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Peringatan Berbahasa Arab, Kurangi Kebiasaan Kencing Sembarangan di Banglades

Kompas.com - Selama bertahun-tahun, pemerintah Banglades dipusingkan kebiasaan para warga, khususnya pria, buang air kecil sembarangan. Padahal, peringatan larangan buang air kecil sembarangan dalam bahasa Bengali sudah disebar di berbagai sudut negeri. Namun, kebiasaan itu tak kunjung berkurang.

Kondisi itu berujung pada langkah baru yang diambil Kementerian Agama Banglades. Kementerian Agama kemudian membuat peringatan larangan kencing sembarangan dalam tulisan dan bahasa Arab.

Hasilnya, meski sebagian besar warga Banglades tak bisa membaca tulisan itu, ternyata cukup signifikan. Sebab, sebagian besar warga Banglades menganggap bahasa Arab, yang juga digunakan dalam Al Quran, adalah bahasa suci.

"Upaya ini memberi hasil cukup signifikan. Warga Banglades sangat menghormati bahasa Arab dan kami hanya memaksimalkan hal itu," ujar juru bicara Kementerian Agama Banglades, Anwar Hossain.

Sebuah video yang menganjurkan warga agar tidak buang air kecil sembarangan yang dibuat dalam bahasa Arab, menyebar cepat di Banglades sejak diunggah ke media sosial awal pekan ini.

Dalam video itu terlihat sekelompok pria tengah mendekati sebuah tembok dan siap untuk buang air kecil. Namun, saat melihat papan peringatan dalan bahasa Arab, mereka mengurungkan niatnya.

"Saya tak paham mengapa sebagian orang suka buang air kecil di tepi jalan. Padahal, semua masjid di negeri ini menyediakan sarana toilet," kata Menteri Agama Banglades, Matior Rahman, dalam video tersebut.

Namun, usaha pemerintah Banglades itu mendapatkan kecaman dari seorang ulama ternama Banglades, Fariduddin Masud. Dia menganggap penggunaan bahasa Arab untuk larangan buang air kecil menurunkan derajat bahasa Arab.

"Tak seorang pun berhak menggunakan bahasa Al Quran untuk kegiatan semacam itu," kata sang ulama.

"Warga negeri ini sangat menghormati bahasa Arab namun itu tak berarti kami menyetujui penggunaan bahasa Arab untuk menghentikan kebiasaan warga buang air kecil sembarangan," tambah Masud.

The Accidental Vagina: Design for Qatar's first 2022 World Cup stadium released

Nzherald.co.nz - Before now, the majority of discussions surrounding Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup have been surrounding the heat. There's even been talk of switching the summer tournament to winter months.

However, now that a virtual rendering of the first new purpose-built stadium has been released, the debate is not about whether the fully air conditioned pitch will solve the heat problem.

Rather a number of commentators and tweeters have pointed to the fact that the proposed Al-Wakrah stadium looks very much like a vagina.

Yes, the conservative country has designed what many believe appears to be a giant ode to women's private parts.

This is not what the architects intended. Instead, the design is supposed to resemble the sails of a dhow boat which is traditionally used for pearl fishing by Qataris.

Aecom, the firm that won the Al Wakrah contract along with Zaha Hadid Architects said: "Inspired by the dhow boat that carried generations of local fishermen and pearl divers, the stadium weaves together Qatar's past with its progressive vision for the future.

"Sustainable materials and practices will be used throughout the stadium and the pitch and spectator stands will be cooled to a perfect temperature for football."

Hassan al-Thawadi, the general secretary of Qatar's 2022 committee said: "Al-Wakrah is the first of six stadiums already in the latter stages of the design process, our committee has issued 10 major tenders to the market encompassing project and design managers and stadium-operation consultants."

The stadium, with a capacity of 40,000 people, would be completed by 2018, he said, but declined to comment on the cost.

As well as discussions surrounding the heat, Qatar as also been hit by allegations of migrant construction worker exploitation, as well as accusations of corruption over the voting procedure to win the bid, both of which officials have denied.

