Tags: amusing stuff

Me #1

When the intellectually-challenged try to commit suicide...

I've been doing LOLs all day today after reading a report in my mother's Dunfermline Press which had the following headline: "Man tries to gas himself by putting head in electric oven". So if you think you're having a bad day, you've got nothing on this guy!

I feel like I'm way behind with replying to my comment-notifications. I hope to attend to them tomorrow, before the backlog gets out of hand.
Me #1

Feck this and feck that!

I was reminded of this classic scene from Father Ted when someone posted it on Facebook the other day.


I meant to do a Daily Prompts post this evening, but I was out getting some bits'n'pieces earlier and was too exhausted to do it when I got home. I'll get onto it tomorrow. Meanwhile, it's time I was heading off to join my hot-water bottles. Blether to yous all later!
Me #1

Daily questions: Day 1

Nicked from heatherrawrs: What is something that makes you laugh?

I can't really think of a present-day thing, but when I was a lot younger I absolutely loved Viz comic and would totally laugh my head off at the amateurishness and childish offensiveness of it. I remember coming over to Edinburgh sometime around 1985 and buying an early issue of Viz in Virgin Records in Princes Street, and literally greetin' wi' laughter at it all the way home on the train to Burntisland. This particular cartoon always stuck in my mind; it may have been from that very issue:

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There's a whole bunch of early Viz cartoons on Flickr, here.

It's a long time since I've possessed a televisual apparatus, but back in the day I also used to love Monty Python, The Kenny Everett Video Show and The Young Ones. They all seem pretty dated forty or fifty years later, but I'm pretty sure there aren't any TV comedy nowadays that are as clever and challenging as those shows were. And I should also mention Absolutely. If I need a guaranteed laugh, I can always resort to Frank Hovis:


I bet you're not going to be able to play this video, folks. If not, I'm afraid you're going to be missing out on life!
Me #1

Bollockingland!

After waking up for about the half-dozenth time last night to discover it was only 5.30am, I decided to haul myself out of bed and muck about for a bit. However, I'm nowhere near awake enough to do anything useful, so I'm away back to my bed to try again. I have a sense of doom about today and feel it's shaping up to be another highly unsatisfactory day of non-achievement. But I'll worry about that maybe around 2 or 3pm when I've finished attempting to hibernate.

From The Daily Mash: New theme park exclusively devoted to angrily bollocking children. When I was at the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway's Diesel Gala last Saturday, there was a child of about four or five years old on the train who kept squealing and screeching at absolutely ear-shredding volume. Every so often, the parent would say, "Quiet now, Timmy", and the child would simply ignore it and carry on regardless. I felt severely tempted to go and shut the vile brat up myself. It wouldn't have been the first time I've done so. Seriously, what is wrong with people? Why do they think their precious offspring are entitled to make an absolute nuisance of themselves in public? I think they should all be sent to Bollockingland!