Optimist / Pessimist Glasses. Heh. [Via swissmiss]
Tag: Humour
In Pain
With hindsight, it’s so obvious… in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that was foreshadowing— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) June 29, 2021 Nowadays they’re screaming just as hard (even louder, if anything), but by default we’ve muted that sound. Clever us. [Via RT by @BenHammersley]
The Road From Serfdom?
Steady on now, chaps… What has the world come to when the whims of noblemen no longer control the lives of the masses? We live in interesting times, to be sure. [Via MetaFilter]
Brewster’s US$100 million
Stolen from The Cloud Genie: There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears. The genie says that he’ll grant the engineer $1 billion, but only if they can spend $100 million in a single month with three rules. “You can’t gift it away.… Continue reading Brewster’s US$100 million
Gotcha!
Nothing more to be said. Boom. Gotcha. pic.twitter.com/JCw4ugS3oT— John O’Connell (@jdpoc) June 4, 2021 [RT by @charliestross]
Punchline
From Dirty Feed, a magnificent, thoroughly documented deep dive into the history of one of the greatest punchlines in the history of British television: Sad to contemplate that none of the three actors involved is still with us, but what a memorial to their work together on a programme that shaped a generation’s view of… Continue reading Punchline
Packages
I’m the Package You Impulse-Ordered Three Days Ago and No, I’m Not Going to Make You Feel Any Better: It’s hard being a package. Sometimes we’re out in the cold for a really long time. Sometimes someone puts a bomb in us. Sometimes someone thinks there’s a bomb in us, so 90 people in green… Continue reading Packages
Gruesome
Painful to watch. The horror movie of the year: Devs watching QA test the product pic.twitter.com/uuLTButB3x— sanja zakovska 🌱 (@sanjazakovska) January 22, 2021 [Via RT by @siracusa]
Coming soon
Note to readers: do not, under any circumstances, be consuming drinks while you read this tweet. I have a friend that referred to prequels obi wan as ponytail Derek for some reason. This was her first ever watch— Kali (@DWfan3421) December 26, 2020 There I was casually sipping a Diet Coke and scrolling through my… Continue reading Coming soon
Lockdown, Airfix-style
Dumb joke, nice execution: Quarantine Comix #249 #QuarantineComix I spent SO much time on this very, VERY dumb joke oh my days…To buy the original ink drawing of this comic please go here:https://t.co/7KotGPLRRm pic.twitter.com/wgbeneDn3o— Rachael Smith (@rachael_) December 17, 2020 [Via MetaFilter]