Showing posts with label Bizarre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bizarre. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2009

Bizarre and Crazy Hairstyles

Here are some of the most unusual Hairstyles that you will ever see.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

"Bush Shoe" In demand

Ramazan Baydan, the owner of Baydan Shoe Company in Istanbul is a happy man. His shoe business has seen many orders come in from all around the world after Muntazer-Al-Zaidi an Iraqi Journalist attempted to hit Bush with the shoe made at the Baydan Shoe Company.




Reports are that Baydan has already got an order for 300,00 pairs of “Bush Shoe” and he has recruited 100 people to meet the growing demand. Around 120,000 pairs have been ordered from Iraq, while a US company has requested 18,000 pairs. A British firm has offered to provide a distribution network to the Baydan Shoe Company. Shoe Federations in Syria and Iran have shown support for Zaidi by offering him and his family lifetime supply of shoes.

Baydan is planning to change the name of the shoe from “Model 271” to “Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush Shoe”. "We've been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy. We've even hired an agency to look at television advertising," he was quoted by the British newspaper as saying.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

6 bizarre festivals around the world

Thaipusam:(Hindu Hook Piercing Festival)




This festival is celebrated mainly by the Tamil speaking community settled in southern India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka and elsewhere around the world. Many fanatical devotees go to such extent as to torture their bodies to appease the Lord. So, a major feature of Thaipusam celebrations is body piercing with hooks, skewers and small lances called 'vel'. Many of these devotees even pull chariots and heavy objects with hooks attached to their bodies. Many others pierce their tongue and cheek to impede speech and thereby attain full concentration on the Lord. Most devotees enter into a trance during such piercing due to the incessant drumming and chanting of "vel vel shakti vel".

Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival In Japan)
A hadaka matsuri(meaning-naked festival) is a type of Japanese festival, or matsuri, where participants wear a minimum amount of clothing; usually just a Japanese loincloth (called fundoshi), sometimes with a short happi coat, and very rarely completely naked. Whatever the clothing, it is considered to be above vulgar, or everyday, undergarments, and on the level of holy Japanese shrine attire.


Naked festivals are held in dozens of places throughout Japan every year, usually in the summer or winter.

El Colacho: (the Baby-Jumping Festival in Spain)


In celebration of the Catholic festival of Corpus Christi, grown men leap over newborns, with full parental consent. Donning scary, vaguely Elvis-like costumes and wielding whips and truncheons, the men attempt to "cleanse" the babies of evil. Evidently, recklessly leaping over them is the best way to achieve this. The town has observed the strange practice (called El Colacho) since 1620, and any onlookers who seem to be in need of a quick exorcism are pulled into the event, as well -- so look normal, by God! And leave your babies with the sitter

La Tomatina - Valencia, Spain
La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.
The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night before the tomato fight, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest.

Approximately 20,000–40,000 tourists come to the tomato fight, multiplying by several times Buñol's normal population of slightly over 9,000. There is limited accommodation for people who come to La Tomatina, and thus many participants stay in Valencia and travel by bus or train to Buñol, about 38 km outside the city. In preparation for the dirty mess that will ensue, shopkeepers use huge plastic covers on their storefronts in order to protect them from the carnage.

The Monkey Buffet Festival (Thailand)
Every year, the town of Lopburi in Thailand hosts a special outdoor feast. The guests of honour climb all over the food, steal treats from each other, and toss their leftovers onto the ground. After the meal, some of the guests show their gratitude by pulling hair and stealing earrings from the hosts while others make love in public.


The "invitations" at this annual extravaganza go to the town's estimated 600 monkeys. They are Lopburi's blessing and its bane. According to legend, the hero of the Ramayana epic rewarded his friend and ally, Hanuman the Monkey King, with the fiefdom of what is now Lopburi. Centuries later, monkeys still rule the area around the town's two most sacred sites: The picturesque Khmer ruin of Sam Prang Yod and the nearby shrine of San Pra Kan.

