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Remember when colour-co-ordinated bathrooms were all the rage?
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Australian magazine SameSame celebrated Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras by compiling a list of the 50 Gayest Songs Of All Time as voted by readers. Here are the top 10:
1. Dancing Queen, Abba.
2. YMCA, Village People.
3. I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor.
4. It's Raining Men, The Weathergirls.
5. Your Disco Needs You, Kylie Minogue.
6. Go West, Pet Shop Boys.
7. Better The Devil You Know, Kylie Minogue.
8. Xanadu, Olivia Newton-John.
9. Vogue, Madonna.
10. I Love The Nightlife, Alicia Bridges.
(Full list at samesame.com.au)
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A confused Chinese reader writes: "Since when has there been an unwritten rule that you keep left when you walk? A 'gentleman' I met opposite the Takapuna KFC was kind enough to explain to me - while being unequivocally rude by speaking as if I couldn't understand English - that, "in this country, you keep left. Do you understand that? Did you not know that?" I was speechless and just walked away; but racial profiling is not the point of this letter ... So, this unwritten rule? Where on Earth did it come from? I don't exactly see droves of people walking down Queen St on the left."
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On November 30, for a social justice project at Cheektowaga Central High School in Buffalo, New York, students spent a night in minus 7C in cardboard boxes on the school's lawn, in supposed solidarity with the area's homeless population. According to a Buffalo News report, the suffering students brought DVD players to watch movies inside their boxes, ate donated Dunkin' Donuts and pizzas, and ducked into the school's heated gym whenever they got too cold or bored. (Source: News of the Weird)
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Jingbin Wang was teaching a foreign policy class at North Carolina's Elizabeth City State University when a man entered the classroom and pointed a gun at him. The gunman told him to close the door and ordered seven students to line up along a wall. The man said he had been kicked out of the school and threatened to kill one of the students. After about 10 minutes, campus police rushed in and subdued the man. Only later did Wang and his students learn that it was a drill to test the school's preparedness for a real gunman. (Source: Reason.com)
