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Our phones (and various "devices") are causing poor posture as users are spending one-to-three
hours each day hunched over their phones, and that's leading to back and spine problems.
***We're turning into a society of MINDLESS WALKERS...how long before we start craving
BRAINS?!?
Donnie Wahlberg paid it forward recently to a waitress at a North Carolina Waffle House.
The New Kids on the Block star left a $2,000 tip on an $82 bill at the Waffle House in
Charlotte. Wahlberg wrote on Facebook: "My mom waited tables, and my dad tended bar for
years! So, when I walk into a Waffle House, and the staff treats me like a king, you better
believe I treat them like queens!” ***I’m sure he meant that better than it came out.
John Mellencamp's son Speck was arrested for public intoxication and fighting in Indiana
on Saturday night. ***He fights authority, but authority always wins.
The marital bed, once a symbol of holy matrimony, may someday be a relic of the past. Nearly
25% of married couples in the United States now sleep in separate beds, according to the
National Sleep Foundation. Separate sleeping arrangements are so popular that the National
Association of Home Builders says it expects 60% of custom homes to have dual master bedrooms
by this year. Barbara Tober, the former chairwoman of the Museum of Arts and Design, told The
New York Times recently, "Not that we don't love each other, but at a certain point you
just want your own room." ***Well yeah, with the snoring, the hogging of the covers,
the cold feet, the passing of gas... of course you’d want to get away from that. And
that’s just talking about the family dog!
Former middleweight boxing champion Jermain Taylor has been arrested after allegedly biting
a woman's arm and face, and threatening to kill her. ***Well of course he is a FORMER
boxing champion. Now he can’t even beat up a girl without biting her.
Two adult men drowned in the Ungwasi River in Africa - while they were being baptized!
Victory Christian Center pastor Samuel Kamigwa later said, "Following the incident, we have
agreed on some measures that will ensure the safety of our followers during baptism in
the rivers." Kamigwa added that churches were considering increasing the number of ministers
at baptisms. They would also only baptize one person at a time, while others are kept
at a safe distance, and will choose a time when the water is calm enough for the ritual.
Last year, six children died during an early morning baptism in a stream. And in January
2015, two elderly Pentecostal church pastors drowned in Mutshedzi River in South Africa,
where they had gone to baptize four junior church members. ***This is truly a sad story,
but do these people not realize you can baptize other places... like swimming pools? Big
bathtubs? A pond?
A woman trying to smuggle electronics into China was caught. She had 102 smart phones
and 15 luxury watches strapped to her body. ***Airport security first became suspicious
when she said “I’ll be back” in an Austrian accent.
As their wives and girlfriends know all too well, many guys like to make a big fuss when
they're feeling under the weather. But now scientists are saying that "man flu" may not
be a myth and that guys really do get illnesses worse than gals. It's all because women have
a more powerful immune system than men, thanks to their hormones. ***I don’t know if
that’s actually true, but I’m certainly going to claim it next time I get the sniffles.
Finland has set the world record for the largest group of skinny dippers. 789 people went swimming
naked for 5 minutes, if you're thinking about breaking the record. ***Although there
is speculation that half of those swimmers were just director Michael Moore taking a
beach vacation.
An Israeli student whose grandparents survived the Holocaust has admitted to stealing items
from the Auschwitz death camp for an art project. Rotem Bides visited the former Nazi German
camp in Poland several times and removed items, including a sign forbidding people from taking
anything. But perhaps most ironic of all - she says she did it to fight Holocaust deniers.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum called the acts "outrageous" and demanded the objects' return.
More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed at Auschwitz during World War Two.
The objects from Auschwitz, which also include shards of glass, small bowls, a metal screw
and soil, formed part of the 27-year-old's final project. Perhaps even more outrageous,
Vides' supervisor at Beit Berl College, the Israeli artist Michal Na'aman, said she did
not see anything wrong with what Vides had done adding, "The way I see it, she succeeds
in creating a unique encounter between art and an event that has passed and has been
wrapped in a lot of words, symbols and representations." ***So apparently Israeli schools don’t have
Ethics classes.
Rosie O'Donnell has created an uproar by promoting an online game where players can push Donald
Trump off a cliff. Somewhere, Kathy Griffin is saying, "Thank you, Rosie!"
Police in suburban Cleveland say a fast-food restaurant customer angry about the way his
sandwich tasted and looked threatened to shoot somebody over it. Police say the 20-year-old
man complained that the egg on his sandwich at a Steak ‘n Shake was runny and slimy
and looked like spit. ***You know the best way to ensure you WILL get spit on your sandwich?
To threaten the staff with a gun saying it looks like spit is in your sandwich. Trust
me, you are not going to want what comes back to you in that sandwich.
Grapes and the wine made from them can help protect your skin from sun damage. According
to researchers at the University of Barcelona, the flavonoids in grapes can stop the chemical
reaction that causes skin to die. Says biochemist Maria Cascante, who directed the study: "This
supports the idea of using these products to protect the skin from cell damage and death
caused by solar radiation.” ***This works because if you drink enough wine you have
no desire to leave the house.
A flood has destroyed all the cash in the safe of Fox River State Bank in Wisconsin.
***You name the bank after a river – your bank is located right on the bank of said
river... and you’re surprised you get flood damage?
A woman in Taiwan divorced her husband after he kept ignoring her text messages. ***I’m
having a hard time seeing who the winner is this story. The woman who got away from her
apathetic husband, or the husband who got away from the woman who wouldn’t stop texting
him a hundred times a day.
A study suggests that sleepwalking is apparently a surprisingly common phenomenon in American
households. Scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine found that about 3.6 percent
of U.S. adults are prone to sleepwalking, which is a higher proportion than previously
thought. Nocturnal wandering is also tied to certain psychiatric conditions such as
depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. ***AND getting GOONED OUT ON AMBIEN.
Good news people with broken hearts: stalking of your ex on Facebook is totally normal.
A study reveals that 88 percent of spurned lovers track their exes on Facebook, and 31
percent of respondents have changed their profile picture in an attempt to make their
exes jealous. ***It’s good to know social media has brought out the responsible adult
in all of us, isn’t it?
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