Tag: funny

Layout disasters

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More blogging by other people, and to be honest, this sort of thing would be better shared on the 6000 miles… Facebook page, but then it would be harder to go back to in the future (that’s not quite a film title, no). So it’s going on here:

Please enjoy to be beholding Buzzfeed’s Top 28 Newspaper And Magazine Layout Disasters:

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With 28 of these on offer, you’d surely have to expect that some may have been conveniently ignored rather than slipping under the metaphorical radar. But they are entertaining and I was entertained. You should click through and be entertained too. And then share the entertainment with your friends and neighbours.

Overly Honest Methods

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Thanks to regular reader Paul Scott, who sent me these:

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*innocent whistle*

Described as:

a random selection of “confessions” made through the twitter hashtag #overlyhonestmethods placed on random images borrowed via Google image search.

I’m guessing that all of my scientific readers will identify with at least 90% of them.

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Only ever behind closed doors though, right?

Right.

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Yes. Amazing how every shadow is a ghost/monster/potential assailant when you’re processing a CSF in an empty laboratory at 2am.

More here.

Unpublished letters to the Telegraph

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Here’s a taster from “Imagine My Surprise…”, a collection of the best unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph throughout 2012.

The letters include a 68 year old husband who describes the fact that the Telegraph published news that 67 per cent of women over 80 are sexually active and that most achieve orgasm as “devastating news”, a man who can’t see the attraction of Pippa Middleton, claiming that he sees “better-looking girls in the queue for Greggs in Walsall” and a correspondent with a simple question: “Am I alone in thinking that Jeremy Paxman looks like a Proboscis monkey?”

Click the link and go read the rest. For us Brits with our dry sense of humour, it’s an ideal Christmas pressie.

Imagine My Surprise…: Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph by Iain Hollingshead is available from Amazon.co.uk

Phone news…

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Apparently, some company is in the process of releasing the latest model of a smartphone that they make. I think that this clever advert eludes to that announcement and release, but I can’t be absolutely sure because they don’t explicitly name it.

When all is said and done, it’s just a phone. They’re both just phones. I’m not going to shoot you down for choosing one over the other. Neither will I worship the ground you walk on just because you went the other way.

The advert is clever though and does sum up the blinkered attitudes that some individuals display when this sort of annual announcement comes around, as it does, annually.

I particularly recognise the ‘headphone jack is going to be on the bottom’ character.
Hello [redacted].