This is the part of the site where members of the kru can have their say. Basically each month one member of the Kru takes over this page, putting whatever they want on here. If you want to appear here e-mail me. Previous Rants (the legal bit) Just remember all views on this page are those of the contributer and don't neccesarilly reflect those of the Beanokru or its members. This month a special Christmas bonus, two random rants, the first from Beano I've decided I made a mistake calling this feature the 'Random Rant'. I didn't want to limit it simply to rants. No, instead I think it should be anything you want to write about, as long as it isn't too dull. That's why this month I am going to talk about something I'm going to do WHEN I get rich. A few weeks ago I saw an article in the paper about buying your own private island. I thought this was pretty good, but then the other day on the radio, there was a story about a family who had taken this a step further. They had acquired a WW2 fort out in the North Sea and set up a business there. Howvever despite it being built by the British, it was in international waters, so no one could lay claim to it. The Owners took the matter to court and won recognition as a principality. The next day when I was wasting time in the library, I entered "islands for sale" into a search engine. I got a hole host of sites selling islands. I was pretty surprised to see some of the prices. For example if you want to stay in Britain, you can have a 62 acre island in the Orkneys for £110,000. A bit expensive but 62 acres is equivlant to about 30 football pitches and think how much that land would normally cost. Anyway if you have a tighter budget go to Canada. For around £13,000 you can have an island in Nova Scotia with its own forest and campsite, it's only 2 acres but you get what you pay for. However if you prefer a warmer climate, the best I found was in Australia. At £900,000 it isn't cheap but you do get a 8700 acre island with its own airstrip and just 20 miles from the Great Barrier reef. Once you've bought the island you obviously need to go a bit power crazy and try to create your own country. This is the next thing I investigated. Now it appears any old Joe Bloggs can go along and claim he has created his own nation. They are known as Micronations and there are apparently lots of people who have done this and loads of sites on the net about it. However few people take it further than this. For a start it isn't easy. You first of all need some land which no other country claims lays claim to, you then need to get other countries to recognise you. These states are known as model states, such as Sealand which I mentioned earlier. They issue passports, have their own currency and are recognised by other countries to a certain degree. For example Germany sent a representative when Sealand was invaded and the invaders kept prisoners. Generally however these states are largely ignored. The imaginary states which don't get recognised by any country, often still have constitutions, but are a bit of a laugh, that is way from this day on, I declare my house Beanoland and I am the King. I haven't finalised the constitution, but the way I see it I will be an abosolute monarch and anyone who disagrees with me will face my wrath. Some links to do with private islands Micronations Next up a rant from Tofty. It's a bit crap he says, but he did it in a General Studies lesson. Hello to one and all and its the demons chance to rant. Not sure to talk about really but hopefully once I get started I'm sure one thing will lead to another To start with what about the Dwellers. Six games and six defeats but the potential is massive! Cut out the silly mistakes and keep the heads up after conceeding and we can possibly win some games. The ref doesn't help as he is crap and aslo hates us, so the two together add up to at least three goal headstart for the opposition. Back to the real world and I went on holiday last month, to Detroit, Michigan to visit my brother, who is studying Politics there for a year. Detroit - what a strange. One of the USA's major cities yet very much deprived. For every two buildings standing there is one derelict. The town centre or Downtown as they call it was a ghost town filled with smokey sewers and wandering hobo's. Anyway, drove past the road where Eminem's mum lives on and even got to see the great Red wings. I'm writing this in General Studies to make sure I can get it to Beano before the weekend. Scary Miss Calaghan is talking, who I remember being champion table thumper ? and loudest screech champion. Nupa's going up to play the Weakest Link. What a guy Nupa is. The little guy with the big hair. Can't think of what to talk about but thought I'd have a quiet rant about the prices, Marshall is thinking about paying to go to Godskitchen on New Years Eve. £54 for 10 hours entertaiment. Hope it's not just me but I think dance fans are being ripped off. I mean I'm going to see Blink 182 in January, one of the worlds biggest bands and I'm paying £15, whereas Marshall is seeing maybe lesser known DJ's, not even playing live so to speak. Thankyou and Goodnight. |
