Crazy Condom Creativity

It’s probably safe to say that the overall condom experience would never be complete if it didn’t include all the exciting erection-protection innovations from our Asian friends. Not content to put regular condoms into regular packages, many manufacturers have come up with some pretty crazy, bizarre ideas for marketing.

The following examples are guaranteed to not only enhance your sexual experience, but to bring a smile to your face as well.

Anime-themed packaging.
Somehow it doesn’t seem too surprising that anime characters would show up on condom wrappers in Japan. From Junko Mizuno, a Japanese manga artist, we have the Mizuno Garden Condom. These standard condoms come in a not-so-standard box of 10, and even include a special trading card… just in case the sex gets boring, I suppose.

Here’s one with a character from the popular Gundam anime series. Look, 12 Pieces of Love Cannon!

Flavors from your wildest dreams.
These are quite possibly the most irresistible condoms you will ever find. Flavors? Hmm. How about “Chicken Noodle Soup” for a start?

Or maybe “Seal Flavored”?

But I’m not quite sure what “Loves The Dick” or “Spank The Monkey” taste like:


What’s your sign, baby?
A small company by the name of Yamashita Latex has marketed condoms that come in packages based on the signs of the Zodiac. Each of the 12 packages displays a different picture based on the particular sign. Naturally, a condom is creatively worked into the design in each case. So, for example, this is Leo:

And here’s Scorpio.

It’s not what it looks like.
Courtesy of Korea Latex Co., a condom package that looks like a miniature juice container. The 8cm-tall box even includes a special warning label and nutritional information.

No calories, but you get 100% daily value for both stimulation and excitement!

Your typical dining room table presentation: plant, candle, vase, box of condoms.
Thank you, Japan Medical Co., for offering us a subtle way to let our visitors know how much we care about safe sex. Tasteful, stylish, and, shall we say, very graceful as well.

Now all that’s missing is a bowl of fruit with a couple of banana-shaped vibrators thrown in for fun.
Power, black color rubber.
This one’s got me wondering. It’s from Osaka, Japan, and it’s definitely a box of condoms (apparently black ones), but beyond that it’s a mystery. The black panther and the naked lady could be interpreted in so many different ways.

But hey, “stay real,” ‘cause we’re all “brack people”!

Whoa, is that a horse!?
A Japanese company called Okamoto apparently has some pretty big ideas. Sure, some people may very well need a latex that’s a little, um, larger. But what’s up with the horse?

don’t know about you, but I’m hoping the picture isn’t supposed to be an accurate representation of what you’ll find inside the box. Super big boy, indeed!

Condom candies.
No, these aren’t real condoms, they’re just chocolates designed to look like condoms. The candies are a product of Taiwan, but apparently you can get them in Japan as well.

No, mom, I want some of THOSE candies!

Now you can score just like David Beckham!
Poor condom sales? No problem, just grab the biggest celebrity you can find and throw his or her picture on your product. That’s what a Chinese condom manufacturer did with David Beckham awhile back—without his permission, of course. As a result, lagging sales were quickly turned into big-time profits that made their condoms the most popular ones in China.

Vending machines, for your convenience (and safety).
It’s said that the Japanese have vending machines for just about anything you can think of: eggs, umbrellas, beer, porn. And condoms, of course.

The World's First Flying Hotel‏

Wow, the flying hotel and largest helicopter in the world, Cool! The Hotelicopter is modeled on the Soviet-made Mil V-12, of which there were only two prototypes ever made. The Hotelicopter Company purchased one of these prototypes from the Mikhail Leontyevich Mil helicopter plant in Panki-Tomilino, Russia in 2004 and have been engineering the world's first flying hotel ever since.
"The Hotelicopter features 18 luxuriously-appointed rooms for adrenaline junkies seeking a truly unique and memorable travel experience.
Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all the luxurious appointments you'd expect from a flying five star hotel. Room service is available one hour after liftoff and prior to landing."
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the spec:
Dimensions Length: 42 m (137 ft)
Height: 28m (91 ft)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 105850 kg (232,870 lb)
Maximum speed: 255 km/h (137 kt) (158 miles/h)
Cruising speed: 237 km/h (127 kt) (147 miles/h)
Original Mi Range: 515 km (320 mi)
Our augmented Mi Range - 1,296 km (700 mi)

