Saturday, September 11, 2010
The train that never stops at a station
A brilliant new Chinese train innovation - get on & off the bullet train without the train stopping. VERY COOL CONCEPT ! No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time. A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min x 30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time! How it works (view the movie - in mandarin though!): 1. For those who are boarding the train : The passengers at a station embarks onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrives at the station. When the train arrives, it will not stop at all. It just slows down to pick up the connector cabin which will move with the train on the roof of the train. While the train is still moving away from the station, those passengers will board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the train's roof. After fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof. 2. For those who are getting off: As stated after fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof. When the train arrives at the next station, it will simply drop the whole connector cabin at the station itself and leave it behind at the station. The outgoing passengers can take their own time to disembark at the station while the train had already left. At the same time, the train will pick up the incoming embarking passengers on another connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof. So the train will always drop one connector cabin at the rear of its roof and pick up a new connector cabin in the front part of the train's roof at each station.
Friday, September 10, 2010
10 Most Realistic Transvestites
There are men in this world that would simply look better as a woman. Then there are those men that can pass for a woman. Those are the realistic transvestites. There are plenty of female impersonators in this world. Most of the time their shows are so popular that they get their own show in Las Vegas or one of the bigger cities all over the world. They can impersonate any star and you will never be able to tell the difference.
1. RuPaul
She is the most famous transvestite in the world. She has become the star his mother always knew she would be. In 1960, she was born in San Diego. By 1985, she was performing his shows. She hit it big when her dance track hit radio airwaves in 1993. From that point on her career has never been better. She has had television shows and continues to release albums.
2. Frank Marino
He has been performing his act as Joan Rivers since 1985. At first the owners of the Las Vegas club were skeptical on his abilities, but they soon found out that his shows would be a big success. For over 20 years he has performed his act on that same stage. He has the longest running stage act in the Las Vegas area and has even been honored with two stars on the Vegas strip, a street named after him, and February 1st is now Frank Marino day in Las Vegas.
3. Mimi Marks
She performs mainly at the Baton Show Lounge in Chicago, Illinois. Originally being born to the name Mark in Iowa, she was uncomfortable in her own skin. She has been living as a woman since she was 21 years old. She has won numerous titles, because she is so realistic looking. She has appeared in music videos and made numerous appearances on television shows.
4. Aurora Sexton
Aurora Sexton was originally born in Denver, Colorado. She first revealed her self in Boulder, Colorado and was so well loved that she has continued to do shows. She currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. She hosts benefit shows and has won some pageants, herself.
5. Lana Blake
She has been performing around the state of Texas for the past 15 years. She has held many pageant titles. She has held 10 or more titles and is well loved and followed all over the state of Texas. She has one of the biggest following in the area.
6. Lisa Beaumann
Lisa has a bachelor's degree in theater. This makes her performance unique in that she looks at life as a stage. She takes her performances very seriously and is loved by many in the Louisiana area. Some of her favorites to perform as are Liza Minelli, Carol Channing, Shania twain and so many more for this versatile entertainer.
7. Romy Haag
Romy is from the Netherlands and the most famous transvestite in all of Germany and Continental Europe. Originally born Edouard Frans Verbaarsschott in 1951, he started performing as a woman at the age of 16. In 1972, she came to America and performed for a few years. She has since starred in 26 German movies and even released her autobiography.
8. Pete Burns
Pete was born in 1959 to an English father and a Jewish mother. He is famous for being the front man of the band "Dead or Alive." He was always known for his flamboyant style. After being married for 25 years, he divorced his wife. He has released an autobiography depicting his life and has since married his companion.
9. Steven Wayne
He was born and raised in West Virginia. He began his career in 1987 at a club called "The Shamrock." He has been living in Las Vegas since 1999. The impersonation that he does is the infamous Cher. He has been doing his act for the past 21 years and loves every minute of it.
10. Chad Michaels
He is one of the world's leading Cher impersonators. With two decades of impersonations he has worked with many actors and producers. Cher, herself, even likes going to his shows. He is part of the Dream Girls Revue in California.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Weird Names Ladies Call Their Vaginas
If Kotex isn't allowed to say "vagina" or even "down there" in their tampon commercials, they should check out LoveYourVagina.com, a veritable thesaurus of ladyparts synonyms. LoveYourVagina.com is asking ladies to "tell us what you lovingly call yours ..." and graphing the answers in a massive tag cloud. Let's take a look at16 straight-up weird names we girls call our vag.
