Woman Passes Driver's Test On 950th Try

A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time.
The aspiring driver spent more than 5 million won ($4,200) in application fees, but until now had failed to score the minimum 60 out of a possible 100 points needed to get behind the wheel for a driving test.
Cha Sa-soon, 68, finally passed the written exam with a score of 60 on Wednesday, said Choi Young-chul, a police official at the drivers' license agency in Jeonju, 130 miles (210 kilometers) south of Seoul.
Police said Cha took the test hundreds of times, but had no specific total. Local media said she took the test 950 times.
Now she must pass a driving test before getting her license, Choi said.
Repeated calls to Cha seeking comment went unanswered. She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.

That`s called persistence :)

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£82,000 Christmas Bauble

At eighty two thousand pounds, this is the worlds most expensive Christmas bauble that I imagine you would much rather put behind a glass enclosed case than on your tree.
The worlds most expensive Christmas bauble is made out of eighteen karat gold and is surrounded by over one and a half thousand diamonds.
It is enveloped by two outer rings that contain 188 red rubies, and it has taken the better part of this year to create.

There`s i nice peace for your christmas tree

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Brazilian Man Shows Up at His Own Funeral

59-year-old Ademir Jorge Goncalves shocked his family when he showed up at his own funeral service in southern Brazil. After a fatal car crash, local police called in relatives of Goncalves, who identified him and set about arranging funeral services.
What his family didn't know was that Goncalves had taken a detour at a truck stop and stayed up drinking cachaça with his friends. But some family members had doubts from the beginning. His niece Rosa Sampaio told the O Globo newspaper. "My two uncles and I had doubts about the identification. But an aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral."
A police officer from the town of Santo Antonio da Platina said, "The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing. People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case."
"His mom looked at the body in the casket and thought something was strange. She looked and looked and couldn't believe it was her son," Sampaio said. Before long, the mother's doubts were justified as the son rushed over to the cemetery to let his family know that he was not dead. Sometimes truth is even stranger than fiction!

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I’m allergic to the wife.. honest

HUBBY Darren Young is itching to get on with his love life - but he's allergic to his WIFE.
Darren, 45, risks breaking out in blotches and sending his heart rate haywire if he touches his missus when she is wearing creams and lotions.
His body is likely to swell up alarmingly and his heart could even stop beating if he comes into contact with large enough amounts of a chemical used in many common cosmetics.
Docs discovered the allergy when Darren had a dangerous reaction to a steroid injection in hospital.
He is one of only three recorded cases in the world.
Now he dare not cuddle up to blonde Sue, his wife of four years, unless he is sure she is not wearing any creams containing polyethylene glycol.
Bus driver Darren, of Sprotbrough, South Yorks, joked: "When it comes to bedtime Sue doesn't need a headache as an excuse. She just says she has been using body lotion and it might kill me."
The allergy came to light when Darren was given a jab containing the chemical for a foot problem.
In seconds his face swelled, his 6ft, 16st frame ballooned and his heart stopped and had to be restarted twice.
Since then he has had to study product labels, watch what he touches and carry a special medical kit in case of a reaction.
Besides cosmetics he must beware of certain foods, toothpaste, soap, shaving cream, suntan oil and even air freshener.
The dad of two added: "It's not just Sue - I can get a reaction if I go into a pub or a restaurant where a woman has been sitting. The doctors don't really know why it has suddenly happened."
Clerk Sue, 48, said: "If Darren fancies a bit of nookie and I'm tired I just say, 'Keep your hands off if you know what's good for you'.
Sister Fran Ashworth of Sheffield's Northern General Hospital warned other people may have the allergy and be unaware of it.




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Fellatio keeps male fruit bats keen

Female short-nosed fruit bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during copulation. Mating pairs spent more time copulating if the female did so.
Cynopterus sphinx live in south-east Asia. The males often roost with small groups of females.
Min Tan of the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues captured 30 male and 30 female short-nosed fruit bats in Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou City and observed their mating behaviour in enclosures.
The bats copulate dorso-ventrally, with the male mounting the female from behind. During mating, the females reached over to lick the base of the male's penis in 14 of the 20 pairs that copulated.
he tip of the penis had already penetrated the female's vagina, and the males did not withdraw when the female licked the base of the penis.
Both the duration of an individual copulation, and the overall time a mating pair spent copulating, were increased if the female performed fellatio.

