Amuse small children with this giant inflatable spider puppet. // Lionel Richie’s Hello remixed by Matthijs Vlot. // Couples, vacuum-packed for freshness. // Shaolin kung fu monks. // Can you match the colours? // How to spoil your cat. // Small girl and lion. // A very loud snoring dormouse. // Painting in haste. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) // 48 years of Doctor Who and it’s not getting any better. // If Beavis and Butt-Head were real. // Bill Whittle on presidential iconography. // Every home needs a pile of huge woollen pebbles. // And then there’s the giant camera of which the legends foretold. // “That’s the mistake that Karl Marx made.”
Update:
How to massively improve the songs of Depeche Mode:
Very Fast toy cars is down:-(.
I wonder if the vacuum-packed people get breathing tubes, of if they're just told to hold their breaths until the photographer is ready to un-seal them.
That poor lion. Such a tasty morsel, tauntingly out of reach!
Posted by: Jason Bontrager | January 27, 2012 at 02:38
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/pm-julia-gillard-and-opposition-leader-tony-abbott-trapped-in-aboriginal-protest-on-australia-day/story-e6freuy9-1226254391578
The Australian parliamentary opposition leader Abbott makes some comments about the aboriginal embassy. Activists claim he said something he didn't actually say, they storm the building that he and the PM are in, they beat on the windows and scream.
The activist explains : "He said the aboriginal embassy had to go, we heard it on a radio broadcast" (n.b. no, he didn't) "We thought, no way, so we circled around the building…You've got 1000 people here peacefully protesting and to make a statement about tearing down the embassy - it's just madness on the part of Tony Abbott," Mr Anderson said. "What he said amounts to inciting racial riots."
Apparently, I had a mistaken understanding about how racial riots unfolded. Remember, if anyone disagrees with me then I'll riot and you'll be to blame.
Posted by: Col. Milquetoast | January 27, 2012 at 05:31
Jason,
“Very fast toy cars is down:-(.”
Blazes. I’ve replaced the ultrafast cars with a snoring dormouse. It isn’t fast but it is loud.
Posted by: David | January 27, 2012 at 07:18
Snoring dormouse wins.
Posted by: carbon based lifeform | January 27, 2012 at 10:28
Snoring dormouse is begging to be eaten in its sleep:-P.
Posted by: Jason Bontrager | January 27, 2012 at 14:47
Of possible interest...
Brian Micklethwait on the disingenuous use of the term “caught up in.” As in, “My son was caught up in the looting, rioting, arson, etc.,” thereby implying a lack of choice, even victimhood.
Posted by: David | January 28, 2012 at 15:16
How to massively improve the songs of Depeche Mode
That's so sweet (and way better than the original).
Posted by: Anna | January 29, 2012 at 17:17
How to massively improve the songs of Depeche Mode
Still laughing...
Posted by: Karen M | January 30, 2012 at 16:56
The hilarity of asking Laurie Penny for her an opinion on whether parents should be allowed to smack children.
Who is responsible for this? Who in channel 4 news sat around a table and said "I know, this is related (however tenuously) to the riots, so let's get LP in!" What use is it to the general public to hear her opinion on how to be a parent?
Eventually the other woman briefly loses control, laughs out loud, and asks Penny if she perchance has any children herself?
"I don't know why that matters" is the (predictable?) response
Posted by: Henry | January 30, 2012 at 18:08
Henry,
“‘I don’t know why that matters’ is the (predictable?) response.”
As we’ve seen many times, Laurie doesn’t let a lack of experience (or knowledge, or logic) impede her adamance.
Posted by: David | January 30, 2012 at 18:41
“That’s the mistake that Karl Marx made.”
David, another good Madsen Pirie video...
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/010206.html
Posted by: sk60 | January 30, 2012 at 19:18
The Depeche Mode family ... something on the internet that's even cuter than cats.
Posted by: witwoud | January 31, 2012 at 01:57
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough
Posted by: Ben David | January 31, 2012 at 19:41