Not sure what is more strange, this story or the fact that there is a restaurant name that combines the term honest and lawyer together!
A urinal shaped like a womans wide-open mouth has been flushed out of the mens room of a Hamilton eatery following a nearly year-long public outcry.
The glossy, red-lipped loo at The Honest Lawyer restaurant sparked a letter writing campaign that attracted almost 1,100 people, including Ontarios NDP leader and Hamiltons mayor.
Some people argued the Kisses! urinal manufactured by Bathroom Mania! in the Netherlands was art or just a joke.
The Woman Abuse Working Group, a coalition of 24 organizations, disagreed and led efforts to oust what it considered to be an offensive water closet. Lenore Lukasik-Foss, chairwoman of the group, said Monday shes shocked, excited and thrilled that its gone. Its not a joke to pee into a womans mouth, she said. The group was concerned about womens safety and the message the urinal, which had been there since the restaurant opened in February 2007, sent to men in the bar.
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Before he was the first son of Roc Nation, Jermaine Cole was just a kid in an oversized t-shirt frestyling in a basement. He had skills even back then, though
Before creating his G-Unit empire and releasing one of the biggest debut albums in rap history, 50 Cent was just a hungry New York emcee freestyling with Consequence, N.O.R.E. and Punchline.
Eminem cut his teeth in the battle rap scene.
Before taking the rap world by storm with her army of Harajuku Barbies, Nicki was spitting hard on "the come up."
Being joining forces with Killa Cam and the UN, Vado was spitting serious bars back in the Harlem underground.
At 17 years old, freestyling on the corner in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Biggie was a force even back then. Those watching him had to know they were in the presence of greatness.
Yeezy's trademark style and sense of humor could be seen as early as this 2002 freestyle.
Jay-Z
Before becoming the biggest rapper in the world, Jay-Z was rhyming fast in this video for Original Favor's 1993 single "Can I Get Open?"
Angel Kiss This is a sweet, comforting kiss. | |
Cheek Kiss A friendly, "I really like you" kiss. Often the preferred kissing method of a first date. With your hands on your partner's shoulders, gently brush your lips across her cheek. | |
Butterfly Kiss With your faces less than a breath away, open and close your eyelids against your partners. If done correctly, the fluttering sensation will match the one in your heart. | |
Freeze Kiss Experiment with this fun kiss. Put a small piece of ice in your mouth, then open mouth and kiss your partner, passing them the ice with your tongue. It's an erotic and sensual french kiss with a twist of cold. | |
Eskimo Kiss With your faces less than a breath apart, gently rub your noses together. | |
Earlobe Kiss Gently sip and suck the earlobe. Avoid louder sucking noises as ears are sensitized noise detectors. | |
French Kiss The kiss involving the tongue. Some call this the "Soul Kiss" | |
Forehead Kiss The "motherly" kiss or "just friends" kiss. The forehead kiss can be a comforting kiss to anyone. Simply brush your lips lightly across the crown of their head. | |
Foot Kiss An erotic and romantic gesture. It may tickle, but relax and enjoy it! To give a toe kiss by gently suck the toes and then lightly kissing the foot. It helps to gently massage the base of the foot while performing the kiss. | |
Hickey Kiss The object is not to draw *la*hd, but to gently leave a mark that will prove your interlude was not a dream. This is often included in erotic foreplay. | |
Hand Kiss Gently raise her hand to your lips. Lightly brush your lips across the top of her hand. | |
Hot/Cold Kiss Get a cold drink and put some in your mouth. Have your partner gets a hot drink and puts some in their mouth. You then French kiss leaving a sensational feeling. | |
Letter Kiss Send your lover a kiss in a love letter by writing the letter x several times in a row at the bottom of a letter such as XXXXX. | |
Mistletoe Kiss Surprise your lover by capturing them with a gentle holiday kiss under the mistletoe. This is also a good method for shyer individuals to steal a kiss from a potential lover. | |
Neck Kiss Come up behind the person you want to kiss. Lightly lick the back of their neck, then kiss the back of their neck a few times. | |
Neck Nibble Kiss Gently nibble up and down your partners neck. End with a gentle kiss on the lips. | |
Nip Kiss This kiss can create a very erotic sensation. While kissing your partner, ever so gently nibble on their lips. | |
Shoulder Kiss Simply come from behind, embrace her, and kiss the top of her shoulder. This is a sensual, loving kiss. | |