I have nothing else to say but just :D

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Christmas shocker: Rudolph is a girl!

IT'S a scandal which is set to rock Santa's grotto this year.
Scientists in Edinburgh are preparing to expose the closely guarded secret of the world's most famous reindeer – Rudolph is actually Rudolphine.
And while many women may not be surprised by the revelation that Santa turned to the female of the species to solve his present-delivering problems, there is science behind the new discovery.
Professor of biological timings Gerald Lincoln and retired Edinburgh University Professor David Baird will reveal all at a special Christmas talk at the university – Rudolph and a Lamb's Tale – next month.
It will centre on the fact that Rudolph must have been a girl, as only female reindeer still have antlers in the festive season, with males having shed theirs in the middle of the winter.
Prof Lincoln said: "Rudolph classically is this red-nosed reindeer who is around at Christmas. We picture him in the snow with his antlers, but if you get to know anything about nature you discover that things are not quite so straightforward.
"The male reindeer actually cast their antlers before Christmas, so they don't have any antlers at Christmastime.
"They have their mating season in autumn when they use their antlers to fight each other, but once it finishes they cast them in the middle of the winter.
"So you can't picture Rudolph as a big red-nosed macho male because he has cast his antlers already and can't arrive on your doorstep with his antlers on, looking handsome."
Of the 40 different species of deer in the world, only in reindeer do females have antlers. Females cast their antlers in spring, growing them back in time for winter when they need their antlers to compete with other females over holes they dig in the snow to reach lichens and to provide food for their offspring.
Prof Lincoln came up with the bombshell discovery while looking into how female reindeer grow and cast their antlers each year.
But he also discovered another possibility which suggests Rudolph may have been a eunuch, rather than a female.
Prof Lincoln said: "If a male reindeer is castrated it stops the process of casting the antlers in the winter time, and they turn into being more like females. Rudolph could be a castrated male, or a female. I think it's nicest to think that Rudolph was a female!"
The talk will take place at the Queen's Medical Research Institute of Edinburgh University, Little France, on 9 December, from 5.30pm-6.45pm.
Prof Lincoln added: "I just wanted to remind people that it is never quite so straightforward and even females develop weapons when it comes to the real world of seasonal breeding."

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Starkenberger Beer Pool

And here something short but interesting. How does the phrase "Come on in, the Beer is just fine" sounds?

"Another highlight which is featured in your tour is the world’s only ‘beer-swimming-pools’. The pools and the entire room have been decorated by Wernfried Poschusta who is a local artist who is furthermore internationally recognized. There is a total of seven pools who can accomodated four persons each and they are filled with oddments of the beer production, which are very rich in vitamins and calcium, and warm water. Just let us know your prefered temperature. Those bath are very beneficial for dirty skin, open wounds and psoriasis. Additionally such a bath activates the blood circulation and smoothes your skin. The included hops have a calming impact on body and soul."

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A toilet survey

WARSAW (Reuters) - Patrols of two, wearing white overalls, are boldly entering toilets across Poland to check whether the country is loo-ready for the 2012 EURO soccer championships.

Lots of loos pass the test, they say, but others -- particularly those that date back to pre-1989 Communist days -- are less enticing.

The Toaleta2012.pl project, organized by a company manufacturing toilet equipment, aims to encourage ordinary Poles to join the patrols.

The project is looking ahead to 2012 when thousands of fans will come to Poland and Ukraine for the European Soccer Championships.

So far the patrols have visited 200 toilets in Poland's six major cities and have conducted a survey among foreign tourists, which showed hotels and airports provide good quality toilets, while railway and bus stations lag behind.

The Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper commented drily that the country's toilets were, however, still better prepared for the championship than its soccer players -- who failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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Jail talk

Belgian prisoners to move to Dutch jail

Belgium will send 500 of its prison inmates to Tilburg in the Netherlands, under an agreement reached between the two governments last week. elgium has a serious shortage of prison space - about 2,000 too few places for the number of detainees. The Netherlands, on the other hand, has about the same amount of spare capacity - 14,000 places for 12,000 prisoners. To accommodate the Belgian prisoners, the Dutch will empty the 681-person Tilburg prison, which is close enough to the border to minimise the inconvenience to prisoners' families. Belgium will fill the prison with 500 of its own detainees. The move will only happen once details are sorted out between the Dutch parliament as well as the seven parliaments in Belgium, which is likely to happen by the end of the year. The deal allows a number of Dutch prison guards to keep their jobs. The Dutch government is closing eight prisons across the country, with 12,000 prison officers' jobs at risk, due to a fall in crime. Dutch officers will continue to operate the prison in Tilburg, but Belgian law will apply, and the director will be a Belgian. The federal government here will pay €30 million a year, which works out to about €164 a day for each of the 500 prisoners. The prisoners themselves will be long-term convicts, mainly Dutch-speaking, with none of them on remand or close to release. About 190 are Dutch nationals serving time in Belgian jails, and it's expected that they will be first in line for a transfer. Belgian prison officers' unions have opposed the plan, calling instead for the prison in either Tongeren or Saint Hubert to be re-opened. The ACOD union also proposed renting two Dutch prison boats, which could be moored in Antwerp and staffed by Belgian personnel. "This is cheaper, simpler and could be done quickly," a union representative said. "And it does something for employment here." The situation in Belgium's jails was highlighted last week when it was revealed that Ypres prison currently holds 109 prisoners, despite having a nominal capacity of only 55. Also, Bruges' prison has 751 inmates for a capacity of 632. Throughout the system, the situation of men sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a two-man cell is commonplace. Alternatives are beset with difficulties: while there are 748 offenders now on release under electronic surveillance, the waiting list of those suitable for that programme is now over 1,300. While there are enough ankle-bands to go round, there is a shortage of staff to monitor the system. In 2008, 13 prisoners in the Belgian penitentiary system committed suicide - a phenomenon closely correlated with overcrowding. Also in 2008, the number of escapes went up to 62 from 40 in 2007. Only 49 of the escapees were re-arrested.

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Cast Of Hooligan Film Among 'Wanted' Fans

Paul Anderson

Scotland Yard had a "bad day at the office" when officers included pictures of actors from a hit football film among images of fans wanted after rioting broke out at a match.

The error came about when the Metropolitan Police used a Sky TV report to capture images of fans fighting at a game between West Ham and Millwall.

Police must have been watching with the sound off – because they failed to notice the report included footage from "The Firm", a movie about 1980s football violence.

When the Yard recently issued 66 pictures of people supposedly caught on camera during the Carling Cup clash in August, they mistakenly included stills of six actors from the movie.

Scotland Yard said: "We wish to apologise unreservedly to those affected. We are going to be actively trying to contact those people to offer our apologies."

The film is about a young man who joins a "firm" of thugs.Paul Anderson, who plays sociopathic leader Bex, was one of the actors whose image was issued to journalists.

Vertigo Films, which made the movie, told The Sun: "We are delighted our scenes are so realistic people can't tell the difference between them and real events."Yard insiders described the mix-up as a "bad day at the office" for those responsible.

During the violence in and around West Ham's Upton Park ground on August 25, a 43-year-old Millwall supporter was stabbed. Police have arrested more than 40 people so far.

Something similar happened to me last week. I received a speeding ticket by mistake, so i had to go to the local police station and write a bunch of documents explaining how it was not me driving that car.

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Russian road roulette?

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating a new gambling game in which drivers defy death by speeding through red lights for bets of up to 5,000 euros ($7,400), the chief prosecutor's office said Thursday.

Known as 'Russian road roulette', the driver must jump red lights at busy intersections at high speed and not crash into any other cars or pedestrians, according to local media reports. Onlookers also gamble on the result.

Prosecutors launched their investigation after media reported the new game had been held at night at busy crossroads in Sofia since the summer.

In June, two people died after a motorcyclist crashed into an onlooker at a similar rally on Sofia's ring road.

"Every time we receive a signal for such an unregulated race, we send patrols," Commissioner Vanio Stoevski, head of the Sofia Road Police, told Reuters. Since the deaths in June, police have monitored roads where such races are typically held.

