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Exploration: Berlin

nicole — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:04:34 +0000

We heard about these mysterious underground bunkers and rotting hilltop listening stations in Berlin. They were built to intercept radio communications but are now little more than abandoned totems to the days of espionage. They litter the horizon, hidden in plain sight. We put our boots on and went exploring.

KILLER COKE EXPLAINED

Alex — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:51:14 +0000

When I was in Boston a few days ago there were guys handing out fliers at the bus station that said “BAD COCAINE ALERT!” warning people to seek medical attention if their coke/crack was making them sick. By now you have probably heard that almost 1/3rd of the cocaine circulating the US, Canada and maybe the world is contaminated with a (potentially) poisonous veterinary deworming agent called levamisole. It has already killed several people and made many more people sick. Levamisole causes a condition called agranulocytosis which means that it kills white blood cells which are a necessary part of your body’s immune system and prevent small things like a sore in the mouth from escalating into deadly infection. In addition to temporarily AIDS-ifying your immune system, levamisole may also make cocaine more cardiotoxic and increase risk of seizures, meaning that it has three potential way of killing you. (...)
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THE SCIENCE OF THE CREATION MUSEUM

Alex — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:03:29 +0000

The Creation Museum is a huge, fancy structure in Kentucky dedicated to teaching the world about “creation science”. Creation science, in a nutshell, is taking what is written in the book of Genesis literally. Even though what is written in the book of Genesis goes against anthropology, archeology, biology, zoology, geology, astronomy, cosmology, paleontology and common sense-ology. Which, essentially, makes it a $27 million kid sticking its fingers in its ears and saying, “Nyah-nyah-nyah, I can’t hear you!”(...)
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NICK GAZIN’S COMIC-BOOK WITCH HUNT #8

Alex — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:03:37 +0000

Jerry Seinfeld once said something about how childhood is a constant quest for candy. I spent a lot of my time looking for candy, but I was hunting for comics even more. Comics equalled happiness–even bad ones were great. Obsessive wanting has led me to writing comic book reviews. Only now I no longer hunt for the comics. The comics come to me. (...)
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BRITISH PEOPLE REALLY LOVE TO GLASS EACH OTHER

Alex — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:25:59 +0000

Andy Capper, circa 2004

How much do British people love smashing things into each other’s face? Well, there are 4,000 more deliberate glassings a year in the UK than America has got gunshots, both intentional AND accidental. (...)
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10 NEWFIE JOKES

Alex — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:01:34 +0000

Canada is a land of goofy dopes. Ontario’s got hosers, the prairies’ve got north-of-Fargo hosers and cowhosers, the west coast has its breathy hippie hosers, and Quebec’s just a heavy metal mess. But all the things that make Canada’s hosers hosers–dressing like a 70s extra, drinking whatever beer your province sells cheapest, listening to music you have to drink shitty beer to listen to, and talking like a habitual gas huffer–all are at their most extreme on the east coast. And Newfoundland is the east coast of the east coast. Newfoundlanders, or “Newfies” are heavy-drinking, cod-fishing, funny-talking island folk that didn’t join Canada until 1949. They are almost as easy a target as the French.

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VBS CHARITY SCREENING

Alex — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:10 +0000

On Thursday the 18th of February we’re holding a charity screening of Swansea Love Story, the film we made last year which is coming out on VBS on February 12th. We are holding it at Rich Mix and it starts at 6.30. We are raising money for The Swansea Drugs Project, the drug charity in Swansea who helped us out a lot with the film. Seats are limited, so we want you to come early so you aren’t sad and cold by 7.00. Click through for the trailer.(...)
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TITS FOR VOTES

Alex — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Maria Fernanda Valencia, Colombia’s former Vice-minister of tourism, has agreed to pose nude for Soho magazine, basically the Colombian version of Maxim, if she is elected for the house of representatives. How’s that for working your agenda? As much as I like to advocate the expansion of Colombian nudity to encompass more than teenage girls and drunk guys a couple things bother me about this whole mess. (...)
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MEET THE NIERATKOS - HAITI RELIEF T-SHIRTS

Alex — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:49:05 +0000

The other day I caught a bunch of hard looks at the gym. I got insecure. I assumed everyone was mad at me because I am fat and no one likes fat people. So I turned the treadmill up to a faster slow walk than I was doing. Still they looked at me in disgust. Finally someone clued me into what the problem was. A guy walked by and said, “Nice t-shirt, asshole!” I looked down to see what t-shirt I was wearing. It read, “FUCK HAITI!” Oh. I suddenly understood. I tried to explain that it was an old t-shirt, from before the earthquake, and it was laundry day and it was my only clean shirt. The guy fist-pumped me and walked away. (...)
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A to Z of Sexual History: J - Jelqing. Everyone needs a bigger dick, right?

Alex — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:23:38 +0000

I don’t have a penis, but if I did, I would want it to be big. Size definitely does matter, and all men know it. This is why jelqing has always existed and will always exist. It has come to mean all manner of enlargement techniques; most commonly, manually tugging on the penis in a semi-state, which frankly just sounds a bit like half-hearted masturbation without the pay-off.(...)
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