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Handcuff cufflinks

Handcuff cufflinks.
For the man who has everything and maybe a slight inclination towards S&M. Or maybe a gift to someone you'd want to engage in a little of the same. What would you think id someone gave you these? Or maybe it's just a discreet hint of his profession for the plain clothed police officer. The choice is entirely yours, we're just pointing to some possibilities, here... Available at NPW for GBP 9:95 (approx. USD 18:-).

1 May 2006

It's a... no, it's actually a door stop.
This site should be renamed Plain Funny for this one, but we'll post it anyway. The most hilarious thing about this is that we for many years have had a kitchen stool with a top that looks just like a wedge of cheese. The cheese door stop. From Bim Bam Banana for USD 27:- which is pretty steep for a doorstop.

27 April 2006

Update 8 February 2007. Just found this wedge on Melta.se for just SEK 69:- (that's about USD 9:80) which sounds a lot better, at least to me.

$X-ray picture of fracture$

Inbreeding made Swedes impervious to pain.
A paper, to be published at the University of Umeå next week, concludes that a number of inhabitants of the town of Gällivare in Northern Sweden have been made impervious to pain due to generations of inbreeding. The explaination is claimed to be genetical mutation, and it even has a name – "norrbottnisk ärftlig smärt-okänslighet" (in an attempt to translate, it comes out something like "norrbottnian hereditary pain resilience" but please forgive me if it's incorrect). The defect was discovered when a number of cases of people with broken bones were discovered to be related to each other, all having a common ancestor from the 18th century. There are about 40 people with this defect alive today, several of them children. Full story on the Svenska Dagbladet website (in Swedish only, sorry, your'e going to have to take my word on this one).

22 April 2006

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