Recent Odd Posts
26 ways life in Australia is badass -images
When you live on a barely hospitable desert island that was once a continent-sized penal colony, your life tends to be a little more badass than the average person’s.
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I love all the police reports on the link, they are very funny.
http://www.b...
The 25 Hardest Parts About Living In New Zealand - images
Life is hard in NZ then there is this .... A great series of images about life in NZ and how hard it is....
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/hardest-parts-about-living-in-new-zealand
You understand how devastatingly accurate this map is:
Man has runny nose for 18 months - turns out to be brain fluid
Here is something to think about next time you get a cold.
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A man who thought the runny nose he’d suffered for a year and a half was the result of allergies, has discovered the problem was in fact caused by leaking brain fluid. After working his ...
The painful reality of a computer widow - image
Its sad how many wives are neglected owing to programming ...
Wouldn\'t it be funny to make a Harlem shake video and have a pretend explosion from a petrol container?
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The video is now more famous because of the accident than it would have been before ....
http://www.youtube.com/v/4R...
5yr old shoots 2yr old sister with birthday gift of "My first rifle" Guess the country
Crickett Rifles, the brand of .22-calibre rifles marketed to children as young as four, has virtually disappeared from the web after a five-year-old boy in Kentucky accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister with his gun. The grandmother.....
Mangled language
Heh, I really like this...
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New York Magazine ran a competition in which contestants were asked to take a well-known expression in another language, change a single letter and provide a definition for the new expression.
Here are the resp...
Student mistook two unproved theorems in statistics for a homework assignment. He solved both within a few days
George Dantzig recounted his feat in a 1986 interview for the College Mathematics Journal
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It happened because during my first year at Berkeley I arrived late one day at one of Neyman\'s classes. On the blackboard there were two problems t...
Someone actually beats the Snake game - video gif
Now this is unique, a Gif of someone actually beating the snake game. What can you take from it? Someone must have wasted a large part of their life mastering it. Mesmerizing
http://i.imgur.com/vjl2Ao9.gif
Thirty-three staff at Auckland City Hospital have been punished for looking at X-rays and information on a man who had an eel stuck up his bottom. Staff were sacked, given verbal warnings, written warnings and final written warnings after an...
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Meanwhile in New Zealand - Minister worried that 3D printers will be used to manufacture drugs
Technological illiteracy rears its head when the Customs Minister fears that 3D printers will be used to make illegal products such as drugs. Next the Immigration minister will be worried that they might be used to make illegal immigrants, or the...
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Raccoon uses telephone lines like a 2 wire bridge - the very clever raccoon - video
This very clever raccoon navigating his way across a makeshift two-rope bridge like a furry James Bond. Next trick, using the power lines.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Kk-0kcOU00E
Guy goes headless at a drivethru - great prank - video
Now this is a classic, a prankster has a costume that makes him look headless scares the heck out of every drivethru he visits.
http://www.youtube.com/v/-NzRMPsnC3s
Meanwhile in Ireland - 3 pothole workmen suspended for repairing a pothole
Three County Cork road workers were returning from a job in Carrigaline, Ireland, when they saw a pothole. They stopped and repaired the pothole. A Health and Safety worker saw them, and the three men were consequently suspended from their jobs...
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North Korea unveils new computer technology - image
Kim Jong Un inspects “new” military technology made by unit 1501 of the Korean People’s Army. (REUTERS/KCNA)
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From the country who want to attack the USA and South Korea turning them into a sea of flames, this recent propaganda photo does little t...
Countless strange myths surround Leonardo da Vinci, ranging from his innovative sleep rhythms, his possible attention deficit disorder, and practice of wearing pink and other vibrant colors to make him look fresh.
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Among Giorgio Vasari\'s anecdot...
Brazilian motorcyclist is a crazy rider - video
This guy will have a short but seemingly happy life, by the way he hurtles through traffic at up to 140kph at the same time seemingly talking non stop.
http://www.youtube.com/v/0RFN6lF17LE
The depressing realities behind 5 reality TV shows (Funny in a schadenfreude sort of way)
Did you know that almost every Biggest Loser winner has gained back a chunk of the weight he or she lost on the show. The worst example is Season 3 winner Eric Chopin. Chopin began the show clocking in at 400 pounds, and won after successfully...
