Love: A blip on the monitor of involuntary human response,
a hiccup of emotion when compared with envy... hatred... lust. And just who was this... St. Valentine?
A Bishop. Roman 3rd Century, got his head sliced off... ouch... for marrying lovers against his Emperor's decree.
You see Claudius the Second believed that men made better warriors unmarried. Power comes with the absence of love.
Love... drains us of our strength. We never learn... do we? And you say that love conquers all! Well, not for you St. Valentine, not for me.
Not for any of the... heart... broken.
---Lucien LaCroix
In Japan there is a high demand for used schoolgirl underwear.
There is no place like Japan when it comes to vending machine weirdness.
You can get a whole slew of weird, but common, items like umbrellas, rice, beer, tobacco, eggs, and even porn, on any given street through the land of the rising sun.
However, in some darker and more obscure side streets of Japan, you can find vending machines selling things that even the Japanese find weird and strange.
One such vending machine that is found through out Japan is the “Used Schoolgirl Panties” vending machine.
Used schoolgirl panties are so popular, that even stores illegally sell them. As you can see in the below hidden camera investigation, schoolgirls can come into stores like this one and they are paid for the underwear they are currently wearing.
In fact the The Japanese government has identified the sale of used schoolgirl panties as such a problem they actually outlawed the sale or purchase of used schoolgirl panties anywhere, including vending machines.
The fun starts by loading the concoction into the hatch in the dog’s head, then pull out the stopper to watch the slimy stuff slide down from its mouth. The winner grabs the most bits, but be careful not to let the metal part of the tweezers touch the slime. You’ll not only give up your turn but you’ll get buzzed too!
Kids and kids at heart will liken the game to Milton Bradley’s iconic Operation game, while any child of the 80s will no doubt appreciate the addition of that much beloved green goop.
Only the Japanese would come up with something like this.
The Guardian UK: -Workers in a Russian region have been given today off to have sex in a bid to boost the birth rate.
Today has been declared the Day of Conception in Ulyanovsk, Lenin’s birthplace, when couples are told go to home and multiply.
If they have a baby on Russia Day, on June 12, they could win fridges, televisions, washing machines, cars or money.
The population of Russia has been steadily shrinking since the 90s.
When Vladimir Putin was president, he described the population crisis as the most acute problem facing Russia and announced cash incentives to families to have more than one child.
The tradition of rewarding families for having children dates back to Soviet times when women were named Mother Hero if they gave birth to 10 babies or more.
cairns.com.au: Hartley’s Creek Crocodile Adventures in North Queensland, Australia have four northern death adders on display at the zoo and about nine babies. Wildlife keeper Greg Watson with baby death adder.
“No other snake strikes faster than a death adder,” Mr Watson said.
“There’s still a few around Cairns at Wangetti and in drier open woodland and throughout the Gulf.”
This little critter may be deadly, but it’s still kind of cute.
In Oz they have box jellyfish, great white sharks, redback spiders, Sydney Funnel-web Spider, paralysis ticks, tiger snakes, taipans, brown snakes, sea snakes, salt water crocs, fresh water crocs, stone fish, blue-ringed octopus, stinging trees and so on.
I know most people who live in Australia do so without ever encountering any of these. But it does make a guy wonder what isn’t poisonous down that way.