Kanamara Matsuri: (Fertility festival in Japan)
The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. The exact dates vary: the main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April. The penis forms the central theme of the event that is reflected everywhere—in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a mikoshi parade.

The Kanamara Matsuri is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It is said that there are divine protections also in business prosperity and the clan's prosperity, easy delivery, marriage, and married couple harmony. There is also a legend of a demon that hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights before a blacksmith fashioned an iron phallus to break the demon's teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.
Today, the festival is used to raise money for HIV research.
Many travellers from Europe or US visit and attend the festival

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Top Wierdo's from the Animal Kingdom

Gastric brooding frogs - Swallows her own eggs


The female gastric-brooding frogs are a genus, Rheobatrachus, of frogs from East Australia. The curiosity with these frogs is their unique parental care: following external fertilization by the male, the female would take the eggs into its mouth and swallow them. It is not clear, however, whether the females swallowed the tadpoles or the eggs, as it was never observed prior to their extinction. The last captive specimen died in 1984.



Squids - Have sex all day long, for two weeks

Squids are a large, diverse group of marine cephalopods. They begin mating with a circling nuptial dance, revolving around across a `spawning bed' (200 meters, in diameter). At daybreak, they begin having sex and continue all day long --they only take a break so the female can drive down and deposit eggs. When she returns to the circle, the two go at it again. As twilight falls, the pair go offshore to eat and rest. At the first sign of sunlight, they return to their spot and do it all over again.



Porcupines - How do they do it?

There is a common joke: "How do porcupines do it?" "Very carefully." But in reality, the truth is more bizarre than dangerous. Females are only receptive for a few hours a year, so they go off their food, and stick close by the males and mope. Meanwhile the male becomes aggressive with other males, and begins a period of carefully sniffing every place the female of his choice urinates, smelling her all over. This is a tremendous aphrodisiac. While she is sulking by his side, he begins to `sing'. When he is ready to make love, the female runs away if she's not ready. If she is in the mood, they both rear up and face each other, belly-to-belly. Then, males spray their ladies with a tremendous stream of urine, soaking their loved one from head to foot - the stream can shoot as far as 7 feet. It is advised never to stand close to a cage that contains courting porcupines.



Red-sided Garter Snakes - They prefer Orgies

These snakes are small and poisonous, and live in Canada and the Northwestern United States. Their highly unusual mating takes place during an enormous orgy. Twenty-five thousand snakes slither together in a large den, eager to copulate. In that pile, one female may have as many as 100 males vying for her. These `nesting balls' grow as large as two feet high. Now and then a female is crushed under the heavy mound - and the males are so randy that they continue to copulate, becoming the only necrophiliac snakes.



Ichneumon wasps - Tortures other insects

Ichneumon wasps are insects that could inspire a horror movie: it picks a victim, usually a caterpillar, and injects her eggs into the host's body. Often she also injects a poison that paralyzes the victim without killing it. Then, it eats the caterpillar but it keeps the victim alive as long as possible by eating its fatty deposits and digestive organs first and saving the heart and central nervous system for last. Charles Darwin found the grisly life histories of Ichneumons incompatible with the central notion of natural theology which saw the study of nature as a way to demonstrate God's benevolence. In a letter to American botanist Asa Gray, Darwin wrote "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice."

Histiostoma murchiei - Creates her own husband

The female mite known as Histiostoma murchiei creates her own husband from scratch. She lays eggs that turn into adults without needing to be fertilised. The mother then copulates with her sons within three of four days of laying the eggs, after which the sons die rather quickly.






Male Anglerfishes - Smell his mate and never leaves her again

Anglerfishes are bony fishes. Some of them have a unique mating method: Since individuals are rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is a problem, especially at a time when both individuals are ready to spawn. When a male anglerfish hatches, it is equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. They have no digestive system, and thus are unable to feed independently. They must find a female anglerfish, and quickly, or else they will die. When he finds a female, he bites into her flank, and releases an enzyme which digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads that release sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This is an extreme example of sexual dimorphism. However, it ensures that when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.