Rare Long-Eared Jerboa Poses for a Picture

The Mountain of Flames in Turpan City, China, known for having the coolest name for a mountain in existence, has a new distinction to add to its credentials: home for the rare long-eared Jerboa.

The long-eared Jerboa (Euchoreutes naso) is a nocturnal rodent that is so unique, it has its own genus (Euchoreutes) and subfamily (Euchoreutinae). It possess disproportionately long legs to hop everywhere, making it resemble a bizarre hybrid of a kangaroo, mouse and rabbit.

Its distinguishing characteristic are its large ears, which are used to help avoid detection by predators such as the small owl.

The long-eared Jerboa lives in desert-like conditions in northwest China and southern Mongolia such as the Gobi Desert, spending the majority of the daylight hours in one of four types of self-constructed burrows and foraging for food at night.

Two temporary burrows are used for daylight and nighttime shelter, while two permanent burrows are used for raising young in the summer and hibernating in the winter.

While many Jerboa species subsist on a diet of nuts and seeds, the long-eared Jerboa is unique in that it is thought to have a diet that consists primarily of insects. Unfortunately, very little is known about the creature, and encroachment of their habitat by humans is threatening their existence.

They are currently on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and served as one of the top-ten 2007 focal points of EDGE: Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered project.

Harry Potter Invisible Cloak May Become A Reality

physicist has said he hopes to make major advances in the field of invisibility in the next two years.

Professor Ulf Leonhardt at St Andrews University is working on a blueprint for a cloaking device that could also be used to shield coast lines.

The researcher, who cites the Invisible Woman and Harry Potter as inspiration, has been working on the concept of invisibility since 2006.

The project will focus on a connection between light and curved space.

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Night Club Partner‏

WHO'S THE DADDY?

I was 16, drank 32 vodkas, had a one-night stand and got pregnant. Now I have just one question:
WHO'S THE DADDY?

NEVER TRUST YOUR BEST FRIENDS‏

Millionaire's toddler son dies in 15ft plunge from hotel balcony

The toddler son of a millionaire businessman died after falling from a hotel balcony on the first day of a family holiday in Italy.
Eighteen-month-old Brad Kremer tumbled 15ft off the second-floor balcony.
The tragedy happened at 7pm on Saturday, a day after the family of five arrived for their holiday at the Chia Laguna hotel complex outside Cagliari in Sardinia.

Although the young boy did not fall far, he is thought to have landed on his head.

He was taken to hospital by helicopter but was pronounced dead within hours.
Brad's father Richard, 43, is the director of Kremer Signs, which is Britain's largest manufacturer of advertising hoarding signs for estate agents.

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The Most Bizarre Holiday Complaints

THE Five Biggest Holiday Complaints, as reported by British Embassies abroad - bigger breasts and jam making…

The Briton aboard is a fine beast, seeking to stick what to what he knows, whether it be cooking a full roast pork dinner in the morbid heat of a Dubai summer, introducing the Rio Waiters’ XI to Route One football or asking for ‘mato sauce to add a splash of daring to Mario’s version of the Great British spag bog.

And when overseas, Britons are not alone. They have the embassy staff to call upon. And these tour guides tell us some of the calls they’ve fielded in the course of duty:

* An embassy worker was asked to a fellow Briton’s pay credit card bill because it had “maxed out”.

* A mother asked the consulate in Florida to help her teenage son pack his case and give him a lift to the airport as he was feeling under the weather.

* A noble yeoman wanted the high commission in Zambia to phone his workplace to explain he would not be in because he was unable to get a flight.

