Are you a Good Kisser ?

My friend Sean thought his date went well—she laughed at his jokes, ordered dessert, and even asked him up to her apartment for a midnight make-out session. But it’s been over a week and she hasn’t returned his calls. Sean’s starting to wonder why. Little does he know, the answer’s in his kiss. I should know. I made the mistake of kissing him once.
Plenty of people worry about whether they’re good in bed, but few worry about their skills when it comes to their triple-tongue-swirl maneuvers. So people like Sean are often left questioning what went wrong on a date, even though the reason is quite literally under their noses. Sadly, no one wants to tell anyone they have the kiss of death, which means that unless you’ve been praised for your soft lips or tantalizing tongue, someone might be cringing about your not-so-sensual smooches as well. Here’s a cheat sheet of oral offenses, so you can avoid being thought of as a cringe-worthy kisser.

The Vampire Lip-Sucker

When my date Andrew first started biting and sucking on my lower lip, I tried to redirect the kiss by going for his upper lip. But when he kept doing it and my lip began to throb, I pulled away with a not-so subtle, “Ow.” He didn’t take the hint and with each tug, my lip grew rawer. The next day, at a family barbecue, everyone wondered why I had a purple lower lip.

Sure, a soft bite on the lip can be a turn on, but 10 in a row can leave your date looking like she got punched in the mouth. The first sign of a bad kisser is the inability to respond to feedback (sorry, Andrew; it’s true). If you’re not getting a positive response, don’t be afraid to stray from a move that you thought worked on someone else. Bad kissers often make the mistake of hoping you’ll grow to like whatever weird thing they’re doing. This almost never works and almost always leaves your lover bemoaning your inexperience.

The Speed Racer

Another common attribute of a bad kisser is out-of-sync kisses that don’t match the other person’s rhythm. Just as relationships are about finding a happy medium, kissers should try to conform to a mutual speed. The one time I made out with Sean, he threw on a Prodigy album, and then proceeded to kiss me faster than the driving techno beat. When he wouldn’t slow down, I politely grooved my way right out his door.

I have a tongue, too, thank you

Tom was a good-looking, smart guy who played guitar and opened every door for me, but he also had a knack for filling my entire mouth with his imperialistic tongue, which completely crushed mine as it recklessly reached for my tonsils. No matter what I did, I couldn’t remove it, mostly because my own tongue seemed to have disappeared.

Lots of oral offenders’ tongues make the mistake of setting up permanent residence in their dates’ mouths. The tongue should be about playful give and take: Tease, then pull back. If that gets a positive response, venture a little further, but never leave your date thinking, “What the heck happened to my tongue?” or “Red alert: Suffocation setting in!”

Mr. Hoover

Mr. Hoover is the opposite of the previous smoocher—he likes to suck your tongue right out of your mouth and hold onto it. If your date’s entire head is unwillingly following yours because you’re holding her tongue hostage, that’s probably not a good thing. Tongue suction is tricky. Unless you know exactly the amount of suction to exert and the duration to hold your partner’s tongue captive (Hint: it’s not five minutes), you’re treading into Bad Kisser Land.

The Cheek-Licker

Licking or lapping your date’s cheek will leave him or her either (a) grossed out or (b) laughing. Licking people’s faces isn’t hot. (I don’t care if your girlfriend freshman year loved it; she was one in a million, maybe 100 million.) When it comes to kissing, the tongue should make contact with two — and only two — places above the shoulders besides the mouth—the neck and the ear. But if you shoot for these erogenous zones, don’t overdo it. Wet willies and hickeys are for amateurs.

Ladies, you can stink, too

From the above, you may get the impression that I think only guys can be bad smoochers. Not at all! Though men get a bad rap for not caring about kissing, many guys like it and expect some creativity… and are disappointed by what the women they date dish out. “I’ve been with women who are repetitive kissers—they kiss with the same motion over and over again,” complained one male friend. “It’s like you’re on a four-second loop but you can’t break it.”

My male friends’ most important piece of advice—kiss like you mean it. “A heartless kiss makes for bad kissing,” explained another guy friend. It feels like she doesn’t want to be kissing you, he said, “and that’s really annoying.”

