AUGUST 28, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
August 28 is … World Sauntering Day
I thought we had a sauntering day not long ago.
The Brits seem to have it all wrong but then, personally, I view the entire British people as an unattractive bunch as a whole. Conventional wisdom may have men favoring blondes, but a new UK study shows that actually men prefer brunettes.
As reported by the Daily Mail, social networking site Badoo polled 2,000 British men, asking them the features they found most attractive in women. The surprise was that almost 60 percent of men found dark hair to be more preferred than light, with 33.1 percent picking brown hair as the most attractive and 28.6 saying black hair is the sexiest.
29.5 percent of gentlemen did, indeed, prefer blondes.
As for shape, do British dudes take their women skinny, curvy or somewhere in between?
Based on our somewhat unscientific calculation (converting UK dress sizes to American sizes), 38.8 percent of men actually favor a pretty average girl -- about a size 8 or 10. As for the skinny girls, the ones everyone is supposed to love? Only ten percent of British males find a size 2 or size 4 woman most attractive.
Are we entirely surprised? Yes and no. We know many men who have expressed preference for brunettes (although we usually didn't believe them), so that's not too much of a shock...What is more surprising is the size preferences. Especially in the UK, where super-slender sisters Kate and Pippa are held aloft as Britain's finest, it is intriguing to learn that British men actually prefer their real women with curves.
It's a poll with findings worth promoting in the UK -- a prior study showed that British women are quite self-conscious about their bodies, more so than American women. When asked how they felt about their overall body image, 15 percent of American women gave the positive response, "I was made to be naked," while only one out of ten UK women felt so sure. When it came to feeling beach-ready, 30 percent of American women said they felt happy in a bikini, while only 12 percent of British women felt the same way.
Maybe the British women would feel more confident if they knew their men loved them just the way they are or if a non-Brit loved them.
Casey Anthony is not college material but then anyone can go to school online. Others can do your work. According to Tampa Bay Online, Anthony, 25, has not requested to go to school yet, but the Daily Mail reports that Anthony was given a waiver to pursue online classes.
Anthony will be able to work out her schooling with her probation officer. The New York Post reports that Anthony is protected by a round-the-clock security force and will study from an undisclosed location. Who pays for the round-the-clock security and why does she need it? She is yesterday’s news. If she dies, she dies.
How do these people ever get to where they are at? I would bet this is not the first dishonest thing in this guys history. Prosecutors say a Los Angeles school police officer made up a story about being shot by a car burglary suspect to look like a hero.
In opening statements Friday, prosecutors said 31-year-old Jeff Stenroos accidentally shot himself while patrolling a high school, but lied about it, saying he'd been shot while wearing a bulletproof vest. Stenroos is facing a non-jury trial on charges of preparing a false police report, planting false evidence and other counts stemming from his Jan. 19 report. Some 9,000 students were held in their schools for hours while hundreds of police officers searched for a gunman. Defense attorneys declined to offer an opening statement. Not a good sign for the defendant if his lawyer could not come up with a way to refute the State’s opening allegations.
Stenroos could be sentenced to more than five years in prison if convicted. If convicted he should be given the harshest penalty available just to keep his ignorant genes out of the gene pool for a while.
If they would have just let her strip, she would have shown them she was not carrying anything harmful. A London-bound bmi flight was forced to return to Moscow Friday after a female passenger started performing a provocative one-woman show.
Fifteen minutes into the morning flight from Domodedovo Airport, cabin crew noticed a "woman was acting strangely and disturbing other passengers," reports The Moscow Times. The drunk, 39-year-old woman from the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia was "in a state of insobriety, inconveniencing the passengers, taking off their glasses and dancing erotic dances.” a spokesman for transport police was quoted as saying by Agence France Presse.
Shortly thereafter, the plane returned to Domodedovo and the woman was taken to a local hospital for a medical examination. An interior ministry spokesman speculated that the woman was fine; maybe just a bit too drunk. At least she didn't relieve herself on her fellow passengers like one JetBlue passenger did earlier this month, or threaten to stab an airline staff member like one British Airways passenger did. This stuff never happens on flights I am on. All of my flights are just crowded, late, bumpy, delayed and expensive.
Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too or at least think about.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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