An 11-year-old boy suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) thought 9/11 was his mistake.
His condition meant he was forced "to step correctly on a particular white mark on the road" every day.
On the day two aircraft slammed into the World Trade Centre, he had forgotten to do this and believed that the attack was his personal fault.
In a report published in the journal Neurocase experts said the boy, who suffers from OCD and Tourette's syndrome, was wracked with guilt after the attack.
The report said: "The case highlights the need to support young people in this world of terrorism and the mass media immediate coverage of events."
Friday, June 27, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
As stereotypes go...
This is the image that the West has of India. Snake charmers, holy men, cattle on the road, people living in squalor.
Let me tell you... all of that is true.
But among the top 10 billionaires of the world, seven are Indians.
Most of the clothes that the world wears are Made in India.
India is also the back-office of the world.
Some of the most fabulous people I have met in the world are Indians.
Indians are also the software technology kings of the world.
All in all, Indians rock. Indian sadhus (holy men who stay in the forests, smoke a big joint and take a dip in ice-cold water) too.
Look what they've done to Malaysia
It’s one of my favourite countries in the world, but Malaysia is turning too radical for my liking.
It has now issued guidelines urging women not to wear lipstick or 'noisy' high heeled shoes.
The council spokesman for Kota Baru, the capital of Kelantan state which is controlled by the Islamic Party, said the suggestion aimed to protect rape and protect women’s dignity and morals.
He denied reports that the code was compulsory or that women would be fined for breaking it.
"We just distribute pamphlets. Our minimum guideline is they must wear headscarves," said Azman Mohd Daham. "The rest is up to them. If they want to follow the 100 percent Islamic way, it’s up to them."
Two things I’d like to say about this:
I told you so.
And, who said provocative dressing leads to rape or sexual assault. There are a good number of rapes in India and studies have shown that women who were attacked were neither “provocatively dressed” nor had that image. They were attacked only because the men who destroyed them were animals.
It has now issued guidelines urging women not to wear lipstick or 'noisy' high heeled shoes.
The council spokesman for Kota Baru, the capital of Kelantan state which is controlled by the Islamic Party, said the suggestion aimed to protect rape and protect women’s dignity and morals.
He denied reports that the code was compulsory or that women would be fined for breaking it.
"We just distribute pamphlets. Our minimum guideline is they must wear headscarves," said Azman Mohd Daham. "The rest is up to them. If they want to follow the 100 percent Islamic way, it’s up to them."
Two things I’d like to say about this:
I told you so.
And, who said provocative dressing leads to rape or sexual assault. There are a good number of rapes in India and studies have shown that women who were attacked were neither “provocatively dressed” nor had that image. They were attacked only because the men who destroyed them were animals.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Fake dick helps you pass dope tests
Steroids are essential in sports these days, they tell us. But surely you will get caught when you are tested, right? No sir, not if you have The Fake Dick.
Whizzinator is selling fake penises, complete with a syringe, fake urine and heat pack.
You have to add about 90 cc of tap water to the synthetic urine and you are good to pass one test. The contraption has to be worn like a belt around your waist. The heat pack will ensure that your body temperature and that of the urine “you pass” is the same.
And, oh! You have to be a really contortionist to convince a testing official and the thing is coming off your own member. That could be hard task given that you have to pee with your pants pulled down to the ankle in full view of the official.
Whizzinator sells the dicks in all colours, just so that you don’t get caught. There is the white variety, a latino one and dicks in brown, tan and black shades.
The contraption comes for $150 with synthetic urine costing $15 ($12 if you order three or more packs) and the heat pads $2 each.
Just be careful that in the heat of the moment you don’t use the real thing and let it all out.
I know you want to see what different coloured dicks look like. Spot your own at whizzinator. ENJOY!
Whizzinator is selling fake penises, complete with a syringe, fake urine and heat pack.
You have to add about 90 cc of tap water to the synthetic urine and you are good to pass one test. The contraption has to be worn like a belt around your waist. The heat pack will ensure that your body temperature and that of the urine “you pass” is the same.
And, oh! You have to be a really contortionist to convince a testing official and the thing is coming off your own member. That could be hard task given that you have to pee with your pants pulled down to the ankle in full view of the official.
Whizzinator sells the dicks in all colours, just so that you don’t get caught. There is the white variety, a latino one and dicks in brown, tan and black shades.
The contraption comes for $150 with synthetic urine costing $15 ($12 if you order three or more packs) and the heat pads $2 each.
Just be careful that in the heat of the moment you don’t use the real thing and let it all out.
I know you want to see what different coloured dicks look like. Spot your own at whizzinator. ENJOY!
The best protection you can carry
What do you do when stuck in a mountain crevice with no one to call for help? Take off your bra, of course.
An American woman did just that and ended up being rescued from a German mountain.
The 24-year-old trekker from Colorado was hiking alone in the Bavarian Alps hiking alone near Berchtesgaden, close to the border with Austria, last Monday.
She lost her way when the weather turned bad and she fell 18 feet down a crevasse, injuring her shoulder, ankle and head.
