Random Absurdity

  • The Apple Store Challenge [Video]

    New York comedian Mark Malkoff has been up to his old tricks – this time he has taken his show into Apple Stores. In the Apple Store Challenge, Malkoff goes into Apple Stores armed only with a camera, a few props and some tasteless but funny antics. According to...
  • Unintentionally funny dog walks up the stairs with a cone around its neck.

    This video goes out to everyone out there that has ever had a dog. It may seem mean or even cruel but often cones are necessary to allow the proper medicinal treatment of whatever ailment the animal has. I wish my youtube downloader worked properly so I could have...
  • Samuel L. Jackson reads “Go the F**k to Sleep” [video]

    By now most people are familiar with or, at the very least, have heard of Adam Mansbach’s Go the F*ck to sleep. It is billed as a children’s book for adults and has been showered with compliments from frustrated parents all over the Internet – it went so far...
  • Woman Goes Crazy over Breaking Dawn Trailer

    While it is completely understandable that people have favorite movies that they really enjoy and it’s totally understandable that people feel passionate about things, I don’t get how someone can get so emotional and over the top about a trailer for a movie. In the video below (and be...
  • A five-second solution to the menace of planking [video]

    There is a phenomenon sweeping Australia, and indeed the globe at the moment called “planking” – maybe you’ve heard of it. People position their bodies in a rigid, prone position while their buddy takes a photo. They then post said photo on the Internet. For the most part it...
  • The worst playground idea ever [video]

    Unfortunately our search for details on this interesting piece of playground equipment has come to nothing. It may very well be a hoax, but if it isn’t then someone, somewhere is definitely getting sued, fired or a combination of sued and fired....
  • Slingshot maestro risks life and digits to sling saw blades [video]

    Everybody’s favorite slingshot engineer Joerg Sprave is back risking his life and digits again with another dangerous-looking slingshot contraption. His latest creation is a oversized slingshot that fires rotating saw blades… fun times. I would add the usual, “don’t try this at home” disclaimer, but the people that are...
  • Florida man arrested for allegedly attacking woman with a swim noodle over a watermelon dispute

    Welp, my work is done here—no need to finish this story, because everything you need to know resides in that ridiculous, yet informative, headline. But I will, because, as always, there’s more to the story. Pictured here is Karl Ludwig Eichner of Naples, Florida, and he is the man...
  • End of the world billboards prompt sassy billboard retort

    Although a large part of this author really hopes that a bunch of people raised enough money to raise this billboard somewhere near Harold Camping’s Oakland headquarters – something tells me it is just a quick and easy Photoshop effort. For the record, the Gimp traces in the file...