Insane Japanese Halloween Costumes!

It’s up to you to decide whether this is a Trick or Treat…

The online Japanese costume world is a truly strange one. I found these gems on Cracked.com. - all in celebration of the scariest day of the year!








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PartyGaming and 888 in Merger Talks

IGamingBusiness reports that online gambling groups Partygaming and 888 Holdings are in talks about a possible merger.

The Gibraltar-based firms are two of the biggest victims of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) which effectively makes internet gambling illegal.
PartyGaming has since pulled out of the U.S., but Chief Executive Mitch Garber has said the changes are, ' a golden consolidation opportunity for Partygaming'.

The Sunday Times reported executives from the two companies - which would have a joint market capitalisation of almost 1.6 billion pounds ($3 billion) - expected to hold further talks in coming weeks as gaming firms consider options to combine their online pool of players.

PartyGaming has declined to comment on the report. 888 was not immediately available for comment.

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Who needs color for the 'hair down there'?

Ever had sleepless nights fretting over the fact that the color of your ‘hair down there’ isn’t the same as those on your head?

I most certainly haven’t! But apparently this is not the case for thousands of women out there, who – according to certain hair salons (certainly not mine!) – have made the practice of providing women with a little home sample of hair coloring to match the coloring they just got put on their heads.

Some women saw a gap in the market, and created the over-the-counter product.

Betty Beauty is described as the first safe color specially formulated for the hair down there. It colors naturally, covers gray, and enhances to match your glorious locks above.

Whether you're blonde (be a true blonde now!), radiant auburn, brunette, or black, their easy-to-use, no-drip formula gives you the perfect finishing touch.

From now on, when you highlight or color your hair, don't forget your betty color for the ‘hair down there’.

Is Your Betty Ready?

Peekaboo… I sue you

Tesco is getting the short end of the stick for selling a Peekaboo pole-dancing kit on their website.

The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!

The £49.97 kit comprises a chrome pole extendible to 8ft 6ins, a 'sexy dance garter' and a DVD demonstrating suggestive dance moves.

The kit has been condemned as 'extremely dangerous' by family campaigners, who accuse Tesco of "destroying children's innocence".

I don’t know. Take away the DVD and “sexy dance garter” (wtf?) and I’m sure B could have hours of fun running rings around the pole, hanging on it, sliding off it playing fireman, and probably falling her head open. All-in-all good, clean fun.

Source: CherryFlava
Read: Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toy

Off To Find My Inner Flirt and other forgotten things

I have to confess, I’ve spent the last week or so manically playing slots. I don’t know if it’s because of all the gambling hoo-ha in the media, and threats of no more online gambling, but I’ve been on that max bet button like white on rice.

I still play at River Belle (my favorite) and I’ve been trying out some new games like Chocolate (which actually caused a chocolate craving and I had to raid B’s sweetie drawer), Moonshine (which is about hillbillies – which I found hysterical) and some old favorites.

After the normal ups and downs, I tore myself away from my pc while I was up quite a bit, so a very enjoyable and successful session, over all.

As I stumbled off to bed, happy in the knowledge that I made some good money, I realized that, as nice as it is, I can’t actually spend my life hiding behind my pc.
Sooo… I decided that it’s time to turn off my PC, get out of my “house clothes” (also referred to as saggy-bum-off-grey-unflattering-as-all-hell sweats) and get out there.

Yes. It’s time to Go On A Date.

So as a mild panic smacks me in the face like a wet fish, I refer back to old tactics.

Research.

I have this strange need to know that other people have gone through the same thing, had the same anxieties, insecurities and mild nausea I experience whenever I think too hard about Going On A Date.

That why I love any article that starts with “10 Rules”, “10 tips” or “10 reasons” etc.

Sometimes I read it to actually get tips, rules or reasons. Sometimes I read it to see how many of them I do, or don’t do. Sometimes I read it to feel better about myself and sometimes I use it to compare myself to other people and (hopefully) come up trumps.

