Sideswipe

Sour Flush Candy.

Opinion

A website called the Candy Addict has a list of disgusting lollies - including white chocolate maggots, an ear wax sweetie (in a ear-like plastic container with a plastic digging swab), and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, which include vomit, soap and snot flavours. Sour Flush Candy (above) is Sideswipe's favourite. It's a little plastic toilet full of powdered sugar and a lollipop which looks like a toilet plunger. Lick the plunger then dip it into the toilet.

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A reader was given a pocket umbrella and before cutting off the tag duly read the instructions: "Do not use in event of storm, hurricane, typhoon, or serious climatic disturbance. If you do, your Original Pocket Umbrella may break and then you will be very upset! Please remember the Original Pocket Umbrella is not a toy and you are not Mary Poppins. Do not use it to fly, float, swing, dance or other bizarre activity for which it is not designed. When you are finished with the Original Pocket Umbrella please put it back in its case. Do not throw the case away. How would you like it if someone threw your house away?"

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A reader writes: "New World Victoria Park promotes itself as the supermarket that caters to international travellers. But someone forgot to tell the staff. Tuesday night in the checkout, three young South Americans trying to buy beer were told that an international drivers licence was not acceptable ID for proof of age. The staff insisted on a NZ drivers licence, which makes it pretty hard for tourists to buy beer at New World. The visitors were bemused that their ID was acceptable for hiring cars and driving on our roads, but unacceptable as proof of age in a supermarket."

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A British woman is travelling 18,929 km, a journey of six weeks, to be a bridesmaid at a wedding in Australia. Barbara Haddrill, 28, says it will produce only 1.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide instead of 5.2 tonnes if she flew. She said: "I could never fly, it wouldn't be right. It's a challenge going overland. But it's worth it knowing I'm not harming the planet. I just hope I get to the church on time." Barbara plans to bus 2500 km to Moscow, take the Trans-Siberian railway 5793 km to Beijing, then get on a train for Singapore 4457 km away. Once there she boards a boat to Brisbane, another 6179 km. She has not yet planned her journey back. (Source: Ananova.com)

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Britain's Royal Mail is refusing to deliver mail to a small community on the Ardmore peninsula in Scotland. Mail officials say the small footpath is too dangerous for postmen to walk after one slipped and fell on a grassy slope on the path. Postmen have delivered mail to the community, and walked that path, for more than a 100 years. (Source: Reason.com)