humour

Other people’s lives, or Carlin and Nock

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Do you read autobiographies? I read a lot of books, but autobiographies is not a genre that has attracted me much for most of my life. At a certain stage of his life, my dad  read and recommended autobiographies to me . I remember one. It was the autobiography of actor Dirk Bogarde [...]

Outsourcing2.0dea

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The Doctor Recommends this Onion News story about outsourcing. Great idea.

Caption competition

I love them. Practice your wit and inventiveness here (or just lol at the wit of others: there’s plenty, scroll down to the comments for better ones). My favourite: Balls, where did I leave my keys?

Japanese version of “The Office” and other Japan news

Thanks to Japan Probe, I discovered that the British comedy series The Office had a Japanese inspiration. Like The Office itself, people seem to either love it or not find it funny at all.
And speaking of Japan news, those foreigners living in Japan may be glad to know that the term “gaijin” has been officially [...]