1Midget Throwing Contest The Midget Throwing, or Dwarf Tossing, originated in Australia in the 1980’s. A bar attraction in which dwarves wearing special padded clothing or Velcro costumes are thrown onto mattresses or at Velcro-coated walls, participants of the contest compete to throw the dwarf the farthest. Dwarf tossing is widely considered to be offensive …
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By David Morton The Middle Ages were not a nice period to live in by our cushy modern standards. Most people were poor, they suffered from disease, and their freedom was owned by wealthy landowners. And if you committed a crime and could not afford to pay a fine, your hand might have been chopped …
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Olympic fever Animal weird hairstyles One Shitty Haircut Flower Power Big Lebowski The Yin-Yang by gabemac The Dude Disco ball Spiderman Made of Condoms Emo Believe in… colorful hair
Dragon (by Rob Graham) Love is in the air (by jrkells&bcrasmussen) Baby lion God’s Hand (by Sue Beatrice) Starfish (by Ian Loxley) Crucifix (by Russell Hill) Bunny Feather (by Jerry Lowell) Fish (by Gavin Tobin) Great Hound (by Terry Linsell) Duck (by Ali Murphy) Eagle (by Silvia Bonato)
This shot shows a lightning bolt striking an airplane taking off at Osaka’s airport, then hitting the ground. Lightning is not dangerous for airliners, as the electricity flows around their aluminum skin. Lightning strike on Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas. (photo by joe holmes) (photo by darkmatter) (photo by ramdac) (photo by Kane Quinnell) (photo …
Construction mistake at an ATM in Melli Bank, Iran
These amazing X-rays show how a man arrived with a tap and 16 inches of pipework stuck in his eye at a hospital’s casualty unit.But the terrified patient was forced to pull the tap out himself – because surgeons took three hours to send for a plumber to get it out.Yi Zhao, 57, had slipped …
Meet Batman Bin Suparman.Aparently this young man from Singapore was blessed in 1990 with being named after two superheroes: Batman and Superman.“Bin” means “son of”, so his name is really “Batman son of Superman”, which is even funnier… –thanks Eyal! Best US Passport ever. The hawaiian flower necklace, a set of pincers as beard, the …
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