* A holidaymaker visiting Italy wondered where they could purchase a particular pair of shoes.

* One caller asked: “I’m making jam - what ratio of fruit to sugar shall I use?”

* A woman called to express her displeasure at size of her newly-enlarged breasts.

The Foreign Office says British embassies are there “to help Britons in real difficulty abroad“.

Quite so. But would it not be prudent, and timely, to furnish these questions with their right answers, official? Jam? Discuss.

Naked girls - charity photo shoot

A group of young female farmers from North Devon have posed in nothing but their wellies for a Calendar Girls-style photo shoot for charity.
The 11 girls, who are all members of Young Farmers' Clubs (YFC) in North Devon, stripped off for the 2010 Cancer Research UK calendar.

They are hoping to raise £2,000 in sales from the calendar and are pictured doing farmyard chores - from milking cows and dressing horses to firing shotguns.

Russian Man Screams To Victory In Thailand

For 33-year-old Sergey Savelyev, however, an ear-splitting 116.8-decibel yell recently made him richer by 30,000 baht (about $900 USD).
The occasion for all the shouting was a screaming contest held at a shopping center in Pattaya, Thailand. 11 international bellowers—the finalists from a group of 1,500 original competitors—struggled to unleash the loudest possible volume of noise pollution upon the audience’s eardrums.

In order to achieve the best results, screamers resorted to various methods of coaxing those extra decibels out of their throats—waving their arms around, contorting their bodies and faces, and even collapsing on the ground in the process.

The contest, which is hosted by Thailand’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, exists for the purpose of establishing a new Guinness World Record for the loudest scream.

While Savelyev’s victory this year didn’t break any records, the Russian businessman said he was “only getting warmed up,” and plans to return next year to challenge the 129-decibel shriek that has been in the books since 2000.

For those of you already marking your calendars for next year’s event, earplugs are highly recommended.

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Japanese Man-Bras: Man-Boobs Not Required

In November, a Japanese lingerie company unveiled a new line of bras that quickly shot up to the top of the sales charts, making headlines in the process. The popular polyester garments, which are available in black, white, and pink, offer the wearer everything that might be expected from a well-designed bra: style, comfort, and maybe even some support.

Even if you technically don’t need to be wearing a bra for support.

Sound a little strange? Well, it could have something to do with the fact that these bras are designed for men. Yes, it’s true—once again, the world has a reason to marvel at Japanese creativity, which in the past has brought us such wonders as instant noodles, quartz wristwatches, and CD players.

Wish Room, the company that sells the bras, introduced the special underwear not as an option for men who actually have real man-boobs, but rather as an attempt to cater to the desires of cross-dressing males all over Japan.

Wish Room’s immediate success seems to indicate that there are quite a few Japanese men who fit that description. Now, thanks to Wish Room, cross-dressers can get what they’ve been looking for without wandering through the women’s section in clothing stores.

“More and more men are becoming interested in bras,” said Wish Room’s executive director. “Since we launched the men’s bra we’ve been getting feedback from customers saying, like, ‘Wow, we’ve been waiting for this for a long time,’ so I think there was a substantial customer base that was waiting to see this kind of product.”

Masayuki Tsuchiya, Wish Room’s representative director, is one of those happy customers himself.

“I like this tight feeling,” Tsuchiya said, modeling a man-bra for which he had absolutely no practical use. “It feels good.”

Woman Delivers ‘Stone Baby’ After 60 Year Pregnancy

This true story of a 92-year-old woman who delivered a child (albeit not a live baby) she had been carrying for over half a century! (Long pregnancies are one thing, but THAT is ridiculous!)

Huang Yijun, aged 92, is from southern China and she recently made news after delivering a baby known as a lithopedion, aka ‘Stone Baby’.

Huang Yijun told the press she didn’t have the money to have her fetus removed after doctors told her it had died inside her in 1948.

