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U.S. — Male M&M's everywhere rejoiced after the announcement by Mars, Inc. that the female M&M's are getting their own bag. The male M&M's hope this change will finally give them some much sought-after peace and quiet. According to sources, the red, yellow, blue, and orange M&M's are hoping this means they can finally get a little rest and relaxation, lounge around all day, and just hang out with the bros without being nagged to death. "Yeah! Um, 'Empowered Women Empower Women' or whatever it is, right guys?!" said the Red M&M. "It's more important than ever to support women...

<p>About the case: The Karawang District Court found 45-year-old housewife Nengsy Lim, alias Valencya, not guilty of her alleged crime on Dec. 3, reported South China Morning Post.</p><p>Lim was charged with domestic violence in January for allegedly causing her then husband psychological harm by “nagging” him.</p>

The shrieking banshees behind the vagina-spangled Women’s March have decided that parading through the streets of D.C. covered in cardboard genitalia just isn’t enough – we need a strike. The Women’s March tweeted out Monday morning a call for a women’s strike: [captured tweet about women's strike] It’s not clear what all the “strike” would entail, and there wasn’t an attached date so the rest of us can plan our celebrations accordingly. Or plan to pour bleach in our eyes, depending on the abundance of anatomical signage and furry armpits. The march and the future strike are just two examples...

'She's your worst nightmare as a neighbour but imagine living with the beast of Butt Lane'The terrifying tirades of ­Britain’s most nagging wife have been laid bare – in tapes released by her long-suffering neighbours. The recordings were compiled as evidence against domestic bully Julie Griffiths over 18 months, helping to secure her five-year Asbo. The 43-year-old subjected husband Norman to years of verbal abuse that could be heard clearly in the street. Her vile temper would flare up over anything – and two riot vans carrying 20 cops once raced over as neighbours feared for Norman’s life. Griffiths has...

Full Title: Son, 23, beheaded his mother on New Year's Eve and dragged her body to the trash 'because she nagged him about chores' A Florida man has hacked off his mother's head with an ax on New Year's Eve then dragged her body out to the garbage because she nagged him to do chores, police say. Christian Gomez, 23, confessed to beheading his mother Maria Suarez-Cassagne after a fight when she asked him to move boxes in the garage. Mario Gomez called 911 on about 7.30pm Wednesday and told dispatchers that his brother Christian had killed their mother and...

I saw this headline at Drudge and immediately went over to check titled “Study: Nagging By A Spouse Could Shorten Your Life”: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It is a part of marriage that everyone loathes – the occasional or, in some cases, constant nagging between spouses.And as CBS 2’s Scott Rapoport reported Friday, word has now come that nagging is not only annoying, but can even be life-threatening.Ask any married guy on the planet and he’ll tell you, as one man told CBS 2, nagging is “not pleasant.”But now a new study suggests husbands of nagging wives can actually...

If you’re a mom of grown children, this is for you.Did you know that the Obama administration and the state of Rhode Island are counting on you to nag your kids into signing up for Obamacare?Good old-fashioned guilt and annoyance—that’s the ticket, apparently. But just giving your kids a call or sending them an email isn’t enough.Rhode Island’s newest strategy is urging mothers to sign up for social networking and even online dating sites to send messages to their children.The state’s Obamacare exchange has put together the “Nag Toolkit.” The website isn’t subtle. It says, “learn how to be where...

The 32-year-old Tunisian, who was under house arrest for drug dealing, went to the police on Tuesday afternoon and asked to serve the rest of his sentence in jail. “Living with his wife was particularly difficult and unbearable,” police in the city of Livorno said in a statement. Police said he was “tired of continuously fighting with his wife” and “asked explicitly to be put back in prison". Not wanting to disappoint him, staff at the local court issued an imprisonment order on the same day. As requested, he was then taken by police to the district prison where he...

It's More Common Than Adultery and Potentially As Toxic, So Why Is It So Hard to Stop Nagging? Ken Mac Dougall bit into the sandwich his wife had packed him for lunch and noticed something odd—a Post-it note tucked between the ham and the cheese. He pulled it out of his mouth, smoothed the crinkles and read what his wife had written: "Be in aisle 10 of Home Depot tonight at 6 p.m." Mr. Mac Dougall was renovating the couple's Oak Ridge, N.J., kitchen, and his wife had been urging him to pick out the floor tiles. He felt he...

