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Category: Foreign Customs

Watch Out for the Remote!!

I like this arranged marriage commercial. It's really a commercial for cable, I think, but the wife wants one of these remotes, too!!



I think I like the Hindi Elvis best. Any other votes?
Posted By: gdanea | Date: Sun Jan 31, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Category: Foreign Customs

Merry Christmas India style

Two strange things about this clip -- it is a very interesting take on Santa in India, and Nickleodeon is the producer.



A very different way to celebrate the season!!
Posted By: gdanea | Date: Mon Dec 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Category: Foreign Customs

Live Like a Tsar

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The same armored car company that built cars for Tsar Nicholas, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky are now offering the Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition armored car with whale penis leather seats. This SUV also comes with gold plated bulletproof windows, a tungsten exhaust, diamond and ruby encrusted gauges, a external Kevlar coating and three bottles of the most expensive vodka made (RussoBaltique). The asking price for this dorky SUV comes in at a whopping 1.6 million dollars. It's set to be showcased at next years Top Marques show in Monaco.
Sydney Morning Herald/Dartz
Posted By: mdb777 | Date: Sat Oct 24, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Category: Motor Vehicles, Overpriced Merchandise, Foreign Customs

Wheelie Bin Stickers

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I'm very confused. A dead baby is found in a recycling center. That's happened before. But then the authorities issue "wheelie bin stickers" as a response. Did they look like this?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Oct 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Category: Death, Babies and Toddlers, Foreign Customs, Europe

The Redneck Games

Despite the French captioning and source, this video is all in English, for your Redneck Enjoyment.

Des jeux d'été très très... fins ! - FemmesPlus
Tous les ans, en Georgie (USA) se déroulent les Redneck Summer Games. Un bon gros délire pas très finaud de paysans des USA. Yeeeeeeeeeepeeeeeeeee !
Mots-clés : usa délire festival boue paysans redneck summer games
Video de boavista

Weird Canadian Commercials

In an effort to prove to Nethie that not all Canadian commercials are horrifically realistic scenes of brutal workplace accidents, I am pleased to present some of the weirdest commercials to grace our northern TV screens.

These are all part of the same campaign of ads for Mac's Milk's Frosters drinks. Basically, it's convenience store advertising some new flavours (not flavors) of slush drinks that they had just come out with. At least, I think that's what they were advertising. The whole WTF line of ad more or less just gave us insight into how deanged ad-men really are.



Yeah, I think Hate Crime is a good place to start. It really says nothing about the product in question, but speaks volumes about the sanity (or lack thereof) of those invoved in creating the commercial. More >>
Posted By: kingmonkey | Date: Thu May 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Food, Advertising, Surrealism, Foreign Customs

Number 96

Who knew that the first gay character on mainstream TV was featured way back in 1972 in the Australian soap opera NUMBER 96...? Not I, till recently.

Apparently the show was pretty hot stuff!







Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Mar 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Category: Sexuality, Television, Foreign Customs, 1970's, LGBT, Australia

Tribute to the Doner Kebab


Turkish Döner
by Petraaa
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Mar 09, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Category: Food, Music, Foreign Customs, Cartoons, Middle East

Strange Congo Signage

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World-traveler Peter Danssaert contributes this photo of a sign he saw in Kisangani, the Congo.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Mar 04, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Category: Business, Advertising, Money, Signage, Billboards, Foreign Customs, Africa

World’s Sexiest Weather Reporter

It's not a title I ever imagined existing, but apparently Mexican beauty Mayte Carranco has it locked down.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Feb 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (38)
Category: Television, Sex Symbols, Foreign Customs, Weather
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