Archive for the 'Society and Culture' 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 […]

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 […]

10.03.07 A website for consenting adult sheep?
Filed: All About Animals, Society and Culture, Funny
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I was surfing for stuff when I found this link. It is similar to the famous Adult Friend Finder site, the place where consenting adults meet, kinda like a dating site. But the site I found is more than that. The Adult Sheep Finder The world’s #1 sheep sex and dating personals site

Why […]

27.02.07 Dating website for animal lovers
Filed: All About Animals, Human Interest, Society and Culture, Dogs, Cool, World Wide Web, Pigs
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Having problems meeting your match because of your pet dog? Want to meet someone who enjoys taking care of pigs as much as you do? Dier-en-Mens will help you hook up with a potential partner who loves animals, just like you.
Dier-en-Mens claims to be the fastest growing dating website. Unlike the usual dating websites […]

25.02.07 Airline loses Faith, finds Faith again
Filed: All About Animals, Society and Culture, Dogs
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American Airlines lost Faith, then finds Faith again!
Faith, the famous two-legged dog, was lost but was back with her owner after a few hours. She and her owner, Jude Stringfellow, were on their way to Oklahoma City from Orlando, with a stop over in Dallas. They had a problem with their flight from Dallas to […]

23.02.07 Female only tourism island
Filed: Human Interest, Society and Culture, Gender Issues
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Iran is launching a women-only taxi company and soon, women-only tourism island.
According to the Tehran-e Emrouz newspaper, this island will be in a northwest province of Iran, on the Urumiyeh lake in Western Azerbaijan province.
Under Iran’s strict Islamic law, men and women are not supposed to mix in public, much less have women in bathing […]

20.02.07 8,000 to set snow angel record in N.D.
Filed: Human Interest, Society and Culture, Kid Stuff, Cool
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Thousands of people determined to set the snow angel record in Bismark, North Dakota. People frantically flapping arms and legs in the snow Saturday in an attempt to set the record for the most snow angels ever made, most were parents, children, even snowplow drivers.
The curator of education for the State Historical Society of North […]

19.02.07 Man who was fired for visiting adult chat room at work sues IBM for $5 million
Filed: Human Interest, Society and Culture, World Wide Web, Crime and Punishment
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A man was fired by IBM for visiting and adult chatroom while at work, now is suing this company for $5 million. He says that he is addicted to the internet and deserves treatment and sympathy from the company rather than dismissal.
Whoa!
In papers filed in federal court in White Plains, James Pacenza, 58, of Montgomery, […]

12.02.07 6,124 couples kiss in the Philippines
Filed: Human Interest, Society and Culture, Seasonal Stories, Cool, Asia
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The Philippines has broken the world record of the most number couples kissing simultaneously.
The event called Lovapalooza has been organized for the kissing event. More than 6,000 couples kissed simultaneously, for at least 10 secounds, on a parking lot of a mall in Pasay City. Couples danced and listened to music till midnight. After a […]

2.02.07 “Super Tonio” born at 14.5 lbs!
Filed: Human Interest, Society and Culture, Strange, Cool
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A big baby was born at 14.5 pounds is causing a sensation in Cancun, Mexico. People have swarmed the hospital to take a peek at the heavyweight baby Antonio Vasconcelos who was born early this week by Caesarean section. Measures 22 inches in length and drinks 5 ounces of milk every three hours, a total […]