Sip Kiss Take a small sip of your favorite drink. Leaving a little bit of it on your lips, kiss your partner. It is a unique way to create a sensual feeling and your partner will enjoy it. | |
Stomach Kiss Gently kiss and nibble on your partners stomach, and sometimes it leads to other things.. | |
Talking Kiss Whisper sweet nothings into your partner's mouth. | |
Tiger Kiss Quietly sneak up behind your partner making sure they do not know what you are going to do. Out of the blue, grab them and gently bite their neck. Make sure to get a few good growls in too. This will surely surprise them. | |
Tongue Kiss While french kissing your partner, gently suck their tongue while it's in your mouth. | |
Quickie Kiss When you're in a rush. Often the nose gets it rather than the lips. | |
Upside Down Kiss You stand behind your partner (who is seated or laying down) and have them tilt their head back. | |
Underwater Kiss Find your partner under water. Embrace and kiss. It's a unique and wonderful feeling. By the time you run out of air, you'll be back at the top. Continuing the kiss is optional. | |
Underwater Deep End Kiss Dive to the bottom of the deep end of a pool. Find your partner under water and begin kissing. Continue as you rise to the top. | |
Vacuum Kiss While kissing open-mouthed, slightly suck in as if you were sucking the air from your partners mouth. | |
Virtual Kiss For Internet lovers. Send an e-card or a kiss via email with this symbol: :-* . | |
The Wave Kiss While kissing your partner, slowly roll your tongue like a wave, up and down. |
One of my closest friends is someone I know only from the online world for about 7 years, and we talk either online or on the phone, while mailing each other stuff also. Just because of that friend, I know people can be good trustworthy friends regardless of the medium of friendship, online or offline. Similarly, I have met a lot of people who have given me nothing but headaches, and these people specialize not only in headaches but also in bringing their offline problems to the online world so that they can dump such problems onto others, so that they themselves can be happy while others suffer. Still, many other people simply focus on earning money, and call anyone who can help them earn more money their friend.
I would like to list below 5 random bad trends of online friendships that I have experienced myself directly.
Almost every few days I hear people referring to their business partners or people they are doing business with as friends. It is funny how for such people, the existence of money or business contract or knowing someone famous automatically results in a friendship bond being born.
People do not know each others secrets, each others good and bad personal things, and people cannot rely on each other outside of business. People do not care about each others happiness or suffering, and no one is willing to make any sacrifice. Yet, such people still call their own kind of people online friends. It is hilarious. It is pure nonsense.
A lot of time people who are immature or confused or a combination of those things will get into online friendships and not realize what they want. In every friendship, there should be a small sense of what each one expects from the other. Things that can be expected may include, but are not limited to, trusting each other with secrets, having someone to cheer the other one up in bad times, having someone to help each other during bad times, helping each other achieve something, etc.
Simply texting or writing one another e-mails seems ok, until someone gets upset about something or until boundaries are crossed. Then, instead of knowing how to apologize or how to let the other person know their personal thoughts so that the friendship can continue, people argue while sticking to their pride and while not realizing that their online actions can also hurt others, both in and outside friendships.
Some people simply ignore the signs of bad things in an online friendship. Similarly, some people simply ignore the good things in an online friendship. While it can be considered all right to ignore things, a friendship cannot continue until different good and bad elements about it are kept in mind.
Your online friendship may consist of one person feeling really happy, while you may simply act normal. That can hurt the other person. Your online friend may be really sad because of any random factor, even if that sad person is the one who is always cheering something up. If you do not notice such a thing or do not react to it in any manner, then you have to explain to yourself why you consider such a relationship to be an online friendship.
Majority of the online people that I see and run into focus more on the online tools of communication instead of friendship. People focus more on MySpace, and not on MySpace friends. If an online friend deletes their social networking site, all their so-called friends stop keeping in touch.
