I once had a Slovak girlfriend. We then broke up and she immediately got a new boyfriend with the same ethnic background as mine. Here's why.
Though my friends suggested otherwise, I think she held on to me so strongly simply because the men in her culture like to dance with each other so much:
The women in her culture are, nonetheless, rather sexy:
I once had an Indian girlfriend and she would hang on to me just the same That is, far more than the average. Can you guess why? See below multiple reasons..
In a masterful move, the director of marketing and customer relations from Lufthansa wrote a letter to the Apple programmer who lost the iPhone in the German beer bar.
As you might have heard by now, the happless and unlucky Gray Powell got drunk in a German beermarkt and lost his phone.
Which was found by someone, identified as an iPhone HD (4th gen) and sold to Gizmodo for $5000. At least, this is the official story. I’m sure that conspiracy theorists have their own story, with Powell being a disgruntled employee who wanted to break free from Jobs’ jail.
Did he actually jailbreak? We don’t know, probably not, but Gizmodo had a field month dissecting this phone. It’s also possible that it is all a brilliant marketing move concocted by Jobs and his Gizmodo minions. Talking about brilliant marketing moves, here’s another one, courtesy of Nicola C. Lange, Lufthansa’s director of marketing and customer relations.
The letter states:
I recently read in the news that you lost a very special phone at a German beer bar in California, We all know how frustrating it can be to lose personal belongings.. at Lufthansa we also noted with great interest your passion for German beer and culture. Lufthansa would like to offer you complimentary Business Class transportation to Munich where you can literally pick up where you left off.
“German culture”? Sounds to me like the two German beer lovers plan to watch lots of German scheisse movies together – the kind popularized by an early episode of Southpark.
Note 4 Powell: dude, if you’re somehow reading this, you shouldn’t. It’s all a joke, you were hired there for a reason, don’t take German scheisse seriously. After all, even the Woz is laughing:
Julia Roberts was so smitten with Hinduism during the filming of her new movie Eat Pray Love in India, that she returned home a Hindu.
Her character in the movie, an adaptation of the Elizabeth Gilbert’s travel memoir, she travels to India as part of a spiritual pilgrimage to learn about some aspects of Indian culture, such as yoga, meditation and life in an ashram.
Though Christian (with Baptist and Catholic parents), she reached her own Nirvana during the shoot. She tells Elle:
I'm definitely a practising Hindu. (..) Golly, I've been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life. Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting
Talking about her husband Danny Moder and their children, she said “How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.” The Oscar winning actress is also very modest about her acting skills:
I have no acting technique. And there’s nothing more boring than actors sitting around talking about acting.
Still, she discusses her work:
I’m always asking those guys to tell me what they want. The same with George Clooney. ‘Name it for me,’ I tell him, ‘and I’ll do it.’
As for Botox, she’ll have none of it:
Your face tells a story… and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.
The 47-year-old singer is on trial for the false imprisonment of 29-year-old Audun Carlsen. The Norwegian escort alleges that Boy George (George O’Dowd) manacled him to a bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain after accusing him of hacking into his computer.
They apparently met through a web site and went to Boy George’s home for a naked photo shoot. Afterward Boy George accused Carlsen of hacking into his computer, but nonetheless Carlsen agreed to a second naked photo shoot several weeks later.
Carlsen told the jury that when he arrived Boy George and another man held him down and beat him before the singer handcuffed him to a hook in the bedroom wall. "George was slapping me and beating me and punching me and screaming things," Carlsen said. Carlsen said he was able to escape by unscrewing the hook and running for the door. "I took a bit of time getting the door open and he had a metal chain that he was hitting me with," Carlsen said.
Carlsen said he ran into the street clad only in his underwear. The court was shown photographs of red welts on Carlsen's head and injuries to his arm which he said had been inflicted during the attack.
Boy George's androgynous image and powerful voice made him an `80s icon, and gave Culture Club hits including "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
But the singer struggled for years with drug problems. In 2006 he was ordered to do community service with New York City's Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty to false reporting of an incident. He called police with a false report of a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment, and the responding officers found cocaine inside.
