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Just When You Think You've Seen It All
Topic Started: Jul 13 2013, 04:54 PM (375 Views)
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This is another of those Ripley's Believe It Or Not news items.

This time from Taiwan. Center of much of the world's advanced electronics. A beacon of stand out democracy against Chinese hegemony.

Does it belong in Views on the News? Give us a laugh? Or Cry with frustration (we don't have that category in the VIP forum).

Pregnant women donate their sanitary pads to other women to help them get pregnant.

Yesssss. I cannot make this up. Nope. Not even me.

If this is their method for addressing declining fertility rates, then they should be worried. Maybe increase their spying efforts on Catholics or Muslims.

My advice to them? Simple. Do it more often. Maybe if wives didn't charge so much for sex, or maybe if husbands agreed to pay more...it's a cultural thing. You have to get to know them.

Anyway....

From the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23284590


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Taipei authorities are to distribute sanitary pads donated by expectant mothers to help others conceive, reports suggest.

Apparently, Taiwanese "tradition" dictates that pregnant women can "share their luck" - increasing another's chances of bearing children - by passing on unused towels or tampons. And the capital's civil affairs department hopes the scheme will boost its birth-rate, reports the Taipei Times. "We hope that Taipei residents who want to get pregnant will be blessed by the lucky pads and that their wishes will come true," it quotes department commissioner Huang Lu Ching-ju as saying.

City staff have some experience in the matter, it seems. One district office director - who's nine months gone - reportedly says she received such "wonderful blessings" from friends soon after marrying. "I hope that female residents who want to get pregnant will be blessed through this activity," she adds. Taiwan's birth-rate fell to the lowest in the world in 2011 but rebounded thanks to government programmes, and with the help of the "auspicious" Year of the Dragon in 2012, according to government news site Taiwan Today.
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