Nuns on the run

Nothing is sacred any more… We live in a day and age where even nuns are corrupt and run out on debt they’re not supposed to have in the first place!

Fifty-five nuns - all called Maria - are on the run after racking up debts of £400,000.

The women had secretly run a knitwear company on the side for ten years.
Their convent supplied 25 shops and they blew money travelling to fashion shows across Europe, reports the Sun.

The nuns of St Kyrikos and Ioulite in Northern Greece hit money problems after spending huge sums on new machinery.

Their expensive knitting machines were put on a lorry and the sisters disappeared a few days later.

Greek Orthodox Church officials believe they may be hiding at a monastery in Volos, Central Greece.

The nuns' lawyer Dionysios Pelekis said they had asked church superiors to settle the debt by selling 16 convent-owned properties. But the request was refused.

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Google & Yahoo To Stop Online Casino Ads

The US Justice Department has warned giant search engines, Google and Yahoo, for allowing online casino advertisements and promoting gambling indirectly to an underage audience through advertising pop-ups. As a result Google HQ has decided to impose a global ban on casino ads.

The voluntary decision applies only to the United States in the case of Yahoo!, where Justice officials have been exercising a major crackdown on all aspects of Internet gambling. However, Google plans to extend the ban globally.

The news follows reports that the US Justice Department is to order banks in the UK to hand over information concerning their dealings with several online poker sites. The DOJ seem to be targeting big online sites that trade their stock publicly on the London Stock Exchange, such as PartyGaming and 888 Holdings.

Source: Casino News Online

Crazy Dutch make expensive beer for dogs

I’ve always thought the Dutch are a bit fucked in the head.

They create a beer specially for dogs. But there’s no alcohol in it, humans can drink it, and worst of all – it costs four times as much as a Heineken!

Jeez, just give the damn dog a bit of your Heinie in a little bowl of his own. I’m sure he’ll enjoy the beer buzz just as much as you do.

Beer for Dogs

A brewery in the Netherlands has created a beer - especially for dogs.
Kwispelbier makes the special brew from a mix of beef extract and malt.

The beverage is the brainchild of pet shop owner Gerrie Berendsen from the eastern town of Zelhem.

The beer is non-alcoholic and fit for human consumption, but costs four times as much as a Heineken.

Ms Berendsen said: "Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end of the day we sit on the verandah and drink a beer. So we thought, my dog also has earned it."

Source:Ananova

AIDS group to sue Pfizer over Viagra ads

The Aids Healthcare Foundation doesn’t want you using Viagra for recreational purposes and they don’t want advertisements making it look as if Viagra enhances your lifestyle.

If not for recreational purposes, what the fuck else for?

Relieving boardroom boredom? Chasing your secretary down the hall in a corporate environment? To use as a makeshift towel rack?

Reuters says that according to AHF, Pfizer’s actions of marketing Viagra as a lifestyle or sexual enhancement drug has led to risky behavior by men and an increase in HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

For old geezers like me, Viagra is a godsend. So why don’t you pompous AHF fuckers focus on more important things and just leave it the hell alone?

Just my opinion. Use it, don’t use it.

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InstaDebit also abandons US gamblers

Rumor has it that InstaDebit has ceased ALL US transactions. This applies to Money-In and Money-Out. Money Transfer will be pulled globally.

The reason for this is reportedly because Money Transfer transactions are initiated on Western Union.com and there is no control over who sees it. In order to prevent US customers using it, it will reportedly be pulled from all gambling sites immediately.

This follows in the footsteps of NETeller and Citadel who earlier withdrew from the US market.

Unease as Neteller, Citadel Shut Down Internet Gambling Transfer Service

Unease as Neteller, Citadel Shut Down Internet Gambling Transfer Service

There must be a more-than-mild panic in the Online Gambling industry following the withdrawal of Neteller and Citadel.

Neteller withdrew from the US market, effective immediately.

In a statement it said:

"Due to recent US legislative changes and events, effective immediately, US members are no longer able to transfer funds to or from any online gambling sites.

