– The location must have been great: I guess if you really want to rent an apartment in London:

At a London apartment the rent is too damn high, and the ceiling is too damn low.

A landlord has been fined for renting out a studio apartment that could only be entered by crawling on all fours. Not only could the apartment itself only be entered on all fours, but to get to the tiny front door tenants needed to first crawl up a set of stairs in the same fashion, with the ceiling varying between 27 inches at its lowest point and 47 inches at its highest. The Guardian points out that this would be too low for the average 3-year-old to stand upright.

Landlord Yaakov Marom had been warned by the city that the apartment was not fit for renting, but he failed to comply with the warning and was discovered to be renting to the room to a couple for about $700 per month.

Yes, $700/month to have to crawl into your domicile. Now, to be fair, maybe the apartment itself was really nice.

Also, to be fair, I haven’t rented for a few years, so maybe $700/month actually is a good deal. Sigh.

– Not a pearl necklace: (Warning, sophomoric sex humor ahead.) Continue reading →

– Headline of the Decade: Kim Jong Un Went to a Lubricant Factory.

The article also wins Best Use of the Word “Effused”:

Touring both the factory floor and control rooms, Kim effused over the factory’s automation.

(h/t Bluegal)

– I bet you’ll read the fine print now: Side effects of a certain medication may include spontaneous orgasms.

– Saved by the Biebs: A Russian man narrowly escaped death at the hands paws of a bear thanks to a Justin Bieber ringtone: Continue reading →

– Whatever motivates you, I guess: Need an incentive to exercise? There are several devices on the market that will track your progress, but only one that delivers an electric shock when you miss a workout.

Do you like jogging, but wish it was a little more like a Saw movie and/or dystopian nightmare in which thigh gaps have become the global currency? Well, today in horrible ideas: A new wearable fitness tracker that actually zaps users with an electric shock if they stop exercising will be hitting the market later this year.

– Ew: A dead body was under the bed at a motel for five years. The motel had an interesting reason for not acting on around one thousand complaints regarding the room: Continue reading →

– Even their cats are refined: It seems that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the British Parliament, lost his pet hamster at Downing Street. After searching the premises for about a fortnight (I’m running out of Britishisms here), his cat, Freya, located the little dude by “meowing at an electricity box.” Not ripping the thing open and chowing down on aged hamster, like an uncouth American cat might do.

– Dogs, meanwhile…: Six years ago, a woman lost her wedding ring. A few weeks ago, she found it again—in her dog’s barf:

“He was making goofy noises, and was acting like he was going to throw up,” Matykowski said. Matykowski’s husband, Don, got Tucker out on the yard, and Tucker threw up.

When Matykowski walked up to Tucker’s vomit with cleaning supplies in her hands, she spotted something sparkly.

There it was– her diamond ring that disappeared six years ago.

“I screamed. I kid you not,” Matykowski said.

Matykowski brushed the ring very gently with a soft toothbrush and toothpaste, and it looked exactly the same just like six year ago.

– Meanwhile, in Florida: Police in Florida—because where else?—arrested a man for animal cruelty and domestic battery after, during “an incident that started over an argument about women’s rights with his girlfriend,” he punched and choked her 9-month-old rabbit, Bun Bun. I, uh……yeah, I got nothin’. Continue reading →