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Archive of the Absurd

Archive of the Absurd

Because stupidity deserves documentation.

  • Airlines Ruining Luggage: 37 Suitcases That Survived War Zones But Not Baggage Handlers
  • Worst Box Office Ever: Film Earns $20 After Six People Show Up and Two Demand Refunds
  • Cocaine Found in Butt Surprise: Woman Insists It Just Ended Up There
  • Hershey’s Kisses Christmas bells advert was basically made up on the spot, and honestly that tracks
Archive of the Absurd

Archive of the Absurd

Because stupidity deserves documentation.

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  • Destroyed suitcase on baggage carousel, airlines ruining luggage in spectacular fashion

    Airlines Ruining Luggage: 37 Suitcases That Survived War Zones But Not Baggage Handlers

    4 months ago
  • Empty cinema auditorium representing the worst box office ever recorded

    Worst Box Office Ever: Film Earns $20 After Six People Show Up and Two Demand Refunds

    4 months ago
  • Prison officer shocked by cocaine found in butt on jail X-ray screen

    Cocaine Found in Butt Surprise: Woman Insists It Just Ended Up There

    4 months ago
  • Foil-wrapped chocolate kisses arranged as Hershey's Kisses Christmas bells in festive setting

    Hershey’s Kisses Christmas bells advert was basically made up on the spot, and honestly that tracks

    4 months ago
  • Dishevelled man on sofa representing the Don Vito Margera conviction story

    Don Vito Margera: The Jackass Uncle Banned From Being Himself After Shocking Conviction

    4 months ago
  • Two suited politicians squabbling over a trophy as Tories destroy the country around them

    Tories Accuse Labour of Stealing ‘Destroy the Country’ Policy in Bitter Brand Dispute

    4 months ago
  • Retro NASA engineer puzzling over the Voyager 1 memory fix at a vintage control panel

    Voyager 1 Memory Fix: NASA Repaired a Spacecraft 15 Billion Miles Away Using a Cosmic Copy-Paste

    4 months ago
  • Chaotic British dinner table with absurd food combinations and a sad fish finger

    British dinner chaos erupts as American writer asks the internet’s most dangerous question

    4 months ago
  • Stubby wingless aircraft gliding over desert in retro aerospace style

    Wingless Aircraft: The Bonkers Flying Blobs That Actually Work

    4 months ago
  • Woman shocked by deepfake porn nightmare on laptop screen

    Deepfake Porn Nightmare: AI Puts Wrong Face in All the Wrong Places

    4 months ago
Bronze Sleep and Death gods sculpture carrying fallen warrior from ancient Etruscan cista handle
  • Historical Oddities
  • Strange But True
  • Weird World

Ancient Bronze Box Handle Stars Sleep and Death Gods in Tiny Trojan War Drama

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

This Sleep and Death gods sculpture is proof that even 2,400 years ago, people couldn’t resist turning a box handle into a full mythological crisis.

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A distressed older man outside a suburban home after losing his temper
  • Crimes of Stupidity
  • Only in America
  • Strange But True

Man Loses His Temper Over Elderly Mum Comment — The Results Are Absolutely Devastating

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

A man loses his temper over how he cares for his mum, and somehow concludes that shooting his wife and daughter is the appropriate response.

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A sneaky figure committing mild vandalism on a public sign at night
  • British Buffoonery
  • Strange But True
  • Weird World

Mild Vandalism Hall of Fame: Reddit’s Most Gloriously Petty Acts of Public Improvement

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

Mild vandalism Reddit has outdone itself again — 19 acts of petty genius proving that some people are too funny to be stopped.

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Confused office worker surrounded by password chaos while a robot despairs, password stupidity strikes again
  • Crimes of Stupidity
  • Technology

Password Stupidity Strikes Again: AI Can’t Fix Human Laziness and We’re All Doomed

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

Password stupidity strikes again as a forgotten login credential causes a Salesforce breach affecting hundreds of companies, proving AI is the least of our worries.

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Whimsical illustration of a DNA factory producing people with rare human genetics traits
  • Strange But True
  • Weird World

Rare Human Genetics: 45 People Who Got the Deluxe Upgrade from the DNA Factory

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

Rare human genetics has produced people with mismatched eyes, unruly hair, and other magnificent glitches — proof that evolution is just winging it.

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Creepy fog-covered Welsh farmhouse at dusk evoking BBC The Witch Farm
  • British Buffoonery
  • Entertainment Oddities
  • Paranormal

BBC’s The Witch Farm Is Real — And Honestly, Wales Didn’t Need More Reasons To Be Unsettling

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

BBC The Witch Farm brings a genuinely haunted Welsh farmhouse to your telly — as if Wales needed any more atmospheric dread.

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A bizarre rock-textured alien sitting in an armchair — conscious alien minds illustrated absurdly
  • Strange But True

Conscious Alien Minds May Exist and They’re Probably Weirder Than You — Scientists Confirm the Obvious

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

Philosophers confirm conscious alien minds might exist and be built from rocks and mercury — making them only slightly stranger than your average commuter.

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Grand university building representing the Nancy Pelosi Institute Berkeley launch
  • Only in America

Nancy Pelosi Institute Launches at Berkeley — Democracy Gets a Very Expensive New Home

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy launches at UC Berkeley with $35 million in donations — because democracy, apparently, has excellent taste in zip codes.

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A confused man with ghost hunting equipment for beginners in a haunted hallway
  • Only in America
  • Paranormal
  • Strange But True

Ghost Hunting Equipment for Beginners: A Idiot’s Guide to Chasing Things That Probably Aren’t There

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

Ghost hunting equipment for beginners is now a booming industry, and yes, someone really is selling a wrist-mounted voice recorder for chatting with the dead.

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Victorian sleigh careening through snowy town square illustrating Jingle Bells dark history
  • Entertainment Oddities
  • Historical Oddities
  • Only in America

Jingle Bells Dark History: The Festive Banger Built on Chaos, Theft, and Questionable Horses

aota-admin5 months ago04 mins

The Jingle Bells dark history is here to ruin your Christmas: theft, rivalry, and horses that probably hated the whole thing too.

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