Saturday, November 24, 2012
8 Bizarre Services Around the World
The woman who charges $60 an hour for spooning
Sessions of up to 90 minutes take place in a private room while friends and family members mill around the house offering protection from any over-enthusiastic clients.
The man who hired someone to slap him in the face when he went off task
His productivity went from 38% to 98% with the experiment.
The Japanese men who are seeking more and more ear cleaning parlors
Ever since Japan authorities decided to deregulate ear-cleaning as a medical profession, making it available without a medical license, hundreds of salons offering the service started popping up all over the country. The vast majority of clients are men looking to relax their minds after a stressful day, and travel back to the days when they used to rest their heads on their mothers' laps for the occasional ear cleaning session. Three out of four clients claim it's so relaxing they actually fall asleep while the kimono-wearing cleaners excavate the wax out of their ears.
Women who want to work in ear-cleaning salons have to become masters of the “mimikaki” (traditional cleaning tool), so they go through a one week course to acquire the proper ear-cleaning skills. They have to learn to remove just the right amount of ear wax, because it protects the ear canal, lubricates it and has antibacterial and antiviral properties. If all the wax is removed the canal is left vulnerable to a variety of outside threats.
The company who charges $100 an hour for having your house cleaned by naked maids
Despite the inherently sexual nature of naked mopping and dusting, the company's website says, “While we do offer nude maid service, this is not a sexually oriented business.” But the shirtless Swiffering has caught the attention of the Lubbock Police Department, who says the business is in fact sexually oriented, and that it is acting without the proper permit. “Just the fact that employees are topless or semi-nude in this case — it's just not allowed,” Sergeant Jonathan Stewart told KCBD. “Without a permit it would result in a penalty of a $2,000 fine. Each day would result in another penalty,” Stewart said.
The company that offers hand-written personal notes
Epistly is a service which lets you send a hand-written letter to whomever you'd like. No, this isn't a delivery service specializing in hand-written letters, but the people at Epistly will hand-write those letters for you. Just enter in your message along with the address, and your recipient will receive that exact message, hand-written, in their physical mailbox. You can even enter in an email address instead, and Epistly will look to see if they have a matching physical address, or they'll go ahead and ask the recipient for a physical address via that email address. Through this service, you can send those personal letters (with a nice touch because it's hand-written) without having to take the time to write it out and mail it.
The company that offers grandmas for rent
The email service that anonymously notifies about nose hair if you are too shy to do so
The company that offers a mobile hangover service in a bus
This service would be really appropriate to rent for your bachelor party.
Read more at http://www.oddee.com/item_98403.aspx#WVfb5GTggLB3fcJt.99
Black Friday Shopping FIGHTS Compilation
Black Friday Shopping FIGHTS Shootings, Pepper Spray, and Trampedes seem to be the new normal after stuffing our faces with Turkey.
BLACK FRIDAY WALMART FIGHTS AND OTHER THINGS IM THANKFUL FOR...
I'm turkey wasted right now but I wanted to talk about videos of fights breaking out over discounted cell phones at Walmart hitting the web and also that my dad may have found a kidney donor. The latter of the two being more awesome :)
If you missed any shows this week click here to go to them:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U31gORc1Xxg&list=UUlFSU9_bUb4Rc6OYfTt5SPw&...
Watch the full Walmart fight video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=8O6IMYSSs7c
Main point I love yo faces,
PhillyD
America People Act Like Animals at Walmart on Black Friday Fighting Over Phones
The traditional Thanksgiving shopping frenzy ate into the day itself this year with stores throwing open their doors on Thursday evening. Black Friday - a key date in the two-month holiday season retail splurge - is the chance for stores across the US to turn a profit for the whole year.
Americans have grown more comfortable shopping online, putting pressure on traditional retailers who can make up to 40% of their annual revenue in November and December. In what has been dubbed "Gray Thursday", Target opened its doors at 9pm, three hours earlier than last year. Sears, which did not open on Thanksgiving last year, opened at 8pm.
When Macy's opened its doors in New York at midnight, 11,000 shoppers showed up.