See-you-next-Tuesday, vajayay and coochie are the most popular names. But there's also:
- Lady Garden
- Lady Gaga
- Foo Foo
- Cabbage Patch
- The Batcave
- Chamber of Secrets
- Buffy
- Woohoo
- Honey Pot
- Foof
- Mimsy
- Hotbox
- Wizard's Sleeve
- Front Bottom
- Bubblegum
- Muffin
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Weird Alcoholic Beverages
When you sit down to watch the proverbial big game, chances are that if you're of legal drinking age (or hell, maybe even if you're not) you will be enjoying a nice cold beer and a few slices of pizza as you watch sweaty men in tight fitting clothes slam repeatedly into one another. Well apparently one day someone looked at the pizza, looked at the beer, and thought, "Hey, that might make a good beer flavor."
I can't imagine this person was correct, but for whatever reason, Pizza Beer actually exists. The Mamma Mia Pizza Beer company decided that it might be a good idea to throw all of their favorite pizza ingredients together, make them nice and alcoholic and pass them off as beer. The ingredients include actual pizza crust, tomato, oregano, basil and garlic. Finally, the beer that combines drunkenness and late night drunken munchies into one convenient little bottle!
Just as much as we all love a little pizza to go along with our beer, we love…chocolate donuts? Wait, combining chocolate donuts and beer together doesn't sound very appetizing. Probably due to the fact that one is extremely sweet, while the other is often as bitter as a jilted lover. Which, for the record, is pretty damn bitter.
Still, chocolate beer is actually pretty common, and if you like thick, heavy stouts it's really not that bad. Hell, it's so common that even Samuel Adams brews a chocolate bock, and Sapporo, a Japanese beer company, brewed its Chocolate Brewery with real Royce chocolates (a big time chocolate company in Japan). But chocolate donut beer? That's a new one on me. And it sounds delicious.
And what better to wash down that chocolate donut beer than with a little milk? Milk vodka, that is. Well, they say milk does a body good. But what happens when you use milk to make a highly potent brand of vodka? If you're anything like me, you've found a new way to eat your Cap'n Crunch. But there are vodkas out there that use milk as the primary ingredient, such as Vermont White. Vermont White combines the creamy taste of vanilla with the biting warmth of, well, vodka.
As far as vodkas go, it is actually pretty damn good, too. It's even gained a little bit of fame, too, as reportedly Jay-Z himself is a pretty big fan of the stuff and rumor has it it's prevalent at his 40-40 Club in New York City. Hey, if it's good enough for Jay-Z, it's good enough for us.
If you weren't content before with the awful gas that beer alone gave you, your significant other will be just thrilled to learn that someone has taken it upon his or herself to remedy that problem with the creation of chili beer. Combining the power of alcohol and chili, the key ingredient to almost every Mexican dish that ever made your farts damn near lethal without the additional aid of beer, your Dutch ovens have never been so potent (and potentially life threatening).
Now whereas most people like to drink a beer to quench their thirst and often to help fight spicy foods, the people who make chili beer have decided that a beer that doesn't burn your mouth is for pansies. The idea actually started when, rather than using a lime like most people someone decided to push a chili pepper down into the beer. Shockingly, it didn't go over well. Even more shockingly, they decided to make a beer based on the idea anyway.
Now while milk is a relatively tame thing to find in your beer, probably the last thing you might expect to find when you look in your bottle of spirits is a snake. And I mean, an actual, full snake. However, a man in Texas who raised rattlesnakes actually decided that what people wanted was a bottle of vodka and market it as an "ancient Asian elixir." The sad part is that people actually bought it (both his story, and the snake vodka).
Now I'm trying to figure out which part is harder to believe: the fact that people saw a snake in a bottle of vodka and thought "okay, I can get down with the preposterous idea that this is somehow an Asian elixir" or the fact that someone out there actually raises rattlesnakes. In any event, eventually this guy got arrested, but you can find snake vodka all over the internet these days. You just might want to avoid ever coming into contact with anyone who actually has a bottle.
Okay, so this might not quite fit with the rest of these entries because frankly, there's nothing out of the ordinary about the taste or ingredients of this particular alcoholic beverage. So why does it land on a list of the weirdest alcoholic beverages? Because unlike every other drink here (or hell, every other drink on the planet), this one is aimed specifically at kids. Not teenagers, mind you, but actual children. You stay classy, Japan!
Now what I want to know is exactly how is it sold? I'd like to imagine that when you walk into a grocery store in Japan, you'll find it right there on the shelf next to the juice boxes and Capri Sun. Frankly, I'm kind of saddened by the fact that I never got any Kid's Wine in my lunch at school.
