What started as a normal business day on Thursday ended in a hilarious prank bordering on brilliant performance art when a Kichberg barber asked a customer to pay 45 euros for an eight-minute haircut. Customer Ritik Kumar, who moved to Luxembourg in June to work at Amazon, says he was closely watching how long his […]
New Luxembourg Monopoly in which properties are all too expensive for anyone to buy so game never ends
Toy manufacturer Hasbro has released a new Luxembourg edition of its popular board game Monopoly. In this version, all the properties are so expensive that no player can ever afford one, so the game technically never ends. Daniel Munguia, who rents an apartment in Gasperich, helped to design the game. He says this edition is […]
Luxembourg speed cameras will now chase you
Frustrated by the majority of drivers who slow down when approaching a radar only to speed up moments later, Luxembourg officials have developed a new mobile camera that will chase drivers until they eventually break the speed limit and can be issued a fine. “Each of these little babies is equipped with racing tires and […]
‘No cases, actually, none at all,’ reports mysterious new government official
Following reports that Germany and other countries are restricting entries from Luxembourg due to a growing number of COVID-19 cases in the Grand Duchy, a mysterious new government official has announced that the number of cases of COVID-19 here is actually zero. The correction was delivered late Wednesday night at a press conference attended by […]
Expat survives afternoon of shopping in Trier industrial zone
A wealthy expat from Luxembourg City who visited a store on the outskirts of Trier has described the experience as “a nightmare” and says she feared she might not live to tell the story. Jeanna Klebertz made the 40-minute journey to Germany to visit a shop that specializes in wood furniture as part of a […]
New campaign to warn newcomers that everyone here knows each other, so watch out
The Ministry of Useful Information has launched a new campaign to warn newcomers about the risks of assuming that you can do as you want in a place with a national population as big as a medium-sized city in other countries. “Welcome to Luxembourg,” said Minister Marie-Claude Valenti in a press conference on Monday. “We’re […]
Satan takes back Irrgarten roundabout
Saying the diabolical traffic knot is too evil to be wasted on living souls anyway, the guardian of the underworld known as Satan has reclaimed the old Irrgarten roundabout. The roundabout was created millenia ago by a cadre of demon road engineers whose goal was to torture carriage drivers condemned to Hell, but it was […]