The campaign to make men feel as bad about their appearance as women continues, with this jaw-dropping website for a Philips razor. It claims, amongst other things, that "the Philips Bodygroom will make your cock look bigger". Obviously that's been implied by thousands of adverts over the years, but to come out and say it ( Read more... )

Is this funny?

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I laughed, but then I felt bad :(

I switched on Radio 4 the other day, and this was on. Dear the Radio 4 comedy department: I know I've said some nasty things about you in the past, but if you commission more stuff like this, perhaps we can be friends again.

My Neighbour's Ass by Tim Minchin.

"I saw him comin'!"

Are you having a good day? Why not completely spoil it by watching Threads, a film about a nuclear attack on Sheffield:



FACT: This film terrified the crap out of me when I was at school.

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Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

And if you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich, would you do it?

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

(The live version on RapidShare is quite a bit more awsome than the video version)

The Guardian has a totally bizarre story about a woman who decided to cut off her leg, because "I simply cannot relate to myself with two legs: it isn't the "me" I want to be". The name for wanting to cut off one of your limbs is apparently body identity integrity disorder. I'm torn between sympathy and incredulity ( Read more... )

Have a look at this picture (warning: NSFW, apparently). I posted a link to it here as part of a light-hearted joke at the expense of Eric Raymond, not thinking anyone would be more than mildly offended. Jack's horrified response ("Christ dude, that ESR picture is worse than goatse.cx") has made me wonder: is this picture actually really horrible, ( Read more... )

I've said some nasty things about Linux developers in the past, but this is ridiculous: "On October 10, 2006, he [Hans Reiser] was arrested and subsequently charged with the murder of his wife, Nina Reiser". Honestly, if I'd had to guess which open-source icon would be charged with murder, I'd have said Eric Raymond [update: link is both horrible ( Read more... )