Today in Extraordinarily Odd
China has just launched a phone-in helpline for people who are addicted to gambling in China. When speaking about the overall problem of problem gambling, a Chinese official was quoted as saying: "Most people who buy lottery tickets in China are not mentally mature, and they still hold the belief that they can be rich overnight." And the interesting thing about this statement is that you could take out the phrase “lottery tickets” and “rich overnight” and really replace it with anything to get to the root of how the Chinese government really feels about practically everything relating to their own people. For example, let’s try this: “Most people who make their own decisions about daily life in China are not mentally mature, they still hold the belief that they can make decisions by themselves and not threaten the stability of the government.” See how that works out? It’s sort of like painting by numbers with public policy.
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The “World’s Biggest Liar” is an Englishman named John "Johnny Liar" Graham and gosh, aren’t his parents, wife and children happy about that? But really, the deal is that there’s an event in England where people get up and tell 5 minute lies and the winner is crowned with the title of “Biggest Liar”. Sounds essentially like a story telling competition except with a mild undertone of character assassination of oneself. Meanwhile, the article uses all these slang terms for lies like “shaggy dog stories” and “porkies” and that distracted me so much I don’t even really know what else the hell is TO this story.
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A woman who is more or less a witch in Cyprus cracked an egg into the pants of a man who said he wanted the cursed relationship between he and his mother in law to be fixed. That's what you do when you have a problem with your mother in law, you just go to a witch in Cyprus and you crack an egg into your pants. The witch then said she wanted 5000 Cyprus pounds for the service she provided and so the many went to the police. There is no slack in this story at all. Every line is jam packed full of quality material. Top notch quality material. I mean it even says, “sorcery” is banned in Cyprus. Who would have spent time banning it? God, this is the best story I’ve read all week. Plus, apparently 5000 Cyprus pounds is worth nearly 6000 English pounds. SHIT! I know where I’m going to be pitching next, screw the BBC. Hello Cyprus Media! Need any stories about New York porn stars or a psychic village in upstate New York? Or why Britney is insane? I’ve got marketable theories coming out my ass.
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China has just launched a phone-in helpline for people who are addicted to gambling in China. When speaking about the overall problem of problem gambling, a Chinese official was quoted as saying: "Most people who buy lottery tickets in China are not mentally mature, and they still hold the belief that they can be rich overnight." And the interesting thing about this statement is that you could take out the phrase “lottery tickets” and “rich overnight” and really replace it with anything to get to the root of how the Chinese government really feels about practically everything relating to their own people. For example, let’s try this: “Most people who make their own decisions about daily life in China are not mentally mature, they still hold the belief that they can make decisions by themselves and not threaten the stability of the government.” See how that works out? It’s sort of like painting by numbers with public policy. [source]
The “World’s Biggest Liar” is an Englishman named John "Johnny Liar" Graham and gosh, aren’t his parents, wife and children happy about that? But really, the deal is that there’s an event in England where people get up and tell 5 minute lies and the winner is crowned with the title of “Biggest Liar”. Sounds essentially like a story telling competition except with a mild undertone of character assassination of oneself. Meanwhile, the article uses all these slang terms for lies like “shaggy dog stories” and “porkies” and that distracted me so much I don’t even really know what else the hell is TO this story. [source]
A woman who is more or less a witch in Cyprus cracked an egg into the pants of a man who said he wanted the cursed relationship between he and his mother in law to be fixed. That's what you do when you have a problem with your mother in law, you just go to a witch in Cyprus and you crack an egg into your pants. The witch then said she wanted 5000 Cyprus pounds for the service she provided and so the many went to the police. There is no slack in this story at all. Every line is jam packed full of quality material. Top notch quality material. I mean it even says, “sorcery” is banned in Cyprus. Who would have spent time banning it? God, this is the best story I’ve read all week. Plus, apparently 5000 Cyprus pounds is worth nearly 6000 English pounds. SHIT! I know where I’m going to be pitching next, screw the BBC. Hello Cyprus Media! Need any stories about New York porn stars or a psychic village in upstate New York? Or why Britney is insane? I’ve got marketable theories coming out my ass. [source]
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