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TRY THE DOGGY POSITION

This column is unashamed of our love for our dogs, Molly and Sam (a reader recently wrote in to complain that they hadn’t been mentioned in the column. It’s probably fair to say they may have been sarcastic) and we much prefer them to say, people like you.

But while we like to think of ourselves as liberal, tolerant and, dare we say, even a bit adventurous, there is a line.

And, typically, the French have seen that line. And stepped right over it – sex dolls for doggies.

According to manufacturers, Feel Addicted: “Dogs have sexual needs too … Its shape and materials allow the product to be stable, to grip on the floor, to be resistant and to have a soft touch.”

They then add, rather disgustingly: “To clean it you just have to pull the hole out and wash it with soap and water.”

Honestly, buying a sex doll for your dog is a bit like buying porn for your kids – you know they might enjoy it, but you really don’t want to be there when they do.

From our friend…IOD.

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Woman Falls Pregnant While Already Pregnant

A US woman has stunned doctors by achieving a rare medical marvel - falling pregnant while pregnant. Skip related content
Related photos / videos Enlarge photo Julia Grovenburg and her husband Todd were shocked to learn she would be giving birth to two babies, but not twins.

The couple attended an ultrasound appointment believing Mrs Grovenburg was just over eight weeks pregnant.

But the scan showed two babies, separated by two-and-a-half weeks - with one clearly more developed than the other.

“[When] she said, ‘and baby number two has got a healthy little heartbeat,’ - I just started gagging,” Mrs Grovenburg told broadcaster KFSM-TV in Arkansas.

“[We were] both in shock,” her husband added.

He went on: "We were trying to put the timelines together and everything.

“We had known she had had a migraine and been at the hospital and actually had a pregnancy test at the time that one would’ve been conceived…”

His wife continued: “We feel blessed to have something so rare and as of this point they’re perfectly healthy.”

Doctors suspect an extraordinarily uncommon situation called superfetation, which means conceiving when already pregnant.

Patrick O’Brien, consulting obstetrician and spokesman for Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), told Sky News Online only one case a year is reported worldwide.

“It’s a rare thing because when you conceive, your hormones change dramatically,” he said.

“Those changes stop you ovulating and they stop you conceiving.”

Tests will be performed when the babies are born to ascertain what happened.

But Dr O’Brien added that the Grovenburg’s may not ever know for sure, because in their case the tests could not rule out twins.

“It’s hard to be certain sometimes because a woman could be having non-identical twins that are markedly different in size from early in a pregnancy,” he said.

“If there’s a big size difference between the twins, the first suspicion is that one is not developing as well.”

Superfetation became a more accurate suspicion when the babies appeared to be more than two weeks apart, he added.

If the family’s situation was not astonishing enough, the babies are officially due in different years - at the end of 2009 and start of 2010.

However, the pair - already named as Jillian and Hudson - were expected to be born together, either naturally or by caesarean section, in December

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probably has 2 wombs coz she’s so fat

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:rolleyes::clap::clap::clap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSILex-2Uu8

A pair of yobs made the mistake of attacking two apparent transvestites on a night out, only to discover that their supposed victims were cage fighters.

Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, set upon the cross-dressing men shortly after being involved in another street fight in Swansea.

CCTV footage (approx. 1 min 10 sec into the clip) shows the pair approach one of the men dressed in a pink wig, miniskirt and boob tube before Gardener throws a punch at him.

But the fight is over in a matter of seconds as the other cage fighter, sporting a wig and a sparkling black dress, floors both the assailants with two lightning-quick punches.

One of the cross-dressers then casually picks up his bag before the pair strut off, leaving Gardener and Fender lying on the pavement.

The attackers are arrested by police as they stagger down the road. Officers later learned the cross-dressers were actually cage fighters on a fancy dress stag night out.

Mark Davies, defending at Swansea Magistrates Court, said: You know it cannot have been a good night when you get into a fight with two cross-dressing men.

Unfortunately they were extremely drunk. They had been out drinking jugs of cocktails and Fender had drunk at least 10 pints of cider.

Both men admitted using abusive words and behaviour. They were electronically tagged and given a four-month community order and a curfew from 7am to 7pm.

  • Nick Coll

Telegraph.co.uk

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Anyone watching this news story on Sky about the balloon in Colorado?

mad stuff.

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[quote=“The Runt”]Anyone watching this news story on Sky about the balloon in Colorado?

mad stuff.[/quote]

Cracking story (if they find the kid). His oul pair are mad scientists and appeared on Wife Swap once.
They reckon he didn’t fall out so hopefully he’ll be found.

Maybe it’s some kind of Flight of the Navigator thing going on…

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Crisis over! Turns out the young fella was asleep in the garage!

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great stuff

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incredible scenes on CNN.

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ah ffs

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scam if u ask me

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CNN had gone all Gulf War on it. Blanket coverage, graphical simulations of the ballons path and trying to calculate where the boy could have fallen out.

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This happened yesterday in australia. The CCTV footage shows a baby’s pram rolling off a train platform as the mother makes a desperate lunge to save her son, but she is too late and it tumbles on to the rails in front of an incoming train.

Luckily the 6 month old baby survived with just a minor cut to the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXE2U3TDZwM

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A worldwide poll of 50,000 women has revealed that the Irish accent is considered the sexiest accent for men.

Surprisingly, the French accent – which is generally cited as super sexy – came in fourth.

“The French accent is nowhere near as popular as it used to be,” said a spokesman for OnePoll.com, the company that conducted the survey. ''You can probably blame [French president] Nicolas Sarkozy for that; he has single-handedly changed the perception of how the world sees French men."

Why is the the Irish accent now so popular? “High-profile stars such as Colin Farrell have helped bring the accent more to the fore,” he says.

Aussie men fared well in the poll, coming in at a respectable fifth.

The poll also revealed that three fifths of women said they’d been seduced by a man’s accent, and two fifths would much rather sleep with a man who had a nice accent rather than a harsh one.

Here are the ten sexiest male accents according to OnePoll.com:

  1. Irish
  2. Italian
  3. Scottish
  4. French
  5. Australian
  6. English
  7. Swedish
  8. Spanish
  9. Welsh
  10. American
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[quote=“Gman”]A worldwide poll of 50,000 women has revealed that the Irish accent is considered the sexiest accent for men.

Surprisingly, the French accent which is generally cited as super sexy came in fourth.

“The French accent is nowhere near as popular as it used to be,” said a spokesman for OnePoll.com, the company that conducted the survey. ''You can probably blame [French president] Nicolas Sarkozy for that; he has single-handedly changed the perception of how the world sees French men."

Why is the the Irish accent now so popular? “High-profile stars such as Colin Farrell have helped bring the accent more to the fore,” he says.

Aussie men fared well in the poll, coming in at a respectable fifth.

The poll also revealed that three fifths of women said they’d been seduced by a man’s accent, and two fifths would much rather sleep with a man who had a nice accent rather than a harsh one.

Here are the ten sexiest male accents according to OnePoll.com:

  1. Irish
  2. Italian
  3. Scottish
  4. French
  5. Australian
  6. English
  7. Swedish
  8. Spanish
  9. Welsh
  10. American[/quote]

Thrawneen, if ever there was a sign…

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I thought this was a belter of a story when it happened. I see your one has pleaded guilty today.

Ex-astronaut sentenced over attack on rival
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:14
A former NASA astronaut accused of attacking and trying to kidnap a romantic rival has pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to two days in jail followed by one year of probation.

Lisa Nowak was arrested in February 2007, after police say she drove more than 1,600km from Houston to Orlando International Airport, disguised herself and assaulted Colleen Shipman, who was then an Air Force captain.

Police said Nowak told them she wore diapers in her car so she would not have to make as many stops along the way.

AdvertisementBefore the sentencing, Ms Shipman tearfully told the court she believed she had narrowly escaped being killed in what she called the vicious attack in a dark parking lot.