Man orders every sandwich on McDonald's menu to create $140 ‘McEverything’

Foxnews.com - Every man dreams of one day achieving something great.

For Nick Chipman of Milwaukee, Wisc., he wanted achieve not just one great thing, but everything  -- the McEverything.

On Monday, Chipman rolled up to the McDonald’s branch located on 66th and North Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 30 minutes before the end of breakfast service to be sure the kitchen was fully stocked, and literally ordered every sandwich on the menu.

The grand total for his epic order of 43 sandwiches came to $143 – and with that hefty price tag came the completion of a dream.

“The number one thing on my list for two or three years now has been to make this sandwich, which I’ve dubbed the McEverything,” Chipman wrote on his blog Dude Foods.

“Now, I know that some of you are probably reading this right now and thinking to yourself ‘Man, what kind of idiot spends $143 on 43 McDonald’s sandwiches?’” He wrote. “The way I see it though is that with all the leftovers I have I’ve got all my breakfasts, lunches and dinners covered for the next week or so!”

After ordering all 43 sandwiches, Chipman went on the stack them all together using bamboo skewers. The result was a sandwich taller than most five-year-old children.

"I originally anticipated it only being a couple of feet high, but as you can see from the pictures it ended up MUCH taller than that," Chipman wrote.

The hardest part of challenge? Chipman confessed that the most difficult thing was holding off from eating all the food he ordered.

"I'm a total sucker for McDonald’s sandwiches, especially their McGriddles," he added.

Chipman has garnered some attention for other weird creations, which he has posted on his blog. They include dishes like Waffle-Wrapped Bacon Chicken Wings, Sweet & Sour Chicken in a Wonton Cone and an Inside-Out Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

After this ambitious feat, it’s hard to imagine what Chipman will think of next.

LOL: PETA Claims Eating Chicken Wings Could Affect Your Baby’s Penis Size

Foodbeast.com - Oh, PETA, you never fail to amuse. Yes, PETA is alleging that eating chicken wings during pregnancy can affect the size of your baby’s penis.  It’s part of their attempt to curb participation in the National Buffalo Wing Festival. Of course.

In a letter from PETA to the festival’s founder, Drew Cerza, the organization claims that “scientific evidence shows that the sons of pregnant women who consume chicken are more likely to have smaller penises because of a chemical found in the birds’ flesh.”  Which, of course, leads us to wonder how the people in Buffalo, NY, home of the Buffalo Wing Festival, fare when it comes to these, um, sizable matters.

According to Women’s Health, they don’t have too much to worry about. The chemical PETA points to is phthalate and while it’s true that boys born to moms with the highest levels of phthalate exposure were more likely to have shorter penises, poultry didn’t rank very high on the laundry list of foods containing the chemical.

P.S.

Spices are actually on top of the list. Gotta love how science does that to you.

Pizza delivery boy gets $10 tip for $1,500 order

Telegraph.co.uk - A delivery boy in the US delivered a total of 85 large pizzas to one address costing $1,500 (£1,000) but received just $10 for his efforts, a tip of just 0.69 per cent.

The enormous order was unsurprisingly pre-authorised, with the payment dealt with in advance over the phone.

But that doesn't mean you can't also tip the delivery boy on arrival.

In the US, where tipping is more of an obligation than a nicety, five-10 per cent of the order total is usually given to delivery boys, with 15-20 per cent expected for complicated orders, according to CNN Money.

The delivery boy had wisely decided to stay anonymous but his friend, known as jfastman, posted a photo of the receipt on social network site Reddit.

The largest delivery bags in the US generally carry a maximum of a dozen pizzas, meaning that this trip would have required seven of those bags, plus a single for the extra pizza.

The 85 pizza pies each weighed more than a kilo, meaning each of the seven bags he carried would have weighed at least 12 kilos.

Jfastman confirmed that his friend also had to make two trips to deliver all the pizzas in his saloon car.

Cops bust car wash for allegedly offering free sex after nine washes

Torontosun - Some loyalty cards let you rack up points, but one business in Malaysia allegedly offered its customers something they could really use: free sex after nine car washes.

