"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen." - Bob Edwards

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YouTube - What men are really thinking - "Have you been cheese nachos? Well then sex draft beer mile high club chicken wings. If hockey jungle sex three-way, you could sex cars giant breasts. And with powetools sex sports beef jerky Miss November, that could mean..."

'Sexist' airlines, City banks and shops force women to wear high heels to work - "Airline bosses, City banks and West End department stores are operating 'sexist' dress codes that force women staff to wear high heels, a study found today. The TUC report called on employers to ditch policies banning female workers from wearing 'sensible shoes' on duty."
I'm not waiting up for them to denounce the sexist dress codes for men (especially ties)

Orgasmic Childbirth: The Fun Doesn't End at Conception! - ""Birth is fundamentally a creative act, as is the act of sexual union....Indeed many women have described giving birth as intensely pleasurable and have discussed it in orgasmic terms....more and more women are enjoying labor and birth with their husbands just as they have enjoyed the sexual experience....Making love, orgasm and giving birth are all inter-connected." -From Special Delivery, by Rahima Baldwin"
Uhh... I guess it's worth suffering a uterine prolapse for this.

Goat jumps on woman's Toyota - "Deputy Ron Crouch grabbed the goat by the horns and pulled him off the vehicle and stuck him in the back seat of his patrol car, the sheriff said. The dog then jumped in the back seat with the goat... “No one has called yet to claim him and if we don’t get a call on it, we are going to eat that goat,” the sheriff said"
I wonder why they don't eat the dog too.

Fire ignited by -- smoke detector

Define "Political Correctness" - "During her lunch hour, Jane Edwards, a doctor in Sheffield, England, stopped at the Post Office to renew her daughter's passport since the family was planning a trip to France. Nothing doing, she was told: 5-year-old Heather was wearing a sleeveless dress, and her resulting exposed skin "might prove unacceptable" if the girl went to a Muslim country. "I followed the instructions on the passport form to the letter and it was still rejected," Edwards fumed. "It is just officialdom pandering to political correctness." A spokesman for the U.K. Passport Service said he was not aware of any rules against girls showing skin in passport photos. (London Daily Mail) ...Political Correctness: a system of thinking where it's OK to offend someone right in front of you by enforcing a made-up rule to stop a theoretical offense to an unknown person later when you aren't even going to be there."

Effects Of Raising And Lowering Speed limits - "The results of the study indicated that lowering posted speed limits by as much as 20 mi/h (32 km/h), or raising speed limits by as much as 15 mi/h (24 km/h) had little effect on motorist' speed. The majority of motorist did not drive 5 mi/h (8 km/h) above the posted speed limits when speed limits were raised, nor did they reduce their speed by 5 or 10 mi/h (8 or 16 km/h) when speed limits are lowered. Data collected at the study sites indicated that the majority of speed limits are posed below the average speed of traffic. Lowering speed limits below the 50th percentile does not reduce accidents, but does significantly increase driver violations of the speed limit. Conversely, raising the posted speed limits did not increase speeds or accidents... Arbitrary, unrealistic and nonuniform speed limits have created a socially acceptable disregard for speed limits. Unrealistic limits increase accident risks for persons who attempt to comply with limit by driving slower or faster than the majority of road users, Unreasonably low limits significantly decrease driver compliance and give road users such as person not familiar with the road and pedestrians, a false indication of actual traffic speeds... For years, traffic engineering texts have supported the conclusion that motorists ignore unreasonable speed limits."
Comment: "Where speed limits were lowered, the 1st percentile (slowest) drivers actually increased their speed and the overall accident rate increased. Meanwhile, higher speed limits provoked 99th percentile (fastest) drivers to reduce their speed slightly, and accident rates decreased overall. How does this relate to the war on drugs? Perhaps it is a stretch, but one could conceivably extract from this study that more restrictive laws (such as lower speed limits) spurred even the most cautious individuals to push harder against the laws, while more relaxed laws caused the most flagrant lawbreakers to back off. More importantly however, I submit that this study indicates that people know what is right and safe, and most will do what they want regardless of the law. People who want to use drugs do so now. People who don't want to use drugs won't start shooting up just because it's legal... Those more willing to try a legal drug than an illegal one would be balanced by those who have lost the thrill of rebelling against the system."

Curse of the Ancients - Weird News Story Archive - "German Adam Gotz, 30, claimed he was a “spiritual psychiatrist” and said the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt, provided spiritual energy that enabled believers to “transcend humanity”. That energy would allow people to be “free from death”, he told his girlfriend Sarah, traveling with him from Germany. Later, after climbing to the top of the 187-meter (617 feet) Cairo Tower, Gotz told Sarah he would prove what he was telling her was true: he jumped off. He was killed on impact."

