Bizarre Culture

Bizarre Culture: Fat Bellies in Japanese Advertising [Video]

Really, what can I possibly say about this commercial? It’s just fantastically weird. And funny.

Bizarre Culture: Spoiled Milk with Rat Feces: Disgusting Or Spiritual Delicacy? [Video]

In this clip from Travel Channel’s Culture Shock, Shenaz visits a temple in India where rats are not only tolerated, they are worshipped. Watch as one of the locals dines with the “holy rats” on spoiled milk and feces! Whatever happened to this show anyway? I think it was canceled twenty minutes into the premiere [...]

Bizarre Culture: All Aboard the Cram Train [Video]

This “cramming” concept is so inconceivable in the U.S. that I just have to laugh. Anyone know what country this is from?

Bizarre Culture: The Happiest Couple Ever Caught on Tape, All Thanks to a Bidet [Video]

Here’s a bizarre Korean commercial for the LooLoo bidet. Check out the guy’s face 0:25 in. Have you ever personally experienced this level of happiness in your entire life? I’m not sure I’d be that happy … if I won the freakin’ lottery. Or was married to Scarlett Johansson on my own private Polynesian island [...]

Bizarre Culture: Bulgarian Butchers Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ [Video]

It’s tragic enough when countries around the world feel the need to adopt some of the U.S.’s worst pop culture exports. But this fellow covering Michael Jackson’s Bad just takes Bulgaria’s version of American Idol to a whole new level. A very, very scary level. Ouch. Needless to say, he didn’t make the final cut.

Bizarre Culture: ‘We Are the World’, Japanese Style [Video]

We Are the World is among the most famous and unmistakably recognizable songs of the last twenty-five years. It’s the only time I can recall during which such a massively famous group of music superstars simultaneously collaborated and produced a single song. … written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy [...]

Bizarre Culture: Brazil’s National Underwear Day [Video]

Mention the words “Brazil” and “underwear” in the same sentence, and you know you have a really great show on your hands. The normally chaotic train station at Brasilia turned positively frenzied last month as 27 male and female models sashayed down the railway platforms in their undies. The fashion show was organized by the [...]

Bizarre Culture: Chinese Town Where Everyone is an Acrobat [Video]

Evidently, in one small town in China, everyone is an acrobat. Sure, it’s fascinating to watch. But the rampant child exploitation is hardly different than the mental anguish and grueling, physical training regimen that the circus puts its animals through.

Bizarre Culture: Chinese 1000-Hand Guan-Yin Dance [Video]

Via YouTube: This dance is called “Buda with thousand hands”. It is performed by a group of Chinese handicapped girls. They can not hear or talk. They dance by reading the signs given by the 2 teachers standing at each side, they are so famous now that they are being invited by countries around the [...]

Bizarre Culture: Danse la Poutine, Quebec [Video]

© Wikipedia For those not in the know, poutine is: … a dish consisting of French fries topped with fresh cheese curds and covered with gravy and sometimes other additional ingredients. The freshness of the curds is important as it makes them soft in the warm fries, without completely melting. It is a quintessential Canadian [...]

Bizarre Culture: Japanese Marshmallow Eating Contest [Video]

Were I given an entire lifetime to imagine some of the ideas seen on Japanese game shows, I’m not confident I could devise anything nearly as bizarre as this: I’m honestly jealous of the sheer amount of creativity the writers of these shows are able to muster.