Does love have you so down that you are unable to concentrate at work? Fear not, my heartbroken brethren. A company based out of Shanghai now provides a love-based welfare program that allows employees temporary paid leave if they fall prey to the painfully sharp arrow of Cupid.

According to an inside source, all employees are guaranteed two days of paid leave once every two years. All an employee must do is mention that he or she has “failed at love,” after which it’s time for vacation, baby.

The premise behind this whole fiasco is that two days is plenty of time to come to terms with the loss of love. And in the case of a divorce, staff members are afforded a whopping THREE DAYS of paid leave instead.

Although nobody at the company has yet to take advantage of this lucrative opportunity, professor Gu Jun from Shanghai University is confident that the new-found system will eventually prove worthwhile: “The paid leave creates a warm working environment. Compared to a high salary, a comfortable working environment is more attractive for us.”

Further research revealed that the first company to ever initiate such an unorthodox methodology was in fact Hime & Company, a Tokyo-based cosmetics marketing firm staffed with just women.

Women 29 or younger are allotted one to two days per year, whereas the company cougars are afforded a maximum of three.

CEO Miki Hiradate explains: “Women in their 20s can find their next love quickly, but it’s tougher for women in their 30s, and their break-ups tend to be more serious.”

(weirdasianews.com)

The life of a Japanese businessman is a hectic one. The consistent go-go attitude makes sparing a single second difficult, which is perhaps why the Japan-based Niban Too Corporation invented a briefcase that not only holds those all-too-important TPS reports, but your day’s waste as well.

The Gotta Go Briefcase is an invention designed to maximize efficiency in the fast-paced world of Japanese business. Constructed with Mahogany leather and a stainless steel toilet bowl, this time-saving invention includes a toilet paper dispenser that can be hidden underneath the padding, which complements the privacy panel on the opposite side for maximum bowel evacuation efficiency and privacy.

Accessories include a cup holder, hand sanitizer with refillable dispenser, and a vanity mirror, because vanity is important when you’re doing your business in a public area. The maximum supported weight of the briefcase is 175 pounds, so portlier Japanese businessmen may still want to utilize public facilities to prevent it from breaking and contaminating everything.

This invention begs the question, however: Where does the waste go when you’re done?

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A woman walked into the kitchen to find her Husband stalking around with a fly swatter.

‘What are you doing?’,
She asked.

‘Hunting Flies’,He responded.

‘Oh.! Killing any?’,She asked.

‘Yep,3 males,2 Females,’he replied.

Intrigued, she asked. “How can you tell them apart?’

He responded, “3 were on a beer can,2 were on the phone.”

(thespoof.com)

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A couple have married after they were reunited when a long-lost love letter sent ten years ago was found unopened behind a fireplace.

Steve Smith and Carmen Ruiz-Perez, both 42, walked down the aisle on Friday following a separation of 16 years.

The pair fell in love and got engaged in their 20s after Carmen moved to England as a foreign student.

But after a year-long relationship the couple drifted apart when she had to move back to France.

A few years later Steve wrote to her in a bid to rekindle their romance - but Carmen’s mother put it on the mantlepiece and it slipped down the back of the fireplace.

It remained there unopened for the next decade until the fireplace was removed for renovations.

Carmen - who had remained single and never forgot the love of her life - was given the letter in which Steve had written: ‘I hope you are well. I was just writing to ask if you ever married and if you ever still thought of me?

‘It would be great to hear from you, please great in touch if you can. Steve XXX.’

Factory supervisor Steve said: ‘I didn’t write much because I assumed she would be remarried. I never thought it would take ten years to hear back.’

Carmen said she was initially too nervous to call as so much time had passed but plucked up the courage and the pair arranged to meet.

They met up in Paris a few days later and have now wed - 17 years after they first fell in love.

Steve, of Paignton, Devon, said: ‘When we met again it was like a film. We ran across the airport into each other’s arms.

As they were: The couple were in a relationship in 1993 when Carmen was studying in the UK but drifted apart when she returned to France

‘We met up and fell in love all over again. Within 30 seconds of setting eyes on each other we were kissing.

‘Now we’re married, I’m just glad the letter did eventually end up where it was supposed to be.’

Carmen, who is now living with Steve in Paignton, said the wedding was the pinnacle of an ‘amazing’ love story.

She added: ‘I never got married and now I’m marrying the man I have always loved.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1200726/Couple-reunited-lost-love-letter-discovered-fireplace-years.html#ixzz0LlrsmeSX

(dailymail.co.uk)

BEIJING – Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.

Chen fell 26 feet (8 meters) onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen’s “selfish activity,” Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.

“I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interest,” Lai was quoted as saying by Xinhua. “They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities’ attention to their appeals.”

Xinhua said Lai was “taken away by police” but did not elaborate.

A police officer who answered the telephone Saturday at a station close to the bridge confirmed the incident and said it was under investigation. He refused to give any other details and hung up.

According to Xinhua, Chen wanted to kill himself because he had accrued 2 million yuan ($290,000) in debt from a failed construction project.

