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Orang Utan Used As Sex Slave In Borneo

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:05:50 -0400

A group of villagers in an undisclosed location in the Indonesian part of Borneo, captured a female orang utan, shaved her all over and used her as sex slave.

According to a report purportedly quoting Michelle Desilets, the director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, the female orang utan named Pony, was being kept at a prostitute village on Borneo.

“We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body,” Desilets said. “I want to cry”.

According to her, if a man walked near Pony, she would turn herself around, present herself, and start gyrating and going through the motions.

“She was being used as a sex slave. She was probably about six or seven years old when we rescued her, but she had been held captive by a madam for a long time.

“The madam refused to give up the animal because everyone loved Pony and she was a big part of their income.

“They also thought Pony was lucky, as she would pick winning lottery numbers,” she said, adding that she was being guarded by villagers who were armed with guns, knives and poison darts.

She also said that clients came to the village especially for the orang utan. “You could choose a human if you preferred, but it was a novelty for many of the men to have sex with an orangutan.”

It took 35 policemen armed with AK-47s to rescue Pony. As they took away Pony, her keeper yelled, “They are taking my baby, you can’t do this!”

Desilets said that it was unlikely that the keepers would be taken action as there was “no law enforcement in Indonesia so these people didn’t face any sentence or anything for what they had done.”

(via borneo-blog)

fuckyeahfunnythings: fredikefred: (via mayuri12, sofapizza)

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:47:56 -0400

fuckyeahfunnythings:

fredikefred:

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The dog that's just dyeing to be a tiger

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:45:54 -0400

If this strange creature growled at you, you wouldn’t know whether to run from his sharp claws or pat him on the head and give him a biscuit.

From a distance, its striped orange and black coat makes it look like a particularly odd tiger.

But it’s actually a retriever, the victim of the latest craze among some dog owners in China to dye their pets to look like other animals.

The Chinese are always quick to embrace bizarre trends, and it is not unusual for owners to take their dogs to grooming parlours where they are not only given a shampoo and trim, but a multi-coloured dye job as well.

Is this the world's oldest shoe? 5,000-year-old leather-laced size 4 found in cave in Armenia

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:25:49 -0400

Created more than 5,500 years ago at the dawn of civilisation this perfectly preserved brown leather lace-up is the oldest shoe in the world

For lovers of fashion, it’s the ultimate vintage shoe.

Created more than 5,500 years ago at the dawn of civilisation this perfectly preserved brown leather lace-up is the oldest shoe in the world.

It was created from a piece of cow hide 1,000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza and stitched together with leather thread.

The size 4 shoe - discovered buried in a cave in Armenia - is so well preserved that its lace is still intact.

Archaeologists say it probably belonged to a woman who deliberately buried it in the cave during a mysterious ritual. The cave also contained three pots, each containing a child’s skull, along with containers of barley, wheat and apricot.

For Dr Ron Pinhasi, University College Cork, the shoe is a discovery of a lifetime.

‘We thought initially that the shoe and other objects were about 600-700 years old because they were in such good condition,’ said Dr Pinhasi.

‘When we discovered that the shoe dated back to 3,500 BC and that it was the oldest leather shoe, we were very excited.’

The shoe was worn by an early farmer living in the mountains of Vayotz Dzor province of Armenia close to the border of modern-day Turkey and Iran.

The region was on the edge of the Fertile Crescent - the great sweep of land that gave birth to the first towns, cities and farms.

It was made from a single piece of leather, tanned using vegetable oil, and shaped to fit the wearer’s foot. It contained grass, although archaeologists are unsure whether this was to keep out the cold, or maintain the shape of the shoe.

The shoe was made from a single piece of leather, tanned using vegetable oil, and shaped to fit the wearer’s foot

This is the cave pit where the shoe was found. It is believed to have been worn by a farmer living in the mountains of Vayotz Dzor province of Armenia close to the border of modern-day Turkey and Iran

It was laced using a strip of leather threatened through slits. At some point in its life, one of the slits tore - forcing the wearer to make repairs by recutting another gash for the lace.

‘It is not known whether the shoe belonged to a man or a woman,’ said Dr Pinhasi, who reports the findings in the journal PLoS One.

However, the small size makes it most likely that it belonged to a woman, he added.

The cool and dry conditions in the cave helped preserve the shoe which appears to have been buried in the ground on its own. The floor was covered with a thick layer of sheep dung which helped conserve the shoe and other finds.

Three samples of the shoe were carefully radiocarbon-dated at laboratories at Oxford University and the University of California, Irvine.

The shoe was discovered by Armenian PhD student, Diana Zardaryan, of the Institute of Archaeology, Armenia, in a pit that also included a broken pot and sheep’s horns.

