Stop Frowning. You’ll be stuck with it!

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How many times have you heard those pearls of wisdom. I had to learn that lesson and swallow a bitter pill.

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Busy in my thoughts as I approached the waiting area to board the ferry, I noticed these two giggly teenagers munching crisps and the two empty seats nearby. So I plonked myself not paying anyone any particular attention but still deep in my thoughts, if I should hire a carpet shampooing machine or should I get rid of the carpet altogether and replace it with nice bamboo flooring as I had done in the bedrooms.

I boarded the ferry still with a myriad of random thoughts.

But the question I want to pose;
What do we project to others, as we go about our daily lives?

You see, as we we were getting off I was in the process of collecting my rucksack when I looked up and caught the eye of one of these giggly girls, who flashed a smile. Just a quick smile, there one millisecond and gone the next.

I did nothing. I thought! How wrong could I be, because, I must have been frowning, as the other girl said to her (the smiler)

“He must be gay”. They giggled some more and I was speechless.

Note to self:

Stop Frowning. You’ll be stuck with it! Smile, it costs nothing!

Will someone, anyone, please throw in the towel, for Clinton?

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Don’t get me wrong, I love a good fight and Hilary Clinton, needs to be admired for her true-unadultrated-grit.

She would make a formidabble team mate.

Photo borrowed and credited to 93South.net

On the other hand, isn’t the bun fight doing considerable damage to the Democrats?

When their focus needs to be on winning the Presidential election and into the White House.

Don’t take my word for it! I am, after all in sunny UK, read Ediedover who has some relevant points.

Cheers and have a great day!

Best excuse for penile erectile dysfunction! “sorcerers accused of

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using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises”

I have never laughed so much on seeing this on Yahoo UK

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

“You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We’ve had a number of attempted lynchings. … You see them covered in marks after being beaten,” Kinshasa’s police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

“I’m tempted to say it’s one huge joke,” Oleko said.

Don’t get me wrong, for those who genuinely suffer from Penile-Erectile-Dysfunction it must be both physically and emotionally painful.

BBC has some good advice.

or

BUPA

Others with a similar line in humour

Kidney for FREE!

Indian harvest – Kidneys??

India has been known as a “warehouse for kidneys” or a “great organ bazaar”

Is that because there is a growing shortage of rice, globally?

Why pay? Especially, when it is available free of charge from a young specimen like Scarlett keeling. Or is there a sinister trade in body parts?

Should body parts be available for sale?

Fiona Mckeown appears to have unearthed some seriously questionable practices in the melting pot that makes up the Indian nation.

She brings Goa into the focus despite the criticisms laid at her door for her parenting skills.

Shocking images thanks to Escape from India.

Other recent interesting views on sequence of events.

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Women can Drive on Saudi City Streets.

The one place on this universe that has an abundance of oil and wealth, brings about change, where both are needed.

The women with their spouses in tow, will be at the car showroom buying up the latest “must have” accessory to go with the Abbaya , as long it’s black. Ford will be pleased.

Arabilluminist has a better description here

Perhaps the women in KSA have this woman and all others who risked their lives, to thank

Good luck ladies and enjoy the new found freedom!

Please take care, too!