An Australian man who robbed a bank while dressed as a woman then made his getaway on rollerblades has been jailed for six years, it was reported on Friday. Nino Leo Lanu, 32, dressed in women's clothes and made up his face using his mother's cosmetics before holding up the bank in Melbourne with an imitation pistol last February, Australian Associated Press reported. It said he then made his escape on rollerblades, speeding along narrow walkways so no cars would be able to pursue him.
The report said Victoria county court judge John Smallwood described Lanu, who lives with his mother in a house opposite the bank he robbed, as an 'emotionally and socially disconnected young man'.
The report said Victoria county court judge John Smallwood described Lanu, who lives with his mother in a house opposite the bank he robbed in suburban Brunswick, as an "emotionally and socially disconnected young man". He said the bizarre robbery had been carefully planned, even though Lanu had undermined his female disguise by failing to shave before he robbed the bank, where he was also a customer. "You also endeavoured to create a set of quote 'fake boobs', end quote," Smallwood said. "It's clear that the rollerblades were used to affect a very quick getaway and you chose to go down a walkway in which no car could follow you. Whilst on a superficial view - you not even having shaved - the robbery could be described as inept, on closer view it was effective. You had thought about this beforehand, planned the way in which you were going to carry it out and planned your escape route." Lanu pleaded guilty to armed robbery, possessing an unregistered firearm and cultivating cannabis plants.
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Major story in the BongWater Gazetter and Edible Paper.
a nice column about an athlete who's not doping, beating the wife, in jail, or acting like an ass. Someone doing wonderful things for all the right reasons.
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Good people doing what's right. God bless them.
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No kidding. Now God can pay him back by moving his hand away from the long iron and to the pitching wedge when Phil's leading by 2 with 1 hole to go in the next major and he's sliced his drive into the trees.
Hundreds of Britons are being urged to attend what is being branded as Europe's first "Masturbate-a-thon", a leading British reproductive healthcare charity said.
Bring your own tissue, though...
Marie Stopes International, which is hosting the event with HIV/AIDS charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, said it expected up to 200 people to attend the sponsored masturbation session in Clerkenwell, central London, on Sunday. "It is a bit of a publicity stunt but we hope it will raise awareness," a Marie Stopes spokeswoman said. "We want to get people talking about safer sex, masturbation and to lift taboos."
Guess you can't get much safer than stretching your own baloney or tickling your own clam...
Participants, who have to be over 18, can bring any aids they need and can take part in four different rooms - a comfort area, a mixed area, along with men and women only areas. However, the rules on the event's website states there can be no touching of other participants nor are people allowed to fake orgasms.
"Want me to help you with that, handsome?"
"Keep yer hands to yerself, you brazen hussy! Din't ya read the rules?"
"The amount you raise will be determined by how many minutes you masturbate and/or how many orgasms you achieve," the website said.
Hope they've got that broken down by age groups...
Organisers said participants will have the option of wearing clothes that "they feel hot or erotic in" and will be able to go into private booths, and male-only or female-only areas, should they wish. Individuals who are too embarrassed to get sponsorship can "self-donate".
"Ummm... I brought you this."
"For me? Oh, thank you!... Hey! This is mayonnaise!"
Around five people are aiming to break the masturbation record (eight-and-a-half hours for a man and six hours 20 minutes for a woman).
We're talking blister city here, folks...
The Marie Stopes spokeswoman said local religious groups had been initially outraged, but after people had heard what the event was about, most had approved it.
"Whacking off? In groups? I'm ouraged! They'll all burn in... Ummm... They're raising money, y'say?... How much?... Well, except for that thing about Onan, there's nothing against it in the sight of the Lord... And we'll give you a dispensation for the Onan part..."
Police had also given it their approval.
"Yeah, sure. Keeps 'em off the streets. And when they get back on it they're mellow."
Similar events have been staged in San Francisco for the last six years raising $US25,000 ($32,927) for women's health initiatives and HIV prevention. If successful, Marie Stopes said it could take place elsewhere in mainland Europe next year.
"Where y'going for yer vacation this year, Herb?"
"I'm going to the Munich Beer Hall Whack-a-thon!"
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Didn't the tabloids report earlier this summer how the Japanese? sponsored a huge organized orgy between couples???
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Seriously ick. And the human race was so happy to leave communal caves for houses with rooms and doors, too. Based on the SF experience, this isn't actually a very good fundraiser, nor likely the best way to get most people to talk about safe sex, neither.
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Eight-and-a-half hours... hum, I guess I'll go to bed tonight having learned something... I guess... that's with this kind of stuff you can see how much the internet has to bring when it comes to knowledge. The information highway, indeed.
QUETTA: Cable operators in Balochistan are facing losses as hundreds of households are cancelling subscriptions or refusing to pay monthly fees, following the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authoritys (PEMRA) directive to ban Indian television channels. Certainly, our business is being affected. But we cannot afford to squabble with PEMRA, admitted one cable operator.
...the decision was undertaken because Indian media posed 'a threat to the Pakistani culture'.
Defying PEMRAs directives can have serious consequences for the cable companies: a fine of Rs 1 million and annulment of licence. A PEMRA insider said that the ban has been imposed under the presidents instructions. He said that the decision was undertaken because Indian media posed a threat to the Pakistani culture. However, most PEMRA officials thought that the threat posed by Indian media was commercial rather than cultural: slack viewership means scanty advertisements for local channels. Sources in PEMRA said that the ban was not likely to be lifted in the near future. The cable operators need not wait for lifting of the ban, said a PEMRA official in Islamabad. If they only rely on the Indian channels then they can shut their businesses, he said.
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How is "Pakistani culture" different to Indian Muslim culture?
Especially since many of the biggest bollywood stars are muslim?
King of Bollywood
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1837317,00.html
In India, Shah Rukh Khan is so famous he can't leave home without half a dozen minders. In the UK, he sells out Wembley in minutes. Emine Saner meets the world's biggest film star
In this country, few people outside Asian communities and Bollywood fans have heard of him (he sells out Wembley arena in minutes when he comes here to perform song-and-dance routines from his films).
Shah Rukh Khan (also known as "King Khan") has been in more than 50 Hindi films and has won 13 Filmfare awards, regarded as the "Bollywood Oscars". He is the biggest star in Hindi cinema and this means billions of fans (Bollywood has a global audience of 3.6 billion; Hollywood has 2.5 billion).
In India, where he lives with his wife and two children in Mumbai, he can't leave his house without six bodyguards (the hysteria that follows him makes Beatle-mania look like a librarians' convention).
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They obviously have a French cultural attache advising them on how to become more isolationist, xenophobic, and ignorant of other cultures.
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An Australian man who robbed a bank while dressed as a woman then made his getaway on rollerblades has been jailed for six years, it was reported on Friday. Nino Leo Lanu, 32, dressed in women's clothes and made up his face using his mother's cosmetics before holding up the bank in Melbourne with an imitation pistol last February, Australian Associated Press reported. It said he then made his escape on rollerblades, speeding along narrow walkways so no cars would be able to pursue him. 
Hundreds of Britons are being urged to attend what is being branded as Europe's first "Masturbate-a-thon", a leading British reproductive healthcare charity said.
QUETTA: Cable operators in Balochistan are facing losses as hundreds of households are cancelling subscriptions or refusing to pay monthly fees, following the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authoritys (PEMRA) directive to ban Indian television channels. Certainly, our business is being affected. But we cannot afford to squabble with PEMRA, admitted one cable operator. 
