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The Australian male gay world is all aflutter with the discovery by Australian Customs officials that a popular gay bum lube oil imported from Thailand contains steroids.
The product, marketed as “gay lube oil”, actually contained a variety of active ingredients including testosterone and deca durabolin.
Moving trees is not uncommon, either as large trees for new gardens or even to make way for roadworks, but a tree 750 years old?
While the Poms have the famous oaks of Sherwood Forest that have a maximum life span of around 700 years, the crazy guys in Western Australia have taken it upon themselves to move a tree that is already 750 years old - and they reckon that it has another 300 years left in it, so the shift is worthwhile.
The ancient boab tree was moved to make room for widening of a road. [Read more →]
It is interesting that some in China have expressed concern over this policewoman’s actions. Would they have said the same thing if the orphans were 35 year old males? See, not ‘pigs’ are bad.
A Chinese policewoman who breastfed babies orphaned during last month’s earthquake has been given a better job, prompting online protests that promotions should be awarded on merit, not merely for good deeds.
A challenger to the popular Microsoft Office program is going to be renamed after threats of legal action from Microsoft.
The recently launched product (read about it here), which provides an alternative to all the inclusions of the Microsoft office suit and sells for hundreds of dollars cheaper has been targeted as trying to pass itself off as Office.
This has led to a rethink on the name and the packaging with the product now to be called FukOffice.
Researchers at the Townsville Aquarium are excited about a new jelly fish they have found.
Dr Lisa Gershwin lead researcher, said the jellyfish was not found in the open ocean, but in a jellyfish tank at the aquarium.
It is an unusual looking jellyfish - about 1 cm long and looking well, rather like snot on the bottom of the tank.
No amount of dieting will alter the number of fat-hoarding cells in our bodies, research has suggested.
Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden say that the number is set during adolescence and stays the same, regardless of obesity later in life.
The journal Nature reports how they tested patients who lost huge amounts of weight, and found little change in fat cell numbers.
Death in a mire of dried pea, hmmm there must be better ways to go.
I guess that is what an unnamed man was thinking when he almost drowned to death in a silo of peas - he was rescued from a grain silo in Western Australia after being buried up to his neck in tonnes of peas.
It is not yet known if the man fell into the silo while it was being loaded or if the product was dumped on him while working inside.
Some pretty bad things have happened in Nigeria in the past and even today, get caught in the wrong place and you are just as likely to be held for ransom.
So it does not strike me as the sort of place to try and pull a swift trick in front of thousands of people…..
But that is just what momentary fishing legend Bello Argungu did during Nigeria’s biggest fishing contest.
A bunch of local youths in the holiday nation of Fiji, have dismayed a family after they broke into their kitchen and ate food from their fridge - while the family was downstairs battling a fire that had broken out in an adjacent shop.
The owner of Une Une Store, which is located next to the burnt shop in Navua, Umesh Kumar Sen, was all praise for the National Fire Authority for being prompt but expressed dismay at the group of boys who ate their food.
The Northern Territory news reports about a woman who survived an extraordinary crocodile attack 23 years ago has been killed by a snake.
Respected ecologist, feminist and renowned author Val Plumwood who described her death roll with the giant saltie as “terror, terror, terror” was found dead on her wilderness property.
The species of snake responsible for her death was still unknown last night.