September 2009
“Despite its clear overseas success, the Australian Federation Against Copyright...”
– Pirate Party Australia Plans Election Onslaught
Dear contemptible dick-head from the Federation Against Copyright Theft,
EVERYONE who runs for election proposes to change existing laws. In essence, they are proposing that something that is currently not legal should become legal. Even when people...
Just so you know, there are people who would... →
“But for good or ill, the justice system doesn’t work on behalf of victims; it...”
– Rape Apologists: Roman Polanski’s Rape of a Child Not That Bad | Blog of the Moderate Left
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Blitzen Trapper (52)
Del tha Funkee Homosapien (16)
Lilys (13)
Little Barrie (13)
Marcel Borrack (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
There is nothing new under the sun.
I’ve been vocal about how whenever I have an idea it seems like someone’s already done it. So I should be sanguine about stuffmygirlfriendyells.com, right? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander?
Yep.
Archetypes
Here’s an exercise for you.
Find a Youtube clip of Chris Noth as Big from Sex and the City.
Play it with your eyes closed.
Now, picture Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men.
Get 'Yes Minister' on DVD why don't you?
Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
This link goes to a video of the front of that... →
I stand corrected!
anti-matt:
If by “that” dust storm you mean the one that happened near Broken Hill in 2007 then yes.
The video is still awesome, it’s just not the storm that happened this week.
Source video here.
(via indefensible)
This link goes to a video of the front of that... →
Well I really was being kinda serious.
I love modern medicine. When I get sick, I want science and doctors and labcoats and big pharma involved. I have a ton of friends who are all down with drinking lawn clipping tea when they get a cold, and if they think that’s helping them to get better, more power to them.
What I’m interested in is what people who are into ‘alternative therapies’ do when the illness they...
PS
You better believe I’m taking the antibiotic.
A question.
I was bitten (we suspect by a spider) a couple of days ago. Within hours, it went from a small pinprick to a wound about a centimetre across with a ring of cellulitis around it with a radius of about 10 centimetres.
What would be the recommended alternative therapy if I decided that I didn’t trust the antibiotics prescribed to me? In your answer, please take into account that I wish not to...
“Once again, the adage proves true: When you try to be something to everyone, you...”
– Rob Frankel (@brandingexpert on twitter) is unimpressed by Yahoo.
Rob Frankel - Branding Expert
I wonder if
anyone is currently writing software that scans a person’s Facebook activity and, from the number of pictures posted, quizzes taken and posts made, makes an accurate DSM-IV diagnosis.
Because so far I’ve used it to predict divorce, infidelity, upcoming weight-gain, and career changes.
Claque
File under: Words I learned today.
My, but aren't you a condescending fuck-knuckle?
Next up in "Ross Picks Pointless Unwinnable...
In tonight’s show, Ross asks people who say they ‘could care less’ to quantify the extent to which they could reduce their level of care.
Aaaand poop joke.
Ugh.
Please don’t use the feeble defence of sloppy usage - “Oh it’s a living language”.
Yes, it is a living language. So kindly refrain from killing it.
Words are the way we define our interactions with one another and with the past. If we allow words that have specific meanings to acquire other meanings then we introduce confusion and decrease the utility of the language.
...
The right word at the right time
Please don’t use the term ‘decimate’ unless you know what it means. If you say something has been decimated, that means that it has been reduced in strength or number by 10%.
Keep being awesome,
indefensible!
This is why Two And A Half Men is such a great...
Alan: [My son] is a diamond in the rough.
Charlie: He's a turd in the punchbowl!
“The weird lesson for men who have group sex in bathrooms: Film it on your cell...”
– Emily Bazelon - DoubleX
The Hofstra date rape that didn’t happen.
the greatest email i've received all year.
aleep:
i love my boss. she is a crazy woman and a half. i’ve been about 3 weeks into attempting to lose weight and be in shape, so that means my once “i live to eat” diet is now an “i eat to live” one. i’m seeing very slight results because my weekly alcohol and munchy consumption is still in existence. just once i want a friend who’s turning twenty-something to call me and tell me that he/she...
“There are only a few periods in the life cycle at which there are high rates of...”
– Sexual Conduct (Gagnon and Simon 1973: 103-4) (via rachelhills)
Tumblr Tuesday →
So this just happened, which is very nice. Thanks very much to the nice people who thought SMGS was funny enough to promote!
TopherChris just made the list though. Behind Larroquette.
staff:
Stuff My Girlfriend Says This guy’s girlfriend says the funniest things. She’s hilarious, witty, and wise. Honestly, I wonder why she’s not with a better guy. I mean, I don’t know...
Unintended consequences are always interesting.
I’ve been reading a lot of Nick Cohen’s stuff lately. Whether you agree with his viewpoint (cranky Trotskyist who thinks the left has lost its way) or not, he can certainly make some compelling points.
One assertion he makes is that the left’s destruction of the idea of The Canon in the Academy was meant to smash the Dead White Male view of education. It encouraged an...
Reblogging from the iPhone really is a big bucket of chuck.
My wife and daughter at stuck at KFC
toldorknown:
Less than three miles from home, but they have to wait for the flood waters to recede before they can get there.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Blitzen Trapper (96)
Matthew Sweet (15)
Adam Franklin (15)
Kasabian (14)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We have always enjoyed forming an angry mob. But the intensity of anger seems to...”
– Dominic Knight is one of the Chaser guys. This column’s worth a read.
Dominic Knight | Mob loves to cane celebrity jackasses
What you said: "Books like Twitter Wit are ruining...
What I heard: “Nobody will publish my collection of short stories about growing up white and middle class and I’m so PC that the only way I can lash out is to attack someone else who is white and middle class and who is actually making money with words and ideas.”
The best headline I ever saw was in the wonderful...
It read:
HOSE MONSTER: Vacuum-cleaner knob-man in appliance dick-suck horror.
Can you guess what the story was about?
“If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of...”
– Jedi religion founder accuses Tesco of discrimination over rules on hoods | World news | guardian.co.uk
“The number of rent-a-friend agencies in Japan has doubled to about 10 in the...”
– Lonely Japanese find solace in ‘rent a friend’ agencies | World news | The Guardian
If she’s down, or grumpy or whatever I think it’s my job to make her laugh. No matter what. One of the weapons in my arsenal is that I have a nice singing voice, and that I am willing to sing ‘Down to the River to Pray’ with the lyrics changed so that the song is actually about pooping.
I was wearing a suit in a bar.
Guy I don't like very much: Ha! Wearing a suit today eh?
Me: Sure am.
Guy I don't like very much: Big day in court?
Me: Nope. I've got a job.
