Silly/Odd News Stories from around the World

[JokerD]

Spring Airlines' Flight Attendants Wear Sexy Maid Uniforms

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad at this...
Just a note that the males are wearing butler uniforms

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/dead...ie-newlyweds-2

Wedding of the year.

[JokerD]

Chinese Woman on Trial for Killing Man by Squeezing His Scrotum

Ouch...

[ganbaru]

Woman, 80, swallows diamond at Florida charity event
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-26-06-18-44

[SaintessHeart]

Catholic church excommunicates Brazil priest for liberal views

(Reuters) - The Catholic Church has excommunicated a Brazilian priest after he defended homosexuality, open marriage and other practices counter to Church teaching in online videos.

In a statement released late on Monday, the priest's diocese said Father Roberto Francisco Daniel, known to local parishioners as Padre Beto, had "in the name of 'freedom of expression' betrayed the promise of fealty to the Church."

The priest "injured the Church with grave statements counter to the dogma of Catholic faith and morality." The actions amount to "heresy and schism," the statement said, the penalty for which is excommunication, or expulsion from the Church.

The rare punishment follows what Daniel's bishop and the priest himself said were repeated rebukes about the videos and other public activities, such as a radio broadcast and local newspaper column, in which he challenged Church doctrine.

The 47-year-old cleric, who studied theology in Germany, is popular in the southeastern city of Bauru, where he has been a priest since 2001. He is known for his rock T-shirts, a silver stud pierced through his right ear and his habit of posing, as on his official Facebook page, with a glass of beer.

On Facebook and Twitter, Daniel posted a brief statement about the excommunication: "I feel honored to belong to the long list of people who have been murdered and burned alive for thinking and searching for knowledge."

SPREAD OF MODERATE VIEWS

Daniel's excommunication, which prompted headlines across Brazil and protests in social media, illustrates the rising influence of more moderate social views in Brazil, Latin America's biggest country, and much of the rest of the region.

Progressive stances on sexuality, birth control, scientific research and other delicate topics for the Church are increasingly common in Latin America, home to 42 percent of the world's Catholics, more than any other region worldwide.

The shifting views are among the many challenges faced by Pope Francis, an Argentine who ascended in March to become the first Latin American pope in history.

The excommunication comes just two months before Francis is scheduled to attend World Youth Day, expected to attract as many as 2 million young Catholics to Rio de Janeiro.

Though Francis is known to be a traditionalist on social issues and Church doctrine, his appointment raised hopes that the first non-European pope in 13 centuries would do more than his predecessors to modernize Catholicism.

But Daniel's beliefs clearly went too far for church leaders.

In one of the recent videos he posted on YouTube.com and his own Website, the priest said a married person who chose to have an affair, heterosexual or otherwise, would not be unfaithful as long as that person's spouse allowed it. "If someone is in an extramarital relationship and that relationship is accepted by the spouse, then faithfulness still exists there," he said.

A "REBEL SON"

In a telephone interview, Daniel said his statements "are personal reflections that should be considered and discussed in the dialogue of the church." The excommunication, he said, is "the sad act of a lukewarm and disengaged church that is out of touch with today's society."

The diocese retained a church expert in canonical law to oversee the excommunication process. The diocese also initiated a separate process at the Vatican through which Daniel will be stripped of clerical authority.

Last Tuesday, Bishop Caetano Ferrari gave Daniel a letter asking him to take the videos offline and publicly retract his statements. In an interview posted on the diocese Web site shortly afterward, Ferrari called Daniel "brilliant," but characterized him as a "rebel son" who "crosses the line."

On Monday, Daniel said he went to the diocese headquarters planning to renounce his clerical duties rather than retract any of his comments. But before he had a chance, the bishop and canonical expert made him face a committee of Church officials.

"It was a trial," Daniel said. "I told them I was not there to be tried, that I had not been indicted."

Shortly afterward, the Church issued the statement announcing his excommunication.

