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Jackass Star, Ryan Dunn, Dies In Car Crash
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
One of the star’s of MTV’s highly-successful Jackass franchise, Ryan Dunn, has died in a car crash. Click through for details and pics.
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How Your Father’s Music Indicates What You Listen To Today [Chart]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In honour of Father’s Day yesterday, this nifty flowchart got put together acknowledging the influences that fathers have on our taste in music. The infographic handily predicts the kinds of music you’re liable to listen to based on what your dad was playing when you were growing up.
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‘Obedient Wives Club’ Launches New Branch [VIDEO]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new club that opened in Jakarta, Indonesia, this weekend, is encouraging women to be totally obedient to their husbands and focus on keeping them sexually satisfied. Predictably, the new branch of the 800-member strong organisation has generated a chorus of disapproval from activists and academics alike.
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“Tasteful” Obama Impersonator At Republican Leadership Conference [VIDEO]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Professional Barack Obama impersonator Reggie Brown was invited by the Republican Party to speak at their Leadership Conference in New Orleans over the weekend. Classy birth certificate references and borderline racist jokes ensued, until he was pulled off the stage by a conference official. Come, observe democracy at its high point.
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Battle At Ascot – Photo Gallery
20 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Those of you who read the daily Morning Spice headlines, will remember that on Friday last week, we told you about a posh brawl which broke out at this year’s Royal Ascot, the most famous of English horse racing events. Apparently okes were taking each other on, with table legs and R1,000 bottles of bubbly. […]
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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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Gaddafi Government Reportedly In Talks With Rebels; Russian Influenced Chess Game Probably Helped
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Muammar Gaddafi’s government are in contact across Europe with members of the Libyan rebel army. Earlier this week the head of the World Chess Federation, a man with direct Kremlin links, took Gaddafi on in a ‘diplomatic’ chess game. Maybe his persuasion has helped.
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Man Narrowly Escapes Jail After Shooting Wart Off Finger With Shotgun
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, English security guard Sean Murphy thought it was a good idea to blast off his wart with a shotgun, and in the process, his own finger too. Murphy decided to use a 12-bore Beretta at a Doncaster garden centre to consign the wart to history, along with most of the middle finger on his left hand.
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Maker Of Blackberry’s Shares Fall
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African’s just love their Blackberrys, and annoyingly rave about how cool they are, and constantly put their Blackberry pins up on Facebook, saying, “Just got my BB. Add me guys!” But RIM, the company that makes the annoying device, seems to be in quite the spot of bother.
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Apple Patents Technology That Lets Other People Turn Off Your Camera
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
And they’d been doing so well with the ‘not evil’ thing. Apple’s new patent is for software that would sense when people are trying to film concerts or events with their iPhone, then automatically disable the camera. It’d be nice to see a concert without a thousand iPhones blocking the way, but Big Brother much?
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Woman Calls 911 Because She Got the Wrong Chinese Food [VIDEO]
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are people in this world who really do not have very important things to do with their time, as is proven by this woman who called 911 because the Chinese restaurant she was at got her order wrong.
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India’s Executions On Hold Because Last Living Hangman Has Broken Arm
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There seems to be no shortage of farmers, businessmen, snake charmers, off-shore call centres and Bollywood movie stars among the world’s second most populous nation of 1.2 billion people. But, they don’t have a single professional hangman left in the whole country who is able to carry out the capital punishment.
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Stolen Racing Car Filmed Dicing On London’s M25 Motorway [VIDEO]
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This sensational video captures a stolen Team Japspeed Subaru Imprezza weaving between traffic on London’s M25 motorway. The Imprezza was stolen by thieves after being put on display at the Santa Pod Raceway, who managed to find a way of starting the engine, despite it being disabled by engineers.
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Interviewer’s Dalai Lama Joke Bombs With The Dalai Lama [VIDEO]
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Australian TV presenter, Karl Stefanovich found himself interviewing the Dalai Lama, as one does, and decided that the best thing to do would be to try that “the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop” joke. Take a look and see how well that worked out for him.
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A Man Wielding A Dead Weasel Is Arrested For Assault
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man from Hoquiam Washington, carrying a dead weasel, burst into an apartment and assaulted the occupant. As the weasel-wielding attacker burst into the room, the victim said, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” to which the attacker replied, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten,” and then punched him in the nose and left the weasel behind. Of course.
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World’s Most Miserable Countries – Where Does SA Rank?
