Hungary, well I would of never guessed.

Hungarians get horny
Tue Sep 23, 8:11 AM ET

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - Forget Latin lovers — horny Hungarians are now the most active between the sheets, leading a charge of eastern Europeans in the global sex charts.

Condom maker Durex’s annual global sex survey published on Tuesday showed that Hungarian lovers enjoy sex 152 times a year. The French — fiercely proud of their sexual prowess — only manage 144 performances a year.

The British can’t beat the Australians at cricket but outperformed them between the sheets, managing 135 sessions a year to the Aussies 125.

The Italians and Spanish lag even further with scores of 119 and 123 times a year, while Americans make love an average of 118 times a year, Germans and Dutch 120.

“Bedtime in Budapest is the most passionate of all,” Durex said in its survey.

Eastern Europe performed well, with Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro all showing above average annual ratings.

But if you want sex in Sweden or Singapore, you may be disappointed. Swedes chalk up a below-average score of 102 times a year, while Singaporeans only manage 96.

The survey of more than 150,000 people found lovers across the globe are having sex an average of 127 times a year and 73 percent of people say they are happy with their sex lives.

The most sexually satisfied couples are in Thailand with 92 percent, Vietnam with 90 percent, China and Spain with 83 percent, and Iceland with 80 percent.

Russians were the least happy with their lot. Only 59 percent said they were satisfied, despite having sex an average of 150 times a year.

One-night stands proved relatively popular across the world with 45 percent of people admitting to having had one.

But Nordic nights were the most adventurous — 71 percent of Icelanders, 70 percent of Norwegians and 68 percent of Finns have had sex with someone they had just met, compared with only 37 percent of Germans and 24 percent of Indians.

Keeping up with the times, Americans are at the forefront of the techno trend for virtual reality sex with 54 percent saying they have had sex via phone, e-mail or text message.

The French scoffed at such modern nonsense — only 20 percent of them saying they could see the point of it.

Lovers in Hong Kong are the most likely to be honest in bed — only 15 percent say their passion is a pretence. But many Australians have no such scruples — 47 percent say they have faked orgasms.

This is crazy and funny. I can just picture this in my head I would of bust out laughing if I was one of the guards at the border

Donkey passport a pain in the ass for police

September 23 2003 at 06:36AM

Nicosia - A man and his donkey were arrested in Cyprus when they tried to poke fun at passport checks by crossing the island’s divide equipped only with a “donkey passport”.

Greek Cypriot pensioner Savvas Christodoulou and his donkey, Shelidona, were part of a protest which activists hoped would highlight opposition to passport checks at the recently opened border, which has divided the island since 1974.

Turkish Cypriot police encouraged them to cross the Nicosia checkpoint into Turkish-controlled territory but moments later plainclothes officers bundled Christodoulou into a car.

His donkey, the heavily pregnant Shelidona, was led off to the nearest police station to be put in quarantine.

“They’ve been taken into custody,” a Turkish Cypriot guard at the checkpoint said.

The protest plan recalled an off-the-cuff comment made some years ago by the Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, who said donkeys were the only species which was indigenous to Cyprus.

It was not immediately clear if the arrests occurred because of mistaken identity. A spoof passport prepared for Shelidona by activists identified her as a male.

Bush ‘not paying attention’ to Democratic race
President getting his news from aides
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 Posted: 8:51 AM EDT (1251 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush says he is paying virtually no attention to the Democratic race for his job, even as the candidates sharpen their criticism of his performance.

“Well, occasionally it blips on my radar screen, but not nearly as much as you would think. I’ve got a job to do. I’m occupied,” Bush said in a taped interview telecast Monday night on the Fox Broadcast Network.

“Their slogan is, ‘Vote for me, I don’t like George Bush,”‘ Bush said. “The American people are going to make that ultimate judgment as to whether or not I ought to be re-elected.”

The president’s 2004 campaign has been humming for months. He has raised more than $65 million at 21 fund-raising events since June for a Republican nomination for which he faces no opponent. His campaign offices employ dozens of people.

