Top 5 Things to Get up to in a Hot Tub!

Hot Tubs have always been a great place for relaxation whether you are suffering from muscle strains to relieving stress. But it can get quite tedious and boring just sitting there on your own staring at the sky. Below are five things you can do to keep the boredom at bay.

1. Get yourself a portable TV with an attached DVD player and while you are relaxing in the warm water watch one of your favourite movies. Try to choose a comedy or a romantic film as you want to stay in the relaxing zone, I don’t think a horror would help.

2. Before you get into the hot tub go and grab yourself some snacks whether its nachos or popcorn eating is always a great way to kill time.

3. Let a friend or family member join you, it’s always better to have someone to talk too.

4. Disconnect your phone, pager and your MSN messenger, or whatever else you have got to stop people contacting you. Plug in some soothing music and close your eyes and relax.

5. Well finally you knew it was coming that’s what you have been reading for isn’t it? So have sex in the tub your number one stress reliever mixed with some loving is a sure win. Just be careful not to climax in the tub as it will all get a bit messy.

Happy Tubbing

Hot New Zealand Girls Washing Bikes in Bikinis

Due to the success of yesterday’s post I thought I’d give you a bit more of what you so rightfully deserve, working naked (or close thereto) is always fun, and these girls do it superbly.

If you want to work naked at home then I’d highly recommend getting a wireless keyboard and mouse so that you don’t have to restrict yourself to staying at a desk, cause let’s be honest – you took off your clothes to be less restrictive, and tying yourself down to a single location within the house is just being even more restrictive!

Especially in this weather, clothes are a nightmare

And we all know that less clothes while working + hot girls = better for everyone involved.

Bikini Babes Run Riot!

Its so nice isn’t it? When it gets to that time of year (Eg: Now) and the weather gets warm enough for our lady friends to don their most suitable attire: The Bikini.

Superb.

Otherwise boring secretaries working for electrical component distributors, suddenly transform into hormone filled, big boobed, heavily armed things of beauty.

Cheer up your Monday: (and the rest of your week for that matter) and indulge in the pictures below

The 5 Smallest Laptops in The World

Everyone wants to make the smallest and the cheapest laptop (or so it would seem). It’s apparently the latest trend in technology that sells, and every hardware manufacturer under the bloody sun it jumping on the bandwagon. In this super amazing post, we’ll have a look at the top 5, and pick a winner for style, functionality, and price.

(on a side note, RE the first picture, they may be small but I wouldnt advise taking them to a beach or spa, its just a recipe for disaster really…)

First up is the one that started it all really, this was the bad boy that kicked off the trend – and everyone else is to an extent just copying it. The Asus Eee PC (£220), pictured here in use by a lady with rather nice breasts. This one is (so far) the definitive winner of the functionality category.

Then there was the Everex Cloudbook (£340), which was so unbelievably delayed and unreliably promoted that it pretty much lost all its credibilty before it even went on sale! I’m not a fan of this little one, its ugly, it doesnt do much, and its overpriced.

Then more recently there’s been the 3K Computers RazorBook400 (£200 est) which we don’t know very much about because it isnt actually in production yet, but the pictures and the proposed specs (4GB Flash memory, boot time of 8 seconds) sound pomising.

Then there’s the real market-killer, the Dell Mini-Inspiron, which really really looks promising. Its sleek, smooth, sexy and doesnt look half as plasticy as the other mini laptops. Its probably fair to assume that this luxury comes at a price though, and I wouldnt expect to find one (when its released) for under £450. A clear winner of the syle category.

And finally, there’s the ‘One Laptop Per Child‘ project (£100), who have created this monstrosity laptop to be cheap and usable by children – so that it can be distributed to less fortunate countries and aid them, etc. (They don’t have food but as long as they have wifi and broadband they’ll be just fine!) It is however, an easy winner of the price category.

The Dell is by far the most exciting if you ask me, and I am shallow and may trade in my Eee when the time comes just for the sake of looking good. Then sit back with my executive tableware, and see how quickly I can type on yet another computer where the keys are so close together that I need chopsticks to hit them individually.

Apple’s 20th Anniversary Unboxing

Today we have something a little different in store. In celebration of Apple’s 20th anniversary, some old codger has cracked out a brand new Apple desktop known as the ‘TAM’ – which was first produced 20 years ago.

The rather lengthy video below shows said codger unpacking a rather strange looking dummy from a box, followed closely by the TAM personal computer, fresh in all its boxed glory. Its actually quite interesting to see that some of Apple’s design trends set 20 years ago are still ever present today, for example the flat screen monitor with (part of ?) the computer built into it (which I didn’t even know existed in the 80’s) and the keyboard with the mouse trackpad built in, very similar in design to.. lets see.. oh thats right – every laptop in the world!

Fantastic to see such a classic product in action, and awsome to see some of the earliest Apple design elements – even the packaging of a 20 year old machine was impressive… if only Steve Jobs had decided to pack up shop and buy west sussex property in England then maybe the prices for Today’s products would be half decent!

