Things that make you go What the F**k?

[The Real Laoislad]

Facebook ban of breast-feeding photos sparks protests (Reuters)

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent? The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate -- and protests -- after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the website takes no action over most breast-feeding photos because they follow the site's terms of use but others are removed to ensure the site remains safe and secure for all users, including children.

"Photos containing a fully exposed breast (as defined by showing the nipple or areola) do violate those terms (on obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material) and may be removed," he said in a statement.

"The photos we act upon are almost exclusively brought to our attention by other users who complain."

But Facebook's decision to ban some breast-feeding photos has angered some users, including U.S. mother Kelli Roman whose photograph of her feeding her daughter was removed by Facebook.

Roman is one of the administrators of an online petition called "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" which has picked up speed in the past week after protesters organized a virtual "nurse-in" on Facebook and held a small demonstration outside Facebook's office in Palo Alto, California.

The petition has now attracted more than 80,000 names and over 10,000 comments, reigniting the old debate about the rights or wrongs of breast-feeding in public.

Organizers of the petition said some women had been warned not to repost photographs that had been removed from their pages or they would face being kicked off Facebook.

One breast-feeding mother, called Rebekah, said Facebook removed a photograph of her feeding her child.

"I find it offensive that (Facebook) can remove my photo but not the close up picture of a thonged backside I (have) seen on a friend's page or remove the "what kama sutra position are you?" quiz application," she wrote.

Facebook, which has more than 120 million members, is standing by its decision.

Schnitt said the company had called many U.S. media groups during the course of the protest to ask to place an advert related to breast-feeding that showed a woman breast-feeding her child with a fully exposed breast. None agreed.

"Obviously, a newspaper and Facebook are different things but the underlying motivation for the content policies are the same," he told Reuters

[pintsofguinness]

Why would anyone post a picture of themselves breast feeding ffs?

[The Real Laoislad]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWP9eC-wIk

Not as good as this one

[gerry]

Boy guilty of shooting his mother


A 12-year-old boy has been found guilty in the United States of murdering his mother following a row over his household chores
A judge in Arizona ruled prosecutors had proved the boy acted intentionally when he shot his mother, Sara Madrid, eight times last year.

The boy, from the city of Douglas in Cochise County, was found guilty of premeditated murder.

He has not been identified because he was charged as a juvenile.

He is due to be sentenced on 23 January.

The hearing took place in Cochise County Superior Court in the southern Arizona town of Bisbee.

According to prosecutors, the shooting happened after the boy had argued with his mother over chores.

He got a pistol from a bedroom cupboard and shot Sara Madrid repeatedly.

Abuse claims

Her live-in boyfriend of 10 years, Alfonso Munoz, saw what happened and he says the boy gave him the empty gun afterwards.

Mr Munoz, who helped raise the boy, said he had taught him how to use the weapon for emergencies and self-defence.

The boy's lawyer argued the child did not intend to kill his mother, but only wanted to get back at her for abusing him.

Police said the boy told them his mother yelled at him and slapped him.

Prosecutors wanted the child tried as an adult, but the judge ruled the case should remain in juvenile court after a psychologist and psychiatrist testified that he suffered physical and verbal abuse from his mother and could be rehabilitated in the juvenile justice system.

Under Arizona law, the boy can be held only until he turns 18 years of age.

[Harold Disgracey]

I live in a little place called Derrynoose. I recently got a statement from my pension company addressed Londonderrynoose!
Shower of c***ts.

[illdecide]

I live in a little place called Derrynoose. I recently got a statement from my pension company addressed Londonderrynoose!
Shower of c***ts.

Send it back to the Hoors and tell them to put the correct address on it in future...And don't forget to charge them for your services...

[full back]

Who are the pension company?

[Harold Disgracey]

NILGOSC. Chances are its some **** that knows me taking the piss. Never had this problem before. I'll have to get on the phone to them!

[ziggysego]

Phone Stephen Nolan and see what he says

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Coming into work this morning and discovering the IT department have blocked the following - Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Bebo, Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia - being able to listen to online radio stations as they deleted Real Player and now I can't re-install it

[Our Nail Loney]

Coming into work this morning and discovering the IT department have blocked the following - Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Bebo, Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia - being able to listen to online radio stations as they deleted Real Player and now I can't re-install it

Bebo / Facebook / Youtube all blocked in my work... Technically we are not allowed on any sites that have nothing to do with work, I use the line though that I get stuff like results and prices off the board, and that the more I know about the GAA the better for everyone as I can chat to the punters about it an all...

[The Real Laoislad]

Police seek blow-up doll sex bandit

 
An Australian man broke into three adult shops, had sex with blow up dolls named "Jungle Jane" and then dumped his plastic conquests in a nearby alley, local media reported Wednesday.

"It's totally bizarre. It's a real concern that someone like that is out on the street," said one of the owners of the adult sex shops in Cairns in northern Queensland state.

"He has been taking the dolls out the back and blowing them up and using the dolls and leaving them in the alley," the owner, who gave the name of Vogue, told the Cairns Post newspaper.

Police told the Cairns Post that scientific officers had taken DNA samples, fingerprints and pictures of the crime scene.

[Our Nail Loney]

Soggy bisuit!!

[5 Sams]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/UFO-Sighting-After-Wind-Turbine-Blade-Damaged-In-Conisholme-Lincolnshire/Article/200901215199411?f=dta

[Square Ball]

Divorce man 'wants kidney back'

A US man divorcing his wife is demanding that she return the kidney he donated to her or pay him $1.5m (£1m) in compensation.

Dr Richard Batista told reporters that he decided to go public because he was frustrated at the slow pace of divorce negotiations with his estranged wife.

He said he had not only given his heart to his wife, Dawnell, but donated his kidney to save her life.

But divorce lawyers say a donated organ is not a marital asset to be divided.

Dr Batista married Dawnell in 1990 and donated the kidney to her in 2001. She filed for divorce in 2005 and a settlement has still not been reached.

'Betrayal'

He told reporters at his lawyer's office in Long Island, New York, that going public was a last resort.

  I felt humiliated, betrayed, disrespected and disregarded

Dr Richard Batista
"There is no deeper pain that you can ever express than betrayal from somebody who you love and devoted your life to," he said.

He said he had been prevented from seeing their three children for extended periods.

"I felt humiliated, betrayed, disrespected and disregarded for me as a person, as a man, as a husband, as a father."

Dr Batista's lawyer, Dominic Barbara, said his client was "asking for the value of the kidney" that he gave his wife.

A lawyer for Mrs Batista said: "The facts aren't as represented by Dr Batista. We will be addressing the issues before the judge within the next few days."

From the BBC

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