Random funny things.
As I said last week I decided to do a fun post each Friday, so here we go :)
(If you’re easily offended, you might want to skip some of the jokes, although you’ll still like the video!)
This is Snowball the “Rockin’ Cockatoo” dancing to the Backstreet Boys (found via Donncha’s post). It’s best with the sound on!
Yesterday a business contact of mine spoke of badgering someone (meaning to pester them). I remarked that it’s a great word, and he raised the interesting observation: “what’s it called when a badger does it?”.
Apparently the family of a 13-year old boy who choked to death on a plastic pen lid are campaigning to ban them.
Now of course I have sympathy for the loss of their son, but I do think campaigning to ban pen lids is ridiculous. What next, shall we start a campaign to ban kitchen knives, because sometimes people cut themselves on them?
Ten funny stories submitted by doctors. Taken from a old post on Visordown. Continue reading Is there a doctor in the house?
Today’s xkcd cartoon rather amused me:
Found this on DeviantART, and thought it was worth sharing here.
An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself.
A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find – the brush tool, the eraser tool – to get back at his tormentor. It’s resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself.— This took three long months.. i think it’s worth it.
I want to stab MySQL between the eyes. Or rather if MySQL had eyes, I’d stab it squarely between them.
It just wasted far too much of my time with this bit of annoying behaviour. I’ll admit it was also my fault, but I still think MySQL reacted in a retarded way. (But then from a “database” system which on its default settings is happy to silently mangle data however it feels, that’s not too surprising).
Batman came up to me and he hit me over the head with a vase and he went T’PAU! I said “Don’t you mean KAPOW?? He said “No, I’ve got china in my hand.”
I went to the local video shop and I said, “Can I take out The Elephant Man?” He said, “He’s not your type.” I said “Can I borrow Batman Forever?” He said, “No, you’ll have to bring it back tomorrow”
I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said “Tenpin?” I said, “No, permanent.”
I went in to a pet shop. I said, “Can I buy a goldfish?” The guy said, “Do you want an aquarium?” I said, “I don’t care what star sign it is.”
I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said “Analogue.” I said “No, just a watch.”
My mate is in love with two schoolbags. He’s bisatchel.
I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can’t remember his name, it’s P something T something R.
I phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just went on and on.
I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, “Nearest the bull goes first” He went “Baah” and I went “Moo” He said “You’re closest”
I visited the offices of the RSPCA today. It’s tiny: you couldn’t swing a cat in there.
I was stealing things in the supermarket today while balanced on the shoulders of a couple of vampires. I was charged with shoplifting on two counts.
BBC News reports that a woman accused over a fatal dog attack on her five-year-old granddaughter has been found not guilty of manslaughter.
OK, this woman was supposed to be responsible for a 5 year old child. By her own admission she had consumed two bottles of wine, and smoked ten joints – that alone likely means she would have been in no fit state to responsibly look after a child. But, she then chose to allow a dangerous pit bull dog into the house, which then killed the little girl.
The dog was illegal (under the Dangerous Dogs act) and had already been involved in two previous attacks. The dog’s owner has been given a prison sentence but the woman has been cleared of manslaughter by criminal negligence. Why? Did she really think that allowing a vicious dog (pit bull terriers are banned precisely because they are vicious, dangerous dogs bred to fight) was a good idea?
Lately I’ve seen quite a few comment spams in my Akismet caught spams list starting with “Sorry :(” – is this a comment spammer who actually feels bad about abusing other people’s blogs to advertise crap? (But he still does it – so his morals aren’t that strong :)).