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• Teased on the Charles Street bus

  In brief: In the early Perth days people mock his robes: 'women's clothes', 'Hare Krishna', 'get a proper job'. On a bus down Charles Street some…

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  And I remember going on a bus once and just uh down Charles Street. Uh and then somebody started teasing me. And so I said I'd go and give as good as I got. I said, "You know, you got long hair. You're like a girl. You should shave all off like me." And as soon as I started fighting back, the other guys they got really embarrassed. And the reason was because I was not going to get embarrassed. I was not going to be controlled. I was going to sort of have some fun.

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• What boys and girls really want

  In brief: At a big youth conference in Kuala Lumpur, Ajahn Brahm splits the teenagers by sex. He asks the girls what makes a boy attractive: not…

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  I've talked to youth groups you know young people 14 I the last time was over in quala had this big youth conference and I was talking to the boys and the girls I I separated them out first of all because it's a waste of time talking religion because what boys and girls are interested in is each other so I talked to the boys first of all I said what do you want in a girl girlfriend what would you like in a girlfriend and all the boys suddenly started paying attention you know this is something they don't teach in school and this is something the boys really wanted to know I know when I grew up no one told me you had to try and figure it out for yourself you used to ask other boys and what did they know about what girls want so I asked the girls what do you like in a boy what would make a boy really attractive and they talked with each other and they came to the conclusion it they didn't have to be strong and mash show and show off they wanted boys they could trust they were well groomed not dirty wanted you know people who would make them happy were fun to be with they didn't have to be strong and big it was like trust caring reliable fun to be with that was high on the list of what these girls told me they wanted in a boyfriend he asked the boys what you want in a girl do they have to be drop dead gorgeous well it helps I'm a boy but it's not that important what the boys wanted and they said this we wanted someone we can trust someone who will care for us someone who's fun to be with it's amazing it's exactly the same thing you want someone who you can be with trusting care he in you can relate with and have fun together with they were the highest priority

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• Dying peacefully like Dad (the bus-driver joke)

  In brief: A comedian wants to die peacefully in his sleep like his father — unlike the screaming passengers on the bus his father was driving.

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  He said, "When I die, I want to die in my sleep just like my father. He died in his sleep. Not like the passengers in the bus he was driving at the time, screaming and shouting."

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• The penguin funeral (“Freeze a jolly good fellow”)

  In brief: Penguins grieve a dead friend, bury him in the ice and sing at the ceremony: “Freeze a jolly good fellow.”

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  even Penguins they have this beautiful sense of social cohesion and they have their own ceremonies when one of their members dies and apparently what happened is this penguin died and as soon as it died all its friends came around it to grieve but then after grieving for a little while they actually dug a hole in the snow in the ice and they put the dead penguin in the snow in the ice and they covered him over with the freezing ice and then afterwards they did a little ceremony for for the dead penguin their friend they sang a song free the jolly good fellow

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