For some the lure of the potential bargains was enough to make them miss out on Thanksgiving dinner altogether. Michael Prothero, 19, and his friend Kenny Fullenlove, 20 started camping out on Monday night outside a Best Buy store in Ohio, which was scheduled to open at midnight.
"Better safe than sorry," Mr Prothero said.
However not everyone was happy with the extended Thanksgiving hours.
"It shows that the companies are not valuing their workers. They're looking to their workers to squeeze out more profits," complained Carrie Gleason, director of the union-backed pressure group Retail Action Project.
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer which owns Asda in the UK, has been one of the biggest targets of protests against holiday hours.
Many of the its stores open 24 hours, but the company was offering early bird specials, once were reserved for Black Friday, at 8pm on Thanksgiving instead.
OUR Walmart, which includes disgruntled former and current workers, planned demonstrations and walkouts at hundreds of stores on Black Friday.
But retailers say they are giving shoppers what they want.
Kathee Tesija from Target said its 9pm opening struck "a perfect balance" for its customers.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Happy 1st Birthday to #FromMySideOfTheBar !!!
Celebrating One Year of Serving Up Life, One Shot at a Time
Happy 1st Birthday to #FromMySideOfTheBar
Thank You Viewers!!!
New Procedure that allows Doctors to Change the Color of your eyes permanently
If you've always wanted blue eyes and currently have brown eyes, there may be a procedure to change all of that, should you have lots of money burning a hole in your pocket. That's right, "Dr Gregg Homer, from Stroma Medical in California said his Lumineyes technology uses a laser tuned to a specific frequency to turn brown eyes to blue." Continue reading for a video and more information.
McDonalds Employee Assaults Man with Digital Eye Glass
What is this world coming to when a person is assaulted because someone took offence to their medical prosthetic? That is essentially what happened when Dr. Steve Mann from Toronto, Ontario was on vacation with his family.
Dr. Mann uses a form of “wearable computing” known as an Eye Glass – a prosthetic Augmediated Reality device attached to his head that assists vision. He invented the technology, and while the cybernetic eyeglass-styled implant may seem out of place, he does carry documentation that justifies his use of the device.
But just last month, while on vacation in Paris, France, Dr Mann and his family entered a McDonald’s Restaurant to partake in some international McFood. He let his children practice their french and place their order. He was asked about the Eye Glass device and he provided his documentation. He was not challenged at all, and was served as any regular customer would have. It wasn’t until he was seated that he was approached by 3 staff members at the McDonald’s and was asked to explain the camera device on his face.
Dr Mann produced his documentation and was happy to share his life long work that has already assisted the visually impaired to see. After reviewing the documents, the alleged assailants tore up the papers and then one man, claiming to be a McDonald’s Employee (while concealing his name badge), attempted to grab the glasses off Dr Mann’s face.
The problem with this assault was not just the invasion of personal space, but rather the prosthetic device requires special tools to be removed – it is fully attached to Dr Mann’s head.
The Augmediated Reality device does not ‘record’ exactly, however as part of its imaging process it does contain a small buffer which is constantly overwritten. Fortunately for Dr Mann, when the device was damaged in the assault, the buffered imagery left him with a visual account of the assault, as no new data was being received to overwrite that clip of information. If it hadn’t been damaged, the images would not have been saved and he would have had no evidence of his encounter at all.
The sad part of this story is that the Paris Police did nothing to assist Dr Mann, and McDonalds in France have yet to respond to his contact.
Dr Mann is not attempting to extort McDonald’s over this incident, like someone with coffee that is too hot. He is, however, hoping they will cover the cost to repair his damaged Eye Glass device. He is also suggesting that McDonald’s may want to make a gesture to support Vision Research, and educate their staff on the visually impaired.
McDonald’s has had a longstanding policy against recording devices in their restaurants, fearing people may observe and duplicate trade secrets and procedures, however this seems very extreme. Did the manager have the right to confront Dr Mann about his Eye Glass? Absolutely. Did they have the right to damage his property? Not at all.
Makes you wonder how they might react when Google Glass becomes a reality?
Read more at http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/07/18/mcdonalds-employee-assaults-man-with-digital-eye-glass/#XkPIGaceeUsLeW8h.99
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