Nevertheless, Bush insisted he was “not paying attention” to the Democratic race. He said he knew who the candidates are, but had not watched a Democratic debate.

Likewise, Bush’s response to the Democrats’ specific criticisms about his handling of the war in Iraq and the economy. “I repeat, I’m not really paying attention to it,” he said.

Bush said he insulates himself from the “opinions” that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories.

“I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news,” the president said. “And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.”

The interview was conducted Sunday and aired on the eve of Bush’s address to the United Nations, where he will seek to broaden the international body’s role in Iraq and persuade other nations to contribute troops and money.

Bush expressed confidence about the passage of a new resolution, and called French President Jacques Chirac “a strong-willed soul.”

“He and I have had some pretty frank discussions before about issues,” Bush said. “I will continue to remind him, though — and he needs to hear this clearly from me, which he will — that America is a good nation, genuinely good.”

The president dismissed critics who accuse the administration of poor postwar planning for Iraq.

“Obviously, I think they’re going badly for the soldiers who lost their lives, and I weep for that person and their family. But no, I think we’re making good progress.”

On or since May 1, when Bush declared, aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 164 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq. Bush said he was referring to “major military actions” — “tight movement armored divisions and massive airstrikes.”

He said he had warned Americans on May 1 that Iraq remained a “dangerous” place, yet he maintained that his administration had not underestimated the postwar violence.

“Like any other situation, we weren’t exactly sure as to the nature of the terror that was being inflicted upon the people,” he said. “We know there would be Baathists that would be angry at the fact that they weren’t in power. We knew there was a lot of kind of loose operatives around the country.”

Answering critics who say that a main reason for going to war has not been borne out, Bush said he thinks ousted leader Saddam Hussein hid his weapons of mass destruction.

“But I firmly believe he had weapons of mass destruction,” Bush said. “I know he used them at one time, and I’m confident he had programs that would enable him to have a weapon of mass destruction at his disposal.”

Turning to other topics, Bush stood strongly behind Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell on new media ownership rules that ease decades-old ownership restrictions. The changes included allowing a single company to own TV stations reaching nearly half the nation’s viewers as well as broadcast stations and a newspaper in the same area.

The new rules touched off a firestorm of criticism from lawmakers of both parties, and Congress is now weighing repealing them.

“I support what Michael Powell did. He took a long, deliberative process,” Bush said. But he was noncommittal on whether he would veto such repeal legislation.

Bush recovered from a calf strain earlier this summer that had slowed his running regimen. He revealed in the interview that he believed he had a meniscus tear — a common injury to the cartilage that lines the inside surfaces of the knee — that has again halted his running routine.

“I am hoping to find a lot of sympathy around here, but I haven’t found any yet,” he joked. “Maybe I ought to go up to Capitol Hill.”

The president also said he talks to his father, former President Bush about every two weeks, and his brother Jeb, the Florida governor, “maybe once a month.”

“I love to be with my family, but we are not pick-up-the-phone, chitchat people that much,” Bush said.

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Teacher promised girl a miracle, lawsuit says

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALBANY, Ore. — An Albany family has filed suit against the city’s school district, alleging that a middle school substitute teacher told their daughter that Jesus would miraculously cure her.

In the lawsuit filed this month by Robert and Tina George, the family seeks $750,000 for each of three complaints: violation of their daughter’s civil rights, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Named in the suit are substitute teacher Linda Woldeit and Memorial Middle School, as well as the school district. Woldeit said she wasn’t aware of the lawsuit and wasn’t prepared to comment.

Court papers say that when Woldeit learned the girl suffered from a rare disease that affects her hair follicles, leaving her bald, Woldeit wrote a note to her that said Jesus would perform a miracle that night while she showered, causing her to grow “the most beautiful blond hair anyone has ever seen.”

If not, Woldeit said, she would shave off her own hair. The girl’s hair wasn’t restored, and Woldeit did shave her head.