So I was delighted to come across “Dating After Divorce: 10 Tips for the Newly Uncommitted”.

Here goes:

1. Note To Self: Proceed With Caution. Try to balance out time with thrilling new acquaintances/guys with time by yourself, and time with good old friends you can trust.

2. Singleton Girlfriends: Your Greatest Asset. If you don't already have girlfriends who are single or have recently been single for a significant period of time, find them. Single women will be an incredible resource for you both because they are in a similar phase of life and because they know the ropes of the wacky dating world better than you.

3. The Harsh Truth: It's One Big Process of Elimination. An important thing to know is that a guy you meet or go on a date with does not have to ever get in touch with you again. If a guy doesn't call, he's not interested/ he's commitment-phobic/ whatever. Don't fool yourself that he's busy, traveling, and so on.

4. Avoid Inadvertent Stalking. Be careful not to engage in premature couple behavior just because it's what you know best. You don't want to ruin something good by overwhelming the guy and yourself before you even know what's there, and you want to make sure he is as great as you think.

5. To Thine Own Self Be True - Without Over sharing. Whether you view it as "being mysterious" a la The Rules or honoring your own privacy, going slowly on the information front means you are confiding in a guy only once you are ready and he is worthy - an important measure of self-respect.

6. Go With The Gut. You'll usually know by the second or third date whether you're vaguely interested in a guy. If you're dreading a next date, you're not into it.

7. The World Is Your Petri-Dish. Approach the dating scene with an attitude of experimentation and openness. Don't necessarily focus on Mr. Right but on Mr. Right Now.

8. Defy the Checklist and Rediscover Your Type. Many of us think we have a "type." We recommend that you jettison the checklist, get out of your head, and experiment with what really makes you happy (or makes you gag) so that you're living in reality and not on some remote Fantasy Island.

9. Do a 180. One form of defying your checklist is being attracted to or getting involved with guys who are pretty much the opposite of your ex. Human nature being what it is, sometimes we need to swing from one extreme to the other to make progress.

10. Find Your Inner Flirt. Flirting is a state of mind - it's about engaging in a sense of play about human contact and connection. It's about charming someone and letting yourself be charmed, about delighting in someone's vitality and having him delight in yours. It's frothy and joyous, not deep or serious. It's about instant gratification, not long-term goals. The chance to flirt may not last forever, so enjoy the freedom while you can - flirt 'til it hurts.

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Sigh…Well I guess I’m off to go find my inner flirt. I think it’s lying somewhere underneath the dirty laundry, unwashed dishes and toys strewn all over the place.

How's my nanny?

New York - Just as trucking companies put signs on their vehicles asking the public to report unsafe drivers, parents can now put license plates on their baby strollers to get feedback on the behavior of their nannies.

Jill Starishevsky, a mother of two and a New York prosecutor, launched HowsMyNanny.com, which sells stroller license plates that have a unique number and include the website address so the public can anonymously report good or bad nanny behavior.

The parents, who pay $50 for a plate, receive an e-mail alerting them to the report, which they access on the website using a password.

"It's a tool to empower the parents and to protect the parents and the children, it's not a tool to work against nannies. It's just a tool to give parents peace of mind," said Starishevsky, a lawyer who prosecutes child abuse and sex crimes.

Starishevsky said she came up with the idea after she saw a nanny in a New York city park who for at least an hour ignored the two young girls she was looking after.

"I was so frustrated," said Starishevsky. "How do I tell the mother that these kids could have run into the street, they could have been taken away at the hand of a stranger."

The most recent data from the U.S. Department of Labour shows that in 2004 there were about 1.3 million childcare workers across the United States, of which about 21% worked in private households.

Grade school bans tag, other chase games

In a typical example of how sad and fucked-up society has become, officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football or any other unsupervised chase game during recess.

Why? Because the school is afraid that the kids might get hurt and hold the school liable.

I’ve got a problem with that. A big one, in fact.

