Man drowns in storm drain trying to get lost car keys

This is funny and very tragic at the same time...

A man taking his kids to Kindergarten found a pair of sneakers protruding from a storm drain... Apparently some guy dropped his keys down the storm drain - and killed himself trying to retrieve them!

Man drowns in storm drain trying to get lost car keys

Stupid Germans!

German Soldiers Too Fat To Fight

Some 40 percent of German soldiers are overweight and don't exercise enough, according to the 2007 annual report on the readiness of the German armed forces.

Read more...

German Soldiers too fat to fight

The internet Chatter is that this may be the reason Merkel does not want to send German troops to Afghanistan - despite their NATO commitment...

Stupid Germans!

Group poisons coworker's coffee

“Funny” colleagues went a little overboard when “watering down” their co-worker’s coffee with antifreeze at a restaurant, police in Radolfzell reported on Friday.

Poisoning co-worker as a prank

All-natural dildos at Hamburg Christmas market

One vendor at the Santa Pauli Christmas market in Hamburg has taken a non-traditional but all-natural approach to Christmas gifts this year, selling handmade spruce wood dildos, daily Hamburger Morgenpost reported on Friday.

Dildos at Christmas!

Naked Scanners or No Naked scanners?

Fine German engineering produced this high tech scanners for airports - and just as the Germans were about to test them, there was an uproar of protest - so the government banned the scanners - and then un-banned them again!

Read for yourselves...

Naked Scanners for Germany

Stupid Germans!

Mafia declares war on Italy...

The civilized people of Italy find themselves in a bit of a jam...

Apparently, the mafia in southern Italy has declared a "war on the state", according to the Italian interior minister.

"...Roberto Maroni said the local mafia, the Camorra, was trying to stamp out any opposition to its criminal power. He was speaking after the government announced it would send 500 troops to the Campania region to help police fight local crime syndicates."


War on Italy

Catalonia's Fecal Christmas Festivities

Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo in Catalonia?
Apparently a part of the Christmas tradition in Catalonia is El Cagner - a human figure - crapping!

"...The original el caganer is a wooden or clay figure of a peasant wearing the traditional floppy red Catalan cap with a black band (barretina) and smoking a cigarette or a pipe. But the figure's popularity has led to a massive expansion in the range of defecating figurines."

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Grave Robbery in Austria...

Billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick was one of the richest men in Germany. But since his corpse was stolen out of a cemetery in Austria earlier this month, investigators have been flummoxed.

Grave Robbery

Europeans not as environmentally friendly as they say they are???

Could it be?

Countries involved in the Mediterranean bluefin tuna trade have voted to maintain catches nearly 50% above what scientists say are "safe" levels.

Environment groups labelled the move, by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat), as a "mockery of science".

Stupid EU!

Read for yourselves...
EU condemned on tuna 'mockery'

Europeans not ready for Minority leader...

From the horses mouth. This article from The Local, a German paper admits that when it comes to actually electing a minority leader in Europe, there is still a glass ceiling.

Stupid Europeans!

Europeans not ready for Minority President

German Spies in Kosovo

The Kosovo authorities have arrested three German spies near a bomb blast in Pristina.. and are accusing them of being involved in the blast...

The Germans deny involvement in the bombing but admit to spying. So much for the European "Union".

Stupid Germans!

Trouble in Kosovo

Vatican forgives John Lenon

So, it seems that the Vatican is now over John Lenon's blaspheme. It took Galileo 500 years to do what the dead Beatle accomplished is a couple of decades... I suppose one has to have priorities in life!

Stupid Italians!
Vatican forgives John Lenon

More Drinking fun in the UK!

One more article about drinking in the UK - this time about teens...

What was it that my stupid British Friend said about age limits for serving alcohol in America?

Read for yourself....The best part is the woman talking about her daughter's drinking habit in her teens - so if she knew about this, what was the mother doing?

Stupid Brits!

Teenage Drinking in the UK

Brits to ban Happy hours...

Government regulation is apparently needed to stop the Brits from their own actions! Deaths related to drinking are on the rise - so the nanny state is considering stepping in! I remember hearing from one of my stupid British friends that the American youth is silly about drinking - unlike the British Intelligencia I suppose...

Stupid Brits!

Brits to ban Happy Hour?

18 bulls in the water...

..or really, 18 jumps (by bulls) in the water.

In a town called Denia, in Souther Spain, there is this 9 day festival - with the intent of getting bulls to jump into the water, twice a day ...

Read all about it here.

This goes beyond the bull running and the tomato throwing festivals...

Come to think of it, since tomatoes were introduced the Europe from the Americas, this tomato throwing thing is recent stupidity...

Education - Scottish Style

At Scottlands' St. Andrews university, every year for Raisin weekend, this is what goes on in the name of education...

"... stealing property, swilling alcohol, dressing up in (and intermittently stripping out of) makeshift costumes, pouring beans on the heads of innocent townspeople, and biting the heads off of innocent chickens ..."

Here's the article

The chicken report is here.

Stupid Scotts!

Fun in the Balkans - with Circumcision...

So... This is what goes on in the name of fun in the southern Balkans...

Every five years, villagers get together to collectively circumcise their boys and PARTY!!!!


Article here.

Leaping Lucifers of Spain...

The Spanish town of Castrillo de Murcia doesn't need running bulls or even booze to have fun. Just give them some mattresses, a bunch of babies and a handful of fun-loving guys -- dressed up like devils -- and you've got yourself a fiesta.

Here's the link

Spain to nationalize Holiday Residences...

No, Really!!!

Russian / Chinese / Cambodia and now Spain???

from NewEurope.eu comes this Gem:

"...Thousands of Spaniards and hundreds of foreigners fear seeing their seaside residences seized by the state in an attempt to protect the coastline from urbanisation and pollution, the daily El Pais reported on October 20."


Here's the article

Lost lives in Belfast...

A sad article on the BBC reflecting on the situation in Northern Ireland. So much for the peace loving Europeans..

Europe's Non violent(?) legacy

OK - so here we go...

UK pardons witches for Halloween?? Well some stupid Britons want it....

Witcces pardon?

You guys need a hobby. Stupid Brits!

Doctors quit dirty NHS (UK) for India

Nice!

Moving to the third world to get away from the socialized medicine in the UK!

"...The director of one of India’s biggest private hospital chains said he was receiving five job applications a week from NHS doctors and that half his 3,000 consultants were from Britain."

Don't believe me, read the Times article...

Doctors leaving UK for India

Homophobic GP banned for a year

So, if you have a set of personal beliefs, right or wrong (unrelated to your work no less), you cannot practice medicine in the UK. Really? What about freedom of speech? Moreover, what's it got to do with his practice anyways?

Can't proctice medicine ul=nless nice to gays?

The Nanny state mess in the UK...

So, looks like the Universal Health care has it's problems...

"..People are currently excluded from the NHS if they pay for treatment not available on the health service, but practice varies from place to place."

Really? This is what we want here in the USA? A medical monopoly?

Stupid Brits!

Top-up or not?

UK cuts funding for Physics...

According to a BBC article, future of Physics is under threat....

A bit presumptuous don't you think? In any case, those morons in the UK are cutting funding...

Here's the article

No worries, stupid Europeans, the wise Asians will continue studying sciences - don't bother your pretty little heads over it....