Now this is priceless. Tim Clague created this video of a Reverend having a spot of bother with the Advertising Standards Authority two weeks before Stephen Green made an ass of himself yet again.
Category: Humour
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The Riposte to Woo
Tim Minchin has a way with words. Brilliant stuff.(hat tip to PZ Myers)Update: Oh, and the verses are here. -
Subprimes Explained in PowerPoint
Following on from the John Bird/John Fortune explanation of the Credit Crunch, here’s an excellent explanation of Subprimes.(hat tip to Andy for the link) -
The Credit Crunch Explained
John Bird and John Fortune with the best explanation of the Credit Crunch I’ve yet heard. -
Irony At Dangerous Levels
Whilst I do have some sympathy with what Father Jamison is saying here, I do think it’s a bit rich for a representative of the Catholic Church to be lecturing us on the exploitation of spirituality and the corruption of children’s minds. Mo obviously agrees with me. -
The Leaked List
Yes, I know I have a warped sense of humour.The maker of the video mashup talks about it here. Worth reading. And I’ve not seen Der Untergang, so that’s an ommision I will proceed to rectify as quickly as possible. Ganz’s incarnation of Hitler is clearly something to experience at first hand. -
There’s Bugger All Down Here On Earth
After a day browsing the internet, that final quote from one of the best songs of science is what sticks in my mind. -
Euthanasia
Jesus, Mo and the barmaid discuss the question of euthanasia. Needless to say, I’m with the barmaid on this one. -
God Trump Cards
New Humanist publishes its religious trump cards, illustrated by Martin Rowson. I’m closest to the secularist/atheist/humanist figure, but I don’t have that wimpy beard in real life. I agree with my mother who once opined that she could never trust a man with a beard – he’s sure to have something to hide… -
Presidential Origami
God, after the last few blog entries I needed a laugh, and Presidential Origami did it for me. But perhaps it’s just gallows humour after all… -
A Really Bad Disney Movie…
… but we seem to be edging dangerously close to Head of Skate becoming a disastrous reality.Oh, and this piece written by Matt Taibbi is like being in the front row at the Grand Guignol and being spattered by the blood and gore. The trouble is, there’s a good chance that we won’t be able to leave at the interval. A small sample:So, sure, Barack Obama might be every bit as much a slick piece of imageering as Sarah Palin. The difference is in what the image represents. The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we’re actually going to need in government if we’re going to get out of this huge mess we’re in.Here’s what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins “Country First” buttons on his man titties and chants “U-S-A! U-S-A!” at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas.The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn’t that she’s totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight solid years, and we’ll not only thank you for your trouble, we’ll sign you up for eight more years, if only you promise to stroke us in the right spot for a few hours around election time.Go and read the whole thing – and weep, not just for America, but for the whole world.Update: The ever-dependable Jonathan Raban has written an equally good piece on Palin for this month’s London Review of Books. It delivers a cool, surgically-precise flensing of Palin in contrast to Taibbi’s hatchet job.Addendum July 2017: …and, wouldn’t you know it, Mr. Taibbi turns out to be a despicable human being himself. -
Round the Hurin
Henry Gee, over at his blog, The End of the Pier Show, pens a pastiche that views Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings through the lens of Round the Horne. British people of a certain age and sensibility (e.g. me) will find it irresistably funny. I can hear all the characters speaking the script as clear as a bell. -
Segregation
The author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel blogs about the strange phenomenon of segregated drinking fountains in Indianapolis airport… -
Proofs of God
Ontological, Teleological, Physiological… I can’t help feeling that we need to add in Psychological in there somewhere as well…
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Q.E.D.
Jesus and Mo explain the difference between a cult and a religion. I thought the difference was at least 1,400 years… -
Big Scary Trumpets…
I don’t think that Jesus and Mo have quite got a hold of this thing called the scientific method… -
Hell Has Frozen Over
Courtesy of Anticant’s Arena, here’s the extremely inventive answer given by a student to a question on a chemistry exam: Is Hell exothermic or endothermic?
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