Here are some "Weird Activities" that I found that are going on around the world.

1. The Great Whipped Cream Battle - Olomourc, Czech Republic: Fluff flies during this highlight of Olomourc's week-long city festival.
"Volunteers are divided into opposing teams and asked to arm themselves with trays of cream. There's a countdown and the teams rush towards each other. When the teams meet each other in the centre, the cream starts to fly". Sweet

2. The Modern Toilet Restaurant - Taipei, Taiwan: Find good food for less than $10 at this Taipei eatery, provided you don't mind eating out of a (replica) toilet bowl. "Eating here was a very unique experience to say the least. You are seated at a bathtub (your table) surrounded by toilets (your seats). Your food comes in your own sizzling toilet bowl."

3. Sourtoe Cocktail - Dawson City, Yukon, Canada: Anyone with a strong stomach can gain entry into the Downtown Hotel's Sourtoe Cocktail Club by sipping a drink containing one of the hotel's preserved human toes. Make it a big sip: rules say your lips must touch the salted toe.

4. Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant - Bankok, Thailand. The restaurant's name raises eyebrows, but it's all for a good cause "Don't be misled by the restaurants odd name or put-off by the array of contraceptive devices for sale. This very popular place raises funds for the Population & Community development Assoc, the country's family-planning programme. The complex is a restaurant, bar, internet cafe, massage shop and gift shop all rolled into one. All diners get a condom with coffee, instead of an after-dinner mint.

5. Shot Cafe - Riga, Latvia: Drink a toast to modern Latvia at the lounge where the bathroom break brings joy to travellers. "Shot Cafe had the best toilet ever.It seems a big boast to make, but the loo here has to be seen to be believed". "Mood lighting turned the bathroom from a deep blood-red to a vibrant green t a shadowy blue to a piercing white. The toilet seat was clear perspex inset with gilded barbed wire and razor blades. We fell in love with the toilet".

6. Cafe Gratitude -San Francisco, California: Order a plate of "we are bountiful" (aka crackers and spreads) at the San Francisco eatery that aims to fill your being as much as your stomach. "This is a very weird place. I just can't get beyond the names of the food. They all have fake "affirmations" so when you get something like their large salad you have to say, "I'd like the I AM ABUNDANT. It might be slow because they ask you between courses things like "And what are YOU grateful for today". You HAVE to answer, depending on the rigidty of the server, before you can get your food".



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I could so do that i would do it once but i would do it even more if it was a free drink for doing it.

We have the Zombie shuffle in Melbourne, where large groups congregate dressed as Zombies and walk through the CBD in a brain lusting fashion.

mmmm sour toe cocktail, delicious.

There are quite a few barmy British traditions, like cheese rolling.

I found some bizarre British Sports, including the cheese rolling, on this site: http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx...;RC=1&PN=23

There isn't too much weirdness over here in my little town. A common pastime is harassing the amish into letting us take their picture - stealing their soul forever.

All other weirdness is found over at my place, feel free to stop by.

I read #1 and thought "I gotta get over there", then I read #3 and puked. Ahhhh, the highs and lows of life. Thank you.

Hi Reg..I couldn't get to the link but I remember seeing videos of the cheese rolling...Isn't that when they use those big wheels of cheese and roll it down hill. Looked like fun, but dangerous too..

Well in my area we have the Monster Shark Derby where fisherman go out and catch hundreds of sharks for sport. It's horrible but i've got to admit it's really interesting. Last year they caught an 18 foot Tiger Shark and it kept me out of the water for the rest of that summer. Well by todays standards I guess that's not so strage when we have cocktails with human appendages in them.

Hi Goalie - basically its a normal sized cheese that they throw down a steep hill... with everyone chasing it down. There's been some bones broken over the years, but it's been going on for a couple of hundred years if I remember rightly.

My brother has said he's thinking of going to "try out" for the Morris Dancers - now that's about as serious a British tradition as you can get. I hope he gets the sheeps bladder on a stick!

LOL...is it safe to ask what are the "Morris Dancers" and what do they do ....

Dont they have a big tomato fight in spain before the running of the Bulls?

Are those Yukon toes coming from left feet? Might explain all the right feet showing up down south...

Theres a "Tomatina" Tomato Fight that's held in spain. It's the world's biggest food-fight: every year around 30,000 people go to the town of Bunol to throw more than 240,000 pounds of tomatos at each other. The festival is started with a ham-on-a-stick contest where competitors raced up a pole to retrieve a smoked leg of ham. When the ham is cut down people put on eye protection and cry for tomatoes as trucks dump the squishy produce onto the village streets. They they proceed to pelt each other with them until they're used up...

Forgot to add that at Quebec's Winter Festival, the men race canoes across frozen rivers, while the women strip down to bikinis and roll in the snow...

i would buy you a drink to watch you do it.

Called a snow bath. Nothing hard there. Did that in the Arctic for winter warfare training during my military service. Get out of the tent running in the buff, throw yourself in the snow, roll a few times, get back in, get the soap out and wash yourself. Hard part is going for the rinse cycle

It'd be easier to show you. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDE8Xm-12I...feature=related

Sometimes they have hankies instead of sticks

My brother was worried that he wouldn't be able to jump high enough to qualify, "it's harder than it looks" he reckons.

That was interesting Reg..I liked the sound that went along with the sticks, it looks difficut because of everyone having to be in sync...