Police say they busted the car wash near Kuala Lumpur last week after discovering it had a partnership with a massage parlour, the Malay Mail reports.

They were tipped off when they raided the parlour and found the car wash cards on several alleged customers of prostitutes there.

"It was supposed to be just another routine operation," Emmi Shah Fadhil, the officer in charge, told the paper.

"To get the extra 'offer' customers must send their cars for washing nine times within a certain period. The tenth car wash will entitle them to free sex," Fadhil said, which would usually cost between 130 and 180 Malaysian ringgit (about $40-56).

Nine Vietnamese women, aged 18 to 28, were arrested on suspicion of prostitution. Four men suspected of running the scheme were also detained.

Hendicott Wedding Pictures, Ellie and Phil Hendicott Marry in Brisbane

Newsbizzare.com - In Brisbane, Australia Mr and Mrs Ellie and Phil Hendicott were married in a ceremony they won from a local FM radio station B105. It was no ordinary wedding.

The excited pair were required to give their nuptials in the nude at a wedding attended by 250 guests.

Mrs Ellie Hendicott wore a white, painted on "dress". The only thing she really wore was a long white wedding veil.

Phil Hendicott wore nothing but a black top hat to cover his manhood. The wedding ceremony was conducted in the morning, live on FM radio to hundreds of thousands of Australians.

The Lock of Love

Bridge in Cologne

Thesun.co.uk - Romantics are declaring their feelings by attaching PADLOCKS to landmarks all over the globe.

The symbolic gesture is meant to represent "unbreakable love", with couples showing their commitment by throwing away the key.

The craze started in the Hungarian city of PECS in the 1980s and has now reached the UK.

Parts of LONDON'S Tower Bridge are plastered with the padlocks while they adorn a fence in a GLASGOW park.

Some romantic souls also leave letters to their lovers or engrave a message on the locks.

In MOSCOW, a tree has been covered, while killjoy officials in PARIS have banned them from the Pont Des Arts bridge because they are too heavy.

Bridges in RIGA, Latvia, and COLOGNE, Germany, are also full of the love tokens.

Ghostly Figure of a weeping Girl in Mirror of Hotel Room

TheSun.com - A TERRIFIED couple spotted this ghostly figure of a weeping girl in the mirror of their hotel room - and fled after managing to snap a picture.

The "hysterical" pair said she had curly locks and a check dress, and was "crying".

They checked straight out of the room which was LOCKED by hotel bosses after seeing the spine-tingling image, so no one else could stay there.

A guest at the Ramada Hotel in Watford, Herts, said: "The couple went to reception and were hysterical.

"The man said he wanted to get out of the room ASAP.

"When they were asked why they wanted to move, the man said he had seen a ghost. Staff didn't believe it but then they were shown the picture.

"They were upset and said the image of the child was crying and crying and it was moving in the mirror. The guest was properly shaken."

An investigation has been launched to find out if staff have witnessed spooky occurrences in room No 307. The couple in the room were staying on their own and had no children.

A spokesman for the hotel group said: "We have to be careful because we do not want to upset people, so we have closed off the room to check that there is nothing untoward there.

"We have to investigate it. Anyone coming in is not given that room until we have done our full investigation.

"We are speaking to housekeeping to see if there is anything that would support what has been said by the guest."

The photograph was taken on Bank Holiday Monday. The spokesman said the hotel would give the room "a good clean out".

He added: "We are quite confident there is nothing untoward."

Do All Guys Watch Porn?

If a guy claims he's never seen a porn, tell him there are a few scientists who would like to have a word with him. A recent study planned to compare men who watched hardcore movies with those who didn't, except for one little problem... scientists couldn't find anyone who hadn't been exposed to porn.

According to professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse, from the University of Montreal, Canada, the study was meant to study the effects of pornography.

"The objective of my work," he said, "is to observe the impact of pornography on the sexuality of men, and how it shapes their perception of men and women."

Unfortunately, his team couldn't find a single man who hadn't been exposed to it. "We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed pornography," he said, "but we couldn't find any."

The study then morphed into an examination of those who do watch porn, and it was found that single young men view it for an average of 40 minutes three times a week. That's compared to the 1.7 times a week for 20 minutes that guys in committed relationships watch.

