This thread is to serve as a repository for those wacky, bizzare and funny articles that challenge the sensibilties of some FR posters.
Posted on 03/21/2002 7:51:17 AM PST by Texaggie79
This thread is to serve as a repository for those wacky, bizzare and funny articles that challenge the sensibilties of some FR posters.
| Caribou flavoured condoms given away in Arctic |
Around 15,000 condoms 'flavoured' with the musk of ox, caribou and arctic char have been given away at the Arctic Winter Games in Canada.
The condoms drive is to stop the spread of HIV and unwanted pregnancies among Inuits.
Health workers decided to distribute condoms based on traditional Inuit animals after talking to teenagers fascinated by flavoured condoms.
The Inuit-themed condoms have become a collectors item with the original batch of 2,000 snapped up.
But although the condoms smell of what the packaging claims, they aren't made to taste of it, reports the Canadian Press.
"It really started pretty much as a joke," said Todd Armstrong, HIV adviser for Pauktuutit, an Inuit women's organisation.
"Often when I'm giving talks up North kids are fascinated by the fact there are cherry or root-beer-flavoured condoms. We started saying we could have traditional-flavoured condoms.
"The animals that we highlighted were keys to survival in the past. Condoms are survival tools in our present life. By combining the past and the present, we were in fact protecting the future."
The Arctic games, held in Iqaluit, are for peoples across the world who live in polar regions.
Story filed: 12:46 Thursday 21st March 2002
MMMM MMMMM GOOD!
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| Prisoner injures back in urine protest |
A convicted killer has injured his back after slipping on urine in his Australian prison cell during a 'dirty protest'.
Oliver Alincic covered his cell with urine after being disciplined for threatening a prison officer in jail in Brisbane.
A spokesman for Brisbane Corrective Services says Alincic has been treated for the injury.
Alincic was part of a 1997 break-out when prisoners shot their way out of the Sir David Longland Prison.
He was sentenced to life for murder in 1988, reports http://abc.net.au
Story filed: 12:15 Thursday 21st March 2002
| Councillor airs plan to give disabled cash to visit prostitutes |
A Belgian councillor wants to give disabled people money to visit prostitutes.
Hasselt councillor, Ivo Konings, who is disabled, says he's got the support of prostitutes for his plan.
He says he wants disabled people to have the chance of having a fulfilling sex life. Church groups are criticising the plan.
He's now consulting with other local politicians about implementing the idea.
Mr Konings, who has used a wheelchair for the last 10 years, is a former adviser to the Government on disability issues.
He says he's spoken to prostitutes and they're promising to offer discounts to disabled people.
He told De Morgen: "It's not just an idea. I've spoken to an organisation of prostitutes in Hasselt and they're all very concerned about the problem. They've even proposed to charge disabled customers less than the going rate."
He says they're also prepared to attend a course teaching them the about the difficulties of having sex with disabled clients.
He added: "If it was up to me, I'd give every disabled man a monthly cheque of 620 euros (just over £380)."
Story filed: 15:22 Thursday 21st March 2002
HEY! Socialism CAN be cool!!!!
Hmmm...maybe he should give them the money to stop them all going blind in the first place! *L*
And I'm sure the hairy-palm-support-group are lobbying their support ;-)
Set in a bar, their eye's meet, he goes over to her, takes a drink, asks "Hey baby, wanna see my ox?"
and then it cuts to a screen ...
"Ox Condoms, for the man with the shorter member"
I oughta be in advertising... ok, maybe not.
What good would "disabled cash" be?
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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER CLASSIC VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing "We shall overcome". Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share". Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act", retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that were appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
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