February 12, 2012
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Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, has failed in his high profile bid to pump forth milk from his breasts. But there is some consolation for the self-styled "Milkman", who is winging his way to the United States this week for an appearance on The Tyra Banks Show.
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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He is getting a free flight to the USA to appear on the Tyra Banks show.
He is getting a free holiday.
Smart way to go about it. I have to admire his original method of getting a free USA holiday.
Really, I get to watch an interview with this man on prime time?!?! Up until now I only got to read about him. I can hardly contain my excitement. This is like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Years all rolled into one!!
As soon as he first appears in public together with outsize cup and bra,I have little doubt that the whole male population of Sweden will be stampeding to the nearest cosmetic surgery.
Must be a good business opportunity in there somewhere methinks....lol.
Tyra Banks show, first class flight plus 5 star hotel is standard, apparently.
This guy has really pulled a brilliant way of getting a holiday.
Original thinking always works well.
this is so sick and so many sick losers also support these sort of action.
I wonder if you are girl Newyork-Vaxjo?
What about all the millions of intersexed people out there in the world? What about the roughly 7500 women in the U.S. alone who were born with XY chromosomes yet who are biologically female, and the roughly same amount of men who were born with XX chromosomes who are biologically male? That's not to speak of the rest of the world. They used to think that having XX or XY was the deciding factor but now know it is not. There are a dozen or so genes that are needed for a fetus to begin producing testosterone which thus causes it to develop into a male baby. Sometimes those genes are there even if the fetus has XX chromosomes and sometimes those genes are not even if the fetus has XY chromosomes. And what about the millions of transgendered people in the world? I hate to break it to you but reality doesn't fit your uninformed, narrow-minded preconception of a male/female dichotomy. Not to mention how much of what we refer to as "male" and "female" are solely social constructions.
@jack sprat
There was a guy in the U.S. who got a boob job as a dare from one of this friends. This was years ago. His friend bet him money to keep them in for about a year or so. He won the bet and then left them in. He said he liked having them. He was on Letterman's show. Looks like those "normal" Americans beat the Swedes to it, eh?
@Newyork-Växjö
God didn't give us wings but we still soar through the sky. God didn't give us gills but we still swim underwater with scuba tanks. I'm sure you have no problem with human beings traveling by airplane and going for a nice scuba dive every now and then. God didn't give us the physical strength to construct steel and concrete sky scrapers but we still managed to devise the technology to do so. It would probably be a wise move to extricate your head from your ass. After all, if God had wanted you to have your head up your ass, he would have put it there in the first place.
You took the words right out of my mouth!