The Royal Australian Navy is under pressure to explain why it has spent tens of thousands of pounds paying for female sailors to have breast enlargements.
The opposition Labour Party will this week grill the government over revelations that the operations were granted to women whose small breasts had caused them crises of self-confidence. "On the face of it, taxpayer-funded breast enhancement is a questionable practice," said Labour's defence spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon. "I have to say it smacks of a government [that is] out of touch. The navy defended the practice, saying the procedure was only allowed for psychological rather than cosmetic reasons.
"Under defence policy, we do consider the broader needs of our people, both physical and psychological," said Brigadier Andrew Nikolic, a defence department spokesman. "But that is a long way from saying that if someone doesn't like their appearance, defence will fund things like breast augmentation as a matter of routine - that is just not correct."
The navy has not disclosed how many women have undergone the taxpayer-funded operation. But a Sydney plastic surgeon revealed that in the last two years he had carried out breast enlargements on two sailors, aged 25 and 32, at a cost of £4,200 each. Other women had gone to a plastic surgeon retained by the navy, he said.
"I don't know why [the navy] pay for it, said surgeon Kourosh Tavakoli. "There's no breast augmentation, that I know of, for medical purposes."
Neil James, the head of military lobby group the Defence Association, defended the policy, saying female sailors were only given breast enhancements if there were compelling "psychiatric or psychological reasons". "Just as there are in civilian life, there are some females who feel their breasts are too small and if their breasts were bigger, they might be more of a 'normal' woman," Mr James said. "If they were lacking in self-confidence, this might provide the measure of self-confidence that would help them tackle their wider job."
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Clearly these operations were given to these sailors strictly on the basis of safety.
As any military man will tell you - women with larger breasts float "face up" rather than "face down". Obviously, an important consideration for a sailor!
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The Royal Australian Navy is under pressure to explain why it has spent tens of thousands of pounds paying for female sailors to have breast enlargements
Because Australian sailors were allowed to vote on the issue. Any boob could figure that out.
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AAhh, The twin gazelles; mounds of Sharon. The elixir that has launched a thousand quests in the pursuit of meaning, contentment in the peace of nature. The spark of the universe, can be conceived in the cleavage of this aspiration!
#10
Ferchrissakes, the Australian Navy is now officially in the business of trying to buy people out of their self-esteem issues. Sounds decidely unmilitary.
OTOH, before today I've never had even the slightest interest in being an Australian sailor.
This article is just begging for some alterate lyrics to that Men at Work song about the Land Down Under.
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Breast enlargement, covered.
Breast reduction, not covered.
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from what I've seen of the general female population of OZ, breast reductions might be more appropriate... all those moving machine parts, donchayaknow.
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On a bit of a serious note, the USN used to pay for operations of what might be considered 'cosmetic' due to ensuring medical staff remain current on these procedures. I was fortunate enough to be fitted with some gold crowns rather than synthetic ones as the dentist was required to fit 'x' a year. this may be the case here.
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When I was stationed at P.I. 4 yrs ago we had some female DI's go on convalescent leave and get breast implants. They even got the gov't to pay 80% of the costs (like $4K a surgery). The base CG caught wind of this and put a stop to future operations after about 5 of them got it done. The females used the same line as these Aussie sailors -- low self esteem or some such.
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This article is just begging for some alterate lyrics to that Men at Work song about the Land Down Under.
Your wish is my command, mate. (With apologies to Colin Hay)
Sailing on a fried out frigate
On a navy detail, ready to wig it
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
I dropped my gaze and she called me perverse
And I said,
"Do you come from a land down under?
Where the boobs grow and men wonder
Are these real and not a surgical blunder?
Or is this just another government funder?
Passing by the bras at Grace Brothers
I ran across Avril Carruthers
She asked, Do you speak-a my language?
I replied, Im a linguist, I just might manage.
And she said,
"I come from a land down under
Where brassieres snap from stress, no wonder
If those straps, if they tear asunder
You better run, you better take cover."
Lying in my bunk in Sydney
With a sore jaw and full kidney
Had to ask her, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because your cups runneth over plenty?
