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Iranian Actress Given 90 Lashes For Being In A Mildly Subversive Film
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More specifically, Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes for starring in “My Tehran For Sale,” a movie about how Iran mistreats its actresses. The actress was arrested for being in the film – which was never officially distributed in Iran – in July, and her sentence was handed down this weekend.
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Let Them Eat Cake – In A Jacuzzi Hanging 153 Metres Above Ground
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This shitcrazy group of extreme jacuzziers have just made your Friday. The group, who are members of the organisation, jacuzzi.ch, suspended themselves 153 metres in the air from the Gueuroz Bridge in Switzerland, with naught but cables and ropes keeping them up. They then proceeded to set up a special platform where they chilled, ate cake and drank champagne in a mid-air jacuzzi. Definitely bucket list material.
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Doh! The Simpsons Could Be Cancelled Over Actors’ Pay Dispute
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One can understand the anger of Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson), Julia Kavner (Marge) and Nancy Cartwright (Bart) when Fox Television explained that they would be receiving a 45% pay cut. The broadcasting network claims they can’t afford production costs and, if the actors won’t budge, they’ll pull the plug. I think I speak for everyone when I say: Fox you, Fox.
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The Mandela Grandkids Are Getting A Reality Show
29 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Producer, Rick Leed announced at a press release today the production of a reality show centered on the lives of three of Nelson Mandela’s grandchildren – Dorothy Adjoa Amuah, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, and Swati Dlamini. Leed is known for his work on the American reality series, Dr. 90210. The three stars are known for being related to somebody important.
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Insane POV Footage Of Russian Free-Climbing Stalin’s Skyscaper In Moscow
23 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s Friday, so come get your secondhand vertigo on and watch this Russian adrenaline junkie scale the 133 meter “Stalin’s skyscraper,” near Krasnye Vorota, without any sort of safety gear. The camera’s mounted on the climber’s head, so I guess he had a helmet, but I’m not sure that counts at 133 metres.
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Germany’s ‘Pirate Party’ Takes 9% Of The Vote
20 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The upstart German Pirate Party took just under 9% of the electoral vote in Sunday’s Berlin elections, winning 15 seats in the 149-seat state parliament. For the most part, they’ve been campaigning on a platform of free Wi-Fi, free public transportation, and a lower voting age. Just like real pirates.
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‘Half-Arab, Half-Jewish Housewife’ Detained On 9/11 Anniversary For Being Dark-Skinned
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Really not exaggerating in that headline. Two days ago, blogger Shoshana Hebshi, a self-described “half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife,” found herself cuffed and thrown off a Frontier Airlines flight and strip-searched – because she was seated next to two Indian guys she didn’t know, and another passenger had found that suspicious.
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Greenpeace Commissioned Giant Vitruvian Man On Arctic Iceberg [PICS]
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Greenpeace! What a dumb idea. That giant recreation of da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is going to disappear as soon as that iceberg melts – OH. Oh gosh. You’re trying to put together some sort of heavy-handed metaphor about ‘mankind,’ ‘melting,’ like some sort of iceberg, because of ‘climate change.’
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They Have A Porsche Baby Stroller Now [GALLERY]
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sleek, compact design, leather seats, carbon fiber chassis. This is what a baby needs in a stroller today, right? This is the future? Swedish designer Dawid Dawod thinks so, having collaborated with Porsche Design to put together the P’4911 for parents with their fiscal priorities in order.
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Star Wars Coins Count As Real Money In Niue
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sure, why not. Tiny South Pacific island nation Niue will be accepting coins minted with the faces of Star Wars characters as legal tender, because if you’re a tiny South Pacific island nation there’s really only so much you can do to keep things exciting.
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‘Mankini’ Is In The Oxford English Dictionary Now.
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And today was going so well. The mankini, popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat. Because that’s what we want 2011 to be known for; the year that we introduced torso-spanning banana hammocks into our day-to-day vocabulary. Other words that are now acceptable to use include ‘sexting,’ ‘retweet,’ and ‘cyberbullying.’ See also, ‘apocalypse.’
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English Man Arrested For Planning Water-Fight With BBM
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 20-year-old man in Essex has been charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence” because he used Blackberry Messenger to invite people to a public water fight. Whether this means British cops can now wiretap the Blackberry messaging network is unclear, but either way: great job, democracy.
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US Military Hypersonic Jet Is So Fast, Even They Can’t Find It
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle is not only 22 times faster than a commercial jetliner, it’s also capable of reaching Mach 20, which is roughly 21 000 kph. So basically it’s kak fast. It’s so fast that the company that created it, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have lost it at sea. Again.
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Artist To Live In Enclosure With Lions For Five Weeks
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Aleksandr Pylyshenko, a Ukrainian artist who owns a private zoo in the city of Vasilyevka, plans on living in an enclosure with Katya and Samson, his lions, for five weeks to raise money to improve the zoo’s living conditions and to increase awareness of underfunded private Ukrainian zoos. So that makes sense.
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Deep Sinkhole Found Under Guatemalan Women’s Bed
22 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of the last things you expect when heading off to la la land is to wake up with a one-metre wide, 17-metre deep sinkhole beneath your bed, unless your name is Inocenta Hernandez. The city of Guatemala also happens to be built on volcanic deposits and highly prone to sinkholes, which rules out the possibility of nightfarts, although they too can be rather devastating.
