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La Campana: The Best Club in Sydney?- by Sean Maguire
As another week begins and another weekend slips into the shadowy world of drunken memory, we can all be assured that around the world millions of people are drinking coffee and reading the newspaper- reflecting on the 48 hours that were.
 
Some of us will be nursing our bruised egos, others will be bragging about who they've pulled and others still will be looking forward with excitement to next weekend- hoping to make a repeat performance of a previous success.
 
For me that excitement comes from 'La Campana', a Spanish Club in Sydney that is sweaty, viceral, undulating and incredibly enigmatic.
 
Why for instance does a self-styled Latin loving Spanish restaurant play head-thumping experimental dance, trance and techno music?
 
And why does a place that has some of most kitsch 70's decor, the worst lighting, and hottest temperature this far north of hell attract some of the coolest local DJs and bands?
 
God Knows.
 
All I know as Managing Editor of HPD, Jack Freeman, exclaimed to me on Saturday- this is the best club, with the best atmosphere playing the best and most interesting music in Sydney.
 
Jesus, this Monday I definitely have Friday on my mind.

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Living life post wisdom teeth surgery- by Daniel Hamilton
20 apr  |  Many of you between the ages of 19-23 will be looking at getting the little fuckers cut out and I would just like to firstly say to all of you who have the option not to have their wisdom teeth remove, DONT!

It is not one of those cool operations to have done such as your appendix or your tonsils for the following reasons: Getting all four out at once increases your healing time significantly and thus is the more favourable option, bloating up your face in the first few days to the size of a grotesque balloon.

Then the stitches that have been oh so delicately woven into your gums holding your mouth together are extremely annoying giving your voice a tinny Ricky Gervais timbre as well as being incredibly painful I personally have had my tongue stitched together and yes your mouth does heal a lot faster than other parts of your body, however the trauma caused by the surgeon during the wisdom teeth jaw massacre totally cancels out any healing properties the mouth once had.

A week has passed since my truly horrid experience and while the swelling has reduced to retarded squirrel size, I am still suffering from headaches and a massive panadine forte hangover that has left me in a hazed coma.

It made me incapable of participating in my university studies and even the most basic household activities, the wise decision is, if you got enough space, just leave the little bastards in there. . . read more

Danish Prostitutes to Offer Free Services for Copenhagen Summit Delegates
8 dec  | 

Prostitution is legal and allowed in Denmark. It's free if you're a delegate to the upcoming Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen from December 7-18, AFP reports.

To counter attack the city government's measure of campaigning to the delegates of the much anticipated world environmental summit that they do not resort to buying sex, the prostitutes of a Danish sex workers union has offered their services for free.

The city government, led by Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard has sent postcards and letters to the managers of the 160 hotels in the city. The postcards indicate: "be sustainable - don't buy sex" and "Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes."

Susan Moeller, spokesperson for the group said that the campaign was discriminating as they are only doing their jobs, which by Danish law are legal.

For those who are interested in taking the offer, which is only available during the duration of the summit, she said, "All delegates who come to Copenhagen for the world climate summit will be able to use the postcards for payment after making a request on our website."

Originally Published at 'the Daily Contributor', click view for more information
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A hero's welcome for the famous Iraqi shoe thrower
16 sep  |  A hero's welcome awaits a famous Iraqi terrorist. Unlike the recent welcome home party that actually does make me sick, the latest welcome home party I'm in favor of. The party is for the famous Iraqi shoe thrower.

The Iraqi who tested George Bush's reflex skills(which were pretty sharp I must say) is due to be release to a huge welcome home party including women, sports cars, and a buffet of career possibilitie- TPM  . . read more

The Ecstasy of Ecstasy- by Dr. Rubber Glove
8 sep  |  Ecstasy can turn a night out into an intense life-changing event; where you walk into a room and you feel a tingly electricity spilling down your back as rhythm, guitars and melodies wash over everything. There’s that eye-opening god awful beat, the thing that keeps pounding back into your skull and all over your face, to your hands all the way to your feet. Then there’s time. It seems to go so much quicker as everything in your body wants to move slower. Your hands, your arms have lives of their own as they gets lifted up and down, every movement significant every feeling deep, burrowing down straight to the heart and the lungs. Breathing is fun. Smiling comes so easily. Happiness comes as quickly as a look at a friend and then a cheeky wink. Beats increase in speed, heart rates barely slow down. Dance floors feel pounded till dust. The body moves quicker as the beat does, there’s the drop and the speed, and all you feel is FUCKING EXCELLENT . . read more
HPD Salutes: Pauline Hanson- by Sebastian Miller
16 feb  |  Why?

For Giving Australia one last laugh.

