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Candidate Obama debates POTUS Obama on #nsa #prism #facepalm
Posted in activism, apocalypse, fear, humour, internet culture, politics
Tagged eff, NSA, prism
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SMBC video: “Culture Warriors” versus Jesus…
A giant green-bearded Jesus eating communist skyscrapers? Is that a sentence that has every been typed before, eh?
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Dilbert on job satisfaction; “what people feel right before they die from stress-related problems”
The full strip is here.
Posted in a little self-knowledge, humour, internet culture
Tagged Dilbert, job satisfaction, TADJ
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Picture of a cat, because the internet is running out of them
Too lazy to do a proper post today, and have realised that the photo I was about to send to Mrs Towers of our awesome bundle of fur and brain cell* will suffice. * Yes, singular, not plural
Posted in humour, internet culture
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Yet another neologism; snisking (= snarking and fisking at the same time)
To snark: to use sarcasm or malice in speech. Commonly found in the LiveJournal community. also snarky, snarkiness. To fisk: to undertake a point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story. A really stylish fisking is witty, logical, … Continue reading
Florilegium – or “where have all the flower (mash-ups) gone?”
Brain Pickings really is bloody brilliant! Thomas of Ireland authored the most famous florilegium of all time. Florilegia were compilations of excerpts from other writings, mashing up selected passages and connecting dots from existing texts to better illustrate a specific … Continue reading
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Awesome #Shakespeare spam!!
Shakespeare walks into a pub and the bar tender looks up and says “Oi, you’re bard.” Tumbleweed… Now, this.
Manic Pixie Prostitute – turning your life upside down with her whimsical joie-de-vivre
I swear to you, this is five minutes of comedy gold. Perfectly conceived, perfectly executed. I am a little bit in awe…
Posted in humour, internet culture
Tagged desire, fantasy, Manic Pixie Prostitute, men, prostitutes
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“Cyanide and Happiness” in pungacious mood.
One of the rare Explosms that I can share with Mrs Towers without her giving me one of her disapproving death-stares… Oh, and btw; Insular cortex Temporal lobe Dopamine Amygdala Broca’s Area Wernicke’s Area Sucker punch oh, and Puns and … Continue reading
Tiny Tim and the Law of Unintended Consequences…
This, from the people at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, is pretty funny…
