Permission to grow, sir
If you are in the Norwegian Navy and want to grow a beard, you must submit a form requesting permission to do so. This form should include a drawing of what the beard will look like. A Reddit user submitted his application form which included his reason for wanting a beard ("I get irritated skin from daily shaving and it's starting to get cold outside.") At the bottom of the form a lieutenant has approved the sailor's application and said he will inspect the beard at two and five weeks.
Court orders meat once a week
An Italian court has ordered a vegetarian mother to cook meat for her son at least once a week after the boy's father complained that his son wasn't being given a proper diet. The mother started her son on a macrobiotic diet - consisting of whole grains, cereals and vegetables - in 2006. But the father, who is divorced from the mother, complained that she had made the decision without consulting him and that the diet put his son's health at risk. Despite the mother's dietary regime, the father took his son out for meals at McDonald's and prepared desserts, meat and dairy dishes at weekends, when he had custody of the child. The father's mother also fed him foods which broke the diet, including gorgonzola and sausages. According to the child's mother, the boy would come home after the weekend with a stomach ache. The father eventually took the matter to court so that the boy's diet could be decided once and for all. (Source: Thelocal.it)
Yearning for sound of silence
A mother is wanting to sell her child's collection of Countdown animal sound cards, so she lists it on Trade Me: "Oh my god I hate those bloody cards. My kid doesn't even play with them. He just throws them all over the house. Why do we have so many? We don't even shop at Countdown!!!! Take them. I will even find the stupid card reader thing and I think I even have the stupid tin thing as well. Any $ I get will go toward as much alcohol as I can buy to deal with the fact that I'm still going to be finding those stupid cards down the back of the couch in 10 years' time."
