Posts tagged "Weird"
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Simon Rumble taxidermy
SRSLY? Moral of the story: don't Google yourself!
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Jesus at my shoulder
via fuckyeahdementia.com Only a deity would have the patience... Though there'd always be the temptation to smite her.
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Strong superstitions remain
Christian missions and the government have tried to end the belief in sorcery, but strong superstitions remain. via smh.com.au Erm...
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Can sneezing really help treat depression? | Crikey
Can sneezing really help treat depression? by Amber Jamieson MP Andrew Robb writes in Crikey today about his own personal battle with depression. One quote in particular caught our eye: I employed var…
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Found in our letterbox. WTF?
Iain too, it seems
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It's Lovely! I'll Take It!
Have heart-to-heart discussions in the intimate conversation nook! I've been reading this fantastic blog, It's Lovely! I'll Take It!. Weird photos from real estate listings, and great captions. Simple…
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So that's why The Hub is empty
I heard from The Mayor that The Hub's development application has been rejected by the council. As such, it's now for lease, either long or short term, pending resolution of the DA issues, and I imagi…
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Chutzpah is, Dutch edition
Chutzpah is... being a racist, Islamophobic, populist Dutch politician who calls for the Koran to be banned, then complain that being refused entry to a country is an affront to free speech. In a rela…
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Amazing London snow photos
Westminster and snowman, by Pablo Godoy There's some amazing photos coming through on Flickr of the snow in London. Those of you in London, looks like loads of fun! Enjoy the time off work, those of y…
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Explaining to an 8-year old
I've been babysitting my niece today and we got to watching a Goodies DVD I have. After getting through three episodes on one disc, she insisted on watching the South Africa episode. Now The Goodies a…
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Dear Embittered
Someone who seemingly would like to remain anonymous (88.209.73.252 252.73.209.88.dsl.monaco.mc) has been reading my blog and getting into a froth about something or other. I have read your Blog and f…
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Truth in company names
I remember seeing these signs all over Leicester, and just thought to look it up. Shonki Brothers real estate. How appropriate. For the non-Australians, the word shonky means shoddy, dubious quality.…
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You know you work for a telco when...
The invite to the Xmas party has an asterisk leading to fine print at the bottom...
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Guerilla gardening comes to Marrickville
Apparently guerilla gardening has come to Marrickville, with people taking over the grass verges in their streets. There's no grass verge on our street but I've noticed a few people have planted ornam…
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We're all doomed! Doomed I tell you!
Stop me if you've heard this before. It's been around for ages. I keep getting asked to explain how this subprime crap works. Apart from explaining that Lurlene and Jethro, who've never had jobs in th…
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Terror needs help with geography
An article on the Daily Telegraph site seems a little confused, geographically. A MILLIONAIRE banker was beaten to death by a mob after stepping in to save a couple being assaulted at a taxi rank in L…
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Obama Yells at Hillary and Bitch Slaps Bill Clinton
Recently spammers have been taking the tabloid approach to get people to open their emails. There's been a lot of emails with subjects like Rare nude photos of Kate Moss, Paris Hilton Charges For Puss…
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Russ Meyer: Auteur
News.com.au describes Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill as an "arthouse classic" in this article about a putative Tarantino remake. That's hilarious! Though if anyone was to remake Meyer films…
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Blue plaques with a twist
Nosey In Newtown notes a fun take on the blue plaque, spotted in the People's Republic of Newtown. Quite funny!
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Conspiracy or fuckup?
Conspiracy nutters are everywhere these days. George Bush and Dick Cheney ordered the "controlled demolition" of the Twin Towers. The Duke of Edinburgh, a 12th-level Mason, ordered MI6 to kill Di and…
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Blank Reg
I love the fact that the Secretary of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties is named Stephen Blanks. It just goes to show that Max Headroom really was a documentary showing the world twenty…
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Best mailbox ever
This is way cool. Apparently it's over in Fowler Street. Steve pointed out that it's probably cheaper to buy a VCR than a mailbox.
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Bing Lee pricing is very strange
So I want to buy a heater and search for its model number to find who sells it. Last week Bing Lee were showing it for $850 before it mysteriously changed to $1,095 early this week. I just called the…
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I have pubic lice in my mailbox
While it would be a nice euphemism, Bug Girl attempted to order pubic lice over the Internet. Unsuccessfully, I might add. From the comments: However heinous it is to make a living selling pubic vermi…
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Not cold yet
Seen on Bridge Road just now on my way to work: a couple rugged up for the most arctic of winter days. Wooly hats, gloves, scarves, thick coats. It's 17 degrees out there. Hilarious!
