Not blue pill.. but laughter's best medicine

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Facebook-o-Phobia
arrest of Egyptian cartoonist Islam Gawish shows again how the powers that be fear the power of social media to be the voice of dissent.

After International Women’s Day
Celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8

 

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[h=1]Pakispring
A suicide attack killed 72 at a park in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday, March 27, 2016.[/h]

 

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[h=1]Syria Peace Talks Geneva[/h]

 

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[h=1]Air Pollution in China[/h]

 

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Stars of Europe

The European Union has authorized the reinstatement of temporary border controls in Sweden and Germany to address the arrival of asylum seekers

EU Struggles to Place Refugees

The European Union (EU) has failed to meet its goal to relocate 40,000 refugees after facing resistance from EU members Spain, Austria, and Hungary in a process the Human Rights Watch called “disgraceful.” (2015)

 

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New meaning to jump start:p

 

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Wedding VIPs:p

 

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Mis-adventure with blue pill :p

 

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Political "re-education" by junta

 

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Irish funny :p

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut, and bruised, and he's walking with a limp.

'What happened to you?' asks Sean, the bartender.

'Michael O'Connor and me had a fight,' says Paddy.

'That little O'Connor,' says Sean, 'He couldn't do that to you, he must have had something in his hand.'

'That he did,' says Paddy, 'a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it.'

'Well,' says Sean, 'you should have defended yourself. Didn't you have something in your hand?'

'That I did,' said Paddy, 'Mrs. O'Connor's left breast, and a thing of beauty it was; but useless in a fight.'

 

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True war stories, from Time's latest issue

Burgled Body Parts
March 31, 2016

Alas, poor William: researchers in the U.K. who analyzed Shakespeare’s grave with radar imaging said March 23 his skull was likely stolen more than 200 years ago. The playwright joins other noted victims of graveyard robbery.

ST. NICHOLAS
Sailors stole the remains of St. Nicholas (whom you might know as Santa Claus) in 1087 from what is now Turkey and took them to Bari, Italy, where they are today. The bones are said to emit a healing balm called manna.

GALILEO GALILEI
Supporters took three fingers and a tooth from the astronomer’s grave in 1737, some 95 years after his death. The fingers went their separate ways until 2010, when they were reunited for display in a Florence museum.

JOSEPH HAYDN
After the composer died in 1809, two admirers bribed a grave digger to give them his skull so they could check for a “bump of music” that might explain his genius. The cranium was only returned to his tomb in 1954.

ALBERT EINSTEIN
The physicist left behind instructions to cremate his body, but when he died in 1955 a doctor gave his eyeballs to Einstein’s ophthalmologist, who saved them in a jar that’s now kept in a safe-deposit box.

 

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Fun fact: According to Greek legend there was a famous prostitute who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and arguing that it would be a crime against the Gods to destroy something so beautiful.

Before you ask, yes there are paintings of this. And yes, they’re amazing.

The courtesan named was named Phryne and she was indeed a renowned beauty, and was indeed was put on trial for a capital crime. And yes, the sum of her defense consisted of her stripping in court (helped by her lover/defendant) and asking the jury (all males) if they were prepared to destroy this.

But this is actually a very interesting case of Values Dissonance - the capital crime she was accused of was blasphemy. In Ancient Greek society, exceptional beauty was a sign of favor from the gods, and they took the idea that beauty indicated goodness with great seriousness. They even called their nobles Kaloi k'Agathoi, “the Beautiful and the Good.”

So by showing off her great physical beauty, Phryne was being very clever indeed, her argument essentially being “How could I possibly commit blasphemy if the gods have given me this body?“

I adore history.

"If these tits are legit, you must acquit."

http://www.factfiend.com/ancient-gr...59-Not-blue-pill-but-laughter-s-best-medicine