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The Daily WTF: Russia Sells Cigarettes to Teenage Girls
Cigarettes, they’re just like candy! They’re sweet and delicious and not carcinogenic at all. Pick up a pack today and share it with your friends. Your little sister likes lollipops, perhaps she’ll enjoy a cigarette as well. You should probably go see about that now. Just don’t spoil your suppers.
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Check Out the Low-Budget Russian ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Remake
In Soviet Russia, mother meets you! It’s fortuitous that on a day when I spent two hours discussing adaptation versus appropriation (what many would call stealing) at NYU, this low-budget Russian take on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother hits the Internet. It’s an almost shot-for-shot remake of the sitcom, with the same sets but some tweaks: Ted’s apartment but with older furniture and appliances; MacLaren’s, but with pleather seats and stocked with vodka instead of scotch. More »
Mickey Rourke Plays With Sick Children, Strippers – This has to be one of the oddest (and NSFW) photo ops I’ve seen in a long time. What’s a broken down piece of meat doing in a Russian cancer ward anyway? (Buzzfeed)
The Daily WTF: 13-Year-Old Gets Inked
When all the kids in the class are raising their hands, who’s an eighth grade teacher most likely to call on? The dude with the black sweater? The girl with the red nail polish? Our bet’s on the 13-year-old boy with the full sleeve tattoo. Yes that’s right: this Russian kid is only 13. He got inked by his tattoo artist father — a man who clearly finds his own work suitable for minors. (Though we’re not sure we agree.) More »
Gallery: Russian Fashion Week Is A Candy-Colored Dream
Move over Portugal. Russian’s Fashion Week is here to disprove the idea that Russian ladies only wear tracksuits and fur stoles. They also wear insane nu-Raver wear, as evidenced by yesterday’s YanaStasia show. The outfits are like cotton candy: bright and colorful, and makes you a little nauseous if you have too much of it. Is there any way we can dress up as Russian models for Halloween? More »
Russian girls celebrate Putin’s birthday with a sexy calendar – Move over, Obama Girl. Your civic pride has nothing on these Russian sexpots, who gifted Vladimir Putin with a near-naked calendar. Happy birthday, Mr. Prime Minister. (Nerve)
Video: Donkeys Weren’t Meant to Fly, They’re Not That Naive…
You know a great way to advertise your business? Have some ripped guy making funny, self-referential YouTube videos and then having them target specific users on the Internet (RIP Old Spice Campaign). You know what’s a not-so-great way to advertise your business? Attaching a donkey to a parasail, and then releasing it over the ocean while it brays in fear. Sorry, Russia!
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Video: Baby Racing, A Strange But Cute Russian Pastime
Yesterday, we learned about pop culture in other countries. Today, it’s time to learn about a pastime further east: Russian baby racing! Yes, we mean the racing of little Russian infants.
The gripping competition in Ekaterinburg, Russia requires babies to crawl 10 meters (33 feet) in under 2 minutes while their parents wave shoes and electronics at them. There is also circus music, a winners’ platform and a quick rendition of “We Are The Champions.” In other words, it is magic.
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Brad Pitt stops traffic in Russia – literally!
This is possibly one of the funniest stories that I’ve read in quite some time so I had to share it with all of you. Brad Pitt has been stopping traffic in Russia lately, and that’s meant literally. Police in the city of Omsk (Siberia) have been managing speeding traffic by using life-sized cardboard cut-outs of Brad Pitt as a deputy officer, so to speak!
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