Body modification is nothing new. There are the old standby: earrings, then tats, belly button rings, nose rings, and hundreds of other mods that vary from clever to obscene. But a few folks have revived a centuries-old art: scarification aka body carving, practiced by primitive tribes in various ways the world over, now coming [...]

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Reminiscent of the LOLcat series, the FAIL pics frequently offer me amusement as I Stumble across them.
   This afternoon I ran across FailBlog. It’s fairly new, apparently, but there are already well over 100 FAIL images posted. Some of them are ’shopped, but all of them depict epic fail at it’s finest.
 
 
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Thanks to Garry over at the Winextra Forums. If you’re one of those people, give yourself a second to get over any issues you have with half-naked men touching each other, then sit back in awe of the absolute power of these performers.
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Not sure what more I can say about this other than .. wow ..

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found at Cruftbucket
from Drawn of the Dead by Brian J. Orlowski, check out his site if you’re into some very clever, albeit f*cked up artwork.
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"3 High school girls from Lewisboro, New York were suspended from school for saying the word “vagina” at a public reading, against the direction of the school’s staff. It took place last year, but I wish I’d seen it earlier."
   While I understand that educators have a gargantuan and usually contradictory responsibility, and respect [...]

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Some toad in England has come up with a brilliant idea to force smokers to have to buy a smoking permit and if they don’t they don’t get to buy their cigarettes; and I imagine cigars as well.
Julian Le Grand; the chairman of the English government agency Health England, calls his idea libertarian paternalism. [...]

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   Okay, the Christians have the Virgin Mary on toast, and Jesus on a hillside, now the non-religious have their Mecca to trek to. You never know what an agnostic can’t do if he doesn’t know if he doesn’t believe in anything or not, eh?
Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following [...]

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Talk about living in the dark ages…..
 
"In my parents’ day and age, (unmarried teen parents) were sent away, they were shunned, they were called what they are," Liston said at the lunch. "There was at least a sense of shame.
"There’s no sense of shame today. Society condones it … I think it’s wrong. They’re [...]

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