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Weird News II; The Weirdness Never Ends
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Denovissimus Feb 23 2008, 04:56 PM Post #1
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Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'

Young men in a shopping centre in Saudi Arabia (archive)
Relations between the sexes outside marriage is against the law
Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.

The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette reported.

They were arrested following a request of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The mutaween enforce Saudi Arabia's conservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism.

Earlier in the month, the authorities enforced a ban on the sale of red roses and other symbols used in many countries to mark Valentine's Day.

The ban is partly because of the connection with a "pagan Christian holiday", and also because the festival itself is seen as encouraging relations between the sexes outside marriage, punishable by law in the kingdom.

The Prosecution and Investigation Commission said it had received reports of such "bad" behaviour by 57 young men at a number of shopping centres in the holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Gazette said.

The guardians of some of the men defended their actions, however, saying they would regularly get together at the weekend to have fun without ever violating laws governing the segregation of the sexes, it added.
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Julesy Feb 23 2008, 05:13 PM Post #2
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good god Id actually kill myself if I had to live in a place like that.
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Now You Can Smell Like Tom of Finland
Fragrance might not be the first thing you generally associate with the erotically charged Tom of Finland foundation, but the organization is getting into the game nonetheless with an eponymous new fragrance developed in collaboration with Etat Libre d'Orange (the same company behind the delightfully titled new women's fragrance, Don't Get Me Wrong Baby, I Don't Swallow).

According to Women's Wear Daily, the Tom of Finland fragrance which was concocted by perfumer/composer Antoine Lie, contains notes that feature crumpled leaf, suede, metal, pepperwood, iris, vetiver, tonka bean and musks and is envisioned to "smell like a guy coming out of a shower. He's clean, but not. And he puts on leather pants." Sounds sexy.

The quirky new scent will retail for around $100 and be launched in the Paris-based Etat Libre d'Orange store, online at www.etatlibredorange.com and exclusively in the U.K.'s Harvey Nichols at the end of February. By June the scent is expected to be rolled out exclusively in Canada at Holt Renfrew and in the U.S., among other countries. :huh
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jeez! I think I would rather live in any other country in the world than live in Saudi Arabia. I think I would rather live in one of those tribes in Africa where they stretch out their lips with those plates.
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I wouldn't want any of those scents. I've seen leather scents and I'm like :huh who wants to smell like dead processed animal skin?
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la anaconda de chocolatee Feb 23 2008, 10:33 PM Post #6
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I love the smell of leather
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yeah on a jacket, not on my skin
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la anaconda de chocolatee Feb 23 2008, 10:38 PM Post #8
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do you know how they make leather? It is pretty dickgusting
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I have a vague idea, and yes it is but then again any animal product or byproduct, be it food or clothing, goes through disturbing processes before we see the finished item
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Now You Can Smell Like Tom of Finland


:alien I am so proud to be a Finn.
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who is Tom, anne?
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Taman Feb 24 2008, 08:20 PM Post #12
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Tom of Finland (May 8, 1920 – November 7, 1991) (born Touko Laaksonen in Kaarina, Finland) was a fetish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture.



Copied that from wikipedia. Can't say I am a fan of his work
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His drawings of men always feature huge cocks! :clap
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[size=14]DOOMSDAY VAULT[/size]

Biodiversity 'doomsday vault' comes to life in Arctic
By Pierre-Henry Deshayes | Posted Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:25am PST

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LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AFP) - Aimed at providing mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic "doomsday vault" filled with samples of the world's most important seeds will be inaugurated here Tuesday.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Nobel Peace Prize winning environmentalist Wangari Matai will be among the personalities present at the inauguration of the vault, which has been carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, just some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the North Pole.

The vault, made up of three spacious cold chambers each measuring 27 x 10 metres (89 x 33 feet), create a long trident-shaped tunnel bored into the sandstone and limestone.

It has the capacity to hold up to 4.5 million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet's main food crops, making it possible to re-establish plants if they disappear from their natural environment or are obliterated by major disasters.

"The facility is built to hold twice as many varieties of agricultural crops as we think exist," explained Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and project mastermind.

"It will not be filled up in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime," he predicted in a phone interview with AFP.

Norway has assumed the six million euro (8.9 million dollar) charge for building the vault in its Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, where ironically no crops grow.

Secured behind an airlock door, the three airtight chambers have the capacity to house duplicates of samples from all the world's more than 1,400 existing seed banks.

Many of the more vulnerable seed banks have begun contributing to the "doomsday vault" collection, but some of the world's biodiversity has already disappeared, with gene vaults in both Iraq and Afghanistan destroyed by war and a seed bank in the Philippines annihilated by a typhoon.

By the time of the inauguration on Tuesday, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault should hold some 250,000 samples, which will remain the property of their countries of origin.

Pakistan and Kenya, both undergoing periods of serious unrest, have sent seed collections, while samples sent from Colombia have been closely scrutinised by police to avoid the project becoming a vehicle for drug trafficking.

