A group of inner-city Auckland workers write: "We would like to advise guests at SkyCity Hotel that your windows are not tinted, and that there are potentially hundreds of people who can see you wandering naked in your rooms, or, as the couple on Monday demonstrated, having vigorous
sex pressed right up against the window. We'll assume it was good for you. For us it was the highlight of the first week back at work."
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The thousands of New Zealanders who have flocked to the sweet, sad music documentary Young@Heart will be sad to know that big Fred Knittle - the guy who, with his oxygen tank accompaniment made such poignant work of Coldplay's Fix You at the end of the film, died on New Year's Day.
Knittle, 83, was one of the stars of the Young@Heart chorus of senior citizens singing pop music a fraction of their age. The film has proved, pro rata, more popular in New Zealand than anywhere else in the world; it has grossed just under $1.1 million and is still screening after 10 weeks.
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Karine Thomas took this photo outside a B&B in Iles de Mesures, Mexico. "I market luxury lodges and boutique hotels overseas and I don't think we could get away with this in New Zealand, although I have some clients who would think it a good idea," she says.
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A Chinese speed-skater was banned from competition for a year for presenting his middle finger to the audience, but this punishment is a sign of the country's new liberalism, as the last athletes disciplined for a similar incident, in 2006, were sent to military boot camp. (Source: Weird Universe.net)
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Motorcyclists in Nigeria must wear helmets, but those who can't afford them are improvising by wearing dried pumpkin shells on their heads. The BBC says some riders are wearing calabashes, used to carry liquid.
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Today's Webpick: Food Television in the US goes all Elvis on us. Constructed from two glazed donuts, beef, bacon, and egg. Eww! Watch it here.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