Researcher Dr Gregory Areshian, of the University of California, Los Angeles, said: ‘We couldn’t believe the discovery. The crusts had sealed the artefacts and archaeological deposits and artefacts remained fresh dried, just like they were put in a can.’

The top and bottom close-up images show in detail how the shoe was laced together with a strip of leather. The image on the right shows its smooth sole

The entrance to an Armenian cave, marked with blue plastic in the centre of the picture where the shoe was found

The previous oldest known footwear were sandals made from plants found in a cave in Missouri. They were made and worn a few hundred years after the Armenian shoe.

The design is similar to the ‘pampooties’ worn on the Aran Islands in the West of Ireland up to the 1950s.

‘We do not know yet what the shoe or other objects were doing in the cave or what the purpose of the cave was,’ said Dr Pinhasi.

‘We know that there are children’s graves at the back of the cave but so little is known about this period that we cannot say with any certainty why all these different objects were found together.’

Armenia’s climate 5,500 years ago was similar to today’s - hot in the summer, snowy in winter. The owner of the shoe would have worn wool and leather clothes, and relied on the shoes for protection as she walked around the rocky terrain.

The shoe may have been made locally, or traded with the more sophisticated towns and villages in the heart of Mesopotamia, Dr Pinhasi added.

The spot in Armenia, marked with a red square, where the ancient shoe was discovered in the old ‘fertile belt’ of Fertile Crescent.

(via dailymail)

Canon SRL Lens Coffee Mugs

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:10:56 -0400

A must-have collectible for photography laojiaos & fanatics. These mugs are the actual lens of 1:1 scale with dimensions and details replicate so closely that you can’t really tell the difference! People will be shocked to see you drinking your coffee from your camera lens!

Bangkok’s First Robot Restaurant Full of Motoman Waiters

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:22:49 -0400

Lapassarad Thanaphant’s Hajime restaurant is the first in Bangkok to feature robots. The samura costumed Motoman are waiters.

Robots are here to serve you…BBQ! The Hajime restaurant in Bangkok serves shabu-shabu/BBQ and features an entire wait staff composed of nothing but Motoman robots. Owner Lapassarad Thanaphant reportedly spent 30 million baht (~$932,000) on the new restaurant, including her fleet of four humanoid machines. Using a touchscreen visitors can order food or have dirty dishes taken away by the big two-armed bots which are colorfully garbed in samurai costumes. In between requests, the robots dance to entertain their guests and maybe earn a little money on the side. Check out their antics in the video below.

I love Motoman robots and all the extraordinary/crazy things they’ve been made to do. Watching one serve dinner makes me wonder how long until they’ll be paired with the robotic chefs we’ve seen to form an entirely mechanical restaurant. The cooking capabilities of these bots is still rather limited, and you should know that in a shabu-shabu style eatery customers heat their own food. Still, there’s nothing quite like having a machine wait on your every culinary whim. As robots become more sophisticated and capable of automating more complex tasks, it will be interesting to see whether or not we’ll see more bots in the kitchen. I love machines, but I love food even more, and I’m not sure I want to give up my “kiss the cook” apron just yet. Keep trying robots…maybe I’ll let you make me a gyro.

(via singularityhub)

Rape-aXe: The Anti-Rape Condom

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:52:49 -0400

This is so brilliant! An anti-rape female condom invented by Sonette Ehlers… A South African women working as a blood technician with the South African Blood Transfusion Service, during which time she met and treated many rape victims.

The device, known as The Rape-aXe, is a latex sheath embedded with shafts of sharp, inward-facing microscopic barbs that would be worn by a woman in her vagina like a tampon. If an attacker were to attempt vaginal rape, their penis would enter the latex sheath and be snagged by the barbs, causing the attacker pain during withdrawal and (ideally) giving the victim time to escape. The condom would remain attached to the attacker’s body when he withdrew and could only be removed surgically, which would alert hospital staff and police. This device could assist in the identification and prosecution of rapists.

(via arkitipintel)

Indian Man Has 5 Kidneys

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:22:49 -0400

Many people in need of a transplant struggle to receive just one organ.

But a photographer from Khaira Dona village, in the northwest state of Punjab, India, is now living with five kidneys.

Since 2004, Jaswant has undergone three transplant surgeries to replace his failed kidneys. With each procedure, the 33 year-old gained a new kidney from a family member, while the non-functioning organs remained in his body.

During kidney transplants, the failed organ is often left in the body to reduce the risk of death and complications that can result from removing it. Yet only an exceptional handful of such transplant recipients can claim to have had the procedure multiple times, like Jaswant.

Determined to “make it this time,” Jaswant received his latest kidney from his 55 year-old mother more than a month ago.

