Weird News Tuesday: Friday Edition

After a two-week hiatus, Weird News Tuesday is back! To celebrate the return I am writing this post and publishing it on a Friday as Tuesday was too hard a day this week to try and sort one of these posts out. If you did not know, Weird News Tuesday is a weekly segment in which I go through some of the weird news headlines and stories that really should never have been classified as news. Each week I use a different news site and this week I am using WA Today which is a news site from Western Australia. First we come across an article that, at first, appears to be discussing the popularity of the Thermomix but is actually just a really long advertisement. I kept reading thinking it would get to the story but it never did. It never did. Finally, a how-to article that really speaks to me. The title is "How not to be a wine snob". Already, it just screams "Luke!" For some reason, this is considered important enough information to put on a news site so the information contained therein better have a positive impact on my life. Who knows, maybe in a few years I will not be a wine snob and it will all be thanks to this article.

Source: http://www.watoday.com.au/executive-style/top-drop/how-not-to-be-a-wine-snob-20131219-2znbv.html

Just to show how obsessed we are with the United States there is a whole article on why Michelle Obama and Beyonce have such a great friendship. Forgive me for not jumping up and down with the joy of knowing that I can learn so much more about my favourite girls in the Northern Hemisphere. Next we have an article about a man who made a blog where all he did was pose next to mannequins wearing the exact same outfit as them and doing the same pose. It actually is pretty entertaining but still, how is this news? Apparently in Pakistan there is a restaurant that only allows foreign people to eat at their establishment. I guess they are just really lucky that Pakistan has such a booming tourism industry. Oh, wait. In other news, researchers have discovered how to determine what software is open on your computer and can decode emails through the sounds that a computer makes. First of all, what would lead someone to research that and second of all, that is actually pretty cool. I will never listen to my computer in the same way again. In other news, there is so much that you may not have known about New York. There is a park made on an old railway track, a free ferry, it is cheaper than you would think, has very low crime rates and is an alcohol-free zone which is strictly enforced. This is not weird as much as it is interesting. Sorry to bother you guys with something so normal. In other news, a gas smell swept through Perth the other day apparently and now there is a big investigation into it although it is already believed to have come from an industrial area. That was a quick, and probably harder-than-you-would-expect, case. A false alarm at Perth Airport was set to lose a lot of potential business but luckily it only lasted fifteen minutes before a false-alarm was determined. Apparently no flights were delayed but I would have hated to be travelling with someone. The stress that would have caused.

You would not believe how hard it is to find weird news stories on a news site without an oddspot section. See you tomorrow!