Bizarre

800 METRE CHAMPION ASKED TO TAKE GENDER TEST

Via BBC News New world 800m champion Caster Semenya has been asked to take a gender test, according to athletics’ governing body. The International Association of Athletics Federations says it demanded the test three weeks ago amid fears she should not be able to run as a woman. IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said the “extremely complex, difficult” test results were not due for several weeks. The South African athletics federation insist it is “completely sure” that the 18-year-old Semenya is a female. []

NIGERIAN MAN WANTS TO MARRY HIS PILLOW

A stuttering Nigerian man, who says he can’t find a girlfriend, has announced that he plans to marry his pillow instead. Okeke Ikechuku told the Daily Metro that his stammer makes it difficult for him to speak to girls who laugh at him whenever he talks, Ananova reports.  But, the 26-year-old from Lagos admits that he has needs and wants a companion to sleep with. So, Ikechuku says he will marry his pillow because he has been sleeping with it since he was 16 []

P DIDDY ADVISES MALE FRIENDS TO ‘WAX DOWN BELOW’

* I believe this story because he has talked about waxing himself before. Anyway…. According to The Metro newspaper Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs advises his males friends to ‘wax down below’. He reveals, ‘When you see some guys, I am like “Dude, let’s sort it, please”. …………………………………………. WHY is Combs taking an interest in the state/mass of a next man’s pubic hair????? Why are his eyes focused on that???? The man is just offkey! *kissing my teeth*

UK NEWS: MICHAEL JACKSON CALLS JADE GOODY

So now Michael’s offering words of comfort and sympathy…… Via Digital Spy Michael Jackson has telephoned Jade Goody to give the terminally ill reality TV star his support, it has been claimed. The pop superstar knew Goody after she starred alongside his brother Jermaine on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007, The Sun reports. A friend said: “He learned of Jade’s suffering and wanted to lend his support and comfort her at this awful time. “When she was told Michael was on the phone []

JACKSONS STAR IN NIGERIA RESORT ROW

Visitors can contemplate the horror of slavery from their luxury rooms Via BBC News One of pop superstar Michael Jackson’s brothers, Marlon, is involved in a controversial plan to develop a $3.4bn (£2.4bn) slavery memorial and luxury resort in Badagry, Nigeria. The historic slave port is to be transformed through the bizarre combination of a slave history theme park and a museum dedicated to double Grammy-winning pop-soul group the Jackson Five. The idea is that the band will help attract African-American tourists []

UPDATE: PRIEST TO HOLD NUN BEAUTY PAGEANT – PAGEANT NOW CANCELLED!

Internet users will be able to choose their favourite nun from photographs. An Italian priest says he is organising the world’s first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. “Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God,” he told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper. He is asking nuns to send their photos to him, []

MY MAD WEEKEND SIGHTING….

  I witnessed the strangest sight this past weekend. It was also disgusting and I actually feel quite queasy just thinking about it….   Whilst on my way home after spending an enjoyable day, out and about shopping with a good friend of mine, a man who happened to be walking a couple of yards in front of me caught my attention.    At first I couldn’t quite take in what I was seeing.  I just kept saying to myself ‘no that can’t be []

FAMILY CLAIMS THAT THEIR DAUGHTER WAS RAPED OVER THE PHONE

A Tunisian family alleges their daughter was raped during a telephone conversation with a man, a lawyer for the family said. The 30-year-old man said he never touched the young woman. But he acknowledged he heard her scream while they were “totally into” an erotic telephone conversation — and that she reported bleeding, Al Arabiya reported. Maha al-Metebaa, a lawyer representing the family, told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabs the case needs careful investigation because of its unprecedented allegations. He said a medical []