Nude Carwash
Drought Drives Aussies to Extremes
When a harsh drought struck Queensland on the east coast of Australia, severe water restrictions prohibited residents in the state capital of Brisbane from washing their own cars. “Bubbles 'n Babes” got around this ban by using recycled water while employing topless and nude women to wash cars.
Read Article

Shortchanged
Nickeled and Dimed to Death
Have you ever felt that you are being “nickeled and dimed” to death but that it is just too much of a hassle to fight over the loose change? It’s not that you don’t want to fight for your principles but that putting in this kind of effort is a huge waste of time because the spare change you can get out of it is not worth it.
Read Article

I Hate Bureaucracy: Part I
Dealings with Red Tape
I hate bureaucracy. I despise dealing with red tape and the idiocy attached to it. And I try to go to great lengths to avoid loathing the sensible people who are a part of it because it is really their job, not them, that propagate bureaucratic red tape. But bureaucracy is frustrating and time consuming.
Read Article

I Hate Bureaucracy: Part II
Dealings with Red Tape
I had already given my tirade about inane corporate bureaucracy in Part I. However, this time I put governmental red tape in the crosshairs for my next gripe, especially before anyone falsely assumes that I don’t believe that the government has its own nest of bureaucracy. And it becomes really annoying when it hits your wallet.
Read Article

Multi-Level Marketing
A Fast Way to Become a Pest
What is one quick way to lose all of your friends and also make all of your immediate family members, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, and mere acquaintances avoid you like the plague? Just start selling Amway (or Quixtar), Primerica, Mary Kay, Avon, or any other Multi-level Marketing (MLM) junk.
Read Article

Mistakes Were Made
Wrong Testicle Removed
An Air Force veteran went to a VA hospital for a very routine ordinary procedure. His atrophied left testicle had become quite painful and it possibly had cancerous cells so it was to be removed by surgery. It was a simple procedure except that the VA hospital inadvertently removed the “right” testicle instead.
Read Article

Running on Empty
Coasting to a Gas Station
Towards the end of the work week, I had been meaning to fill up my gas tank but things kept coming up. Now here I was on a Saturday morning, a grown man with a wife and kids and an empty gas tank on the freeway. As I coasted on the off ramp, I remembered my reckless youth when stuff like this happened more often.
Read Article

Partying in Panties
NBA Dance Squad Pictures Exposed
When salacious pictures of the dance squad for the Sacramento Kings surfaced on the Internet, the cheerleaders were upset. They knew that pictures of them partying and frolicking in their bra and panties existed, they just never thought that they would up in cyberspace for the whole world to see.
Read Article

Panty Raid
Serial Panty Thief Arrested
Garth Flaherty, age 24, is a serial panty thief that targeted the college girls who attended Washington State University (WSU), which has an enrollment of over 18,000 students. Police confiscated an estimated 1,500 bras, panties, and other lingerie consisting of five bags that weighed 93 pounds.
Read Article

No More Hosiery
Is Pantyhose Losing Its Legs?
According to the leader of the industry, women in the mid nineties wore pantyhose 3.5 times a week. But usage has now fallen to a dismal 1.8 times a week. And that low number is just for the females who continue to wear sheer hosiery. Of course times have changed and so has fashion.
Read Article

Britney Spears in her Underwear
And Nobody Cares
Suppose Britney Spears pulled over on the side of the road and then took off her dress to jump into the beach only wearing her bra and panties. And then imagine that nobody cared. That is exactly what happened at a Malibu beach. Britney didn’t have a bikini but she felt that her underwear was good enough.
Read Article

Dude, I Got A Lemon
Bogus German Engineering
I got ripped off when I bought my Chrysler Sebring Convertible. So much for German precision engineering because this car is such a lemon. It constantly broke down on me but always with different parts. After a while, I discovered that there were others out there like me who experienced the same problems.
Read Article

Dog Etiquette
A Neighbor’s Dog Problem
As I was driving to my house, a neighbor from up the street had his dog "in" my front yard and the dog was doing his business right there in my yard. In the past I would have told this guy off. However, I now have little kids and I want to be a good example to them especially when I am in a bad situation.
Read Article

No Cable
Life Without Cable Television
Suppose that your cable bill was way too high, like too subscribing to too many channels and buying too many pay-per-view movies. In order to save money, could you live for six months or so without cable? And besides, what did people used to do in their spare time before the advent of cable television?
Read Article

Cops and Women
Is There Preferential Treatment: Part 1
Getting a traffic ticket is perhaps one of the worst feelings in the world. Not only does your wallet take a hit but your insurance premiums can skyrocket. However, every guy has wondered whether or not women really do get preferential treatment from the police during a traffic stop.
Read Article

Cops and Women
Police Discuss Special Treatment: Part 2
Apparently, not all cops are so easily charmed by a friendly smile and the cleavage from a pair a boobs when they pull women over for a traffic violation. A number of police officers shared with us their unique perspective and insight about writing traffic tickets to women.
Read Article

Cops and Women
Readers Discuss Special Treatment: Part 3
Quite a number of our readers were incensed about the perception of law enforcement giving women preferential treatment for traffic violations. After all, it is men who have to pay the outrageous traffic fines and skyrocketing insurance premiums while it appears that women get way with a friendly warning.
Read Article

Money Buys Happiness
And I Could Have Told You That
Scientific research now reveals that money does indeed create happiness. Well, I could have told you that myself. And for the regular working stiffs that live paycheck to paycheck like me, you certainly don’t need the expert testimony from clowns like these to draw the same conclusion.
Read Article

Gone to the Dogs
Stupid Animal Shelter Policies
When my wife tried to adopt a dog from an animal shelter, she was denied! In fact, the shelter was run by bureaucrats and like everything else that paper pushers manage; it is a sorry bureaucratic mess run by well meaning but incompetent people with red tape and silly policies that have little basis in reality.
Read Article

Dude, I Got A Dell
Plunging Computers Prices
Back in my college days, personal computers were still outrageously expensive even though they had limited capabilities. As a result, I had always felt that I could always upgrade or my own assemble a computer for a heck of a lot cheaper instead of buying a complete system. Then I got a Dell.
Read Article

XM: Good Radio
Lousy Customer Service
I have previously owned and enjoyed an XM radio but their lousy customer service was a real turn off for me. One bad service call is unfortunate, two are a coincidence, but eight consecutive bad service calls signal a systemic management failure. And after too much frustration, I cancelled the service.
Read Article