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Marketing experiments, and other oxymorons
Oh how the mighty fall! Who would have thought I'd find myself subscribing to something called Marketing Experiments Journal. I bet the use of the word "Journal" makes the marketers quiver with scient…
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Ted Fest
Those of you who know my views on religion, and organized religion in particular, might be surprised to learn one of my idols is a Catholic priest. Father Jack Hackett has always been a role model for…
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Someone needs to set their clocks
Virgin Blue's clock is a little out...
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Long Tail not that long
This really tickled my funny bone. In case you're wondering, The Long Tail was something a certain business nerd stick mag was trumpeting a few years back. The basic premise of it was that, with minim…
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Flight of the Conchords
After a throwaway comment made by Steve about this band and tv show, I thought I'd download it and check it out. It's absolutely brilliant! Holly and I have watched the first couple of episodes and it…
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Gen Yers: pah!
Those of you from Gen X will be as shocked as I was when I discovered that many Gen Yers haven't even seen the best of John Hughes' filmic output. How you could think of yourself as a well-rounded ind…
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Birmo: Sydney is an insufferable ho
Has the time come to bitchslap this vacuous, self obssessed ditz of a city and say, "Grow up, princess. It's not all about you." Birmo hits the mark, as usual.
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So that's what all the noise was
So all that noise last night wasn't a trial run of the motorcades for next week's visit by monkey man. This would've been just up the road, and we had the windows open last night, so that would explai…
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Each man will be issued a pamplemousse!
Some words are inherently funny, as regularly exploited by many great comedians. One of my favourite web comics explores this concept in the latest edition. PS, the RSS feed for this comic.
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Hint for terruhists: make it look professional
Tip for budding terruhists: put your improvised explosives inside a jiffy box, use some shrink tubing and otherwise make it look professional. They're not looking for explosives, they're looking for t…
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Chutzpah is...
Second in my series of posts about the great word chutzpah. Chutzpah is... running a series of concerts highlighting global warming and having one your sponsors be... well, a a manufacturer of cars th…
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Estate agent idiots
This one is the most creative I've seen in a while. "Aura of St Peters/Newtown". That's just brilliant! Now if only they applied some of their creativity to filing their ads in the appropriate categor…
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Great educational products
For some reason the old "SRA cards" we used to do in primary school, reading comprehension tasks, came up in conversation. So I looked online for them. And found this page. Those of you who've done pr…
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Apparently I'm a poet
WTF?
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Spotted
Spotted on the corner of St Johns Road and Ross Street, a little poster advertising " Chester drawers ". Brilliant!
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Stuffed
Just spotted while riding through Sydney Uni: a big bearded bloke wandering along Western Avenue carrying a stuffed and mounted chicken. Hmmm...
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Lost galah
Now here's something you don't see every day. This lost galah poster was spotted on Australia Street in Newtown. So if you see a galah answering to the name "Choppie"...
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This interweb thingy is great
I need to buy a suit for a wedding I'm helping MC. I've got some cheap, nasty suits, including two I had made in Vietnam, that tend to come out for weddings, funerals and occasionally job interviews.…
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Howard Photoshop challenge: my cracks at it
Nowhere near as good as the one anomalous did, but here they are.
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Howard Photoshop challenge
George Michaelson has thrown down the gauntlet for aspiring Photoshop/GIMP manglers with this photo taken from the Smage. Anomalous has already responded with this great Mad Max III one. We want more!
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The Chaser recording
We went to see the recording of this week's Chaser. Now it's time for me to ruin all the jokes for you. Just kidding. Was quite fun, though they kept us waiting around in the lobby for an hour, which…
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What are they smoking at Channel Ten?
Was just watching a Simpsons episode from earlier in the week and caught a promo Channel Ten ran for Lost in Translation. The promo started with "One of the funniest movies in recent years". WTF? It's…
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SMH shows some tact
The Herald has shown its tact with this teaser about "Big wave surfing" alongside the story "Tsunami: 'move to higher ground'".
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Chutzpah is...
I figure the word " chutzpah ", as mentioned in Mediawatch last night, probably isn't the most familiar term to Australian gentiles. It's a fantastic word so I thought I'd start a series of examples.…
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Green lightning?
Last night there was a huge storm in Sydney. Given how hot it was all weekend, that's not terribly surprising. Was a pretty cool storm, going from about 23:00 until well after midnight, as it kept swi…
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Buy this Afghan girl now!
Am I the only one who finds this a little disturbing? Spotted on this New York Times page.
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As classified "Pornography/Sex,Entertainment" by the Australian government
Apparently my blog is blocked on a federal government department's network as "Category: Pornography/Sex,Entertainment (Global)". Besides the mis-categorization, it just goes to show the futility of f…
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Rimming sugar?
Browsing through the homewares store at the bottom of the building I work in, I spotted a product like this. Not the kind of thing I'd normally associate with "homewares" but I guess whatever makes it…
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What happens when you microwave silica gel?
