#humour (57 quotes)

  • The sky is better than Sky©TM; no repeats; very widescreen; endlessly fascinating; no discernable plot: perfect telly. And however long you stare at it you never feel like buying anything – except perhaps occasionally cotton wool or candy-floss. And the detail, the work that’s gone into it – it’s truly awesome; terrifying. No wonder we watch telly.

    — Simon Munnery, Rook
  • TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.

    Ho ho ho.

    — BBC News, Clarkson stung after bank prank
  • Google may have hired Hixie, but their code is atrocious and always has been. They may force you to run a gauntlet of calculus questions during your job interview, but it seems that basic knowledge of real HTML is never tested. The half-assed HTML these guys grew up with between D&D sessions in suburban basements is considered good enough.

    — Joe Clark, Google can’t code
  • You know what else feels like real paper and doesn’t require cables or monthly bills? Fucking books.

    — Cracked, So Book-like, You'd Think It Was a Book (but it's not)

    Via Maskingtape.

  • Facebook announced to developers last night that it will soon be dropping the word “is” from status message updates.

    — Facebook To Drop ‘Is’ From Status Updates

    O. M. G.

  • Unlike Cage’s piece 4’ 33", the Moleskine doesn’t suffer from performance issues – the clicks, taps, pops and coughs of the audience, a badly calibrated stopwatch, or lapses of the listener’s attention. The wind of nothingness blasts, unhindered, from every page.

    — G. Grierson, Customer Review of Moleskine Pocket Plain Notebook
  • I've not read ‘The God Delusion’ but I do not need to: I simply imagine the kind of arguments he makes and then demolish them one by one.

    — Simon Munnery, Strange