Antipodes

Click the YouTube icon As a child in South Grafton, I was often terrified by wild magpies that would attack me when I was riding my b...

In India, a lady told policemen that her precious gold necklace had just been stolen by a fellow who was seen running away. When the police ...

Click here to see a spectacular priest who has the makings of what might be designated as an ecclesiastical sandwich board. The Church migh...

In the German town of Schöppingen, near the Dutch border, three fellows used explosives to tear apart a metallic distributor of preservat...

Look at the absurdly ugly drawing, and the utterly idiotic text: A hearty Christmas greeting Four jovial frogs a-skating would g...

In my recent blog post here entitled  These people give me goose pimples , I was unkind, because the poor fellow I spoke about was actually...

The article doesn't make it clear, but I have the impression we're talking about socks for a gentleman, rather than a lady. And you ...

I would have imagined that, in the Everglades of Florida, most people were aware of that golden rule. A local TV journalist concluded t...

In this blog, here , I’ve already mentioned the prestigious annual Darwin Awards . They’re necessarily posthumous awards, because a winne...

In less than a week, Australia has been invited to perform actively and directly in the Eurovision Song Contest … though not strictly as a c...

… you might get slapped in the face. I love the determined behavior of this smart little beast. I can almost hear him saying: “Don’t...

Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin in the role of Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath , aka OSS 117, a very French but less-than-brilliant spy at the ti...

I would have liked to publish this blog post yesterday... but (as Bill Shakespeare put it, so succinctly) better late than never. The last t...

Lots of dumb folk, thinking themselves smart, send fake comments to my Antipodes blog, with links to their own dull blogs. In doing this, ...

In my blog post of 22 March 2010 entitled First rural residence [ display ], I described a simple roadside house in the country to the west...

The following image shows a group of women attending an electoral meeting in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The name of the professional p...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And when in Saudi Arabia, put on a costume that makes you look like a desert chief. When my sist...

I’ve tweeted my disgust (a drop in the ocean) of this ugly depiction of the victims of an earthquake in the Philippines, which has just rec...

I suggest that you start the following video immediately.  Like many people, I love to watch trains go past. I hope you share with ...

In a split second of intense revelation, I was stunned by an amazing video produced by Infinite Circularity Ministries . It convinced me tha...