The latest news from crazy Japan is a Boyfriend pillow, targeting single women and their need for a partner to "cuddle up to".
Japan is a land of wonders but also of rapid change and ensuing alienation. The marriage rate has dropped and the birth rate has plummeted. Sex toys are so advanced that many men report not being able to ejaculate in human vaginas any more.
Therefore, the launch of the “Boyfriend’s Arm Pillow” should not surprise, since women have unmet needs as well.
Shaped like a man's torso with one sturdy arm, has been on sale since December and has so far been snapped up by 1,000 singles. Manufacturer Kameo said the pillow's shape also keeps the body balanced. One woman, Junko Suzuki, told AP: "It makes me relaxed... I can hold the arm and feel something warm at my side". The pillow is only available in Japan, where it costs about 8,500 Yen (£40, $80), and is available in blue, pink or green. Ms Suzuki, who is separated from her husband, says the pillow has other advantages. "It keeps holding me all the way through. I think this is great because this does not betray me," she told AP.
Child rearing is a problem, as people work for too long:
Japanese Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa visited the city of Matsue to talk to party members about the falling birth rate. Arresting the decline would be difficult, he said, because "the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed". "All we can ask for is for them to do their best per head," he said.
Such comments are bound to create a stir. The following, however, are not:
According to a lifestyle survey in 2001, married men only spent about 30 minutes each day on household tasks or with their children. This is partly down to traditional attitudes - Japanese men tend not to cook, clean or change nappies. But another problem is a culture of long working hours, followed by compulsory after-work socialising. "My colleague's wife has just had a baby, but he has to work until 11 o'clock every night," said one Tokyo businessman. "He only ever sees the baby when it's asleep."
Dr Inoguchi says the government needs to spend more on helping young families. But she says there also needs to be social change so that both men and women have a better balance between work and family. And the population crisis is helping to highlight where the problems lie. "This very dramatic changing demography and the alarming view that we may not be able to sustain the greying of the population is now leading to - belatedly and reluctantly - the mainstreaming of gender issues," she said.
Our favourite hermit has come up with a list of reasons why having a baby makes more sense than starting a business. Not only that we agree, but we have an even better idea.
Let's be honest! The only reason why this is news is that it gives us a new opportunity to display the poster.
Though it certainly is sad news to learn that someone died, let’s face it: most people care only about the poster!
Captured on a tennis court at Birmingham University in the summer of 1976 – using a Nikon F camera and Kodak film – the image attained iconic status when it was made into an Athena poster. The girl in the picture was the photographer's then girlfriend, Fiona Butler. Apparently, she couldn't even play tennis at the time.
Elliott said about the photo that “It is not a picture I would buy”, but on his own website, he called it "the most published photograph in the world".
This "schoolboy's fantasy" was a money-maker for him and his widow Noelle; they are still receiving royalties. Fiona Butler was not paid for her work and maintained she will never be embarrassed by the photograph.
But(t) if Tennis Girl dominated the 80s, the 50s and 60s flowed under the sign of Jimmi and Audrey:
"because it's everything your parents didn't want you to have anything to do with. The long hair, spaced-out expression, the fag. Youth culture was about identifying with something your parents thought ridiculous."
The 80’s belonged to the (NEW) Man and Baby:
If the Tennis Girl was made for the boys, the Man & Baby poster was definitely made for the ladies. Gone are the days of the mythological Greek Gods, who always tried to kill their offspring. The New Man for a New Era was strong and dependable, caring and washed the dishes too. And just like the Tennis Girl, he was to remain a fantasy. He does not exist, or if he did, he was surely gay, for no woman would find such a man attractive.
Until today, I had not seen the Tennis Girl before. I like it for the “morning feeling” it conveys so well.
I once had a Slovak girlfriend. We then broke up and she immediately got a new boyfriend with the same ethnic background as mine. Here's why. 
Japan is a land of wonders but also of rapid change and ensuing alienation. The marriage rate has dropped and the birth rate has plummeted. Sex toys are so advanced that many men report not being able to ejaculate in human vaginas any more.
Child rearing is a problem, as people work for too long:
Though it certainly is sad news to learn that someone died, let’s face it: most people care only about the poster!
