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June 20th, 2011, 3:17 pm

PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) – It was a typical early summer evening in Portland: cloudy skies threatening rain, temperatures in the mid-60s, and thousands of naked bicyclists gathered near the city's waterfront for a clothing-free night ride.

The Portland version of the World Naked Bike Ride was about to begin.

"It is the most liberating, natural feeling possible," said Brooklyn Jay, who came all the way from Phoenix for the ride.

World Naked Bike Ride is a globally observed event among hard-core bikers designed, at least ostensibly, to promote the use of the bicycle for transportation. But Portland cyclists have been especially adamant about making it another of the Pacific Northwest city's quirky traditions.

"This is just a way of drawing attention to the need to be more green and replace fossil fuels with natural power," said Ken Johnson, who was completely nude and body-painted grey.

"I am going all the way" nude, said Xandi Silvaggi, adding, "it is all about saving the environment."

Since the World Naked Bike Ride started in 2004, only four other cities -- San Francisco, Seattle, and Boulder and Black Rock City in Colorado -- have celebrated it every year.

The Portland nudist/cyclists have turned the event into a festival, with a pre-ride event and post-ride parties featuring both clothed and naked partying which lasts well into the night.

They even have an official and rather corporate sponsor: Bridgeport Brewing, maker of Portland's first craft beer.

The local group that sponsors the event, SHIFT, describes itself as "a loose-knit and informal bunch of bike-loving folks."

The purpose of the naked rides, SHIFT says, is "a light-hearted protest against fossil fuel. ... A comment on the vulnerability of cyclists. Choose your message, ride with us! As bare as you dare."

Portland Police don't arrest the naked riders. They cite the city's extremely tolerant public indecency code as permitting such activities as mass nude cycling.
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June 20th, 2011, 3:20 pm

ERECTION-BOOSTING CONDOM GETS EU BACKING

Mon Jun 20, 11:11 am ET
LONDON (Reuters) – A British medical company has had its erection-enhancing condom recommended for European approval.

Futura Medical said its CSD500 condom -- licensed to pharmaceutical firm Reckitt Benckiser for sale under its Durex brand has gel in its tip that dilates the arteries and increases blood flow to the penis, resulting in a firmer and bigger erection.

Futura said on Monday products usually took about a month to receive CE mark certification after recommendation. The mark would enable the condom to be sold in 29 European territories and a number of other non-European countries.

Futura said on its website that the CSD500 will be a condom used by healthy men to help maintain a firmer erection during intercourse whilst wearing a condom.

In a double blind clinical study comparing CSD500 against a standard condom co-sponsored by Futura, of those who expressed a preference, a significant proportion of both men and women reported improvements in the firmness of the man's erection during intercourse when using CSD500, compared against a standard condom, the company said.

Furthermore, of those who expressed a preference, a significant proportion of both men and women also felt that CSD500 increased the penis size and a significant proportion of women reported a longer lasting sexual experience.

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January 25th, 2012, 12:31 am

Facebook Timeline mandatory rollout: You have 7 days to scour your past

Facebook is the virtual home to more than 800 million active users, so any change to how the network operates is a big deal. And nothing could be bigger for the social hotspot than completely revamping everyone's front-facing profile page, and that is exactly what is happening today. Starting this morning, the new Timeline feature — that up until now has been an optional switch — is now mandatory.

The Timeline differs from the default profile pages we know and love in several ways. Now, rather than showcasing only your most recent posts, your personal front page can be scrolled back months or years at a time. Most importantly, this change can offer visitors a glimpse at your entire social networking past, all the way back to the day that you joined up. The revamp can be both a blessing and a curse for seasoned social networkers, as it can produce a bit of pleasant nostalgia, but also drag up some of your less proud public moments.

Left untouched, your Timeline may remind of you of breakups, job troubles, or even a few unfortunate party photos that you have long since buried. Depending on your settings, these black marks on your digital past could allow new followers — including friends or business associates — to see a side of you that was better kept tucked away.

Privacy is already a hot topic for Facebook users and the network's litany of sharing options can be difficult to navigate, even for the most experienced users. The company isn't oblivious to how the Timeline may drag up some unwanted past events, so a short buffer zone is in place to allow you to modify your online persona before making its new debut. You now have until Tuesday, January 31 to erase any past Facebook scars you'd prefer to hide.