She hooked the brightly coloured sports bra on a cable used for transporting logs to a valley below, hoping it would lead rescuers to her.
A logger who had heard about the search for a missing woman saw the bra and called mountain rescue.
So next time you head into the mountains, keep your wits -- and your sports bra -- about.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Ready to be plucked: A village full of virgin men in India
Power problems are big problems in India. But when it leads to a village full of virgin men (maybe?) then it is a seriously big problem.
Villagers of Anmolpur near Lucknow in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are bachelors because the village has no power supply.
This is 60 years after India became independent in a village 20 km from Lucknow, the parliamentary seat of former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
"Marriage proposals do come but as soon as parents of prospective brides come to know that there is no electricity in the village, they never return," a member of the block development committee, Atul Awasthi said.
Over 75 per cent of the youth in Anmolpur are unmarried, according to residents.
The village has a population of around 1,500.
"An exercise to electrify the village was initiated in 1973 and electric poles were erected with power lines. But power supply was snapped after some years due to reasons unknown to us. There are only seven poles left now in the village," said Awasthi.
Villagers of Anmolpur near Lucknow in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are bachelors because the village has no power supply.
This is 60 years after India became independent in a village 20 km from Lucknow, the parliamentary seat of former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
"Marriage proposals do come but as soon as parents of prospective brides come to know that there is no electricity in the village, they never return," a member of the block development committee, Atul Awasthi said.
Over 75 per cent of the youth in Anmolpur are unmarried, according to residents.
The village has a population of around 1,500.
"An exercise to electrify the village was initiated in 1973 and electric poles were erected with power lines. But power supply was snapped after some years due to reasons unknown to us. There are only seven poles left now in the village," said Awasthi.
New Guns N' Roses album leaked by blogger
The long-awaited album from the rock band Guns N’ Roses has been partially leaked by an American blogger.
Nine ‘mastered, finished’ tracks from Chinese Democracy, the album that Axl Rose has been working on for the past 14 years, were posted on a little-known website, www.antiquiet.com.
The album is reported to have cost in excess of $13million to produce but its release is said to have been held up by discussions between Rose and the band’s record label Geffen Records, over rights.
A poster calling themselves Skwerl made the nine songs available on Wednesday, without revealing their source, but the tracks were removed hours later.
The poster wrote: “I always said that the more that Axl and Geffen jerked around trying to figure out how to release this finally finished album that we’ve all been waiting over 13 years for, the greater the chances would be that it would slip out of a pressing plant or office somewhere.”
Despite the hasty removal of the songs, reportedly after a call from the band’s lawyers, they soon spread throughout the internet, appearing on filesharing sites as well as YouTube.
Once released, the album will be the first original recording from GNR since the 1991releases of Use Your Illusion.
And hey, also do a Google to see what Axl Rose and Slash look like now. Oh those were the days.
Nine ‘mastered, finished’ tracks from Chinese Democracy, the album that Axl Rose has been working on for the past 14 years, were posted on a little-known website, www.antiquiet.com.
The album is reported to have cost in excess of $13million to produce but its release is said to have been held up by discussions between Rose and the band’s record label Geffen Records, over rights.
A poster calling themselves Skwerl made the nine songs available on Wednesday, without revealing their source, but the tracks were removed hours later.
The poster wrote: “I always said that the more that Axl and Geffen jerked around trying to figure out how to release this finally finished album that we’ve all been waiting over 13 years for, the greater the chances would be that it would slip out of a pressing plant or office somewhere.”
Despite the hasty removal of the songs, reportedly after a call from the band’s lawyers, they soon spread throughout the internet, appearing on filesharing sites as well as YouTube.
Once released, the album will be the first original recording from GNR since the 1991releases of Use Your Illusion.
And hey, also do a Google to see what Axl Rose and Slash look like now. Oh those were the days.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Androids are here. Really?
A company in Japan has put on sale its android, nicknamed Lisa, from June 11.
Lisa is capable of doing all your domestic chores -- from cleaning the house to going shopping, from cooking to giving you a massage. She can even give you a fuck if you so desire.
The two men said to be behind the project, Etienne Fresse and Yoichi Yamato, claimed to have developed a technology called Recognition Krax System (RKS) which gives Lisa "vocal, tactile and visual recognition".
But sceptics are not buying the theory. Some say it could be a promotional gimmick. Others say it could be a critique of women's role in relationships.
The company owners have even put up a website which not just looks rudimentary but also seems to suggest that they are not confident of the product. Moreover, the website was registered onyl in March or April which leads one to believe that the promoters are not really serious about Lisa.
Check it our for yourself by clicking here.
And to place your order for Lisa, you just have select whether you want her to be blonde or brunette, with long or short hair and in regular or revealing clothing. And give your email address. That's it. Then you don't hear from the company.
But if Lisa is for real, we are one step closer to the scene from Demolition Man in which Sandra Bullock asks Sly Stallone of he wants to have sex and quickly gets two helmets out when he replies in the affirmative.
Lisa is capable of doing all your domestic chores -- from cleaning the house to going shopping, from cooking to giving you a massage. She can even give you a fuck if you so desire.