It's weird to think that porn is so ubiquitous that they couldn't find a single man who hasn't seen it. But then again, sex is the stuff of life, so anyone not aware of it probably doesn't even have a computer.

So either the porn-virgin no longer exists, or he's in hiding, trying to stay away from the internet. Call National Geographic if you spot him.

A Romp Around the Clock Stops Time in Sydney

The identity of a couple caught making love in a clock tower in central Sydney on Friday remains a mystery, but their intimate moment won’t be forgotten after passers-by captured it on video and mobile phone cameras.

The couple was in full view of the busy street below, with people at a bus stop laughing and pointing at the twosome.

German traveler Dirk Gensler, who was staying at an adjacent backpacker hostel, was gobsmacked by what he saw when he peered out his window.

"I was amazed by it, it was the middle of the day and so many people could see it," he said.

"I thought it was pretty cool."

Management of UniLodge, the student residential building housing the clock tower directly across the road from a major shopping center, insisted that there was no way the pair could be residents.

UniLodge assistant manager Ravi Krishna said that while the rooftop was accessible to those who live in the building, it was impossible to scale the wall that led to the clock tower.

Note to Lawyers: Don’t Accept Sex As Payment

Legal fees can be expensive — but allowing clients to pay with sex, it turns out, is a no-no for lawyers.

A Florida lawyer named James Harvey Tipler has been disbarred by the state for providing legal services in exchange for, well, other “services.” Tipler evidently let an 18-year-old woman “work off her legal fees” by working it, so to speak, according to recently published reports.

How much is sex worth in the law world, you might be wondering? The woman’s bill, for an assault-related case, was said to be $2,300. Tipler, local media outlets report, credited off $200 each time she had sex with him — and $400 each time she arranged for another woman to have sex with him. That’s rather insulting to her, isn’t it?

Tipler pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution. It didn’t stop there, though: An investigating board apparently found he also charged excessive (non-sexual) fees, altered evidence, arranged false testimonies, and actually stole money from clients.

In The Lap of The Gods

Seat your butt in the lap of the Gods. Introducing the Jesus chair, because a cross would have been too uncomfortable.

Excuse Me, There’s a Freeway In My Building

So this is what happens when you have two stubborn parties come together. The Hanshin Expressway takes a shortcut through the 5th and 7th floors of the Fukushima Gate Tower; also known as the Bee Hive. Apparently back in 1992; when this conglomeration of road and building came together, the building owner wanted to tear down the old building and rebuild. However the city planners had already allocated that space for the expressway.

This is the agreement they came to when neither party wanted to change their plans.

Coffee Shrinks Breasts

Damn you, Starbucks: Too much coffee can cause a woman’s breasts to shrink, according to a new study.

The research, conducted at Sweden’s Lund University, found gals who drank as few as three cups of joe a day had measurable effects. (I tried to apply for the “official measurer” job, but they never responded to my application.) The scientists believe about half of all women have a random gene that causes the coffee-breast connection. In those women, they believe, the cup size goes down with every cup downed.

“They will get smaller, but the breasts aren’t just going to disappear,” says Helena Jernstroem, an experimental oncology lecturer at Lund University.

Just when we thought we’d come up with a great new game, though, the researchers nixed our idea:

“Anyone who thinks they can tell which women are coffee drinkers just from their bra measurements will be disappointed,” Jernstroem insists. “The problem is that there are two measures for a bra, the cup size and the girth, so you wouldn’t be able to tell.”

Up and Eat Them

CIA agents are using a potent new weapon to aid the fight against the Taliban – Viagra pills.

The sex-boost drug is being used to bribe Afghan tribal warlords in return for vital intelligence information.

The elderly chiefs often have up to four wives to keep happy – and one ex-CIA agent in Afghanistan revealed how a 60-year-old warlord was persuaded to assist Coalition forces after they offered to ensure he was up to the task.

The chief had extensive knowledge of the area and controlled key passages, but was reluctant to help. US forces won his loyalty by handing over four blue pills after a medical check-up.