The mandatory Timeline rollout will undoubtedly catch some by surprise, but you don't have to fall victim to the ghosts of past updates. Take some time to review your social networking history and don't hesitate to prune anything that you wouldn't want on the front page of a local newspaper, because as of right now, the clock is ticking. Or, of course, you could always jump ship to Google+ instead.

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February 16th, 2012, 6:17 am

So, how was your Valentines Day?

Courtesy: Portland Police Bureau

One couples' bondage role play on Valentine's Day ended in handcuffs, but not the fuzzy kind.

Portland, Ore., police received a call Tuesday afternoon that a naked woman was tied up in the back of a Subaru last seen leaving a supermarket parking lot.

Police deployed "at least nine cars" to look for the SUV and even alerted authorities in Washington in case the car crossed the state line.

Twenty minutes later, the Subaru was seen pulling into the driveway of the registered owner's address.

Nikolas Harbar, 31, who was the driver, told police that he and his girlfriend were "doing some Valentine's Day role playing."

Once police confirmed with Stephanie Pelzner, 26, that she was voluntarily nude and tied up, they slapped a pair of cuffs on the couple and booked them on one charge of disorderly conduct in the second degree.

"Role-play all you want," Sgt. Pete Simpson told ABC affiliate KATU. "But when you do something that is going to generate a 911 call, you should probably do it at home."
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March 22nd, 2012, 7:41 am

It's TRUE! It's TRUE! I'm gonna start going to the gym. No, not to exercise, to watch!

The Atlantic Wire - By Rebecca Greenfield – Tue, Mar 20, 2012

The exercise orgasm myth is true! - Ladies, science has some news for you: the "coregasm" (their word, not ours!) is real. The study found 370 women who experienced exercise-induced orgasms, or EIO for short. We had heard of this non-sex related event happening during yoga practice (called "yogasms," of course), but now science has confirmed this anecdotal evidence. They also give us the following encouraging stat: "40 percent of women who had experienced EIO and EISP [exercise induced sexual pleasure] had done so on more than 10 occasions." So, like, how does one join the club? "The most common exercises associated with exercise-induced orgasm were abdominal exercises, climbing poles or ropes, biking/spinning and weight lifting," explains researcher Debby Herbenick. Of course, there's also the darker side to all of this: 20 percent reported not being able to control it. Eeps!
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WalterB wrote:It's TRUE! It's TRUE! I'm gonna start going to the gym. No, not to exercise, to watch!

The Atlantic Wire - By Rebecca Greenfield – Tue, Mar 20, 2012

The exercise orgasm myth is true! - Ladies, science has some news for you: the "coregasm" (their word, not ours!) is real. The study found 370 women who experienced exercise-induced orgasms, or EIO for short. We had heard of this non-sex related event happening during yoga practice (called "yogasms," of course), but now science has confirmed this anecdotal evidence. They also give us the following encouraging stat: "40 percent of women who had experienced EIO and EISP [exercise induced sexual pleasure] had done so on more than 10 occasions." So, like, how does one join the club? "The most common exercises associated with exercise-induced orgasm were abdominal exercises, climbing poles or ropes, biking/spinning and weight lifting," explains researcher Debby Herbenick. Of course, there's also the darker side to all of this: 20 percent reported not being able to control it. Eeps!

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March 29th, 2012, 10:54 am

We've had several members over time who have had to leave for financial reasons. I've done budget trimming myself. But, if your Jobless benefits are running low, do you really want to get this desperate?

It sounds like the plot of a boring "Saw" film, but it's apparently all-too-real.

An unemployed Austrian man cut off his own foot with a mitre saw so he could continue receiving jobless benefits.

Hans Url, a 56-year-old from Mitterlabill, then took the foot and cooked it in the oven so doctors could not reattach it.

"The planning was meticulous," Franz Fasching, a police spokesman, told the Daily Mail. "[Url] waited until his wife and his adult son had left the house and he was alone. He then switched it on and sliced off his left foot above the ankle--throwing it in the fire so it would not be possible to reattach it before he called emergency services."

