When it comes to North Korea, there is a lot of innuendo and outright lies when to comes to the country. Most of it negative, some a little more debatable. One of the most common myths is that North Koreans are forbidden from leaving the country. Weird World Wire went out to explore the question,…
Whilst being woke means not being able to point out any difference between ethnicities, science has in fact shown us that people are different. We decided to look into the average height of people. As a white CIS (not a citizen of the commonwealth of independent states) male that lives in Asia I generally find…
They say that behind every great man is a great woman, but surely this phrase also counts when the guy is not so much a great man too. In the west we are used to our leaders wearing women on there arms like a fashion accessory, but in Russia, this is much less the case….
In the US military and the Canadian Army, units named Rangers are a prominent feature. The Canadians have the Queen’s York Rangers and the US has their elite rangers special forces unit. What do both of these units have in common? They both claim to descend from Rogers’ Rangers, a highly trained militia from the…
It’s safe to say that by 1989, things were not going well in Yugoslavia. Tito had died in 1980 and, following his death, ethnic division was rife throughout the Socialist Federal Republic. Slobodan Milošević sought to increase Serbian influence over the six republics. Civil unrest broke out in Kosovo and the Serbian resistance to the…
When you get woken up in the middle of the night by a film maker friend saying you MUST watch this, you wake up and you watch it. This was how I was introduced to Wakaliwood, the slum filmmakers from Uganda. Absolutely everyone has heard of Hollywood, most would known Bollywood and for those slightly…
The following article was written by a guest author no longer in Cambodia. Weird World Wire in no way condone drug use in Cambodia. If you haven’t read the exciting Part 1 of this adventure in meth and other narcotics, check it out here! Anyway… Where were we? Oh, yeah: A word of advice on…
The last week has seen people in America threaten to do mass burnings of face masks, state hearings where people compare the right not to where a mask with the right to let their vaginas breath and conservatives in the UK saying they will leave the ruling party if there is mask based legislation. We…