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Thailand’s Women of The Second Kind

// June 22nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // General

Women are like flowers, but these are artificial flowers.

In Thailand transsexuals are considered a third gender given the Thai name ‘Katoey.’ The term katoey refers to a male-to-female transgender person or an effeminate gay male in Thailand.

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Katoey are males who exhibit varying degrees of femininity — many kathoeys dress as women and undergo feminising medical procedures such as hormone replacement therapy, breast implants, genital reassignment surgery, or Adam’s apple reductions.

So what makes people gay? No one is sure. It might be genetics, it might be high testosterone levels (The higher the testosterone, the greater the chances of that man being a homosexual. Testosterone levels determine the length of your ring finger in contrast with your index finger. The greater the difference is between the fingers, the higher the testosterone levels. The index finger is the larger), or it could be related to the number of children a woman has (there’s some evidence to suggest second sons are far more likely to be gay than first sons).

But whatever the cause, being gay is not a choice and it can’t be altered by drugs or therapy.

[via mthai ]

The Making of Iranian Caviar

// June 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // General

Well, Iranian caviar is considered to be the world’s most exquisite delicacies. The price for the cheapest one is around 70,000 baht.

Although caviar might seem to be something quintessentially Russian, the word caviar is not, the native Russian term being ikra. Caviar first came into English in the 16th century, probably by way of French and Italian, which borrowed it from Turkish havyar.

The source of the Turkish word is apparently an Iranian dialectal form related to the Persian word for “egg,” khāyah, and this in turn goes back to the same Indo-European root that gives us the English words egg and oval.

This rather exotic etymology is appropriate to a substance that is not to everyone’s taste, giving rise to Shakespeare’s famous phrase, “’twas caviary to the general,” the general public, that is.

Can you eat this bread?

// June 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // Funny pictures, General, Weird Science

The human bread is made by a 28-year-old fine arts master degree student, Kittiwat Unarrom, from Thailand. These bread sculptures are made out of dough, raisins, cashews, and chocolate.

This bakery house looks like the lair of a serial killer where realistic-looking human body parts are hanging on meat hooks.

Scary or not, just check out the video.