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Chemtrails

Chemtrail conspiracy theorists believe that some contrails, which consist of ice crystals or water vapor condensed behind aircraft, actually result from chemicals or biological agents being deliberately sprayed at high altitude for some undisclosed purpose. The staple of right-wing radio shows in the US, there is fevered speculation that the chemicals being sprayed are part of a wider plot that involves the so-called New World Order and is being directed by shadowy forces within the government. The existence of chemtrails has been repeatedly denied by federal agencies and scientists.

 

Global warming is a hoax

Some climate change doubters believe that man-made global warming is a conspiracy designed to soften up the world’s population to higher taxation, controls on lifestyle and more authoritarian government. These sceptics cite a fall in global temperatures since last year and a levelling off in the rise in temperature since 1998 as evidence.

 

28. The Aids virus was created in a laboratory

Based on the theories of Dr William Campbell Douglass, many believe that that HIV was genetically engineered in 1974 by the World Health Organisation. Dr Douglass believed that it was a cold-blooded attempt to create a killer virus which was then used in a successful experiment in Africa. Others have claimed that it was created by the CIA or the KGB as a means to reduce world population. .

 

HAARP

More than 200 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, is the Pentagon’s High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, officially an enormous experiment to heat the ionosphere with radio waves. But conspiracy theorists believe the project is a weapon to bring down aircraft and missiles by lifting sections of the atmosphere, cause earthquakes or even a huge weather modification machine.

 

Plastic coffins and concentration camps

Just outside Atlanta, Georgia, beside a major road are approximately 500,000 plastic sheet coffins. Stacked neatly and in full view, the coffins are allegedly owned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema). Conspiracy theorists believe that Fema has also set up several concentration camps in the US in preparation for the imposition of a state of martial law and the killing of millions of Americans. They suggest that the financial crisis will be used to justify the imposition of a police state.

 

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

A popular theory in the Muslim world is that the tsunami could have been caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which Israeli and American nuclear experts participated. Several newspapers in Egypt and the Middle East alleged that India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has acquired sophisticated nuclear technology from the US and Israel, both of which “showed readiness to co-operate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind,” beginning with the heavily populated Muslim regions of southeast Asia, where the bulk of casualties took place.

 

Fluoridation

Fluoride is commonly added to drinking water as a way to reduce tooth decay. However, there has been some evidence that there could be some harmful side effects from fluoride and conspiracy theorists believe that this information is known and recognised by those responsible for adding the fluoride, but that they continue the practice regardless. Drug companies have been targeted as possible beneficiaries, as they will profit from a population with ill-health. Another motive is that fluoride lowers mental abilities thereby “dumbing down” the entire population.

 

Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American’s third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from Heathrow to New York John F. Kennedy International Airport. On December 21, 1988, the aircraft flying this route – a Boeing 747 – was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. The remains landed around Lockerbie in southern Scotland. A popular theory for which no evidence has been produced suggests that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had set up a protected drug route from Europe to the United States – allegedly called Operation Corea – which allowed Syrian drug dealers to ship heroin to the US using Pan Am flights. The CIA allegedly protected the suitcases containing the drugs and made sure they were not searched. On the day of the bombing, terrorists exchanged suitcases: one with drugs for one with a bomb. Another version of this theory is that the CIA knew in advance this exchange would take place, but let it happen anyway, because the protected drugs route was a rogue operation, and the American intelligence officers on the flight had found out about it, and were on their way to Washington to tell their superiors

 

The Philadelphia Experiment

Popularised by the Charles Berlitz novel of the same name, conspiracy theorists believe that during an experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in October 1943, the US Navy destroyer Eldridge was rendered invisible. According to some accounts, the scientists on the experiment found a way to bend light around an object but that the experiment went wrong and Eldridge was transported through space and time, reappearing at sea. Several sailors, it is said, were badly hurt when the experiment went wrong and some were melded into the ship’s superstructure. The US Navy has denied that the experiment ever took place.

 

Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen

Theorists believe that President Franklin Roosevelt provoked the Japanese attack on the US naval base in Hawaii in December 1942, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn his fleet commanders. He apparently needed the attack to provoke Hitler into declaring war on the US because the American public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. Theorists believe that the US was warned by the governments of Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, Peru, Korea and the Soviet Union that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and that, furthermore, the Americans had intercepted and broken all the important Japanese codes in the run up to the attack.

 

The peak oil conspiracy

Peak oil (a theory in itself) is the supposed peak of oil production during and after which demand for oil outstrips supply sending prices through the roof. The peak oil conspiracy theorists believe that peak oil is a fraud concocted by the oil industries to increase prices amid concerns about future supplies. The oil industry is aware of vast reserves of untapped oil, but does not utilise them in order to maintain the illusion of scarcity, they claim.

 

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Despite being utterly discredited for at least 100 years, belief in this document has proved remarkably resilient on the internet. The text takes the form of an instruction manual to a new member of the “elders,” describing how they will run the world through control of the media and finance, and replace the traditional social order with one based on mass manipulation. Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, fabricated the text in the late 1890s or early 1900s but belief in it still persists – particularly in the Middle East.