Jaswant had his first transplant surgery at age 25. The organ, which was donated by his older sister, functioned for more than a year. “However, my body rejected the kidney once I stopped post-operation medication because of financial constraints,” he said.

Two years later, Jaswant received another kidney, this time from his younger sister. After 14 months, he was placed back on dialysis, after his body rejected the organ of yet another family member.

While discussing his latest transplant, Jaswant cited his family’s “determination to see me live,” adding, “this time my mother, 55, gave me her bean shaped organ.”

Jaswant’s family makes a modest living—his brother is a driver and his father sells milk. Doctors from India’s National Kidney Hospital were so impressed by the young photographer’s story and the determination of his family, that they performed Jaswant’s most recent transplant surgery for free.

Rajesh Agrawal, the transplant surgeon who conducted the procedure along with doctor’s Suresh Aggarawal and Sanjay Mittal; said Jaswant is not the first person in this part of India to undergo multiple kidney transplants.

“The case is second in the region, where a third kidney transplant surgery has been done successfully. The earlier three transplants in the country were conducted at Hyderabad, Lucknow and Delhi,” doctor Agrawal said.

(via indiatimes)

slightlyamusing: sofapizza: how a lady deals with inadequate...

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:52:49 -0400

slightlyamusing:

sofapizza:

how a lady deals with inadequate swing-dancing partners.

Stormtrooper Helmet Groom’s Cake

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:22:50 -0400

Check out this sweet (literally!) cake from Carmon Middleton in the shape of a Star Wars Stormtrooper’s helmet. Not only that, it’s a groom’s cake for a wedding. The only thing more awesome would be if the groom whipped out a lightsaber and started slashing away at the helmet cake, cutting it up almost instantly. Without any further pictures, for all I know that may very have been what happened.

(via Craziestgadgets)

freshnessforward: I doubt it would be very effective (who...

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:22:48 -0400

freshnessforward:

I doubt it would be very effective (who wouldn’t just delete the app after five minutes?), but I can’t say it’s not clever.

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xtinapay: At first glance it’s simply a standard black mug with...

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:52:47 -0400

xtinapay:

At first glance it’s simply a standard black mug with big white letters that say “OFF”. Nothing fancy, but once you add the hot beverage of your choice, the mug changes color to white and in big black letters it states: “ON”.

10 Cool and Unusual Dresses

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:52:48 -0400

Metal Dress

Stylish dress created from hundreds of small metal pieces. [link]

Cake Dress

Awesome wedding cake dress created by Lukka Sigurdardottir. [link]

LED Dress

Light meets fashion in electronic dress designed by Mary Huan. [link]

Skull Dress

Cool dress created by Thom Ravnholdt for a Halloween party. [link]

Nintendo Game Boy Dress

Creative tube dress is perfect for fans of Nintendo’s Game Boy. [link]

Sponge Dress

Weird dress created from regular kitchen sponges by Kate Cusack. [link]

Illusion Dress

Unusual dress created by brilliant designers Viktor & Rolf. [link]

Balloon Dresses

Cool dresses made from balloons by talented artist named Daisy. [link]

Garbage Bag Dress

Stylish dress created from plastic garbage bags by Jutta Leger. [link]

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Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:37:48 -0400

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Umbrella with coffee handle

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:22:49 -0400

Is struggling to carry coffee while holding an umbrella a little too much for you to handle? Don’t skip the coffee just because it rains… and for you caffeine addicts out there, you don’t have to skip the umbrella either. Stay dry and pumped full of lattes with this uniquely designed umbrella with a built-in cup holder. The Umbrella With Coffee Handle is unfortunately just a concept by Jung-Woo Lee, but here’s hoping that Starbucks starts giving them away with every venti Frappuccino purchase.

(via incrediblethings)

fuckyeahfunnythings: omydays: zomgumunster: juliasegal: Can’t...

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:40:47 -0400

fuckyeahfunnythings:

omydays:

zomgumunster:

juliasegal:

Can’t decide what to have for cute lunch today…

LOL at the cat’s face.

Web's funniest addresses revealed in new book

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:22:48 -0400

Unfortunately for a number of companies, the dawn of the URL has converted their previously innocent names into double entendres, resulting in internet gems such as www.molestationnursery.com (The former internet home of the Mole Station Nursery).

Author Andy Geldman has created a compendium of some of the funniest ‘slurls’ or slur URLs in his new book Slurls: They Called Their Website What?

Geldman told the Telegraph ‘In a world without spaces we mentally insert out own. And you might not stick yours where I stick mine.’