A person has to focus mainly on the friendship, and not only on the medium of communication in a friendship. Focusing only on the medium of friendship will result in friendship being reduced to only an online way of using communication tools where we all pretend to have friends, when in reality we do not act like friends. Greeting each other is not a sign of friendship, by the way. If you follow that rule, you can automatically realize that majority of the so-called online friendships are in reality mere interaction sessions between strangers and nothing more.
This can be the most deadly trait of all traits. I am noticing more and more people giving other people friendship and relationship advice. People start giving advice simply because they are asked for advice, or simply because they feel they can type a lot. Any friendship or relationship advice must be carefully thought of. Many people do not realize that giving advice in situations such as online disputes means that we have to consider all sides of the story.
Many times, people go online and read a supposed friends site or something, and start giving advice without asking any questions or without thinking much about it. Even more stupid are the people who actually take such advice. Would you rather think on your own, or would you rather take and follow the advice of an online person who knows nothing about you, who is only giving advice to pass time, and who does not even care about checking later whether or not their advice helped, or whether or not they should feel responsible for something that happened because of their advice.
The above are 5 random bad trends that I am noticing more and more people follow online. From calling people who give us money friends to not knowing what to seek in a friendship, to not paying attention to important things, to focusing more on the online nature of friendships than the friendship itself, and giving advice simply because it is easy to do so, all of these things contribute to the the concept of friendship being abused more and more, resulting in more fake friendships where friends do not sacrifice anything for someone else. Have you noticed anything similar in your own experience?
What do you think? Thanks for reading. :)
Price: $740,000
Highlights: The Shelby Super Cars-made Ultimate Aero held the "world's fastest production car" title in 2008, with an astounding 1,287 horsepower. The newest model will reach a top speed of 270 miles per hour. Carbon fiber rear spoilers respond to the amount of pressure on the brake pedal. Inside, a carbon fiber dashboard and center console incorporate a digital temperature control unit and tire pressure monitor for optimum driving conditions.
Price: $765,000
Highlights: The Mirabeau was specially designed to feature at the 24 Hours Le Mans race, but it is street-legal. It has a 4.7-liter Koenigsegg-made V8 engine that delivers 700 horsepower and a top speed of 230 miles per hour. Each car can be customized to owners' expectations, including an optional semi-automatic transmission for $73,000.
Price: $1.1 million
Highlights: The CCX has carbon ceramic brakes, a hydraulic lift system, a navigation system and a rear-view camera. CD and DVD systems, satellite radio, climate control, leather carpets, a roof stowage bag and car-cover come standard. Horsepower in the V8 engine is 806 units, for a 0-62 mile-per-hour time of 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 245 mph. It has a specially developed transversal six-speed gearbox, with optional paddle-shift. A chrono instrument cluster, carbon wheels, forged aluminum wheels, fitted luggage, special leather and color requests and Inconell exhaust system are also optional.
Price: $1.3 million
Highlights: Lauded as "the first green supercar," this derivative of the CCX can run on E85 and E100 Biofuel as well as normal 9ctane petrol (in Europe). The 4.7 liter twin-supercharged Koenigsegg engine delivers 806 hp or 1018 hp on E85 Biofuel. It has a detachable hardtop glass roof, carbon ceramic brakes, a hydraulic lift system, a navigation system and a rear-view camera. It'll go 0 to 62 mile-per-hour in 3.1 seconds, with a top speed of 250 mph.
Price: $1.4 million
Highlights: With 604 horsepower and a top speed of 155 miles per hour, this chauffer-driven sedan can hold its own against race cars half its size (it'll get to 60 miles per hour in 5.2 seconds. It comes with a V12 twin-turbo engine. The roof can be opened fully at the rear while the chauffeur compartment remains closed. Each armchair is encased in white leather. Partition screen with clear glass and curtains, reclining rear seats with leg and footrests and a Dunhill umbrella are included.
Price: $1.42 million
Highlights: Named after a prized fighting bull that fought in the early 1940s, the Reventón inhabits everything Lamborghini. It is made exclusively in Sant'Agata Bolognese, and its Sharp edges, precise lines and clean surfaces are inspired by fighter jets. You'll know it by its glass engine hood, solid aluminum fuel tank lid and opaque carbon fins screwed onto the black aluminium spokes on the wheels. A total of 20 will be produced.