 

Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent

Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn is thought to have claimed that Wilson was a KGB spy. He further claimed that Hugh Gaitskell was assassinated by the KGB so that he could be replaced as Labour leader by Harold Wilson. Furthermore, former MI5 officer Peter Wright claimed in his memoirs – Spycatcher – that he had been told that Wilson was a Soviet agent. MI5 repeatedly investigated Wilson over the course of several years before conclusively deciding that he had no relationship with the KGB. On the BBC TV programme, The Plot Against Harold Wilson, broadcast in 2006, it was claimed that the military was on the point of launching a coup d’état against Wilson in 1974. Wilson himself told the BBC that he feared he was being undermined by MI5 in the late 1960s after devaluation of sterling and again in 1974 after he narrowly won an election against Edward Heath.

 

Black or unmarked helicopters

The concept became popular in the American militia movement, and in associated political circles, in the 1990s as an alleged symbol and warning sign of a military takeover of part or all of the United States. Rumours would circulate that, for instance, the United Nations patrolled the US with black helicopters, or that federal agents used black helicopters to enforce wildlife laws. In Britain, a similar conspiracy theory known as “phantom helicopters” has been reported since the mid 1970s. This concept relates phantom helicopters to UFOs and alien invasion rather than to martial law.

 

The Moscow apartment bombings

Former GRU officer Aleksey Galkin and former FSB officer the late Alexander Litvinenko (who was killed with Polonium-210 in London in November 2006) and other whistle-blowers from the Russian government and security services have asserted that the 1999 Russian apartment bombings were operations perpetrated by the FSB, the successor to the KGB, to justify the second Russian war against Chechnya.

 

The July 7, 2005 Tube bombings

One of the supposed mysteries surrounding the 7/7 attacks is this image, used by several news outlets, of the bombers entering Luton station on their way to London at around 7.20am on July 7. Theorists claim this image is fake because the man in the white hat – believed to be Mohammed Sidique Khan – has been electronically placed on the picture after it was taken. They claim that it shows his arm behind a railing while the rest of his body is in front and that the bar behind his head goes across and in front of his face. Theorists postulate, among other things, that the bombs which went off on the Tube trains were actually under the floors of the vehicles and not in the alleged plotters’ back packs

 

Paul is dead

“Paul is dead” is an urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney died in a car crash 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. “Evidence” for McCartney’s death consists of “clues” found among the Beatles’ many recordings. Hundreds have been cited at various times by various people. They include statements allegedly heard when a song is played backwards, symbolism found in obscure lyrics, and ambiguous imagery on album covers. A few of them are well known, such as the fact that McCartney is the only barefooted Beatle and is out of step with the others on the cover of Abbey Road, pictured.

 

The disappearance of Shergar

On February 8, 1983, a group of men wearing balaclavas and armed with guns turned up at the Ballymany Stud Farm in Co Kildare, Ireland and took a hostage – Jim Fitzgerald, the stud’s head groom. “We’ve come for Shergar,” they said. “We want £2m for him.” Shergar was arguably the greatest racehorse to have ever lived. But 25 years after he was kidnapped from Ballymany the mystery of exactly what happened to him after he was snatched that night still lingers. The theories are numerous with the IRA, Colonel Gadaffi and the Mafia featuring among the most lurid. One story suggests that the IRA kidnapped the horse for Gadaffi in return for weapons. Another suggests that the New Orleans mafia took him.

Shakespeare was somebody else

Who really was the English language’s greatest writer? Among the numerous alternative candidates that have been proposed Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, William Stanley (6th Earl of Derby) and Edward de Vere (17th Earl of Oxford), are the most popular. Theorists believe there is a lack of evidence proving that the actor and businessman sometimes known as Shaksper of Stratford was responsible for the body of works that bear his name. Very little biographical information exists about Shakespeare.

 

North American Union  The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical regional union of Canada, Mexico and the United States similar in structure to the European Union, sometimes including a common currency called the amero. Theorists who believe that the three countries are planning for this believe that it is part of a global conspiracy to set up something called the New World Order (NWO). Officials from all three nations have repeatedly denied that there are plans to create a NAU although the idea has been proposed in academic circles, either as a union or as a North American community as proposed by the Independent Task Force on North America. The amero received support in 1999 from Canadian economist Herbert Grubel, a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute think-tank, in a book entitled The Case for the Amero. Robert Pastor, vice-chairman of the Independent Task Force on North America, supported Grubel’s conclusions in his 2001 book Toward a North American Community, stating that: “In the long term, the amero is in the best interests of all three countries”.

