A Cyclist Pooped Outside In Iceland And Caused A Bifröst Wildfire
What a cheerful story for a Monday morning. A weekend warrior went cycling in Iceland, stopped to relieve himself, and promptly caused a wildfire. One thing led to another. This poor guy did his...
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The ‘Panama Papers’ Fallout Spawns Fiery Protests To Oust The Icelandic Prime...
Getty Image After the “Panama Papers” dropped with a wallop, folks are side-eyeing many world leaders for their (alleged) shady financial dealings. The International Consortium of Investigative...
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The ‘Panama Papers’ Scandal Takes Down Iceland’s Prime Minister
Getty Image The people have spoken, and one world leader has faced the music. Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmund David Gunnlaugsson (shown here in 2015 with his British counterpart, David Cameron)...
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All The Cool Reasons Why Iceland Is So Hot Right Now
Shutterstock Over the past decade, Iceland has experienced a travel boom like no other. Between 2000 and 2014, the number of visitors to the tiny island more than tripled, from 302,900 to 998,600....
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Here Is The Footage From Chino Moreno Of Deftones Performing In An Icelandic...
You may recall hearing recently that Chino Moreno, lead singer of Deftones, would be performing from inside a volcano during an Icelandic music festival. Sure, the rest of the band wouldn’t be joining...
View ArticleThis Icelandic Soccer Announcer Was The Happiest Man On Earth Thanks To This...
The Icelandic commentary on #ISL‘s winning goal is incredible 😂pic.twitter.com/4VWPIj5wCw — Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) June 22, 2016 We’re right in the middle of the Euro 2016, the tournament...
View ArticleIs This Icelandic Announcer Going Crazy Over A Goal, Or A Man Being Possessed...
Icelandic commentator, what a guy.pic.twitter.com/4qQCI5Jv3J — Soccer St. (@SoccerSt_) June 27, 2016 The biggest star at this year’s UEFA European Championship has been Gareth Bale, who has been...
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Donald Trump Asks Foreign Politicians For Illegal Campaign Donations After...
Getty Image Considering his delivered-in-front-of-a-garbage-pile economy speech, Donald Trump seems to know everything there is to know about money. Sure he’s had a few issues with his tax returns,...
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Since Winter Is Here, ‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Reportedly Shooting In Iceland...
HBO After six seasons of hearing the mantra “Winter is coming,” Game of Thrones fans finally saw the season arrive in Westeros this year. Since winter means snow, the GoT creative team has pushed back...
View ArticleThe New ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Trailer Is Somehow Even Better With Icelandic...
Icelandic commentator from #Euro2016 commentates on #RogueOne trailer. pic.twitter.com/mSfqygsqPr — David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 12, 2016 Portugal may have won Euro 2016, but it is Iceland...
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An Icelandic Airline Is Offering Completely Free Flights To Teach The World...
If you’ve been considering moving to Iceland ever since you found out it’s the site of the next season of Game of Thrones, you’re in luck! The Nordic island nation is offering free flights to British...
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This Awesome Story Of Mail Delivery Is Yet Another Reason To Put Iceland On...
Unsplash/Jeremy Goldberg Iceland is officially the coolest place on earth, and not just because of their free flights for British expats or the fact that it’s the official site of winter. No, Iceland...
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The President Of Iceland Has Reignited The Pizza Wars With His Anti-Pineapple...
Shutterstock Iceland doesn’t have a standing army and their skirmishes are usually focused on fishery barriers. And good for them. War, what is it good for, am I right? But despite the apparent absence...
View Article‘Keeping Up With The Catdashians’ Is The Live-Streaming Reality Show The...
The world is a scary, tumultuous, and depressing place right now, and searching for comfort in the form of entertainment is becoming increasingly difficult, as our own Brian Grubb recently explained....
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An Insider Guide To Reykjavik: Where To Eat, Drink, Sleep, And Party
HBO/Zach Johnston Iceland has becomes a hot spot for film and TV — Game of Thrones, Thor, Prometheus, and Star Wars were/are filmed there. When the movies and TV shows leave, the tourists arrive to...
View ArticleREYKJAVIK WHALE WATCHING MASSACRE
With a title nearly as awesome as Snakes on a Plane, The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre stars Gunnar Hansen, the guy who played Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Iceland is a...
View ArticleKRISTIN WIIG’S BJORK IMPRESSION FTW
From Saturday Night Live the other night, this is Kristen Wiig’s impression of Björk, which I enjoy roughly 600 times more than the real Björk. Funniest impression since… Will Ferrell’s Robert Goulet?...
View ArticleREYKJAVIK WHALE WATCHING MASSACRE
I’m not really into horror movies but even I have to admit Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre is a pretty metal title. As you might expect, it’s set on an Icelandic whale-watching boat. Ten bucks...
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Mark Wahlberg to topline remake of Iceland’s Oscar submission
AP Photo/Chris Carlson Mark Wahlberg recently wrapped the Steve Carrell/Tina Fey comedy “Date Night,” but the “Entourage’ executive producer and everyone in Holywood knows his bread and butter are...
