There’s not much going on today, so do you want to see a what a drunk Swedish moose looks like after a night of partying and regrets? Of course you do, it’s a moose see.

While tourists are generally just kind of loud and obnoxious, some of them have much bigger shortcomings than those. I’m talking about the caveman tourists, the ones who have this irresistible urge to carve their names on every surface they come in contact with. I don’t know if that’s because they want to show everyone they can spell or if they feel the prehistoric urge to decorate the walls of their caves, but they’re the most retarded tourists of them all.

According to an official at Spain’s Alhambra palace, a Jordanian tourist was caught carving his initials with a coin on of the walls of the historic site. The incident took place last month and the caveman was detained, spent a night in jail, and was charged with damaging a historic heritage site. Fortunately, the spot where the caveman etched his name can be restored, so no irreversible damage was done. But it’s shocking that this kind of thing still happens in this day and age. I mean, he could have signed a guest book, or just taken a picture to post online like a normal person would, but he had to etch his name into the wall. “DUMFUC WAS HERE.”

What the hell is wrong with some people.

via msnbc

To all those who’ve watched the trailer for Slavery: The Game last week and thought it’s a revolting game idea: Calm down, it’s not a real game. The trailer was created by NTR (the Dutch equivalent of PBS) to raise awareness about the horrors of both old and modern slavery and to promote a TV series on the subject.

Judging by the many reactions their fake trailer has received, it would seem their plan has worked flawlessly.

The purpose of the trailer is firstly to confront people with an important, but often-neglected part of history. Secondly, the trailer aims to increase awareness about the existence of present-day slavery.

 

From Sunday September 18 onwards, Dutch public broadcaster NTR brings a TV series called ‘De Slavernij’ (‘Slavery’ in Dutch). This explicit TV series shows both the obscure past as well as the present situation considering slavery.

But didn’t we end slavery a long time ago? No, we didn’t. In fact, it’s likely that there are more slaves today than there were at any other point in our history.

A Soviet-built plane (Yak 42) carrying a top ice hockey team has crashed earlier today, killing all the members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and most of the plane’s crew.

Out of the 45 people on board, 43 died during the crash, one survived the crash but died later in the hospital, and only one flight engineer is still alive, although his condition is critical.

I’m not big into sports and I’ve watched hockey games only a couple of times, but this plane crash is incredibly sad stuff. It would have been sad even if the passengers were just regular people, but the world has lost world-class sportsmen in this tragedy. You can’t replace that kind of talent.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has announced plans to take the aging Yak 42 planes out of service starting next year, but as usual that sort of measure is only taken following a tragedy, at which point it’s sort of a “let’s prevent this from happening again; maybe” kind of thing.

May they rest in peace.