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Darth Vader Is Running For President Of Ukraine [GALLERY]
07 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No jokes – Darth Vader is the presidential candidate for one the parties that will compete in Ukraine’s presidential elections. The Sith Lord was out doing what normal candidates do before elections, talking to old people and kissing babies.
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Tapped Phone Call Suggests Russian Plans To Take Miami
07 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Take a listen to two Russian ambassadors allegedly joking about the Kremlin’s plans for conquest. With Russia annexing Crimea, many suspect that Russia might not stop there. Hoax or not, this taped conversation is interesting nonetheless.
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London’s Air Quality Gets A 10/10 Fail – Look At This Picture [GALLERY]
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
London looked similar to Beijing this week, covered in a haze of pollution. The air quality was deem to have deteriorated to 10 on a 10-point-scale that measures air pollution. Here are some photos from 3 April, showing the scale of the pollution.
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Umm, They’ve Captured A Mythical Creature In America [VIDEO]
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A creature that rivals the legend of the Sasquatch might have been caught by a lady with a hairdo that is just as amazing as the mythical creature.
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Game Of Thrones Pales In Comparison To Real-Life Medieval England [READ]
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Game of Throne’s bloody violencethat we love so deeply pales in comparison to the real-life historical tale of medieval England. Dragons? Nope. White snow zombies that no one seems to be taking notice of? Nope. But heaps of beheadings, disembowelments, torture, massacres, killing prostitutes, assassinations, dinner parties that end in everyone dead, noble families that tend to have very bad luck at keeping their heads attached to their torsos and a couple of royals all fighting for the throne? Sure.
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R4.5 Billion Lottery Winner Reveals What He Will Be Doing With The Money
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The guy who won the sixth largest lotto jackpot in US history on 19 February sat on the ticket until 1 April. Why? Because the guy has a sense of humour, and also because he spent that time planning for something – not what the average lotto winner would do with his windfall.
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Former North Korean Intelligence Official Spills The Beans
03 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fouling assassination attempts, bombings, coups and uprisings are all in a day’s work for North Korea’s intelligence officers. Only a handful of North Korean intelligence officials have ever escaped from the hermit kingdom. One of them spilled the beans on the turmoil and paranoia in the secretive country.
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Haha! Please Enjoy This Crashed North Korean ‘Drone’ [IMAGE]
03 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
North Korea is known as the hermit kingdom for a reason. What is suspected to be a North Korean “spy drone” crashed on a South Korean island on Monday, but to call it a spy drone is an insult to the name. Please enjoy this hilarious North Korean attempt at spying on its neighbours.
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Please Enjoy How Similar North Korea’s Space Agency’s Logo Is To NASA’s [IMAGE]
02 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, North Korea does have a space program, aptly and ironically named the National Aerospace Development Administration – NADA. Not only is the North Korean space program’s name suspiciously similar to NASA, its new official logo bears an uncanny resemblance to NASA’s.
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Congrats! 27-Year-Old Brit Will Be Youngest Grandfather As Daughter (13) Is 5-Months Pregnant
02 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
No-one does white-trash like the Brits. A 27-year-old jailed murderer is set to become Britain’s youngest grandfather. The current holder of the title was only 29 when he was crowned with this dubious honour.
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Awesome April Fools’ Pranks For Around The Office And Home
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you have failed to take note of the date, you may have been the unsuspecting victim of the odd prank. If you haven’t managed to nail anyone yet, you still have a few hours. Here are a couple of awesome April Fool’s pranks for around the office and home.
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Amazing Graphic Shows Where People Are Fleeing From, And Where They’re Going To
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unlike animals, humans like to stay put. However people do migrate for various reasons: war, strife, job opportunities or even technology. Check out this cool interactive graphic that shows global international migrations between 1990 and 2010.
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“Thumbs Up” Means “Up Yours” In Some Countries [INFOGRAPHIC]
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hark! Worldly travelers should heed these hand signs. Knowing them might save you from landing in hot water with the locals. Crossing your fingers may be perceived in the west as wishing for good luck, but in Vietnam it’s a lewd sign for female genitals.
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The KKK Wants YOU! Ku Klux Klan In New Recruitment Drive [FLYER IMAGE]
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The crazy white supremacist okes from the KKK are struggling to adapt to the social media age, resorting to spamming the world with flyers in their new recruitment drive. Residents in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania woke up with this KKK flyer attached to their cars and houses yesterday.
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Malaysian Authorities Have Changed The Last Words Spoken From MH370 Cockpit
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Malaysian authorities have issued a new version of the last words spoken by the cockpit of the still-missing flight MH370. It is not clear why the Malaysian authorities got it wrong the first time, or why it took so long to correct.
