Posts tagged with ‘austria’

Austrian supermarket apparently doesn’t understand bananas

If you go to any grocery store, there’s always examples of wasteful, stupid products that are sold as “convenient” or pre-packaged because they take one 2 second step out of the process of getting the food into your belly, but at a supermarket in Austria, they took it to the extreme by unpeeling bananas and then re-wrapping them in plastic. Because that’s obviously much better.

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600 year old bra and panties discovered in Europe, a century before it was thought the bra was invented

By all accounts of lingerie historians, the bra was invented 500 years ago. So it was surprising for archaeologists to find a set of intact linen lingerie, both bra and panties, from a 600 year old castle in Austria. 

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After 115 years, tortoise couple in Austria calls it quits

In one of the sadder divorce stories you’ll read about today, a pair of giant tortoises in a zoo in Austria that had been best friends and a romantic couple for a staggering 115 years has suddenly called it quits. 

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Austrian man fired for bathing in his own urine at work

You’re soaking in it.

Alfred Zoppelt had been working at the same museum in Vienna for 23 years and he had recently begun undergoing a self-prescribed regimin of urine therapy, in which he would regularly wash his hands, face and entire body in his own urine on a regular basis. And he would do this at work. And he was somehow surprised that he was fired.

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Pastafarian allowed to wear strainer for ID in Austria

G’day mate

According to Austrian law, head coverings are only allowed to be worn in official ID photos if it’s for religious reasons. So Niko Alm decided to challenge that law in his own way, by wearing a spaghetti strainer on his head for his driver’s license, claiming that is he is a Pastafarian and that such a head covering is ordained by His Noodleness.

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