Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
Entering the ‘monolithic, exclusionary, activist liberal media’ lion’s den
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Good Morning Real America www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook “Oooh, [Sarah Palin is] ‘infiltrating’ the Today Show. I think it means [Palin] is cynically exploiting a manufactured notion of herself as a crusader […]
Inside joke: Pete says creepy things
From the Business Herald this morning, good ol’ Scott Adams. [chuckle] Yeah, it’s a private joke. But funny at a number of levels. – P
What do you think?
Sign on the ferry back from camp yesterday. When I read ‘body parts’ I think ‘dismembered’. Am I wrong? – P Update: You know, like chicken pieces.
Heads must roll: Minister for Marmite
While I was away I heard the Marmite crisis predicted last year has actually bitten — hard. I didn’t know Nick Smith was the Minister responsible for Marmite, but, well, yeah, I can see he really had to go. Accountability. On a serious note, Smith’s cronyism has added more weight to those suggesting an image […]
Gross. In the eye of the beholder?
“Mum? That’s gross how you still …” The other three of us in the kitchen this morning waited (with bated breath) to hear how my 11 year old was going to finish his sentence. “… keep those locks of our hair, isn’t it?” We laughed. Whew. – P
Applying Banksy to election advertising
This, [allegedly] from brilliant UK street artist Banksy, made me think. The sentiment (“any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, rearrange and reuse.” … “They have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked […]
Siri dealing with a Rock God (ahem)
I was sure I’d posted this earlier … and even linked to it, but it seems to have disappeared, so … here you go: Douchebag Siri: the Fixed Apple iPhone Rock God Commercial and here’s the original: — I posted a tougher one here: ‘Poor Siri caught up in an argument‘
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!
This is doing the rounds at the moment … author(s) unknown — there are versions of this cry of the small c conservative all over the internet. WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s ! First, we survived being born […]
Governor Chris Christie
Gay marriage vote in NJ faces sure veto from Gov. Chris Christie, who prefers the issue be settled by the voters via pie eating contests Pure genius from whoever runs the parody Twitter account for New York Times public editor. I laughed.
Study: Right-wingers are dumber. Preposterous!
From the RadioLIVE website: A paper, published in Psychological Science, claims that people with ring-wing views tend to be less intelligent than those on the left. It claims that people of lower-intelligence tend towards right-wing views as they make them feel ‘safe’. …. Children on the study were assessed for innate intelligence aged 10 or […]
Shit journalists say…
I recognize some of these! via stuff journalists like (not Fairfax stuff) The “We’ll do it live!” meme is, of course, Bill O’Reilly’s contribution to the planet. – P