 

MK-ULTRA

The code name for a covert mind-control and chemical interrogation research programme, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. The programme began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, using US citizens as test subjects. Project MK-ULTRA was brought first to wide public attention in 1975 by Congress and by the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973. Although the CIA insisted that MK-ULTRA-type experiments were abandoned, CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the agency routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MK-ULTRA was abandoned a “cover story”. Conspiracy theorists believe that MK-ULTRA was behind many so-called black-ops: Lawrence Teeter, the attorney for Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, pictured, believed Sirhan was operating under MK-ULTRA mind control techniques. Furthermore, Jonestown, the location in Guyana where members of the Jim Jones cult and Peoples Temple committed mass suicide, was thought to be a test site for MK-ULTRA medical experiments.

 

Operation Northwoods

A genuine conspiracy involving a plan by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to launch a fake Cuban terror campaign on American soil to persuade the US public to support an invasion against Castro. The plan involved bombings and the simultaneous hijacking and blowing up of American airliners. The operation was quashed by President Kennedy leading many to speculate that it was linked to his assassination a year later. The plan has also been linked by theorists who believe that the September 11, 2001 attacks were a so-called “inside job” because of the use of airliners

 

Elvis Presley faked his own death

A persistent belief is that “the King” did not die in 1977. Many fans persist in claiming he is still alive, that he went into hiding for various reasons. This claim is allegedly backed up by thousands of so-called sightings. The main reason given in support of the belief that Presley faked his death is that, on his grave, his middle name Aron is spelt as Aaron. But “Aaron” is actually the genuine middle name for Presley. Apparently, either Presley or his parents tried to change the name to “Aron” to make it more similar to Presley’s stillborn twin, Jesse Garon Presley. Two tabloid newspapers ran articles covering the continuing “life” of Presley after his death, in great detail, including a broken leg from a motorcycle accident, all the way up to his purported “real death” in the mid 1990s.

 

Diana, Princess of Wales, was murdered

Despite an official inquiry that found no evidence of a plot by MI6 or any other entity to murder the princess and Dodi Fayed in 1997, fevered speculation continues. The theory is that rogue elements in the British secret service decided that Diana’s relationship with Fayed was a threat to the monarchy and, therefore, to the British state. A plot was hatched in which a white Fiat Uno carrying agents was sent to blind and disorientate driver Henri Paul as he sped through the Paris underpass pursued by photographers. Later, Paul’s blood was switched with a sample of somebody who had drunk a lot of alcohol. The trouble with the theory? Not a shred of evidence exists to support it.

 

The Jesus conspiracy

The theory that launched a blockbusting novel (The Da Vinci Code), a film of the same name and a plagiarism battle in the courts Those who believe in this – and they seem to number in their millions – think that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had one or more children, and that those children or their descendants emigrated to southern France. Once there, they intermarried with the noble families that would eventually become the Merovingian dynasty, whose special claim to the throne of France is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion.

 

The Illuminati and the New World Order

A conspiracy in which powerful and secretive groups (the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group and other shadowy cabals) are plotting to rule mankind with a single world government. Many historical events are said to have been engineered by these groups with one goal – the New World Order (NWO). The groups use political finance, social engineering, mind control, and fear-based propaganda to achieve their aims. Signs of the NWO are said to be the pyramid on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, inset, strange and disturbing murals at Denver International Airport, pictured, and pentagrams in city plans. International organisations such as the World Bank, the IMF, the European Union, the United Nations, and Nato are listed as founding organisations of the New World Order.

 

Nasa faked the moon landings

People who think that the Apollo moon landings were not all that they seemed at the time believe that Nasa faked some or all of the landings. Some of the theories surrounding this subject are that the Apollo astronauts did not land on the Moon; Nasa and possibly others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landings did occur by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence, including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, and rock samples; and that Nasa and possibly others continue to actively participate in the conspiracy to this day. Those who think that Nasa faked some or all of the landings base their theories on photographs from the lunar surface which they claim show camera crosshairs partially behind rocks, a flag planted by Buzz Aldrin moving in a strange way, the lack of stars over the lunar landscape and shadows falling in different direction. These theories have been generally discounted but belief in them – particularly on the web – persists.

 

A flying saucer crashed at Roswell in 1947

The event that kick-started more than a half century of conspiracy theories surrounding unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Something did crash at Roswell, New Mexico, sometime before July 7, 1947 and – at first – the US authorities stated explicitly that this was a flying saucer or disk – as shown by the splash story on that day’s Roswell Daily Record, pictured. Numerous witnesses reported seeing metallic debris scattered over a wide area and at least one reported seeing a blazing craft crossing the sky shortly before it crashed. In recent years, witnesses have added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis claimed that he was involved in alien autopsies which were carried out at the Roswell air force base.

The conspiracy theory has been fanned by the US military repeatedly changing its story. Within hours of the army telling reporters that it had recovered a crashed saucer, senior officers insisted that the only thing that had fallen from the sky had been a weather balloon. A report by the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force released in 1995, concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul, which involved high altitude balloons meant to detect sound waves generated by Soviet atom bomb tests and ballistic missiles. A second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of alien bodies were likely a combination of innocently transformed memories of military accidents involving injured or killed personnel, and the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military programs like Project High Dive conducted in the 1950s.

