Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Monday, March 17, 2008

Male problems and censorship

Common male genital disorders, low sperm count and testicular cancer could all be linked to hormone levels early in pregnancy, research from the University of Edinburgh suggests.

Well, here we go again: yet another study confirming that men are inherently flawed. I was *this close* to giving dudes a go, but sheesh, who knows what kind of freak show a guy is packing down there?



Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos of Tibet protests appeared on the site.

In a related story, everyone is really surprised that Youtube is usually readily available in China.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

jokes: miniature hippos, plentiful manatees, and self esteem!

GENEVA - China continues to evict 13,000 people each month in preparation for the Beijing Olympics, despite worldwide attention and increased scrutiny, a housing rights group said Wednesday.

ON the plus side, for the first time, the athletes’ village will be an authentic village.


AYIA NAPA, Cyprus - Paleontologists have unearthed an estimated 80 dwarf hippos in Cyprus.

The miniature hippos were land-based, and occupied the island about 10000 years ago, during what scientists have termed the Cute Period.


KEY LARGO, Fla. - Manatees will remain on Florida's endangered species list for now. The commission had been considering whether to reclassify the manatee as a "threatened" species instead of "endangered."

They also retain their “animals that are on calendars all the time” designation, though they have slipped in ranking of “animals that girls draw on their binders.”


Researchers at Stanford University, who studied sedentary people for a year, found that automated exercise reminder phone calls had about the same get-up-and-go power as calls from human counsellors.

The researchers next project? To discover whether computer-generated messages of judgement and criticism can create self-hatred as consistently as those of actual teenage girls.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

jokes: marriage and young'uns

PROVO, Utah - A Utah couple stand accused of kidnapping their daughter on the eve of her wedding.

Reached for comment, Utah parents said “Well, we sympathize with- what? they were forcing their daughter to NOT get married?!”



A Chinese man is suing for divorce after discovering that he is the father of only one of his twins.

Although upset, the mother of the twins is looking on the bright side: “At least they’re both boys.”