Eeew.

Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5 and costing 499 euros ($735).

"It's expensive, I know," managing director Enrico Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's because the plane's very small. There's no real reason why a flight in which one flies naked should be more expensive than any other."

The 55 passengers will have to remain clothed until they board, and dress before disembarking, said Hess. The crew will remain clothed throughout the flight for safety reasons.

"I wish I could say we thought of it ourselves but the idea came from a customer," Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's an unusual gap in the market."{...}

I suppose the really relevant question in all of this is: Will they be steam cleaning the seats in the plane afterward?

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We can all agree that duty free booze is a beautiful thing, but this is a little ridiculous.

BERLIN - A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.

The incident occurred at the Nuremberg airport on Tuesday, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his way home to Dresden from a holiday in Egypt.

New airport rules prohibit passengers from carrying larger quantities of liquid onto planes, and he was told at a security check he would have to either throw out the bottle of vodka or pay a fee to have his carry-on bag checked as cargo.

Instead, he chugged the bottle down — and was quickly unable to stand or otherwise function, police said.{...}

I suppose that's one way to get around fluid restrictions.

Awfully rough on the liver, though, eh?

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Ever heard of someone being so stupid they actually fell for an exorcism con?

You have now.

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Don't scare the Italians by staging an impromptu pr0n shoot in their midst.

It's just not nice. They were your allies once upon a time; you people should have some respect for that.

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Sheesh. After taking the summer off, and being all serious for their election, it seems like they're getting stupid again.

Thank effin' God. I was beginning to wonder what the hell was happening over there.

Anyhooo....today we have the story of a flasher in Berlin. He apparently didn't get the reaction he was hoping for.

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From Davids Medienkritik we have the lovely story of the VP of the Bundestag floating some interesting conspiracy theories.

Her theory is so whacked, even Der Speigel is calling her out.

No other country's citizens provides me with as much amusement as the Germans. I love ya, folks. Keep it up!

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And their lovely loos.

I would acutally support that Sitzpinkel movement, however.

Clean up after my brothers once and you will be wanting every man in every nation to sit the hell down, too. It's got nothing to do with fighting the patriarchy for me. It's because my brothers are SLOBS! Filthy buggers. How the hell they managed to get their stuff everywhere (including behind the bowl) I have no idea. I just know that---as a girl in the Zabawa household, whose chores were relegated strictly to the inside of the house---that I had to clean it up and I didn't like it. Methinks they were purposefully aiming for it, but they cried foul when it was suggested.

Fortunately for me, I have a nice, neat husband who puts the seat back down. He even apologizes when he misses. I have to think God was throwing me a bone by sending me this kind, kind man after having to clean my brothers' bathroom for so many years.

All you have to do is be neat, boys, and women won't ask you to sit down. Hell, we might even give up the cause and stop asking you to put the seat down. Evaluate your toity habits (and by that I mean, ask yourself this simple question: would you want to clean that up if the culprit was someone other than yourself? If the answer is no, well, you know where you need to start.) and reform your wicked ways if you're in need of doing so.

{Hat tip: The Pious Agnostic}

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As the wise man once said, save the anger for later, my boy.

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