This Week’s WTF Story Award Goes to… (2021 edition)

Another mystery solved!

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China’s foreign ministry denied on Thursday that U.S. diplomats in the country had been required to take anal swab tests for COVID-19, following media reports that some had complained about the procedure.

U.S. media outlet Vice on Wednesday cited a State Department official as saying the test was given in error and that China had said it would stop such tests on U.S. diplomats.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-denies-requiring-u-s-diplomats-to-take-anal-swab-tests-idUSKBN2AP0WA

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How is that Reuters and not the Onion?

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I can just see the smile on so many American faces when Biden orders the tit for tat response. AllChinese in USA must be anal probed. By a large Cartman doll. Dressed like Edward Scissorhands.

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That one deserves an IgNobel.

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Think twice before getting a tattoo…

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More like “Greedy Energy”…
:man_facepalming:

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I heard that brand of tea is the bomb…

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Evidently not.

Btw, that cheap omnipresent Uni-President “tea” product may be one of the worst drinks on the market. :upside_down_face:

Guy

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BBC News - Indian man killed by his own bird during cockfight

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So his bird got his bird. Irony.

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Cause of death was his own cock stabbing him in the groin!

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Is that what we might call an own goal? :upside_down_face:

Guy

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This isn’t in the news yet (maybe). I drove by a minivan that apparently blew up and was engulfed in flames in Hualien on the Blue 9 route.

Plumes of black smoke were rising up from it. Glass was all over the road.

That sounds awful.

I hope everyone was OK. :slightly_frowning_face:

Guy

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