we watched 1941 again, for me a funny and great film, but unfortunately in America it never took off, it deals with true paranoia in the States that a Japanese invasion was imminent, the film takes a slice of real events and crafts them into the movie, like the Zoot suit riots for one, (although they took place in 1942), or the plane that never was, for me a really enjoyable movie,

 we then watched some more of the excellent series Blue Planet,

but I have to say without Sir David Attenbrough it was nowhere near the standard set by the other 3 DVDs, Amazon Abyss, should have been renamed Amazon Abysmal, it was truly terrible! a complete mis match of non science, the so called rare fish you could have seen in literally almost any shop selling tropical fish in the UK, some clown also forgot that the Amazon river is not exactly well known for its clarity and was surprised after diving in that there was zero visibility! eventually a deep water submersible was sent down to view a dora catfish, we were rewarded with a brief glimpse of what I believe to be a Oxydoras niger, a very common catfish, one of 90 or so species in the group, it is available at many aquatic stores for about £10 - 15 what on earth was all the fuss about? even more staggering was the fact that the team used 3 huge boats to conduct this total nonsense,


the dolphins were fed at at what appeared to be a tourist feeding station, the shame was the fish they were feeding to the dolphins that were already cut into mouth sized portions, were Semaprochilodus taeniurus, the flagtail characin again common in many aquatic stores, but a lot more interesting than the catfish we saw, (the flagtail characin like salmon are migratory spawners, but do so twice a year covering several hundred miles), what a waste of money and resources and a shame to include Amazon Abyss into a serious documentary series, after that we were off to bed.

Do Not Mess With Fish 155,

and you thought fish were fun!

father and son Marc and dad Des Hemsley, 65, did when they were on a fishing trip off Shoreham, West Sussex, when the 41-year-old son Marc snared the 36lbs 8oz fish, in a twist of fate he broke his own fathers record for a Shoreham boat caught cod which was caught by dad Des, 12 years ago at 34.8lb. now bring on the chips!

Do Not Mess With Fish 154,

and you thought fish were fun!

they can be fun, but not if an estimated 20 tons of them land in your field! although now nearly 5 days old this story is being seen in the daily's, Northern Ireland farmer Gordon Flinn found this sight after a lorry overturned into his field, the ‘fish farm’ accident caused an overnight Internet sensation this week, as this photo taken by Mr Flinn’s daughter Louise went viral,


the 27-year-old — who doesn’t like fish — said that the family was taking it all in their stride, as a bit of fun — although it could have been a very different situation had the driver been hurt, but he was unhurt and returned after a hospital check up to the scene of the accident, as the fish were on Gordon's land I wonder if he could claim salvage rights?

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and you thought fish were fun!

swimmers at Daveron beach, a popular Brazilian resort on the Paraguay river near the city of Caceres did not when the fish got a little hungry, 15 unwary swimmers had minor bites one losing the tip of a toe, firefighter Raul Castro de Oliveira told Globo TV's G1 website: 'people have got to be very careful, if they're bitten, they've got to get out of the water rapidly and not allow the blood to spread',


each September, Caceres, in the western state of Mato Grosso, hosts what local officials bill as Brazil's biggest fishing festival, a week-long event that draws 200,000 people for fishing tournaments and concerts, Gonzaga Junior, a spokesman for the city government, said he did not think the piranha attacks would hurt that event since it is many months away, he said: 'everyone knows there are piranhas in the region and have always taken the necessary precautions',


looking at the situation from the fishes point of view perhaps a new aspect of piranha behaviour is taking place, they are taking advantage of a natural recurring food source?

Do Not Mess With Fish 148,

and you thought fish were fun!

after seven years of being the Lonesome Pine, Rip the conger eel is set free, the fish it was thought, was getting too large for its aquarium at Macduff Marine Aquarium in Moray, so it was decided to move him/her to a new bigger home, 

the Atlantic Ocean, a large bag was used to catch the conger eel and a crane was used to hoist him/her out, lowering it into sea, where divers opened the bag, hopefully he will make it to deep water where he will live out the rest of its natural life, pity nobody thought to tag it, so little is known of these fish in the wild.

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and you thought fish were fun!

dog walker Nikki Lambert did not when she found this Blue Shark on the beach at Camber Sands, East Sussex, although not an unusual find in itself what was more worrying for people using the sea in the area was a huge bite mark on its side, a unnamed marine biologists said it could have been attacked by a Great White, just think of that Great Whites in the English Channel, and there I was thinking it was safe to dip a toe in the water in good ol Blighty!