So, ladies and gentleman, realize that if your date kisses you once and doesn’t want to continue, it may well be for a reason. And it usually has nothing to do with your SAT scores. Kissing is one of the biggest deal-breakers in early dating, so drop the misguided moves or your dates will drop you. Here’s an added incentive—good kissing can make other faults forgivable. I once went out with a guy who had no car (hey, I live in California; cars matter) and no job, but soft lips and the most amazing kiss. We dated happily for a while… until he goosed me. Oh, well. A good kiss can’t compensate for everything.

Nicole Kristal has written for Newsweek and Premiere, and is a staff writer for Back Stage West newspaper.

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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well, she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember --

"when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk."
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

REMEMBER: EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.

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Women lust for colleagues, men for wives’ friends

Women lust for colleagues, men for wives’ friends,while in reality they may vouch their undying love for each other, in their fantasy world both men and women dream about somebody else while making love with their partners, a recent study for Mayfair magazine suggests.

A survey conducted in London shows that nearly a third of women lust for their male colleagues while making love with their husbands or boyfriends, while the men fantasise about their partner’s best friend when they’re bedding their ladies.

It further reveals that other women think they are with a handsome rugby player or a doctor while getting sexually intimate with their men, and Ocean’s Eleven star George Clooney is the favourite celebrity fantasy lover for them. Next came David Beckham.

The study also suggests one in 20 girls fantasises about another woman, and the favourite fantasy figures for men are Kate Winslet and Michelle Marsh.

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Slogan Mis-translations from American Advertising Compaigns in Other Countries

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In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" came out in Chinese as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the grave".

When Parker Pen marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to say "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you". However, the company mistakenly thought the Spanish word embarazar meant embarrass.
Instead the ads said:
"It won’t leak in your pocket and make you pregnant".

Frank Perdue's slogan "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" sounds much more interesting in Spanish. A photo of Perdue with one of his chickens appeared on billboards all over Mexico with a caption that explained:

"It takes a hard man to make a chicken aroused"
(or)
"It takes a sexually stimulated man to make a chicken affectionate".

Coors translated its slogan, "Turn it loose", into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer from diarrhea".

Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign:
"Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".

When Braniff translated a slogan touting its upholstery,
"Fly in leather", it came out in Spanish as "Fly naked".

The Microsoft ad slogan, as translated into Japanese
"If you dont know where you want to go,we'll make sure you get taken".

Clairol introduced the Mist Stick, a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that Mist is slang for (to put it delicately) manure. Not too many people had use for the Manure Stick. This is the reason why Rolls Royce decided not to call one of its models the Silver Mist - for fear of lost sales in the German-speaking world.

When Chevrolet developed the Chevy Nova, they decided to market it heavily in Mexico, where the name translates as doesn't go. The car was later renamed Caribe.

The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as something that when pronounced sounded like Coca-Cola: Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the characters used meant bite the wax tadpole or female horse stuffed with wax, depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, Ko-kou-ko-le, which can be loosely translated as happiness in the mouth.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin'" goodcame out in KFC’s first Chinese campaign as "eat your fingers off".

An American tee-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market, promoting the Pope's visit. Instead of the desired I saw the Pope! (el Papa) Thousands of shirts proudly proclaimed in Spanish I saw the Potato! (la Papa).

Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.

In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into Schweppes Toilet Water.

When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the samepackaging as in the US, with the beautiful baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what's inside, since many people can't read English.

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No safe level of smoking: Study

Oslo, Sep 22: Chain smokers risk developing heart disease, but a new study has revealed that those who smoke just one to four cigarettes a day also face a similar threat.
Kjell Bjartveit of the National Health Screening Service in Norway's capital, Oslo, and other researchers tracked the health and death rates of almost 43,000 men and women from the mid 1970s up to 2002.

Compared with those who had never smoked, the men and women who smoked between one and four cigarettes a day were almost three times as likely to die of coronary artery disease, it was found, reports the online edition of BBC.

Among women, smoking one to four cigarettes daily increased the chance of dying from lung cancer almost five times.

Men who smoked this amount were almost three times as likely to be killed by lung cancer. There is no safe level of smoking, the study said.

So-called light smokers also had significantly higher death rates - 1.5 times higher generally - than those who had never smoked. Death rates from all causes rose as the number of cigarettes smoked every day increased.

The researchers believe their conclusions are accurate, even though they had to estimate the projected impact of smoking one to four cigarettes for five years in those light smokers who had smoked for less time.

A significant proportion of the light smokers had also increased their daily consumption over the period of the study. However, this had not exceeded nine cigarettes a day.

