Bizarre, hilarious, and outlandish stories from around the globe.
Bizarre, hilarious, and outlandish stories from around the globe.
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The old adage goes that one should spend three months worth of their salary on an engagement ring. Whether you're willing to give up a quarter of your year's earnings on a diamond ring for your future spouse is ultimately up to you, though it seems you might not need…
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Just when you think you've seen everything there is to see on the internet, something or someone comes along, and changes what you think you know in the weirdest (and sometimes most horrifying) ways. Yeah, the internet is great for learning new info, staying in touch with friends, or catching…
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One of the most disturbing criminal cases of the last decade is the kidnapping of British model Chloe Ayling, whose traumatic captivity at the hands of Lukasz Herba, and eventual escape from his clutches, has afforded police and the public alike with a chilling insight into the operations of the criminal…
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It's a fact that a boss can make or break a job. With a good boss; life is easy. A good manager will look after, put your needs first, and go the extra mile to make the daily grind that little bit more tolerable. They'll hand out bonuses, buy drinks…
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I tend to keep my fingernails clipped as often as possible. It's not that I think they look bad when they've grown a little, or that I'm obsessive over hygiene - it just feels wrong. As soon as I notice they've past the point, it will bug me for the…
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There's nothing worse than a wardrobe malfunction. Seriously, you spend all your time planning the perfect outfit, fork out a big pile of cash to look good, only to be told that there's something wrong with it that you never noticed. This has happened to me so many times before.…
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Moving house is a lot of stress. Once you find somewhere you want to move in and someone to live with, it's exciting to imagine what kind of life you will be leading, but the transition process just plain sucks. Moving all your stuff from one place to another is…
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Although I try to resist, protesting that I'm on a diet and that I will not be tempted, the longest I've gone without McDonald's so far in 2018 is a paltry 11 days. I went travelling in Dublin, Lisbon and... uh, Manchester, and at all three of these locations, delicious…
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If you could have absolutely anything as your last meal on this mortal plane, what would it be? Personally, as a non-meat-eater, I think I'd go for the best lab-grown steak money could buy, accompanied by an uncomfortably large portion of fries and onion rings (all smothered in cheese and…
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You know, memes really are everywhere these days. It's almost impossible to scroll down your Facebook feed and not encounter one: and image macros have become as commonplace as street graffiti. Once they were merely created and proliferated by a small and closeted bunch of early internet users, but now…
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The Game of Thrones book series (officially known as 'A Song of Ice and Fire') has certainly had a large fan following for a considerable amount of time now. Long before it became a hit HBO show, the first book - A Game of Thrones - was released in 1996.…
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At face value, Carl Tanzler seemed like a man of incredible intelligence, depth an mystique. The radiology technician, who was born in Germany but lived in Russia, claimed to own nine university degrees, be a former submarine captain and an accomplished inventor. However, the truth was much different. Carl, in…
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As philosophers and your mom always say: "Rome wasn't built in a day". Sometimes, a really good thing takes a really long time to happen. Even the most talented artists spend hundreds (if not thousands) of hours practicing their craft, while just bringing new life into the world requires nine…
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As June turns to July and we can start to look ahead to Wimbledon and Independence Day (depending on where you are), summer is in full flow. Summertime means many different things for different people, but for me, there's nothing that says 'summer' more than slapping some meat on the…
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The internet is a funny old place and it doesn't get much weirder than Craigslist. The website, which allows people to post adverts for a variety of different things - whether it be jobs, spare rooms, adult personals or selling cars, is a breeding ground for weirdos - as one…
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From time to time, we all imagine what the world is going to look like for our great-grandchildren, and all of their descendants. But, chances are, none of us will ever truly know. That is, perhaps, aside from one person called 'Noah', who claims to be a time traveller who…
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In the massively-hyped, quadrennial sporting event that grips sports enthusiasts the world over, it's often impossible to predict what'll happen in the World Cup. Who would have thought that the Dutch National team would have got away with a kung-fu kick in the 2010 Final, or that Zinedine Zidane would…
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Health treatments these days can get pretty weird. You've got "vampire facials", in which people inject blood from their arm into their faces to keep them looking young, "wine baths" in which folks take a dip in a tub of red wine in order to soak up the antioxidants, and…
