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Saturday, Oct 10, 2009

The internet is full of random humour. There are a number of sites I frequent on a regular basis (is that statement redundant?), perhaps while on a break at work, or when I'm just killing time at home (though my preferred method for killing time is slitting its throat when it's not looking). Sometimes I exhaust the ones that I do look at, so I thought I'd ask you fine folks which similar ones you peruse to get your laffs. So in the interest of sharing, here are some of the webcomics ort funny sites that I tend to visit regularly.

Failblog

Here you will find a huge number of 'fails', Pictures and videos of completely idiotic things that people have done, or evidence that some people simply have no clue. Whether it be a sign that makes no sense such as "No pregnant women (or men)", to cars crashed in unimaginable ways (how did that car get upside down on a set of stairs?), or stunt attempts gone wrong, it's great to know that there are so many people much stupider than you are. For newcomers there is stacks of content that will take you hours to go through, so for those that haven't been there before it's a goldmine of entertainment. Some of my favourites are complete lack of thought in architectural or manufacturing design, such as...

Kiddy Ride Design Fail

Picture Is Unrelated

Failblog has several sister sites, though none as funny... except maybe Picture Is Unrelated. Where Failblog focuses on stupidity, Picture Is Unrelated has you scratching your head wondering what the hell is going on. Mere stupidity can't create these images. It's more like some combination of warped imagination and a heavy dose of drugs... well, possibly some elements of stupidity too. The Japanese seem to have their fair slice on this site. But then there are also guys like this...

Kids : Do not accept candy from this man.

Cyanide & Happiness

A webcomic that I'm sure many of you are already familiar with. I like my humour on the 'wrong' side, and these guys cross that line with glee on some occassions. Other comics go off on a random tangent, and others break the 4th wall and the characters are aware they are in a comic, or use self-referential material. 3 different authors produce the work each with their ownstyIe yet still within the same sense of humour.

Coloringbookland

The comics on this site are no longer updated regularly, but for the utmost in vulgarity, I suggest you visit. These are single frames of old school line drawings that look like they are from decades past, but with over the top captions that contrast with the art styIe. It's hard to give any specific examples because I'd get modded for mentioning just about any of them. Here's one that might be relatively safe.

HyperDeathBabies

Another website where the comics are no longer updated, but still some funny stuff. There are several different comics to peruse, though perhaps my favourite is the 50's Apocalypse series where many comics are the same panels with spartan design, but with different captions for each comic.

So what other comics or regular funnies do you guys visit?

So my housemates decided to go on the local zombie walk. I wasn't sure whether I was going to go. I mean, it sounds cool that it's an event an everything, but at the same time, it's just people wearing make up and shuffling down a street which doesn't sound very entertaining. So in the middle of writing the above, I decided to go on short notice and thought I'd talk about it. I thought I did a reasonable job for a first effort, with what looked like a nice patch of dried blood down one side of my face, and a temporary tattoo of a gunshot wound, and some white paint for that pale look. Added the obligatory rips to clothes, colored the edges of the tears with some paint. I thought I looked pretty decent.

Upon seeing some of the other people in town, I felt like I was wearing a garbage bag to a masquerade ball. We arrived late so missed out on the actual walk, but there were some bars that were catering to the zombie crowd for the event, so we headed there. Some people really went to alot of effort on their costumes, and myself and friends felt quite underdone (and one of them used green paint, and looked more like She-hulk than a zombie). There were cop zombies, nurse zombies, council worker zombies, a pregnant zombie with baby arms coming out her stomach, and I didn't meet just one but 3 zombie Jesus' (Jesi?). Pretty sure the one carrying around his cross had the most legitimate claim to being Gods undead son. Next year I think I'm going to see if I can pull off having a pole go through one part of my body and coming out the other side. Though that could look a little hokey as it would to be positioned correctly on both sides and remain there for it to look convincing, I guess. I think the key to looking is good is accessorise. A waitress was serving severed fingers on a plate, a cop had his handcuffs attached to his belt dragging a severed hand behind, and an artist with a brush through her head was using blood from severed fingers on a board to paint. I'm not sure about the stormtrooper; he just looked like he was covered in blood.

But some zombies are just rude. My friends and I were playing pool at one of the pubs, a couple of my friends go outside for a smoke. 3 girls come in and sit down near the table, on the seats that we were using. I'm not too fussed; we weren't sitting down so it isn't like we owned those chairs. Not sure how they couldn't see the drinks in front of them that belonged to us though. So I had to excuse myself to grab them and move them. A minute later I had to take a shot across the table, and asked them politely that I might need them to move aside for a moment while I take a shot. They just kind of looked at me and moved their heads maybe a centimetre out of the way and kept talking away to each other oblivious to the stick near their face. I missed the shot because I was concerned I was going to hit them. Should have just whacked them. They were dead already anyway.

Driving in was pretty funny, staring out windows at others passing by, and just walking through the city seeing the faces of onlookers who had no idea about the event. On a side note, I thought it would have been absolutely hilarious if someone unaware of the event jumped out screaming "Oh, my god! Zombies!" and started beating into someone with a plank of 2 by 4. In all it was a pretty fun night, though when you look at it, it is pretty pointless. Here's to zombie-ing it up next year.

Category: Humor
Posted by bacchus2, 6:35pm
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Needs more Engrish, and Foolz3h!

Were there anybody going as any non-Zombie RE characters? I hope not.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 6:54 pm PT


I didn't know those sites, with the exception of FailBlog, but they are pretty great. When I am bored I go to Cracked for some good laughs.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 8:29 pm PT

nice ones. You should show some more in your next blog.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 9:05 pm PT
Oh dear God someone stab my eyes out! I need brain bleach!