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Car falls through ice while on the news - funny video
\"The owner of this car will probably think twice about...oh...shit...okay...\" (not a direct translation)
http://www.youtube.com/v/ViggInNO8-Q
Italian driver causes chaos while trying to turn on a street - true funny video
Driver holds up two cars, group of motorbikes and a church procession before an almighty row breaks out in Naples.
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An elderly driver tries to make a U turn, which I would have considered impossible, on a street that quickly fills with honking ca...
Dinosaurs had giant fleas, with beaks the size of a syringe
Fossil-hunting scientists are coming to grips with a new discovery that could change forever how we think of dinosaurs. What they\'ve found is that dinosaurs may well have been tortured by large, flealike bloodsucking insects.
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Yes, it appears tha...
Yeti believers strike out. Over the last three years the Russian Bigfoot, or Yeti, was claimed to be a “towering, long-haired beast roaming the Mount Shoria region of southern Russia.” This potential Bigfoot has left clumps of hair in caves that...
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Only in New Zealand - Security van hijacked - driver forced to take men to McDonalds
Forget the money, they just wanted Maccas :-)
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Three young Waitara men with the munchies allegedly abducted a security van driver and forced him to drive them to McDonalds for a feed, police say.
They approached the 20-year-old driver of the Ar...
Bear investigates film crew making advert - funny video
On an advertising shoot for washing machines in Canada to show off the cold wash performance, the Samsung crew are surprised when a bear wanders into the shoot location.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Xoe5Vjl90-o
Why it took 300 years to name the Giant Tortoise - funny video
QI, for those who have never seen it, is an awesomely funny game show with comedians and fascinating questions. In this clip they are discussing why the Giant tortoise took 300 years to be named.
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I thought it might be because they were all babie...
New Extreme sport? - funny video
For some life is too ordinary, so a new extreme sport needs to be invented.....
http://www.youtube.com/v/bYO5_BZg8zw
Was Hillary Clinton injured and a SEAL Commander killed in a plane accident in Iran? - latest conspiracy theory
That\'s the premise of a new theory doing the round of the press on the net at present. The big question is why a secret meeting, when such meetings seem to be common place, why was she on a small plane anyway, and why not make public the accident if...
Only in Australia - Woman stuck in Long Drop toilet - loyal dog stands watch
All the elements of an Australian classic, the loyal Blue Heeler dog, the outback, the long drop, and the stoic bush hardened woman who fell into it.
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FOR three hours while Susan Saunders, 65, was trapped deep in an outdoor dunny hole, her loyal ...
Here is a wonderful list of failed (naturally enough) end of the world predictions. Pretty much each year of the last decade or so have been predicted as the \'end of the world\'.
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However just when you were thinking the worst was going to be beh...
Brilliant scare prank, ghost in the lift - funny video
This is well done, take a lift and put the ghost of a dead child in it to unsuspecting people on their way to a job interview. Spoiled by the laugh track, but well worth watching. Will become a classic, either that or its totally fake.
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Funniest commercial I have seen in a long time
From Thailand this advert is for people who have vision problems, you might say its in bad taste :)
http://www.youtube.com/v/VqBy6TgYxTU
Chick hatches in egg container in kitchen - video
Although it has brought us no closer to solving the age-old chicken and egg question, a Nelson family\'s fluffy find has given fresh food a new meaning. Christchurch labourer Greg Cropper contacted the Nelson Mail yesterday with a miraculous video......
You have to take your goat, cabbage and wolf over the river without losing anything - funny
There is a famous puzzle where a man has a boat that can only take two beings, and he has to get his goat, cabbage and wolf from one side of the river to the other.
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He had to take good care of them, since the wolf would like to taste a piece of ...
Wife chases and runs down husband because he didn't vote for Romney
One woman from Mesa, Ariz. decided that her husband was partly to blame for Obama’s re-election because he failed to vote this time around. So as punishment, she reportedly ran him over with her car, leaving him with critical injuries.
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Man takes pregnancy test as a joke - came back positive - found out he might have cancer
A positive pregnancy test - taken by a man as a gag - led him to find out he had testicular cancer.
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The man, whose name hasn\'t been publicly released, found an unused pregnancy test that had been left in his home by his ex-girlfriend. As a joke ...
