Swearing 'helps to reduce pain'

Wants to reduce pain??? Scientist have suggested swearing can help to reduce pain. On average, the students could tolerate the pain for nearly two minutes when swearing compared with only one minute and 15...

Feck Off! Deemed to Be Acceptable in the Uk

Magners Irish Cider received a number of complaints relating to an advert in which a man tells bees to "feck off", members of the public were concerned that young children could be badly influenced by seeing this...

Children to swear allegiance to the Queen

British children are to be asked to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen in new classroom ceremonies.

27 Tips for Building a Kick-Ass Blog

While this list of ideas or suggestions may appear like a daunting task, try one tip for a week. Browse through the list and pick one that you feel would be the most doable and start to work on it. The longer you...

Fair Dinkum Harassment

I read stuff like this and do a bit of a lizard laugh in my mouth: "AN Australian woman was branded a criminal by airline officials after "swearing" on an American flight - with a classic, and utterly inoffensive,...

Wake Up Call

OpinionBarry Artiste,Now Public ContributorI guess the Key Word here is "Lengthy criminal record". Why are these Criminals released on the streets, time after time? People wonder why some citizens take the law...

When Herbal Remedies Can Ruin Your Health

"We've all heard about herbal supplements that have worked for someone we know. People swear by them: echinacea for a cold, ginkgo biloba for memory or the peppermint in the salve your aunt believes can ease chest congestion. Over the past decade, use of herbal supplements...

At swearing in, congressman wants to carry Koran. Outrage ensues.

"Keith Ellison hasn't even started his new job, and he's already under fire. When America's first Muslim congressman, a Democrat from Minnesota, let it be known he will carry a Koran to his swearing-in ceremony on...

KERRY PLAYS IT COOL FOR DEMS

"December 8, 2006 -- SEN. JOHN Kerry didn't have nice things to say about Sen. Hillary Clinton or his former running mate, John Edwards, on Tuesday night. But he didn't say anything bad about them either,...

Be Cocksure - How to live to 90 and die having sex.

"None of the following information about erection excellence is of the slightest personal interest to me. Even though I'm on the back nine of life, I'm blessed with function every bit as effervescent as I had when I was at JFK High. Really. I swear. It's true. Really. But...

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