The Cop-out Youtube Video Post!
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Culture, Web, video, youtube
I can’t help but chuckle mildly to myself about people stereotypically hating having to sit through slide shows and here I am forcing videos onto people… nevertheless here goes!
I link to Bill Hicks videos all the time, for me he is one of the greatest ever comedians. I recently stumbled-upon this interview clip of him discussing his worst ever gig; very amusing.
The second clip is of the Soviet crooner Eduard Khil. This has essentially became the latest internet meme thanks in part to it featuring on the Colbert Report.
Tags: bill hicks, Clip Show, Colbert Report, comedy, Meme, Trololo, video, Web, youtube
Take A Weird Break
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Uncategorized
I really dislike those real life story magazines such as take a break, that’s life and real lives to name but a few of the top of my head.
I realise it’s not “original” to slate these magazines, as I’m sure the vast majority of people; I’d hope, can see it’s nothing more than an accumulation of complete and utter bollocks.
I find myself flick through these magazines on an irregular when I’m in the staffroom at work because many of the female members of staff can’t seem to get enough of them. Often I end up getting as angry as a typical Daily Mail reader with the pure putrid garbage I see contained within them, often to much amusement to the people around me. A typical rant will see me reading the headlines such as “I Breastfeed My Dog to stop her barking” followed by me saying something along the lines of “Well, That’s Life!” “Stabbed for a Peanut”, “Well, That’s Life!”
There is a great blog called Take A Weird Break which documents some of the weirdest headlines from these magazines and I recommend you take a look because while they annoys me, it is rather entertaining to see them.
One of the posts on the blog; now hidden on a page deep into the blog, someone who once worked for one of these magazines writes a letter regarding reader submitted photos, here’s an extract to leave you with:
Every day I’d have about 100 envelopes to open, and quite literally, 10 of these each day were pictures of dogs wearing sunglasses. For some reason every TAB reader thought this was the funniest thing in the world, and they ALL suggested the following caption:
“Here’s Rover, making a spectacle of himself!!!!”
Tags: blog, Breastfeed, Daily Mail, Dog, Glasses, Magazines, Peanut, Stabbed, take a break, That's Life, Web, Weird
Sociological Images
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Culture, Image, Web, blog
As like many other internet dwellers, I’m always coming across interesting sites, I often bookmark them and re-visit them rarely. However, since finding it a few weeks ago there’s blog I’ve started looking at regularly called “Sociological Images“, it’s produced by the American magazine Contexts:
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes sociology interesting and relevant to anyone interested in how society operates.
Anyway, wether your interested in sociology or not, the blog is very interesting and takes an unintimidating look at the topic, here are a couple Gender based examples from the blog:
Edit: While I’m on the topic, just come across this PR Nugget via Plashingvole/Feministing:
“This dance itself was a successful event.”
–West Contra Costa Unified School District spokesman Marin Trujillo looks on the bright side after the brutal gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside of her high school’s homecoming dance.”
Tags: blog, Context, Disney, Gender, Halloween, Princess, Sites, Sociology, Sterotype, Web
I Like Webcomics!*
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Culture, Web, comedy
*Unfortunatly they are conducive to getting work done.
Tags: comics, correlation, firmware, Geek, Journalism, maths. math, Media, update, upgrade, Web, work
Great Fall!
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Web, comedy
Tags: b3ta, Cartoon, comedy, Dumpty, Humpty, Image, Web
80′s Ending.
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Web, comedy, video
I first saw this video a few years ago and thought it was pretty funny. Funny enough in fact to consider it bookmark worthy. Well my bookmarks have gone so out of control that i decided to clean them up and i’ve happend to come across the video again. I thought it was share-worthy wether you’ve seen it or not.
“See how many super-cheesy ’80s clichés you can find in this four-minute homage to the decade of the montage.”
Tags: 80's, Add new tag, comedy, film, Humour, Movie, parody, video, Web
