PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US Chengdu, China, street barber Xiong Gaowu offers a most unusual service at his roadside location in Sichuan province. For $12, Xiong will shave the inside of his customers’ eyelids using a straight razor, according to Reuters. Xiong suggests being “gentle, very, very gentle” when performing eyelid shaving, or “blade wash eyes,” as the technique is … [Read more...] about NOTW: Eyelid shaving, metal swallowing and cheesesteaks for the dead
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NOTW: Ant Hell, judicial activism and odd ways to smuggle gold coins
CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE Kids as young as six who live on a cliff top in China’s Atule’er village in Sichuan province will no longer have to use flexible vine-based ladders to climb down and up the 2,600-foot descent from their homes to school. Beijing News disclosed in October, in a report carried by CNN, that a sturdy steel ladder was being built to aid the 400 villagers after … [Read more...] about NOTW: Ant Hell, judicial activism and odd ways to smuggle gold coins