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Your Ashes on Wax: AndVinyly Is Putting the Fun Back in Funeral

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Get your cremains pressed into vinyl. Why be scattered when your family's eardrums could be shattered?  More »

Extreme Binge Drinking on Display: An Interview with Black Out Korea

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People passed out cold on the train, face down on tables in restaurants, and drunkenly sprawled across the sidewalk are common sights in South Korea.   More »

Balloons, Cars, & Nose Blowing: 10 Incomprehensible Fetishes

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What bores some stiff gets others that way. You may never see down parkas the same way again.  More »

Irishmen Lecture Americans on Pub Etiquette

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Don’t be “that guy” in the Emerald Isle’s watering holes.  More »

Too Much Beer? American in Netherlands Hand Washing Fail


Internet Radio Haarlem 105 caught something on tape no one's likely to forget too soon during Bevrijdingspop.  More »

Drinking in Korea Requires Etiquette and Endurance

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Drinking in Korea is a balance between Dionysian excess, regimented manners and social strata. Kate Holmes tells us how it's done.  More »

5 Fun Places in Santiago, Chile That Your Guidebook May Have Missed

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Santiago, Chile: Take a break from the norm and discover the city locals love and tourists hardly ever find.   More »

London To Open Its First No-Drive-In Drive-In Theater

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This summer, Truman Brewery in London is opening its very first drive-in movie theater, Starlite Urban Drive-In, hoping to provide patrons a slice fro  More »

#MusicMonday: Kesha’s Tik Tok as Dissected by GloZell

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Even if you don't have the faintest idea of who Kesha is, if you resent corporate rock, inane lyrics devoid of meaning, and cookie cutter sound, you'l  More »

How to be a Hash House Harrier

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Hash House Harriers is a self-professed “Drinking club with a running problem.” Founded before World War II, the Hash has grown into a worldwide   More »

Britain’s Rogue Ex-Drug Czar Aims to Cure Hangovers and Drunk Driving

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Nutt famously stated that "the dangers of Ecstasy are no greater than those of horse-riding," creating an volatile uproar amongst politickers and equ  More »

One Tattoo Convention a Month for 2010

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If you can't go to them, they may be coming to you. Great artists travel the world all year round.  More »

Forget Santa – Scat, Logs, and Beatings in Catalonia are a Family Affair

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Sometimes I think we ought to hear, "Oh, Spain," uttered in the same way we hear, "Oh, Japan," in a wistful sigh that conveys our lack of understandin  More »

Diddy’s New iPhone App: An Insidious Advertising Scheme Designed to Make You Feel Poor

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Celebrity sponsored subscribed advertising to make us sign up to want even more stuff we can't have.  More »

Marriage Between Cousins is Still 500% More Legal Than Gay Marriage in the U.S.

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A popular New York Times map shows where it's legal to marry your cousin in the U.S. which calls into question other established marriage laws.  More »

Austria’s Bierschwimmbad Helps You Absorb Beer in a New Way: Through Your Pores

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"Enjoy the wonderful and cosy ambiance and savor the impressing wall paintings, a highlight of the Starkenberger Biermythos!"  More »

Tweet Regret – The Morning After Hurts Just as Bad on Twitter

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Ever wake up with the room spinning and your skull cracking, wondering if anyone else feels as crappy as you do? They do.  More »

How to Open Your Wine Without it Getting Screwed

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Have you ever been stuck with a bottle of wine and no corkscrew? So was this guy.  More »

Coast To Coast AM: Talk Radio’s Late Night Champ Gets A Report Card

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Coast To Coast AM: What better way to kill four hours on a chicken bus than with subjects like UFO’s, chemtrails, remote viewing, ghosts, conspiracy  More »

From Wieners to Superheroes – Halloween is not Just for People

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Taking the trend of treating the family dog like one of the family to its logical end, let no one be left out for Halloween.  More »

Proposed Method of Measurement – The Cook Based Coefficient of Douche

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It occurred to me in my study late one night that there exists a real need to quantify douchey-ness in standard terms; the douche who eats the last mu  More »

Cross-Dressed Heroes Beat Down Thugs in Swansea, Wales

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As handily as it would have occurred in a John Waters movie, the two assailants were laid out on the sidewalk, one of them kicked a couple times for g  More »

Pink Capes Suck (by The Real Gay Matador)

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“I'm glad to be the first person (in bullfighting) whom the gay community will take as an icon." Girlfriend thinks he's Madonna and he's really jus  More »

5 Destinations for the Tattooed Traveler

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Lauren Quinn details top travel destinations for tattooing around the world.  More »

UK to Institute the Plastic Pint Glass

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With alcohol related assaults on the rise in Great Britain, the Home Office has a plan for outlawing glass pint glasses.   More »

Neat New Trick or Load of Old Pony?

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Those not-so-Cockney geezas Bank Machine ‘ave only gawn and given their East Laaandan punters the option of taking out their sausage and mash (money  More »

Melbourne Violence: Is Booze to Blame?

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Alcohol-fueled bashings are all the rage in Melbourne, but this is one trend you don't want to get yourself into.  More »

A Tribute to the Hoff on the Anniversary of the Separation of Germany

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The Hoff not only helped bring down The Wall and effectively bring an end to the cold war, he did so while sporting a leather jacket festooned with fl  More »

The Worst Commercials On American TV Right Now

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Here we have a hungry Romeo pleading to his ladyfriend to share her secret. He asks her if she’s been “dippin” on him. One begins to wonder if   More »

Apollo Poetry, the Traveling Poet, Brings his Art to the People

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NY Poetry Slam champion and now traveling documentarian, Apollo Poetry aims to make the world a better place one verse at a time.  More »

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