Interesting Random news

 Today is another day of good surfing for nothing and eating,lazying at home, watching movies streamed online and such.

EVERYBODY must watch gossip girl season 4 (if u havent watched the episodes before u must!) and also True blood all season 1,2,3!! they will rock ur brains down!

So i was surfing and read some interesting stuff. some people around the world are either whacky or weird. Read on to discover how interesting other ppl's lives can be! =)

Four-year supply of toilet paper 

Zheng Yu's mother and grandmother. Walking next to them is a senior helping to carry Zheng's boxes

A Chinese freshman brought 14 pieces of luggage including a four-year supply of toilet paper to his university.

Zheng Yu, 19, turned up at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology in Hubei province, China, on Friday.

The Electronic Information Engineering freshie from Yichang - about 282km from the university - was accompanied by his 83-year-old grandmother, parents, uncle and aunt.

When they arrived, the family shocked the others with the amount of luggage they removed from their car.

Zheng brought along 14 boxes including apples, milk, toilet paper, clothing, medicine and health care products.

Ji Nan, a senior sent to help the freshman, said he had to seek the help of another nine volunteers to carry all the boxes.

"I was thinking of helping him alone as I thought a man should have few things but I was shocked to see the number of boxes unloaded from the car.

"Zheng told me one of the boxes contained only toilet paper which was enough for his four years at the university."

Another volunteer Li Hu said Zheng had a box of apples, a box of milk cartons, several boxes of clothing for four seasons and seven towels, a box of medicine, a box of health care products and a fan.

But Zheng's mother was worried that the items she packed for her son were not enough.

"I'm afraid that the things won't last till he graduates.

"My son has been very weak since he was small, I'm worried that he cannot adapt to hostel life."

After much time spent convincing his mother, Zheng's family agreed to take home some unnecessary items.

Source: Changjiang Business Daily, China

University offers zombie course

Students at the University of Baltimore can now learn all about zombies.

Students at the University of Baltimore can now study the undead. Well, kind of.
Zombies are now the subject of a new English course at the American university. The new class will examine the monsters' expanding grip on pop culture.
 The professor, Arnold Blumberg, said students will get to watch 16 classic zombie films, read zombie comics, and have the chance to write a script or storyboard for their very own zombie movie.
Jonathan Shorr, chairman of the university's school of communications design, wanted a rotation of "interesting, off-the-wall" courses for a new minor in pop culture, reported The Baltimore Sun.
Shorr says the zombie course will be a "back door into a lot of subjects", where students can learn about how literature and mass media work, and "how they come to reflect our times."
Source: The Baltimore Sun


 

Female snails growing penises

Female marine snails living off Perth beaches have developed male sex organs on their foreheads as a result of exposure to the banned toxin tributyltin, a Curtin University study has found.

The study found alarming rates of the abnormality known as imposex in the molluscs.
In waters off Cockburn Sound, Fremantle, Garden Island and Hillarys the number of females affected by the hormone disrupting disorder ranged from 50 per cent at North Mole to 100 per cent at Colpoys Point off Garden Island.
At Cottesloe the numbers were 35 per cent and Hillarys 82 per cent.
Associate professor Monique Gagnon from Curtin University said the snails had almost disappeared from Fremantle waters due to the high rates of TBT pollution and the impact it was having on snail reproduction.
She said that unlike common garden snails, which could exhibit both sexes in the one individual, the marine snail species studied in the survey had distinct sexes.

Female snails growing penises on their foreheads

The survey was conducted in 2009 and a follow-up study is scheduled for early next year.

Gagnon said the next study could be expected to show any contamination resulting from the disturbance of the sediments from this year's dredging of Fremantle Harbour.
"Studies have shown that imposex might stop the affected females from procreating, potentially reducing the numbers of snails in the shoreline environment.
"Because this species is a predatory snail, a reduced population of these animals can translate into an altered biodiversity in the rocky shorelines," Gagnon said.
TBT has been banned in Australia since 2008 but some commercial vessels still dock at Fremantle Port carrying the toxin in the antifouling that protects their hulls from marine growth.
Even tiny, almost undetectable, amounts of TBT can cause female snails to grow male sex organs.
"TBT's ability to persist in sediment suggests that the legacy of environmental degradation left by its use may continue to affect marine ecosystems around Perth into the future," Gagnon said.
Source:thewest.com.au
Image Source: Curtin University

Farmer uses bras to support melons

A fruit farmer in the UK has come up with a novel idea for supporting her giant melons - using old bras.
Rowie Meers, 45, a mother of three, who experimented with a number of techniques to keep her bumper crop of melons from sagging on the vines they grow on, found that bras provided the best support.
Meers then launched an appeal for unwanted bras and customers have already donated 40 to her business, Purton House Organics near Swindon, Wiltshire.
"We had such a fantastic crop of galia melons and I was struggling to stop them swinging too low," The Sun quoted her as saying.

