Irony

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Irony”

• Mother Weep The Years I’m Missing

  
  A Bowl of Stupid — Authority: 104
  "These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of rock stars, and they will ruin rock n roll and strangle everything we love about it. And then it just becomes an industry of cool."– Lester Bangs, Almost Famous (2000)I happened to stumble into the gym this evening just as HBO [...]
  8 hours ago

• Irony award time

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 150
  "The fact that I flew here to sit on a panel for one and a half hours, then I´m flying straight back to the US, is an example of our commitment to environmental sustainability..." Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, blissfully unaware of the irony of her statement as she boasts of her companys environmental commitment. ...
  10 hours ago

• Verizon wants Sprint to pull network claim advertisments, oh irony

  
  Boy Genius Report — Authority: 777
  Okay, lets see if we’ve got this straight. It is okay to build an entire ad campaign that has the lone purpose of undermining a specific rivals 3G network, but when a third company says it has, “America’s most dependable 3G network” it offends your delicate constitution? Verizon Wireless has “suggested” to ...
  11 hours ago

• Two things you need to see.

  
  I was told there would be bacon. — Authority: 125
  The first absolutely made my day (via Jezebel and Buzzfeed ): The second (sent to me by The Boy I Currently Like, who will get only full-frontal hugs from this painted woman) was hilarious, but in a completely different way:
  23 hours ago

• Still Learning

  
  Trap Door — Authority: 127
  Working at CVS on the weekends has proved to be an education. An education in liquor, cigarettes and cigars. Who knew when I decided to work at a pharmacy that this would be the top three things I sold? Seriously, liquor is easily 40% of everything I ring up. Cigarettes are right behind that, and then Acid cigars ...
  1 day ago

• No Tagging [Flickr]

  
  Dave Knapik — Authority: 136
  daveknapik posted a photo:
  1 day ago

• caption contest, Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel

  
  Buffet o' Blog — Authority: 121
  Most of the caption contests here use pictures loaded with randomness, but this week I’m going to use a political photo, so we can try to make some political humor.  This photo is of President Barack Obama relaxing, while his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is on the phone.  I have no idea what the actual context of ...
  1 day ago

• Ironic Factories and Parks

  
  Gently Hew Stone — Authority: 126
  What does this say about our modern age?  Las Vegas, like most big cities, is home to:an Old Spaghetti Factorya Cheesecake Factorya Sushi Factorya Tan Factoryan Ethel M. Chocolate Factorya “BratWorks” (a kind of mechanized sausage assembly line, it seems)and even an Arts FactoryAlongside all of these, we also ...
  1 day ago

• Video of bears playing ice hockey (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 684
  Video of bears playing ice hockey. Via . And a few more links: 1. The Chronicle Herald reports that Peta held an event to promote new device that "humanely" kills lobsters and invited lots of people. Unfortunately, the device broke. So Peta instead killed hundreds of lobsters in the traditional inhumane ...
  2 days ago

• Can’t Say No to Government Healthcare

  
  Political Irony — Authority: 475
  Yesterday, I reported on the irony of McCain’s former health care advisor, who is losing his health insurance and has a preexisting condition. But the irony keeps coming. Earlier this month, wing-nut Michele Bachmann sponsored a protest against health care reform at the Capitol, with angry protesters ...
  2 days ago

• Even Devin Hester’s Butt Exposure Fails To Secure A Win For Bears

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Ranjan BhaduriNov. 23, (THAINDIAN NEWS) It seemed that Devin Hester put in a lot more for the match against Philadelphia Eagles than was expected by any body who was present in the venue during the course of the game. As for the hapless spectators in the stands or the viewers who sat glued to [...]
  2 days ago

• Paul Verhoeven and the Aesthetics of Awfulness

  
  Overthinking It — Authority: 427
  [Overthinking Cowboy Bebop is on hiatus due to VerhOeverthinking It Week .  Dont worry, itll be back soon!] Back in the days when I was a teenager, before I was a hipster and before I had a website, I used to divide movies by their goodness into two basic categories. Judgements are subjective. If you loved ...
  2 days ago

• Paul Verhoeven and the Aesthetics of Awfulness

  
  Overthinking It — Authority: 427
  [Overthinking Cowboy Bebop is on hiatus due to VerhOeverthinking It Week .  Dont worry, itll be back soon!] Back in the days when I was a teenager, before I was a hipster and before I had a website, I used to divide movies by their goodness into two basic categories. Judgements are subjective. If you loved ...
  2 days ago

• Irony Of Lightfoot - Ibex

  
  METAL HARDCORE ALBUMS — Authority: 153
  Band : Irony Of Lightfoot Album : Ibex Genre : Hardcore Year : 2000 Myspace Download Album Tracklist 01. Scene Of My Demise 02. If I Were You Id 03. Dance Of The Ibex 04. Playstation (Blood Of Chrisitan Children, Pt. 2) 05. Sounds Like A Plan 06. Kerryn Elayna 07. Manual ...
  2 days ago

• Adam Lambert Complains About Discrimination After Censored AMA Performance

  
  American Idol 9 - Rickey.org — Authority: 159
  Adam Lambert Complains About Discrimination After Censored AMA Performance is a post from: American Idol Oh the irony! After a few days of back and forth between OUT magazine , Adam Lambert and Adam’s uber-fans — Adam talked to Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson and complains about discrimination! ...
  2 days ago

• "I like design to be semantically correct, syntactically consistent, and pragmatically..."

  
  feed.reconfine.com — Authority: 122
  “ I like design to be semantically correct, syntactically consistent, and pragmatically understandable. I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all timeless. ” - Massimo Vignelli and boy did it suck having to type out that quote because it is presented as an image
  2 days ago

• Compassionate Conservatism

  
  Political Irony — Authority: 475
  Doug Holtz-Eakin, the former top health-care-reform advisor to John McCain during the presidential election is in an ironic position . After the election his job vanished of course, and now his COBRA health coverage — for which he pays around $1000 a month — is about to expire. And an accident in 1990 left him ...
  3 days ago

• Inanimate Objects Must Die

  
  Trap Door — Authority: 127
  I worked at CVS this evening and I swear it must be a full moon. Besides the weirdos, the drunks, the drunk tramps (yes there is a difference), and the geezers...those are the normal Saturday night visitors - the mechanical objects seem to be in cahoots to aggravate the crap out of us. Everything - the doors (yes the ...
  3 days ago

• Ooooo Mr. Burns, Feel The LOVE!

  
  Homeless Tales — Authority: 415
  "So we have our tea and cookies, yap about the problem we all know existed for the last ten years, figure out how to make a buck off it and then step over the body of the person that died while we were all busy discussing his problems for him, instead of going out and grabbing him a place to live so we DONT have to ...
  4 days ago

• "I cant wait to follow EXACTLY what Beck tells us"

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 686
  By GottaLaff Via where else? Twitter: Theres nothing like authoritarianism and blind followers to ruin a perfectly good country. Come to think of it, isnt it rather contradictory to follow "EXACTLY" what Blech tells one to do... to avoid impending dictatorship? Why, I do believe FreedomTCOTs thoughts and ...
  4 days ago

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