In this day and age, kids have less and less time to actually BE kids. Don’t play - we might have to sue someone. Don’t express yourself - you might be politically incorrect and offend someone. Don’t sit on Santa’s lap - he might be a pedophile.

On and on the list goes.

But maybe it’s not the school or the principle or the administrators who are to blame.
Maybe we should blame the overprotective, over conscious, politically and racially oversensitive PARENTS who can’t accept the fact that children play, run, trip, fall over and get back up again.

Yes, they are going to get hurt and cry at some stage. But a bruised knee (which has never killed anyone and might even build some character) is no ground for legal action, no matter how much you paid for the ruined clothes, or how much your little baby cries.

Maybe we should start taking responsibility for our own children. For their sakes.


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They are coming to get us... Stingray conspiracy theory

Miami - A leaping stingray stabbed an 81-year-old Florida boater in the chest, leaving its poisonous stinger lodged close to his heart in an incident recalling the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.

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Seduced By Snacks - Diary of an Oreo addict

My name is Lady Marmalade and I'm an addict. An Oreo addict to be precise. Or anything remotely chocolate to be less precise.

Overindulgence is a big, scary issue. Not just because it causes you to look big and scary, but also because manufacturers bargain on you stuffing your face and then telling yourself that you “only had a little taste”.

A lot of time and effort go into determining WHY Americans can’t stop eating. Hell, I spend a lot of MY time wondering why I can’t stop feeding my face. It’s not enough to have one or two Oreos to quiet the craving for crunchy, chocolaty goodness. No. I have to start working at that packed from the one side, munching faster and faster (in case someone else comes and also wants some) and only stop once there’s only about three left. Then I feel guilty and put it back in the cupboard, in case someone else wanted some (good girl, at least I didn’t eat them all!) Only to be back in the cupboard guiltily eating the remaining 3 a couple of hours later, feeling like a fat failure, but unable to stop myself.

According to Prof. Brian Wansink, 65 percent of Americans who are overweight or obese got that way, in part, because they didn’t realize how much they were eating.

The bigger the plate, the larger the spoon, the deeper the bag, the more we eat. But sometimes we decide how much to eat based on how much the person next to us is eating, sometimes moderating our intake by more than 20 percent up or down to match our dining companion.

One of his examples of our mindless approach to eating involved an experiment with tubs of five-day-old popcorn. Moviegoers in a Chicago suburb were given free stale popcorn, some in medium-size buckets, some in large buckets. What was left in the buckets was weighed at the end of the movie. The people with larger buckets ate 53 percent more than people with smaller buckets. And people didn’t eat the popcorn because they liked it, he said. They were driven by hidden persuaders: the distraction of the movie, the sound of other people eating popcorn and the Pavlovian popcorn trigger that is activated when we step into a movie theater.

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So has this article led to a revolutionary cure for my Oreo overindulgence? Not even close.

But it’s quite reassuring to know I’m not the only one…

Will He Or Won’t He? Online Gamblers Hold Their Breath

There is speculation that President Bush may elect to refer the online gambling legislation back to Congress, since there are too many flaws due to the last-minute nature of amendments that had to be made in order to attach the proposal at the eleventh hour to the port security bill on which it passed.

Lobbyist Debbie Richardson, who declines to identify her company, organized a small protest in Washington earlier this week. According to Richardson, the protest produced new information that runs contrary to the almost universal view that President Bush will sign the Act into law today as part of a port security measure.

Richardson was apparently told that the President could decline to sign off the new law on grounds that it may be flawed. The fact that many Congressmen and women were not given enough time to study the final content of the bill was also apparently a cause for concern. President Bush has the power to send the attachment bill back to the Senate for a 30-day period, for debate and more competent drafting, she was told.

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Meanwhile, here are some reader comments on the new Internet Gambling Act

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Take your Asian markets and shove it, bail-out casinos

For many years, American dollars were good enough for online gambling casinos, poker rooms, bingo halls and sports betting sites. In fact, American dollars were where it was at. They pursued us, offered us free cash, incentives, prizes, promotions, promises.