High-profile liberals say President Obama's attempts to badger Democrats into voting will not work this November. Jane Hamsher, founder of the blog FireDogLake.com, told The Hill in an email Friday that the strategy being employed by the White House as polls show a Republican landslide looming is the wrong way to go. “Hectoring your supporters doesn't work, and it never has,” Hamsher said. “And anyone with as much campaign experience as Obama and [Vice President] Biden knows that, which is why you never saw them do it in their own races.” Obama and Biden have in recent weeks repeatedly pressed...

Builder Gary Bates was so fed up with his wife's nagging he put an ad in Trade-It magazine and tried to sell her! After getting a tongue lashing from wife Donna, Gary placed a spur of the moment ad in the Trade-It magazine. He described her as "very high maintenance – some rust." To Gary's astonishment, he received a host of calls from men offering to take her off his hands. "I didn't think anyone would ring up but I've had loads of people calling up about her," said Gary, of Orchard Avenue, Ebley, near Stroud. The 38-year-old was watching...

Wife studies why husband ignores nagging DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says some people just can't help ignoring their nagging spouses. The research, which appears online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, found that people do not necessarily oppose others' wishes intentionally. Duke University researchers found that "some people will act in ways that are not to their own benefit simply because they wish to avoid doing what other people want them" to do. Psychologists describe the behavior at "reactance" -- a person's tendency to resist social influences that they perceive as threats to their...

WASHINGTON - A nagging difference in temperature readings that had raised questions about global warming has been resolved, a panel of scientists reported Tuesday. "This significant discrepancy no longer exists because errors in the satellite and radiosonde data have been identified and corrected," researchers said in the first of 21 assessment reports planned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. The findings show clear evidence of human influences on climate due to changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols and stratospheric ozone. There has been increasing concern about global climate change being caused by human activity, in particular the release of gases...

A man sentenced to nine months house arrest begged a judge to jail him instead because he couldn't stand his wife's nagging. Algerian Ahmed Salhi, 24, was sentenced to a nine month curfew at home with his Italian wife in Ferrara, northern Italy. But he went back to court after a week and begged the judge to jail him because he could not bear her nagging. Salhi was sentenced to nine months house arrest after breaching immigration regulations. But he turned up at his local courtroom and begged to be taken into custody because he said he could no longer...

Most of Mrs. Bush's humor at the correspondents' dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her. Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.

WOMEN are duty-bound to provide their husbands with sex on demand, claims a controversial book on achieving wedded bliss. Wives have a "loving obligation" to have sex whenever they are asked for it - even if they are not in the mood, says American author Dr Laura Schlessinger. The 56-year-old sex therapist and radio host says marriages will survive and improve if men are viewed as a "gift from God". And she urges women to stop nagging and whining, saying: "Be honest girls, that's what we do". Her book, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, will not be published...

They were two rich families living 20 miles apart, linked by a phantom. Douglas "Diesel" Cone, the road construction kingpin who paved many of Tampa Bay's highways, was married to Jean Ann Cone, a beloved socialite and philanthropist, for more than 50 years. Their house bordered the Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in South Tampa. Their money helped build Berkeley Preparatory School, where they sent three children and served as trustees. The school's library was named for Mrs. Cone. She drove a Rolls. Donald Carlson was also a major Berkeley Prep benefactor, though one who never showed his face....

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... Trading Places -- Cranky Old Liberal Tom Daschle Has Morphed Into My Grandma!.... March 18, 2003: The labels "conservative" and "liberal" get flung so much against the wall of conversation that almost nobody stops to think a whole lot about them, except to come up with colorful insults for the one which you emphatically are not. As with anything reduced to a label, the little nuances tend to get hopelessly lost in all the blather, to the extent that few pundits have bothered to mention that the two factions have almost completely changed places. This thought dawned...

A Romanian businessman is paying his wife £350 a month not to nag him when he comes home from work. Nicolae Popa, who runs a food distribution company in Alba Lulia, says he struck the deal as a last resort. He told the Libertatea newspaper: "My business is going well but it takes all my energy. I get loads of calls from clients and speak on the phone for four to five hours a day. "So when I get home in the evening I am so tired I just want to go to bed. Under the circumstances I struck a...