The people behind the thousands of roadworks projects currently underway around the Grand Duchy have admitted that the projects are all part of a nation-wide psychology experiment. The aim, say transportation officials who have been working with researchers from the University of Wiltz, is to better understand how drivers react to unexpected delays, long detours, […]
Six modern-day Luxembourg medical problems
During the past several months, Luxembourg health professionals have seen a spike in the frequency of these previously obscure medical problems. Petrol neck A form of whiplash caused by repeatedly bobbing your head as you watch gas prices go up and down. And up and down. And up. Treatment: take public transport twice a day […]
This couple bought a flat near the city and now they wear fine clothes and call each other ‘lord’ and ‘lady’
A couple who managed to buy an apartment near Luxembourg City despite only being in their 30s have decided to now act the part, wearing fine clothes and referring to each other as if they were Medicis in the Renaissance. Sid Gorlek and Fausta Nannini, now usually known as “my lord” and “my lady,” still […]
Weird: woman does not have selfie with Bettel
A Kopstal woman who at a dinner party claimed that, like everyone, she possessed a selfie with Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has finally admitted she was lying. The web of deception was created when Rosalind Karnacky, 28, took part in a dinner with seven other people, only two of whom she knew prior to the […]
Youth sports tournament gives parents right to start drinking at 10 a.m.
Dozens of mostly Luxembourgish parents have yet again demonstrated respect for a long-standing tradition of drinking in the morning hours of a children’s sports tournament. Last Sunday’s basketball tournament was “as good a reason as any other for some early drinking,” said Marc Groben, cracking open his first beer at 9:49 a.m, immediately following the […]
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