May
12
2009
0

And this is why there is no longer an Empire.

Perineal cabaret favourite Mr Methane auditioned for the new series of Britain’s Got Talent, and was unjustly sent off to scornful lashings of derision by Mr Cowell.

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I mean, they barely gave him a chance.  He didn’t even have a chance to get the talcum powder out.

He’s fartoo good for them anyway.

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Mar
25
2009
0

And people say chasing a cheese down a hill is weird: Horse Wrestling

Ancient Spanish festival known as Rapa das Bestas centres around wild horses being corralled up, and then participants of all ages wrestle them to the ground with their bare hands.

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What is it with the Spanish and interfering with large quadrupeds?

[from Inquisitr]

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Mar
10
2009
0

20 quid for the first person who memorises this

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There was no sign of the pheasant plucker.

[via Fark\]

Feb
25
2009
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WTFF?

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I’m not entirely sure ANYONE has figured out what this is meant to be advertising.  Assuming it is an advertisement, of course.

[via jwz]

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Feb
16
2009
0

Luke… I am your… err… weird robot panther thing, I guess?

A constant source of hilarity is when cultures collide and the crossover isn’t as linear as everyone involved is hoping.  A splendid example of this is most of the videos of western celebs joing Japanese commercials over at Japander.com.  Who could forget The Governator’s commercial for what I can only assume is an energy drink of some sort:

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Eastern Europe too produces some absolute corkers, and for some reason Cracked.com has compiled a list of 20 movie posters which somehow became casualties of translation.

This is allegedly the Russian poster for Star Wars:

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It looks like some weird hybrid of Thundercats, Hellraiser, The Bird Cage, and possibly Time Bandits.  Even so it seems far more on-topic than the Polish campaign to advertise 80’s masterpiece of corpse-puppetry, Weekend At Bernie’s:bernies

[Cracked.com via thornae]

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Feb
12
2009
0

And a green salad

Hard to know what’s the most farking turgid thing on this site…  It’s either the Krispy Kreme Bacon Double Cheese Burgers

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happymealor the inventively nomenclatured Turbaconucken (being of course a chicken, inside a duck, inside a turkey… and all wrapped in bacon).

trbaconuckenIn truth I suspect bacon is the key to wrongess here.  Still, it’s so versatile!

[thisiswhyyourefat.com]

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