Before we get to Stalin’s gun-dagger, you ever play Final Fantasy? Me neither, but anyone else I talk to about this thing brings it up. Apparently a big thing in that is ‘gunblades’, a big fuck-off sword that also happens to have a trigger on the handle, letting you shoot with it. It works with […] More
You’d be forgiven for thinking that us guys at Weird World Wire are not all that “woke,” but you’d actually be quite mistaken. By the very definition of the word, we are the wokest of the woke. Here is the definition of woke: “alert to injustice in society, especially racism.” We abhor injustice in society, […] More
If you’ve ever watched “Charlie Wilsons War” then you will know two things, one the film is shit, and two Christian Fundamentalists make extremely weird bedfellows with Islamic Extremists. The reason? The one thing right-wing Christians fear and hate more than people believing in a different god to them is communism. I’ll hark back to […] More
In the old days, all we had to remember was Father’s Day, Mother’s Day and the birthdays of close family. Then at some point the bastards at the card making companies got together and decided they needed to sell more cards. Since then it has been a nuclear holocaust of “special days.” If parents get […] More
There are many weird irrational phobias out there from clowns (coulrophobia) to fears of birds (ornithophobia). One phobia that is not all the entirely irrational is a fear of being buried alive (taphophobia). What makes taphophobia not all that unreasonable is that a lot of people have been accidentally buried alive over the years. Taphophobia […] More
Ever wanting to look like the “big kids on campus,” Boris Johnson and his British Empire nostalgia-driven government have offered 3 million Hong Kong nationals the right to move to England. Hurrah! Only 23 years after we gave up the colony. British National (Overseas) Passport In actual fact, what the UK has done is offer […] More
The son of Hun Sen is being primed as the next leader of Cambodia with tales of a North Koreanesque divine birth. When you hold 100% of all the national parliament seats and have been in power for 35 years, you’d think that you could just put your son in power, but where is the […] More
Yesterday (June 28th) marked the 69th Birthday of the ruling Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP), led by strongman Hun Sen and even control all 125 seats in the Cambodian Assembly. So, with such a celebration, what is the history of the Cambodian People’s Party? The CPP was originally founded in 1951 as the Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary […] More
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