News of the World.
Sep. 3rd, 2009 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pathology_doc1. Parents win right to name their child "Jihad". Or at least "Djehad", which phonetically probably amounts to much the same thing. German law forbids names which are "Harmful", but they supposedly got around this one by saying it also implies "the requirement to spread Islam peacefully throughout the world" or some such thing.
Fair enough, but just try moving to Saudi Arabia or certain areas of Pakistan or Afghanistan and calling your kid "Richard Lionheart Crusader" and see what happens!
2. This sounds about as tasteful as throwing a pool party for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, but: Residents in El Salvador have hurled fireballs at one another as part of an annual religious celebration. During the annual event, people take turns in the town of Nai Yappa to throw fiery, gasoline soaked rags at each other in honour of a huge volcanic eruption in 1922 that destroyed the old town. Apparently it was all done by a local saint, who was throwing the igneous fireballs at the Devil. Shame about the collateral damage, though, but I suppose if it keeps Satan in his place it's a price worth paying...
3. A Perth man has been charged with stealing a sea container full of premium Belgian beer worth $35,000. West Australian police allege two men stole a sea container containing more than 13-hundred cartons of Hoegaarden beer from a storage yard in Welshpool on August 20.... Police are looking for a cirrhotic liver on legs, last seen putting out a record number of empties for the recycling.
4. An artist is creating an intimate statue of Angelina Jolie breast-feeding two of her children. Gee golly whizz. Is that what Angelina's breasts are for? I suppose it does flip the bird to those who go off their nut when they see women breastfeeding, but next to the artist's previous projects...
Edwards has become notorious for his unusual sculptures, with other controversial statues including one of a dead, naked Paris Hilton and one of Britney Spears giving birth on a bear skin rug
...it's almost boring.
Fair enough, but just try moving to Saudi Arabia or certain areas of Pakistan or Afghanistan and calling your kid "Richard Lionheart Crusader" and see what happens!
2. This sounds about as tasteful as throwing a pool party for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, but: Residents in El Salvador have hurled fireballs at one another as part of an annual religious celebration. During the annual event, people take turns in the town of Nai Yappa to throw fiery, gasoline soaked rags at each other in honour of a huge volcanic eruption in 1922 that destroyed the old town. Apparently it was all done by a local saint, who was throwing the igneous fireballs at the Devil. Shame about the collateral damage, though, but I suppose if it keeps Satan in his place it's a price worth paying...
3. A Perth man has been charged with stealing a sea container full of premium Belgian beer worth $35,000. West Australian police allege two men stole a sea container containing more than 13-hundred cartons of Hoegaarden beer from a storage yard in Welshpool on August 20.... Police are looking for a cirrhotic liver on legs, last seen putting out a record number of empties for the recycling.
4. An artist is creating an intimate statue of Angelina Jolie breast-feeding two of her children. Gee golly whizz. Is that what Angelina's breasts are for? I suppose it does flip the bird to those who go off their nut when they see women breastfeeding, but next to the artist's previous projects...
Edwards has become notorious for his unusual sculptures, with other controversial statues including one of a dead, naked Paris Hilton and one of Britney Spears giving birth on a bear skin rug
...it's almost boring.