Now if you've decided you really want to market your alcohol toward millions of sweet, innocent children, and you really want to turn them into drunks by age 10, you might want to invent chocolate wine. Oh, it already exists?
Yes, yes it does. Back to the old "getting kids drunk" drawing board! Chocolate wine is considered a dessert wine because, well, chocolate. Some of these wines (and there are apparently a lot of wineries that make chocolate wine) have only chocolate flavoring, while some go all out and turn it into what basically amounts to the wine version of a stout beer by actually mixing a bunch of delicious chocolate in along with the other ingredients. Oh, and it's really, really potent, packing about 19% alcohol into every serving.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Unknown religions
This is a religion where the main god was born out of stone only so he could kill a bull and dance in the beast's blood.
Does your god kill bulls? We didn't think so.
Even better no one has any clue where the religion originated from, or if it had any prophets or saints. It just appeared out of nowhere in the second century AD. One day it's not there, the next it was spread all over the Roman Empire with almost every other soldier a member. Oh did we forget to mention that being a soldier was a prerequisite? No women were part of the cult and aside from a few emperors and other politicians, who presumably gained power because of their close ties to the army, the whole church was composed of soldiers.
However, being a soldier in one of the most brutal periods of history was not enough, you also had to be initiated into the church and there were seven levels before you were considered a full-fledged member. The initiation process was found engraved on several drinking cups where we can see what looks like a higher level Mithrian pointing a bow at a recruit. Think about it this way, instead of a welcome packet to a new church you get shot in the face with an arrow; and then you have six more levels to go.
Let's face it, Christianity is not the most manly religion around. While Vikings have "fight to the death" as a way to get into heaven, Christians are more or less focused on love and turning the other cheek. There isn't much room for secret initiations and badassery in a religion that advises everyone to love thy neighbor. Then there are the kinds of Christians that will go out of their way to be amazing.
Meet the Greek Orthodox monks from Meteora. These are men who decided to find the most remote and God forsaken peaks in all of Greece and then live in stone cracks, barely the size of their bodies. At first the only way to reach the caves where these monks lived was by climbing hundreds of meters of sheer rock, praying to God that the trip was worth it. When the monks eventually decided to create whole monasteries up there they used ladders and pulleys made out of ropes which they replaced "only when the Lord let them break." If you were the unlucky guy in the rope basket when the Lord decided it was time to let gravity win…well you had a lot of time to think about your life before you hit the rocky bottom.
Nowadays the monasteries are mostly tourist attractions, but you can still find dedicated Greek Orthodox monks on Mt. Athos, where not only did they survive centuries of pirate attacks, but they still grow some of the most awesome breads in the world.
What do Genghis Khan, the Turkish Empire and the Bulgarians that conquered Asia Minor and much of Eastern Europe have in common? Besides having a culture built around horses and being incredibly efficient at killing Christians they also shared one of the most bad-a$@ religions around.
The tengriists believed that the gods of sky and earth gave the power of the wolf to those that followed their teachings, under the condition that they did the actions that praised their name. Like what? Well, here is an example right out of their traditional stories: "after defeating all one thousand guards of the enemy warlord [he] wound rose-faced Sangum in a cheek." They are talking about one of the greatest tengriist hero, and is it just us or does he sound like the story of 300?
300 or Tengriist way of life? Hard to tell.
But the tengriist faith is not all about war and killing, one of the most important festivals involved all men climb a hill where they would gather around a sacred Birch tree (incidentally if there was no Birch tree on the hill, they would dig one up and transplant it from miles away) where they would sacrifice sheep. Which doesn't sound cool until you find out that they sacrificed the sheep by ripping its heart, straight out of its chest, bear handed.
As if that was not enough as a leader of the Turkic or Mongolian tribes it was your god given purpose to gather all the tribes under your rule and like a pack of "wolves" attack the christian "sheep". If you failed to rise to this task you were a bad leader and your people were permitted to kill you. That must have certainly put some pressure on most leaders.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Most Complex Roads In The World
1) Col de Turini, France
Situated more than 1 mile above sea level, Col de Turini is a mountain pass situated in south of France in the Alps. It's also part of a 20 miles rally stage of the Monte Carlo Rally of WRC, which combines 34 challenging hairpins and long stretches where cars top 111 mph. It is one of the most exciting roads on Earth. The pass was featured in the very first episode of Top Gear series 10, when the presenters went in search of the greatest driving road in the world. At its highest point, Col de Turini is 1607m high. In the north, the Col de Turini starts with a dazzling series of hairpins. Finally, we end up riding in a gorge, with a wild river on the left, and a steep rock-wall on the right.