‘I believe I escaped a horrible death that night,’ Ms Shipman said, adding that Nowak had researched ‘corpse dismemberment’ before the attack.

Colleen Shipman was dating NASA astronaut Bill Oefelein, with whom Nowak also had a romantic relationship.

Astronaut on assault charge to use insanity defence

Thair Shaikh The Guardian, Wednesday 29 August 2007

A former Nasa astronaut accused of assaulting and trying to kidnap her rival in a love triangle will pursue a defence of insanity at her trial next month, according to documents released by her lawyers yesterday.
Lisa Nowak, 44, suffered from major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, insomnia and a “brief psychotic disorder with marked stressors” in the run-up to her arrest in February for assaulting Colleen Shipman at Orlando International Airport, court papers said.

Donald Lykkebak, her lawyer, also said that Nowak had recently lost 15% of her body weight and that she would cite her marital separation and an inability to confide in members of her direct family.

In one of the most bizarre incidents involving an active Nasa astronaut, Mrs Nowak apparently drove nearly 1,000 miles from Houston, Texas, to Orlando to confront Mrs Shipman, the girlfriend of a former space shuttle pilot Nowak had been involved with.

The married mother of three, who is separated from her husband, had been subjected to Nasa’s rigorous screening process and trained for 10 years to cope with extreme stress before her flight in the Discovery space shuttle. But by her own admission to Orlando police, Mrs Nowak set out on her drive carrying a carbon-dioxide powered pellet gun, a folding knife, pepper spray, a steel mallet and $600 (300) in cash. She also had several large black bin liners, six latex gloves and rubber tubing, as well as a wig and two hooded trenchcoats for disguise.

The police affidavit states that she had discovered that Mrs Shipman, a US air force captain, was flying in from Houston to Orlando that night.

Mr Oefelein told investigators that he met Ms Shipman at a training exercise at Kennedy space centre last November and the two relationships overlapped. Even when he ended his affair with Mrs Nowak in the new year he continued to be in contact with her.

Mrs Nowak was dismissed from the astronaut corps a month after her arrest and her trial is due to start in late September.

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Not sure if the first one has been mentioned on here but saw it on the news last night. Youtube clip below of some drunk woman in Boston who falls onto the subway line and somehow manages not to get run over. Kinda freaky

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Google Street View ‘holiday’ shows man relieving himself on Canary Islands beach

By Matthew Moore

Thursday November 12 2009

A new Google feature encouraging people to take a virtual holiday in the Canary Islands pointed users to a Street View image of a man relieving himself on a beach.

The man’s “private” moment was caught by the search giant’s eye-level cameras as they toured the Playa de las Teresitas in Santa Cruz, Tenerife.

Not only was the image uploaded to Street View for the world to see, but Google inadvertently drew attention to his indiscretion by featuring images from the beach in a new promotion.

To celebrate the ongoing roll-out of Street View to non-urban areas, Google Maps UK is currently inviting all its users to “Take a holiday to the Canary Islands and Hawaii” in a message at the top of the site.

Clicking on the Canary Islands link yesterday brought up a Street View shot of the Playa de las Teresitas, complete with white sand, blue sky and palm trees.

But rotating the image presented a very different side of life at the tourist resort, showing a middle-aged man in a red shirt answering the call of nature against a skip at the edge of the beach.

The image has now been removed by Google after IT website The Register highlighted the error.

Google Street View allows web users across the world to “walk” along streets, exploring 360 degree images recorded from eye level.

It has been criticised for privacy campaigners for recording intimate moments without the consent of those pictured.

  • Matthew Moore

Telegraph.co.uk

Laughter at robber’s spoon ‘weapon’

Thursday November 12 2009

Bank staff in Lubin, Poland, burst out laughing when a would-be robber threatened them with a spoon.

After the man charged through the doors and shouted: “This is a stick-up”, staff and customers initially threw themselves to the floor.