Adele Penguin - Conquers his mate by rolling a stone at her feets

Penguins in general prefer to be `married', but they suffer long separations due to their migratory habits. When reunited, a pair will stand breast to breast, heads thrown back, singing loudly, with outstretched flippers trembling. Two weeks after a pair is formed, their union is consummated. The male makes his intentions known by laying his head across his partner's stomach. They go on a long trek to find privacy, but the actual process of intercourse takes only three minutes. Neither penguin will mate again that year. The male Adele penguin must select his mate from a colony of more than a million, and he indicates his choice by rolling a stone at the female's feet. Stones are scarce at mating time because many are needed to build walls around nests. It becomes commonplace for penguins to steal them from one another. If she accepts this gift, they stand belly to belly and sing a mating song.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Bizarre, Useless but Interesting Science Facts

Here is a list of the most bizarre Science facts that probably you haven’t heard about.

Gay bomb

The "Halitosis bomb" and "Gay bomb" are informal names for two theoretical non-lethal chemical weapons, which a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing. The possibility was canvassed that a strong aphrodisiac could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause "homosexual behavior". Some documents described the aphrodisiac weapon as "distasteful but completely non-lethal". Body odor remote-engineering, such as halitosis and hyperhidrosis, was another possibility discussed. How these would be produced would again be by a non-lethal chemical weapon -- possibly one that would affect the hormonal and digestive systems. Diabetes which is also another frequently reported ailment, can of course contribute to this goal. It appears that a 'heavy sweating bomb', 'flatulence bomb' and 'halitosis bomb' were also considered by a committee at the time. The plan was to make an enemy so smelly they could be quite literally sniffed out of hiding by their opponents. It was also considered fairly damaging to the enemy's morale as well.

A Chicken can be hypnotized

Although it’s hard to understand why anyone would want to hypnotize a chicken but people have done it and here is how (video below). Put the chicken into a trance, by holding its head down against the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken. If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will remain immobile for somewhere between 15 seconds and 30 minutes, continuing to stare at the line. . This is just one way of doing it, people have come up with other ways as well (hundereds of videos on youtube). Seems like hypnotizing a chicken is not that difficult after all.



Erection after Death

A death erection (also named "angel lust") is a postmortem erection happening when the man dies vertically or face-down and the corpse remains so. On war time, death erection made an excellent war trophy, a method of humiliating the enemy by displaying their posthumous copulating organ. Hanged women too can present a corespondent to this, translated trough engorged labia and vaginal discharges.

Alien Hand Syndrome

Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS) is a very disturbing and very rare medical condition. An individual with this neurological disorder has full sensation in the rogue hand, but is unable to control its movements, and does not feel that it is a part of their body. The hand becomes personified, as if it has a will of its own, and its owner will usually deny ownership of the limb. There is currently no treatment for Alien Hand Syndrome, but the symptoms can often be relieved by giving the rogue hand an object to manipulate, to keep it occupied.

Men breastfeeding

Yes, in theory, men can breastfeed. Male breasts have milk ducts, and some mammary tissue. They also have oxytocin and prolactin, the hormones responsible for milk production. There have been reports of men who were able to produce milk through extensive breast and nipple stimulation, but no one knows whether the milk was of the same composition or quality as the kind women produce.
A Sri Lankan Newspaper reports: Sri Lankan widower breastfeeds his babies


COLOMBO: A 38-year-old Sri Lankan man, whose wife had died three months ago, appears to have the ability to breastfeed his two infant daughters, doctors said on Wednesday. The man, from the central town of Walapone, lost his wife during childbirth. "My eldest daughter refused to be fed with powdered milk liquid in the feeding bottle. I was so moved one evening and to stop her crying I offered my breast. I then realised that I was capable of breastfeeding her," the man admitted.
Here is a short film named “Milk Men” directed by Peter Templeman. (Slighty NSFW)



Fatal Hilarity

Fatal hilarity refers to death resulting from the physiological effects of laughter. Versions of the phrase date back to 1596 and records of laughter causing death date back to Ancient Greece. gs. On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, England, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye". After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.

