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Australia bans small breasts
January 27, 2010 – 11:41 pm
The Australian Sex Party (ASP) said Wednesday that the Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. It comes just a week after it was found that material with depictions of females ejaculating during orgasm are now Refused Classification and Australian Customs directed to confiscate it.

ASP’s Fiona Patten writes on her party’s website that they are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup breast size:

“This is in response to a campaign led by Kids Free 2 B Kids and promoted by Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett in Senate Estimates late last year. Mainstream companies such as Larry Flint’s Hustler produce some of the publications that have been banned. These companies are regulated by the FBI to ensure that only adult performers are featured in their publications.”
Patten writes that such bans may be an unintended consequence of the Senator’s actions “but they are largely responsible for the sharp increase in breast size in Australian adult magazines of late”.

Important Update, 01/02/10: The Classification Board has confirmed that a person’s appearance is used when determining the apparent age of a model. The ACB’s Director refused to comment on specifics about breast size. Read more.
How can this be happening

The National Classification Code dictates that anything that describes or depicts a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not) in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult is Refused Classification.

State Crime Acts are also similar. Victoria’s Criminal Code includes the ‘or appears to be’ clause in its definition of child pornography and it doesn’t need to cause offence to a reasonable adult for it to be illegal.

Even if you are 18 years old but you look younger, taking a photograph of your breasts and uploading it to the Internet could land you or someone you know in serious trouble.

Keep in mind it’s highly unlikely that a naked photograph of a 30, 40 or 50 year old woman with small breasts would ‘appear’ to be child pornography on the basis of her breast size alone. Small breasts do not automatically mean something will be banned or is illegal.

A bad message

Australian adult blogger Ms Naughty says we need to look at what this ruling says to Australian women:

“Why ban small boobs? I can only assume it stems from paranoia that flat chests somehow stir up the pedophiles. And you only need to mention that “p” word to start a full-scale moral panic in Parliament.”
“Shall we put such hysteria aside and look at what this ruling is saying to Australian women? Basically, it’s classing a certain normal female body type as obscene. It’s declaring all flat chests to be automatically juvenile, something that should not be viewed by anyone because of a fear that it will stir up “base instincts” in certain people.”
“Can the Classification Board be any more insulting or sexist?”
Ejaculations

According to Patten, female ejaculations films are being Refused Classification on one of two grounds:

That the depictions are a form of urination which is banned under the label of ‘golden showers’ in the Classification Guidelines or
Female ejaculation is an ‘abhorrent’ depiction
“Films that show both male and female ejaculation have routinely been given an X rating since 1983″ said Patten. “The new ruling follows a boom in the numbers of adult films featuring female ejaculation since the pioneering research of Professor Emeritus Beverly Whipple was published in her book The G Spot.”

Content Refused Classification will be blocked to Australian adults under the Government’s planned Internet censorship scheme.

“There are over one million sites featuring female ejaculation and for Australia to be banning depictions and discussion of this important issue, takes us back into the Victorian era where they didn’t even believe that women could have orgasms.”
The ACB has been contacted for comment.

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I passed through Arusha in the back of a Jeep once. It seemed like a fairly crazy place but I didn’t expect that. Tanzania is overrun with Donkeys

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Ray Gosling refuses to identify man in ‘mercy killing’• Veteran broadcaster tells of pact with lover he suffocated
• TV presenter resigned to possibility of jail sentence
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 February 2010 20.05 GMT
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Ray Gosling said on BBC East Midland’s Inside Out programme that he had smothered his lover in hospital. Photograph: David Sillitoe

Ray Gosling, the veteran TV presenter who confessed on television to suffocating a gay lover in a mercy killing, said today he would refuse to answer police questions – “even under torture” – about whom he killed, when and where.

As detectives from Nottinghamshire police’s homicide unit launched an investigation into his claims, the award-winning 71-year-old presenter said he killed the young man, who had Aids and whom he described as “a bit on the side”, with the tacit consent of a doctor after the two men had made a pact.

Officers today interviewed BBC staff who were involved in the production of BBC East Midlands’ Inside Out programme, which featured Gosling’s apparent confession during an item intended as a personal and “quirky” look at death. Police visited the BBC’s studios in Nottingham and are expected to interview Gosling soon.

