Human Meat Shop Opens in London to Promote Video Game Launch
A creepy meat shop recently opened in London’s famous Smithfield meat market, offering all kinds of stomach-turning treats, like human hands, ears and even full torsos. Luckily, it was just a publicity stunt for the launch of Capcom’s Resident Evil 6 video game. It looked like a scene from a sick horror film – human […]
Fight Like a Handsome Man – Inside the Male Model Fight Club
It’s called Friday Night Throwdown, but most know it as the male model fight club, an unlicensed underground event that puts pretty boys in the ring with street fighters and real boxers. As you can imagine, models almost never win. “I think it’s hilarious that the whole point of their being is to make money off […]
Girl Posts Birthday Invitation on Facebook, Gets Thousands of Unwanted Guests, Riot Ensues
A 16-year-old girl from Haren, the Netherlands, forgot to set her Facebook birthday invitation to private and got a few thousand more guests than she was expecting. And if that wasn’t enough, the revelers also started a riot in the small Dutch town. Why don’t these young school girls ever learn? Jut last year a […]
Chinese Festival Organizers Create Human Zoo for Beggars
Beggars at a religious festival in Nanchang, southern China, have been ordered to either stay in specially-built metal cages or risk being removed from the city, in an attempt to stop them from harassing visitors. Living in a country where begging is a very lucrative business, I know what it’s like to constantly be disturbed by […]
China Hosts World’s First Ever Goldfish Beauty Pageant
3,000 goldfish from 14 different countries around the world competed for the title of “World Goldfish Queen” in the first ever International Goldfish Championship, hosted in Fuzhou, China’s Fujian Province. A warehouse full of thousands of big white bowls of water sure doesn’t sound like the beauty pageant events we’re normally used to, but that’s […]
Mine Shaft Restaurant Takes Dining to a New Low
Ina bid to turn the idea of pop-up restaurants on its head, an award-winning Finish chef has opened a unique eaterie in an old mine shaft, 80 meters underground. Obviously, it’s called a “pop-down” restaurant. “‘Pop-down’ is such a unique idea that I just had to do it,” chef Timo Linnamaki said on Monday, before his […]
Hot Tub Cinema – Probably the Most Relaxing Movie Experience Ever
For the past year, young movie buffs in London have been flocking to one of the most unique film-watching venues in the world. The Hot Tub Cinema combines hot tubs with good movies and a London rooftop location to offer probably the most relaxing film-watching experience on Earth. ‘We wanted to watch a movie, we […]
Bolivian Movie Marathon Exceeds 200 Hours, Sets New Guinness Record
I love watching movies, but doing it continuously for over 200 hours seems like an impossible feat. But not for two Bolivian movie aficionados who recently won a national movie marathon contest and split a prize of $10,000. Last year, Bolivia set a new world record for the longest movie marathon. Felipe Gonzalo Ticona managed to stay […]
Unique Spanish Festival Celebrates Near Death Experiences
Did you manage to survive a near death experience during the past year? Well then, congratulation, you’ve earned the privilege of being placed in a coffin and paraded through the streets of Las Nieves, as part of a festival called La Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme. The small town of Las Nieves is located […]
Teenager Sets New World Record at Mobile-Phone Throwing Contest
Every year, the Finnish town of Savonlinna hosts a fun and relaxing phone-throwing contest where participants are invited to take out all their frustration on their handhelds by throwing them as far as possible. This year, a Finnish teenager managed to set a new world record, with a throw of over 101 meters. Ever since 2000, […]
Gotmar Mela – India’s Centuries-Old Stone Pelting War
For over three hundred years, the residents of Pandhurna and Sawargaon, two Indian villages located on the banks of the river Jaam, have been engaging in a bizarre stone-pelting ritual called Gotmar Mela that leaves hundreds critically injured and even dead. The stone war of Gotmar Mela, as its sometimes referred to, takes place every […]
Children Work Together to Build 1.8 Million LEGO Map of Future Japan
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of LEGO blocks being introduced in Japan, the Danish company organized a cross-country workshop called “Build Up Japan” in which over 5,000 children created their visions of future Japanese buildings. The assembled pieces were all brought to Tokyo and assembled as a giant white map. As Johnny from Spoon&Tamago noticed, […]
School Children Dress Up Dead Animals in Bizarre Competition
Fund-raising school competitions usually involve cake baking and sporting events, but at one particular school in New Zealand it’s all about dressing dead possums in funny outfits for a bizarre best dressed furry animal contest. Looking at the photos taken at the Uruti School, on New Zealand’s North Island, you’d think this was a taxidermy competition, […]
Germany’s Trendiest People Converge on Berlin for the Hipster Olympics
With the real Olympic Games about to start in London, Berlin’s self-proclaimed hipsters though they’d organize their own competition to find the most athletic hipster in Germany – the 2012 Hipster Olympics. The tongue-in-cheek event took place last Saturday, and drew a crowd of over 6,000 hipsters to a club in east Berlin, for a […]
Leg Humping Competition Celebrates Dogs’ Love for Our Legs
Usually, when a dog starts humping your leg, you’re quick to make him stop, but at the Humpy Awards, owners actually encourage their pooches to get it on with their legs. There’s the Grammys, the Emmys, the Webbies, and now we have the Humpys, which celebrate dogs’ natural behavior to hump your legs. This first […]