ishtoofit

Prepubescent and adolescent girls sold by their families to brothels (legal brothels, by the way) for $245 so that they can abuse unregulated livestock-fattening steroids to attract customers and charge $0.60 per session, up to 15 times a day, to forever pay off their madams and pimps.

Bangladesh better hope and pray that God does not indeed exist, because if sin exists there can be no greater one than this.

I wonder how many Bangladeshis watched the Kony 2012 video and how many of them knew this was happening in their own back yard?

Where is their viral video to be viewed more than a 100 million times?

The government has waived half the interest on the margin loan of the retail stock market investors in a much-awaited move to recompense them for their losses in the slide. A 20 percent quota will be reserved for them in the next IPOs this year and 2013, finance minister AMA Muhith told reporters after meeting capital market stakeholders on Sunday.

Only in Bangladesh can small, unsophisticated, barely literate "investors" blunder about ignorantly in the stock market investing non-risk capital and then turn around and demand re-compensation from the government for their losses, and then have the government actually turn around and comply by waiving interest on margin loans and providing special quotas for future IPOs.

The American Pet Products Association (APPA) says spending on pets in the US passed $50bn (£31.5bn) in 2011.

Even in troubling economic times, Americans spent a record amount on their pets in 2011, over $50 billion.

When compared against the figures on the official website of the United States government on government spending (www.usaspending.gov), it appears that Americans spent 0.33% of their GDP on caring for their pets.

Which is about:

180% of what is spent on the Dept of Energy

83% of what is spent on the Dept of Education

370% of what is spent on the US Agency for International Development

406% of what is spent on the Dept of State

304% of what is spent on NASA

12% of what is spent on the Dept of Health & Human Services

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is perhaps the most infinitely aware, insightful and omniscient of all government regulatory bodies I have ever dealt with in any country. They were able to complete my motor vehicle examination and renew my car's road fitness certificate without the pesky time-consuming bother of actually seeing or having my car present (it was literally several miles away). They must be hiring psychics.

In recent weeks, mobile phone users have been complaining that they were noticing missed calls on their handsets from certain seemingly overseas numbers on a regular basis. Many said they were getting alluring text messages too. The unsuspecting recipients fall victim to fraudulence when they return the calls. They either face high charges or are asked to pay some money to win a reward or tempted into getting involved in telephone sex.

I and several of my friends/colleagues have received these messages.

The one I got read:

hi baby i miss u so much call me on this number i'm waiting for u

Of course, I did not reply.

Some victims said when they returned a call, they were presented with sexually provocative conversations in Bangla from the other side.

Although, "sexually provocative conversations in Bangla" might have been worth the money to hear. I'm curious, I can't for the life of me imagine what sexually provocative Bangla would sound like, having never ever heard any in my entire life.