2) Stelvio Pass, Italy
Located in the Eastern Alps in Italy, the Stelvio Pass Road connects the Valtellina with Merano and the upper Adige valley. This mountain road pass is situated at an altitude of around 1.7 miles above sea level. The road is particularly challenging to drive due to the presence of 48 hairpin bends, with the road becoming exceedingly narrow at some points, and some very steep inclines. With a height of 2757 meters, it is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps and the second highest in the Alps, after the 2770 m high Col de l'Iseran. While it might not be as dangerous as the other routes, it is certainly breathtaking. The toughest and most spectacular drives are from the Prato side. The mountain pass is one of the best continuous hairpin routes in the world.
3) Leh–Manali Highway, India
The Leh-Manali Highway is situated in India and spans over a length of 297 miles among the Himalaya mountain range. It passes through some of the worlds highest mountain passes in the world, with a mean altitude in between 2 to 3 miles above sea level. The road is one of the most complicated and challenging roads in the world, with snow, landslides and terrain making the journey exceedingly difficult for anything other than a capable four wheel drive vehicle. The road was built and is maintained by the Indian Army.
4) The Puxi Viaduct, Shanghai
This is one of Shanghai's busiest and largest interchange that caters to thousands of vehicles every hour. It has five levels of bridges that help connect two of the cities busiest highways, directing vehicles without much fuss.
5) The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange, LA
The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is situated in Los Angeles, CA and is one of the most complicated interchanges in the country. It permits entry and exit in all directions between the I-105 and the I-110. It's a stack interchange with layers of bridges making a complicated network of roads allowing smooth flow of traffic though both the interstate highways. This interchange was opened in 1993. It is a 4 level interchange with a restricted access lane that can be used by high-occupancy vehicles.
6) Gravelly Hill Interchange, Birmingham, UK
Gravelly Hill Interchange, nicknamed 'the Spaghetti Junction', is the 6th junction of the M6 motorway, where it joins the A38 Aston Expressway in Birmingham, UK. The name "Spaghetti Junction" was coined by Roy Smith, a journalist from the Birmingham Evening Mail in the 1970s. The areal view of the junction sure tells us why it is called the Spaghetti Junction. Spanning an impressive 30 acres, the junction serves 18 routes and includes 4 km of slip roads. Across 6 different levels, there are 559 concrete columns, reaching up to 24.4 m in height. The engineers had to elevate 13.5 miles of the motorway to accommodate 2 railway lines, 3 canals, and 2 rivers. It's the most complicated junction in United Kingdom.
7) Trollstigen in Norway
The Fjord in Norway has many roads that attract tourists. The most notable among them is the Trollstigen which is a series of stunning roads with a breathtaking view of a few waterfalls. The word Trollstigen means the Troll Ladder. The road, though not lacking in safety standards, takes a lot of concentration and driving skill to conquer. The vertigo-inducing steep inclines, intense set of hairpins and narrow roads leave no margin for error. However, once you are at the top, the view is just breathtaking. The narrow road leaves us with extremely few possibilities for vehicles to pass each other. The frequent rockfalls in the region have resulted in some upgrades to the road in 2005. At the top, there is a viewing balcony which overlooks the road and the Stigfossen waterfall, a 320 m long waterfall which falls down the mountain side.
8) Los Caracoles Pass in Andes
This road passes though the Andreas Mountains on the way between Chile and Argentina. Los Caracoles is a series of hard switchbacks on an extremely steep incline. The road has many steep inclines and hairpins without any safety guard rails. The road is covered with snow for the most part of the year. The snow together with nature of the road requires extreme patience and skill to negotiate. However, this road is maintained pretty regularly and does not have a morbid accident record. Cargo trucks and even double-Decker tourist buses travel through the road on a daily basis, and it's quite an experience.
9) Lysebotn Road, Norway
This is probably the most fun road you can travel on four wheels, and then maybe on your two legs checking out the various hiking trails leading from the area. In fact, this might be considered the most breathtaking place in Europe. It all starts with the narrow road up the steep walls of the Lysefjord, Norway. It has 27 switchbacks and a 1.1 km long tunnel at the bottom, with 3 switchbacks inside. The last 30 km of Lysebotn road is a true roller-coaster! It's narrow but has a perfect surface, winding left and right all the time. If you happen to ride a motorcycle in Norway, then this is the road you simply cannot afford to miss!
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Breast tales
A few years ago some UK researchers turned to the world and said "We have good news and we have better news". The good news was that someone actually gave them money to study boob sizes around the world. The better news was that their findings showed that, worldwide, breasts are getting bigger and bigger.
