Good news everyone!
For years imbibers have been told a big night on the drink wipes out entire sections of human brain cell function with much the same destructive equivalent as a napalm bombing strike.
According to Queensland Brain Institute director Professor Perry Bartlett, this is not true.
There is no evidence drinking alcohol leads directly to the death of brain cells, he said.
“Some of the best studies, done in Italy, show a bottle of wine a night can reduce the risk of dementia in old age,” Professor Bartlett said.
In moderation, alcohol has positive benefits for blood vessel health and stroke prevention. And, as an added bonus, new brain cells are generated every day of our lives.
Research by Professor Bartlett and his team has found we all have an inbuilt repair kit replenishing the more than 100 billion cells - or neurons - in our brain.
The new evidence will be presented at a conference in the tropical northern Australian resort city of Cairns.
Speakers at the conference will include distinguished scientists from Oxford, Cambridge and Yale.
So everyone, it’s party time! All the more reason to get into onto the piss, as we say in Australia.
Spanish women demand equal rights with Bulls.
July 9, 2007
As you may know, the Spanish town of Pamplona is in the middle of it’s world famous running of the bulls festival— a nine day celebration that honors the city’s patron saint, San Fermín.
A few days before the annual festival started a semi-naked ”running of the nudes” protest took place by PETA, demanding an end to the event.
And now a group of feminists are demanding, not the end of the bull running events, but a running of the cows to make the festival more gender equal.
The women are demanding that they get thier own version of the festival made world famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
A local student web site, www.estudiln.net, is demanding “equality for men and women”, arguing that its only logical that women should have their own bull run, despite the fact that women have been allowed to participate in the death defying race for many years.
”Cows, as well as bulls, have four legs and a natural instinct to run,” says their manifesto. “An encierro for cows, would put Pamplona at the vanguard of traditional fiestas with equality for men and women.”
Organizers of the festival, which runs from July 7-14, have not responded to the suggestion.
But, do cows have massive horns on their heads which can be used to spear the flesh of an adrenalin pumped human?
Not that I know of.
But perhaps a running of the cows would result in much less death and injury than a running with the bulls, but less fun offcourse.
Bull Running 2007- Yeeha!
Yowzers!
Now, this story brings a whole new meaning to the term eye for an eye.
A Hong Kong woman who partly blinded her boyfriends’ eye six years ago has been jailed after poking the other eye with a chopstick.
Po Shiu-fong, 58, accused long-time boyfriend Kwok Wai-ming, 49, of having an affair, and a row quickly erupted.
During the heated arugment, Po stabbed a plastic chopstick into Kwok’s left eye, the same eye she wounded just years earlier.
“Po became hysterical when she saw the wound and mopped it with a towel. The pair then went to bed,” reports said.
“The next morning they had another argument in which she grabbed a chopstick and stabbed Kwok’s right eye.”
Two days later, he sought medical treatment and filed a police report against Po, whom he had dated since 1993.
Apparently he didn’t report the attack six years ago, telling the court his silence was “a love sacrifice.”
“If I forgive her, God would not forgive me,” Kwok was reported as saying. “No matter what, nothing could compensate for the loss of my eye.”
Po was jailed for six months.
Video: Hot Dog! Chestnut cracks the big one.
July 5, 2007
As The Crazy News reported last month the dual between Joey Chestnut of the United States and Takeru Kobayashi of Japan was hotting up.
Today the rivalry crescendoed as America celebrated Independence Day with the famous Nathan’s hotdog eating contest in New York.
The American food extraordinaire beat the reigning six time Japanese champion in a thriller, breaking a new record. The nut scoffed down 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. That’s a rate of one dog every 10.9 seconds.
Kobayashi finished second with an amazing 63 hot dogs consumed, despite the fact that he was suffering from a jaw injury and a pulled wisdom tooth.
Here’s the exciting video:
You really get the feeling that one day someone is going to die pushing the limits of food scoffing….
