FarangFarang Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 Wear less, pay less: Miniskirts get you discount at Chinese amusement park Want to save a few bucks while traveling in China? Wear short skirts. At least in Guilin. Guilin Merryland Theme Park (桂林乐满地主题乐园), 62 kilometers northeast of Guilin city in southern China, has launched a summer campaign that encourages female visitors to “showcase feminine beauty.” Wear less, pay less Dubbed “Love Miniskirt” (夏日乐爱短裙), the two-month campaign entitles female visitors to a half-price park admission if they sport skirts shorter than 38 centimeters. Female staff from the park will measure the skirts of those who wish to take advantage of the offer. All applicants must be 18 years old. The 600,000-square-meter park charges RMB 110 (US$17.3) for a normal day ticket. The special price for women who dare to bare is RMB 55, the same admission price for Chinese soldiers, disabled visitors, senior citizens and children under 1.4 meters. On July 21 and 22, the park will offer a further discount from RMB 55 to RMB 10 for female visitors arriving before noon. According to a park banner, those are the days on which the park is aiming to “break the world record of attracting more than 10,000 short-skirted women to the park.” Perfect combo: Miniskirts and water fights "The stipulation aims to encourage female visitors to showcase their beauty in summer," according to park deputy manager Li Wenxing (李文兴), as reported in Shanghai Daily. Li also said that the campaign isn't new -- the “miniskirt promotion” was first launched in 2007. "We have been hearing negative comments about the campaign since we launched it, but the number [of complaints] is decreasing every year," Li added. The female-only promotion is timed to coincide with the park’s "water-splashing festival" in July and August. Li said that during the festival visitors can throw water on each other, including, of course, on miniskirted women. How convenient! Some love it, many hate it The campaign seems to be successful. Chinese media have reported on women lining up outside the park to have their skirts measured. “I think I can accept this [offer]. We’re university students, [this deal] allows us to play during school break with less money,” one female tourist told Hebei Satellite TV. Many Chinese, however, believe the campaign promotes a vulgar culture. "If women can enjoy discounts for showing [their bodies], then can they enter the park for free by going totally naked?" asked netizen Song Xiangping on a blog called gmw.cn (simplified Chinese only). http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/life/wear-less-pay-less-miniskirts-get-you-discount-chinese-amusement-park-128461 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 18 Chinese Police Officers Dispatched to Rescue Sex Doll From River When Shandong police received a call reporting a body floating in one of the province’s rivers on July 11, they wasted no time dispatching 18 of their finest officers to recover it. As the police struggled to bring the corpse to the shore, rumor of the incident spread and a crowd of over 1000 spectators gathered, blocking traffic and preventing firefighters from reaching the scene. Finally, 40 minutes later, Chinese police succeeded in recovering the body. Only, it wasn’t a body, but an inflatable sex doll. As the “body” was floating about 40-50 meters from the riverbank, it was likely difficult for the police to realize what it actually was until it had been brought in closer. After confirming that they had indeed run around in a panic for nearly an hour over trying to rescue someone’s Dutch wife, the police presented it to the anxious crowd, who quickly covered their children’s eyes and walked away. This incident comes only a month after a local Chinese news station aired a story about the discovery of a legendary mushroom that turned out to be a discarded sex toy. You’d think the Chinese would be better at recognizing these things considering all the used ones they’re throwing away in public places… http://news.sohu.com/20120713/n348094043.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted July 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2012 Fancy a chat with Larry Holmes? Leon Spinks? How about Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk)? Well for only $19.95 you can (along with lots of other forgotten celebrities) http://www.hollywoodiscalling.com/index.php?page=1&change_page=PREVIOUS+PAGE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympos Posted July 22, 2012 Report Share Posted July 22, 2012 King Juan Carlos of Spain ousted from WWF presidency after row over hunting trip King Juan Carlos of Spain has been removed as honorary president of a leading conservation group after the row over his elephant hunting trip to Botswana earlier this year. The Spanish branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says it stripped the King of his position because his participation in the hunting safari was incompatible with the group's goal of conserving endangered species. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/9417840/King-Juan-Carlos-of-Spain-ousted-from-WWF-presidency-after-row-over-hunting-trip.