Just in the UK alone, the average bra size had gone up from 34B to a way juicier 36C. As for the rest of the world, breast sizes had been continuously going up for the last 10-15 years, averaging now almost an entire cup bigger than just a decade ago. If this trend continues, someday we might actually need an M-cup bra size.
Plastic surgeries must have some part in this, but diet and lifestyles cannot be ignored. We definitely eat more and exercise less now, and all that fat has to go somewhere – the fact that it seems to be going mainly to breasts is the best evidence that God exists and that he loves us.
A big part of any boy's life is catching the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Total Recall" one night after his parents went to sleep and witnessing that scene with the 3-breasted alien hooker. For many of us that has been a defining moment of our childhoods, the start of a journey to find a girl with 3 fun-bags on her chest. Sadly, we later realized that they just don't exist…
Or so we thought. Thanks to a wondrous example of life imitating art it turns out that some women can have 3 breasts. The medical condition is called "polymastia" or "supernumerary breasts" and works just like the superfluous nipple bit. Some supernumerary breasts (see, even science knows that those are "super"!) might not even make their presence known until puberty, that special time when a polymastic girl first starts to resemble a prostitute from a cheesy Sci-Fi movie.
Location wise, polymastia can manifest itself virtually anywhere on the front of the body, hopefully somewhere between the first and second boob. So that's one accurate prediction "Total Recall" has made. Now, where are our virtual reality machines?
The comparison of boobies to automobile airbags is as old as breast fascination itself. Cavemen probably made that joke in their cave drawings. But it turns out it might not just be sexism on the men's part, because in at least one documented case, a woman's life was saved in car crash when her silicone augmented breasts acted as airbags-like cushioning devices.
In 2006 a women from the Bulgarian city of Ruse was in a pretty horrific car accidents that left both cars totaled. She and the other driver survived but in her case it was thanks solely to those bigger plastic tits which took upon themselves the force of the impact, rupturing right there on the spot and leaving the women alive, though heavily deflated.
If it wasn't for them, the woman might have hit the steering wheel full on, damaging her internal organs and maybe even banging up her heart a little. This is an obvious sign that Evolution wants our women to have bigger knockers. Maybe later down the line car companies will get rid of airbags altogether and simply offer free boob jobs to female drivers with each purchase.
In 2008 the Vietnamese government was seriously considering banning all females whose chests measured less than 28 inches from riding their motorbikes on public roads. Allegedly this was a bid from the Ministry of Health aimed at making sure that the people behind the handlebars remain healthy, but it's quite obvious that they were just trying to pressure the women into getting boob jobs.
If you have ever interacted with a Vietnamese person or saw one of those oriental X-rated movies on the adult You Tubes that everybody's talking about, then you know that eastern Asian females don't really carry around a pair of huge portable airbags on their chests. In that region small breasts are not the sign of sickness, they are the sign of (a little bit depressing and flat) normality, and it almost cost thousands of ladies the use of their Vespas.
In 2009 however, the proponents of this bill finally got smacked over the head by their wives and the idea died out.
Speaking of smaller breasts from East Asia, it somehow seems appropriate that the inventor of the first noninvasive breast augmentation procedure that probably works, hails from Japan. For a number of years now Dr. Hideto Tomabechi has been preoccupied with 2 things: sounds and breasts, and in 2008 he combined his 2 passions into the "Rock Melon" – a ringtone which supposedly causes titties to gain in size if you just listen to it.
Dr. Tomabechi has designed the "Rock Melon" sound to carry with it a subliminal cry of an infant child, which allegedly works on a woman's brain causing it to instinctively switch to motherhood mode, making her chest jugs fill with milk. After listening to the tone 20 times a day for a couple of days, one of the good doctor's test subjects reported her breasts grew in size by almost an entire inch!
The only question that remains is: why aren't we feeding this sound through every loudspeaker in the country?
You would think that the only way breasts could keep anyone from doing jail-time is if that person went back to the judge's chambers and let him touch them for a couple of minutes. But luckily there are less sad examples of the twins providing legal representation in court, as was the case with Serena Kozakura.
In 2007 Serena Kozakura, 38, was convicted of property destruction after she allegedly kicked in the wooden doors to an unnamed man's apartment and trashed it to hell. However, during a reenactment of the crime, Kozakura proved that the hole someone made in the door was way too small for her and her impressive 44-inch chest to crawl through.
Based on just that, the woman was acquitted. It's probably safe to say she will never curse her massive knockers ever again after it turned out they are her own personal pair of top notch defense lawyers. Oh breasts, is there anything you cannot do?