Picking one's nose and eating it might be healthy

Mucophagy (literally mucus-eating, also referred as picking one's nose and eating it) is the consumption of the nasal mucus, boogers, and other detritus obtained from nose-picking. Some research suggests that mucophagy may be a natural and even healthy activity, which exposes the digestive system to bacteria accumulated in the mucus, thereby helping to strengthen the immune system.


A Supernumerary Nipple

A supernumerary nipple (also known as a third nipple) is an additional nipple occurring in mammals including humans. Often mistaken for moles, supernumerary nipples are diagnosed at a rate of 2% in females, less in males. The nipples appear along the two vertical "milk lines" which start in the armpit on each side, run down through the typical nipples and end at the groin. They are classified into eight levels of completeness from a simple patch of hair to a milk-bearing breast in miniature.


Simpson’s Tomacco (halp tomato, halh tobacco)

A tomacco is originally a fictional hybrid fruit that is half tomato and half tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" of The Simpsons; the method used to create the tomacco in the episode is fictional. The tomacco became real when it was allegedly produced in 2003. Inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant, which was possible because both plants come from the same family.


Monday, December 8, 2008

10 Bizarre PC Case Mods

PC Case modding is done by many people to suit their requirements or to simply make the PC unique and stylish. After going through hundreds of case mods, here is the final list of 10 most bizarre case mods.

10. The Chopper Case Mod

The chopper case mod was done by people at Chopper Computers design in Colorado. Cool Chopper and a hot chick, what else could a biker want ?


9. 24 Case Mod

Designed by Peter (Bit-Tech), this mod is based on the weapon of mass destrcution shown in the famous TV show '24'. Case has a dot matrix style LED display, water cooling, a hidden DVD drive and a double radiator.

8. Lego Case Mod

Designed by Daniele Procida using his sons Lego bricks, the case mod was sold on ebay for over 85 euros.

7. Pumpkin Case Mod Created on the occasion of Halloween, the Pumpkin PC lights in dark and also the CD-ROM ejection is pretty nice.

6. Telephone Case Mod

The Telephone PC has elegant looks and was designed for voice chatting. When someone calls on GTalk, Skype etc. all you have to do is pick up the phone and start talking as if you were talking on a regular phone.

5. Dashboard Case Mod


The Dashboard Mod is for people who love driving. The three gauges show the Hard Drive, CPU and RAM usage. PC also has a keychain that is used to turn on the PC and eject and load DVD-ROM.

4. PVC Case Mod

Perhaps the cheapest case mod made of useless PVC pipes. The most solid frame ever.


3. Microwave

The Microwave PC is for people addicted to Food and Computers. The screen is fit in the front and the motherboard is inside the microwave.


2. Toilet Case Mod


Toilet PC ahs to be the most sickening Case Mod of all time. Can't imagine anyone keeping this thing inside a room.

1. Child Coffin Case Mod


The top spot goes to the most creepiest Case Mod of all time, the Child Coffin PC. It is siad that it took 3 years and thousands of dollars to complete this mod.

Other case mods that came quite close to making the list were Fifa, Doom3, Guitar, R2D2 and Leela Case Mods.

Doom3 Case Mod

Guitar Case Mod

R2D2 Case Mod

Leela Case Mod

Sunday, November 30, 2008

5 Things i hate about Email!

Everyone uses Email in their daily life for some purpose.Now it's a daily routine for me to check my mails, reply mails etc.. etc.. I'm using email more than my cellphone.There are always two sides for everything in this world.I love using Email but sometime i hate it.

Here are five things i hate about Email :

1) I will never get a Email id of My choice..

Every time i try to change or sign-up a new Email id, i never get @mail.com of my choice. i always wanted my first name as my email id but it looks like all the email ids are extinct like dinosaurs.
Whenever i see a new mail provider i try to make a email id with my name but never got success in getting it. Every time i get the same old Message the," This id is already taken, please try other". Sometime i wonder than how many people with the same name like me exists on earth and why all of them are making a new id with my name.

