Ahh, it’s that time of the week, when we look at all the crazy things other people get up to and smugly consider ourselves quite normal…
1. I’m sure you’l have heard of the ‘stooshy’ (as they say round my way) surrounding the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and the protests that have been going on by gay communities around the world, so you can imagine the Twitter storm that occurred this week when photos of the men’s loos appeared online:
2. In a quite different sensation this week, some men in South Africa dug up a pretty big shiny thing that’s attracted the world’s press, a 29.6 carat blue diamond. Hmm, I suspect with a price tag in the 10s of £millions, my knight in rusty chainmail won’t be limping up to me to present it to me for our engagement:
3. 40 miles south of the diamond, another shiny thing was causing a bit of a stir! A bronze statue of Nelson Mandela, unveiled in Pretoria after his death last month, was discovered to have a rabbit in his ear! The sculptors put it there as their ‘signature’ having supposedly been denied the right to place their signatures on his trousers. Despite the fact that no-one noticed it during the manufacturing process, they have now been asked to remove it once it was pointed out to the government…
4. Another person with his nose out of joint this week was Quentin Tarantino, who has canned plans for an upcoming film after he started to get calls from agents wanting to put their clients’ names forwards. Since he hadn’t released the details to any agents, he was somewhat miffed, and decided no-one was going to get to play!
5. And finally, with the longest nose of all, I present to you the latest candidate in the local council elections in Mazur, Belarus:
Linking up with my fellow Randomeers:
It's hard to imagine what the architect had in mind when he designed the toilet for two…
Those toilets are, bizarely, somewhat common in Russia!
Ha ha. Love the rabbit
wow, those toilets!!! Seriously! They'd be quite handy when taking a couple of small children potty, though 🙂 Love how insanely crazy it is.
Well, I wouldn't mind the diamond either, sadly not likely to happen!
Hate to be boring here – but not sure what one could actually do with that diamond, but maybe I'm just lacking in imagination and love of bling?! Juliex
It's the way you tell 'em!
Hahaha! Thanks for the jollies:)) what a wonderful and odd world we live in 🙂
Heh, isn't it just!
You find the best snippets of random news. Lots of weird and wonderful!!
I dont see what all the fuss is about with the toilets …its not different than lining up to take a leak at a communal urinal ?
Poor Quentin- thats all a bit too precious really!
The sculptor should be able to leave the rabbit in the ear. I think it looks good. That sure is one chunk of a diamond.
Hugs Kay
Talk about a rock! Wow!
The toilets are so funny. When my hubby showed me that the caption under it said,'I sure hope that's not the view from the third toilet' lol
oh my gosh, that IS a bunch of random. The bunny??? crazy….
Oooh a budgie!
Love the rabbit.
The toilets worry me! The rabbit should stay. The budgie? Really?
Can't quite see what the fuss is about the rabbit, I think it looks great!
That's an excellent collection of random!
Sometimes I wonder where you find this stuff 🙂