On Thursday, he made his way to the Haizhu bridge, where 11 other people have tried to take their lives since April.

Lai volunteered to talk Chen down but was turned away by police, Xinhua said. Lai then broke through the cordon, climbed to where Chen sat, greeted him with a handshake, then pushed.

Photos in the Beijing Morning Post showed Lai, shoeless and in a T-shirt, saluting after Chen fell.

The paper said Lai was released on bail Friday but did not give any details. It said he had been on medication for “a mental illness” for decades and had been on his way to a hospital for his pills.

Chen was recovering in the hospital, Xinhua said.

(Yahoo News)

Love Land had been due to open in October

China’s first sex theme park, aimed at improving both the sex education and the sex life of its visitors, has been torn down before it even opened.

The owners were “interested only in profiting from sensationalism,” the China Daily reported one official said.

Due to open in Chongqing in October, Love Land was to have included displays of giant genitalia, naked bodies and an exhibition on the history of sex.

The park was set to offer workshops on sex technique and safe-sex methods.

But the plans left Chongqing officials red-faced, correspondents say.

The officials called the planned park “vulgar, ill-minded and misleading”, said China Daily.

“Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it,” the park’s manager, Lu Xiaoqing told the China Daily state newspaper before the park was demolished.

“We are building the park for the good of the public. I have found that the majority of people support my idea, but I have to pay attention and not make the park look vulgar and nasty.”

Among the attractions had been a giant rotating statue of the lower part of a nearly naked woman.

(BBC)

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NEW DELHI (AFP) - An Indian man who fathered seven daughters has not washed for 35 years in an apparent attempt to ensure his next child is a boy, newspapers reported. Kailash “Kalau” Singh replaces bathing and brushing his teeth with a “fire bath” every evening

when he stands on one leg beside a bonfire, smokes marijuana and says prayers to Lord Shiva, according to the Hindustan Times.

“It’s just like using water to take a bath,” Kalau was reported as saying. “A fire bath helps kill germs and infection in the body.”

Kalau, 63, from a village outside the holy city of Varanasi, outraged his family by refusing to take a ritual dip in the river Ganges even after his brother died five years ago.

“I still don’t remember how it all began,” he said in Saturday’s edition of the paper. “I just know it started about 35 years ago.”

Kalau’s hygiene regime has taken its toll on his professional life.

The grocery store that he used to own closed when customers stopped shopping there due to his “unhealthy personality” and he now tills fields near Varanasi airport.

Kalau, who wears two pullovers all through the Indian summer, said his pledge not to wash was a commitment to the “national interest.”

“I’ll end this vow only when all problems confronting the nation end,” he said.

But his neighbours in the village of Chatav said there was another reason for Kalau’s washing boycott.

“A seer once told Kalau that if he does not take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child,” a man called Madhusudan told the paper.

Most Indians prefer sons, who are typically regarded as breadwinners, while girls are seen as a burden because of the matrimonial dowry demanded by a groom’s family and the fact that their earnings go to their husband’s family.

The world may be full of able runners, but it takes a special sort of athlete to compete in multiple marathons at once. That’s exactly what Japan’s Shizo Kanakuri, born in 1891, managed to do—though he may not have planned it that way.

A member of his country’s very first Olympic team, Kanakuri was running for Japan in the 1912 Stockholm games when he dropped out due to heat. He took refuge in a nearby garden, whose owners provided him with an hour’s worth of refreshments and company.

But rather than rejoin the race afterward, Kanakuri fled in disgrace and scuttled back to Japan on his own. At that point Swedish officials lost track of him, and despite his turning up again at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, they would conclude that he had disappeared altogether.

Then, in 1966, someone in Sweden apparently got to wondering where Japan’s pioneering marathoner had gone. After, presumably, a thorough search of the Bermuda Triangle, Swedish Television tracked him down in Japan and invited him to Stockholm to finish his run.

The gracious Kanakuri took advantage of the opportunity, and finally made his triumphant entrance into Olympic Stadium, clocked at a blistering 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, and 32 minutes.

That must be what they mean when they talk about skill: During the course of that one race, Shizo Kanakuri had not only participated in several other marathons; he also married and had six children and 10 grandchildren.

He died in 1984, the proud holder of a record unlikely ever to be broken.

(weirdasianews.com)

A TAIWAN carpenter bought a porn DVD only to find secretly taped motel footage of his wife having sex with his friend, whom the husband later stabbed.

The husband, identified only by his surname Lee, discovered the illicit sex on the DVD in 2002.

The sexual acts apparently had been recorded using a hidden camera and were on a pornographic DVD, titled Affairs with Others’ Wives, which the husband bought from a vendor to watch at home.

Lee, who lives in Taoyuan County near Taipei, divorced his wife after viewing the DVD. His friend, a butcher, fled their village.

In August 2008, Lee spotted the butcher in Chungli City, returned with a knife and stabbed his former friend in the thigh.

The butcher sued Lee for causing bodily harm. Lee sought but was unable to countersue the butcher for adultery, because of a five-year statute of limitations.

