910...Swedish Bra Explosions

And meltdowns.

You gotta love Sweden, the Volvo, Ikea, bra malfunctions. I was checking out The Local, an English language Swedish paper and they reported that the Swedish armed forces have been hit by a major equipment problem. Flimsy military brassieres are unable to stand up to the strains imposed when female Swedish troops perform rigorous exercise which cause the bras to routinely burst open. Sometimes they even catch fire forcing busty young conscripts to hurriedly strip off in the field.

There have been concerns raised over the last two decades by the Swedish Conscription Council, an organisation concerned with the rights of conscript troops in the Swedish forces, about bra management.

Amazingly the male dominated hierarchy of the Swedish Army has not done a thing to prevent these malfunctions from occurring. Impromptu strip downs in the field do not worry the men in charge of the military.

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327...Better Sex Makes Better Workers

I was flipping through The Local, a Swedish rag that I am wont to read and I noticed the headline

Better Sex Makes Better Workers

Well, that piqued my interest. Ann-Christine Andersson Arneten is a Phd candidate at the University of Gothenburg and says that “Either you come home to something that gives you a possibility to rewind and recover, or you have a relationship that makes you more troubled,”

Some of the results of the five-year study involving about 900 men and women were obvious. Men like to get something something a lot a lot, quanity over quality whereas women like quality over quantity. If the getting is good, the working is too.

Also obvious was the fact that women thrived at work when they were in great relationships; did not thrive when in bad relationships. Men were different. The highest stress level for men was when they were in in-between, in the middle, type relationships. When a relationship was good, no stress and when a relationship sucked, same thing, stress free. It was the effort involved in the in-between deals that stressed out the boys.

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