Well, things are a little more difficult in Beirut nowadays... even for poor Santa. Looks like this year he had to hire a cab to tow his sleigh (which has seen better days, might I add) through town. (And he brought his twin brothers along...?)
Young lovers in China's largest city, Shanghai, are turning to cosmetic surgery as a Valentine's Day present... Liu Yan, 24, and her 28-year-old boyfriend had matching nose jobs a fortnight before Valentine's Day, China Daily said.
"I suggested it as a way of celebrating our relationship and bringing us closer together with a special kind of bond," the paper quoted Ms Liu as saying. Riiigggghhhht.
First there was Dickens' Christmas goose. Then along came the ever-so shocking Turducken. Now? Try the Ten-Bird Roast. For when killing three animals for dinner just doesn't seem enough.
It weighs 22 lbs. when cooked, contains around 10,000 calories (compared to the 3,000 calories of the average turkey) and takes over nine hours to prepare and cook.
Apparently even Santas can be discriminatory. Welcome to AORBS, an organization founded in order to separate the hairless, fake-beard-wearing boys from the superiorly hirsute men.* But with or without hair, you might want to spend some quality time at Santa School before hitting the mall.
What's that you say? You don't have a beard and you're not big on rugrats? Well that's ok. Just move to Austria & dress up like Santa's arch nemesis Krampus! Instead of having children sit on your lap, you can toss chains at them and threaten to eat them for dinner. As the old saying goes... "Kids are great! Especially with salt & pepper."