Prosecutors urged the men to settle the case out of court, but they refused.

With the failure to resolve the case, Lee was indicted on Tuesday on a charge of causing bodily harm to another person, the Liberty Times reported.

Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of less than six months in prison, which can be converted into a fine.

(news.com.au)

SEATTLE—Employees at Classmates.com—an online service that enables users to find and communicate with people from their past for a monthly fee—have done everything in their power to keep the company’s CEO from finding out about the wildly popular social networking site Facebook. “He knows something is going on,” Classmates.com web coder Josh Krzysch said while combing his boss’s newspaper and removing any offending articles. “The other day he asked me why people aren’t interested in getting in touch with old friends anymore, and I told him that the Internet just isn’t very popular right now. What else was I supposed to say?” Employees claim that unless things somehow miraculously improve by next month, they plan to quietly pack up their desks and leave in the middle of the night.
(theonion.com)

A boss and his secretary who were having an affair saw their romantic tryst interrupted in a wince-inducing manner - after a car crash led her to accidentally bite his penis off.

According to reports in China Press and Sin Chew Daily, the 30-year-old woman was performing oral sex on her boss in a car in a Singapore park, when the car was struck by a reversing van.

The impact caused her to bite the man’s penis off.

Just in case this wasn’t already bad enough for those involved, the incident was observed by a private detective who had been sent by the woman’s husband to catch them out.
Woman bites lover’s penis off in car crash
He described how, shortly after parking, the car started to ’shake violently’ - but then was hit by the van. He said that the woman screamed loudly, with her mouth covered in blood.

Helpfully, the investigator called an ambulance to take the man to hospital. His lover followed him there, with part of his penis.

The investigator said he’s never seen an incident like it before.
(metro.co.uk)

Aaaatchooo!

“What are you all looking at? Haven’t you seen a baby sneeze before?”

(weirdasianews.com)

Seeing is believing, one bike carrying EIGHT people. Here’s three children, two men, two women and a baby whizzing down the road on ONE motorbike.

The pictures were found on a Chinese blog and were taken from a passing bus. Where in the world they were snapped is uncertain.

(jmick.co.uk)

The remote village of Barwaan Kala, west of Bihar in the heart of the Kaimur Hills in India, is the home of some 121 bachelors between the ages of 16 and 80.

Since the village is so remote and there are no decent roads to allow outsiders to travel to and from the village, it has become known locally as the “Village of Unmarried People”.

The townsfolk have longed dreamed that they would be able to have a road developed so that they could finally attract women from local villages to come and visit them.

This vision seemed a lot closer to fruition when during the last state assembly elections, a party candidate, Ram Chandra Singh Yadav, visited the village and promised that if elected, he would build them a road. He also made one promise that he didn’t keep; namely, that he would not get married unless he could build the villagers a road.

“The biggest problem for us and for outsiders is the difficult hilly terrain to pass through,” said 40-year-old bachelor Ram Lal Yadav.

The men got tired of waiting for help, and armed with tools, decided to take matters into their own hands. Although they have collectively laid more than half of the four-mile stretch of road across very hilly terrain, there are legal problems that may stand in their way to their path of happiness.

Unfortunately, The area is within a zone that protects wild life and where guidelines for construction projects are strictly enforced.

After all of their work, the government may intervene and stop them from completing their road to ecstasy.

Perhaps they could claim that as bachelors without potential heirs they represent an “endangered species”?

Hopefully then the government will take pity on these poor men and let them finish their road that can only lead to the better things in life.

(weirdasianews.com)

Self-styled freelance inventor Georges Koussouros has developed a mobile equipped with a pair of lips that lets you send real kisses down the line.

When the user kisses the device, it detects the pressure, percussion speed, temperature and sucking force of the kiss, and transmits the data to the loved one at the other end of the line, where the kiss is reproduced exactly.

Kisses can be repeated, left as a message and even relayed to other people. Koussouros even envisages a “kiss bank” allowing users to receive a kiss from Madonna or other stars.

Koussouros has already developed an eclectic range of inventions, most of which are rather less romantic than the KissPhone. They include a new type of fertiliser packaging and a self-bolting door.

(tgdaily.com)

BELGRADE (Reuters) – A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were.

“We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example,” Zoran Bulatovic told Reuters. “It hurt like hell.”

Bulatovic, a union leader at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar in southwest Serbia, used a hacksaw to cut off most of his left-hand little finger Friday.

Bulatovic said he decided to act after his deputy, “a single mother of three, was the first to say she would cut off her finger. I could not allow her to do that,” he said.

State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4,000. It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers.

Some employees have not been paid for years, only collecting social benefits, like free medical care.

About two dozen workers went on a 19-day hunger strike last year. They want the company’s debt to be swapped for state-held equity and a welfare program for those nearing retirement.

Bulatovic said his comrades will not back down from their demands, but they will postpone planned self-mutilations at least until talks with government officials in Belgrade expected Tuesday.

(Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; Editing by Gordana Filipovic and Matthew Jones)
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