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Quality Humour
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50 Cent Cast As Blind, Mystery-Solving DJ Named Shamus Cocobolo
20 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
50 Cent has joined the cast of Odd Thomas, an adaptation of Dean Koontz’ novel, which I don’t really care about. What I do care about is the fact that 50 Cent is playing a blind DJ called Shamus Cocobolo, who will help Anton Yelchin’s “clairvoyant short-order cook” uncover a Satanic plot. No spice.
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Playboy iPad App Announced
20 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s called iPlayboy because, well hell, what else were they going to call it? The appeal here is not so much that you get to see tastefully nude photographs in glorious iPad detail as the fact that the application offers full access tothe Playboy archives – you would own every Playboy issue ever. Welcome to the future.
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Apple Approves Sugar-Daddy App
17 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Wow. Alright. Apple gave the the green light to a mobile app that promises to connect rich old dudes with young women. Sugar daddies with gold diggers. Seriously. They call themselves SugarSugar, “the world’s most effective and discreet place for finding Sugar Daddy and Sugar Baby relationships.”
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ANC And City Of Cape Town Arguing About Posters
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This is a little like me not being allowed to have posters up in my bedroom, but less serious: the ANC has lodged a complaint with the Electoral Commission after Cape Town city workers were found removing COSATU posters campaigning for Tony Ehrenreich. Because they want their posters back, apparently.
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Obama and Bin Laden Doppelgangers Hang Out
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ananias Rodrigues da Silva, the Brazilian Barack Obama lookalike, stopped by São Paulo to pay a visit to Francisco Fernandes – a bar owner who has been repeatedly harassed for his resemblance to Osama bin Laden. The two had a couple of shots and posed for photographs. It’s pretty great.
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Scrabble Adds ‘Grrl’ To Scrabble Dictionary
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And now I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Around 3,000 words have been added this year in the “most comprehensive Scrabble wordlist ever produced,” which I would be more upset about if most of my Scrabble games didn’t end in tears and fire. Also included: ‘innit,’ ‘thang,’ ‘fansite,’ and ‘Facebook.’
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Attention Bigots: This Guy’s On Your Team [VIDEO]
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This charming fellow is a member of the English Defence League, which is something similar to the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but for racist chavs. He’s clearly afraid of the the encroaching influence of “Muslamic” law. And did I hear him say “Muslamic Ray Guns” at 1:20?
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It’s Friday: Here’s A Giant Water Balloon Exploding In Slow-Motion [VIDEO]
06 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You guys like water balloons, right? Look outside, of course you do. And slow-motion things are pretty swell. And it’s Friday. So click through, start your weekend right. Seriously though, this isn’t so much a bursting water balloon as an exploding water bed. They’re called red giants.
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The La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment Of The Week
06 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?” Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So with great pleasure we present this week’s three La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment of the Week finalists. Inside we have Donald Trump, Princess Beatrice, and Sheryl Cwele. But who claims the prize for the most mindbogglingly foolish tomfoolery of the week? Click through to find out!
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Karl Lagerfield Has A Chocolate Sculpture Of His Boyfriend
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
But seriously! Lagerfield had a candy sculpture of Baptiste Giabiconi comissioned to promote Magnum ice cream. It’s wearing white briefs, and is placed inside of a room made of chocolate. There are so many comments to make about this that I am just going to report the facts and let you guys run with it, okay?
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Old Spice Has A Man On The Side [VIDEO]
21 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Old Spice has launched a new marketing campaign for its ‘Jungle Wilderness’ scent, featuring a vague parody of manly mascot Isaiah Mustafa. I mean, it’s funny and good but mostly I feel a big ol’ Isaiah Mustafa-shaped vacuum when watching this. Click through, though. Moustaches.
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“Weed Card” by Garfunkel and Oates [VIDEO]
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today is the 20th of April and I have no idea what that means, but here Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci sing about the difficulties involved in trying to of obtain medical marijuana in California, directed by Raul B Fernandez. It’s cute, and enjoyable for regular and chemically-enhanced viewing.
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Nandos Ambushes Vodacom, Scratches MTN’s Back
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, I see what they’re doing here. They’re creating a social commentary “meme”, which will in turn translate into peaked “sales”. “Kudos” to you guys. Great “activation” there. In all sincerity, keep it up, Nandos. You’re doing well.
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Stationery Thief Czech President To Be Sent Thousands Of Pens
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following President Vaclav Klaus’ pen theft during a trade ceremony with Chile, a 5 000-strong Facebook campaign has been launched in the Czech Republic to mail pens and stationery to his offices, because, “Mr. president obviously has nothing to write with.” As yet, there is no word on whether these pens are encrusted with semi-precious Chilean stones.