And I said,
"Do you come from a land down under?
Where the boobs grow and men wonder
Are these real and not a surgical blunder?
Or is this just another government funder?
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The US Army perform breast enlargements for female soldiers but with certain restrictions : 1) permission of the commander (elective surgery and the soldier will be on restricted duty for awhile); 2) the soldier buys the implants out of her own pocket; 3) the base hospital has a surgeon qualified in elective plastic surgery. The US Army permits the breast augmentations in these conditions since there are a number of female soldiers in danger zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places; and IED, fire, or projectile injuries to the chest would fall under the military's general rule about necessary corrective cosmetic surgery. By allowing the surgeries but having the women pay for the implants, the military keeps its doctors current on the procedure but is not actually promoting said procedure.
It seems to be popular with female MPs and drivers after a tour in a war zone : they have lots of money in their pockets and decide to do a little "home improvement" while they can afford it.
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Trailing Wife (#19), after thinking about it for a few minutes, it donned on me, where would anyone in the navy need to run, Big Boobs or not?? Starboard? Port?
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smn, Broadhead6 is a U.S. Marine, so I assume his female drill instructors at Parris Island are Marines, too. Last I heard, Marines run. A lot. Big, bouncing breasts hurt under those conditions. Run a marathon, and a girl will want to pull an Amazon on both sides, because that would hurt less.
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Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday approved a controversial copyright law, which makes it all but illegal for individuals to make copies of films and music, even for their own use.
The Bundesrat pushed aside criticism from consumer protection groups and passed the law, which makes it illegal for anyone to store DVDs and CDs without permission. The law also covers digital copies from IPTV and TV broadcasts.
Consumer groups and the Green Party had campaigned in vain to include an exemption, so that the measure would not criminalize youths and other private users. The law is set to take effect in 2008.
The law goes beyond previous legislation brought in by the government to help the entertainment industry. Germany's federal justice minister Brigitte Zypris claimed that the legislative reform brought Germany into line with European Union codes.
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Expect both sides of the aisle in Da Capital to rush bills to get the American copyright law to be brought "into line with European Union codes." Cause you know an election year is coming up and the boys and girls in Congress need their reup funds filled by the entertainment industry gold. That conformity with Euro laws was one of the rationales for the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act which took away a lot of public domain. That, the desperate moves by Disney Inc to keep the Mouse out of PD. We're next.
Munich's Oktoberfest opened on Saturday to brilliant sunshine and the sound of Oompah bands, attracting 1 million visitors on the opening weekend, 100,000 more than last year. They drank half a million liters of beer and for some reason devoured more oxen than last year.
Visitors to this year's Munich Oktoberfest ate 11 oxen and drank 500,000 liters of beer in the first two days, the organizers of the world's biggest beer festival said on Monday.
The city was blessed with glorious sunshine on Saturday and Sunday when it staged two grand processions of decorated beercarts, Oompah bands, folk groups and waitresses in Dirndl dresses to mark the opening of one of the world's most famous festivals.
The Red Cross ambulance service counted only 60 so-called "beer corpses" -- people who had drunk themselves into unconsciousness -- on Saturday, half as many as last year, but a spokeswoman for the Munich police had her doubts about the figure. "I can't imagine it was so few," she told SPIEGEL ONLINE, adding that the police attended to 112 incidents over the weekend and detained 53 people for a variety of offenses.
The incidents reflected Oktoberfest's truly international character. An over-exuberant American man, for example, threw a 15-centimeter carrot through a tent, slightly injuring a 29-year-old woman from Chile just below the eye.
And one drunken 22-year-old Swiss man who visited a ghost train, one of the attractions at the Oktoberfest, got so scared by a mechanical ghost that he literally punched its lights out.
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Let's see ... maybe 1300 lbs/ox of which ?60%? is edible (uninformed guess) .... times 7 carry the 14.5 ... that would be less than 1 oz per person.
Maybe eating wasn't the main activity .... (or maybe the prepared brats were particularly popular this year).
#5
Bratwurt and those huge bread pretzels on a ribbon to hand round one's neck. It leaves the hands free for handling the Mass after all, and one isn't as likely to lose it in an alcoholic haze.
