Posted by Eric on Jan 27, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
Compound interest is one thing, but interest run amok on a bank account is quite another. For Indian schoolteacher Parijat Saha, who comes from the town of Balurghat in West Bengal state, his monthly salary is about $700. The trouble began when he routinely checked his State Bank of India bank account online to confirm [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 26, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
I often think to myself, “Why can’t I play video games while I urinate?” Sure, I could sit down, but that’s just time wasted. Thank God Sega exists. Set to debut in Japanese bars (BRILLIANT!), Sega has introduced the Toylet, a console that allows you to play games, using your urine to control the games. [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 25, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
The freedom to express oneself artistically might not be mentioned specifically in the Declaration of Independence, but it’s right up there with the pursuit of happiness and the need to be oneself at all costs. To paraphrase the great Oscar Wilde, to be oneself is rather important as “everyone else is already taken.” Pushing this [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 24, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
Considered by many to be one of the worst fashion trends in decades both from the point of view of safety and appearance, the Trade Ministry of Japan has instructed the maker of Crocs to redesign the shoes…or else. Despite the more than 3.9 million pairs of Crocs sold in Japan in the last few [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 23, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
Paris is the international city of love… and yes that applies to Pandas as well. On Jan 15, 2012, two pandas made a trip from China to a new habitat at the ZooParc de Beauval, Paris. So how do you get two pandas out of China? Apparently you FedEx them. (1) Related posts: Chinese Researchers [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 22, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
Japanese Manga censors have always collided with the public perception of artistic expression. The issue usually concerns “Loli Manga,” the adorable childlike characters that are depicted in potentially erotic situations. That’s one thing, perhaps, but it’s quite another to claim that sexually aggressive women turn children who read about them into homosexuals and lesbians. Part [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 21, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
American marines are known for their stamina “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.” Surely most of us in our right minds, however, would agree that stripping to perform military maneuvers in freezing snowy temperatures is a lot to ask, even from a marine. A few years ago, China began conducting snowy [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 20, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
Spending money to buy virtual items is without a doubt one of the most ridiculous things you can do, but that didn’t stop one Chinese man from spending $16,000 on a virtual sword in a game that has yet to be released in China. “Age of Wulin” is an expansive massive multiplayer online role-playing game, [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 19, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
Faulty translations make Japan one of the most humorous and downright weirdest places in the world, and we love them for it. Take, for example, this sign, found in a popular shopping district in downtown Osaka. An advertisement for a “fuckin’ sale” at Gallerie (which appears to sell handbags and women’s clothing) has been making [...]
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Posted by Eric on Jan 18, 2012 in Weird News | 0 comments
The 28th annual Snow and Ice Festival is a winter wonderland utilizing more than 600,000 cubic meters of snow and more than 6.3 million cubic feet of ice. Here in this temporal cosmos, attention and a keen eye for detail is the key to ice-sculpting success. The city of Harbin in Northeast China gets its [...]
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