“We are now liaising with the BBC and will investigate the matter,” said a spokesman for the force. “Our detectives have been at the BBC in Nottingham to speak with those involved in the making of the programme. We fully intend to speak to Mr Gosling.”

Today, Gosling was at the sheltered accommodation centre in Nottingham where he lives as pressure on him grew to justify his claims, with former colleagues questioning his grounds for the claim.

“I am not going to tell, no way,” he said. “That was the pact. That was part of the story. That was how we agreed. It is nobody’s business.” He said the pact was that if his lover “got into terrible pain and nothing can be done I would end it”.

He said he had no regrets about killing the man and admitted he was resigned to the possibility that he could face a jail term if found guilty of murder or assisting suicide, which is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.

The BBC today said it had no further information that could help identify the supposed victim or his family.

“Ray didn’t provide any further details over and above what has been broadcast and these weren’t sufficient to identify those affected,” a spokesman said. “The first the BBC knew of this incident was during filming for the programme that was broadcast on 15 February 2010.”

Gosling claimed the doctor treating the man had deliberately given him time to kill his lover. “The doctor had said to me: ‘I am going to pop out, have a fag or go to the canteen or go round another ward.’ I have forgotten what the exact words were,” he said. “In my mind its almost as though it was an invitation. He was in a situation of almost terminal pain.”

The Crown Prosecution Service said Gosling was within his rights to maintain his silence during the investigation. But it is unheard of to carry out a prosection for murder without a body and a name for the victim, and opponents of euthanasia last night called for Gosling to come clean.

“This is very different from helping someone to go to Dignitas for an assisted suicide – this is smothering someone with a pillow,” said Alistair Thompson, of Care Not Killing, an alliance of organisations opposed to the legalisation of assisted dying. “Here is someone who has admitted murdering someone else. That is pretty damning evidence. There needs to be a proper and thorough police investigation.”

In response to Gosling’s claim that the details of the case are “nobody’s business”, Thompson said the police and criminal prosecutors had a right to know the details. “We don’t know whether there was a pact, we don’t know whether he actually was terminally ill,” he said.

Gosling, an award-winning programme maker for both the BBC and ITV, has a history as an eccentric, former colleagues said. According to the BBC, when he stood for Nottingham council in the 1960s his party affiliation on voting papers was “madman”.

Last night, some TV executives who knew and worked with him said the absence of details about the case raised doubts over whether Gosling’s story was true.

“I would question it,” said Paul Watson, a documentary maker who knows Gosling and last year made a film about the euthanasia of an Alzheimer’s sufferer. “I think it is desperate seeking of attention. He is a lovely man, but he does know how to manipulate the media.”

Ray Fitzwater, an independent producer who worked with Gosling, said: “I wouldn’t put it past him to do something to make a stir. He was extremely eccentric. But it would be a dreadful thing to do.”

Gosling could not be contacted to respond to the claims.

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Impatient passenger eats €10k scratchcard
Saturday, 27 February 2010 10:56
A Ryanair passenger ate his €10,000 winning scratch card after he was told he could not claim the money immediately, it emerged today.

The unnamed man was flying with Ryanair from Krakow in Poland to East Midlands Airport in England when he won €10,000 with the scratch card.

Crew on board the flight confirmed he had won the prize but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as it was such a large sum.

AdvertisementRyanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket, ruling out any chance he had of claiming the prize money which will now be donated to charity.

Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for the airline, said: ‘Passengers have always been delighted to claim their large cash prizes after returning home.’

‘Unfortunately our latest winner felt that we should have his €10,000 prize kicking around on the aircraft.’

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By Henry Samuel in Paris

Thursday March 11 2010

IN 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were committed to asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now an even more extraordinary explanation has emerged, with evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind-control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (The Cursed Bread) still haunts Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, south-east France. On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants suddenly suffered frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother.

Another man shouted “I am a plane” before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards.

‘Time’ magazine wrote: “Delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead.”

Eventually, it was determined that a local baker had unwittingly contaminated his flour with ergot, a hallucinogenic mould that infects rye grain.

However, H P Albarelli Jr, an investigative journalist, claims the outbreak resulted from a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the US army’s top-secret special ops division at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Mr Albarelli came across CIA documents while investigating the suspicious suicide of Frank Olson, a biochemist working for special ops who fell from a 13th floor window two years after the Cursed Bread incident.