*salute*

[ganbaru]

Indian arrested for letting son, 9, drive Ferrari
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-29-20-45-43

Wanted: Polar bear spotter on Norwegian islands
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-30-10-13-10

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Indian arrested for letting son, 9, drive Ferrari
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-29-20-45-43

There is this Indian movie named Ferrari Sawaari, which is a pretty movie about how a father steals a Ferrari from a famous cricket player for a joyride with his son. Should totally watch it.

And here is something interesting : today marks the day Singapore is having a mass protest, known as the Labour Day Protest, against a myriad of social issues such as rising costs, foreign trash talent and overcrowding that makes Tokyo look like a sparsely populated state.

Interestingly, Macau is having the same one. With the exact same issues.

[ArchmageXin]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...ef=mostpopular

Diary of Anne Frank depict porn. Mom want it pulled from classrooms.

If I was the Mom, I would be a least more nervous about say...the part where Nazis want murder poor Anne's family.

[MrTerrorist]

Chinese Restaurant Offers "Wife" Instead of "Wifi"

So the owner's a swinger?

In Japan, Ice Cream Sushi Exists

Sushi, nori and Rice. Really?

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

In Japan, Ice Cream Sushi Exists

Sushi, nori and Rice. Really?

I can't say if the other way around, a sushi flavored ice cream, would be weirder

[willx]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

I can't say if the other way around, a sushi flavored ice cream, would be weirder

We had squid ink ice cream in Fukuoka a few days ago..

[Bri]

Originally Posted by ArchmageXin

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...ef=mostpopular

Diary of Anne Frank depict porn. Mom want it pulled from classrooms.

If I was the Mom, I would be a least more nervous about say...the part where Nazis want murder poor Anne's family.

Puritanism is still live and kicking it seems. Odd though...you'd think a mental state that fears sex more than death would die out pretty fast due to natural selection.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by Bri

Puritanism is still live and kicking it seems. Odd though...you'd think a mental state that fears sex more than death would die out pretty fast due to natural selection.

They don't fear sex, they fear sex before marriage. And as children are not married...

[RRW]

The Airbus A320 was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport on 2 December when an object passed about 300ft underneath it.

The pilot of the aircraft said the risk of collision with the object, which did not show up on radar, had been "high".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-22365368

[Lord of Fire]

Originally Posted by GDB

They don't fear sex, they fear sex before marriage. And as children are not married...

Still, they treat it as if Anne was talking about sex all the time in her diary. I know she wrote that she was quite fond of a boy she was living with in her hiding place, I don't recall the diary becoming an outlet of her sexual frustrations, unless they're very, very subtle and this woman is just really, really good at reading between the lines.

Either that, or some things got lost in translation.

[GDB]

If I recall, there was a rather graphic description of a lesbian experience she had as well.

[ganbaru]

Scholars find cannibalism at Jamestown settlement
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...05-01-17-45-44

Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, Va., survived harsh conditions by turning to cannibalism.

[SaintessHeart]

Anne Frank is still a loli! Stop corrupting her image as a pure and innocent young girl!

[Bri]

Originally Posted by Lord of Fire

Still, they treat it as if Anne was talking about sex all the time in her diary. I know she wrote that she was quite fond of a boy she was living with in her hiding place, I don't recall the diary becoming an outlet of her sexual frustrations, unless they're very, very subtle and this woman is just really, really good at reading between the lines.

Either that, or some things got lost in translation.

There isn't much, other than the crush on the boy, there is a mention of a kiss with another girl when she was younger, and a graphic description of physical discovery when she starts to have periods.

I think it comes down to cultural differences on taboo subjects rather than translation.

[JokerD]

Originally Posted by GDB

They don't fear sex, they fear sex before marriage. And as children are not married...

And on the the other end of the scale...
Mum jailed for forcing daughter, 14, to get pregnant with donor sperm bought online

Well, no sex involved in this though