two odd news items

[Guest]

Broken-hearted drinkers pay to cry into their beer

A bar for the broken hearted has opened in China where drinkers pay to cry into their beer. Tissues and menthol drops are provided at the bar in Nanjing as well as onions and red peppers for customers who need help to burst into tears. Bar tenders play sad music and there are dolls available for customers to throw around or beat to vent their anger of a broken relationship.

Customers must pay £3 an hour, on top of their drinks bill, to weep and wail to their hearts content, a report in the Jinling Evening News said. The bar has been a big success and is attracting crowds of depressed drinkers every day, according to the newspaper.
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Rasputin's penis to be sex museum's star attraction

Russia's first museum of erotica is to open in St Petersburg - with Rasputin's penis reputedly among the exhibits. Museum founder Igor Knyazkin says the 12ins organ will be the star attraction, reports Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

Mr Knyazkin, who is also the chief of the prostate research centre of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, said he was particularly proud of the pickled penis. He said: "Having this exhibit, we can stop envying America, where Napoleon Bonaparte's penis is now kept.

"Napoleon's penis is but a small pod - it cannot stand comparison to our organ of 30 centimetres."
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Both articles from ananova.com

 

[McKenna]

Perhaps they should have therapists and psychiatrists set up business in one of the booths for those who need to unload. One stop shopping!

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Kinda makes you want to open a bar and set a pickled penis up instead of the nuts. lol

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Sigh.

Even the dead are male posturing.

It makes you want to waste cash at a cry bar.

 

[minsue]

That first story is one of the most depressing things I've seen all day...(it's been one of those days, too )

 

[Guest]

That first story is one of the most depressing things I've seen all day...(it's been one of those days, too )

Try this, it has a happy ending. Uber-pea

Uber-Perdita

 

[R. Richard]

Rasputin's penis to be sex museum's star attraction

Russia's first museum of erotica is to open in St Petersburg - with Rasputin's penis reputedly among the exhibits. Museum founder Igor Knyazkin says the 12ins organ will be the star attraction, reports Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

Mr Knyazkin, who is also the chief of the prostate research centre of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, said he was particularly proud of the pickled penis. He said: "Having this exhibit, we can stop envying America, where Napoleon Bonaparte's penis is now kept.

"Napoleon's penis is but a small pod - it cannot stand comparison to our organ of 30 centimetres."
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Both articles from ananova.com

Perdita:
You have reminded me of a very old joke.

During the cold war, Russia placed an order for 10,000 condoms with a US firm. The condoms were sized to fit an organ of 12 inches in length. The condom company, realizing they were in a touchy international situation, contacted the White House. After receiving direction from the White House, the condoms were produced and shipped, labeled 'Medium.'

 

[doormouse]

How can a news article on a BIG penis be depressing?

It's the stuff fantasies are made of

Bring it on Rasputen LOL



(at least when they're dead rigormortis has set in )

 

[CrazyyAngel]

How can a news article on a BIG penis be depressing?

She meant the story with the cry Bar.

CA

 

[Lisa Denton]

She meant the story with the cry Bar.

CA

I cried about the pickled penis.

 

[Guest]

I cried about the pickled penis.

You are one of those extra-sensitive people, honeybuns. There are support groups.

xo's, Mum

 

[Lisa Denton]

You are one of those extra-sensitive people, honeybuns. There are support groups.

xo's, Mum

Yes, I get told that a lot, as if it were a bad thing. When I first read it and felt sorrow and anguish I thought it was pickled penis envy, but I don't want the damn thing, I just feel sorry for it.

 

[TheEarl]

Try this, it has a happy ending. Uber-pea

Uber-Perdita

:lol: Thanks Pear, made I larf. Using StumbleUpon again?

The Earl

 

[Guest]

:lol: Thanks Pear, made I larf. Using StumbleUpon again?

Of course. Probably need a few more days before the thrill wears off.

 

[minsue]

Try this, it has a happy ending. Uber-pea

Uber-Perdita

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/mix/grosse005.gif

You're da best, 'Dita!

 

[Guest]

Aw, Min, my first Uber-kiss. P.

 

[Guest]

New odd items

WIRES CROSS AS LOVERS DIAL M FOR MOTHER - Reuters, July 2, 1994
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)--A terrified British mother put police on red alert after mistaking the sound of lovemaking for a cry for help from her daughter. The Independent newspaper said on [July 2] that two accidental phone calls woke the woman in Devizes, southern England, in the small hours of the morning. Hearing moaning, groaning and shouting, she dismissed the first as an obscene call, but in the second she recognised her daughter crying: "Oh my God,'' and heard a man's voice.

Convinced her daughter was being attacked in her bedroom 100 miles (160 km) away, she dialed the emergency number 999 and a police squad sped to the daughter's home to investigate. "Officers rushed round and found she wasn't being attacked--in fact she was quite willing,'' a police spokesman said. "They explained that during the moments of passion one of the couple [pushed an auto-dial button on their phone] with a toe. Unfortunately on both occasions it was the girl's mother's phone number,'' he said. "This is a warning for other people--if you're going to indulge in this sort of thing, move the phone.''
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NRA Logic October 7, 1993, Associated Press
GUNS IN THE HOME FOUND TO INCREASE RISK OF DEATH.
People who keep guns at home nearly triple their chances of being murdered, usually by friends or relatives, but fail to protect themselves from intruders... However, Paul Blackman, research coordinator at the National Rifle Association, criticized the study... "These people were highly susceptible to homicide,'' he said. "We know that because they were killed.''

 

[minsue]

Gotta love the NRA.

 

[shereads]

Broken-hearted drinkers pay to cry into their beer

A bar for the broken hearted has opened in China where drinkers pay to cry into their beer. Tissues and menthol drops are provided at the bar in Nanjing as well as onions and red peppers for customers who need help to burst into tears. Bar tenders play sad music and there are dolls available for customers to throw around or beat to vent their anger of a broken relationship.

Customers must pay £3 an hour, on top of their drinks bill, to weep and wail to their hearts content, a report in the Jinling Evening News said. The bar has been a big success and is attracting crowds of depressed drinkers every day, according to the newspaper.
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Rasputin's penis to be sex museum's star attraction

Russia's first museum of erotica is to open in St Petersburg - with Rasputin's penis reputedly among the exhibits. Museum founder Igor Knyazkin says the 12ins organ will be the star attraction, reports Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

Mr Knyazkin, who is also the chief of the prostate research centre of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, said he was particularly proud of the pickled penis. He said: "Having this exhibit, we can stop envying America, where Napoleon Bonaparte's penis is now kept.

"Napoleon's penis is but a small pod - it cannot stand comparison to our organ of 30 centimetres."
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Both articles from ananova.com

These two events are somehow linked. In time, the pattern will emerge. I just hope it isn't too late by then.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: two odd news items

These two events are somehow linked. In time, the pattern will emerge. I just hope it isn't too late by then.

I think the clue is "pickled". I haven't been in a bar in a long time but I remember pickles in jars. Ewww. P.

 

[OldnotDead]

Re: New odd items

WIRES CROSS AS LOVERS DIAL M FOR MOTHER - Reuters, July 2, 1994
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)--A terrified British mother put police on red alert after mistaking the sound of lovemaking for a cry for help from her daughter. The Independent newspaper said on [July 2] that two accidental phone calls woke the woman in Devizes, southern England, in the small hours of the morning. . . .-if you're going to indulge in this sort of thing, move the phone.''
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NRA Logic October 7, 1993, Associated Press
GUNS IN THE HOME FOUND TO INCREASE RISK OF DEATH.
People who keep guns at home nearly triple their chances of being murdered, usually by friends or relatives, but fail to protect themselves from intruders... However, Paul Blackman, research coordinator at the National Rifle Association, criticized the study... "These people were highly susceptible to homicide,'' he said. "We know that because they were killed.''

On the first - Years ago two of us nearly broke in on some lovemaking that had some one-sided moaning that was far more akin to an appendicitis attack than anything we had previously experience. Later, upon comparing notes with some other building residents, we found that several others had made the same mistake and more than one had knocked on the door.

On the second, my most ardent 'gun nut friend' locked away all his weaponry once he was married and had children. Citing some similar stats from years ago, he pointed out that handguns are far more likely to be involved in a family member's death than that of an intruder.

 

[Guest]

OnD: my second husband and father of my sons had a small gun collection and a huge motorcycle when we married. While visiting me and our first son in hospital someone stole the bike. I was glad. Not long after coming home with the baby someone broke into our house and stole the guns (plus TV, etc.) while we were out. I was glad. Being the mother of his firsborn son (and later a second) I had the authority to disallow another motorcycle and even the thought of getting only one gun.

Perdita

 

[Vincent E]

Wow, that is some kind of big dick competition when you have comparisons being made between two dead guys. Sort of a cock-fight. I bet they provide each other some stiff competition.

Enough bad puns.

Of course if those Russians had any capitalist spirit they would inflate the Rasputin Rod to erection, make a cast, and mass produce it to the general public. "Ladies, now you too can get screwed just like the Czarina Alexandra."

It does lead me to wonder if we could ever have a museum of famous American penises right here in the good old USA. Some of the more anticipated displays would be Bill Clinton's Presidential Penis (or the First Gun), a John Wayne Bobbit's unit - that one would travel around the country as a promotion for strap-on tools, porn star John Holmes, Wilt Chamberlain - although to read his book, everyone has already seen it, and a special Strom Thurmond diversity display.

Originally posted by perdita
OnD: my second husband and father of my sons had a small gun collection and a huge motorcycle when we married. While visiting me and our first son in hospital someone stole the bike. I was glad. Not long after coming home with the baby someone broke into our house and stole the guns (plus TV, etc.) while we were out. I was glad. Being the mother of his firsborn son (and later a second) I had the authority to disallow another motorcycle and even the thought of getting only one gun.

Perdita

I'm sorry to hear about the thefts, but the best thing that could have happened for your son is getting that TV out of the house.

 

[minsue]

Re: Re: New odd items

On the second, my most ardent 'gun nut friend' locked away all his weaponry once he was married and had children. Citing some similar stats from years ago, he pointed out that handguns are far more likely to be involved in a family member's death than that of an intruder.

He's just not ardent enough.