One of the notes describes a conversation between a CIA agent and a official with Sandoz, a pharmaceutical company that “supplied the CIA and the US army with LSD”.

The official allegedly mentioned the “secret of Pont-Saint-Esprit” and explained that it was not “at all” caused by mould but by diethylamide, the D in LSD. (© Daily Telegraph, London)

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Sounds like a job for Walter Bishop

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Man held over failed ATM robbery
A man (23) has been arrested in connection with an attempted robbery at a shop in Dublin earlier this morning.

The incident occurred at about 3.30am when three men entered into a premises on East Wall Road, Dublin 1 with Sledgehammer, falsely imprisoned a man and attempted to take an ATM from the store.

The 23-year-old was arrested at the rear of the shop while the other two men fled the scene.

The arrested man is being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act at Store Street Garda station.

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The driver in the lorry was seemingly oblivious to the car in front on this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUA5ctp2LY

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An Indonesian teenager chopped off his penis and tossed it down a well after learning his girlfriend intended to marry another man.

The 19-year-old from a village in Central Java was lucky to survive the self surgery, health authorities said.

“He arrived at the hospital last Thursday in critical condition from blood loss,” Cilacap General Hospital Director Sugeng Budi Susanto told local media.

“Cutting off a penis can be fatal.”

Doctors were unable to re-attach the dismembered member because villagers could not find it.

The teen spent several days in intensive care but is now in recovery, Sugeng said.

He had not spoken to anyone about the incident, Sugeng said.

“He’s still too shocked and embarrassed to talk to or see anyone.”

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He really didn’t think that one through at all.

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thing I found strange was the villagers all out searching for yer mans mickey.

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He threw it in the well, somebody is going to end up with a mickey sticking out of their cup of tea.

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There was no need to throw a wobbly because of some girl.

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Sad to see a lad lose his head over some bint alright.

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Fixed that for you

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I was using head to signify knob there Julio.

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Probably the best strikers in the world.

Several hundred warehouse workers and drivers at Danish brewer Carlsberg halted work for a second day today to protest a company decision to limit beer drinking at work to lunch breaks.

The strike in Denmark followed the company’s decision on April 1st to introduce new rules for employees on beer drinking at work, said Jens Bekke, spokesman at the world’s fourth largest brewer.

“There has been free beer, water and soft drinks everywhere,” he said. “Yesterday, beers were removed from all refrigerators. The only place you can get a beer in future is in the canteen, at lunch.”

Mr Bekke said drivers retained an old right to three beers per day outside lunch hours, and warehouse workers claimed the same right.

“Because of that, the warehouse staff went on strike yesterday, with other staff striking in sympathy,” he said.

Mr Bekke said as many as 800 had walked out yesterday, with 250 still on strike today, and the Confederation of Danish Industry and trade union 3F had agreed to look into the dispute.

He said there would be no shipments from Copenhagen today, and delays in the rest of the country, but said he expected the financial effect of the strike to be minor.

He said Carlsberg’s trucks have alcohol locks so drivers would not be able to drink too much and drive.

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I have an old Danish friend, they are beauties that Danish race. He’s got some hilarious stories. They would piss most of Ireland under the table when it comes to drinking too.
But this is a brilliant piece of striking alright.

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Man admits having sex with horse and donkey

By Ellen Branagh, Press Association

A 66-year-old man pleaded guilty today to having sex with a horse and a donkey.

Joseph Squires appeared at Leicester Crown Court charged with buggery of a donkey between February 2 and February 5, 1999, and buggery of a horse between March 15 and 18, 2004.

He also faced charges of damaging property - relating to the two animals on the same dates.

Squires, whose address was previously given as Overpark Avenue, Leicester, was due to stand trial but pleaded guilty to all four counts at Leicester Crown Court today.

Defence counsel Amar Mehta told the court Squires had no previous convictions and was of previous good character.

Requesting he be released on bail, he said: "The defendant does not have a stable address although he says his daughter can provide an address."

Judge Michael Pert QC refused the application and remanded Squires into custody for a pre-sentence report to be prepared. He will be sentenced on May 24.