If you’re looking for winter sports with a useful twist, how about a weekend of pub table sledging starting tomorrow in Kuhtai, Austria? To enter all you need is an upturned table and a two man crew. From the ever odd Austrian Times: The event was dreamed up when student […]

Regular readers will know that TheEye has a long running and slow motion carcrash-like fascination with the ever-odd Austrian Times. And today it continues to amaze: An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn, according to a report. The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by […]

A visit to that home of daftness, the Austrian Times is long overdue, so let’s go there to meet Londoner Chris “Crazy Chris” Lynam. If we think that Britain’s Got Talent is basically the worst form of nonsense then spare a thought for the German equivalent. Chris (who doesn’t speak […]

Now this is how you do it…and it’s been ages since we’ve visited the ever odd Austrian Times, eh? Hundreds of desperate job-seekers took part in a Binman Olympics to compete for just 14 jobs as road sweepers. Nearly 500 entrants competed for what are considered plum civil service jobs […]

From the ever-entertaining Austrian Times comes this New Year tale of genius… Shopping centre bosses are offering women customers something to cushion the blow of a sales splurge – a special padded car park. The centres – in Peking and spread across all of northern China – feature women-only car […]

Now if you want some interior design done, it might seem a stereotype but it’s also true that most of the best designers seem to be gay. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that plans for a monument to homosexual victims of the Nazis in Vienna have been shelved […]

The showbusiness industry, it’s got to be said, is not renowned for it’s right wing thinking. Senator McCarthy probably had a whole wing of his mansion dedicated to files on Hollywood stars, and the files on Jane Fonda would have been large enough to sustain their own gravitational field. Over here, […]

From the Lost Property Dept of the Austrian Times we receive a note asking us to be on the look out for a 1100lb cannon which until yesterday was part of a “Napoleon Festival”. “The weapon – worth 5,000 Euros say police – was taken from a site commemorating a farmers’ insurrection […]

There is an old saying “Opportunity Only Knocks Once…If There Are Two Knocks It’s A Jehovah’s Witness”. If you’ve already got the current Watchtower then there is no point heading to the international congress of Jehovah’s Witnesses at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium this weekend. Bernd Gsell, a spokesman for Austrian […]

Once again reviewing the BIG stories that make up the Austrian Times I read that a party-goer was rescued after he plunged 150ft off a mountain crevice while taking a pee. Karl Kernen, 55, had been at a bash in Schuetzenhaus, Switzerland, when he sloped off to relieve himself. He […]