Best support...customers have already donated 40 to her

"We needed something to suspend them. My eureka moment came as I looked down the answer was under my nose."
"I thought let's use bras because they suspend my melons very well, so let's use them for this. My own cup was not really big enough to hold the melons - so we asked our customers to send in their bras.
"We've been sent all kinds - from padded to lacy. We appreciate their support in more ways than one - especially the double D cups.
"It does make my polytunnel of melons look a bit odd, but it's great fun," she stated.
Source: The Sun/ANI
Image Source: The Sun

Muscle Beach mania

If you’re feeling a little fat from the extra inches that have been hanging over your jeans, have a look at this lot and you’ll feel much better about yourself.

These oiled and glistening specimens were competing at the Muscle Beach Championship bodybuilding and bikini competition at Venice Beach in Los Angeles.

Before he was elected governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger was a regular competitor. And many other famous muscle men - and women - have tensed up for the competition.

For bodybuilders, Muscle Beach is as big as it gets.

They work on honing their body all year around and when it comes to competition day, they will have waxed and oiled their rippling torsos.
In the 1930s, Forties and Fifties young men and women would gather at the original Muscle Beach site, used until 1959, in Santa Monica to practise and demonstrate acrobatics.
While the crowds gathered, they built human towers, turned somersaults and took pleasure in tossing each other around.
But now it's a bit more serious.
According to organiser and promoter Joe Wheatley, Muscle Beach Venice one of the largest amusement attractions in the Los Angeles area.
"The focus remains exercise and nutrition and the site continues to be the grassroots soul of bodybuilding famous throughout the world."
Source: Daily Mail, UK

Miss Isa Blyth,106, is oldest virgin

A 106-year-old woman in Britain is not only a virgin, she has never ever been kissed.
Isa Blyth, who turned 106 Saturday, puts her longevity to being a virgin, The Sun reported.

Isa Blyth puts her longevity to being a virgin

She is of the opinion that being single has made her stay strong.
"I'm not sure if anyone ever tried it on - but they never got anywhere! She says she never felt the need for romance and never had time for a man.
"She did like the odd sherry though," her niece Sheena Campbell was quoted as saying.
Blyth was born in 1904.
She used to attend flower club and church, sang in the choir, and played golf or gardening.

She always stayed in Edinburgh and worked for 35 years as a private secretary to a whisky producer.
Sheena said: "She was wrapped up in her church and she loved her choir and flower club.
"And she had a high-powered job, which meant she was always busy.
"I think she was also a bit of a maiden lady as she was the first-born and acted as a head with her six brothers and sisters.
"She never had time to be sad. She's an amazing character. You wouldn't believe she was 106."
Source: IANS

Naked owner scares away car thief

A car thief who ventured out for game on the outskirts of London would not have bargained for a "large naked bloke" when he started off his stolen vehicle.
But the man actually fled off in fear after the vehicle's owner, who heard his car start while in bed, ran up to the spot naked, jumped into the passenger seat and said: "Where are we going then?"
Russell Stuart, 51, was asleep at home in Dymchurg in Kent, outside London, when he heard his Peugeot 405 being started up in his driveway in the early hours of the morning.

Russell Stuart drove around in his car, while still naked, looking for the thief, but eventually went home as he feared he would get arrested for indecent exposure

He ran outside without putting on any clothes, opened the passenger door and sat beside the thief.
Stuart, a father of two, said the man flung the door open and ran off into the night as soon as he spotted "a big naked bloke" sitting next to him.
Stuart said: "I just got out of bed and ran to my car, opened the passenger door and sat down.
"I said to him, ' All right mate, where are we going then?' and he just jumped out of the car and legged it".
Stuart, a technician at the Dungeness power station, said: "I don't know what the guy must have thought when a large naked bloke got into the car next to him, but when your car is being stolen you don't think about it, you just react.
"I'll never forget the look on his face, though, it was a peach".
After the incident, Stuart drove around in his car, while still naked, looking for the thief, but eventually went home as he feared he would get arrested for indecent exposure.
Source: PTI