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You could spend your Honeymoon in a 7-foot Champagne Glass Bath … or Not.

Oh I do love the internet! Today I’d like to welcome you to this neat-o couples resort that boasts honeymoon suites with 7-foot champagne glass whirlpool baths overlooking glass heart-shaped pools. That’s right, you could spend that romantic vacation which usually only happens once in your whole entire life … here! Now I’m not entirely sure…

Lost & Found: A Dad’s Dos & Don’ts for his American Girl in Paris

I was walking around Marie Antoinette’s gardens this weekend in Versailles when I spotted a folded white piece of paper on the ground. No one else was in sight in the frosty orchard to claim it, so I picked it up and continued on our brisk walk, not thinking much of it until we returned home that evening. What…

Ass-Whooping Women in Skirts in the 1930s

Just in time for the weekend (in case us damsels happen to lose our way down a dark alley), here’s some footage from British Pathé archives of a young woman in 1933 giving a real vintage ass-whooping using some Judo and Jujitsu moves. The video titled “The Weaker Sex! (Sayest Thou!) Who said “weaker sex?”, sees a highly entertaining Miss May…

Spotting Cute French Guys on the Paris Metro

I have a friend who used to leave her house for work at the exact same time everyday to make sure she caught the same train as her Paris metro crush. She never mustered the courage to speak to him and one day he just stopped taking the same train and she never saw him again. It…

Whiskey Flavoured Toothpaste, 1955

By the time Don Poynter was a college student, he had already created his company Poynter International and was spending nearly half his time in Asia manufacturing novelty products. Among his inventions were the first talking toilet seat, the first basketball backboard for a wastebasket, Jayne Mansfield’s official hot water bottle and the world’s smallest…

Kangaroo Bathtime at a New York City Madhouse

Anyone who has a pet knows that bathtime can be a rather tricky affair. But after discovering this photo story deep in the LIFE archives, giving a thorough scrub to my oversized pup now seems like a breeze, in fact, I’m rather looking forward to it! I found these photographs without any accompanying information other than…

Fashion 4 Dummies: Jon Snow’s Fur Collection, Emojis and 19th Century Fashion Blogging

You didn’t expect Paris fashion week to go by without MessyNessy getting in on the action, did ya? Nessy and her buddy @GirlMeetsWhirl went down to the Grand Palais for the Chloé show to get a better understanding of the street style and ‘fashionista’ culture that has become such an integral part of fashion week. So here it…

So, you can Buy an old Soviet Fighter Jet or a Boeing 747 just like a Used Car on the Internet

Having a Mig-life crisis?! You’re in luck because a two seater supersonic Mig-21 runs only about $70,000 on the internet these days…. That’s right, just like a used car, you can buy your very own Soviet military aircraft, a staple of the Russian and Soviet air forces, sold to militaries within its communist sphere of influence including China, North Korea, and North Vietnam and…

The Restaurant where you Dine as if you were an actual Guest at the Fawlty Towers

Sometimes, dining out just lacks a bit of drama. Sometimes, you just want to see an almighty showdown spill out from the kitchen (but hopefully not land in your lap) and add a bit of spice –and laughter– to your meal. Well, today I discovered that such a show(down) exists where you can make a reservation for a table in…

Vintage Atkins, Torture Machines and Fat-Shaming: Getting Slim the 1950s Way

Here’s a rather eye-brow raising television clip from 1958 showing various diet and weight loss methods of the day. We learn that Dr. Atkins certainly wasn’t the originator of the ‘fat’ diet as we speak to the doctor behind “Eat Fat, Grow Slim”, and receive various slimming tips courtesy of the British Pathé commentator, such as,…

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