"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France

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Lust for shoes drives women to bin the bills - "Both sexes find the right shoes a turn on, finds the survey, with stilettoes chosen by men as the sexiest heels and a majority of women saying they had had sex wearing nothing but their shoes."
Someone: "Obviously, Britain and Singapore are miles apart in terms of sexual behaviour."
Someone else: "many men have that fetish. stilettos are called Fuck Mes
dont you LIKE heels? ­how a woman sashays ­and the way it forces her boobs and bum to stick out"

Every OS Sucks - "It wasn't much but it was enough
but then xerox made a prototype
Steve Jobs came on the scene
read of mice and menues windows, icons, trash and a bitmapped screen
Oh stevie said to xerox boys, turn your heads and cough
and when noone was looking he ripped their interfaces off
stole every feature that he had seen
put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen
MacOS ran that machine
only cost 5000 bucks
but it was slow
it was buggy
so they wrote it again
and now they're up to OS ten
they'll charge you for the beta, then charge you again
but the MacOS still sucks"

'David syndrome' causes desire to destroy art - "Great works of art, such as Michelangelo's David, can trigger aggression, nausea and a desire to destroy the work, according to Italian researchers."

Banana Guard - "Are you fed up with bringing bananas to work or school only to find them bruised and squashed? Our unique, patented device allows for the safe transport and storage of individual bananas letting you enjoy perfect bananas anytime, anywhere."

Japanese Prostitution Training - "Clips from a Japanese tv show that teach english phrases to Japanese girls/prostitutes."

14 flirting tips - "14. He'll start squeezing his glass. When men are sexually interested, they start playing with circular objects. Why? They remind him of your breasts: his body is 'leaking' what's happening in his subconscious mind."
Wth?! Who gets paid to write this sort of shit?! No wonder women are so screwed up, since female magazines are filled with this kind of drivel.

Cultivating cannabis? It's like growing tomatoes, says judge - "The city council said that Mr Pledge was causing “alarm, harassment and distress” to his neighbours by growing the marijuana."

Scissor_Sisters - Filthy & Gorgeous - Gotta love the music video.

[Shibuyabashi] [しるふ・わーくす]萌しむ ヨーロッパ美少女戦線異状アリ - Apparently this is WW2 history through hentai. Wth. Damn Japs. There're the Nazis, Soviets and Fascists, but no Japanese militarists. Right.

Why Jews Don't Believe In Jesus - "For 2,000 years Jews have rejected the Christian idea of Jesus as messiah. Why?"
They're using similar tactics as the apologists - I wonder what they'd say to this.

Technology is a girl's best friend: study - "Diamonds are no longer a girl's best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace."

Vatican Unveils `Third Secret of Fatima' Without Proclaiming It as Gospel / End of the world not foretold in vision, top theologian says (2000 article) - "In a 12-page commentary, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said that Lucia, now a 93-year-old cloistered Carmelite nun, might have conjured her vision from devotional books."
And yet people still believe in Fatima...

Skeptic's Dictionary: Santa Claus - "The hirsute gift giver with the levitating reindeer has had more sightings than all UFO, Bigfoot, and Virgin Mary sightings combined. The innocent and pure witnesses to the jolly one decked out in sartorial crimson flailing away at his flying reindeer are legion. Who can mistrust a child, much less billions of children? Surely these witnesses are reliable. There is no proof that they are suffering from any mental derangement. They have no motive for lying. The only plausible explanation for these sightings is that they are genuine. There is no reason to think that all these witnesses are confabulating. If there is nothing to this belief, then why do so many people believe it? There is no way this could be an example of communal reinforcement of a false idea or delusion. This must be a genuine vision."

Skeptic's Dictionary: incorruptible bodies - "the severed head of King Charles I of England was exhumed after 165 years and according to the royal surgeon Sir Henry Halford: "The complexion of the skin was dark and discolored. The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance; the cartilage of the nose was gone; but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately: and the pointed beard, so characteristic of this period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect. [The head] was quite wet, and gave a greenish-red tinge to paper and to linen which touched it. The back part of the scalp . . . had a remarkably fresh appearance. The hair was thick . . . and in appearance nearly black. . . .""

Comic: "Windows users like to look at sex on their computers. Mac users like to have sex with their computers."