Roller Coaster DataBase - "The rcdb is a comprehensive, searchable database with information and statistics on over 1800 roller coasters throughout the world."

The 6 Raunchiest, Most Depraved Sex Acts (From the Bible) - "What happens when you take a really skanky sex story and dress it up in a lot of flowery words? You get the Bible. Or large chunks of it, anyway. Sure, rather than using phrases such as "reverse frog squat," or "slinging manjam," Biblical sex is referenced almost exclusively as "coming in unto" (a phrase still used by porn stars who tend to drop the "in unto"). But once you get past the unimaginative verbs, the Bible has some nasty, nasty stories."

Wings Over Israel Review - "There was a time when hardcore air combat simulations were ridiculously popular... there was a moderate "dumbing down" of several genres -- including auto racing and tactical games -- as the gap closed between PC gamers and the console crowd. It's a trend that, sadly, continues to this day... Certainly you can't dumb it down enough so it feels like the flying game at the local arcade, but with the difficulty lowered, your jet is responsive and predictable, your pilot isn't prone to blackouts, your guns don't jam, and enemy planes are easier to track and easier to shake."

Seduction of the Innocent Index - Superman Is A Dick - "Meanwhile, at the Joker's hideout... SO! The laugh at my BONER, will they?! I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM HOW MANY BONERS THE JOKER CAN MAKE!"
"The Gay Desperado! He's comin' in through the back door, amigos!!"
"Look Batwoman - those bandits are trying to destroy Superman with the vibrator!"
"I know many readers like myself would like to see the Man of Steel turn Lois over on his knee and give her the good, old-fashioned spanking she deserves!"
A reminder of how different a world comics first came out in. Also nice: Batman makes a mess of Robin's face

Stuck in the mud - "IS ORGANIC farming really as green as its reputation?... Organic farmers avoid herbicides... and instead control weeds by ploughing. Unfortunately, ploughing (or tillage, as it is known in America) is not environmentally friendly. David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agriculture at Cornell University, warns that soil is being washed and swept away between ten and 40 times faster than it is being replenished... He calls decisions about which chemicals are used in organic farming “arbitrary,” and notes that some “very questionable” chemicals are involved... Herbicides are not all equal. Many just inhibit the growth of micro-organisms... The consequences of organic practices in inappropriate places can be troubling. Dr Friedrich mentions Australia's “organic gypsy farms”—areas made barren after ten years of organic farming depleted the soil."

Out-of-Body Image: Women See Themselves Through Eyes of Others - "Self-objectification has also been repeatedly shown to sap cognitive functioning, because of all the attention devoted to body monitoring. For instance, a recent study by Yale psychologists asked two groups of women to take a math exam -- one group in swimsuits, the other in sweaters. The swimsuit-wearers, distracted by body concerns, performed significantly worse than their peers in sweaters."
This might explain why the stereotype is that prettier girls are dumber. But then if you know how to tweak men you can also screw them up too.
Xephyris: so this is why if you want to approach a girl
you should make sure to tell her to dress up for the occassion
shianux: I bet the guys around them performed significantly worse too
Someone: maybe they were just cold
Someone else: the psychologists are just wanting to look at women in swimsuits
MFTTW: swimsuits are generally uncomfortable to be wearing unles you're swimming

The Straight Dope: Why do men feel sleepy after sex? - "The medical literature on the subject is not voluminous, but I did turn up one study conducted, fittingly, by ze French (Brissette et al, 1985--from Quebec, actually). The researchers signed up five male and five female volunteers to engage in sexual activity. This wasn't as much fun as it sounds. Number one, the sexual activity to be engaged in was masturbation. Number two . . . well, let me quote from the report: "At 11:00 PM, after placement of the electrodes and thermistors, subjects retired to their room and the anal probe was inserted. . . . The anal probe transmitted pressure changes in the anal canal to a transducer connected to a DC amplifier. . . . The use of this anal probe gave an objective account of the orgasm in both men and women." The electrodes and thermistors, meanwhile, recorded heart and respiratory rate. The things one does for science... The researchers conceded that the experimental design was open to criticism on various grounds, the most telling in my opinion being that it was incredibly stupid"

Alison Carroll is Tomb Raider’s New Lara Croft
They need to fire the guy who did the photoshop. Though looking at the video (You need SAS, firearms and archaeology training to be Lara Croft?!), maybe it wasn't...