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted July 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 This is what you call a bargain. In a major auction **** up, this guy got a $3.8 million underground hotel for just over a thousand dollars!! [h=1]Subterranean hotel sold for rock bottom price[/h] In what may be the deal of the century so far, a surprised buyer paid just 1,000 francs ($1,020) at an auction last week for a luxury underground hotel in Switzerland with an estimated value of 3.7 million francs ($3.8 million). The auction was held on July 10th in Biasco in the canton of Ticino and was poorly advertised, online news site Le Matin reported. Lucia Filippi, the new owner of the La Claustra hotel, said he attended the auction without any intention of purchasing the property. When the auction had eventually kicked off with a call for an opening bid of 1,000 francs ($1,023), he timidly put up his hand and was entirely amazed when no further bids followed. There were several blunders at the auction. First, another party who wanted to make an initial bid of 100,000 francs ($102,294), suddenly realized he had no money or cheque book with him. Then, because of a procedural mistake, the auction had to be started once again. “I do not understand why the hotel has gone so cheaply,” Paolo Minotti, secretary of the Ticino section of the Swiss Heritage Society told the website. The unique hotel is a conversion of an underground artillery fort at the heart of the Gotthard. Some 250 metres underground, the stunningly situated luxury hotel consists of 17 rooms, a restaurant, library, spa and swimming pool, as well as 4,000 square metres of conference space, Le Matin reported. The hotel, designed by Jean Odermatt as a kind of meditative post-modern monastery, was opened in 2004 after private investors and the Swiss state invested 4 million francs ($4,092,400) to carry out the necessary works. The hotel was declared bankrupt in 2010 due to insufficient visitors and high operating costs. The electricity bill alone came to 60,000 francs ($61,373) a year. Filippi has confirmed that he has already had several offers for the hotel. It is not yet clear what he intends to do with it. Lyssandra Sears ([email protected]) http://www.thelocal.ch/page/view/underground-hotel-almost-given-away-at-auction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 This is what you call a bargain. In a major auction fuck up, this guy got a $3.8 million underground hotel for just over a thousand dollars!!Subterranean hotel sold for rock bottom price In what may be the deal of the century so far, a surprised buyer paid just 1,000 francs ($1,020) at an auction last week for a luxury underground hotel in Switzerland with an estimated value of 3.7 million francs ($3.8 million). The auction was held on July 10th in Biasco in the canton of Ticino and was poorly advertised, online news site Le Matin reported. Lucia Filippi, the new owner of the La Claustra hotel, said he attended the auction without any intention of purchasing the property. When the auction had eventually kicked off with a call for an opening bid of 1,000 francs ($1,023), he timidly put up his hand and was entirely amazed when no further bids followed. There were several blunders at the auction. First, another party who wanted to make an initial bid of 100,000 francs ($102,294), suddenly realized he had no money or cheque book with him. Then, because of a procedural mistake, the auction had to be started once again. “I do not understand why the hotel has gone so cheaply,” Paolo Minotti, secretary of the Ticino section of the Swiss Heritage Society told the website. The unique hotel is a conversion of an underground artillery fort at the heart of the Gotthard. Some 250 metres underground, the stunningly situated luxury hotel consists of 17 rooms, a restaurant, library, spa and swimming pool, as well as 4,000 square metres of conference space, Le Matin reported. The hotel, designed by Jean Odermatt as a kind of meditative post-modern monastery, was opened in 2004 after private investors and the Swiss state invested 4 million francs ($4,092,400) to carry out the necessary works. The hotel was declared bankrupt in 2010 due to insufficient visitors and high operating costs. The electricity bill alone came to 60,000 francs ($61,373) a year. Filippi has confirmed that he has already had several offers for the hotel. It is not yet clear what he intends to do with it. Lyssandra Sears ([email protected]) http://www.thelocal.ch/page/view/underground-hotel-almost-given-away-at-auction At that price, I'll take 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 words ******* fail me !!!! ..... Chalerm'S Son Duang Returns To Police Service !!! http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/573085-chalerms-son-duang-returns-to-police-service/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 words fucking fail me !!!! ..... Chalerm'S Son Duang Returns To Police Service !!!http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/573085-chalerms-son-duang-returns-to-police-service/ It's mind blowing, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 [ATTACH=CONFIG]119335[/ATTACH] Just chllin in the pool at the Holiday Inn Shanghai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 words fucking fail me !!!! ..... Chalerm'S Son Duang Returns To Police Service !!!http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/573085-chalerms-son-duang-returns-to-police-service/ Don't worry, Chuvit is on the case :-) Chuvit: Duang move "conflict of interest" Outspoken MP Chuvit Kamolvisit on Sunday branded the transfer of Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung's youngest son Duang, who was once discharged but reinstated as an army lieutenant, to a new position in the Metropolitan Police Bureau as a "conflict of interest" and an insult to society. The Royal Thai Police Office on Friday approved a request from army Lt Duang to transfer him from the position of platoon leader of a military police company under the Support Services Department, to the position of police lieutenant and deputy inspector of the bureau’s training centre, effective from Aug 1. Mr Chalerm said the transfer was not nepotism and his son never discussed it with him and that he had acted on his own. He said a shooting instructor at the Royal Police Cadet Academy Sampran in Nakhon Pathom province had asked Lt Duang to work with him. This was completely normal because his son was a sharp shooter with 100 per cent shooting accuracy and 16 certificates. Mr Chuvit said the transfer had caused a public sensation and may involve a conflict of interest because one of Mr Chalerm’s duties was supervising the Royal Thai Police Office. It was suspicious that the transfer procedure took only 17 days, which was very quick, and Mr Chalerm’s claim about his son’s certificates would not wash, he said. The Rak Thailand Party leader said the approval of the transfer was an insult to society and Mr Chalerm was a “hopeless” politician. He would ask the House committee on police affairs to look into whether the transfer was illegal when parliament reconvenes on Wednesday. Mr Chuvit said he wanted to ask national police chief Priewpan Damapong why he had allowed a person who was once implicated in the murder of a police officer to work in the police force and why the son of the slain officer had not been given a job in the agency. The former massage parlour tycoon questioned whether Lt Duang's past record should be considered infamous conduct. He said Lt Duang should have been sent to the London 2012 Olympic Games instead if he really had a 100 percent shooting accuracy record. Lt Duang, formerly Duangchalerm, was dismissed from the military after the fatal shooting of a police officer during a brawl in Club 20 on Ratchadapisek Road in October 2001. He fled to Malaysia to escape arrest and was stripped of his rank after a military inquiry found him guilty of disregarding an order to report to work for 15 days and for avoiding a criminal investigation. He gave himself up in May 2002 and went to court. He was acquitted by the Criminal Court on the grounds of insufficient evidence and conflicting accounts. In April 2008, then-prime minister Samak Sundaravej, who was serving concurrently as defence minister, approved Mr Duang's application to rejoin the military. His reinstatement was reportedly pushed through by Mr Chalerm, who then served as Interior Minister. On Friday, Lt Duang called on opponents of his father not to politicalise his transfer issue and insisted it had nothing to do with his father. “I am a grown-up and do not want my dad to get involved in this. I had not discussed it with him before submitting my transfer request. I once told him about the idea but that was a very long time ago,” Lt Duang said. "I studied law, so I think I would be more suited for police work and also be more useful." According to 2004 police committee regulations on qualifications and the characters of those who are to serve in the police force, they must not have record of infamous conduct or ethical defects. Mr Chuvit said as far as he was concerned, Lt Duang fled from the army for six months and gave himself up in Malaysia to fight a murder charge in court. He had also been given a six-month suspended prison sentence for his involvement in a brawl. Mr Chuvit also cited another regulation which stipulated that all superiors who are to approve transfer requests from other government officials outside the police force are bound to compare the petitioners’ knowledge, experience and expertise with those of their subordinates in their agency first. “Where are the Arintarat [police SWAT team] and the Naresuan Task Force [a counter-terrorism unit]? Don’t they have anyone better than Lt Duang?,” Mr Chuvit said. Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Kamronwit Thoopkrachang, who approved Lt Duang’s transfer request, insisted the transfer was in line with all regulations and his shooting skills were needed by the police force. After Lt Duang’s transfer, he will serve as a shooting instructor at the Royal Police Cadet Academy Sampran. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/304881/chuvit-duang-transfer-conflict-of-interest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 WTF from the WOW!!! perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CocoaBrotha Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 WTF from the WOW!!! perspective. Holy ****, man!