Since the late 1990s the debate about Roswell has polarised with several former pro-UFO researchers concluding that the craft was, indeed, part of a US military project and that it was, most likely, some sort of weather balloon. But further evidence has emerged – notably a signed affidavit by Walter Haut, the Roswell Army Air Field public affairs officer who had drafted the initial press release on July 8, 1947. Haut says in the affidavit -signed in 2002 – that he saw alien corpses and a craft and that he had been involved in a military cover up. Haut died in 2005.

 

The assassination of John F Kennedy

The 35th President of the United States was shot on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas at 12.30pm . He was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife – Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy – in a motorcade. The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963 to 1964, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976 to 1979, and other government investigations concluded that the President had been assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald – who was himself shot dead by Jack Ruby while in police custody.

But doubts about the official explanation and the conclusion that Oswald was the lone gunman firing from the Texas Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was hit surfaced soon after the commission report. Footage of the motorcade taken by Abraham Zapruder on 8mm film supported the growing belief that at least four shots were fired – not the three that the Warren Commission claimed. The moments of impact recorded on the film also suggested that at least one of the shots came from a completely different direction to those supposedly fired by Oswald – evidence backed up by testimony of several eye witnesses. Many believed that several shots were fired by gunmen hiding behind a picket fence on a grassy knoll overlooking the plaza.

The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, though none of these has been proven. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that there were at least four shots fired and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed. However, later studies, including one by the National Academy of Sciences, have called into question the accuracy of the evidence used by the HSCA to support its finding of four shots.

 

September 11, 2001

Thanks to the power of the web and live broadcasts on television, the conspiracy theories surrounding the events of 9/11 – when terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington – have surpassed those of Roswell and JFK in traction. Despite repeated claims by al-Qaeda that it planned, organised and orchestrated the attacks, several official and unofficial investigations into the collapse of the Twin Towers which concluded that structural failure was responsible and footage of the events themselves, the conspiracy theories continue to grow in strength.

At the milder end of the spectrum are the theorists who believe that the US government had prior warning of the attacks but did not do enough to stop them. Others believe that the Bush administration deliberately turned a blind eye to those warnings because it wanted a pretext to launch wars in the Middle East to usher in another century of American hegemony. A large group of people – collectively called the 9/11 Truth Movement – cite evidence that an airliner did not hit the Pentagon and that the World Trade Centre could not have been brought down by airliner impacts and burning aviation fuel alone. This final group points to video evidence which they claim shows puffs of smoke – so-called demoliton squibs – emerging from the Twin Towers at levels far below the aircraft impact zones and prior to the collapses. They also believe that, on the day itself, the US air force was deliberately stood down or sent on exercises to prevent intervention that could have saved the lives of nearly 3,000 people.

Many witnesses – including firemen, policemen and people who were inside the towers at the time – claim to have heard explosions below the aircraft impacts (including in basement levels) and before both the collapses and the attacks themselves. As with the assassination of JFK, the official inquiry into the events – the 9/11 Commission Report – is widely derided by the conspiracy community and held up as further evidence that 9/11 was an “inside job”. Scientific journals have consistently rejected these hypotheses.

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7 of the Most Bizarre Fertility Rituals Across the Globe

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Across England and Wales in 2018, it was reported that the birth rate declined by 3.2 per cent in comparison to 2017. In 2012’s beak, there was also a recorded 9.9 per cent decline. There are many potential factors for why the birth rate has fell, including a focus on establishing and being successful in a career before starting a family.

Another reason for some unfortunately is fertility. According to the NHS, while 84 per cent of couples will conceive naturally within a year if the have regular unprotected sex, one in seven couples may struggle to conceive. While some may go down the route of IVF, others may choose to have surgical procedures to help treat infertility. There are also supplements available for both partners to take to help boost their fertility levels. Coenzyme Q10 boosts fertility by improving sperm quality. But, while these are all ways to try to increase our chances of conceiving, there are many bizarre fertility rituals evident across the world. Here, we take a look:

A Zimbabwean Baboon Cocktail

Food and releasing sensual inhibition. What could be better? The likes of oysters, asparagus, and pomegranate are all said to have seductive connotations by being aphrodisiacs, while some restaurants and bars have concocted what they believe to be sensual cocktails. However, locals in Zimbabwe have taken it to a whole new level. It’s believed that baboon urine carries hormones that can boost male and female fertility. People are known to mix baboon urine with beer in a bid to aid their likelihood of becoming parents. Unsurprisingly, medical professionals in Africa advise against this ritual.

Italian Seat of Fertility

In Italy, there’s a chair also known as a ‘miracle’ chair said to increase fertility. Believed to have been owned by Saint Maria Francesco of the Five Wounds of Jesus, this chair sees thousands of women queue up to sit in it and be blessed with increased fertility levels. There’s obviously no scientific proof that this will work, but around the chair are thousands of pictures of babies born to ladies shortly after they took part in this ritual.