He "then made his way to the garage where he called emergency services and waited for them to arrive."

Url was airlifted to a hospital in Graz, where he was put in an artificial coma so doctors could stabilize him.

"The foot was too badly burned to reattach," a hospital spokesman said. "All we could do was seal the wound. He had lost a lot of blood--he almost died on the way to hospital."

According to the Austrian Times, Url had complained before the incident that he was too sick to work and "didn't like the work he was offered."

The kicker: according to the paper, being footless does not necessarily qualify Url for unemployment compensation.

"He will be assessed once he is out of hospital and we will see what work we can find for him," Hermann Gössinger, a spokesman for the employment benefits office, said.
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March 30th, 2012, 8:15 am

I don't know weather to call him really stupid or really lazy.
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March 30th, 2012, 12:20 pm

I think it's possible for some folks to be both, Dave, :lmao:
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April 8th, 2012, 8:33 am

Who was it that hacked her husbands crank off with a knife? Lorena Bobbitt? Is this becoming a trend or something?

By Taylor Bigler - The Daily Caller | The Daily Caller – Fri, Apr 6, 2012

Talk about a ball buster.

An Indiana man was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after his scrotum was the victim of a vicious attack by an ex-girlfriend, The Smoking Gun reports.

The victim told police that his former girlfriend, Christina Reber, stormed into his apartment as he was innocently sitting at his computer. Reber, who he had severed ties with a few days earlier, first struck him on the head and then grabbed his scrotum and began “squeezing as hard as she could.” Naturally, he told officers that he “was in incredible pain when [she] grabbed his scrotum and began digging in her fingers.”

The police report indicates that the scrotum area was “completely torn loose from his body.” Reber reportedly “refused to let go of his scrotum,” but that the victim was finally able to remove his balls from her vice-like grip.

As if the story isn’t already good enough, the victim, who has not been identified, was taken to BALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. As far as we know, the hospital is not only for scrotum-specific injuries.

In an interview two days after the incident, the man told police that after his ex was done breaking his balls, his family jewels are so swollen that he is unable to work, and he isn’t sure if there will be permanent damage.

Reber was charged with two felonies: aggravated battery and illegally entering the victim’s home. She was also charged with a misdemeanor domestic battery.
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April 27th, 2012, 8:39 am

Today is "Bring your daughter to work" day. Crap. I don't have a daughter -- or a job. So, in sympathy, my Navigation lady let her daughter give me directions to the donut shop.

Newt Gingrich has announced that next week he will announce that he is dropping out of the Presidential race. What? Isn't that like, the announcement?

Hey, NY_John, I hear that they have passed a law in New York against having sex in a car. I heard that the law was sparked because someone was seen having sex in a car - in a Toyota showroom.

Have a nice day, folks.
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May 7th, 2012, 2:30 pm

Anyone (in the U.S.) ever watch the commercials from AARP about the benefits, with all the folks at the gas station? (I know, you're too damn young to be thinking of AARP, lol.) There's a good looking MILF, dark blonde hair and a brown suit outfit that says, "...and, if I get sick, you'll pay someone to come over and walk my dog?"


I'm sorry. I'm a DirtyOldFart. I can't help myself. Everytime she says that, I say, "Well, I won't come walk your dog, but I'll be glad to come over and pet your pussy." :tongue: :rotffl:
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May 15th, 2012, 7:18 pm

That must have been one hell of a lap dance.

EL PASO, Texas -- El Paso County sheriff's officials said a 67-year-old man died at an El Paso County strip club Friday night.

The manager at the Red Parrot strip club said that the man, identified by sheriff's officials as Robert Gene White, was getting lap dances, but when it came time to pay the dancers, he was unresponsive.

Employees tried to perform CPR on White and when that didn't work they called emergency responders. He was transported to an area hospital and appears to have died from natural causes.

El Paso County Sheriff's officials have not released other details.
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May 15th, 2012, 9:16 pm

I think it's safe to say that he died with a smile on his face.
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May 15th, 2012, 9:28 pm

I saw a news report this morning about how the new memory foam mattresses get very high reviews for quality sleep, but owners give them very low marks for other activities. They say it's like doing it in quicksand (interesting visual there!) There's no traction and whoever is on the bottom sinks.