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CiaranM Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 never been a believer in coincidence ... [h=1]Olympics boxing: Japan appeal after controversial loss[/h] Japan have launched an appeal after Satoshi Shimizu's controversial bantamweight defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov, of Azerbaijan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19088420 [h=1]IOC chief demands 2012 boxing bribe evidence from BBC[/h] International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has called on the BBC to provide evidence into claims attempts have been made to fix boxing results at the 2012 Olympic Games. BBC Newsnight uncovered evidence of secret payments from Azerbaijan to World Series Boxing, to allegedly guarantee two golds. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/15033864 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 CocoaBrotha lives!! Yeah, baby!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 never been a believer in coincidence ... Olympics boxing: Japan appeal after controversial loss Japan have launched an appeal after Satoshi Shimizu's controversial bantamweight defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov, of Azerbaijan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19088420 IOC chief demands 2012 boxing bribe evidence from BBC International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has called on the BBC to provide evidence into claims attempts have been made to fix boxing results at the 2012 Olympic Games. BBC Newsnight uncovered evidence of secret payments from Azerbaijan to World Series Boxing, to allegedly guarantee two golds. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/15033864 If I ever win a gold medal, you know it's fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 If I ever win a gold medal, you know it's fixed. say it's not so !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 US wants Juthamas extraditedUS prosecutors have revealed they are struggling to extradite a former Thai official and her daughter to the US to face corruption charges. In a court filing late last week, US prosecutors said Thailand has not yet responded to a US request to bring Juthamas Siriwan, the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, and her daughter, Jittsopa Siriwan, to the US, The Wall Street Journal reported. They were charged in January 2009 in an eight-count indictment with laundering US$1.8 million (57 million baht) in bribes which Mrs Juthamas allegedly received from husband-and-wife film producers Gerald and Patricia Green. The Greens were convicted in 2009 and sentenced to six months in jail. US District Judge George Wu ruled in early February that the case be delayed until July 30. But prosecutors said in last week's filing that the July 30 hearing was no longer necessary due to the lack of a response from Thailand. A hearing should be scheduled when the government receives a response or when the mother and daughter can personally appear before the court, prosecutors said. The Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) spokesman Winai Damrongmongkonkul said yesterday the OAG has not concluded the case because some key evidence in Thailand has not been compiled. As a result, the OAG and National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) have set up a joint committee to investigate the case. Methee Klongkaew, chairman of the NACC subcommittee in charge of the case, said the joint panel is expected to conclude on the case this month. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/305892/us-wants-juthamas-extradited I love following the story because the film producers in the US have already been found guilty and are serving jail time in the US. Thailand has been playing games like not doing anything when she failed to show up for her interview with investigators and the investigators all shrugged and said (basically), "What can we do if the accused refuses to show up and answer questions?" The US producers turned over tons of evidence showing payments and bribes going to her and her family members but somehow, even with it all served up on a golden platter in front of them, the Thai police (and prosecutors) can't seem to figure out how to charge her with a crime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted August 5, 2012 Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 Gabby Douglas wins the gold for USA... Followed by an inspiring commercial... Definitely not intentional, but should have been avoided. Anyway, Gabby's last name "DOUGLAS," scrambled, spells USA GOLD. It's freakin me out, man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 [h=1]Purists Sniff As Stink-Free Durian Fruit Seeks A Fan Base[/h] To lovers of the world's most odoriferous fruit, something doesn't smell right in Thailand's durian country, where a fruit breeder with the Horticulture Research Institute is in the midst of creating a line of durian varieties that lacks what some say is the most