Communist monopoly is set to hit stores in Poland this week: Europics.at

A Communist version of the Monopoly board game called Queue in which players have to…queue, has gone on sale in Poland.

Players of the Communist version get a list of 10 essential items like bread and toilet paper and have to travel around the board joining queues to get into state owned shops.

And instead of Chance and Community Chest, players can draw wild cards that get them sent to the front because of a Communist Party connection or see a shop closed down for ‘decadence’.

The game – created by the country’s National Remembrance Institute – is designed to show schoolchildren what life was like under the old Soviet era rule.

And it not only makes players understand shopping in Poland under communism.

The game’s creator Karol Madaj told the Austrian Times: “This also teaches them what queueing is like, something most people seem to have forgotten.”

Communist monopoly is a little greyer than the traditional version

If you're interested in manhole covers the museum will provide you with hours of entertainment

THIS is the most boring museum in the history of the world - unless you’re inexplicably interested in manhole covers.

The International Manhole Cover Museum has opened in Farrara, Italy to widespread public disinterest. 
 
Creator Stefano Bottoni claims the manhole is an underrated art form that should be celebrated.  
 
Bottoni, who studied at the Academy of Arts in Bologna, said: “Manholes are not often regarded as artistic creations yet they are rich in tradition, culture and history.”
 
The museum has an enormous collection of manhole covers from all over the world including Amsterdam, Havana, Helsinki, Prague, Rome, Bucharest, Sarajevo and Vienna.
  
Bottoni is hoping to get his first manhole cover from the UK this year, and has appealed for anybody with access to British manhole covers to get in touch.

World Cup weirdo: This sexy model will pay you £100-a-day to watch the football from South Africa with her

A WORLD CUP mad model has offered to pay a male fan £100-a-day to watch the football with her – and explain what’s going on.

Pretty Daiyu Fang, from Beijing, China, has been turned down by all her girlfriends and has now placed an internet ad for a companion to watch the whole tournament with her.

“I have money but football isn’t very popular in China and people are too busy working,” explained Daiyu – who is determined to see every game beamed from South Africa.

“My only rules are I get to keep the remote control and there is absolutely no kissing no matter how exciting it gets on the pitch,” she told the Austrian Times.

CARD TRICKS: The boy can beat adults using just his feet (Europics.at)

POKER players are used to keeping their cards close to their chest.

The binmen just dumped all the trash in the street at the end of their shift (Pic: Europics.at)

MEET the most rubbish binmen in the world.

This previously clean and well kept road became a stinking tip overnight when trash collectors simply dumped their loads in the street when their shift ended.

Residents in Zhengzhou, central China, woke up to find tons of stinking rubbish all over the roadside causing chaos for morning commuters.

More than 50 refuse collectors and 28 trucks spent a whole day clearing away the trash before the street was back to normal again.

One official said: “The binmen have a work dispute and had been delayed on their round by fog.”

He told the Austrian Times: “So the minute their shift ended they emptied the trucks where they were and went home.”

The real-life elephant man has his own trunk (Pics: Europics.at)

Meet the real-life Elephant Man.

The 28-year-old has baffled medics after growing an enormous tumour which covers his entire head and face.

Yang Huiming, who lives in rural central China, is thought to suffer from a rare condition in which benign tumours ‘bond’ with each other – resulting in a single huge growth.

In his case, it has left him with this unsightly ’trunk’ over his nose and up his forehead, reminiscent of the character played by John Hurt in the 1980 Oscar-nominated film.

The growths began with a small bean-sized lump on his left eyelid as a
toddler and quickly spread all over his face, say medics at Military 304
Hospital, in Beijing.

Surgeons believe the growths are caused by a rare deformity of Yang’s skull
which causes facial tissue to constantly grow over diseased fibres
protruding from the skull.

The enormous growth is even visible in X Rays

Now they plan to remove the damaged part of Yang’s skull and replace it with
an alloy plate to halt the constant regrowth of fatty tumours.

“All I want is to look normal.

“I hope and pray this will work,” Yang told the Austrian Times.

This X-ray shows the needles inside the man's stomach Pic: europics.at

But after finding his blood pressure was fine they sent him for X-rays – and found 11 long needles buried in his intestines.

Medics believe that Ching Goha of Leping, eastern China, may have unwittingly injured himself by following an ancient Chinese tradition to ward off evil spirits by carrying big needles.

“I used to carry a bag of them around in my pocket but I never felt anything jabbing into me,” claimed Ching.

Now hospital staff have removed nine of the needles – with some measuring nearly two inches long – and say they will get the final two in a second op.

Some of the needles were more than two inches long

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Most toddlers can't even use cutlery, but he managed to find his own brain with a chopstick Pic: Europics.at

DOCTORS have saved a toddler who fell while trying to walk – and stabbed a chopstick into his brain.

Chao Chao – just 14 months old – was playing by himself at his family home in Shandong, eastern China, when he slipped and fell on the chopstick sending it straight up through his nose.

His parents drove 10 hours to Beijing to a specialist head injury hospital where medics managed to remove the stick during a four hour operation.

“We got to it before any infection set in and he should make a full recovery.

“Although it pierced his brain, it doesn’t seem to have done any long term damage,” head surgeon Dr Sun Wei told the Austrian Times.