Monika’s Pensieve

Would you like to be put to rest in a coffin shaped like a pen, a saw or maybe a car?

I found this highly amusing, though I probably shouldn’t have :]
For those who cannot read Polish, there was a nudist night at a Łódź swimming pool. Liga Polskich Rodzin (Poland’s resident right-wing psychos) took the case to the police because some of the people present at the event were underage. The official bodies explained that [...]

Since I’m regaining my obsession with losing weight (hopefully I’ll explain why in my monthly summary post ;)), I thought it appropriate to post this. I imagine this kind of dieting would work well for many people. I mean if I had to give some of my money to a charity that campaigned for something [...]

This is an article about a recent event on Haizhu Bridge. It’s a place that suffers from frequent traffic jams caused by would-be suicide jumpers (they very rarely actually jump). Apparently one of the people in the traffic jam got impatient and pushed the would-be jumper off (onto an emergency air cushion - the jumper [...]

I always knew that my dad’s excuse of not being able to learn to use the computer because he’s old was flimsy :] It’s a shame that older people tend to have a lot of resistance against computers. Many of them are lonely and the internet offers older people plenty of convenient ways of socializing [...]

The first time I heard about women striking by withholding sex from their men was a couple of months ago. In Kenya things seem to have gone further.
The women in Kenya are worried that the political situation in the country has become so tense that it may have violent consequences - like it did two [...]

Meet Snowball, a parrot that enjoys dancing to the Backstreet Boys ;)

A Lancashire design student figured she could make objects disappear by painting them right. Check it out - it’s quite amazing :)

I read this on Equus’s blog and almost didn’t click on the video link, but I’m really glad I did *grin* Normally this sort of thing happens only in the movies.
Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talentby dwarthy

I don’t usually blog about music, but this was just too weird ;) So Snoop Dogg decided to mix things up a little and after the success of Slumdog, he recorded a song with Tanvi Shah - one of the singers on the Slumdog soundtrack. I thought mixing hip hop with Bollywood music wouldn’t be [...]