They caught us hook, line and sinker and - worst of all – they made us LIKE gambling online. Let’s face it - it’s great. It’s convenient, it has great payouts and you don’t even have to get out of your pajamas to play.

But now, at the first sign of a glitch. Our US Dollars aren’t good enough anymore.

“No thanks, you can’t play here any more. We don’t care how much money you’ve spent, or how loyal you’ve been to us. Thank you and good bye. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.”

Well, fuck that. Don’t think you’ll get you players back once you see that there are ways to get around the Act. Once bitten, twice shy, assholes. Go and woo the Asian market and ching chong chung out of here.

That said, I’ve spoken to the folks at River Belle Online Casino and they’ve assured me that play is continuing. So this is not directed at those casinos continuing catering for US players like me.

Thanks River Belle. Keep up the good work. I think I’ll go and enjoy a game or two right now.

2006 Hot Holiday Toys for Tots

Toy Wishes' annual Hot Dozen list features hysterically laughing Elmo, modern-day Monopoly and Nintendo's Wii.

Elmo is not the only one laughing hysterically…

I almost started foaming at the mouth when I saw the Toy Wishes’ annual Hot Dozen list.

Every year around this time, I promise myself that I’ll put money away during the course of the year for NEXT Christmas’ Toy Wish item that B is almost certain to want.

And every year when this damned list comes out, I realize that not a cent had been saved, and that I’d have to sell a kidney to be able to afford one of them.

Among the candidates in 2006 - TMX Elmo, a digital camera for 3-year-olds, Princess Genevieve Barbie and a modern day twist to classic Monopoly.

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So that's where I went wrong...

Instead of studying when I was in school, I was out chasing boys. Now that I'm long out of school and chasing orgasms, it seems that it's time to bring back the books!

The study goes:
Women with graduate degrees are more likely to reach orgasm than their less educated counterparts, a new Australian study suggests.

The survey, which interviewed more than 9,000 women, claims that higher levels of education and income are associated with a greater prevalence for orgasm among women.

"The association between orgasm and demographic characteristics suggest a social-effect, with better-educated, non-immigrant women more likely to have orgasms," the researchers wrote in their report.


And I was blaming the shortage of decent men... Not sure if I'm quite ready to swop my soapies for studying in the strive for the Big O (or the Tepid O, more likely).

And besides - maybe it's too little, too late?

My fortune in internet gaming stocks...

I’m considering buying internet gambling stocks. Not a lot – I don’t have that much money lying around. But it all makes perfect sense to me.

The price of gambling stocks came tumbling down on Monday. Which means they’re really cheap now. Which means I can, for the first time in my life, afford them. And I firmly believe that in a couple of months time there’ll be a new face on the Forbes cover, gloating about how he snatched up all the gambling stocks for next to nothing, and as soon as the uncertainty passed and the prices went back up, he became a billion-trillionaire and now owns several islands and is fulfilling his dream of directing a major Hollywood movie.

Why can’t that be me? I’m going to think this through a bit more, but read Internet gambling stocks: A good time to buy? in the meantime and see if you agree.

Enough now - leave gamblers alone!

Frankly, I’m growing quite sick and tired of the ongoing online gaming debate. In the latest shock, horror and hoohah, Congress was able to link a bill regarding online gaming to the latest bill regarding American port security.

Now, according to those in the know, the online gaming legislation added to the port security bill is very difficult to enforce. While it doesn't outright state that online gaming is illegal, it does outlaw the payment of gaming implements through banks and credit card companies in the United States. It does not address, however, the multitude of online payment systems (such as NeTeller) that exist or what can occur through them.

So in my humble opinion, Congress is now happy that they’ve been able to link this bill to SOMETHING, which should quiet those morally opposed to gambling online.

So if online gaming is not outright declared illegal and online payment systems remain untouched – all is right with the world, and we can all continue squandering our hard-earned money online. Which is our choice - not the government or anybody else’s.