The now, self-declared ex-patriot has ironically decided to emigrate to Britain despite her intense and unforgettable anti-immigration campaign which existed throughout a substantial part of her political career. Her decision was summarised in classic Pauline Hanson style condemning Australia one last time:

“Sadly, the land of opportunity is no more applicable”.

The former One Nation leader couldn’t have timed her departure more poorly as yesterday the BNP passed a vote abolishing their “Whites Only” policy (not dissimilar to Hanson’s conspicuous ideals).

Is this it?

Have Nationalists gone soft?

So Pauline

Sayonara

Stay out

And we salute you.  . . read more

Rudd's Security Scare Shows Australia Cares- by Sean Maguire
5 dec  |  You can be excused for having missed this one...

...Kevin Rudd, the guest of honour at the launch of ABC 3 was the victim of a security scare from an unnamed contracted cleaner.

The story gets stranger as the AFP, the cleaning company and the ABC itself all refused to comment on what had happened.

It might not be a fair comparison but this 'incident' did make me think of the media world's reaction to Tareq and Michaele Sahali's White House invasion last week.

The couple got scorned and ridiculed from all corners and the Secret Service was forced to make an embarrasing apology for this uncharacteristic slip up.

Here though, Rudd's 'dance with death' has only been run on the 7pm ABC news (it didn't even make it to ABC online) and it looks like that will be it from here on in.

There hasn't been any mention of what risk Rudd had been placed in or what will be done differently to avoid similar breaches.

Why the difference if both breaches were equally harmless?

In my mind it shows that the media knows that Rudd's security isn't exactly going set the water-cooler ablaze, and that Rudd himself probably realises that to talk about it or investigate it further would look weak to a country that still prides itself on its stiff upper lip.

Kind of comforting that in Australia, the politicians ain't too precious.

 

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How male bedbugs avoid getting shafted
12 dec  |  BEDBUGS are notoriously undiscerning about who they mount, and are wont to stab their penis straight into another male's abdomen. Now it seems they have evolved a way of telling mistaken mounters to back off.

Female bedbugs have a structure beneath their carapace to guide the penis into a mass of infection-fighting immune cells, but males have no such protection. Camilla Ryne at Lund University in Sweden found that they respond instead by emitting a pheromone normally used to warn off predators.

Males with blocked glands were mounted as often as other males, but for longer and suffered more wounds. "This is the first time I've seen an alarm pheromone used as a sexual one," says Ryne. The chemical could be used to deal with bedbug infestation, she adds.

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Your Right to Bear Glass
29 apr  |  By Rupert Parry

As plastic cups appear in bars all over Sydney, and the vast majority yell a hurrah of triumph, I whimper a little sigh of worry.

994 glassing attacks were recorded in 2008, a 70% increase in ten years.

Bottles were being liberally halved, thrown and smashed into the heads of pub goers all over the city.

And now they're taking our glasses away?

We, as citizens of Australia, deserve our right to defend ourselves against glassers, with our own glass.

The next time someone comes into a bar with a beautiful crystal schooner glass he brought from the club up the road, and you produce a plastic piece of recycled hippie crap – think about this article.

And think about how you'll be able to defend your family with a plastic cup.

Remember your right to bear glass.

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Girl gives the gift of Oral Sex...18 times
22 aug  |  You have to celebrate your 18th birthday, that's what a girl from San Remo, Italy, thought when during her birthday party she decided to gift a 'special' present to all her guests. The girl gave the guests oral sex, as the web-site Ciaopeople Magazine reports. A sexy gift with consequences.

Apparently under the effect of one too many drinks she performed 18 consecutive blowjobs according to witnesses at the event. One of them recounts 'she was screaming 'i turned 18 and now i can do whatever the fuck i want'".

In the end, the girl totally lost control and after the 18 consecutive blowjobs she started feeling ill, resulting in her being hospitalised and having her stomach pumped  

gazzetino.it, click view for more information

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blogs   100words
 
by Jack Freeman

As four months of travel in India is coming to an end I am finding
it continually confusing that many of the cultural atrocities that
come with this society of 1 billion strong are deemed "interesting"
and "profound".

Sitting in social circles from hostel to hostel, I have met forceful disagreement with my criticisms of the oppressive nature of India's cast system and their large Islamic community. The smug, "oh, you just don't get it" attitude you receive for owning such opinions is both condescending and misguided.

This is an enraging example of the pseudo, naive belief that this "exotic"society is unintelligible to (most of) us westerners. In this beautiful, richly diverse and all round fun country where, by the same token, you will be greeted by zero empathy of female lib, homosexual equality or my own personal faithlessness, I wish that travelers would not deny their education and morals on arrival. Is it not possible to balance both romance and a sense of rationality?