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- Chick Sexer – The $60,000-a-Year Job Nobody Seems to Want
- Canadian Hot Springs Resort Holds Awesome Hair Freezing Contest
- Buying Love at Bulgaria’s Roma Bridal Market
| Chick Sexer – The $60,000-a-Year Job Nobody Seems to Want Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:39 AM PST Believe it or not, 'chick sexer' is a real job, and it pays quite handsomely. For over $60,000 a year, a chick sexer has to look at chicks' backsides all day to determine if they are male or female. The process, known as 'vent sexing' involves squeezing the faeces out of the chick and opening up the its anal vent, to check for a small 'bump' that indicates it is male. Understandably, the job doesn't have many takers, and British poultry farmers are struggling to attract employees to fill the position. Although it sounds easy, chick sexing is quite complicated and requires an incredible amount of skill. Workers are specially trained on how to spot 'miniscule differences' in the size and shape of a chick's genitalia to ascertain whether it will grow up to be a rooster or a hen. |
| Canadian Hot Springs Resort Holds Awesome Hair Freezing Contest Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:27 AM PST Canada's Yukon territory is well-known for its wide range of cultural and sporting events that attract tourists from all over the world. Perhaps the most bizarre of these events is the International Hair Freezing contest, held at Takhini Hot Springs every year, in February. As the name suggests, the contest has people enter the springs and just wait for the cold air to freeze their wet hair! In order to win the $150 prize, all contestants need to do is sink their heads in the hot springs that are at 40 C, and then wait for the freezing outside air to fix their crazy hairdos in place. At temperatures of under -30 C, hair can freeze in under 60 seconds, creating a stunning effect. |
| Buying Love at Bulgaria’s Roma Bridal Market Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:09 AM PST The Romani people, who constitute one of Bulgaria's largest ethnic minorities, have a unique marriage tradition – a 'bride market'. Held four times a year on various religious holidays, the market is a chance for poor families in the community to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their children. The families that gather in the city of Stara Zagora for the festival are part of a gypsy community of 18,000 Roma known as Kalaidzhi. They are traditionally coppersmiths, and among the most poverty-stricken people in the nation. The bride market is a chance for these families to get together, catch up on gossip, and arrange matches for their adolescent children. The event is a colorful one, with grannies dressed in traditional Kalaydzhii long skirts, and children running about and eating candyfloss. The prospective brides are usually dressed provocatively in mini skirts, with gobs of mascara, flashy jewellery and towering heels. They dance alongside their male suitors on car hoods, which is quite rare in a community that generally does not allow youths to mingle with the opposite sex. In fact, the Kalaidzhi, who are devout Christians, take girls out of school at age 15 to keep them away from temptation.
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