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Ninjas – You Are Never Safe
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Click to enlarge Not even in your local grocery store. In fact, probably less-so in your local grocery store. Have you tried to buy bananas on a Sunday morning. You’re joking. Don’t even joke. Not sure why this is awesome? Here’s a clue (clue: the clue is actually the answer): [Thanks, Ciro]
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Donald Trump Vents His Spleen On Vanity Fair
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Donald Trump is many things. Once man’s tycoon is another’s cantankerous old curmudgeon. Our opinion of the man falls somewhere in between those two markers. Trump’s latest obsession is taking a permanent marker to negative press.
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Protesting: The Devil Is In The Detail
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When you’re protesting for better working conditions, or any working conditions at all, really, it’s important to be specific in your demands. Well done to this gentleman, who appeared in this photograph on the front page of 13 April’s Argus. Be sure to read that sign he is holding.. The photograph related to a story […]
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‘Chicks With Steve Buscemi Eyes’ Is A Thing Now, I Guess
13 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well done, internet. It’s nice to know that we have more or less global, instant information sharing networks set up so that people can take photos of Hollywood starlets and pasting their faces over Steve Buscemi’s creepy handbag eyes, and then set up a popular website devoted to that sole pursuit.
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Monday Morning Radvertising: Segway Joust [VIDEO]
11 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With this whole ‘viral’ thing, many marketing departments are desperately trying to produce the kinds of advertising that get the internet’s attention – often with depressing results. Fortunately, the ad for the Washington Lottery is awesome; it has two dudes jousting on segways. Not totally sure how that sells lottery tickets, but hey.
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China Bans Time-Travel Movies
08 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is probably just the cherry on the big ol’ authoritarian cake they got going on over there, but hot damn. All the best movies had time travel in them. Never mind the fact that now a generation of Chinese kids won’t spend every waking moment waiting for their future selves to arrive in a DeLorean.
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Malawian Man Dies Of “Sexual Sweetness”
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Midway into March Silverstreak reminded us of one of the beautiful things about the English language – the numerous emotive properties created by combining words not often combined, especially so in central African news reports. Now, a Malawian man has been killed by too much “sexual sweetness” while having sex with a hooker.
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Tuesday Radvertising: Hot Wheels Loop
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of an advertising campaign for toy car line Hot Wheels, a facade loop was installed alongside a highway in Bogotá, Colombia, mimicking the loop tracks that you’re always a little crushed to discover woulnd’t work in real life. It looks pretty rad. Nice job, Hot Wheels. Nice job, Colombia.
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Watch The Full-Length The Hangover: Part II Trailer
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Well hello there, movie trailer. You’re looking pretty fine. What’s that? You’re a trailer for The Hangover: Part II? Well I guess that’s pretty — and you’re the first full length trailer? Oh, you’re a tease. That’s what you are. I guess that pretty much takes care of the rest of my Friday.
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Branding Is Important: Get An Eckō Tattoo, Get A 20% Discount For Life
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This sounds sort of like every dystopian sci-fi film ever, but okay. If, for whatever reason, you felt like you needed 20% off of Eckō-brand apparel for life, you could totally make that happen by getting an Eckō tattoo somewhere on your body. It’s a coupon that never expires!
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Ron Jeremy Has His Own Rum Brand And I’m Not Sure How To Feel About That
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ron Jeremy markets a rum brand called Ron Jeremy. If you know who Ron Jeremy is, accept that you’re sort of curious and click through to know more; if you don’t, please believe me when I say it’s better to be ignorant about this kind of thing.
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Richard Simmons’ Fit To Fly Video For Air New Zealand [VIDEO]
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I’ve only just noticed this, but Richard Simmons could very well have been Pauly Shore’s dad. This fierce fitness queen is part of a slew of video goodness on the Air New Zealand YouTube Channel – starring in his very own fabulous “Fit To Fly” series. They also throw in Snoop Dogg and some body-painted stewardesses.
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German Ad Campaign: ‘Sex Is No Accident.’
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
MTV Germany, which is a thing I didn’t know existed until just now, is trying to spread the word to the masses: there is no such thing as accidental sex, please wear condoms. To emphasize the point, they’ve put together a series of comics in which people accidentally have sex and don’t wear condoms.
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Norwegian Scuba Divers Ambush Google Street View Van
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Borre Erstad and Paul Age Olsen from Bergen in Norway waited patiently for the search engine’s car after receiving a tip off that the drivers were in the area. This is the sort of stunt that you can only dream of pulling off, but, these guys actually did it. Awesome ambushing footage after the jump.
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The Borat Mankini Argus Cyclist: The Plot Thickens
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
The mankini-clad cyclist who sent South Africa’s cycling community into a heady froth over his BMX and lumo green couture has been identified. But there is so much more to this story than the superficial…
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Castro Resigns Cuban Communist Party Leadership, Everybody Realizes He’s Still Alive
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fidel Castro has popped up in public to remind us that he isn’t dead yet, and to let us know that he isn’t in charge of the Cuban Communist Party. And hasn’t been since 2006, when he let his brother take over. Fidel didn’t realize that it might be cool to let people know that it was permanent.
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