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Updated: Will the volcano in Iceland mess with your Coachella experience?
Well here”s something no one could have predicted. The spewing volcano is Iceland is wreaking havoc on air travel around the globe and it turns out, it may keep several acts slated for Coachella from...
View ArticleGet Bent, Iceland
As we all know, the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull has raised its smoky middle finger to all flights between America and Europe for the last week or so, while simultaneously showing us the...
View ArticleThese Links Can’t Simply Fly Into Europe
Burnsy wrote this feature on the history of superfans. [Uproxx] Wikus from District 9 calls Charlize Theron. [ Comedy Central signs Stewart/Colbert for two more years, may be in the same time slot as...
View ArticleThe Iceland Footballers Still Have It
Icelandic football team Stjarnan FC became an Internet sensation last month after YouTube footage of the team’s unique goal celebration was posted everywhere. In a game against Fylkir, Stjarnan’s...
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‘Friday Night Lights’ favorite Zach Gilford moves to FOX’s ‘Iceland’ pilot
ABC The writing may not quite be on the wall for ABC’s “Off the Map,” but many of the show’s stars are scurrying to make alternate plans just in case. The latest “Off the Map” actor to land a network...
View ArticleRapture Postponed. Now What?
Rapture Postponed Again Shockingly, Harold Camping was wrong and the “approximately 200 million” people he predicted would ascend to Heaven didn’t get raptured after all. He predicted this would...
View ArticleBon Iver’s Video For ‘Holocene’ Is Almost As Beautiful As The Song
The board of tourism for the nation of Iceland would be well served to use Bon Iver’s Holocene video (YouTube version here) as its official tourism video, because the scenery in this is absolutely...
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Watch: Lady Gaga accepts LennonOno peace prize from Yoko
AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti Lady Gaga isn’t just a mutli-platinum superstar – she’s also an activist. The “Born This Way” singer was presented with the LennonOno Grant for Peace – an award established by...
View ArticleBeercup Is A Soccer/MMA Hybrid, But It’s Mostly Just Assholes Hurting Each Other
Enter the world of BEERCUP DRUNKEN FOOTBALL. At least, I think that’s what it’s supposed to be. It’s an Icelandic hybrid of soccer and mixed martial arts. The video was uploaded with the title...
View ArticleBam Margera went to Iceland and made the worst video ever
If there was ever any doubt that Bam Margera was the least likable of the Jackass crew (a generally pretty likable crew, otherwise), let his latest music video buttsquirt that doubt or whatever. Set in...
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Iceland Wants To Ban Porn From Its Internet
This, apparently, is A-OK. Iceland has decided to think of the children, or something, and ban all porn from its Internet. Mostly, however, their explanation leaves us wondering what the hell is going...
View ArticleYour Daily Crazy: Iceland Wants to Ban Porn
Iceland’s known for many things, including–but not limited to–weird, critically lauded alternative rock and Gordon Bombay’s meany-pants rivals from “D2: The Mighty Ducks.” It’s also, like its fellow...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve In Iceland, As Seen From A Drone Outfitted With A GoPro Camera
I’m not sure which city/town in Iceland Andrés Sighvatsson made this video in, but the result is kind of cool, regardless of the locale. He writes: Iceland at midnight on New Years via GoPro and...
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This Promo Image For Iceland’s ‘Of Horses And Men’ Is The Only Promo Image...
Silversalt PR Normally my reaction to an email about some foreign movie is to say “Aw, subtitles? I hate readin!” and then sadly kick my Truck Nuts until they spin around the trailer hitch. But when I...
View ArticleA Strong Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Hit The Northern San Francisco Bay Area
An earthquake with a reported 6.0 magnitude hit California early Sunday morning, causing damage across the northern San Francisco Bay Area. The U.S. Geological Survey noted that the quake started at...
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An Icelandic Brewery Is Making A Beer Flavored With Endangered Whale Testicles
Shutterstock The United States is no slouch when it comes to putting weird stuff in beer, as we’ve seen recently with the Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware adding scrapple and actual rocks from the moon...
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A Professional Travel Photographer Gives Us Advice On How To Take Better...
Baldemar Fierro It’s easier than ever to take a picture, but taking a good picture is still tough. Instagram filters and that cool tilt shift tool can do a lot, but there are limits. With summer here,...
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Iceland’s Government Is Collapsing Over A Criminal Conspiracy To Pardon A...
Getty Image Iceland is usually in the news for weird stuff, like government stances on pizza toppings or its highway construction getting derailed by elves. But the scandal emerging paints a much...
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How One Woman Brought Haiti’s Coffee Culture All The Way To Iceland
Uproxx Some of my earliest memories of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti involved waking up to the powerful aroma of freshly brewed Haitian coffee at my uncle’s house. I’d awaken to find the table set with a...
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