Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
A survey asked 1,011 American adults how long they would feel OK without going on the Web, to which 15 percent said a just a day or less, 21 percent said a couple of days and another 19 percent said a few days. The poll, released on Wednesday, found the use of cell phones and the Internet were becoming more and more an essential part of life with 48 percent of respondents agreeing they felt something important was missing without Internet access.
More than a quarter of respondents -- or 28 percent -- admitted spending less time socializing face-to-face with peers because of the amount of time they spend online. It also found that 20 percent said they spend less time having sex because they are online. » Continue reading full article here
Friday, September 21, 2007
Everyone Farts
What cause us to fart?The answer may stink, but eating or drinking anything gives us gas. In fact, it's normal to fart up to half of a gallon (1.9 liters), or about 15 to 20 toots worth of gas, each day.
When we gulp down food, air comes with it. So if a belch seems rude, remember that the air has to leave our bodies one way or another.
Fragrant flatulence, however, comes from colonies of bacteria shacked up inside our lower intestinal tract (which is why it can take hours for gas to kick in after a meal). In the process of converting our meals into useful nutrients, these food-munching microbes produce a smelly by-product of hydrogen sulfide gas—the same stench that emanates from rotten eggs.
Oh Shit!
Woman, 77, locked in public toilet overnightPolice started a missing person alert for a great-grandmother - only for her to turn up 12 hours later having been locked in a public loo overnight. Gwyneth Coles, 77, of Pickering, North Yorkshire, got locked in the town's toilets after nipping in following a bus journey on Monday evening. Although an attendant locking up shouted to check the building was empty, he failed to hear her answer. "I thought, I'm here for the night, they're closed and I've been forgotten and they don't open 'til seven tomorrow morning what am I going to do?" said Mrs Coles. The resilient great-grandmother put on four jumpers she had in her bags and settled down for a night under the tiles. But salvation came when the caretaker returned at 0700 BST on Tuesday morning and found her inside. Flushed council officials apologised and sent Mrs Coles a bunch of flowers. With news video.
Another food assault in Des Moines
Man hits wife in head with an onion
A man was arrested after he hit his wife in the back of the head with an onion. James Izzolena, 54, of Des Moines, had been drinking, became upset with his wife, Nicole Izzolena, 27, and threw an onion at her during an argument on Wednesday, police said.Police said James Izzolena admitted throwing the onion at his wife but said he didn't mean to hit her.
His wife told police it made her head hurt.
Information from: The Des Moines Register, http://www.desmoinesregister.com
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