The lack of spaces certainly dealt a cruel hand to Pen Island, who currently reside at www.penisland.net, while a group of tree surgeons working in Frace go by the moniker www.lesbocages.com .

Some of the funniest web addresses:

Big Al’s - a bowling alley in Vancouver chose www.ilovebigals.com

La Drape, a British company selling bedding supplies opted for www.ladrape.co.uk

‘Powergen’ Italia - a fake website claiming to be the Italian homepage for the company is listed at www.powergenitalia.com

Speed of Art - Art collective, or a bizarre ‘Speedo Fart’ contraption? Find out at www.speedofart.com

The American Scrap Metal company settled on - www.angelfire.com/al/americanscrapmetal

(via metro)

theartofdebimendez: weird fish slippers

Sun, 30 May 2010 11:52:48 -0400

theartofdebimendez:

weird fish slippers

pigfly: FUNNY BUT INTERESTING JAPANESE INVENTIONS! LOLed when...

Sat, 29 May 2010 23:22:49 -0400

Afraid of dropping eye drops? Use this!

Butter stick

Cockroach shoes

Keep your hair away

Cool your ramen

An umbrella for your shoes

pigfly:

FUNNY BUT INTERESTING JAPANESE INVENTIONS!

LOLed when I saw these!

I’d like to think that inventions are for lazy people! Haha!

Will post more funny ones if I find more! :D

Two-year-old boy who smokes 40 cigarettes a day

Thu, 27 May 2010 23:53:48 -0400

Gun smoke: Four-stone Ardi puffs one of 40 cigarettes he smokes a day while toting a water pistol

Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry driver.

But the image covers up a much more disturbing truth: At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal’s health has been so ruined by his 40-a-day habit that he now struggles to move by himself.

The four-stone Indonesia toddler is certainly far too unfit to run around with other children - and his condition is set to rapidly deteriorate.

Truck on bad habits: Ardi Rizal sits smoking on his favourite toy at home in Musi Banyuasin, Indonesia
But, despite local officials’ offer to buy the Rizal family a new car if the boy quits, his parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they don’t indulge him.

His mother, Diana, 26, wept: ‘He’s totally addicted. If he doesn’t get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.’

Ardi will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day in Musi Banyuasin, in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province.

But in spite of this, his fishmonger father Mohammed, 30, said: ‘He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem.’

Ardi’s youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 per cent of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 per cent of those active smokers.

The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4 per cent in 2001 to 2.8 per cent in 2004, the agency reported.

A video of a four-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on YouTube in March, prompting outrage before it was removed from the site.

Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke, and the growing pressure on them to smoke in a country where one-third of the population uses tobacco and single cigarettes can be bought for a few cents.

Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia’s child protection commission, blames the increase on aggressive advertising and parents who are smokers.

‘A law to protect children and passive smokers should be introduced immediately in this country,’ he said.

A health law passed in 2009 formally recognizes that smoking is addictive, and an anti-smoking coalition is pushing for tighter restrictions on smoking in public places, advertising bans and bigger health warnings on cigarette packages.

Puff baby: Ardi blows smoke while trundling around on his truck
But a bill on tobacco control has been stalled because of opposition from the tobacco industry.

The bill would ban cigarette advertising and sponsorship, prohibit smoking in public, and add graphic images to packaging.

Benny Wahyudi, a senior official at the Industry Ministry, said the government had initiated a plan to try to limit the number of smokers, including dropping production to 240 billion cigarettes this year, from 245 billion in 2009.

‘The government is aware of the impact of smoking on health and has taken efforts, including lowering cigarette production, increasing its tax and limiting smoking areas,’ he said.

Mr Mulyadi said a ban on advertising is key to putting the brakes on child and teen smoking.

‘If cigarette advertising is not banned, there will be more kids whose lives are threatened because of smoking,’ he said.

Ubiquitous advertising hit a bump last month when a cigarette company was forced to withdraw its sponsorship of pop star Kelly Clarkson’s concert following protests from fans and anti-tobacco groups.

Always having a break: Ardi, who is rarely seen without a cigarette, insists on the same brand, costing £3.78 a day
However, imposing a non-smoking message will be difficult in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest tobacco consumer.

Tubagus Haryo Karbyanto, a member of the National Commission of Tobacco Control, said Indonesia must also address the social conditions that lead to smoking, such as family influence and peer pressure.

‘The promotion of health has to be integrated down to the smallest units in our society, from public health centres and local health care centres to the family,’ he was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe on Friday.

Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih conceded turning young people off smoking will be difficult in a country where it is perceived as positive because cigarette companies sponsor everything from scholarships to sporting events.

‘This is the challenge we face in protecting youth from the dangers of smoking,’ she said in a statement on the ministry’s website.

(via paapaada)