Congo Undergarments

Hanging ladies’ underwear might be some form of expressive art in Muriels bar in Belfast, yet this isn’t the case in the Congo. It’s customary for the nation’s Yansi people to throw their underwear onto their roof when it’s a waning moon. This is meant to help boost fertility and the rate of conception.

Coffins in China

While it’s customary for many to have a wake after a funeral, Cantonese funerals are slightly different. Often, the daughters-in-law of the deceased will cover their stomachs with green cloths — this colour as associated with spring, growth and fertility. They will then rub their bodies against the coffin in a bid to gain the procreative power of the recently deceased person.

Hungarian Water

Significantly less unusual, but in Holloko, a yearly custom takes place where men are dressed up in costumes and drench women in water. This ritual dates back to as early as the 2nd century and is believed to be a way to cleanse women in order to give them the gift of fertility. Women who want to participate line the streets in traditional clothing and wait for males to throw water over them.

Holy Water in Turkey

The Wishing Column is home to Hagia Sophia Museum, Istanbul. The museum, which has previously been a church and then a mosque, sees people come from far and wide to see the column which is said to weep holy water. It’s often referred to as being the tears of the Virgin Mary. Women will stick their thumb into the hole and rotate it as far as they can in the hope of boosting their fertility levels. They believe that this is their way of being blessed by this sacred water.

Fertility in Britain

This list wouldn’t be complete without a special mention to Cornwall’s ‘Crick Stone’. Its legend dates back over 4,500 years and it’s said that if a woman passes through it seven times, they’ll fall pregnant shortly after.

Whilst it’s recommended that you seek medical advice to increase fertility, if you fancy a trip away and want to experience a unique foreign tradition, this list has you covered!

Sources

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/infertility/

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/shafali-talisa-arya/weird-and-wonderful-fertility-rituals-from-around-the-world_b_15386428.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11816876/Nine-unusual-ways-to-help-you-conceive.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/aphrodisiacs-10-best-foods-to-get-you-in-the-mood-10043642.html

https://www.babygaga.com/15-unusual-pregnancy-rituals-you-wont-believe-are-true-but-probably-work/

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7 Most Bizarre Hairstyles of all Time

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Change is good. And crazy changes are the best ones. Creepy styles are wonderful to adapt because they crack open the eyes of the people who judge everyone without any reason. Why can’t you do what you want with your body? It is yours and you can inflict whatever you want on it. But maintain it with elegance. Because your lack of elegance will make your appearance funny which is not at all intended. The best way to experiment is to do so with your hair. It grows back and you can do almost everything with it. So let’s explore some mindblowing haircuts.

Crazy hairstyles can be adapted with the help of the Andis pro alloy  hair clipper. It is a classic new clipper with wonderful facilities to enhance your haircut experience. Learn all about your desired device and adapt some of the given styles which will blow off the minds of the onlookers.

Colored Gecko Haircut

Imagine a large lizard on your head with a colored body and huge eyes. The two eyes will be peeking on the front. The hair is cut in the shape of a gecko and then is dyed accordingly. The style is weird and funny. You need to be absolutely funky to be able to carry this cut. Beware it is a very dangerous style to adapt to the land of hunting birds. So never be surprised if an eagle swoops down to snatch your hair. Just kidding. If you can carry it, it is quite funny to watch.

Nest haircut

Okay, let us warn you at the very beginning. This is a very difficult style to adapt in case your hairdresser is inept. It involves a huge love for nature. Especially if you want to walk in a rally supporting the growth of the Amazon forest, you can easily adapt this as it portrays an immense connectedness with the wild. But styling your hair will be tedious as the style involved a nest, three birds, two eggs and a predator who wishes to steal the eggs. As you can surely understand, it will take a lot of time and patience. Are you ready to do it for nature?

Cap cut

Don’t have a cap, yet wish to wear one? You can get your hair, cut in the style of a cap to adapt the style of a cap. You will have a natural cap on your head all the time. The cap seller will be at a loss about what to do when your head is fashioned as a cap but never mind, your barber will be a fan. But carry the style with swag or else you’ll look like a walking joke.

Hold my head style

Happy Halloween. Just think some fingers grabbing your head with grotesque figures. Well, it is not that bad but just as creepy. It will be perfect for your Halloween party. Completely scary but completely out of the box. Are you ready to try it?

Back eye haircut

This haircut will assure the fact that no one will talk about you behind your back. You head will have a large eye at the back. It will ease your dilemma about how to treat people with the habit of back bitching. It is scary for your acquaintances who are involved in this habit. Well, what’s wrong. You know, karma!

Spider Haircut

Who hates spider Man? Well, stupid question. This haircut needs an experienced hairdresser with lots of skills. Extreme talent is required to design this. It is mainly because this style is a hot favorite among the kids. They are the most ardent fans of the Spider-Man. With webs all around the head, your kid will be truly happy after a binge of Spiderman. But at the same time be prepped. It is quite costly.