When they spotted his “weapon” and began laughing, the robber fled empty handed.

Press Association

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Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun

Friday, November 13, 2009, 13:45

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”.
Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.
The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year’s imprisonment for handing in the weapon.
In a statement read out in court, Mr Clarke said: "I didn’t think for one moment I would be arrested.
“I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets.”
The court heard how Mr Clarke was on the balcony of his home in Nailsworth Crescent, Merstham, when he spotted a black bin liner at the bottom of his garden.
In his statement, he said: "I took it indoors and inside found a shorn-off shotgun and two cartridges.
"I didn’t know what to do, so the next morning I rang the Chief Superintendent, Adrian Harper, and asked if I could pop in and see him.
“At the police station, I took the gun out of the bag and placed it on the table so it was pointing towards the wall.”
Mr Clarke was then arrested immediately for possession of a firearm at Reigate police station, and taken to the cells.
Defending, Lionel Blackman told the jury Mr Clarke’s garden backs onto a public green field, and his garden wall is significantly lower than his neighbours.
He also showed jurors a leaflet printed by Surrey Police explaining to citizens what they can do at a police station, which included “reporting found firearms”.
Quizzing officer Garnett, who arrested Mr Clarke, he asked: “Are you aware of any notice issued by Surrey Police, or any publicity given to, telling citizens that if they find a firearm the only thing they should do is not touch it, report it by telephone, and not take it into a police station?”
To which, Mr Garnett replied: “No, I don’t believe so.”
Prosecuting, Brian Stalk, explained to the jury that possession of a firearm was a “strict liability” charge – therefore Mr Clarke’s allegedly honest intent was irrelevant.
Just by having the gun in his possession he was guilty of the charge, and has no defence in law against it, he added.
But despite this, Mr Blackman urged members of the jury to consider how they would respond if they found a gun.
He said: "This is a very small case with a very big principle.
"You could be walking to a railway station on the way to work and find a firearm in a bin in the park.
“Is it unreasonable to take it to the police station?”
Paul Clarke will be sentenced on December 11.
Judge Christopher Critchlow said: "This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge.
“The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant.”

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Three held in Russian ‘cannibal case’

Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles) east of Moscow.

Three homeless men with previous criminal records have been arrested on suspicion of setting upon a foe with knives and a hammer before chopping up his corpse to eat, local investigators said in a statement.

“After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies,” the Prosecutor-General’s main investigative unit for the Perm region said in a statement issued on Friday.

It was not immediately clear from the statement if any of the corpse had been sold to customers.

Reuters

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This is the weirdest non-highlighted-as-weird story I’ve seen for a while

Yusuf jeered by fans at comeback concert

AS A high-profile convert to Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens is used to controversy, but even he hadn’t reckoned with elements of an Irish audience in a foul mood. Incensed fans booed, jeered, slow handclapped and walked out of Yusuf Islam’s comeback concert at the O2 in Dublin on Sunday.

Radio presenter Gerry Ryan, who was there, said he had never seen such a “level of hate and bile and viciousness” from an Irish audience. He heard one fan shout at the singer: “play Peace Train, you fing b***” .

He said he met Yusuf after the show and the singer was “utterly shocked” and his family, who were in the audience, were traumatised by what had happened. “I really felt so incredibly ashamed,” Ryan added.

One caller to Ryan’s 2FM show blamed the recession for the vitriol directed at the singer.

“The problem is that there is such a level of aggression at the moment in the country and this was just a catalyst,” she said. Another caller blamed the booing on “brain-dead yobbos”.

Fans on the singer’s website who attended the concert, praised his performance and apologised for what happened.

Yusuf was apologetic to some of the fans. “I’m sorry if we overdid it,” he said at one stage and told them he had just tried to give them “a show and a half”.

He promised the crowd a surprise during his second encore and Ronan Keating joined Yusuf to perform Father and Son to widespread applause.

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[quote=“Watch The Break”]
play Peace Train, you fing b*** [/quote]

:D:D:D:D:clap: