Too Much Sex in the Old People’s Home: Five Couples Are Forced to Get Married

Yesterday, I read an interesting, but also weird piece of news on the blog Indonesia Matters.

Mojokerto (East Java) – The manager of an old people’s home has forced ten elderly guests to get married to reduce the “pressing problem” of free sex in the structure. So now, the seventy-five-years old Siroj has a wife whose name he doesn’t remember, despite the passionate nights: what a naughty boy!

But this is only one of the mass wedding forced by the local authorities. In Kupang (West Timor), on 16^thMay, 476 couples were obliged to get married. The day after, in Mataram (Lombock), other 105 couples were forced to give up living in sin. The authorities supplied them with bridal clothing and a dowry of about 30$.

 

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Nomen Omen

A survey by Abbey Banking shows that British parents spend about 45 hours over the name of their newborn child. One in three parents believes the right name can give a child confidence, while up to 2 million think it could help their baby’s future career. Children’s names reflect people’s aspirations.

I’m not surprised by the results of this survey. In effect, the name Jack is right for a surgeon, but also for a drummer, but also for a trucker..But, there are names that, for their oddity or ugliness, can only ruin a person’s life. For example, what did Cher smoke when she called her daughter Chastity? The Latins was used to say “Nomen Omen”: your destiny is in your name. The meaning of my name is “lame”. No comments, please.

Adieu

 

 

Adieu, dear London black cab! We’ll miss you very much. Join the unforgettable Routemaster bus and Gilbert Scott’s red telephone box. Rest in Peace. Amen.

 

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Iranian Husband Condemned to Buy 8100 Poetry Books

A man meets a woman, falls in love with her, marries her and eventually leaves her. It’s a love story like many others but, in this case, the conclusion is really “poetic”: the man is condemned to buy his ex-wife a mountain of poetry books. An Iranian Court has ordered a man to purchase 8100 books worth 700 million Rial (about 50000 €). Four years ago, the couple drafted a premarital agreement on the basis of Islamic law. An abandoned wife usually wants money, real properties or jewellery, but our abandoned wife belongs to an intellectual family and is a poetry lover. Last week another Iranian husband was condemned to give his ex-spouse 124000 red roses. Maybe this stranded wife has a flowers shop or is an American Beauty fan.

 

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Dining with a Ninja

In Tokyo, there is a restaurant where, after lunch, a Ninja master teaches how to move like a shadow and to cast metal stars: it’s the last odd tourist offer in Japan. The tourists, put on the regulation black suit, learn taijutsu (unarmed body combat skills). Then they enjoy themselves with Ninja weapons like the Katana (a sabre), the Bo (a very long stick) and the mythic Shuriken, the rotating blades: it’s an excellent way of digesting a meal. The Japanese tour operator H.I.S Experience Japan has, among its offers, “A day in the life of a Sumo Wrestler” too. I have already booked it. But I hope to not have to put on a Mawashi.

 

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La Riffa

Have you ever seen the Italian film Boccaccio 70? It’s a old film framed in four episodes. One (La Riffa, directed by Vittorio De Sica) tells of a lottery that has a beautiful Sophia Loren as a prize. Like it often happens, reality surpasses fiction. But the times change and instead of a lottery there is an online auction.

Prostitution is legal in Germany and there are websites that put up at auction attractive girls. The participants are protected by a nickname and the best bidder wins a hot night with his “prize”. But not all goes smoothly. These twits worry so much to safeguard their identities, but not to have safe sex. A girl gets pregnant and wants to know the true identity of six clients who might be the father. The website doesn’t want to provide her with the information but the Stuttgart court admits she’s right. So, our modern fable ends with a DNA test: our baby will hug his daddy. But it’s better his mummy changes job.

Monsters are not Welcome in China

 

A few months ago, the Chinese government launched a moralizing campaign against erotic shows. Now it prohibits the sale of videos containing “elements of mystery and horror” that can compromise “children’s and teens’ character formation”. The government also exhorts the producers to remove horror elements in the movies under production as well. Last May, Beijing banned horror comics, become a must among Chinese teens. The initiative was taken following the big success of Death Note, a comic book that told in detail any type of awful death, pledging that if the reader had written a person’s name in it, the poor thing would have died within a few days. I hope this comic never ends up in the hands of my ex.

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Italian Singles Make Merry in the St Faustino’s Day

It is said that Italy is a country of saints, poets and navigators. So it’s not strange that just the Italians invented St Faustino’s Day for singles. On 15 February the Italian singles take revenge on lovers. This celebration was launched in 2001 by the portal Vita da Single and is already popular in the whole peninsula. It’s a Day rather agreeable, where singles who don’t hunt the soul mate and infiltrators from the opposite front, who look for some distraction, make merry in restaurants and clubs. Are there some gadget too? I think so, perhaps a packet of condoms by Dolce & Gabbana. After their saint spirit, after their creative spirit, now the Italians can unrein their travelling spirit and to export Faustino’s Day all over the world. This time the Kuwaiti politicians get a shock.

Sex in Exchange for a Roof

There is Antoine, 47 years old, that offers (only to girls) “comfort” and a “nice room” in a flat: no rent, no deposit, but payments in kind. His co-tenant must only wander round the flat naked and give herself regularly. Then there is Laurent, 32 years old, that shares his roomy flat in the XV arrondissement in exchange for “not classic sexual relationships”.

According to the French daily newspaper Libération, in Paris there is a boom of ads that demand sex for a roof. The rents in the French metropolis are more and more expensive, and some smarty-pants takes advantage of the situation. Websites like Missive, Vivastreet and Kijiji are real mines of these ads. Usually the word “sex” is not mentioned and is disguised under formulas like “for girl”, “for supply of services” and is not specified the amount of the rent. I presume there are ads “for boy” too. I think who accepts such conditions isn’t a victim, it’s an exchange between two consenting adults. But at this point it’s better to opt for the classic prostitution, at least one is relaxed at home. I am imagining my landlord, naked, that whispers smuts in my ear..I prefer to sleep under a roof of stars for life.

Sherlock Holmes Existed, but Winston Churchill is a Fictional Character

I usually don’t take the polls as gospel, but in this case the results are rather funny. The UKTv Gold commissioned a study that tested the nation on its historical knowledge. The 3000 polled people reserved several surprises. The 58 percent of Britons believes that Sherlock Holmes really existed, the 51 percent swears to Robin Hood, the 47 percent to Eleanor Rigby ( How about Father McKenzie?). For the 47 percent of the sample Richard the Lionheart is only a myth, for the 23 percent Winston Churchill and Florence Nightingale are fictional characters. No one wanted to answer the question: “Who is Snow White?”. It’s always better to keep the mouth shut about the pushers.