True stories
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The stowaway
In 1964, a broke Australian athlete realized he couldn't afford a flight home from London. His solution? He built a wooden crate and successfully mailed himself across the world.
Reg Spiers was a javelin thrower who had just failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. After having his wallet stolen, he found himself desperate to return to Australia in time for his daughter's birthday. Lacking the funds for a passenger ticket, he decided air freight was his best option.
With the help of a fellow athlete, Spiers constructed the crate. The box was just large enough for him to sit with his legs straight or lie back with his knees bent. To survive the journey, he outfitted the crate with a few careful provisions:
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Straps inside the box to hold himself secure during takeoff and landing.
Cans of food and a flashlight.
A pillow and a blanket.
Two plastic bottles—one filled with water and the other empty to serve as a makeshift toilet.
The crate was labeled with a fictitious shoe company's address, marked "To Be Collected" at the airport in Perth, Australia, and shipped via cash-on-delivery air freight.
The journey took three agonizing days and severely tested human endurance. Spiers faced a delay in Paris and later endured intense conditions in Bombay (now Mumbai), where baggage handlers left his crate upside down on the sweltering tarmac for hours. Through it all, he remained completely silent to avoid detection.
Upon landing in Perth, baggage handlers placed the crate in a secure cargo shed. Once the workers left, Spiers cut his way out of the box, changed into a neatly folded suit he had brought with him, and simply walked out of the airport. His secret was only revealed days later when his friend in London, worried after not hearing from him, contacted the media. Spiers became an overnight sensation, though modern cargo screening technology ensures that recreating such a delivery today would be virtually impossible.
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SEXUAL EXPECTATIONS
When an old friend ( 60's ) complained about how his new boyfriend ( late 20's ) liked to experiment with tit clamps and he complained it was silly, immature, and kept complaining because it was not for him. my answer shut him right down.
'You are such a boring an old fart. You have a great new young boyfriend who wants to experiment - with you - and your complaining ? Are you nuts ? Now, you old fossil, you either play with these things with him AND SHOW INTEREST - or he will go find someone else who will not make him feel stupid or foolish for actually enjoying his body and you will them complain how he left you and the fault will ALL BE YOURS. Now wake the fuck up and stop being so fucking selfish and boring sexually or you will loose him forever.'
He eventually lost him forever as he could not move past what he knew, what he liked, what he considered appropriate and for him, and that was fine, but is so selfish when it comes to sharing yourself with others and where the obvious word here is COMPROMISE... he couldn't bend - couldn't compromise, and so lost out.
I hate anchovies, but if you want me to cook you an anchovy covered pizza, then I will as you are the one eating it.
Same goes for those who want their botty caned, sure thing, I'll cane you until you scream for me to stop, as it's your butt not mine and just like the anchovy pizza, if that is what does it for you, then good for you. I can facilitate and encourage, but ultimately it is all for you and who knows, I might just enjoy and find smething I am good at I never thought to try before, be it tit clamps, or anything a little different.
And that goes for all you old fossils out there who still assume you are young and tasty and can get any man you want and yet you limit what you want sexually and that can narrow expectations and end up being boring and so you will miss out. Many turn angry and bitter and is self inflicted.
I have absolutely no expectations, as if I met someone I had sex with 30 years ago today, chances are, I am too old for them, I am not their type any more and - I can handle that - I am a grown man, I am mature, I am lucky that I have lived a PHENOMINAL sex life - and do not complain now my dick plays yoyo's, gets hard if and when, and things have changed. You are never too old to try new things and if you limit yourself to only what you know and like, then how utterly boring are you ? YAWN !
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SHOWING US HOW IGNORANT YOU TRULY ARE
Why do people in London call it the tube or underground when the correct term is subway as this is the term everyone else uses for underground trains? London is doing rubbish at speaking English.
Let me get this straight. An American thinks that they speak English better than the English. Am I missing something here? A British invention in a British country, created and built by British people, named by the primary English speaking country and is the oldest known underground / tube system in the world , yet a speaker of an inferior sub dialect from a country that thinks it rules the world, thinks they know better ?
How absolutely ignorant and stupid can you get. No wonder many Americans cannot tell the time on a non digital clock, and when asked where does the English language come from - or where the Great Wall of China is - or what country the Panama Canal is in, MANY HAVE NO IDEA AT ALL and the answer is in the question...
Yet they still love to show their ignorance by asking dumb uneducated questions that two minutes on a google search could help them NOT look so uneducated.
Guessing you think trump is a genius too.
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Bicycles are the ultimate evil.
The CEO of Euro Exim Bank Limited surprised economists by saying this:
Bicycles are a disaster for a country's economy.
People who ride bicycles don't buy cars, and they don't borrow money to buy bicycles.
They will not pay the insurance claim.
They don't buy fuel, and they don't pay for maintenance or necessary repairs.
I will not use paid parking.
It will not cause any serious accidents.( Questionable )
Multi-lane roads are not necessary.
I don't gain weight.
Furthermore, healthy people are a negative to the economy and certainly not beneficial.
Healthy people don't buy medicine. They don't go to hospitals or doctors.
It does not contribute anything positive to that country's GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
Conversely, for every McDonald's restaurant that opens, at least 30 jobs are created, including 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietitians, and of course, restaurant staff.
Think carefully about whether you prefer cycling or McDonald's.
It's worth considering.
P.S. People who like walking are even worse for the economy. Pedestrians don't buy bicycles either.
But this is all utter BS as try doing your weekly shop on a bike or on foot. IMPOSSIBLE.
Try a long distance - in the rain - up hill - middle of winter - going out with the grandkids - taking your Gran out...
This is bollocks for old people and is FANTASTIC if we promote cycling as the benefits are enormus besides WANTING unhealthy people who bother the doctors and hospitals, spew fumes from their cars and waste public money when good health prohibits much of this,
There needs to be a happy balance - where it suits - cycle - where it does not - bus - where that does not - car.
Would you rather have a rich but sick country - or a slightly poorer but healthier country.
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