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Many of us believe that South Africa is quite simply the best country to live in on the planet. But have you heard of the “misery index”? It’s a measure which takes into account a country’s unemployment and inflation rates. Here’s the list of the 15 most miserable countries in the world for 2011. Take a guess where SA ranks – it’s not cheerful.
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They’re Rolling Out Cheap New Meningitis Meds
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yay, science. A new vaccine for meningitis A – that disease killing thousands of people in the central African “meningitis belt” annually – has been released. Which is good, but even better is the fact that it’s way cheaper and more effective than whatever we were using before.
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Man Suspends Self From Hot Air Balloon With Body Piercings [VIDEO]
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I need a cooler hobby. Over the weekend, Zane Whitmore, a 34-year-old from Seattle, attached himself to a hot air balloon with four piercings across his shoulder blades, and took to the air for a little more than an hour, cruising at just under 3 000 metres. No, I don’t know why either, look at the video.
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Distillery Takes Relationship Between Wine And Housewives To The Next Level
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m not entirely sure if this is a good idea or a bad idea, but a range of wine packaged in perfume-bottle shaped containers has just been launched in Italy and Germany. The drink is specifically targeted at women and makes life for the non-connoisseur, but still fashionable person considerably easier, as there are only three flavours to choose from.
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Celebrity Dwarf Actor Arrested For Exposing Himself To Underage Girl
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A well-known Star Wars and Harry Potter actor has been arrested for indecent exposure. Nicholas Read, famous for playing dwarf and/or other small-statured fantasy-related characters in movies, recently sat on a bus with a hat on his lap. True story. A 17 year-old girl was sitting next to him, and he apparently pulled everything but a rabbit from that hat.
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Gaddafi Takes On Head Of World Chess Federation In Chess Game [VIDEO]
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As rebel forces march further west toward the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and Germany declares its support for the rebels, Muammar Gaddafi took on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess Federation in a game of chess on Sunday. What do they have in common? They’ve both been in powerful leadership positions for a long time.
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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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Sicilian Mafia Goes Green
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wind farms are big business in Italy, and the sun-soaked and wind-swept island of Sicily is no exception. Hardly surpising then, that the Sicilian mafia has cottoned on to the idea of harnessing wind and is cashing in on the green movement too.
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Belgium Goes A Year Without Official Government
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Belgium has gone one year since their last elections on 13 June 2010 without an official government. Coalition negotiations have dragged on and on, and are still happening as we speak. In the meantime, the country has had to make do with a caretaker prime minister.
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Democracy For Realsies: Iceland Is Crowdsourcing Its Constitution
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot damn but I love the future. Iceland is drawing up a new constitution, in the wake of the country’s commercial banks collapsing. Which is news, but not news-news; the interesting part is how the former vikings are going about the process – they’re crowdsourcing the draft online, with links to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts.
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Diver To Look For Osama’s Corpse
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A scuba diver in California says he’s going fishing for the catch of the century. He plans to recover the body of the world’s fourth baddest man ever (behind Hitler, Stalin and Judas Iscariot).
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Naked Hiking: Germany And Switzerland Debate Nude-Friendly Nature Trails
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A hiking trail for nudists opened about a year ago near the town of Dankerode, Germany, about 320 kilometres west of Berlin. The trail was an instant hit and also saw one open in Switzerland, where the issue of nude hiking will soon be taken up by the Supreme Court. Nude Hiking Day coincidentally takes place on June 21.
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“Gay Girl In Damascus” Blogger Is A Married Dude From Georgia
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There was a fair amount of coverage about the apparent arrest of “Amina Arraf”, the pseudonym of openly gay Syrian blogger behind ‘Gay Girl In Damascus,’ which did a lot for getting word out about human rights issues in Syria. Except it turns out that Amina was invented by 40-year-old Tom McMaster, from Georgia.
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13-Year-Old Cricketer Takes Double Hat-Trick In Game
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I once played in a game where a friend of mine got eight wickets. I thought that was pretty impressive, but Josh Fox, a 13-year-old Cambridgeshire schoolboy from Chatteris in England is even more impressive. Young Josh managed to take two hat-tricks in one game and they happened in successive overs too.
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Street Artist In Stockholm Creates Bottomless Pit Illusion [VIDEO]
10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Perspective-based art is usually a little lame – ‘look, guys, I’m holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa!’ – but this dude pulls it off. Erik Johannson, Stockholm street artist, set up this bottomless pit illusion called ‘Mind Your Step’ in Sergels torg, and let passers-by play around with it. It’s cool.
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