Category Archives: WTF?

MinnesotaCare dysfunction nearly bankrupted me

On March 1st of this year, with no notice, MinnesotaCare dropped my health insurance coverage. Despite their usual passion for sending paper mail to its customers for every trifling reason, before, during and after what happened next, MinnesotaCare never sent anything to alert me about this crucial change. I had…

IMPORTANT NEWS regarding the latest US immigration protocols

US immigration gets an upgrade (read, stupider than ever) Since 2010, in addition to many fine programs, the fledgling Brand USA (aka the Travel Promotion Act), “dedicated to increasing inbound international travel to the United States,” has spent untold millions of dollars making US immigration procedures quicker and simpler. While…

Flight delayed over two hours after kid freaks over guy writing in Arabic

In case there was any question left about the absurd, damaging power of the media’s fear-mongering and brainwashing, please see exhibit #48,374,589: An EasyJet flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle was delayed two hours and 20 minutes after a kid on a class trip (reportedly 15-16 years old) saw another passenger…

Those who have dreamt of sleeping inside a giant anus should click this

I’ve written about 328,474 sleeping reviews in my years as a travel writer, but I must admit that I’m a bit stumped as to how I’d kick off a review about sleeping in a giant poop chute-shaped guesthouse. Probably some kind of reassurance about odor. The squeamish, vein-y triumph that…

Theory: desperate idiot/pervert caused plane to make emergency landing

So, a San Francisco-New York flight made an emergency landing in Kansas City yesterday after someone found “an electronic device thought potentially to be a bomb” in the toilet. It turned out to be a camera disguised as a flash drive. There are so many exasperating parts to this story…

Three Penis Liquor gives your doodle the vitality of seal, deer and dog

Three Penis Liquor – the aftertaste we’ve all been waiting for Before you get judge-y about Three Penis Liquor, remember that there are large swathes of people who find singular joy in eating strange and dangerous things to see what happens, then posting the video evidence on YouTube had a…

Unsurprisingly, North Korea’s Pyongyang Metro system is weird [VIDEO]

If there was any question, it turns out that riding the Pyongyang Metro, North Korea is as surreal and eerie as pretty much everything else in the country. The Pyongyang Metro, the city’s pride and joy, built in the 1970s and used by some 700,000 people daily, snakes under the…

Proposed ginormous ‘floating city’ will circumnavigate the globe every two years

This just in from Florida’s Department of Batshit Crazy, Wretched Excess: Put on hold during the recession, the plan is reportedly back on to build the “Freedom Ship,” a floating city that will circumnavigate the globe every two years. The idea is so impossibly ambitious, in fact, that even their…

Luxury slum resort allows people to experience poor people culture, kinda

This, amazingly, is a real thing. Shanty Town at Emoya Luxury Hotel and Spa outside Bloemfontein, South Africa gives visitors the opportunity to fulfill their bucket list item of temporarily, safely living like a real life destitute person. For just $82 per night, you too can sleep in a real…

Pissed off, venomous snake on a moving car – aka just another day in Australia

Fair warning: Because this is Australia and because there’s an angry, venomous snake involved, a fair bit of NSFW language slips out in this video. I assume there are other countries where nightmare-bait situations frequently occur, like a dangerous snake appearing out of nowhere on a moving car, but I…

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