According to a study, 106,000 people die every year in Britain as a direct result of smoking. The only way to protect smokers from heart disease, cancer and other killer diseases is to quit completely, the researchers said.

Ten reasons to drink during Holidays

"When done in moderation, drinking can be a positive component of any holiday gathering. It can help people relax and, for many, relieve stress," says Dr. John M. Grohol, a psychologist and publisher of PsychCentral.com.

Contrary to what seems to be popular belief, the word "holiday" does not derive from the Anglo-Saxon words for "drinking too much," but it can sure seem like that at times.

The word "holiday" is a contraction of the words "holy days," periods often of great spirituality and pious reflection. And to many people around the world, that is exactly what they are. However, these days, to more and more people the only spirit associated with the "holidays" is 90 proof and poured over ice.

There are many reasons why alcoholic intake escalates during this season. Partly, this is due to the convivial air that pervades the run-up to the New Year. Companies throw office parties. Families come together over magnificent feasts. Old friends come to town. The streets are lit with festive lights and stores are filled with wonderful things to buy or eat.

But it is also due to the stress of the period, too. Office parties can cause anxiety. Families drive us crazy. Old friends lure us out to old haunts. Some of us have no family or friends at all. Those brightly lit shop windows act like a magnet on our wallets.

In order to combat, or at least ameliorate, the impact that holidays have on our psyches and bank accounts, it is hardly surprising that many people indulge in seasonal binge-drinking. In fact, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States in New York City, the $49 billion distilled-spirits industry makes more than 25% of its profits from Thanksgiving to the New Year.

Of course, all that alcoholic intake does more than simply make one's mother-in-law more tolerable. It also can have a detrimental physical and social effect long after the hangover has worn off.

"When done in moderation, drinking can be a positive component of any holiday gathering. It can help people relax and, for many, relieve stress," says Dr. John M. Grohol, a psychologist and publisher of PsychCentral.com. "But, drinking too much can lead to all sorts of problems. People tend to become uninhibited, leading to behavior they often later regret."

While improper conduct toward your boss, or his wife, at the office party can have profound professional repercussions, getting snockered every night even without managing to offend anyone is bad for your health. And don't kid yourself otherwise. Sure, a glass of red wine delivers healthful antioxidants, but that’s just one glass, not two or three. And the last we checked tequila shots had no conceivable health benefits whatsoever.

Last, the potential damage you do to your liver is nothing compared to what could happen if you drink and drive. According to Mother's Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in Austin, Tex, in 2001, more than 2,050 people were killed in the U.S. due to alcohol-related crashes between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

So, while we certainly empathize with anyone who needs a few glasses of cheer to navigate the holidays, we do urge you do it as far away as possible from automobiles and people who sign your paychecks. Looking on the bright side, however, the holidays don't last forever, and before you know it, you'll find yourself in the new year, poorer and with a possible case of delirium tremens, but hopefully one of your New Year's resolutions was to take it easier in January.

© 2005 Forbes.com

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Every fourth teen girl is suicidal!

London, Nov.28(ANI): It has often been said that 'Teenage' is a delicate time in the life of any child. Now, with statistics from a shock survey revealing that every fourth teenage girl has at one point or another contemplated suicide, it has become clear just how difficult this stage can be, especially for girls.

The survey, by the Priory Group, was conducted on a volunteer group of 1000 teenage boys and girls between the ages of 12 to 19. It revealed that not only 22 percent of teenage girls between the age of 18 and 19 have contemplated suicide, and that a quarter of girls between the ages of 15 to 19 have considered harming themselves in someway, 13 percent of them have actually gone forward and inflicted self harm.

The survey showed that not only are kids starting to experiment with sex and drugs at a much younger age than before, but that a staggering 73 percent of 14 year olds indulge in under-age drinking. This makes it four times more likely that they will turn into alcoholics than people who start drinking at the age of 21.

According to the survey, thirty-six per cent of 15-year-olds have experimented with cannabis or cocaine, while a third of them are actively participating in under-age sex.

Dr Dylan Griffiths, a psychiatrist specialising in adolescents at The Priory hospital, Ticehurst, East Sussex, said that the age of experimentation was becoming lower annually, and that teenagers were imitating the adult culture of instant gratification.

"The age of experimentation becomes lower annually. They now look to adults who live in a culture of instant gratification and want the same thing. Teenagers have more money to buy drugs and alcohol. And when they hear something being talked about so much, like having sex, they want to try it," The Sun quoted him, as saying.(ANI)

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