I had breakfast at Mo:Lé today, but first stopped off at city hall. The Chinatown area is decorated with paper lanterns for New Year, and there’s a fun one in the mayor’s foyer: an actual, literal paper tiger.
Posts Tagged ‘humour’
Visual Metaphor of the Day
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Exercising for the lolz
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Adrienne showed me this machinima video satirizing CrossFit:
The video has some non-sequiturs but definitely hits some pressure points from what I know of CrossFit. It also pokes fun at reading-People-on-the-elliptical gym bunnies.
I don’t do CrossFit, my workout routine is Starting Strength, which is basically beginner powerlifting. I find this video about back squats and milk funnier:
Best Of: PunditKitchen 2009-33
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Best Of: A Softer World 2009-30
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Caption: Now let’s go. I have to piddle.
Caption: So I combined the two!
Caption: and all my wil wheaton podcasts! gone!
Caption: and progress and the future.
Caption: He was much better at this.
Caption: Happy 40th, Stonewall Riots!
Caption: You do good work.
Caption: More importantly, who is your favourite Muppet?
Best Of: Pete Hoekstra is a Meme
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009When Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra read about the struggle of Iranians desperate to let the outside world know what was going on, it resonated with him in particular. He was involved in a desperate fight the previous year when Republicans posted things on blogs after the House was adjourned before an important vote. He tweeted this:
Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.
In honour of his remarkable ability to compare important, world-changing events with his mundane daily activities in the most clueless way possible, a meme was born:
Bad Stuff = Good Reviews
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Back in undergrad, my friend Mark turned me on to this computer game magazine called PC Accelerator. Throughout its short life, I read it religiously, even though I didn’t play any computer games. See, PCXL (as it was called) was written with a lot more humor than other game magazines. So you only needed to know enough about the games to get the jokes. And the best content they produced was negative reviews.
I don’t know about you, but I greatly enjoy humorous negative reviews of anything and everything. An example I came across today is Roger Ebert’s 2-star review of X-Men 4: Not Quite Last Stand: Origins: Wolverine. It includes this gem:
Their story starts in “1840 — the Northwest Territories of Canada,” a neat trick, since Canada was formed in 1867, and its Northwest Territories in 1870. But you didn’t come here for a history lesson. Or maybe you did, if you need to know that Logan and Victor became Americans (still before they could be Canadians)…
Positive Psychology Movies
Monday, May 4th, 2009Having won the War on Mental Illness, psychologists decided that virtue ethics would benefit from some modernism and invented “positive psychology”. Their primary result so far has been to determine that Hope is not one of the Seven Cardinal Virtues. They then went and analyzed the Six Cardinal Virtues into sub-virtues.
This book Positive Psychology at the Movies lists movies that illustrate each sub-virtue:
- 8 Mile
- if you mock people’s mothers with enough Wisdom-Creativity, you can escape from post-apocalyptic Detroit
- Sideways
- if you have enough Wisdom-Curiosity to drink merlot, you can pick up chicks
- 25th Hour
- if you don’t have Wisdom-Open-mindedness, you won’t imagine how everyone is out to get you
- The Karate Kid
- with the right Wisdom-Perspective, waxing Mr Miyagi’s truck is not child-abuse
- Silence of the Lambs
- nothing says Courage-Bravery like giving them the hose again
- Kissing Jessica Stein
- it takes great Courage-Integrity to admit you were lying about being a lesbian
- The Sound of Music
- the hills have Courage-Vitality/with the songs they have sung for over 9000 years
- A Space Odyssey
- Courage-Persistence, or drugs, is what it takes to get to the end of this movie
- The New World
- there is no Humanity-Love so pure as between a grown man and a thirteen-year-old girl
- Equilibrium
- gun-kata actually requires a surprising amount of Humanity-Social Intelligence
- V for Vendetta
- blowing stuff up is a good way to show Justice-Fairness
- Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, The Matrix and Spartacus
- are all great examples of Justice-Leadership in the fight for sexual-orientation equality
- Super Size Me
- because nothing says Temperance-Self-Regulation like eating junk food
- Grizzly Man
- Transcendence-Beauty is om nom nom
- The New World
- “oh Father, allow me to express my Transcendence-Gratitude for giving this continent to the Europeans”
- Hustle and Flow
- “[I Transcendence-Hope] to get rich ‘fore I leave up out this bitch”
- Half Nelson
- you know what’s full of Transcendence-Humor? crack addiction
- The Tao of Steve
- the right Transcendence-Spirituality will get you laid
The Red Tweed Banner of the Revolution
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Given Oak Bay’s proximity to downtown and especially the University of Victoria, it has some of the highest pressure in the region for residential development. But the council practices very conservative zoning. I have heard Victoria politicians say that Oak Bay is not “doing its share” to accommodate the region’s growth.
So I’m not sure I get exactly what it means, but this poster is definitely amusing:
Macros of the Month: 2009-03
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
In Soviet Russia, Chesseburger Can Has You
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009As Simon remarked, this site was made for me: Яolcats takes a real Cyrillic animal macro and then provides a different English translation to make a joke about Soviet (usually) or contemporary Russian society. (The real translations are often provided in the comments, but they always suck.) The best of:
Aaaaah… Pig iron, your musk is that of glorious industry…
Cease your protests, the deal is done! You are to make a fine wife for uncouth American businessman!
Do not despair, Laika! Comrade Khrushchev honours you! Our love was but a dalliance! Your ascent to the cosmos will strike terror into the West!
Puppy: Can I conjure happiness from physical things?
other: You can try.
Puppy: This experience made me weak-willed and afraid
other: With this effort you will come up short every time.