When troops returned four days later, the satisfied chief happily spilled the beans on Taliban movements and supply routes.

The CIA agent said: “He came up to us beaming. He said, ‘You are a great man.’

“After that, we could do whatever we wanted in his area.”

Bribing chiefs with medicine and school supplies has been standard practice since the Coalition entered Afghanistan in 2001.

Jamie Smith, another retired CIA agent, said: “You’re trying to bridge a gap between people living in the 18th Century and people from the 21st. So you look for those common things that motivate people everywhere.”

Envy is a Dog's Life, Study Finds

LONDON (Reuters) – Dogs can sniff out unfair situations and show a simple emotion similar to envy or jealousy, Austrian researchers reported on Monday.

Dogs sulked and refused to "shake" paws if other dogs got treats for tricks and they did not, said Friederike Range, an animal psychologist at the University of Vienna, who led the study into canine emotions.

"It is a more complex feeling or emotion than what we would normally attribute to animals," said Range.

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also showed dogs licked and scratched themselves and acted stressed when they were denied rewards given to other dogs.

Other studies have shown monkeys often express resentful behaviour when a partner receives a greater reward for performing an identical task, staging strikes or ignoring what they view as inferior compensation.

It turns out dogs are able to show a similar, if less sensitive, response, said Range in a telephone interview.

In a series of experiments using different breeds of dogs, the researchers looked at how two animals sitting next to each other reacted to unequal rewards after handing a paw to a researcher.

Dogs not given a treat licked their mouths, yawned, scratched and showed other signs of stress and stopped performing the task, Range said.

To show this was not just because the animals were not getting food, the researchers then tested the dogs alone and found that in this situation the envious canines cooperated longer before stopping.

"It is really about the unequal distribution of the reward," Range said. "If it was only about frustration they would stop at the same time."

Nagging Wife, Sausage Help Man Win $4.2M Lottery

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A "nagging" wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first prize — with only minutes to spare. The man from New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just two minutes before ticket sales closed Saturday night.

"My wife had been nagging me all week to get a ticket, so I when saw the Lotto sign ... I sprinted in to get the ticket before they closed," said the man, who asked not to be identified — normal practice among lottery winners in New Zealand .

"I must have been their last customer of the night," he said, adding that the young married couple had had a "rough" couple of years, reduced to one income after having children.

"I have never been so glad to listen to my wife's nagging," the man said Tuesday.

He discovered their newly won fortune Sunday thanks to his wife's request for a barbecued sausage.

Out shopping for bargains, the man said he didn't have enough money to buy his wife the sausage she'd asked him for. So he decided to check his Saturday lottery ticket in case he'd won a small prize.

"I could not believe it when they said I was actually the big winner," he said.

When he showed the printout to his wife, she initially thought they had won $4,200 (NZ$7,700).

"When she realized how much it really was, she fell to the floor, and then said: 'but all I wanted was a sausage.'"

Online Dating Couple Were Neighbors For 17 Years!

When a British teacher joined an online dating agency to find a husband, she found love much closer to home than she could have ever expected - in the same street!

46-year-old Julie McIlroy, looked through thousands of pictures of eligible men on the online dating site, before finally spotting father-of-two Allan Donnelly.

Julie and Allan had no idea they were neighbors and had been living in the same street for the past 17 years!

“I thought he looked nice so I sent him a message and he emailed me back. We started emailing for a couple of weeks and I discovered that Allan was from Cardiff” said mother-of-three Julie.

“Then I found out we both lived in the Rhiwbina area of the city - but even that’s a big place” she added.

e street, and had even seen each other from a distance, but never actually met face-to-face!

“I was totally stunned,” she said. “It’s an incredible co-incidence but it just goes to show that you never know where you will find love.”

The couple began dating and later went on holidays to Thailand, Cambodia and Morocco, before 53-year-old Allan finally proposed to Julie at a surprise party.

“I had been on the dating site for a while when I hooked up with Julie. It was an amazing co-incidence that we live so close to each other, What were the chances of that?” he said. “But it was my lucky day - we’ve got the perfect compatibility. She’s right up my street.”