Wow, I hope they pay well at this bank. UBS has tried to downplay a new dress code widely reported in the international press, it offered detailed instructions to staff extending as far as the colour of their underwear and the care of nasal hair. In an internal memo seen by Reuters, The Swiss bank [...]
Entries from December 2010
Zurich Bank Asks Employees to Trim their Nose Hair
December 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff · Strange Business
Can you Hold it In for a Week
December 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments
No wonder George Castanza didn’t go to the bathroom in India and it costs the country 54 Billion dollars a year! A lack of toilets and poor hygiene practices in India cost Asia’s third largest economy almost $54 billion every year, the World Bank said on Monday. Premature deaths, treatment for the sick, wasted time [...]
Tags: Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff · Strange Business · Strange News
Dying Sucks but How About Twice?
December 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment
An 88-year-old Brazilian woman has died just two days she woke up in a coffin after being pronounced dead. The woman was pronounced dead at 4:50 p.m. on Dec. 22 and sent to a funeral home, the O Globo newspaper reported. But when the woman woke up at 8:30 p.m., she was rushed back to [...]
Tags: Odd Accomplisments · Odd Medical News · Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff
Crazy Head Tattoo
December 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments
This guy has a really cool/gross tattoo. I guess he can hide it by growing in his hair?
Tags: Crazy People · Funny Pics · Odd Accomplisments · Offbeat Stuff · Scary Strange
But She Cut the Cheese
December 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Love this exchange, it is natural.
Tags: Crazy People · Might Be True · Offbeat Stuff
Very Crappy Haircut
December 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
It looks like sh-t!
Tags: Funny Pics · Odd Accomplisments · Odd Ideas · Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff
Shitty Christmas Present – Really Crappy
December 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments
I don’t know German but I think this translates to The Doggy Poopy Game!
Tags: Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff · Silly Products · Strange News
Hiring New Cops at $2 a Piece?
December 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Authorities say that life-sized cardboards of female police officers in miniskirts placed alongside roads have managed to slow down speeding drivers in several central Czech towns. The mayor of the town of Mrakotin, Miroslav Pozar, said Thursday drivers, including him, automatically slow down when they see such officers. Pozar dismissed allegations this was because the [...]
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German City Places Sex Tax on Prostitutes
December 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Faced with a 100 million euro ($133 million) deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help bring down its budget gap. The new “pleasure tax” requires prostitutes in Dortmund to purchase a 6 euro “day ticket” for each day they work, or face a potential fine. The city estimates [...]
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Ice Cream Stoners
December 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Wow man, this is totally cool. Three flavours of marijuana-laced ice cream went on sale in California last week. Dubbed High Scream, the dopey dessert was introduced at a medical marijuana dispensary in Santa Cruz as an alternative to smoking pot. Only medical patients who have prescriptions allowing them to use marijuana for pain control [...]
Tags: Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff · Silly Products