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Sexless person
16 Mar @ 12.34
Meet Norrie May-Welby, who is apparently neither a man nor a woman. Briton is recognised as world’s first officially genderless person:
Norrie May-Welby, 48, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990, at the age of 28.After becoming unhappy as a woman, May-Welby decided to become a “neuter”. The 48-year-old is now officially recognised as a person of no specific gender.
May-Welby emigrated to Australia at the age of seven after being born in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Officials there altered the Briton’s birth certificate to include the new no-gender classification after doctors were apparently unable to determine the sex of the expat’s body.
More about his story – here
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Loading ...House of cards record
12 Mar @ 8.33
Don’t breathe on it: Architect spends 44 days creating world’s biggest house of cards:
An American architect has broken his own Guinness World Record by building the largest house of free-standing playing cards.Bryan Berg used 218,792 cards to create a replica of the Venetian Macau, which is on display in its namesake luxury hotel and casino.
Berg took 44 days and 4,051 decks of cards to complete his model inside the Venetian, which sits at the heart of Macau’s Cotai Strip, the China-ruled city’s version of Las Vegas’ neon alley.
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Extra-small condoms for children
11 Mar @ 14.28
They’re available in shops in Switzerland and pretty soon in the UK too.
Condoms in ‘extra small’ for boys age 12 set for Britain’s shelves soon
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lindsay Lohan is suing over her name
10 Mar @ 8.17
Because ‘Lindsay’ is HER name. She called it. Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad:
Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, The Post has learned.Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna.
“Many celebrities are known by one name only, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit,” Ovadia said.
“They used the name Lindsay,” Ovadia said. “They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and saying it’s Lindsay Lohan.”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The surprise in the bowl
9 Mar @ 11.45
Nasty surprise hiding in the bowl:
ANSWERING the call of nature took on new meaning for Robert Eves when he discovered this monster serpent coiled in his toilet bowl.In a scene only embodied in many peoples’ worst nightmare, Mr Eves came face to scaled snout with the 2.7m carpet python during a night-time trip to his North Ward cottage’s bathroom.
“It was about 9pm and I was going to the bathroom,” Mr Eves, 65, said. “I saw a dark shape in the toilet, so I turned on the light to check what it was and there was the snake sitting quite happily in the bottom of the bowl.”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dog guards dead companion for 15 days on the highway
9 Mar @ 10.26
Sad thing of the day:
SEGOVIA, Spain – A female dog continuously guarded the dead body of another dog for 15 days after the latter was hit by a vehicle alongside a highway in central Spain.After receiving calls from motorists who saw the animal for several days alongside the highway linking El Espinar with Avila, authorities managed to put the female dog to sleep with tranquilizer darts and capture her with the aim of getting her adopted, the El Refugio animal welfare organization said on Sunday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Legal issues on the Che Guevara image
8 Mar @ 12.19
Row rages over iconic image of Che Guevara:
It is the photograph that adorns student bedsits across the world. The famed black and white portrait of Ernesto “Che” Guevara perfectly captured his intense stare and brooding good looks, helping establish his myth. But exactly 50 years since Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz “Korda” Gutiérrez snapped the Marxist revolutionary, the image has become the subject of bitter legal battles.Since Korda’s death in 2001, his daughter, Diana Díaz, has pursued companies she accuses of breaching the photograph’s copyright by using it in their advertising campaigns. Her father employed a similar tactic when he sued Smirnoff Vodka for the illegal use of the image in 2001, a case that re-established his copyright after 41 years.
Díaz’s legal battles are not without controversy – or irony. For decades the Argentinian-born Guevara’s adopted spiritual home of Cuba did not recognise copyright. It was only following the collapse of the former Soviet Union that Cuba joined the World Trade Organisation and legalised copyright.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Korean man marries pillow
8 Mar @ 9.58
Man gets married to a pillow:
A Korean man has married his dakimaura, a.k.a. a body pillow with a Japanese anime girl drawn on it.The girl depicted on the newlywed pillow is Fate Testarossa from the anime Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Footage shows the man bringing his body pillow to a theme park, where they ride roller coasters and a carousel. Later, they go out to dinner, where he orders two dishes of pasta. Everywhere they go, passersby laugh, point and whisper. Finally, he sports a tuxedo and stuffs Testarossa into a wedding dress for the marriage ceremony
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sandra Bullock got a Razzie for worst actress this year
8 Mar @ 8.06
SANDRA Bullock has won the Worst Actress gong at the 30th Annual Golden Rasberry (Razzie) Awards in Los Angeles, one day before the Academy Awards where she is nominated for Best Actress.Bullock, who is favoured to win at the Oscars for her performance in The Blind Side, collected the award for worst female performance in All About Steve at the Razzies – an annual award ceremony which recognises the worst in film.
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