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The latest entries into this pit of despair

L.O.V.E.: 28 April; Have you seen those YouTube shorts that are nothing more than an animation to L.O.V.E. sung by something that sounds like Mickey Mouse on helium? The first time was kinda cute. Even the second time. But it's getting pretty fucking tiresome now: unoriginal, repetitive, and dull.
(more…); grumpy
Elementary maths dear Watson: 28 April; A man who drove a car into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, killing at least eleven revellers, has been charged with eight counts of murder. According to the Vancouver Police Department, further charges are expected.
(more…); crime & punishment; elementary, my dear Watson!
No place to hide: 27 April; Are you LinkedIn? Yeah, me too.
(more…); grumpy; politics; teh soshull notwerk
Clean 'round the bend: 27 April; Only two years have passed since Zaria Gorvett and two like-minded ~~licence fee spongers~~feature writers extolled the value of vinegar as a cleaning product on behalf of BBC Future, so it must be time for another article on the subject. And Katarina Zimmer is the woman for the task.
(more…); BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?; gotta respect the grift; health; science
King of the swingers: 26 April; Sean ~~Perv~~Puff Diddy Combs' defence team has argued that he's not a criminal, rather that he has simply led the lifestyle of a swinger.
(more…); celeb; crime & punishment

The latest updates to past woes

Snow White: D.O.A.: 29 April; At the risk of dancing on the grave, after five weeks on general release Snow White has finally limped over the $200M mark. Just.
(more…); entertainment; if schadenfreude didn't exist, it would have to be created; wit & wisdom of the comments section
Snow White, vampire hunter: 27 April; Somebody at the BBC obviously reads this blog!
(more…); culture vulture
Six women and a giant dildo: 15 April; The home page has finally caught up. Although this appears to be one of those stories that's subject to the BBC's stealthy update shenanigans—which itself might explain the time warp.
(more…); BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?
Beginning of the end: 7 April; I saw a YouTube short today which brought this post back to mind.
(more…); entertainment; obituaries; quoted for WTF?; wit & wisdom of the comments section
Lifting the veil: 25 March; Of all the reviews I've watched and read—not so many, admittedly—Gary Buechler's is the funniest. I laughed so hard my wife threatened to leave the room. Okay, I knew that it would be a negative review going in, but that's not the point; the point was to see how he got there.
(more…); culture vulture; entertainment; world's most trusted BBC

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