Fake money ruins testicle-eating festival
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A testicle-eating festival has been tainted after counterfeiters used fake money to pay for scrotal snacks. The Calumet County Testicle Festival, in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, offers an “all you can eat” testicle-based menu. However a food stall, Rocky & Tara’s Nut Haus, said its staff had been fooled by a number of fake $100 bills.
Europeans would welcome AI government
A study has found that most European people would be happy to see government ministers replaced by an artificial intelligence regime. Researchers from the Spanish-based IE University’s Centre for the Governance of Change found that 51% of Europeans were entirely happy with the idea of handing the business of government over to an algorithm administration.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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