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Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:09 pm
by Samuel_L_Damnson
This is why stupid Americans shouldn't have guns

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:12 pm
by soronery

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:20 pm
by exfox
http://www.20minutes.fr/rennes/1530039- ... -accoucher

"His wife just gave birth, he steals the placenta"

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 12:32 am
by ultraspatial

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:31 am
by _ronzlo_
STFU...

swear if I saw that guy in my yard, I would not hesitate to open fire. Not for a second.

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:40 am
by ultraspatial
The married father, who now calls himself Red Skull
:corntard:
like get your priorities straight. must have been one hell of a midlife crisis to decide to cut off your nose

but srs inb4 this guy gets shot/stabbed/beaten b2b charity campaign against discrimination or smth

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:43 am
by OGLemon
didn't even look too bad in the before

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:32 am
by Phigure
theres a joke there about south america + ex sizan

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:05 am
by _ronzlo_
Phigure wrote:theres a joke there about south america + ex sizan
Colonia Dignidad.

Except that's not funny.

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:29 pm
by exfox

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 10:03 pm
by garethom
Mushimushi switching it up

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 10:19 pm
by exfox
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:23 am
by nobody

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:38 am
by soronery
China Says Please Stop Hiring Funeral Strippers

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In China, friends and family of the deceased may have to do without a special form of funereal entertainment: strippers.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Culture on Thursday, the government plans to work closely with the police to eliminate such performances, which are held with the goal of drawing more mourners.

Pictures of a funeral in the city of Handan in northern Hebei province last month showed a dancer removing her bra as assembled parents and children watched. They were widely circulated online, prompting much opprobrium. In its Thursday statement, the Ministry of Culture cited “obscene” performances in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, as well as in Handan, and pledged to crack down on such lascivious last rites.

In the Handan incident earlier this year, the ministry said, six performers had arrived to offer an erotic dance at the funeral of an elderly resident. Investigators were dispatched and the performance was found to have violated public security regulations, with the person responsible for the performing troupe in question detained administratively for 15 days and fined 70,000 yuan (about $11,300), the statement said. The government condemned such performances for corrupting the social atmosphere.

The government has been trying to fight the country’s funereal stripper scourge for some time now. In 2006, the state-run broadcaster China Central Television’s leading investigative news show Jiaodian Fangtan aired an exposé on the practice of scantily clad women making appearances at memorial services in Donghai in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.

The point of inviting strippers, some of whom performed with snakes, was to attract large crowds to the deceased’s funeral – seen as a harbinger of good fortune in the afterlife. “It’s to give them face,” one villager explained. “Otherwise no one would come.

CCTV found about a dozen funeral performance troupes offering such services in every village in the county, putting on as many as 20 shows a month at a rate of 2,000 yuan ($322) a pop.

“This has severely polluted the local cultural life,” CCTV intoned at the time, marveling at the sight of one women gyrating out of her clothes mere steps from a photo of the deceased. “These troupes only care about money. As for whether it’s legal, or proper, or what effect it has on local customs, they don’t think much about it.”

The mainland isn’t alone in its preference for the practice: similar ensemble performances are also popular in Taiwan – as National Geographic documented in 2012, with stilettoed, short-skirted women dancing graveside. The practice there dates back decades.[/spoiler]

Re: The Strange News Around the World Thread

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:24 am
by _ronzlo_
^ but how better to celebrate life than a fine pair of tittayz?!

I want this to catch on in America.