June 2012

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‘MILF’ deemed too offensive

The acronym 'MILF' has been declared an offensive term by an Irish advertising watchdog and will be taken off the radio airwaves. Read more about ‘MILF’ deemed too offensive

Dad offers year of beer for a job

An Australian father offering free beer for a year in exchange for an electrical apprenticeship for his out-of-work son said Wednesday he had fielded phone calls from around the world but no genuine job offer.

“It's become a bit of a nightmare, really,” Paul McVeigh said of the response to the column advertisement he placed in his local paper, the Mackay Daily Mercury.

“I've had loads of calls, foreign breweries wanting to sponsor the offer and stuff, but no real job offers. I'm beginning to regret placing the ad in the first place.” Read more about Dad offers year of beer for a job

Weird facts

1. Lightning strikes about 6 000 times per minute on this planet.

2. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. Read more about Weird facts

He doesn’t want to believe

Question: 

Dear Auntie Nangy,
I have a problem with my boyfriend. Last weekend I didn’t go out but when he asked me where I was during the weekend he thought I was lying to him. Usually if I do go out I tell him. Now it has been five days without him talking to me and I don’t know what to do, please help me.

Answer: 

He is jealous and that means that he has self-esteem issues that he needs to sort out. Jealousy in a relationship can be one of the most destabilising of emotions. It often indicates insecurity about a relationship involving suspicion and sometimes an attempt to reach certainty about whether the other person is betraying your trust - it may not be possible to reach absolute certainty about this in a relationship, in which case the desire to know may simply lead to greater anxiety and frustration.

Trust in a relationship is very important and it seems that you don’t give him reason to distrust you. Maybe you should SMS him and tell him that you love him, but that it is up to him to resolve his trust issues.

Could this be an STI?

Question: 

Dear Auntie Nangy,
I’m a 21-year-old girl and my problem is that whenever I have sex with my boyfriend like for seven days in a row, the next day I start to develop some round lumps on the outside of my vagina which are painful when I touch them or when I wear tight jeans. The lumps last for four to five days and they disappear. Is it an STI? Please help!

Answer: 

There is really only one way to find out if you have a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) and that is to see a doctor for blood tests. This is something that you must do as soon as possible as the sooner as an STI is identified and treated, the better the chances of recovery.

My girl’s thighs are too large

Question: 

Dear Auntie Nangy,
My girl has large thighs which makes the space between her legs too small. What position will make it easy for me to enter her?

Answer: 

Eish, the lengths that I have to go to in order to satisfy readers’ needs, so to speak!
The best position will be from behind and there are two variations. One is where she is on her hands and knees with you behind her, either on your knees on the bed or for variation she can be on the edge of the bed and you stand upright.

This is called “doggy style” and no, it is not necessary for her or you to bark. The other position is where she lays on her side and you lay behind her in a spooning position. This position allows you to use your hands to caress her and the fact that you are in full body contact makes it very intimate.

You can also experiment with you laying on your back and her sitting on top of you, either facing you or facing away from you. Just for interest sake, the position where she faces away from you is called the “reverse cowboy” style. Giddy up, cowboy! Have fun!

I want my love back

Question: 

Dear Auntie Nangy,
What can I do to get my love back? My love never kisses me and when I ask her to kiss me she pretends? What can I do?

Answer: 

Talk to her. Communication is the cornerstone of any relationship and if she is distant from you then you have to find out what the problem is before you can address it. Make some special time that you can spend alone in a relaxed environment and just talk to her, without accusations or pressure, and very important, really listen to what she is saying and take it from there.

She doesn’t want to kiss me

Question: 

Dear Auntie Nangy,
I am 24 and my girl is 18. I really love her and she tells me the same but whenever she visits me and I ask for a kiss she doesn’t want to kiss me. She tells me she doesn’t like kissing or she already kissed enough but when she goes home she tells me that she loves me. What can I do not to lose her?

Answer: 

Ask her why she doesn’t like kissing. Maybe she is just shy because she never kissed before and is afraid that she will make a mistake or maybe there is some other reason but just talk to her.

Is the injection safe?

Question: 

Dear Auntie Nangy,
I just want to find out if the (contraceptive) injection is still effective once you stop using it? Is it a monthly injection and what are the positive and negative aspects of using it?

Answer: 

The injection is given once every three months. The advantages are that it is highly effective and is reversible once treatment is stopped and it does not place heavy demands on the user’s time or money. It does not increase the risk of breast, ovarian or cervical cancer and might even be useful for women with painful periods and premenstrual syndrome. The disadvantages are weight gain in most women. Others may include menstrual irregularities, abdominal pains and discomfort, dizziness, headache, fatigue and nervousness.

Most women stop menstruating completely after a year of use and it can cause persistent infertility for up to 22 months after the last injection (the average is 10 months). The long term use (more than two years) can cause loss of bone density. The injection also does not provide protection against Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).

How dangerous is secondhand smoke?

Question: 

Dear Auntie Nangy,
I have a problem at work. The majority of the employees smoke so I would like to know how dangerous secondhand smoke is and also what the visible side effects are.

Answer: 

Secondhand smoke is very dangerous. More than 4 000 (no, this is not a printing error!) chemicals have been identified in secondhand smoke and at least 250 are known to be harmful. A staggering fifty of these chemicals are known to cause cancer!

This is just some of the stuff that you inhale; arsenic, benzene, cadmium (used in batteries), vinyl chloride and other toxins.

Visible side effects will show up in respiratory problems like coughing, shortness of breath, asthma and nasal congestion. The non-visible effects are even scarier and include cancer, heart diseases and high blood pressure.

Unfortunately anti-smoking laws in Africa are not taken as seriously as in most Western countries, but try to get your colleagues to smoke outside or maybe try to get a smoke room.

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