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Tag: funny

  • Image representing post: Scunthorpe Sans

    Scunthorpe Sans

    The vole.wtf folks have made a font which uses ligatures to self-censor any naughty words you type.

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    • Repost
    • posted 20 May, 2020
  • PROVISION MORE INSTANCES

    Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY

    Saagar Jha tells the now-familiar story of how a bunch of techbros solved their scaling problems by reinventing the wheel.

    Read more (112 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 19 May, 2020
  • Image representing post: Thursday

    Thursday

    Gareth's providing a daily briefing including all the important things that the government wants you to know about the coronavirus crisis... and a few things that they didn't think to tell you, but perhaps they should've.

    Read more (116 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 8 May, 2020
  • Telegram page 1.

    The next time we want to import a horse to Russia it will be a doddle

    Sergey Radchenko shares a diplomatic report recounting the story of trying to get through the bureaucracy moving horses across the Russian border in 1992.

    Read more (64 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 7 May, 2020
  • Image representing post: Pass The Pepper: Social Distancing is Nothing to Sneeze At

    Pass The Pepper: Social Distancing is Nothing to Sneeze At

    Joseph Herscher's latest Rube Goldberg style machine is something else.

    Read more (45 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 3 May, 2020
  • Image representing post: Fox In Sox

    Fox In Sox

    Here's a new trick, Mr. Knox: Wes Tank raps Dr. Seuss's Fox In Sox to Dr. Dre beats.

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    • Repost
    • posted 2 May, 2020
  • :maskchallenge:

    For the benefit of my South African colleagues on Slack, I give you the #maskchallenge #emoji.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (16 words)

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 24 April, 2020
  • Image representing post: Happy Birthday, You're Fired

    Happy Birthday, You're Fired

    Robin's latest blog sort-of reads like a contemporaneously-written "what I did on my holidays" report, except that it's pretty-much about the opposite of a holiday: it chronicles Robin's adventures in the North of England during these strange times.

    Read more (133 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 21 April, 2020
  • SnackOverflow question: Let's say I'm camping and I need to make toast. I have a loaf of bread and a campfire. What's the best way to make toast?

    The 7 Types Of StackOverflow Answers

    StackOverflow's a great resource, but it's also a terrible one. Dan explores the seven types of answers you'll get to any question you post to the site.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (711 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 2 April, 2020
  • Image representing post: The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing

    The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing

    Jessie Gaynor from Literary Hub rewrites the first lines of 10 classic novels for our new reality.

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    • Repost
    • posted 2 April, 2020
  • (Fake) letter from Boris Johnson stating that the government's new policy is just to write-off 2020 and carry on from 2021, after the coronavirus crisis has passed.

    Dan receives a second letter from the Prime Minister, and fully backs the government's bold new strategy.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (20 words)

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 April, 2020
  • Image representing post: Did You Know That Animals Eating Strawberries Look Terrifying?

    Did You Know That Animals Eating Strawberries Look Terrifying?

    Eat Liver (???) shares terrifying images of animals eating strawberries.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (16 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 28 March, 2020
  • Comic, three panes. First pane shows derelict supermakets, caption: Scattered about, the putrefactive disease of the coronavirus lay slain. Second pane shows people celebrating, caption: Slain, after all men's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, had created. Third frame shows the celebrating people in the shadow of a tripod war machine from War of the Worlds, caption: Martian fighting machines.

    Death Leaping from Man to Man

    Dan draws a topical comic.

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    • Comic
    • posted 25 March, 2020
  • Image representing post: Homeschooling While Working From Home During a Global Pandemic Bingo

    Homeschooling While Working From Home During a Global Pandemic Bingo

    McSweeney's Internet Tendency provides a bingo card for those of us suddenly and unexpectedly homeschooling.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (3 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 24 March, 2020
  • Image representing post: "Down A Bit From TromsΓΈ"

    "Down A Bit From TromsΓΈ"

    The season's final episode of Two of These People are Lying ends with a brilliant and unintentional twist.

    Read more (30 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 22 March, 2020

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