Fun Stuff

I, like most people of my generation, like cartoon programes such as The Simpson’s and Family Guy, yet I miss Looney Toons like Tom & Jerry. My favorites also included Speedy Gonzales, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester & Tweetie, Road Runner and of course Bugsy. But a part from the odd feature length sanitized version from Disney, they never seem to show the classics on terrestrial TV, or else I’m never up early enough to watch them? I fear however the PC’ers and people with too much time on their hands to complain caused them to be axed…

I’m not condoning the violence of cartoons or sayings its amusing (although of course it is hilarious); no I’m also interested in the philosophical issues raised by cartoons such as T&J, Cats inhumanity to Mouse for example. Also it’s an interesting case study of the 1950s/60s and its politically incorrect climate, which is progressively diametrically opposed to our current more enlightened times. I’m not asking that they show them just for entertainment, but for the purposes of education of our youth, social studies classes should be established for the study of such cartoons!

Or you could just watch the ones I found on youtube?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8z5JON-fOc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvR58XdzINk&mode=related&search=
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av7nyA3ufXE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT92rLEAWd8&mode=related&search=
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7-OzPYra_o

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 // Fun Stuff

I came across de-noted tonight, just thought I’d share this with you.

I blogged a while back about PostSecret, a blog where people anonymously submitted postcards with private or personal thoughts illustrated on them. Well, de-noted is a bit like that, except that people are encouraged to modify and submit pictures of money.

My favourite was the picture of Chairman Mao below:

Thursday, April 12th, 2007 // Fun Stuff

I feel sick. I stumbled across RoboDump 1.0 this evening.

What’s RoboDump, you ask? It’s a robot that you install in a public toilet cubicle. When you start it up, it makes some godawful noises.

RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds.

Sounds like a great idea for anyone office-based like me. Here’s how it works….

Monday, April 9th, 2007 // Fun Stuff

Today Mr Levee introduced me to PostSecret, the best blog ever (except The Levee Breaks of course!)

For an inherently nosey person, the thought of being able to read peoples deepest, darkest secrets is so appealing to me. In fact it is almost addictive. People have admitted to affairs, being gay, taking drugs and so much more.

The basic premise of the blog is that people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

As a parent, this one is one of my favourites and I fully intend to use it on my boys when they grow up.

Go on, have a nosey and let me know what your favourites are.

Sunday, September 17th, 2006 // Fun Stuff

Have you ever fancied a spot of trampolining while buck naked? If like me this has always appealed to you, but you don’t want to scare the living daylights out of your next door neighbours, then check out this site.

The object of the game is to keep your nude trampolining dude on the trampoline, while performing as many moves and stunts as possible. I managed a poor score of 490 before falling off and breaking my neck, the highest scores achieved are over 6000, so I have a bit of a way to go before I will reach the leader board.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 // Fun Stuff

I am a firm believer that the eighties were not good to anyone. Look at those fashion and hair disasters…. absolutely no one looked good!

If you need reminding, or just fancy a trip down memory lane, then check out I Love Eighties Music and you can watch all your favourite hits of the eighties, with the artists looking less than sexy.

The site contains well over a thousand eighties hits, I don’t think you could think of an eighties song that isn’t included in thier list.
A few favourites of mine are Abba’s - Super trouper, Alannah Myles - Black Velvet, Aswad - Don’t turn Around and Aerosmiths - Janies Got A Gun.

Thats just the As, it could take me weeks to get through this site!

Sunday, July 9th, 2006 // Fun Stuff

If ever a website made you want to cringe with embarrassment, Black People Love Us will do the job every time.

Warning to the humourless: This is a spoof website.

Sally and Johnny are a middle-class white couple who find that they are well-liked by black people:

We are well-liked by Black people so we’re psyched (since lots of Black people don’t like lots of White people)!! We thought it’d be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN’ domain name and a killer website!!

The pictures on the homepage are of Sally and Johnny ‘hanging’ with their black friends. Brilliantly, they are at the center of the group and all their black friends are laughing at their jokes. Underneath this, they have a set of testimonials from their “real life friends”:

Johnny calls me “da man!” That puts me at ease. It makes me feel comfortable, because I am Black and that’s how Black folks talk to one another.

Check out the hanging out section for pictures of Sally and Johnny chillin’ with their homies!

As you can imagine, there’s a serious message behind the satire, and it points the finger at the misconceptions we have of other races and the social stereotyping, like all blacks listen to gangsta rap, submit to ghetto culture and are somehow less intelligent than white people. Also, how all blacks think the same:

Sally and Johnny always ask me how the entire black community feels about certain topics. I really respect this about them because I am black and therfore obviously know how all blacks feel about everything! Black People Love Us Testimonials

We don’t really have this problem in Northern Ireland, because we’re not that multi-cultural. Yet. It’s coming, though and maybe we need to ask a few questions about our attitudes toward different races and cultures.

Friday, July 7th, 2006 // Fun Stuff

Prepare to wet yourself laughing. The Leader Of The Free World takes the U2 classic and makes it his own. Pure class!

As seen on Break.com

Discovered on The DIY Rockstar

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006 // Fun Stuff

You’ve got to take a look at this!

Back on Sunday evening when I was - ahem - searching for the Girls Aloud website, I came across the most fantastic website in the universe - Stardoll, formerly known as Paperdoll Heaven.

Remember those old magazines where you cut out the figure and then folded the clothes over to dress them? Well, the 2006 equivalent of that. You can take any celebrity you like Britney Spears, Shakira, the female cast of Friends, just about any celebrity you can think of!

So, yeah, that killed off a few hours on Sunday evening. How often do you get to put Angelina Jolie in a wedding dress? Well, voluntarily, without resorting to kidnapping or bribery. Actually, the whole thing’s pretty addictive. Now I know what happened to Avid Merrion.

A word of warning: avoid the Sharon Osbourne doll at all costs!

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 // Fun Stuff