I visit failblog from time to time. I was going to recommend CAP Alert, but you know about that one from one of my blogs. Other funny sites I'd recommend:

notalwaysright.com. Full name of the site is (The Customer Is) Not Always Right. As you might imagine from the name, it is a collection of thousands of hilarious stories involving really, really stupid customers. It also gives you a new level of respect for people who work in customer service, retail, grocery stores, etc.

tvtropes.org. You have probably at least heard of this one. It is a wiki that collects tons of tropes, cliches, and other various recurring themes in a variety of genres in many different fiction mediums, from films to games, literature to anime. It isn't exactly strictly a comedy site, but it does have many examples of hilarity. Really cool website to waste time on, though I warn you: You may very well find yourself up into the early hours of the morning reading random articles on the site.

Our local arts and entertainment college puts on a big Halloween festival every year. They have a small haunted house set up, numerous food and drink stands, shopping, and live music performed by people in the music classes.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 10:05 pm PT
The real star of the event is that about thirty people in the dance class get dressed up in some really well done zombie costumes and performs Thriller in the middle of the street, complete with a Michael Jackson lookalike (Er...that is one who looks like Michael back when he was his original color...). It is a really well done performance, though no word yet if they will do it again this year, given how Michael is dead and all, though I'd personally think that it would make their performance even MORE special this year.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 10:07 pm PT
Hi Bacchus. I like failblog. I sometimes hit up funnyordie and cakewrecks is really laugh out loud funny.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 11:01 pm PT
@Foolz3h
I had forgotten about Engrish. It's been a while since I've gone there.

No RE characters. One guy did go as Silent Bob, holding a sign that said "I killed Jay". He had a skull bong and he put a blonde wig. As far as I could tell he stayed in part and didn't speak. Original I will grant him, but it was a bit obscure.

@Pierst179
Will have to look that up.

@shadowchronicle
My computer is pretty slow, so trying to put pics into blogs is tedious, but I decided to do this as a once off.

@raven28256
Just having a looking at customer always right. This is gold.

Customer: “Excuse me, the bathroom door is locked and I can’t get it open. Do you have the key?”
Me: “No, ma’am. If the door is locked, that means someone is using it.”
Customer: “Is there a way to make sure?”
Me: “Did you knock?”
Customer: “Yeah, and whoever is in there keeps yelling at me that they’ll be right out!”

A couple of us said it would be cool to do Thriller, but I don't know the dance and you would need someone with the music and enough people to make it really work. The bar would need to be in on it.

@kellymae
I can see why you would like Cake Wrecks. I saw some funny stuff but not enough to keep my interest. Will check out funny or die soon, added it to the favourite list.
Posted Oct 11, 2009 3:51 am PT
The Zombie Walk sounds like fun... except for the rude zombies. All social rules are thrown out the window when dealing wih zombies so a pool sctick to the face is completely appropriate
Posted Oct 11, 2009 12:32 pm PT
Hah, great stuff. I discovered Failblog a while back, and I love it. So many things that just make you wonder what the heck the person was thinking.
Posted Oct 11, 2009 3:35 pm PT
@polsci1503
Even when I'm undead, I'm still a gentleman and couldn't hit a lady zombie in the face.

@GabuEx
I'm sure you would love picture is unrelated then. It will have you scratching your head wondering about the extent of some peoples imaginations.
Posted Oct 11, 2009 4:10 pm PT
I don't know man, are they really women anymore? They can't procreate and make zombie babies, they no longer wear makeup, and they will make a move to eat your brains just as quick as any man... I say the old rules are out. Pool cue, ashtray, beer bottle, peanut bowl to the noogin... I won't judge you. The only thing your chivaly will get you is your intestines in their maws.
Posted Oct 11, 2009 6:56 pm PT
I go to ta couple of those sites I love them there is a site called thechive.com its ok its good for when your bored at work also I adore zombies but I just can't do a zombie walk lol
Posted Oct 12, 2009 9:54 am PT
@polsci1503
I did manage to escape unscathed and return to the land of the Living on this occassion.

@payne6705
Bookmarked!

@Foolz3h
Going through some random photos where one of my friends was tagged on Facebook, it appears that there was someone who may have been a character from RE. Apparently she went into one of the bars and a whole bunch of zombies assaulted her I'm pretty sure I also saw a zombie Spiderman in the background of one of the photos.
Posted Oct 12, 2009 4:30 pm PT
Thank you for mentioning cyanide!!! I remember seeing a few of their strips pop up in other places, but couldn't remember the name of it. It is now safely added to my daily reading list.

One of my favourites is Sinfest. Pokes fun at religion and many other topics.
http://www.sinfest.net/

Another enjoyable one that begun at my school's newspaper is Sam & Fuzzy.
http://www.samandfuzzy.com/
Posted Oct 17, 2009 8:34 pm PT
Hilarious stuff. I used to really enjoy stickdeath.com several years ago, but not so much anymore. Maybe it was a phase.

I wish we had things like Zombie walks where I lived.
Posted Oct 19, 2009 4:55 pm PT
@Pure_Canadian
Thanks for the links!

@mprezzy
Just watched a bit of stickdeath. Not bad, but I don't think I'll be a frequent visitor. You can always start up your own zombie walk
Posted Oct 21, 2009 4:00 pm PT
Thanks for the Cyanide link. I've seen bits of the comic online but never knew where they came from ^_^
Posted Oct 29, 2009 10:49 am PT
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