Sideswipe: Funniest looking kiwi I've ever seen

Hannah was on a student exchange in Berlin, Maryland, US, in 2007. For her birthday, her host family got a cake made. "My host mum told the cake maker that I was an exchange student from New Zealand and the cake decorator told my host mother she knew just how to decorate it."

User-pays resuscitation

A reader writes: "My son was interested in joining St John Ambulance Cadets after seeing an open day at a recent Warriors game. I looked up the website to find the branch closest to us - Milford. When we got there we found that it's paid for by the Chinese community and we were basically told we needed to go to a different branch because we weren't Chinese! The leader did say we could come in and have a look but told us we should go to the Porana Rd branch instead. At that point my son felt unwelcome so we left ... I'm guessing the good people of Milford would not complain if their lives were saved by a non-Chinese paramedic but maybe St John disagrees?"

He admired her cascading ... belly

Mauritanians consider "rolling layers of fat" as the height of sexiness, according to Marie Claire magazine. Professional force-feeders earn a living from parents for bulking up their young daughters and sometimes serve animal fat as drinks and apply the cattle-thickening drug Oradexon. "The stomach flab should cascade; the thighs should overlap; and the neck should have thick ripples," said says one such feeder. (Source: News of the weird.net)

I'd be more worried if it didn't

Karen Retter read this on an apple bag in South Africa: "Warning: This product may contain seeds or pips" .

Watt is he waiting for

Instead of washing his hands of the creepy climber, which he thinks may soon eliminate a generation of children from his street, Neville suggests that Barry from Mission Bay (who was complaining about the creeper intertwining into the high voltage lines outside his house) grabs his own secateurs and simply cut the thing off near ground level. "Then dab a few drops of woody weed killer on the exposed top of the stump and it will quickly wither away," he adds.

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