Around the world cut

It is a simple cut. The hairdresser will require a minimum amount of time to design this. It might seem a bit weird to others but they are no one to judge. You can do whatever you want with your head. Freedom is the last thing and you can exercise it in whatever way you want with your own body.

On the end note, always remember your body is yours only. You have the right to do anything to it, wear whatever style you want irrelevant of the fact what others say about you. You must have the confidence of carrying whatever you adapt as your style. Body shaming or body trolling is a shameful act done by people who are most insecure in their own existence. You are not one of them. Do whatever you want with your body. Walk with confidence. Walk with elegance. Dare the world. Be yourself. That is the best style of all.

 

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6 Totally Weird and Wacky Things to Do in Toronto

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Whether you are taking a holiday in Toronto or are exploring flights from Montreal to Toronto for business reasons, why not make the most of your stay? There’s something totally boring about visiting all the usual tourist traps that are just like those found in any other city around the world. When visiting Toronto, why not look for something off the beaten path, something weird and wacky? Here are six of those experiences you won’t want to miss on your next trip to Ontario’s capital, Toronto.

1. Cuddle Parties

Now, this is an odd one and maybe just a bit hard to explain. A Cuddle Party is hosted by people who have been specially trained to facilitate these parties in various locations around North America. This one happens to be located in Toronto and the whole object is to help people become comfortable with the notion of non-sexual touching. It all involves asking and giving permission to touch, and those who have attended these parties have said they were just as entertaining as they were informative. In this world where boundaries have become obscured everywhere from politics to academia, a Cuddle Party is just the way to teach people how to draw boundaries for themselves while recognizing boundaries in others. Again, this is not the dry workshop or lesson you might be expecting, but it is a weird and wacky thing to do when visiting Toronto.

2. Rage Room

So, you’ve finally gotten away from the stress and frustration at the office. You’ve checked for full-service flights from Montreal to Toronto for that extra bit of pampering no longer seen on most airlines and have found what you were looking for on flyporter.com. However, don’t let that soothing flight with air stewards treating you like royalty soothe you too much! You want to keep some of that pent-up rage you’ve tried not to direct at that obnoxious co-worker or that demanding boss. Visit the Rage Room at 26 Ashwarren Road where you will get a chance to redirect that rage at inanimate objects. One thing you will appreciate is the fact that your ‘box’ comes with full protective gear and your choice of weapons. Looking for a really wacky thing to do on a trip to Toronto? This is where you can literally let it all out, no holds barred!

3. The Biblio-Mat

Okay, so if it’s bizarre you are looking for, this is one experience that will delight you without being overly expensive. Located at 1229 Dundas St. W, the Biblio-Mat is a vending machine full of vintage books. Some are rare and others just meet the ‘vintage’ classification in that they are from days LONG gone by, but the most fun is when you see the book or books the machine chooses for you. Oh, did we forget to mention that? Unlike your ‘normal’ vending machine, you put the $2 in and the machine spits out a book of its choice. Now imagine going to a candy or soda machine only to be given the selection the machine wants you to have? As bizarre as this may sound, some books are even more bizarre than not getting to choose which books you want! One rare 1970-71 catalog, the Canadian Tire Fall, actually predicted a woman’s character and personality traits based on the shape of her breasts. Now that’s weird and wacky!

4. The Cineforum

It just keeps getting wackier and wackier! How would you like to go to the cinema, only to have the movie operator stand there in the theater screaming and yelling at you? This is touted as an alternative movie experience and is actually hosted in the living room of the man who runs the movies. This is situated in a home designed after the Victorian era and the host, Reg Hartt, put together this avantgarde theater back in 1992. He asks a ‘donation’ of $10 for those under the age of 24 and $20 for those 25 and older. All films are considered to be vintage and this is one host who keeps nothing in reserve if you were to ask for a film of a more modern era. He has been known to verbally abuse and swear at his guests. Remember, it really all is in good fun, so come prepared to be insulted and don’t believe you are being singled out. Well, you are, but all in the spirit of the evening!

5. Imagine Living in Half a House!

Now, this is a weird and wacky site to behold. This is probably one of Toronto’s most famous pieces of real estate. Built back in the 1890s, this house is located on what was once Dummer Street but is now rezoned as 54 ½ St. Patrick Street. The story of this house is intriguing! When the row of houses was sold to make way for urbanization and other construction projects, the owner was more stubborn that most. He refused to sell and so his house, which was much like today’s duplexes or townhouses, was separated from its neighbor in a very precise manner. That took some doing but was made possible thanks to a creative demolition where the load-bearing wall that divided the two homes remained intact. The exterior wall was more decorative than functional, giving the entire building the look of a single unit, and now the remaining half has become an oft-visited curiosity in Toronto.

6. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

While not quite as weird and wacky as you might be led to believe, there are some fairly unusual characteristics of this library located on 120 St. George Street. Have you noticed yet that many of these weird experiences are located on streets named for saints? Maybe their ghosts inhabit these neighborhoods and that might be just what you’d expect when walking into a library that is home to an original Egyptian papyrus manuscript or some of Charles Darwin’s annotated proofs. What about Shakespeare’s First Folio dated 1623 and other books which can be handled by visitors? Reviewers of this library state that the ceiling to floor bookshelves in rooms of exposed floors are eerie enough to put you in a mindset of a Grimm’s Fairy Tale! If you thought the 1623 Shakespeare was old, that ancient Egyptian papyrus dated 245 B.C. is something to behold. It isn’t just the books that make this a weird and wacky adventure but the whole atmosphere in which the library is situated.

So, there you have six of the wackiest things you could hope to experience in Toronto, and if you aren’t excited to visit any one of these, then perhaps those flights from Montreal to Toronto should have landed in the Bermuda Triangle! Why go on a holiday or a business trip to a city where all you do is enjoy the very same sights and dining experiences you do back home? It’s time for a little excitement in your life, so if you haven’t got it in you to throw your laptop at the boss or cuddle up to a perfect stranger, this is the city you ‘should’ be visiting. Take time out to do something weird and wacky today to face all those mundane and totally boring tomorrows. You’ll be so glad you did!

 

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Odd Things People Eat

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Odd things people eat, we don’t mean broccoli or sweet corn, we mean absurd and weird things. At least with greens that people hate so much, we know that it is proper food. But these are not even close to being healthy to the human body.

Glass

Last we checked glass cuts, but apparently, some people do not think so. Josh who was featured on My Strange Addiction confessed to having a glass eating addiction. Why someone would eat glass, we have no idea. But Josh seems to enjoy it. He says he loves to eat champagne glasses, wine glasses and light bulbs. Variety is the spice of life we guess, but you will visit here if you would rather play games or sports bet instead of eating glasses.

Ashes

Eating cigarette or wood ashes, crazy we know, but we can understand. A woman, Cassie was 26 when she admitted that she loves eating ashes. The odd and crazy part about it was that these were the ashes of her late husband. Some ashes are scattered and some are eaten.

Human Blood

For this, we blame all the vampire movies. They are the ones who started with the aspect of drinking human blood. And look, it caught on. Not to everyone, thank goodness, but to one young lady Michelle. She admits that she started drinking her own blood when she was teen. She then tried pigs’ blood as a substitute, but she says that she prefers human blood.

Drinking Urine

Yes, we too were shocked when we found out that there was a lady out there who was drinking urine. Carrie appeared on My Strange Addiction and her addiction was drinking urine. For this one, we have no words. It just left us speechless.

And people thought playing online casino games was a strange hobby. Well, at least they aren’t odd. They are fun and exciting. And don’t involve any terrible pain. Like some things.

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5 Bizarre Things You Can Buy Online

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The internet is truly a place of wonders. It’s a universal shopping mall where you can buy anything you need and a lot of things you never suspected to exist. People have all sorts of needs, and intrepid vendors have found innovative ways to meet them. Here are five of the wackiest, strangest, least-expected things you can buy online, as well as their very practical purposes.

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Invest in an Experience Tube

What is the latest thing up the sleeves of the legendary immersive experience designers at Meow Wolf? Well… a sleeve. This bizarre striped tube of fabric looks like an overgrown pant leg, but according to their website, it’s no less than “analogue social media.” Slip it over your face, then slip it over a friend’s face, and watch the magic unfold. And by magic, we mean watch your friend try to contain their laughter among the wickedly-wobbling stripes. Fun? You betcha. Practical? It may not seem so, but it meets a very real, and very human, need: the need to connect.

Purchase Predator Urine

Practical for the gardener, the farmer, and the rancher but few others, this urine is used to repel beasts, from mice to deer. Since wolves and other predators prey on these animals, they avoid the scent of wolf urine at all costs, so it is a natural way to keep them out of your garden. Predator urine is also used to train fox hounds. By scattering the urine throughout the woods, hunters train their dogs to search for the tell-tale signs of foxes and other animals used in sport hunting.

Buy Tobacco Online

If you’re looking to pack, snip, or roll a smoke, your first instinct may be to go to a local gas station or to a cluttered strip-mall store. Fortunately, the internet has you covered. It may not seem super-intuitive to buy tobacco online, but in fact, doing so gives you better variety of brands and helps you score those hard-to-find cuts. Want to impress your friends with a couple of Havanas or some Wessex Dark Flake? Online’s the way to go.

Procure Some Right Shears

Nope, your vision isn’t distorted, and there’s nothing wrong with those scissors. Those are “right shears,” scissors manufactured with a right angle in the arms. Developed by a software engineer who noticed the way his father-in-law struggled while cutting wire mesh with normal scissors, these practical tools also help people with arthritis make cuts that would be difficult to make with normal scissors. And anyone who has struggled with opening an over-taped box would probably agree that Right Shears might be the right shears for the job. They may look a little Dr. Seuss, but Right Shears show that a good idea can find a home online, and even become a success.

