Tag: Humor

Stuff that makes me laugh

News Update Update

Bad News

That’s not a typo.

Over time, I’ve found that the weekly News Update has started to consume more time than I think it’s absolutely worth.  (If you disagree, and can’t see your life continuing with any meaningful existence without it, feel free to let me know.)

Basically, the Updates are a way for me to poke fun at what passes for “news” these days, especially so when I edit a headline to point out, for example, that the appalling Kim Kardashian has once again flashed her massive tits/ass to gain yet more attention for her clothing line.

But if I add up the total effort required to produce such an item — finding an article worth including, saving the headline (sometimes as a pic), saving the link thereto, making a pithy (thorry) comment, and multiplying that by 15 or so — it comes out to well over a couple days’ work (albeit spread out over a week).

I don’t mind spending that amount of time — or more — on writing a decent post on a topic which has captured my attention.  But to do all that work for a post which is eminently skimmable… I think you get my point.

So unless I hear differently from y’all (via email or comments, for those lucky enough to still be able to do the latter, don’t get me started), I think that the News Updates are going to become a thing of the past.

The only part I might consider keeping is the link-free , because that’s usually genuinely funny on occasion.

What you might see in its place is a series of stand-alone posts like this one:

Snow closes British schools and roads on first day back after Christmas as temperature plunges to -9.3C in south and warnings for ice and blizzards cover UK

Total time needed to create:  about 45 seconds, including the pic creation.  And there’s no link, because who the hell cares about the details?

Let me know what you think.  (And yes I know, it’s free ice cream to do with what I want;  but the reason for this website is twofold:  a rant vehicle for Kim, and entertainment for my long-suffering Readers.  Both are important.)

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

“Being single isn’t the easiest thing in the world but it’s objectively better than going to bed beside someone who you hope stops breathing in the middle of the night.” – Daniel Sloss

I don’t know who Daniel Sloss is, but I like the way he thinks.  If only I’d realized this when I was in my 20s…

Never Have I Ever

3 Inexplicable Things
  1. Made a New Year’s resolution.  Because I refuse to let other people tie me down to anything*, so why should I do it to myself?  Something you may want to change about yourself might occur at any time during the year anyway, so why set some arbitrary date for its commencement?
  2. Fired a blackpowder muzzle-loading musket or rifle.

    Some of my Readers (and you know who you are) have tried to assure me that this brass cartridge case thing is just a passing fad;  I may be conservative, but that doesn’t mean I can’t keep up with the times, when appropriate.  (I have fired several such handguns, e.g. a Colt Dragoon and Navy Colt, and it was a huge PITA, whether it was in the preparation, the actual shooting, or the clean-up afterwards.)
  3. Bought anything at a Hallmark Crown store, or any place that sells only candles.  I have no idea how these establishments ever came to be, and their continued existence remains a mystery to me.  Then again, I’m a man and we don’t go to places like this.  Maybe when they start carrying ammo…

Fell free to add your “never done that” things, in Comments.

*unless it’s to a bed, and then only in very special circumstances.