So she simply did nothing at all about it.

Lithopedion is a very rare medical phenomenon, which occurs when a pregnancy fails and the fetus actually calcifies while still in the mother’s body.

Medically speaking, what often happens is the implanted fetus gets to an advanced stage before it dies. Too large to be absorbed by the body, the remains of the child or its surrounding amniotic sac slowly calcify, turning to stone as a way to protect the woman’s body from infection from the decomposing tissue.

If no complications occur, believe it or not, the mother can basically just go on with her life.

According to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, only 290 cases of lithopedions have ever been documented by medical literature.

Smile, there's an upside-down rainbow

The 'upside-down rainbow', spotted over Sussex, is in fact not a rainbow at all.

The smile in the sky looks like an upside-down rainbow but is caused by light shining through tiny ice crystals in the clouds

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Woman’s Paper Skin a Walking Notepad

For this Chinese woman who suffers from a condition called artificial urticaria, her skin has served as a notebook for all the years of her life.

This strange medical anomaly has no ill effects, but most agree that it is very weird.

Huang Xiangji is a 50-year-old woman from Chengdu who uses her skin like writing paper.

Huang claims that when she writes a word on her skin by using her fingernail, the letters protrude from her skin a moment later.

“I used my body as a notebook for years,” says Huang.

Even as a child, she was able to do this and she would often create shopping lists on her arm before going out to the stores. (That’s one list you can’t misplace!)

Black girl who turned into a white woman

Her skin is so pale that she wears Factor 100 sun cream on even a dull summer day.
Yet, incredibly, 23-year-old Darcel de Vlugt was born black.
In a case of extreme rarity, the skin condition vitiligo has taken the pigment from her entire body.
Experts say they have never come across such a striking change and she says: 'I have a hard job convincing people that I was actually born with dark skin.'
Darcel's parents Peter and Charmaine, both from Trinidad, noticed white spots on her forearm and forehead when she was five.

Doctors diagnosed vitiligo, the same condition said to have affected Michael Jackson.
By the age of seven, white patches had appeared on her legs along with white spots on the rest of her body.

These gradually grew bigger until, when she was 17, the transformation was complete.
'My father worked for the United Nations and we travelled the world a lot with his job,' said Darcel, now a fashion designer in London.

'My family believe the stress of moving at such a young age brought on the condition.

'At the age of 12 I tried UV laser treatment, but it didn't work and by then, 80 per cent of my body was white so I decided to leave it.'

Mum who stood by as son was tortured to death by boyfriend who abused him

This is the evil mother of murdered Baby Peter.
Tracey Connelly can today be identified as the woman who did nothing while her tiny son was tortured to death.
For months she and the two men who abused Peter have hidden behind a series of court orders which barred newspapers from revealing their identities.
Sex-obsessed slob Tracey Connelly, 28, who did nothing while Baby P was tortured to death

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Cute chihuahua with a heart on his coat

This is the adorable chihuahua puppy who, like his older brother, was born with a perfect heart-shaped patch on his side.
The cute little pooch has been suitably named Lovekun by its owner in northern Japan.
At three days old, the long-haired chihuahua has been catching up on his sleep between bouts of suckling on his mother with the other three pups in the litter.

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Horrific baby-throwing ritual in India where toddlers are tossed from roof for good luck

Devotees at a shrine in Harangal village of Parbhani in western India's Maharashtra dangle the frightened looking baby 50 feet above the cloth sheet below.

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Moment Indian police 'executed' captured suspect in cold blood

A probe has been launched into the death of an Indian man after photographs were published appearing to show that he had been executed by police.
Police claimed they shot hospital attendant Chongkham Sanjit, 27, after he fired on them during a chase through a market in the northeastern state of Manipur, on the border with Burma, on July 23.
Authorities believe Sanjit was a member of a banned separatist group.

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Rottweiler gives birth to 18 pups

When four-year-old Rottweiler Terrie went into labour, her owner already knew it was going to be a long night.