All US members will continue to be able to use their NETELLER e-wallet account to safely transfer funds to and from non-gambling merchants and are not required to close their account or withdraw their funds."

Earlier, Citadel announced that it has shut down Financial processing for non-domestic internet gaming merchants for USA consumers.

According to Gambling911.com, many online poker rooms and gambling sites in general have become increasingly dependent on third party payment processor, NETeller.

For instance, Full Tilt Poker was reportedly about 75% dependent on NETeller, while PokerStars’ dependency lies around 60%.

This could mean that these large online casino and poker sites are in danger of losing out to other venues less reliant on NETeller.

But only time will tell…

Pimp my toilet!

You’ll never leave the bathroom again. Thank the pimped out toilet from Roto Rooter.

"This is the seat of power."



Roto Rooter is trying to re-introduce itself to a new generation so the company is giving away the ultimate throne. A toilet with everything but the kitchen sink. It's got a flat screen HDTV, iPod and dock, TiVo, xBox 360, and DVD player. There's a laptop, bullhorn, bike pedals, beer tap, fridge.

The toilet is a Kohler. "Which is a 1.4 gallon flush. which is not weak."

And if there's a plumbing problem. "We have the Roto Rooter emergency button if something goes wrong you can hit that, that's sort of our version of On-Star."

Roto Rooter spends more than $30 million in Yellow Pages advertising.

It's spent tens of thousands on the toilet contest, hoping to bring some edge to its brand.

And who knows, maybe the contest will even teach men to take better care of the bathroom.

"You've got this investment."

"You don't want it to look junky."

"I mean if I had something like this I would never leave the bathroom."

"I think you're not gonna see your man for a long time if he wins this thing."

The contest for the toilet starts January 24th on the company's website.

Source: wgrz.com

Take Your Porn With You - Porn Video glasses keep it private

Sleek video glasses that turn film viewing into a private affair went on view at the world's biggest porn show on Wednesday, just after they were demonstrated down the road at the planet's largest consumer electronics show.

Victor Quitoriano of Body Care Resort coaxed passers-by to shut out the bustling activity at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo by sampling an intimate video-viewing session complete with audio through an ear piece.

He had been demonstrating models of the same glasses at the Consumer Electronics Show a short distance away in the Sands Exposition Centre just a day earlier.

"Our technology crosses over," Quitoriano said. "The videos we showed there weren't porn, because we didn't want to offend anybody.

"Here, it's different. Imagine you can take your porn all over the place; in a plane or a train, but not in the car unless you are the passenger."

The video glasses, made in Taiwan and sold by California-based Body Care, connect to all of the latest video-playing devices, from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game consoles to Apple's iPod and Microsoft's Zune MP3 players.

The model being shown off by Quitoriano carry a suggested retail price of $349 (about R2 540) but were discounted for show-goers.

"The only competition I've seen is Sky Mall," Quitoriano said, referring to a gadget catalogue commonly found on the seatbacks on commercial airplanes. -- AFP

Microsoft's Vista launch promoted with space ride prize

LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) - A Microsoft online puzzle game launched this week promises to send the winner on a rocket ride into orbit around the Earth.

The Redmond, Washington-based software giant teamed with computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices to promote the new Vista operating system with Vanishing Point, a "large-scale online and offline collaborative puzzle game."

Microsoft is to launch the home version of Vista on January 30.

The companies used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as a venue on Monday to reveal prizes including Microsoft Zune MP3 players, Xbox 360 video game consoles, Vista-based computers, and a sub-orbital space ride.

A NASA-trained astronaut will take the winner just beyond the Earth's atmosphere for "the ultimate vista" courtesy of Rocketplane, Microsoft said.

The puzzle game challenged players worldwide to decipher clues from "spectacular events at various locations" beginning on Monday at the Bellagio Casino here, according to Microsoft.

A taunting video interspersed with numbers, symbols, equations and the hint "it's all about time" was projected onto dancing fountains in front of the casino after dark.

Players have established online forums and wikis -- web pages that visitors can modify -- devoted to the game, the companies said.

Microsoft created the website www.vanishingpointgame.com to provide rules, videos of clues, a "count down" and other information.