The two men said to be behind the project, Etienne Fresse and Yoichi Yamato, claimed to have developed a technology called Recognition Krax System (RKS) which gives Lisa "vocal, tactile and visual recognition".
But sceptics are not buying the theory. Some say it could be a promotional gimmick. Others say it could be a critique of women's role in relationships.
The company owners have even put up a website which not just looks rudimentary but also seems to suggest that they are not confident of the product. Moreover, the website was registered onyl in March or April which leads one to believe that the promoters are not really serious about Lisa.
Check it our for yourself by clicking here.
And to place your order for Lisa, you just have select whether you want her to be blonde or brunette, with long or short hair and in regular or revealing clothing. And give your email address. That's it. Then you don't hear from the company.
But if Lisa is for real, we are one step closer to the scene from Demolition Man in which Sandra Bullock asks Sly Stallone of he wants to have sex and quickly gets two helmets out when he replies in the affirmative.
Unicorn in Italy
This deer born in cpativity in a reserach centre's park in Prato, near Florence in Italy has just one horn. The roe deer has been nicknamed Unicorn and it was born with a genetic flaw -- its brother has two horns.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
What an idea, sirjee
THAT'S THE WAY TO PROTEST: Ukrainian students wash themselves and do laundry in a fountain in the center of Kiev on June 8, 2008 during a protest against deficient municipal services in their dormitories.
Boldness changes everything
A boy takes position to fight a sumo wrestler as part of an exhibition before the start of the Grand Sumo Tournament on June 7, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Those bras have to be custom-made
Move over Dolly Parton, Maxi Mounds is here.
Maxi Mounds, a lap dancer and a porno movie actor, has been certified by Guiness Book of World Records as having the world's largest fake breasts.
Each of the breast weighs 20 pounds -- and is still growing.
She apparently went in for a controversial and unsafe implant that irritates the breast tissue and causes fluid secretion in the inflamed area causing the breats to grow further.
The procedure basically involves insertion of a "polypropylene string" into the breasts. It is banned in the UK and the US.
Maxi Mounds (now the name is officially justified), became a lap dancer in Florida in the 1990s and has since starred in several pornographic films.
She says she is used to her absurd proportions causing a stir. "I’ve seen some pretty funny things happen. Men walking into things and getting slapped by their girlfriends because they were staring too hard."
She lives in New York.
Just a couple of things remain to be asked: where does she get her bras from? and don't they break her back?
The Most beautiful game -- with the craziest fan following
A pregnant woman, Brazil's Fluminense's fan, shows her bump prior to a Copa Libertadores soccer game against Argentina's Boca Juniors in Rio de Janeiro on June 4, 2008.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
'Mooning' gives Dutch man a bleeding ass
A 21-year-old Dutch man suffered cuts in his butt after a "mooning" that went horribly wrong, AP reported from Utrecht in Netherlands on June 3, 2008.
A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down in the back "for a joke."
It says that at one point the 21-year-old "pushed his behind against the window of a restaurant" that broke and resulted in "deep wounds to his derriere."
The statement released Tuesday says police detained the three men after the incident Sunday morning. But the cafe owner decided not to press charges after the men agreed to pay for the broken window.
The injured man was treated at a nearby hospital.
A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down in the back "for a joke."
It says that at one point the 21-year-old "pushed his behind against the window of a restaurant" that broke and resulted in "deep wounds to his derriere."
The statement released Tuesday says police detained the three men after the incident Sunday morning. But the cafe owner decided not to press charges after the men agreed to pay for the broken window.
The injured man was treated at a nearby hospital.
A prick in the wall?
Fifty-four-year-old Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer is a virgin with humans.
She suffers from a condition called Objectum-Sexuality and wed the Berlin Wall some 29 years ago. She insists she has a full, loving relationship with the wall.
When part of the Berlin was brought down, she was shattered. Now she has kept fragments of the wall in her home.
When asked if other walls catch her fancy too she said she found the Great Wall of China "attractive but too thick".
"My husband's sexier, she said.
Catch the full story on Telegraph
She suffers from a condition called Objectum-Sexuality and wed the Berlin Wall some 29 years ago. She insists she has a full, loving relationship with the wall.
When part of the Berlin was brought down, she was shattered. Now she has kept fragments of the wall in her home.
When asked if other walls catch her fancy too she said she found the Great Wall of China "attractive but too thick".
"My husband's sexier, she said.
Catch the full story on Telegraph
When nature strikes
Piled up cars in Jungingen, south western Germany. A thunderstorm with heavy rainfalls severely damaged parts of the village. A severe storm unleashed heavy rains and flash floods on southwestern Germany overnight on June 3, 2008 killing three women and injuring more than 10 people, police said Tuesday. Police said a normally quiet stream that runs through the Killertal, which means "killer valley" in German, in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg became choked with rainwater and morphed into a raging river on Monday evening. (Suonds pretty much like what happened in Mumbai in July 2005 when the Mithi river was choked)
Crash, boom, bang
A car collides into cyclists participating in a race in Mexico's northern border city of Matamoros on June 1, 2008. At least one person was killed and 14 injured when a driver slammed into the bicycle race.
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