Category Archives: WTF

Rent-A-Womb

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Bo

  No one can argue that India is the outsourcing capital of the world.  Unfortunately, the newest “service” to be outsourced raises some pretty prickly moral and ethical issues.  The first time I heard about Indian women renting out their wombs as surrogate mothers to wealthy … Continue reading →

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Chinese Blogger Beaten to Death by Government Officials

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Mike

Holy crap! According to TechCrunch: A Chinese blogger has been beaten to death by Government authorities for the crime of attempting to record a protest on his mobile phone. Here’s how it went down. Just this past Monday, Wei Wenhua, … Continue reading →

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Tila Tequila…again?

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Efren

So fresh from her show being the most watched show on MTV, Tila Tequila just agreed to do a second season of her show, A Shot At Love. But as it turns out, the winner of the first season, Bobby … Continue reading →

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Golden Poop Charms

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Nicole

Leave it to the new kid on the block (yours truly) to bring down this venerable site with a blog entry about, well, golden poop. This little tidbit went around the gadget blogs about a couple years ago, but let’s … Continue reading →

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Sanrio to start making Hello Kitty stuff for Men

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Ernie

Sanrio, makers of Hello Kitty, announced recently that it was going to start making products targeted for young men. Rather than coming up with something witty to say about this, I’ll simply copy and paste a recent IM conversation I … Continue reading →

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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Efren

One of the things that I’ve always wondered about, or at least, bugged the hell out of me is seeing Asian guys with one long pinkie fingernail. My first boyfriend had it, and he claimed that when he was having … Continue reading →

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Grandma Master Flash

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Brian

This is going ’round the interwebs already, but I figured what the hell? It’s a nice little Saturday post for you hung over folk partying late last night (or getting ready to go out today). Keep in mind: this woman … Continue reading →

Posted in Lifestyles, WTF | 7 Comments

Taiwanese trucker runs over journalists

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Ben

Sometimes I really wonder about how crazy politics has become. Funny thing, but I’ve always believed that politics has been two sides of the same coin. But things like this happen and you wonder what exactly goes through people’s minds. … Continue reading →

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21: Based On Real Life (without all those Asian kids)

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Ernie

So, the new trailer to 21 has been released – a movie based on the non-fiction book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich involving a group of MIT students that, well, brought down the houses of Las Vegas casinos. … Continue reading →

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Rod Wheeler on Fox News Pulls His Eyes Back Taut in Reference to Chinaman

Posted on November 13, 2007 by akrypti

On Fox News, Rod Wheeler, a criminal investigator and former homicide detective, talks about a suspect being a Hispanic, not merely “dark-skinned.” He believes racial denominations are much more telling for an investigation than description of simply the skin tone. … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Politics, WTF | 10 Comments

American Schoolchildren are Such Chickens

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Mike

Oh yea, you American schoolchildren are such chickens. Bok bok bok bok chickens! Not like us Chinese schoolchildren in Beijing. Nope. We’re so brave. We climb out our three-story classrooms and stand on four-inch ledges to clean our windows without … Continue reading →

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Saving the world, one undergarment at a time…

Posted on November 12, 2007 by jozjozjoz

Former 8Asians contributor Min Jung Kim wrote in with this truly innovative idea to save the world, save the whales, and stop global warming in its tracks. Check out The My Hashi Bra (or The My Chopsticks Bra), which according … Continue reading →

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