Category: Humour
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Cheerless But Entertaining
Last week’s featured webcomic was The System, and in the process of clicking through those wonderful additives to the humour universe, I discovered another. Matan, creator of an Israeli webcomic called “Ho Lo” (a Hebrew expression that roughly translates as “Oh Crap”), drew a guest comic for Rosscott which was good… definitely good enough to…
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My Billy Talent Ragecomic
I was listening to LiVE 88.5 on my commute recently and the song “Stand Up And Run” from Billy Talent’s Dead Silence came on. Great tune. I know I can’t be the first, but as I was listening I was surprised at the inclusion of a classic phrase from the ragecomic meme. Naturally, I had to capture…
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The System Has Not Failed
If you enjoy xkcd, you will probably enjoy this webcomic series by Rosscott Nover: Quirky humour and wry observation, usually depicted through stick-figure sign icons. Instructions for use: Read this. Or this. Any of them, really. Buy stuff from his Store and/or make sure your ad blocking software is turned off (the man needs to eat…
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Powerlifting to Bieber, and other Impossibilities
If there are any Bieber beliebers who are also powerlifters, please comment below. Do you listen to his stuff when you lift? Does it actually work for you? The prospect of that seems more far fetched to me than the wildest, most whack science fiction I’ve ever read. Personally, I need loud, angry music to…
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Enter the Dojo
I’m studying Yoseikan Aikido, which is nothing like this… The link to the entire season of Enter the Dojo is here.
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The Fruitfly Conspiracy
This past Saturday marked the end of my 9th week of diet and exercise. The scale read 194.2, a new low, for nearly 28 pounds lost so far. Just the boost I needed to reinforce my commitment to fruit, which has gone from an occasional diversion to a multiple-times-daily staple of my diet. If only…
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Harry Potter and Photographer of Al Jazeera
“Are you certain this is safe?” Harry asked. Aziz Abdul Rahman, who was unpacking his telephoto lens carefully from its flight case, looked positively bemused. عبد العزيز عبد الرحمن “Do not worry yourself needlessly, my spectacled companion,” he soothed, “I have done this for many years… And you… the Chosen One… you have braved far greater dangers against…
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Learning to not Hate Green Tea (Love is Out of the Question)
It’s five weeks since I started my diet and exercise regimen… now with assistance from green tea in lieu of my preferred beverages: coffee and diet soda. I used to hate green tea. Hate it. H-A-T-E This is one of the reasons I suspected it was probably very good for me. I tend to dislike…
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Moar Powar
Recently I decided to slim down. I’ve been overweight all of my adult life… Plan: Lose 72 pounds in the next 6 months Steps: Engage in ritual semi-starvation until even the brown fat perishes in my metabolic flames Embarrass myself daily by posting highly personal details about my aging body to the Internet, in glistening,…