Local media report that participants in the 'Russian road roulette' are informed via text messages of the venue for that particular night -- depending on the presence of police.

This is something involving my country. Lately here the drivers have gone crazy. In the past few years i`v lost a lot of friends in car crashes and this madness seems endless.. Just 3 months ago i lost 2 friends - a brother and a sister cus a stupid driver was speeding while drunk (?!) and crashed into a big tree. Every year here in Bulgaria more that a 1000 people lose their lives in crashes. We are fighting a small war every year against each other..

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How cool is that?

Westword, a local newspaper in Denver, Colorado, has placed an advertisement for a medicinal marijuana reviewer.

"The paper, an “alternative” news source in the Rocky Mountain state, says that “Denver is the wild, wild West of the medical marijuana business”, with new dispensaries in the city opening daily.

It had been running reviews by a staff writer under the pseudonym Mae Coleman – named after a character in the 1936 drug-scare film Reefer Madness.

However, the writer “wanted to return to the day job”, according to the paper, so the position was opened up to the public.

The job application involved writing a short essay on “What Marijuana Means To Me”. Apparently, the first response came within five minutes –"fast work for a stoner", as Westword notes wrily.

A few minutes later, the first enquiry from the media arrived. “Really fast work for a journalist”, says Westword.

Denver – known, appropriately, as the Mile High City – has a thriving medical marijuana industry. Users are required to hold a state-issued Medical Marijuana Registry identification card, asserting that they require the drug to alleviate a medical problem.

The Westword job is only open to those Denver residents who hold such a card.

Colorado is one of 14 states in the US where marijuana is allowed for medicinal purposes. Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington make up the others. "

Whats next? A cocaine reviewer and "What cacaine means to me", or maybe and extasy reviewer? Maybe the police in the US will open such a job, who knows..

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Train drags German mooner half naked along tracks

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.

The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for travelling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said.

"It's a miracle he wasn't badly hurt," the spokesman said on Monday. "This sort of thing can end up killing you."

Instead, dangling by his trousers, the man got pulled along for about 200 metres, all the while managing to keep his legs away from the wheels of the train.

The ordeal ended when a passenger pulled the emergency brake. Rescues services were called in, causing rail services between Bremen and Hamburg to be suspended for over an hour, delaying 23 trains.

The man -- unharmed except for cuts and bruises -- now faces charges of dangerous interference in rail transport, insulting the train staff, and may face sizeable a compensation claim for the delays he caused, police said.

"He was full of remorse when I talked to him," the spokesman said. "And he advised others not to try the same thing."

Now thats what i call "getting what you deserve". Not only that guy was traveling without a ticket, but he was impudent enough to show hes disappointment of getting caught by showing hes bottom. I`m glad that he now faces charges along with the scars that he will be wearing for a long time.

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Eat a Dog, Save the Earth

This may look like 2 cute cats, but its actually 2 Volkswagen Golfs

"New Zealand authors Robert and Brenda Vale's book, "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" is an exhaustive analysis of the environmental impact of common pets such as cats and dogs. The authors studied the carbon emissions created by pets, including the ingredients in their food and the land required to grow it. And the results don't bode well for Fido, who compares poorly to that SUV.

The Values noted that a medium dog consumes 90 grams of meat and 156 grams of cereals daily in its recommended 300-gram portion of dried dog food. They then determined that Fido wolfs down about 164 kilograms of meat and 95 kilograms of cereals per year.

It takes 43.3 square meters of land to generate 1 kilogram of chicken per year — far more for beef and lamb — and 13.4 square meters to generate a kilogram of cereals. So that gives him a footprint of 0.84 hectares. For a big dog such as a German shepherd, the figure is 1.1 hectares.

Meanwhile, a Toyota Land Cruiser driven a modest 10,000 kilometers a year, uses 55.1 gigajoules, which includes the energy required both to fuel and to build it. One hectare of land can produce approximately 135 gigajoules of energy per year, so the Land Cruiser's eco-footprint is about 0.41 hectares — less than half that of a medium-sized dog."

Has the world gone crazy with all this "save the Earth" stuff?

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Spitting swine flu

Footballers were warned on Tuesday spitting could increase the risk of catching swine flu as Bolton joined English Premier League rivals Blackburn in saying squad members had contracted the virus.

England's Health Protection Agency (HPA) said the "disgusting" habit - a common sight at football matches - could see the infection passed on.

Blackburn and Bolton are set to be without several players for their League Cup matches this week because of swine flu.

"Spitting is disgusting at all times. It's unhygienic and unhealthy, particularly if you spit close to other people," said an HPA spokesman.

"Footballers, like the rest of us, wouldn't spit indoors so they shouldn't do it on the football pitch.

"If they are spitting near other people it could certainly increase the risk of passing on infections.

"Certainly, spitting is a nasty habit that should be discouraged - and it should be discouraged by the clubs.

"It's about setting examples for young people who idolise them."

I don`t know is it that easy to pass a swine flu by spitting, but sure its very disgusting. Here in Europe football is one of the most popular sports if not the most popular, so its kinda strange to have millions of people watching those guys on the pitch running around and spitting all the time. And when you imagine the money that the football players earn, you realize that spitting is one of the most well payed jobs in the world. Doesnt that sound stupid?!

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About me

After i saw the reviews on linkreferral i decided to write a few words.
First of all thanks for the tips guys. To be totally honest with you i created the blog because right now i have a lot of free time. I`m not so much into computers and programming and stuff so designing the look of the blog is not easy for me. I`ll try my best tho.
Second i`ll say a few words about my self.
My name is Georgi, I come from Bulgaria and I`m 27 years old. Right now i dont work and by the way finding a good job in my country is very hard. I`v worked a lot of things in the past. Delivery, selling mobile phones, maintaining vending machines, money exchanging, photographer and a few other things to. I studied journalism in college but never really graduated. I`v always liked to write stuff that`s one of the reasons i started this blog.
What i would be happy to see is comments from you guys, comment the articles, comment my opinion. Even if its not that interesting for you, write a few words.
And last but not least I want to be excused for my bad English. I`m sure that i`m making mistakes..

p.s. And yeah, thats me on the picture :D

Hugo Chavez talk

Today I came across an interesting peace of news:
"Colorful left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is making more headlines, not for calling former US President George Bush a devil this time, but for calling on Venezuelans to stop singing in the shower and limit their water use to three minutes. These measures are a result of the struggling oil-exporting nation experiencing blackouts due to problems with the water and electricity infrastructure.

The nation’s problems have been further aggravated by low rainfall which has resulted in a drop in water levels in hydroelectric dams that normally provide most of the country’s energy.

"Some people sing in the shower for half an hour. Three minutes is more than enough. I've counted, three minutes, and I don't stink," President Hugo Chavez explained during a televised cabinet meeting.

Chavez has plans to create a new ministry to deal with the electricity shortages."

At first all this seemed funny to me, but then i stopped for a minute to think about it and it made some sense. After all there`s no doubt that we waist a lot of the natural resources for no reason. Specially in this case, for what reason do we stay under the shower for half hour? So we can imagine that we`r Britney Spears or Rihanna? Doesn`t that sound stupid?
What do you think?

Conspiracy talk

Some time ago i ran into a documentary film called "The Obama deception". I like to watch documentary films about all sort of stuff and the name of that film seemed interesting to me so i watched it. The producer of the film is called Alex Jones and as i later found out he`s been investigating conspiracy theories for a long time. After that i watched a couple of other films from the same producer - " Endgame: Blueprint for global enslavement" and "New world order".
In short he talks about how the US and all other big countries in the world a ruled not by their governments but by a bunch of very rich man that control the biggest banks and the biggest media in the world. He thinks that their goal is to control the whole world by installing one world government.
So have you watched some of that stuff, what do you think about that theories and Alex Jones?

Porn talk

I know this is a large subject to discuss in a few words but still.. Do you watch porn? Do you use internet to get porn? What do you think about porn pay sites? Have you used one? If not, would you do that, would you pay for porn pictures or movies?
My own opinion is that porn is so much in to our lives these days that its impossible not to watch it. Paying for it is a different ting of course. Every one would like to have it for free.
So what do you think?