Blogs


ABOUT ME


  • » Name: Amanda Bassa
  • » Location: VA
  • » Member Since: 09/21/07
  • » Bio: student, future change maker, and everything you wouldn't expect me to be.
  • » Contact Me:
  • » Syndicate: RSS RSS

MY RECENT POSTS



MY CALENDAR


  October 2007  
S M T W T F S
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31      
« Sep Nov »

MY TAGS


2007 • aids • album sales • art • barack obama • basketball • beijing olympics • bill clinton • bush • china • college • cops • crime • d.c. • darfur • dc • dead prez • deonte rawlings • displacement • dmv • downloading • drugs • e-thuggery • election • endorsement • ernie paniccioli • excessive force • films • florida • free • frosty freeze • gangs • gentrification • go go • go-go • google • heroin • hillary clinton • hip hop • hip hop honors • hiv • hype • illegal downloading • immortal technique • injustice • irv gotti • jay-z • judah • justice • kanye west • lil wayne • longevity • lyriciss • m1 platoon • mafia • mainstream • mark ronson • marky • mary read • media • mixtapes • music • myspace • n-word • nandomcflyy • nas • new york • o'reilly • obama • old school • olympics • oprah • parenting • police brutality • politics • positivity • pro'verb • r.e.u.b. • radio • reggae • rock steady crew • rock the bells • russia • sampling • sean bell • sean taylor • sex • shootings • soundtracks • supernatural • television • terrorism • tibet • tv • tyra banks • underground • vh1 • virginia tech • wale • war • wordsmith • x.o.

MY FAVORITES




The Undisputed Truth

Happy Hump Day


October 03, 2007 | Tags: Russia, sex


It’s Wednesday! Halfway through the week. We made it over the hump. *



Anyway, there’s a special hump day if you’re Russian and a resident of the Ulyanovsk region. And yeah, it was on a Wednesday there, too. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? They like to call it something more classy though – “Family Contact Day”. Yeah. That kind of contact. Don’t get too crazy and pack up and move to Russia, though, because this year’s special hump day was on September 12th. You missed it.



What happens is that the citizens are given a day off from work (seriously) with the goal that they will stay home and spend their valuable free time banging one another’s brains out. And this time hitting it raw may actually pay off – September 12th is exactly nine months before Russia’s national day. If anybody gives birth on June 12th in Russia (not just in that region) they’ll literally win prizes from the government – cars, TV’s, etc.



This may seem all fun and games, and in the moment it probably is, but there is a serious underlying issue that is causing the Russian government to resort to these types of measures: population decline. I’ve heard demographic estimates that claim that if the current rate of decline continues, Russian population will decline by up 40 million people by 2050-ish time. There are many reasons for this: political instability, poor healthcare, and of course a general desire to just get the hell out of that country.



So far the measures taken, such as “Family Contact Day” and the fact that Putin will pay you some nine to ten thousand bucks if you have second and third children, have made birth rates slightly rise.  All hope is not lost.



Have a happy hump day.



 



* That’s why they call Wednesdays hump days, right? Seriously. I never quite figured that out, but it’s one of the things I remember from summer school English class (what up to everyone in that class by the way – definitely some cool ass people).





The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

0 Comments