“ The only other liquor that’s anywhere near as cool is Tequila. But Tequila’s always been too crazy to really be cool. Tequila will cut you for looking at its woman, then laugh while the cops drag it off to jail, and spit at you during the trial.
Meat
Jan 03
Dec 28
More from Chuck Klosterman’s Fargö Rock City.
Dec 27
Dec 20
Dec 18
From Fargö Rock City by Chuck Klosterman. Which is good.
“ His attack on other comedians is two-pronged: on the one hand, he criticises comedians who think political correctness has ‘gone mad’ and mistake offensiveness for ‘bravery’; on the other, he despises the observational comedy of Michael McIntyre et al. For this reason, white Brits have realised that they hate all other comedians, and are only able to enjoy Stewart Lee and Daniel Kitson.
Dec 13
Dec 08
Dec 06
Dec 05
Message for Panasonic (by marinade)
“ Evolution by natural selection is NOT FUCKING INTELLIGENT, it’s NOT GUIDED. That said, I’m betting it could beat you in a quiz.
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Uncle Billy’s Quote of the Day
Dec 01
“ Applicant has met a problem long existing in the art. A view of any soda fountain on a hot day, with the glasses showing innumerable limp and broken straws drooping over the edges thereof, will immediately show that this problem has long existed. Where we have the conditions where certainly the straw is old, where corrugated tubing is old, and where no inventor, during those years, has seen fit or has been able to solve this problem, whereas applicant did, that situation alone is prima facie evidence of invention.
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The article also contains ‘ur-straw’, which is my new favourite word.
Nov 30
“ Pointless and terribly wasteful. I’m sure it will sell millions and I’ll have to buy one for my girlfriend.
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I love this as a concept and want one, despite knowing that it’s something I’d not use after a day and thinking that having more Things is bad. Brain. Conflicted.
I like physical things where there’s a use to them being physical but this seems to be the reason I have an iPhone attached to my pocket by an invisible chain.
Which reminds me - must write/obtain iPhone/web page thingy to do stuff like this so I can leave a tablet/iPhone by my bed. ie. Must copy a bunch of the BERG noticeable ideas, as they are rather good.
Nov 29
Nov 28
“ The research was commissioned to highlight the fact that the current practice of asking customers to tick a box to say that they are 18 years and over is outdated and not robust enough to deter teens from buying adult goods.