GTA4: The Follow Up

Picked up my copy the day it came out, though naturally (as is appropriate) I went for the ultimate in geekiness and grabbed one on the stroke of midnight from an Asda over 20 miles away. Still, it was definitely worth it. Three days in and there is much to report, the textures and graphics are very smooth (I have the 360 version), though as ever draw distance is annoyingly poor.

The character feels complete and the new physics engine is absolutely superb. When you kill someone now for example, they aren’t just a static body lying on the ground, they flop about if you kick them. Similarly, people won’t always bleed now, and when they do its subjective to what caused it. Beat someone to death and there will be no blood at all, shoot them and there will be a fair amount, run over them, and you will have the red stuff splattered across your car.

It’s the details of the game that really give it the wow factor this time round, which is different – because the wow factor previously was always the size. Thats not to say that this game is small, its really not that much smaller than san andreas, but its far far more refined. You can’t walk through your own car door any more, and when you get on a motorbike, you put on a helmet. The lip animations during cutscenes are far better (as are the hands!) and the water effects are stunning.

The most fun I’ve had so far in the game is getting drunk (thats right) as the screen goes out of focus, and as your character stumbles around the street hurting himself, your camera vibrates and shakes violently making it very tricky indeed to control (like being drunk!). Don’t try driving though, the police pull you over for drink driving.

My only gripe so far is that the handling of the cars is.. well.. in a word.. terrible. I know people will argue that ‘this is more realistic’.. but there’s a fine line. I want graphics and physical elements of the game to be realistic, but I want the interactivity and the game play to just be good fun. The best part of the old GTA games was that the cars were awsomely easy to drive, and while some were old bangers, the nice ones were an absolute dream. So far with GTA4 every car handles the same, just with different levels of acceleration. None of them can break, and even spinning the car completely around with the handbreak and accelarating full throttle facing the opposite direction still causes you to take a good 100meters to slow down, and eventually stop.

Gameplay is superb, with niko having full access to email and online dating (so his mum can send him email rather than direct mail) the depth of the game is really something else.

Cool Stuff: GTA4

The Daddy of them all is here! Well.. not quite, to be precise its being released tomorrow, the latest addition to Rockstar Games’ acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series, boasting more features and power than ever before. The textures are smoother, the detail is greater, the cars are better, the people are more unique, the control interface has been updated and improved.

The most astonishing thing about the game really (from my point of view) is that out of 30 different gaming sites and gaming magazines, the LOWEST review that it has received so far is a 9.8/10 – and that includes IGN – who haven’t given a game a 10/10 in over a decade (that’s 10 years for any special people in the audience today).

Rumour has it that in the newest addition to the series you can beat people with almost any weapon imagineable, including a mess of wires and electrical components!

So without further a-do, take a look at the IGN video review.

Is Thorpe Park Really All That?

At Men’s Cool Stuff we’re always trying to tell you about the latest cool things, but when it comes to Thorpe Park I’m at a bit of a loss.. I’ve never been! I mean I’ve been to all sorts of company parties and event management ‘things’ at theme parks, sadly though, none of them were at Thorpe Park.

Now I see the advertisements for thorpe park on TV all the time, rollercosters, vertical drops, etc etc – and I wonder is it actually THAT good?

So this is a call out to all you people out there, tell me; should Thorpe Park be on the Mens Cool Stuff for 2008 list? Or should it be relegated to a far inferior list that is only slightly cool but doesnt quite make the cut to play in the same arena as the big boys?

Get in that comment box and let me know!

The best comment will get to write a guest post for Men’s Cool Stuff on why Thorpe Park is/isn’t cool!

Tall Ships Are Cool

Browsing YouTube today, (nothing new there!) and came across this compilation of videos of various tall ships, some amid frantic canon-fire. Must say, I’m not particularly a fan of old things, especially boats – but these bad boys are pretty cool. The sheer size of them is pretty overwhelming in itself! What I can’t figure out is how come they look better in these various short amateurish clips than they do in say, oh I don’t know.. pirates of the caribbean?

Tall ships go back literally hundreds of years, and as such they are really a site to behold when you finally do witness one afoot along the thames river, which I did during the last tall ships race, and will do again during the tall ships race 2008 !

Get A New Watch, Nixon Watches

My wrist has been bare for a couple of years now, its not good. I did have a very nice Fossil watch back in the day that was extremely nice, but it eventually stopped working, and I found myself taking it off all the time anyway for things like playing the guitar and sports etc. These days though, I dont play guitar as much, I have a more stable job, and it annoys me that wehenever I want to know the time I have to get my phone out!

About time for something a little more stylish to hang from my left appendage I think!

I came across Nixon Watches in my bried search for one of these time telling devices, and I’ve got to say it was love at first sight. They do a black and white version of this particular watch, have to say I prefer the black. Its just a little more dark and mysterious rather than the bright white which I think is a bit in-your-face.

It took me about all of 30 seconds to decide that I had definitely found the Nixon Watch that I wanted, so off I trotted and it arrived the very next day! I was extremely impressed, and I’ve got to say that now having had it for a few days, I couldnt be happier. Definitely recommended.