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A writer for the Daily News somehow convinced his 82-year-old Grandmother to agree to go skydiving — with cameras along to document the whole thing. After she made her decent from the sky, she had a few words: "Life gets better and better, and even when you think it can't get any better, it gets better!" More »
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Love the neon hair and glamour shots, but the one with the bong looks Photoshopped. More »
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Says one writer: it's time to end the myth that just because someone raised kids, they know what they're doing. More »
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A sepia-toned Vanity Fair profile of Grace Kelly reminds us that the future Princess of Monaco lost her virginity at the tender age of 17. And from polling our own grandmothers, we were surprised at what we learned: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5505510&view=rss&microfeed=true In the video above, a group of Australian women over the age of 80 perform the 1977 song "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols, which was originally titled "No Future" and banned by the BBC. It's part of artist Christoph Büchel's exhibit "no future" at the Sydney Biennale 2008. The ladies were given an open gallery space and told to rehearse the song whenever they wanted. Modern art would probably be a lot more exciting if every gallery featured a group of grannies performing punk rock. More »
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Despite frostbite, double pneumonia, a breast cancer scare, and nearly 30 marriage proposals from miscellaneous strangers, Rosie Swale-Pope, 61, is only a few hundred miles from completing her 20,000 mile around the world journey. She started out in 2003 at her home in Wales after the death of her husband from prostate cancer, reports the Times of London, and has subsequently run across the continents, and sailed the intervening oceans. Of her 29 marriage proposals, the self-effacing Rosie says, “I think most of them were simply because I looked strong and handy for hauling logs and things. I had nine in Poland alone.” This isn't Swale's first time in the press for her death-defying feats. In the '70s, she made headlines for yachting around the world — and sailing through the Caribbean in her birthday suit. Her more recent round-the-world trip will land her in the Guinness Book of World Records, and included two filling-cracking winters in Siberia. More »
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Remember Latarian Milton, the 7-year-old who stole his grandma's car for a joyride because he wanted to "do hood rat stuff"? Well, he's in trouble with the po po again, this time for beating up his grandmother, Vikkita Stratford, his guardian, after she refused to buy him chicken wings. The two were at a local Wal-Mart, and after he was told he couldn't have chicken wings, he went up to the counter and ordered them anyway. When Stratford tried to reprimand him about it, he snapped, and physically attacked her. Later in the day, the police picked Latarian up at his grandmother's home and took him to an area hospital, where he will be detained for 72 hours for a mental health evaluation. Seriously, this kid is the embodiment of that Chris Rock joke when he says, "If a kid calls his grandma 'mom' and his mom 'Pam,' he is going to jail." Except it's not funny because it's true. [WPBF] More »
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Granny panties: They're not just for comfort, they also can save your life. After a kitchen fire started in the northern England home of Jenny Marsey, her son and nephew reached for her size 18-20, high-waisted, cotton briefs laying on top of the laundry pile, and used them as a fire blanket, successfully extinguishing the flames. Of her life-saving knickers, Marsey said: "I call them my emergency ones. They're the ones you wear when you've run out of all your others!" [The Guardian] More »
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• Pro-ana's take note — striving to be a size zero is not only crappy for your health, but also for your sex drive. New research indicates that super-skinny women have lower libidos, not to mention fear of breaking bones during the act itself. [Daily Mail]

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