2) Everyday I win a £1,000,000,00 lottery.
Wow !!!.
£1,000,000,00 for me... .......I'm so lucky !!!
Every Morning,i start my day by deleting this Spam. I started getting this mail from the very first day, When i made my email id. I won lottery more than 1000 times and still winning on.
The most common mail i got is:

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England

DEAR WINNER,
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our winners of the UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet,no tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three winners in the category
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"A\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" with the following winning information: You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000,00 (One million pounds sterling).

I wonder when this Spam is going to stop !!!

3.) Forgot my Password and also the security question !


This is the most common thing i face when i forget my password. My password is quite easier then compared to the security question and its answer. I can't remember my password due to better technology.(yes,i m blaming technology and not my memory). Everytime While writing password for sign In , One question from a browser appears," Do you want Browser to remember the password". As i am a good guy, it is hard for me to say "no" so i go for "yes".
therefore, this shows that it is not my fault for not remembering the password, it's the technology.


4.)Limited Attachment size in emails.

Most of email service providers gives a limited Attachment size of 20mbs(some have 50mbs). So we can't send any bigger file more than 50mbs. Once i had to send a bigger file (VERY BIG file of 70Mbs) , i had to upload it to some file host for sharing it with my friend.
It sucks as this wasted My time in uploading the file.

It would be so great if some email providers could increase their size limit atleast upto 100mbs. I hope some Email service provider will read this article and will try to increase their size limit.

I always wanted to attach my noisy neighbour and mail them to some very far place from the place where i live.
but unfortunately this is not possible.


5.)Lots of Advertisements in Mail..

Sometime it's very irritating to see the advertisement all over the email screen.There are ads everywhere like top banner, footer ads etc. It take more longer for loading the advertisement than Mail (specially yahoo) . I am very tired of advertisement all over the screen. Looks like Some Email provider just offering free service for advertisement. These providers also offer to upgrade your email by free service User to premium users(I will never pay any money for Upgrading Email in my life)

Anyway,it's still ok to have ads in mail but sometimes its really very irritating for us.

If you have anything to say about email or anything related please give your comments....

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

5 Biggest Bankruptcies the World has Witnessed

Every Company or organization is known and remembered by its success and Power . In this fast world, we just see the successful companies and forget the old Big companies due to their failure. The companies come and go like they never existed. Here is a list of 5 Biggest Bankruptcies the World has Witnessed.


5. Texaco Inc - $35.89 billion
Started of as Texas Fuel Company in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, and Arnold Schlaet.
On April 12, 1987, Texaco filed for bankruptcy, but continued to function under protection of US bankruptcy laws.



4. Conseco Inc -$61.39 billion
Conseco was incorporated in 1979. It becames america’s top personal insurance company in a decade.Filed for Bankruptcy on December 18, 2002.Conseco got into trouble by piling debts over time. After losing the confidence of Wall Street its share crashed.




3. Enron Corp - $63.39 billion
Enron came into existence in 1985. It was named the ‘America’s Most Innovative Company’ by Fortune for six consecutive years.Enron filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001. Enron masked its financial probems so that it could continue taking credit, this got enron into trouble later.



2. Worldcom Inc - $107 billion
Worldcom founded in 1983 was one of the top American firms in the communications sector. Its rapid growth was attributed to the acquisition policies it had. Filed for bankruptcy on July 21, 2002.WorldCom’s CFO, Scott Sullivan, altered the accounts to show that companies financial position was good.

1. Lehman Brothers -$639 billion
Henry Lehman opened a dry-goods store (H. Lehman) in 1844, changed the name to “H. Lehman and Bro” after the joining of his brother Emanuel Lehman in 1847 and finally to “Lehman Brothers” in 1850 when his youngest brother Mayer Lehman joined him.
Declared itself bankrupt on September 15, 2008. Primary reason for bankruptcy was its heavy investements in securities linked to the US sub-prime mortgage market.