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November 17th, 2008

The Monday Sidebar.

There’s a truly eclectic selection of topics in this week’s Monday Sidebar.
To start of with, what do you think about this - a ‘chastity belt’ lingerie fitted with GPS tracking system’. Lingerie maker Lucia Lorio of Brazil says it’s designed for ‘modern, techno-savvy woman’. But feminist are calling it a modern-day slaver and are urging […]

By Liz -- 0 comments

October 7th, 2008

Healthbolt Funtimes: Another Optical Illusion.

Yet another optical illusion to show us that things aren’t always what they seem….

Pornography or art?
Disgusting or entertaining?
You choose….
Tags: Exposed!, Extreme, Healthbolt, Oddities, optical illusions, pencil drawing

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June 20th, 2008

Notice: Life for Sale.

What would you do if you felt your  life was falling apart? Most people would somehow pick up the pieces and carry on. But there’s this guy in Australia who has decided he doesn’t want to pick up the pieces. Instead, he wants to ’sell the pieces of his life’ and start a whole new […]

By Liz -- 4 comments

June 18th, 2008

Revisit Lakshmi, the girl born with eight limbs, this weekend on National Geographic Channel.

Remember Lakshmi Tatma, a Indian girl who was born with four arms and four legs. We first wrote about her in December 2007, saying…
The people of her rural Indian village did not see this as a deformity. They believed that she was a ‘gift from God’, christened her ‘Lakshmi‘ after the four-armed Hindu Goddess of […]

By Liz -- 1 comment

May 27th, 2008

What’s That in Your Head?

It must have been some hit to force a paintbrush, bristles first, into a man’s head. Stranger still, the victim didn’t even realise it was there. Seems he turned up at the emergency room some 6 hours after the assault complaining of a headache and left cheek and eye soreness.
Even the medics couldn’t see the […]

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May 25th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar.

DIY Tracheotomy…
Could you take a knife to your throat and cut? Not sure I could, but this man has done so, not once but twice. And in doing so, has become his own savior. Seems his throat swelled up to the point where he could not breathe and afraid that the emergency services would not […]

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May 23rd, 2008

Bodybuilding and Steriods - Are They for Real?

Check out these pictures over at Life in the Fast Lane.
You will not believe your eyes.
My first thought when I saw them was ‘they can’t be for real’ but apparently they are…
My second thought - how in the world would they ever find clothes that fit…
My third thought - why in the world would they […]

By Liz -- 7 comments

March 13th, 2008

Excuse Me, Sir. Does This Toilet Seat Make My Butt Look Big?

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Wowza. Now here’s a story that’ll make you think twice about the phrase “Shit or get off the pot”.
Seems a 35-year-old Kansas woman by the name of Pam Babcock has been spending so much time on the pot that her skin actually started growing […]

By Liberty -- 2 comments