All the more reason to take your date to a flea bag motel and fuck her brains out on a mattress full of springs. That way you also get the squeak and the bounce back after the headboard smacks the wall!
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June 13th, 2012, 4:52 pm

Two 15-year-old girls have been arrested for human trafficking in Ottawa and another 17-year-old girl was being sought Tuesday for her alleged role in forcing teens into prostitution, police said.

"It's shocking," police spokesman Staff Sergeant John McGetrick said of the pimping case.

Ottawa police said they found three female victims, aged 13 to 17 years, who had been lured to a Walkley Road residence in a middle class neighborhood of the city, abducted and delivered up to adult clients.

The two accused girls, both 15, face multiple charges including human trafficking, robbery, procuring, forcible confinement, sexual assault, assault, uttering threats and abduction.

Police are continuing to look for a third suspect, a 17-year-old girl.

The names of those arrested cannot be released under Canadian law.


Well, can you at least give us their address?
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June 13th, 2012, 5:14 pm

Now who the hell would do something this outrageous and sick?

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Two Missouri women are accused of showing off more than their putting skills at a southwestern Illinois golf course.

Madison County Sheriff's Capt. T. Mike Dixon says investigators responded to complaints of lewd behavior Monday at the Woodlands Golf Course in Foster Township and saw the women displaying their breasts.

Now, authorities in Madison County have charged 45-year-old Shelly Lewis and 43-year-old Alicia Binford of O'Fallon, Mo., with public indecency.

Binford and Lewis couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday. Binford's home telephone number has been disconnected. Lewis hasn't returned a message left at her home. Court records don't show if they have an attorney.

Both women are free on bond.


I mean, who would call the cops on these two poor, young, innocent ladies simply wanting to have a afternoon out on the course? What poor taste someone has. :lmao:
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June 14th, 2012, 5:44 pm

Todays History Lesson:

Do you know what happened 161 years ago this fall...back in 1851?

California became a state.

The people had no electricity.

The state had no money.

Almost everyone spoke Spanish.

There were gunfights in the streets.

So basically nothing has changed except back then the women had real boobs and the men didn't hold hands.


That, boys and girls, is the history lesson for today.
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June 16th, 2012, 11:14 am

Well, Yuck-O!

Here's one not for the squeamish, from South Korea: A semi-cooked squid inseminated a woman's mouth, according to a paper published in the Journal of Parasitology. After experiencing "severe pain in her oral cavity" when she bit into her seafood, the woman spit out her meal but continued to feel a lingering "pricking" sensation.

Doctors found that the 63-year-old woman had "small, white spindle-shaped bug-like organisms" lodged in the mucous membrane of her tongue, cheek and gums.

Despite having been boiled, the dead squid's live spermatophores, or sperm sacks, were alive and penetrated the woman's mouth. The sacks, which contain ejaculatory devices, forcefully release sperm and a "cement" that attaches the sperm to a wall.

Not to worry, calamari lovers. Most Western-world squid preparation removes the squid's internal organs, leaving only its muscle for eaters to enjoy, according to Danna Staaf, who writes the blog Squid a Day, published on Science 2.0.

Seafood, anyone?
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July 5th, 2012, 8:29 am

ABC News Report: Octomom Scrubs Stripping Gig

Nadya Suleman, better known as the “Octomom,” has reportedly cancelled a planned stripping appearance at T’s Lounge in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Suleman was scheduled to appear July 11-15, and had planned only to appear topless — but TMZ is reporting she pulled the plug because the club’s staffers were “talking smack” about her.

Apparently, a WPEC-TV interview with people who work at the club led Octomom to cancel the appearance. A bartender named Michelle said Suleman had, “a lot of mouths to feed, so it was only a matter of time” before she turned to stripping, and later explained, “She must be a little crazy, normal people don’t have that many children.”

The 36-year-old became known as “Octomom” when she gave birth to octuplets following fertility treatment in January 2009. She was already a mother to six children at the time.

Suleman was reportedly to be paid “thousands” of dollars for the stripping appearance. Suleman recently filmed her first solo pornographic video, due to be released this summer, and is reportedly feeling “sexually liberated” as a result.
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