Flamin' hot!

Day 9 of 2007 and Lady Luck is still smiling on me...

Wife has gone to visit the kids for a couple of weeks, so it's been heaven.

Just those wonderfully generous slots and me.

...and maybe a jackpot or two...

Still deciding if I'll tell the wife if I DO strike a big one...

decisions, decisions...

Old Spice turns to Humor to Draw Young Men

Remember what your dad used to smell like when you were growing up? That manly smell you buried your nose in when he gave you a hug. The smell of Old Spice.

Well, call me old fashioned, but I still use Old Spice.

Always have, always will.

Every Christmas, at least one family member tries to convert me to some new brand of aftershave, but there’s no contest.

Now, to my horror, Procter & Gamble are trying to freshen and update the image of the Old Spice line of products to appeal to younger men.

According to reports, a television, print and online campaign with the theme “Experience is everything” will take a cheeky look at modern masculinity as it seeks to extol the virtues of Old Spice as a brand family as well as to stimulate sales of specific products like deodorants, body washes and fragrances.

For example, a Web site (experienceoldspice.com) will provide advice on topics like “Animals you can ride and how to ride them,” “Easy ways to avoid getting picked in a lineup” and “How to talk your way across an African border sans passport.”

Print ads will offer wry captions for photographs of subjects like a shepherd (“This man loves sheep”), a woman eating an ice cream cone and a foot-long frankfurter. And commercials will feature a puckish spokesman, the actor Bruce Campbell of the droll “Evil Dead” movies, sending up the concept of taking advice from your elders.

I think you shouldn’t fix it if it ain’t broken…

Source: Cherryflava

Alarming: Warrantless mail searches may be allowed

Civil libertarians enraged by White House stance on opening mail.

WASHINGTON - A statement attached to postal legislation by President Bush last month may have opened the way for the government to open mail without a warrant.

The White House denies any change in policy, but civil libertarians are alarmed, saying the government has never publicly claimed that power before.

Federal law has long required a search warrant to open first class mail unless postal inspectors suspect it contains something dangerous, like a bomb or a hazardous chemical, reports NBC News' Pete Williams.

But in signing a postal bill just before Christmas, President Bush said federal law also gives the government authority to open the mail "for foreign intelligence collection."

White House spokesman Tony Snow said that's nothing new. “All this is saying is that there are provisions at law for — in exigent circumstances — for such inspections. It has been thus. This is not a change in law, this is not new.”

"What the signing statement indicates is what present law allows, in making it clear what the provisions are," Snow said Thursday in his daily briefing.

But members of Congress — Republicans and Democrats alike — say that's not what they intended the law to do. And they call it another example of a president claiming new legal authority while signing a bill into law.

“I was really surprised. There was absolutely nothing in the Postal Reform bill that in any way diminished or changed the privacy protections for domestic sealed mail,” Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said.

The law requires government agents to get warrants to open first-class letters.
But when Bush signed the Postal Reform act, he added a statement saying that his administration would construe that provision “in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances. ...”

“The signing statement raises serious questions whether he is authorizing opening of mail contrary to the Constitution and to laws enacted by Congress,” said Ann Beeson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. “What is the purpose of the signing statement if it isn’t that?”

She said the group is planning to file request for information on how this exception will be used and also asking whether it has already been used to open mail.

Source: MSNBC

Ching-ching into the New Year

I’m not a great fan of the holidays.

I’m sure there are people who would love to dunk me in fetid eggnog for saying that, but it’s true.

Christmas is all too loud, annoying, expensive and elaborate.

Too much for a simple soul like myself.

The upside is that all the crazy activity has actually given me more time to hide behind my pc and get some quality play time in. Just the jingle of the online slots machines and me.

No hassles. No fuss.

And it seemed the machines were even more generous than usual, and I managed to make a killing simply by playing progressives.

Hopefully this is an indication of a great gambling year ahead.

Meanwhile, this audio clip had me in stitches. It’s one cool way to get rid of those @^$%# annoying telemarketers…

How To Prank a Telemarketer