Price: $1.56 million
Highlights: Like its coupe counterpart, the roadster is based on the Murciélago LP640 (but has a completely new exterior aesthetic), with a V12, 650 horsepower engine that has a top speed of 340 km per hour. The "aerodynamically optimized" exterior is made of CFC, an extremely lightweight composite carbon fiber material. A G-force-meter is also new: it shows dynamic drive forces, longitudinal acceleration for speeding and braking, and transversal acceleration around corners.
Price: $1.8 million
Highlights: This is the new convertible version of the Pagani Cinque Coupe, the street-legal version of the Zonda R. It has a Mercedes-Benz AMG-built 678-horsepower, V12 engine. It'll hit 62 miles per hour in 3.4 seconds, with a top speed of 217 mph--and it'll stop from 62 mph in just 2.1 seconds, thanks to the extremely expensive carbo-ceramic self-ventilated hydraulic Brembo brakes. Five of them will be made.
Price: $2 million ($1.67 million for the coupe version)
Highlights: The car has carbon-fiber panels, composite doors, tall rollover-protection loops and two roofs: an umbrella-like spare and a solid tinted polycarbonate cover that matches the body. It includes daytime running lights, a rearview camera, a Burmester sound system and custom horseshoe wheels. Top speed is 233 miles per hour for the W16 engine. A total of 150 will be madePrice: $2.21 million
Highlights: The Trevita (it means "three whites" in Swedish) is based on the Koenigsegg CCXR, with new diamond-colored carbon fiber bodywork that shows the weave pattern in the finish. It comes with all the best technologies you'd expect in such a machine: a hydraulic lift system, tire monitoring system, chrono instrument cluster, paddle-shifters and carbon fiber brakes. Not to mention the 1,018-horsepower engine. Three will be made.
Size: | Up to 50 feet (32 feet typical) |
Weight: | 4 to 6 tonnes |
Habitat: | Open water, Feed in shallow waters |
Locations: | Worldwide |
Interesting Facts: | Is a filter feeder and can filter |
Size: | 5 to 8 feet |
Weight: | Unknown |
Food Sources: | Flounders, shellfish, crustaceans |
Habitat: | Bottom dwellers, prefering sand |
Locations: | Gulf of Mexico |
Interesting | Looks more like a Stingray than a |
Size: | Largest caught 12.6 feet |
Weight: | Unknown |
Food Sources: | Jacopever, octopuses and crabs |
Habitat: | Deep waters up to 1200m |
Locations: | Worldwide |
Interesting: | Rarely seen, looks like a Goblin |
Size: | 1.5m |
Weight: | Unknown |
Food Sources: | Small fish |
Habitat: | depths around 250 meters |
Locations: | Taiwan |
Size: | Up to 3.2 m long |
Weight: | Up to 80kg |
Food Sources: | Small fish |
Habitat: | Reefs and shelves |
Locations: | Worldwide |
Interesting Facts: | Very aggressive and territorial |
Size: | 7 feet (2 m) |
Weight: | Up to 150kg approx. |
Food Sources: | worms, mollusks, crustaceans, |
Habitat: | Muddy bays and estuaries |
Locations: | West coast USA |
Interesting : | Leopard sharks hunt in packs |
Size: | 1.2 m (4 feet) |
Weight: | Unknown |
Food Sources: | Shrimp |
Habitat: | Deep waters, 200+m |
Locations: | Gulf Area |
Interesting Facts: | Very little is known or documented |
Size: | Up to 3m |
Weight: | Unknown |
Food Sources: | Large fish |
Habitat: | Deep waters 500+ metres |
Locations: | Pacific Ocean |
Interesting Facts: | Swells itself up with water to |
Size: | Up to 2m |
Weight: | Unknown |
Food Sources: | Other sharks, squid, and bony fish |
Habitat: | Depths of 120 m to 1,300 m |
Locations: | Deep waters worldwide |
Interesting: | Looks like an Eel! |