"I've been working in this field for 30 years and I thought I knew at least all the crops," Fowler said.

After receiving a list of all the different seeds in the vault, however, "I must admit there are a number of crops I've never heard of before," he said.

That's a spectacular amount of diversity for Svalbard, where no trees can grow due to the permafrost and where the mercury plummets to an average 14 degrees Celsius below zero (6.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in winter.

The Norwegian archipelago, which is home to some 2,300 people, was selected not despite but because of its inhospitable climate, as well as its remote location far from civil strife.

The seeds of wheat, maize, oats and other crops will be stored at a constant temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius, and even if the freezer system fails the permafrost will ensure that temperatures never rise above 3.5 degrees Celsius below freezing.

"Svalbard really met all the criteria," Fowler said.

Protected by high walls of fortified concrete, an armoured door, a sensor alarm and the native polar bears that roam the region, the "doomsday vault" has been built 130 metres (425 feet) above current sea level -- high enough that it would not flood if the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt entirely due to global warming.

The concrete cocoon has also been built to withstand nuclear missile attacks or a plunging plane, something that could come in handy in light of the 6.4-scale tremor -- the biggest earthquake in Norway's history -- registered near the archipelago on Thursday.

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chocolate dick hats :chuckle

http://www.chocolatepartyhats.com/
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oh jeez!
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Report: Elmo Doll Threatens to Kill Toddler

It sounds like something the talking doll Chucky from the movies might say: "Kill James!" Instead, a Florida family says the threat to their toddler is coming from a talking Elmo doll.

The Bowman family, of Lithia, Fla., said an Elmo doll belonging to their 2-year-old son, James, began to spout death threats towards him after they changed its batteries, TBO.com reports.

The Elmo Knows Your Name Doll started saying "Kill James!" in a sing-song voice, the site reports.

"It's not something that really you would think would ever come out of a toy," James' mother, Melissa, told the site. "But once I heard, I was just kind of distraught."

The toy's manufacturer, Fisher-Price, said it will issue the Bowmans a voucher for a replacement doll, TBO.com reports.

:ha
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:ha :ha :ha

gee if I was a programmer I would do that too!
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that is fucking hysterical!
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Reuters
Pfizer pulls TV ads with heart expert Jarvik

By Lisa Richwine Mon Feb 25, 8:35 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Monday it was pulling television advertisements for its Lipitor cholesterol drug featuring Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik artificial heart, because they created "misimpressions."
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The ads involving Jarvik had come under scrutiny from a U.S. House of Representative committee as part of an investigation into celebrity endorsements of prescription medicines.

Democratic lawmakers had voiced concern that Jarvik's qualifications were misrepresented in widely seen TV commercials touting the blockbuster drug. They said Jarvik seemed to be dispensing medical advice even though he is not a practicing physician.

The commercials, which portray Jarvik in various outdoor activities, also raised eyebrows after news reports that a stunt double was used in a scene with a man rowing across a lake.

On his company's Web site, Jarvik describes himself as a medical scientist who has worked in the field of artificial hearts for 36 years and does not practice clinical medicine or treat individual patients.

Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker, said it was withdrawing the Jarvik ads voluntarily.

"The way in which we presented Dr. Jarvik in these ads has, unfortunately, led to misimpressions and distractions from our primary goal of encouraging patient and physician dialogue on the leading cause of death in the world -- cardiovascular disease. We regret this," Ian Read, Pfizer's president of worldwide pharmaceutical operations, said in a statement.

"Going forward, we commit to ensuring there is greater clarity in our advertising regarding the presentation of spokespeople," Read said.

New Lipitor campaigns will be launched in several weeks, Read added.

Lipitor, part of the statin family of cholesterol-lowering medicines, is the world's best-selling prescription drug. Global sales fell 2 percent to $12.7 billion in 2007, hurt by competition from low-cost generic forms of Merck & Co Inc's Zocor.

Lawmakers probing the Jarvik ads praised Pfizer's decision to stop running them.

"We trust that Pfizer is sincere in its commitment to 'greater clarity' in its advertising. My colleagues and I look forward to meeting with Pfizer's management team to discuss their plans related to direct-to-consumer advertising," House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell said in a statement.

Rep. Bart Stupak, who chairs the panel's subcommittee on investigations, said lawmakers still planned to meet with Jarvik and collect and review documents requested as part of the investigation. Dingell and Stupak are both Michigan Democrats.

Officials at Jarvik Heart Inc in New York, where Jarvik serves as president and chief executive, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.

In a statement issued in January, Jarvik said he had the "training, experience and medical knowledge to understand the conclusions of the extensive clinical trials" of Lipitor.

Lipitor is known generically as atorvastatin. Zocor's generic name is simvastatin.



Sure they didnt mean to misrepresent! Yeah fucking right!!! They are only sorry they got called out on it! Pharm companies are the fucking antichrists! :jesse :jesse :jesse
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