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Bet You Can’t Do This
The 60-Year-Old Man Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes
Story by Sean Williams: Published October 27, 2025 Budimir Šobat had been lying face down in a swimming pool for around a quarter of an hour on March 27, 2021, when something strange happened: he fell asleep. Šobat, a 56-year-old professional freediver from Zagreb, Croatia, was aiming to break the world record for the longest […]
Bet You Can’t Do This
See that woman in the video? That’s WNBA star Kelsey Plum. Her husband is sitting up in the bleachers near the back of the stand. Plum decides to throw him up a beer. And lands the can straight in his paws. Bet you couldn’t do this if you had 1000 tries. What a legend. Do […]
They Don’t Call it Windy Wellington for Nothing
Look at what happened to this poor bugger in New Zealand’s capital city this morning. They don’t call it Windy Wellington for nothing. Up, up and away!
Twin Separated at Birth?
They say that everyone has a Doppelanger somewhere in the world. John Kanga’s is just up the road in Sydney. His name is Malcolm. He used to be the PM. Kanga and he have more in common than looks. Malcolm didn’t last very long either.
The Secret to Living a Long Life is Marrying an Assman
Remember the famous Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets given the personalized number plate Assman? I bet you didn’t know that the original owner of the plates in buried in tropical Port Douglas. Walking through the cemetery this morning looking at the graves (as most punters are wont do at 6.30 on a Thursday morning after […]
Medium Rare Eye Fillet With Pepper Sauce Please
I don’t know who is supposed to be feeding me or what, but they aren’t doing a real good job of it, because I had to walk over to the pub tonight to get a steak. It even mean getting changed out of my PJ’s, which is not something I do very often other than […]
Dolly Enter the Disco by the Wrong Door
Dolly Disco was drawn barrier 7 in the last at Roma on Saturday. Starter Ms. J. Harvey must have left her reading glasses at home. She directed the barrier attendant to place it in gate 1. Dolly ran 3rd, but because the margin to 4th was eleven lengths she kept her finishing position. Ms. J. […]