intriguing aspect of this large and spiky, creamy-fleshed tree fruit — its smell. Dr. Songpol Somsri has spent 25 years trying to eliminate the durian fruit's renowned gym socks-and-gasoline stench. He has crossed 90-plus durian varieties and, with a discerning nose, selected their offspring. Generation by generation, he has bred away the odor. And he thinks he's close to putting it on the market. When NPR last checked in with scientist Songpol Somsri, back in 2007, he had just introduced the first deodorized durian, called the Chantaburi No. 1. This year, he has released his fourth, fifth and sixth such durians, and he says he has more in the works. Songpol says his durians, which could be available in shops in Southeast Asia in just another season or two, will be marketed toward consumers uneasy about eating the more pungent durian varieties. Already, taste tests for small groups of visitors to Songpol's experimental orchard have produced positive reviews, he says. But a proper durian smells like "heaven and hell", as a Mother Jones reporter put it. To aficionados of the fruit, who find the aroma wildly intoxicating, Songpol's durians stink. Joe Real, a Philippines native and tropical fruit expert with the California Rare Fruit Growers, isn't impressed by what he's heard of Songpol's creations. "If you remove the smell of the durian just because some people don't like it, you also remove the fun and the excitement," says Real, who has made durian wine and plans to market the product in California at his yet-to-be-launched Amrita Winery. Real says that the smell of a durian enhances its taste — and to lose the one is to offset the other. "The smell works hand-in-hand with the flavor," he says. "Without the smell, the durian loses its potency." Sensory experts call this taste-smell chemistry "retro-nasal olfaction," the physiological process by which we actually smell a bite of food even after it's entered our mouths. Pinch your nose during dinner, they tell us, and the joy of eating will nearly vanish. But Songpol says the smell is not gone from his special varieties — just reduced. Anyway, he didn't create his new durians for aficionados. "These durians are for people who don't like the smell or haven't had durian before," he says. "This will create a new market. The old market will not go away." Still, other durian experts are nervous. Mark "Birdee" Léger, a French expat who lives on a durian orchard in southern Thailand, fears that commercial breeding projects are, generation by generation, robbing the durian of its finest attributes, producing tame and innocuous varieties suitable for the commercial market, while older heritage trees slip to the wayside — think potatoes, corn, watermelons, tomatoes and apples. Léger says the very best durians come from wild specimens that sprouted from seed and have never been cultivated, and he considers projects like Songpol's to be "an insult to the purity of things such as nature offers us." Real doesn't believe Songpol's Chantaburi series has the bite to influence the durian market. "As long as Asian immigration continues around the world, people everywhere will know what a good durian is, and they won't want them without the smell," he explains. The flipside of turning durian and other foods into more marketable versions of themselves is that they often become more durable, and able to withstand the rigors of transportation. In the case of durians, it's the smell that's limited their travel. Songpol expects that Southeast Asian airlines and municipal transportation systems that currently forbid carriage of durians because of their smell will make exceptions for his Chantaburi series. Meanwhile, about 20,000 sapling trees which Songpol has sold to farmers around Thailand will start bearing sizeable crops by 2013 or 2014, he says. Eventually, the fruits might be exported into durian-dubious markets overseas, Songpol says, though when the Chantaburi series may reach American shores is uncertain. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/08/06/158194603/purists-sniff-as-stink-free-durian-fruit-seeks-a-fan-base Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CocoaBrotha Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Alive and well, gentlemen...Alive and well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Alive and well, gentlemen...Alive and well! Oh schnap. I forgot you were in Somerville. I'm in Revere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 [ATTACH=CONFIG]119436[/ATTACH] There goes a few thousand dollars (for the dress) down the drain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CocoaBrotha Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Well hell, man. That's not a far ride. Maybe one day we can meet up for a beer! and shoot the ****!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Well hell, man. That's not a far ride. Maybe one day we can meet up for a beer! and shoot the shit!. Sounds good. I've got pool tables at my place. I'd prefer shooting pool balls over shit, but if there is beer involved I'm willing to try out shit shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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