But when the six-stone dog started to give birth she didn't stop until she had produced 18 mewling, squealing Rottweiler pups - the biggest ever litter in Britain.
The incredible feat smashed the previous record of 13 and doubled the traditional litter size of eight or nine dogs.

Sadly, one was stillborn and another died two days after the birth, but the remaining 16 have already doubled in size and now weigh between 1 and 1.5lb.

Proud mother Terrie rests after she gave birth to the UK's largest litter of rottweilers

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Australia's smallest horse

HE MAY be Australia's smallest horse but Koda's personality is as big as a clydesdale.

Koda is smaller than a labrador dog, weighs just 35kg and can travel on the back seat of a small sedan.

He lives at the Yarrambat Veterinary Hospital in Victoria.

First-time customers think he is a battery-operated soft toy.

Koda, an American miniature, was always meant to be small but soon after birth was diagnosed with dwarfism.

"He was no bigger than a cat," vet Andy Lynch said yesterday.

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Man weds dying lover

"MY love is only for you. Let's get married even if you have only one day to live."

Is this what they call true love?

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Macau gaming tycoon Stanley Ho undergoes surgery

HONG KONG — Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho has undergone surgery in hospital, his spokesman said Tuesday, after reports of his health condition earlier sent shares in his casino firm SJM Holdings tumbling.

The 87-year-old, who has dominated gambling in the southern Chinese casino haven for the last four decades to become one of Asia's richest men, was recovering after the operation, the spokesman said.

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PETA Lettuce bikini campaign Tokyo

An unusual sight greeted central Tokyo as three women took to the streets in outfits made of lettuce.

The reason for these skimpy numbers? A bid to attract attention in the name of saving the planet.

These ''Lettuce Ladies'' represent PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The group promotes vegetarianism as a way to live a more sustainable lifestyle.

Be careful of water and oil on the kitchen floor‏!

Always keep your kitchen floor dry or else....

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Baby ripped from dead mother's womb

Gazing adoringly at the newborn child, a couple pose with pride. For Alex Dion, who cradles the tiny infant on his left arm, it is a moment of unbridled joy.
But within hours his world had fallen apart when police arrested his partner Julie Corey amid gruesome accusations that the baby he thought was his had been taken from the womb of a murdered woman.

Mr Dion he had been convinced he was the girl's father and was stunned when police moved in on him and Miss Dion as they sat in their car with the baby.

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World’s Youngest Smoker

The official position of China’s national government on the subject of smoking is that it’s bad for you and you should stop; better yet, don’t take up the habit in the first place. Excellent advice, but for one particular citizen of the city of Tianjin, alas, it’s too late.

Tong Liangliang is not what you’d call a long-term smoker. In fact, he took up the habit only about half a year ago. In terms of sheer quantity of cigarettes consumed, though, he’s working pretty hard to catch up with the veterans. They say he’s already putting away a pack a day.

Problem is, Tong Liangliang is only two years old!

The toddler has his father to thank for this situation. At the age of only a year-and-a-half, his dad says, little Liangliang suffered from pain from a hernia. But he was too young to undergo surgery at the time, so the man taught him to smoke, thinking it might offer the poor kid some relief.

It’s not clear whether the treatment had the intended effect. It achieved two other tangible results, however. First, it earned the tiny boy the distinction of being what must be the world’s youngest smoker. At the very least, he’s the youngest one able to do his own lighting up, a procedure he pulls off with the practiced style of a 40-year-old, in a spectacle that’s downright eerie to watch.

Second, it presumably ruined little Liangliang’s life. There’s no question the boy has the habit, and he’s got it bad—they say he gets pretty cranky when his cigarette supply runs out. Furthermore, at a pack a day already, it’s hard to imagine the teensy tyke ever growing up and developing like a normal child. Let’s just say that for the moment, at least, Yao Ming doesn’t have much to worry about.

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