WTF News

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Cultural Diversity

The lower house of Russia's parliament approved legislation in February to classify ****, for the very first time, as an alcoholic beverage. Traditionally, because of the dominance of the ***** industry, **** has been regarded as closer to a soft *****. [Daily Telegraph (London), 2-23-2011]

Ewwww!

Only 20 percent of Cambodians have access to toilets (half as many as have mobile phones), and missions such as International Development Enterprises blanket the countryside to urge more toilet usage. In one promotion campaign in Kandal province, according to a February BBC News dispatch, an investigating team called a public meeting and singled out ("amid much laughter") one particular farmer whom it had calculated as producing the most excrement of anyone in the village. [BBC News, 2-6-2011]

Genetic Legacies

In January, Czech Television reported on a recent, joyous, but confusing, ****** reunion featuring a woman (Ilona Tomeckova) who had become a man (Dominik Sejda), and who had finally found love (in the person of Andrea Kajzarova, who was, before her own sex change, a bodybuilder named Tomas Kajzar). Dominik, motivated to reconnect with his original ******, learned that the *** he had given birth to (Radim) was himself undergoing a sex change (to become Viki). [Agence France-Presse, 1-4-2011]

Least Competent Criminals

To conceal an arrest warrant for auto theft, Amos Ashley, 62, told traffic-stop officers in Lawrenceburg, Ind., in February that he was (as he wrote on a paper for them) "Rorth Taylor." ("Pronounce it," ordered a trooper.) "Robert Taylor." ("Spell it once more, please.") "R-e-r-e-r-t," wrote Ashley. ("And 'Taylor'?") "T-a-y-l-o-e-r." Several more attempts followed, until Ashley finally admitted his name and was arrested. [WLWT-TV (Cincinnati), 2-18-2011]

The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Sell What You Know: In December, a company in eastern Ukraine (a country known for hard ********) announced a "******** buddy" service in which, for the equivalent of about $18, it would supply a barroom companion for the evening, "qualified" to discuss politics, sports, women, etc., and even to offer psychological counseling if appropriate. [Agence France-Presse, 12-14-2010]