A Japanese restaurant has changed the face of customer service by employing two monkeys to help with the table service. Video included. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A woman who claims a council official ordered her to cover up her naked garden gnomes following complaints from a neighbour spoke today of her anger.

Gnome collector Sandra Smith said she was told to put clothes on three of her favourite ornaments because they were deemed offensive. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

If Twitter were human, what kind of a person would it be? And, would you befriend such a person? Columnist Meghan Daum has an opinion about what she dubbed the Age of Oversharing."… at the risk of unilaterally offending 14 million people, if Twitter were a person, it would be an emotionally unstable person. It would be that person we avoid at parties and whose calls we don’t pick... read full post picked by bingo 7 months ago

Japan's vibrant, fast-moving culture delivers daily doses of the weird, wild and wonderful! Take, for example, theme cafes. First popularized by nerdy "otaku" geeks and then embraced by the public at large, the theme cafe phenomenon shows no sign of running out of steam. Just the opposite - it seems new theme cafes pop up every week, each one seeking to be just a little weirder than what... read full post picked by deepcleanfun 2 years ago

A Japanese man who privately enjoyed wearing girls' underwear was arrested after his excitement went too far and he decorated his neighbourhood with the undergarments. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Briton astounds the world by becoming the first person to swim to North Pole.

Global Warming: Do You Believe Now? picked by nesbyniccolo 2 years ago

For those who just can't get enough of US president-elect Barack Obama, a Japanese mask-maker is giving thousands of people the chance to be his spitting image. Ogawa Rubber Inc., Japan's top rubber mask studio, is moving into high gear and is manufacturing more than 300 masks of the next US president each day ahead of his inauguration on January 20. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

"A Canadian cinema has been fined C$10,000 for invasion of privacy when it searched a mother and daughter's bags for video cameras, but instead pulled out birth control pills from the daughter's purse. The mother had no idea. She sued. She won." picked by bornbad 6 months ago

The reason Hitler didn't do the decent thing and order his Luftwaffe to reduce Blackpool to smouldering rubble has now been revealed: The Fuhrer wanted the resort as his "personal playground".

*with one ball.* picked by Bornbad 9 months ago

Yes we can… run into Obamamania everywhere. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago