Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
There’s a fact of life that polite society is loathe to admit. That fact is that sometimes Austrians enjoy staring intensely into deep holes for hours on end. Those deep holes being stared into come attached to all sorts of things, mostly ostriches. Sometimes backyards.
In this case it’s the latter. A mysterious 25′, perfectly round hole appeared in an Austrian man’s backyard overnight. Speculation, as you might expect, is that it’s a crashed UFO. If that’s the case, it’s a very small species that were flying the crashed craft.
We think it was most likely not of extra terrestrial origin, but that it was the Rescue Rangers crashing an out of control flying shoe box while they were on an Alps-vacation. And we shall unequivocally prove this hypothesis on the next page.
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On this week in 2000, Yusuf Islam (previously known as Cat Stevens) joined the campaign to fight the government’s repeal of Section 28. Section 28 was the ban on homosexuality being ‘promoted’ in schools. By ‘promoted’, what it really meant was ‘being told that it existed’.
Those that sought to keep Section 28 thought that it was an essential piece of legislation that was all that stood between the bottoms of our innocent schoolchildren and a queue of 2000 predatory gays with unquenchable erections, such is the uniquely paranoid perspective of the bigoted mind.
Luckily the Section 28 thing has been forgotten and despite his high-profile religious conversion he is still mainly famous for writing some pretty ditties. Other tunesmiths have not been so lucky though and have become better known for other, similarly embarrassing behaviour.*
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Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
Of all the paranormal topics we’ve covered over the past 6 or 7 years, Spring Heeled Jack has been one of our favorites. What’s that, now? You don’t remember him at all? Well let us give you a brief synopsis.
He was sighted all over England within a decade or two of Jack the Ripper. He was known more for scratching and jumping than killing. An original witness/victim described him like this:
“He was wearing a kind of helmet, and a tight fitting white costume like an oilskin. His face was hideous; his eyes were like balls of fire. His hands had claws of some metallic substance, and he vomited blue and white flames.”
And now he’s supposedly been sighted again. Are you curious?
Well by all means click on!
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Musicians think about sex a lot. They must do, it’s almost the only thing they write about. Popstars live to defile their young screaming fans. Rockers know they’ve made it when there are aspiring muses knocking on the dressing room door.
Hip-hop has a frankly terrifying capacity for the horn.
Frankly it’s a miracle they get any work done at all with heads overflowing with images of baps, flaps and todgers. In fact such is the unstoppable high-pressure filth fawcet in their addled brains that doing it with others doesn’t fill their schedules and sometimes they combine their libidinous obsessions with their other favourite pastime- loving themselves.
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Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
With all those immigrants coming to America through her metaphoric vaginal canal, we suppose it was only a matter of time until one of them fell deeply in love with the Statue of Liberty. So it is with Amanda Whittaker. Although we can’t say for certain that she in an immigrant, we can say she claims a steamy, one-sided love affair with the gargantuan green lady.
A word of caution – don’t mock her. Her inanimate-lover condition could happen to you. You know, if you’re really lonely and human-people never like to touch you or something.
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How great is TV? It encompasses many different things for many different people. It can be the only friend to an elderly person, or the sole teacher for parents who can’t be bothered with children. But more often than not, TV is generally what normal people like us at the hecklerspray bedsit and you use to while away the hours until you need to return to work.
It’s a grim old life isn’t it, but for those few hours a week, where characters prance around for our entertainment, every problem seems less important, and can be dealt with tomorrow. It’s one of the reasons that Glee was so popular; the dancing and brightly arranged songs were a happy alternative to credit card bills and that Patricia in Human Resources.
Sometimes TV fails us, just look at Something For The Week, although people may say they like it, if it was popular it would still be commissioned and not destined to TV limbo. It traversed the popular hangover slot that June Sarpong ruled with her filthy laugh and iron grip, introduced the more successful elements of Jamie Oliver’s career and folded it over to keep the air in. Like a meringue. And sometimes TV can be better than what that girl did behind the loos at Download Festival. There’s countless light hearted police procedural shows that should be held in the annals of history as ‘great’, and a list of comedies that are so ‘loltastic’ that they’ll probably be timeless. You can see yourself watching Friends in twenty years time. We all can. Although it’d be between shifts stacking shelves at Tesco for £2.56 an hour, it’ll still be fantastic.
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We are pleased, delighted, and completely over-excited to inform you all that the popular director Michael Bay will be getting some money from a film studio to make a film called Ouija. Yes, it’s had a massive budget cut which means that the even more popular director McG probably won’t be directing it anymore, but fear not guys where’s there’s a will, there’s a Bay (see what we did there?)
We can’t show you a trailer because it’s not got that far yet, sadly, but just imagine people sitting in a dark room on the floor moving their hands, while pretending not to, around a wooden board. AOK.
Now, down to business, films, trailers, film trailers, they’re all over the place and one film gets like three trailers sometimes; talk about overkill. Those slick Hollywood suits know how you think though. They’re phone hacking your brain with technology far more sophisticated than we care to disclose at this time and they know you like the trailers.
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On Monday, in an interview with Guardian Music, The Shamen’s Mr C revealed that their 1992 hit single Ebeneezer Goode was about ecstasy. Who would have thought it?
To celebrate this revelation, we were going to have a list of our favourite songs that seem to be about one thing, but are actually about another. We soon realised that almost all pop music is actually about sex whilst pretending to be about ding-a-lings, lollipops, divine hammers, relaxing, and the banging of gongs.
So we thought it would be easier to list our favourite songs about drugs.
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