Archive for the 'Health and Hygiene' Category

19.03.07 SkyWest airline apologizes to passenger forced to urinate in barf-bag
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Society and Culture, Funny
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SkyWest Airlines apologized to a passenger who claims he wasn’t allowed to use the restroom during a one-hour flight and ended up emtpying his bladder in is air-sickness bag.
While on a flight to Salt Lake City on March 7, passenger James Whipple said he had two “really big beers” at the Boise, Idaho airport, and […]

17.03.07 Coin slot/butt cleavage cream
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Human Interest, Funny, Entertainment
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What is a coin slot? According to wikipedia:
Buttock cleavage is minor exposure of the buttocks and the gluteal cleft between them, often because of low-slung trousers. Historically the “coin slot” (or “builder’s bum” or “plumber’s crack”) has been associated with overweight plumbers (due to their frequent working position exposing the area). It is sometimes associated […]

13.03.07 Ant infestation tests Buddhist monks
Filed: All About Animals, Health and Hygiene, Human Interest, Society and Culture
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Buddhist monks in Malaysia, are enduring the sting of red ants because they can’t kill these ants due to their belief in non-violence. Buddhist monks they are not allowed to kill any living thing. The ants have stung the monks and devotees but the monks cannot lift a finger. They can only hope that the […]

17.02.07 Teen Charged For Laxative-Laced Goodies
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Funny, Food and Beverage, Crime and Punishment
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Another high school prank gone bad. Minnesota authorities, not amused by the joke, have charged the alleged high school prankster with two felonies for serving laxative laced brownies causing several students and school staff a lot of discomfort and embarrassment.
The Lyle High School student mixed brownies with laxatives and served them to some students and […]

6.02.07 Right Place
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Human Interest, World Wide Web, Entertainment
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This Japanese short film titled Right Place is quite interesting. It shows obsessive-compulsive behaviour in a funny, slightly surreal light. To enlighten the readers, I’ve done some research and I’m sharing the definition of the meaning of OC or OCD.
According to Wikipedia:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder most commonly characterized by a subject’s obsessive, […]

16.01.07 Thailand Vegetarian Festival
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Society and Culture, Strange, Asia
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In the southern part of Thailand, people especially of Chinese ancestry or Taoist philosophy observe this vegetarian festival around late September till early October every year. This is done mainly in Phuket that’s why the festival is also called Phuket Vegetarian Festival. This started around 1825 when a company of drama artists from China got […]

5.01.07 Settlement Reached In Flour-Filled Condoms Lawsuit
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Human Interest, Society and Culture, Funny, Strange
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This is the mother of all flukes. Janet Lee was a freshman at Bryn Mawr College in 2003 then when airport screeners found the condoms filled with flour she in her carry-on bag on a flight to Los Angeles. She was jailed for three weeks on drug charges for what turned out to be flour-filled […]

25.12.06 Strange Holiday Food
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Human Interest, Society and Culture, Strange
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Different cultures have different ways of celebrating the holidays. Actually, some celebrate while others don’t. Those who celebrate have feasts, others have beasts. Can you imagine Rudolph the red nosed reindeer being served on a platter and not as Santa’s companion?
The ever-so-festive Redhots And Fries food stand in Glenview, Ill., will be featuring reindeer hotdogs […]

23.12.06 Woman with 2 Wombs have Triplets
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Human Interest, Society and Culture, Strange
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This news is quite unusual. First time for me to learn that some women are born with 2 uteri/uterus and 2 cervixes(?). It’s even stranger for this particular woman to give birth to triplets.
British woman with two wombs gives birth to three girls

A woman with two wombs has given birth to triplets, in what is […]

21.12.06 Heavy News
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Human Interest, Odd
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People all over the world are getting heavier and fatter. It’s really difficult to find good fitting clothes, shoes and most specially underwear. Extremely overweight people have a harder time moving around, using the stairs, even something as mundane as using a chair or getting a seat.
Overweight man sues Air France over seat row
Jean-Jacques Jauffret, […]