UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities. Fast-food junkies are best off in Chicago, Toronto and Tokyo, where it takes a mere 12 minutes at work to afford a Big Mac. By contrast, employees must toil for over two hours to earn enough for a burger fix in Mexico City, Jakarta and Nairobi.
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thenewromantic: jjustin:ashleykidwell:megalosaurus: THESE ARE THE ONES THAT I HAVE READ: 01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - a few05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 06 The Bible - Are we counting the whole thing? Yes? Then no.07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - 09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy –13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -24 War...
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tlow: Here are more images of Steven Holl Architects‘ Knut Hamsun Center at Hamarøy, Norway, which opened last week. (via Dezeen » Blog Archive » Knut Hamsun Center by Steven Holl Architects (more images) )
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artpixie: idiotfangirl: artpixie: (via Tobalo) i would kill to be able to do this. i have to make an excuse to go outside. apparently it’s weird to just want to be alone anywhere other than home.
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justojusto: (via rillawafers) The underwater dance of David and Goliath: Diver perches on the fin of friendly 50ft humpback whale HIGH FIVES. These pictures are amazing.
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