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Great White Jumps Into Research Boat
20 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The last time a 500kg, three-metre long Great White jumped into my boat, I woke up safely under my duvet, with my great white cat playing bouncy castle on my bed. You have to hand it to these boys though, not only did they escape this situation unscathed but they had to shack up with sharky, while being towed to Mossel Bay harbour.
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Syrian State News Agency Photoshop Fail
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday “swore” in Anas Abdul- Razzaq Na’em as the new governor of Hama. Later, al-Assad received Na’em and instructed him with his directives, wishing him success in his duties. But was he really there?
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Hunt This Man For $10 000
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Tired of being jobless, Mork Encino decided it was time to start his own business – allowing people to hunt him for sport. Well, you know what they say in America: ‘aint no better measurement of an economy than when your daddy sells himself as live game’. Feel free to quote me on that.
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Fake Money Causes Huge Traffic Jam Outside Moscow
06 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Moscow’s mighty 10-lane Ring Road is famous for rather large volumes of traffic, and this morning was no different, except that this morning, fake money was responsible for the chaos. Russian radio station Echo Moskvy reported that scores of drivers hurriedly left their vehicles during peak hour traffic to gather what looked like 1000-ruble notes.
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Knockoff Popstars – Made In Japan
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you take a little stroll down to your local market, you can pick up anything from a pair of Mikes (fake Nikes) to a pair of Maddibas (fake Adidas) to the best real fake Rolex you’ve ever seen. It’s now only a matter of time before you can pick up a new secretary, wife or girlfriend as well.
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Chinese Government Road Inspection Officials’ Photoshop Fail
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Chinese often find ingenious ways of rectifying problems, but they’ve gone too far this time. A badly doctored image of government officials inspecting a new road in Huili, a modest county in a rural corner of south-west China, has produced some exquisite viral images indicating the public’s displeasure with being lied to.
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Woman Dies Of Heart Attack At Own Funeral
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s bizarre enough when a person is declared dead for whatever reason, but then somehow miraculously wakes up from this death to surprise everyone. Obviously, it isn’t the kind of thing that happens very often. Now, a Russian woman has had a heart attack at her own funeral upon waking up and seeing the mourners that were attending it.
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Ridiculously Intoxicated Amy Winehouse Embarrasses Herself In Front Of 20 000 Fans [VIDEO]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s not clear exactly what Amy was on when she performed in Belgrade on Saturday night, but whatever it was, it was a lot. During her 90 minute performance, Winehouse managed to mumble mostly and may have even hallucinated a few times too. The next few legs of her European tour have obviously been cancelled.
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They’re Planning The World’s First Womb Transplant
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eva Ottosson, 56, plans to donate her uterus to her 25-year-old daughter Sarah, who was born without one. This will be the second such procedure attempted, and, if successful, Sarah will carry a fetus in the same womb that once held her. The procedure could take place next spring, in Sweden.The procedure could take place next spring, in Sweden. Matryoshka dolls.
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Norway To Train Foreign Diplomats In Black Metal
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In yet another move to convince us that Scandinavian politics makes sense: the government of Norway is inexplicably offering to ‘train’ foreign diplomats in the ways of black metal. As in, the musical genre. Specifically, ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’, which you would know by now if you were a foreign diplomat in Norway.
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Chinese Zoo Does ‘Tiger Escape Drill’ Using A Tigger Costume
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chengdu Zoo in Sichuan ran a tiger-escape drill a couple of days ago, so that people would know what to do in case one broke out of its enclosure. For maximum realism, security guards were given real guns, and the ‘tiger’ was a dude in a Tigger costume. You know, From Winnie the Pooh.
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“Virginity Checks” Forced On Female Protesters By Military In Egypt
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Multiple news sources reported today that a senior Egyptian general has come forward to confirm that forced “virginity checks” had been performed on women arrested during demonstrations. This had previously been denied by military authorities, but general Amr Imam has not only confirmed but defended the practice as a protective measure for the women’s own good.
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German Hotel Holding Parties In Former Nazi Work Camps
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Please save your ‘holla-caust’ comments for the end of the article. Hotel Stadt Hameln, a four-star hotel in northern Germany, has converted an on-site jail into a themed party location, sort of the way the Nazis converted the jail into a forced labour camp during World War II. Some people are angry about this.
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Stuffed White Tiger Toy Causes Hampshire Police Alert, Almost Gets Darted
23 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hampshire police were alerted at about 16h00 on Saturday afternoon to the presence of a white tiger in a field in Hedge End, near Southampton on the south coast of England. The force quickly coordinated with a local zoo to arrange a tranquilliser dart, before enlisting a helicopter and team of police officers to help capture the animal.
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50 Cent Cast As Blind, Mystery-Solving DJ Named Shamus Cocobolo
20 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
50 Cent has joined the cast of Odd Thomas, an adaptation of Dean Koontz’ novel, which I don’t really care about. What I do care about is the fact that 50 Cent is playing a blind DJ called Shamus Cocobolo, who will help Anton Yelchin’s “clairvoyant short-order cook” uncover a Satanic plot. No spice.
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