This is the part of the site where members of the kru can have their say. Basically each month one member of the Kru takes over this page, putting whatever they want on here. If you want to appear here e-mail me. Previous Rants (the legal bit) Just remember all views on this page are those of the contributer and don't neccesarilly reflect those of the Beanokru or its members. This month a special Christmas bonus, two random rants, the first from Beano I've decided I made a mistake calling this feature the 'Random Rant'. I didn't want to limit it simply to rants. No, instead I think it should be anything you want to write about, as long as it isn't too dull. That's why this month I am going to talk about something I'm going to do WHEN I get rich. A few weeks ago I saw an article in the paper about buying your own private island. I thought this was pretty good, but then the other day on the radio, there was a story about a family who had taken this a step further. They had acquired a WW2 fort out in the North Sea and set up a business there. Howvever despite it being built by the British, it was in international waters, so no one could lay claim to it. The Owners took the matter to court and won recognition as a principality. The next day when I was wasting time in the library, I entered "islands for sale" into a search engine. I got a hole host of sites selling islands. I was pretty surprised to see some of the prices. For example if you want to stay in Britain, you can have a 62 acre island in the Orkneys for £110,000. A bit expensive but 62 acres is equivlant to about 30 football pitches and think how much that land would normally cost. Anyway if you have a tighter budget go to Canada. For around £13,000 you can have an island in Nova Scotia with its own forest and campsite, it's only 2 acres but you get what you pay for. However if you prefer a warmer climate, the best I found was in Australia. At £900,000 it isn't cheap but you do get a 8700 acre island with its own airstrip and just 20 miles from the Great Barrier reef. Once you've bought the island you obviously need to go a bit power crazy and try to create your own country. This is the next thing I investigated. Now it appears any old Joe Bloggs can go along and claim he has created his own nation. They are known as Micronations and there are apparently lots of people who have done this and loads of sites on the net about it. However few people take it further than this. For a start it isn't easy. You first of all need some land which no other country claims lays claim to, you then need to get other countries to recognise you. These states are known as model states, such as Sealand which I mentioned earlier. They issue passports, have their own currency and are recognised by other countries to a certain degree. For example Germany sent a representative when Sealand was invaded and the invaders kept prisoners. Generally however these states are largely ignored. The imaginary states which don't get recognised by any country, often still have constitutions, but are a bit of a laugh, that is way from this day on, I declare my house Beanoland and I am the King. I haven't finalised the constitution, but the way I see it I will be an abosolute monarch and anyone who disagrees with me will face my wrath. Some links to do with private islands Micronations Next up a rant from Tofty. It's a bit crap he says, but he did it in a General Studies lesson. Hello to one and all and its the demons chance to rant. Not sure to talk about really but hopefully once I get started I'm sure one thing will lead to another To start with what about the Dwellers. Six games and six defeats but the potential is massive! Cut out the silly mistakes and keep the heads up after conceeding and we can possibly win some games. The ref doesn't help as he is crap and aslo hates us, so the two together add up to at least three goal headstart for the opposition. Back to the real world and I went on holiday last month, to Detroit, Michigan to visit my brother, who is studying Politics there for a year. Detroit - what a strange. One of the USA's major cities yet very much deprived. For every two buildings standing there is one derelict. The town centre or Downtown as they call it was a ghost town filled with smokey sewers and wandering hobo's. Anyway, drove past the road where Eminem's mum lives on and even got to see the great Red wings. I'm writing this in General Studies to make sure I can get it to Beano before the weekend. Scary Miss Calaghan is talking, who I remember being champion table thumper ? and loudest screech champion. Nupa's going up to play the Weakest Link. What a guy Nupa is. The little guy with the big hair. Can't think of what to talk about but thought I'd have a quiet rant about the prices, Marshall is thinking about paying to go to Godskitchen on New Years Eve. £54 for 10 hours entertaiment. Hope it's not just me but I think dance fans are being ripped off. I mean I'm going to see Blink 182 in January, one of the worlds biggest bands and I'm paying £15, whereas Marshall is seeing maybe lesser known DJ's, not even playing live so to speak. Thankyou and Goodnight. |
December 2001 - Micronations, Private Islands, how do I set up my own country |