Score a Skull

In the 19th century, medical schools faced a particular problem: an acute lack of human bodies and skeletons available for dissection. People weren’t too keen on donating their bodies to science, and the laws hadn’t caught up with the need of medical colleges, meaning that unclaimed bodies couldn’t be used. Scientists, doctors, dentists, and teachers have no such trouble today. Sites like The Bone Room will ship you human bones, whether you’re into natural history, or you just have a proclivity for the macabre. To purchase and own human bones is federally legal, believe it or not. Louisiana, Georgia, and Tennessee have laws restricting their purchase and ownership, though, so if you feel like scoring some unconventional decor in your living room, be sure that you live in a place where such purchases are acceptable.

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5 Strange British Dating Customs

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England has its own identity. We all know about the Queen, the pints of beer and last but not least: the cups of tea. Those are just some of the aspects that give England its charm and quirkiness. It comes as no surprise that those quirks are often seen in everyday aspects of life. One aspect that is influenced by all those customs is dating. Today, we take a look at 5 strange and quirky British dating customs. They might not all sound that strange at first, but they’re definitely uniquely British!

Strange dating custom #1 – Dating over a cup of tea.

Now this might not sound so strange at first, but bear with us on that one. It might sound normal to date and have your favourite hot drink, nothing too weird there, right? For those of you who have had a cup of tea in the UK, you might know that the British like their tea to be quite strong. In fact it often reaches that point where it is mouth-drying strong.

So imagine trying to impress your date, only to have your breath dried up, and therefore not that good-smelling anymore. That and the need to go to the toilets after drinking so much of it… a strange, and certainly not very practical approach to dating indeed. It works for some, but it might not be your favourite cup of tea…

Strange dating custom # 2 – Banter and dry sense of humour

This probably won’t sound like anything special if you’re British, but the truth is that people in the UK have a pretty dry sense of humour. This often comes up when you are trying to date a British person. The thing is that if you’re not used to this brand of having fun, it might be easy for you to take offense at some of the jokes.

If sarcasm is a strange thing to you, get ready to be weirded out even further. The British sense of humour can be very direct, and people will use it whilst dating, whether you’re meeting them through Kent dating, dating sites from other regions of the UK or simply chatting to people in the pub. After all, most people do try to be funny during a date, it certainly makes any date a whole lot better. It’s all good… unless you’re not getting that they’re actually being playful.

Strange dating custom # 3 – The British love good manners

Nothing wrong with being polite and having good manners right? Well, the thing is that it might weird you out anyway, especially when you combine this with the British dry sense of humour. One minute the guy (or girl) is making the most sarcastic jokes ever, and the next minute they’re all: ‘please and thank you’.

That’s the strange part right there: dry cut one minute and totally gentleman the next… This mix can get quite difficult to get used to, and even more within the settings of a date. It might come across as a contradicting personality, whilst in fact it is just the way a lot of British people are. So get used to that duality, as it will definitely show its head when you’re dating a British person.

Strange dating custom #4 – The pub and beer date

Going out for a drink during a date isn’t unusual, in fact it is often a good way to relax those nerves and get on the same level. However most people tend to choose a quiet bar and will stick to the more ‘sophisticated’ types of drink. Wine and cocktails are often the best and easiest drinks to go for. In England they love beer, and it is not unusual for people to end up having a few pints on a date.

You know if you’ve had a pint that it’s not the most delicate way to drink beer. Whether you’re in the city of London or on the coast using websites that specialise in Devon dating, a pint can get you drunk pretty quickly. It’s a far cry from the tame approach to dating that some other countries have, and it might sound strange as far as it being the best approach to dating altogether. We recommend you increase your natural tolerance to beer, and you should be alright.

Strange dating custom #5 – British men are pretty laid back

This reason right there is why a lot of women are curious towards British men. The whole classy and laid back approach to seduction makes British men more attractive to women’s curiosity. This isn’t so much strange, but it can come across as unusual in a dating scene where most men can be pretty nervous.

Now this doesn’t mean that every single British dude will be that laid back, but the truth is that a lot of them will. It’s just a style that is part of the British culture, and it makes a difference from other cultures. Easier going and more confident… what’s there not to like? Apart from the fact that it might creep you out at first, you’ll get used to it but it might take a bit of time.

Should you date a British person?

So now that you’ve read this, do you think you would want to date a British person? Are you curious about those dating traditions? Does the British ‘swagger’ appeal to you? Well, why not give it a go? Dating in the UK is easy thanks to online dating, but walking into a British pub might just offer you some equal chances in meeting an agreeable partner.

Yes the Brits are strange, but their quirks are the reason we love them so much. Don’t think that you will be having a cup of tea with the queen, but don’t expect the same attitude you would get from dating an American, or even a French person neither. The best way to find out is to try things yourself, so get used to all that tea, beer and dry humor, you’re off to a great time!

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