Of mobiles, crochet and porn a plenty
According to a survey by Carphone Warehouse, 80% of British adults are so addicted to their mobiles that they can't even turn them off during sex.
The majority of the 16,500 adults quizzed claimed that they couldn’t even get through a day without their phone.
The Mirror quoted social anthropologist Kate Fox as saying: "They have restored our sense of community and provided a highly effective antidote to the pressures and alienation of modern life."
No dear. If you can't even switch it off when you're having a shag, your mind isn't even fully on your partner – not good – or you're using it as a sex toy. Mind you, that suggests some really appropriate places to stick the damned things.
Meanwhile, in Poland, grandmothers have turned their crocheting skills to a new challenge – g-strings. And they're such a success that the delicate undies are now being sold worldwide on the web.
When their doilies and table clothes went out of fashion, women in the tiny Polish mountain village of Koniakow turned their crocheting skills to making lingerie.
It turns out that people don't just want g-strings in the traditional white crochet, but in black and red too. Radical chic, eh?
But there always has to be one. Head of the local Society for Folk Art, Helena Kamieniarz, is not happy, and says: "What is being done to our old traditions is a disgrace. The art of crochet is not intended for making such garments."
It's difficult not to laugh at such prudish luddism. The whole enterprise brings a new meaning to the idea of net trade.
And if you're interested, you can buy them at www.koniakow.com for around £17 each.
The lucky people of Geraardsbergen, near Brussels, Belgium, had a field day recently, when a planned open air erotic festival – Imagination 69 – failed to attract many visitors.
Instead of packing all the goodies back into boxes and cart everything away, many exhibitors simply dumped books, magazines and DVDs in the field. But it didn't take long for local people to spot them and dive in to salvage what they could.
And some of the sharper residents have even been selling the material on in their local pubs, while the field has been dubbed 'Pornotopia'.
The festival organisers might be surprised to know it now, but there really was a market in the area.
The majority of the 16,500 adults quizzed claimed that they couldn’t even get through a day without their phone.
The Mirror quoted social anthropologist Kate Fox as saying: "They have restored our sense of community and provided a highly effective antidote to the pressures and alienation of modern life."
No dear. If you can't even switch it off when you're having a shag, your mind isn't even fully on your partner – not good – or you're using it as a sex toy. Mind you, that suggests some really appropriate places to stick the damned things.
Meanwhile, in Poland, grandmothers have turned their crocheting skills to a new challenge – g-strings. And they're such a success that the delicate undies are now being sold worldwide on the web.
When their doilies and table clothes went out of fashion, women in the tiny Polish mountain village of Koniakow turned their crocheting skills to making lingerie.
It turns out that people don't just want g-strings in the traditional white crochet, but in black and red too. Radical chic, eh?
But there always has to be one. Head of the local Society for Folk Art, Helena Kamieniarz, is not happy, and says: "What is being done to our old traditions is a disgrace. The art of crochet is not intended for making such garments."
It's difficult not to laugh at such prudish luddism. The whole enterprise brings a new meaning to the idea of net trade.
And if you're interested, you can buy them at www.koniakow.com for around £17 each.
The lucky people of Geraardsbergen, near Brussels, Belgium, had a field day recently, when a planned open air erotic festival – Imagination 69 – failed to attract many visitors.
Instead of packing all the goodies back into boxes and cart everything away, many exhibitors simply dumped books, magazines and DVDs in the field. But it didn't take long for local people to spot them and dive in to salvage what they could.
And some of the sharper residents have even been selling the material on in their local pubs, while the field has been dubbed 'Pornotopia'.
The festival organisers might be surprised to know it now, but there really was a market in the area.
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