#6
Stuttgart's Oktoberfest and Fishfest were a lot better than Munich's, which is just too damn big. Plus the Schwabians are friendly farm folk, compared to the Bavarians, who have a different personality.
#7
Plus, speaking Schwabian is easy. Just learn a few nouns, act like you're drunk, and say "euh" a lot when pausing. Die, das, der, etc., all sound like "deh" in Schwabian.
#8
Key in counting over there is to remember that the thumb is 1, the index finger is 2. Mr. Wife ended up with a lot of unplanned beer until he learned that.
I will never go to a madrassa again, said 14-year-old Ali Shehryar after getting home barefoot on September 20. Shehryars family lived in Shah Faridabad, Sabzazar. He lived and studied at Jamia Masjid Bilal in the same area.
Shehryar alleged that the madrassa head, Qari Mujahid, had sodomised him. Sabzazar police registered a case against the qari on Saturday and arrested him the same day.
Once behind bars, Qari Mujahid prayed continuously and kept changing his statement. First he said he had been implicated in a false case and that the medical report would clear him of the charges. However, he did not say why Shehryar implicated him in a false case. He alleged that no such incident had taken place. Later, he alleged that he had no intention to sodomise Shehryar, rather Shehryar himself persuaded him to do so, but he declined.
Shehryar said in the First Information Report (FIR) on August 28 Qari Mujahid asked him to guard the madrassa from 10:00pm to 1:30am. He said the qari then called for him at 9:00pm in the madrassas courtyard and asked him to massage him. He said some students were present there, but were sent to their rooms. He alleged that the qari took him inside a room and sodomised him. He said that when he tried to resist, the qari threatened him.
Shehryar alleged that that Qari Mujahid again called him to his room to sodomise him on September 20. He said he made an excuse that he had to go to the toilet and would return soon. He said he escaped from the madrassa, got home and told his family that he would never go back.
He also said he told Qari Noor Ahmad, about the incident, was advised to keep silent. He also alleged that there were three other students at the madrassa who had been sodomised, but they did not speak up because they were also threated.
Inspector Qaisar Butt said investigation was underway. He said Qari Mujahid had been sent for an examination and the report would clear the picture.
Presumably that'd be a mental examination. If it was a physical exam, they should be looking at the buggeree.
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Inspector Qaisar Butt
WHAT? Sounds like this kid is going to get hurt.
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In the terror cult (islam) an accuser of a rapist can be executed for accusing, even if they have an adult male witness. The victim needs four, and women's testimony doesn't count. Aren't those people great candidates for immigration to the West?
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Which tells you all you need to know about the denizens of the Daily Kos. The can't tell the difference between Bush - who they call a fascist totalitarian thug and the genuine article. Ironically, if Ahmadinejad was in charge of the US, the Kossacks would be the first up against the wall.
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Ironically, if Ahmadinejad was in charge of the US, the Kossacks would be the first up against the wall.
The liberal left's adamant refusal to recognize this and understand the consequences arising therefrom is increasingly making them into outright traitors. This phenomenon should be about as common as Jews supporting Hitler.
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Cars in the USA are selling for a heck of a lot less than in Canada. Many people are now asking why. Lots of enquiries about buying new in the USA and importing into Canada. Many $$$ to be saved this way. Canadian car sellers are crying like babies after putting the boots to us for years. Too Bad, guys. They're also saying that the warranties will not be honored. Wrong again. Manufacturers will back 'em no matter what the mouth pieces say. I'm planning to help the Lincoln Sales in the USA myself.
#2
If you're within two hours of Niagara Falls, come south to shop in Buffalo, Canuckistan sniper. It doesn't make any difference at the moment, but Buffalo bars have accepted the Canadian dollar at par since 1979.
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The Royal Australian Navy is under pressure to explain why it has spent tens of thousands of pounds paying for female sailors to have breast enlargements. 
I will never go to a madrassa again, said 14-year-old Ali Shehryar after getting home barefoot on September 20. Shehryars family lived in Shah Faridabad, Sabzazar. He lived and studied at Jamia Masjid Bilal in the same area.
