Poker can be a harsh mistress. Many will know of the powers possessed by the dreaded river card, that can either make or break your hand. Let this be a warning to poker players – when you are drunk don’t gamble away your name.
It’s been a hectic holiday season in terms of road deaths, with well over 850 people perishing on our roads in December alone.
This is the best prank ever, and these are the best friends ever. Watch as these guys connect 10 kegs of beer to the plumbing system in their friend’s house, so that beer comes out of every tap.
Remember Albert Buitenhuis, the obese South African living in New Zealand, who was threatened with deportation because he was just too fat? Well listen to this..
Never before seen images of the world’s clearest lake have been released. The images capture a lake with crystal waters in hues of green and blue. Truly a beautiful sight.
A New Zealand mother left her baby in the car while she went shopping at a Porirua Shopping Market this last week. The baby was left in the car seat , covered by a blanket. A note with the mother’s cellphpone details, should there be any issues, read: My mum’s in doing the shopping, call […]
Early this week, a Reddit user posted pictures of a vault discovered by their friend in the house into which they had just moved. The mysterious vault was found in the basement of the New Zealand, and was sealed with concrete. The home was a known drug den prior to it changing hands. Since the […]
For reasons that are not altogether clear, a group of New Zealanders have spent eight weeks teaching two abandoned dogs to drive. The ultimate tast is to have a dog drive a Mini Clubman around a track without human help.
This is one of two whales which may be the only fully-preserved specimens of its species ever seen by human kind. Spade-toothed beaked whales were first discovered in 1872 when bone fragments were found on a remote Pacific island, but until now the species has remained entirely hidden from human view. In the 140 years […]
For most of us, the haka is something the All Blacks do before a rugby test, and not much more. In reality though, hakas are performed throughout New Zealand, not only by Maori. This moving, farewell haka performed by a passionate military unit captures the emotional weight of the war cry and has captivated thousands of viewers around the world.
A mere three days ago we reported on a volcano that erupted in New Zealand after laying dormant for over 100 years. In the very same week, another volcano has blown its load. Luckily this time it’s underwater.
A Cape Town woman has accused four members of New Zealand’s under-20 team, the Baby Blacks, of gang rape at the Southern Sun Hotel Newlands on Friday night.
Tricycles are pretty lame, and Tokyo Drift was a terrible movie, so it makes sense that bringing the two concepts together produces something unbelievably awesome. Click through to watch a montage of grown men drifting through the streets of New Zealand on customized trikes.
Those Aussies just need to be the best at everything, don’t they? Except, a British medical journal recently revealed that Australia and New Zealand also top the global charts for usage of marijuana and methamphetamine! Awkward!
A controversial New Zealand church has rolled out a publicity stunt in time for Christmas – with a billboard showing the Virgin Mary holding a positive pregnancy test. Auckland’s St Matthews in the City Church launched its festive advertising campaign to “avoid the sentimental and trite” and “spark thought and conversation”.
The act of assisting someone to die is fairly commonplace in South Africa, but people in this country tend to turn a blind eye towards it, says Professor Willem Landman of NGO Dignity SA. Landman was commenting on today’s news that his counterpart, Cape Town-based professor Sean Davison, has been cleared of an attempted murder charge in New Zealand for performing euthanasia on his mother.
That’s right folks – we’re not mucking about here. Obviously Rugby Vibe is a massively successful online sports show, and we spare no expense when it comes to getting our man on the ground, where it’s all happening. That’s correct – everyone’s favourite rugby guy, Steve Morris, is reporting to us weekly FROM New Zealand […]
A hard line taken today by the International Rugby Board could see the All Blacks not competing in the next Rugby World Cup. In response to New Zealand’s warning last week that they would consider pulling out of the 2015 tournament, citing financial losses during this year’s World Cup, the IRB have shrugged and said, “everyone is replaceable”.
Proctologists world-wide get thousands of people every year wandering into their offices with things lodged in their asses saying, “Doc, I really don’t know how it got up there. I just sorta fell on it.” But I really don’t know what to make of this one: A New Zealander very nearly exploded after literally falling on a high-pressure hose.
A group of skaters armed with handheld cameras take a run through Christchurch in the aftermath of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in February. As earthquake-stricken citizens go, they seem pretty optimistic! And the video is very cool-looking too. Take a look.
Darren Shand, the manager of the New Zealand national rugby team, says that they are considering changing the traditional white fern to a red fern over the world cup, as a gesture towards earthquake-hit Christchurch.
A couple of benches in New Zealand were altered to imprint advertising for Superette short shorts on the back of people’s thighs. This is creepy on a couple of levels, but I’m mostly curious as to how somebody could get the back of their thighs stamped with words and not notice.
Is your toddler impulsive, easily frustrated, restless and unable to think about his/her long-term future? If they are, you’re unfortunately the proud parent of a future alcoholic, drug addicted, criminal with no future prospects whatsoever. No, really, that’s a scientific fact.
In a bizarre incident of love-gone-wrong, a 44-year-old New-Zealand woman arrived at an Auckland hospital suffering partial paralysis. After mulling it over for a while doctors concluded that the woman had in fact suffered a stroke, induced by a hickey over a major artery in her neck.
Thousands of politically-minded Kiwis have come out in protest to prevent production of the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, from moving out of New Zealand. I understand completely – I went through the same thing when my parents made me stop wearing my wizard outfit to school.
Singapore – Doesn’t suck We’re already living in a global village. So the idea of national borders is becoming increasingly strained. Gallup has released data describing where in this big village respondents would re-locate if exorbitant costs (i.e. Visas and travel fees) and international borders weren’t part of the process. “Sulplise!” Most people said they’d […]