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13 People Dead So Far, As GM Recalls 1.5 Million Cars
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
GM announced another massive international recall of 1.5 million cars due to malfunctioning of electric-power steering. This announcement comes as GM CEO Mary Barra prepares to testify at a US congressional hearing about a previous recall of the manufacturer’s cars which was sparked following a spate of ignition failures.
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Is MH370 Being Held At A Military Airbase? [VIDEO]
31 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After weeks of searching, there is still no sign of the MH370 wreckage. All that the extensive search for MH370 has found is some floating trash in the Indian Ocean. So what’s up? Take a look at this theory by a YouTube user, Montagraph. He suspects flight MH370 is being held at a military airbase.
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Monthly Meltdown: Here’s What Sochi Looks Like Only 1 Month After The Winter Olympics
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sochi, Russia, post the 2014 Winter Olympics is looking a little, er, dead. Deader than dead actually. In fact we would go as far as to say that the next time Hollywood sends out a location scout to find the perfect spot to shoot a block-buster Zombie apocalypse flick, Sochi should be the location of choice.
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Murder Mystery At Sea: Man Found Dead Floating Next To A Burning Life Raft
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Police have opened a murder investigation, after the body of a 53-year-old man was found drifting in the sea next to a burning life raft in the Caribbean Sea, near the island of St Vincent. A diver found sailing instructor John Edward Garner’s body after seeing smoke from his life raft close to a burnt-out yacht.
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How Funny Or Die Got Obama On Between Two Ferns
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It was quite a monumental moment, landing one of the most important leaders in the world, have him sit between two ferns, throw jabs at a pudgy, bearded comedian and take the comebacks in stride. Funny or Die’s recent high-profile guest, President Barack Obama, is a testament to the online comedy platform “sticking to [their] knitting.”
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Ukraine’s Elite Combat Dolphins Will Serve Under Russia
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This just goes to show that you can’t trust a dolphin in war – they’re bladdy turncoats. Following the annexing of Crimea by Russia, the Crimean combat dolphin programme will be preserved and will serve under the Russian Navy. They serve only the hand that feeds them the best smelly fish.
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This Mutant Rat Terrorised A Swedish Family
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 38 cm long massive rat, dubbed ‘Viking rat,’ terrorised a family in Sweden. The family first suspected something was amiss when their cat refused to enter the kitchen in their home in Stockholm.
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Man Named Christopher Reeves Arrested, In A Superman Suit [IMAGE]
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man named Christopher Jaye Reeves was arrested on charges of possession of meth with the intent to distribute, after police pulled him over for speeding through traffic. The kicker – he was wearing a Superman suit.
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Here’s An Update On John McAfee
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man considered a legend in the computer industry for bringing anti-virus software to the masses is living life on the run from a Central American hit squad. Such is the life of John McAfee, who believes a drug cartel has put out a $650,000 contract on his head.
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Kim Jon Un Has Just Changed The Haircut Rules In North Korea
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some serious developments are going down in North Korea – they are changing the haircut rules. Yes – there are haircut regulations enforced by the North Korean state, and they just got stricter.
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Ukraine’s Women Are Refusing To Have Sex With Russian Men
26 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Where sanctions, diplomacy and international laws have failed; will refusing sex solve the developing crisis in Crimea? Withholding sex is an age old practice by women in relationships in order to get their way. Ukrainian women have started a campaign to deny Russian men sex.
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Geeks Rejoice As MS-DOS Source Code Is Revealed For The First Time Ever
26 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum, are making the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and version 2.0 available to the public for the first time ever. Alongside the DOS source code, Microsoft is also revealing the source code for Word 1.1a, which was released back in 1989.
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Harrowing First-Hand Account Of Titanic Sinking
26 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A letter allegedly penned by a survivor of the Titanic on 8 August, 1955 – more than 43 years after the disaster, has recently surfaced. It depicts the first hand-account of French maid, Rose Amelie Icard’s harrowing experience of the Titanic’s demise.
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No Ways! Unbelievable Apartment Fire Rescue Caught On [VIDEO]
26 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch as a construction worker is saved just in time from a burning apartment building in Houston, Texas, United States (of America), on Tuesday. The video footage of the rescue was caught on video by nervous onlookers from the building across the road.
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Cairo University Men Lose Their Minds As ‘Inappropriately Dressed’ Blonde Woman Strolls Through [VIDEO]
26 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This incident has sparked outrage across Egypt. An unnamed female student wearing a long sleeved pink top and jeans was harassed by male students while she was walking through Cairo University campus. The video captures crowds of men harassing the woman.
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