Tag: Humor

Stuff that makes me laugh

News Roundup

Bad News

Very pithy, like a pregnant woman out for a walk. — and yeah, it’s Labor Day, so just the one post today.

This will be a light-hearted news review, because I’m sick of gloom and Democratic-Socialists.  That said:


…too busy giggling like a schoolgirl to make a comment, sorry.


…okay, that’s funny right there.  May not be so funny if the outcome is similar, however.


…wait:  Australian is now a race?  (To the bottom, maybe.)


…I can see why some people just can’t wait for that “Back To School” time.


…stupid tourists, or germ of truth?  I report, you decide.


…ah, the dreaded “wanker’s rash”, scourge of so many teenage boys.


…it took me about three minutes just to decipher the headline.  Parallel thought:  do they have transgender men in China?


…not that I wouldn’t mind erasing some women I’ve been involved with in the past.


…and gawd forbid we should make unhappy people more unhappy.


…all that fragile Scandi furniture and ancient rotting flooring, you know.  And finally:


…errrr it’s not exactly her abs that she’s showing off.  Pictorial evidence:

Background Books

Lies and Untruths, Media Assholes, Politics

With the Chinkvirus lockdown and associated Zoom-y nonsense, we’ve all become familiar with people filming themselves with bookcases in the background.  What used to be the standard backdrop for lawyers’ vanity pics (with tomes and tomes of legal texts behind them, as though they’d ever read one, the bastards), now seems to be the norm, especially with politicians.  Here are a couple of examples:  BritPM Boris Johnson:

…and some other BritGov flunky:

Now I’m quite aware that most of the displayed books were probably chosen by assorted political handlers and PR flacks [vast overlap], so their appearance can probably be discounted.

But it gives me an idea for a game entitled:  “Suppose You Were To Appear On A Zoom Live Feed, Which 12 Books Would You Want To be Displayed Behind You?”  (I know, the title may need a little work, but you get my drift.)  Assuming such things were important to you, and you wanted to Send A Message About Yourself (e.g. if you were being interviewed by some Lefty TV show host or similar), which books would you display?

The difference between the above poseurs  and yourselves, O My Readers, is that you can only nominate books that you actually possess, i.e. that are already on your bookshelves (no cheating).

My dozen, in no specific order, are:

           

(The last is:  Leo: A Tribute to Leo Burnett.  It’s handed out to all new employees at Burnett on their first day, and the agency is still run on the same principles.)

Those are mine.  Yours?  (You can select fewer than twelve, but no more.  Multi-volume compendia such as Churchill’s History Of The Second World War  count as a single selection.)

Lost Weekends

Train Smash Women

Ahhhhh, when it’s a Bank Holiday (U.S. “long”) weekend, can the Train Smash Women be far behind?

Of course not:  they’re quite up front [sic] :

   

And, as usual, all over the place:

As we used to say (back when one could say such things):  “Take her ‘ome, Jimmy;  she’s ready.”

Follow the link:  there are approximately half a dozen regrettable decisions in every pic.