Found in a can of "Mexican spicy peanuts" from Thailand, one of those little packets of dessicant. As well as the usual "Do not eat" notice, it also says "Do not microwave". Talk about red rag to a bu…
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Spotted in Gladesville, Sydney
Spotted on Victoria Road, Gladesville. Can't say I disagree with the sentiment.
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Very odd dream
I don't normally remember my dreams but this morning I had a very vivid one, which seemed like something out of a sci-fi movie. It was all about an evil Russian scientist who drugged me and implanted…
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Flat pack bowls, plates and cups
Wow, these flat pack bowls, plates and cups look great. I think I want them.
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Whale in the Thames
Went down to the Thames this morning to see the whale. There were thousands of people down there lining bridges and climbing trees. Doesn't look so hopeful now for the whale, unfortunately. Now would…
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Australia: the new Nigeria?
Just got a 419 spam with a new twist: Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:42:53 +0700 From: "Mr. Mark Kewell" <mark_kewell@walla.com> To: Cc: Subject: Hello Friend. Hello Friend, I am Mr. Mark Kewell a personal…
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God FAQ
At last, all your questions about God answered in the God FAQ.
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You couldn't make this up: Yellow Peril firework
Last night was Guy Fawkes Night, where the Brits celebrate an attempt to blow up the government by burning Catholics in effigy and blowing shit up. Anyway, being Australian and thus deprived of the jo…
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Strange royal experience
On my way home from work this evening, while riding through Trafalgar Square the coppers had blocked off traffic. Turns out ol' big ears was coming through, probably been reports of a fox on Whitehall…
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So how do you hang on to your spaghetti?
This piece describes an "innovative" modular housing system. It's quite clever and interesting, but for one thing... While cooking, the couch becomes the ceiling, the dining table a wall. Which begs t…
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Best football match ever
Last night was the Champions League final between AC Milan and Liverpool. It will go down in history as one of the most exciting games of football (for the Aussies and Yanks, football is the game wher…
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They're a weird mob
So the word pants in the UK means underwear yet they still have the term underpants. So what's the difference? Do they wear two layers?
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Lions: 1, Christians: 0
Who says Darwin got it wrong?
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Fame at last!
I'm now, clearly, super-famous in blogistan. W00t!
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More spam Dada poetry
This one made the mistake of mentioning the word "Viagra", which means a quick trip to the junk bin. However, the attempt to get around the Bayesian filters is amusing. urban centres with stable and p…
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Psychisation
Psychisation n - the sudden realisation that the person with whom you are conversing is a bunny-boiling psycho.
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Spammers discover Dada poetry
My good friend, Furlough S. Megabytes, just sent me a wonderfully bizarre poetry with Subject: chlorates aweless bescrape chamois. This was quickly followed by my old mate Grudging T. Creamiest with S…
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The Psychedelicatessen
What's Rangoon to you is Grafton to me is an amazing radio play done by double-J, an Australian youth radio station, in 1978. It's amazing stuff. Check it out here.
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Reclaim the Beach tomorrow
There's another Reclaim the Beach in London tomorrow night. Should be damn fun! Supposedly, the site hasn't been updated. We went to the last one and had a great time. Just take a loo with you and dri…
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Have we gone native?
In case you missed it, the UK temperature record was broken yesterday with temperatures reaching 38.1° Celsius in Gravesend, East of London. Holly and I really felt the heat. Back in Oz, we wouldn't b…
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Marriage is a sacred institution
Along the same theme as John Winston Howard's recent idiotic comments about marriage, the Village Voice has a hilarious comic.
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Reclaim the Beach
Last night we went to Reclaim the Beach, a party on the Thames. Perfect Summer Solstice weather and loads of people milling around and dancing to old-school funk tunes. Good fun! Only downer was the l…
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Badger Rampage
And they say Australia has dangerous animals. Watch out for the badgers. Sounds like a bad horror flick! Mr Weaver said there was no need for people to start fearing an onslaught of badger attacks. Oh…
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Hail storm
Ahhh, just like home only cold. Just had a big storm with hail! Check the pics.
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Las Super Nenas
Holly found this great Spanish Powerpuff Girls pasta today. How cool!
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Circular party
Last Friday, Holly and I managed to make it along to a party on the Circle Line. For those who don't know London, the Circle Line is the tube line that loops around the centre of London, the party adv…
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My god, we won!
We went to an English pub in Kennington to watch the match last night, Australia vs England. We were the only Aussies in the pub but it was a good natured crowd, considering we whupped their butts. A…
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Stretched metaphors spring back
Rupert's southern subs are getting their metaphors confused. Fires are supposedly laying "siege" to Sydney. Now we get Fires pound south-west Sydney, which conjures up all sorts of images. Then again,…
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Republicans go wild for Vietnam war re-enactments
It's funny what you see going through your web server logs. Whenever you hit a web page, your browser sends the address of the site from which you linked, known as the referrer. This gives the web sit…