Random Absurdity

  • We’re still here and post-judgment day life is pretty awesome

    It is now 6:02 in the p.m. here in Japan and I can confirm that my good Christian neighbor has not been beamed up to heaven; there have been no great earthquakes (except for the one we had a couple of months ago); there are no trumpets; and I...
  • Osama’s dead, cue the memes

    In case you have been living under a rock for the last few days you will have probably already heard that Osama bin Laden shuffled off this mortal coil with a little help from double-tap to the side of the face. By now his body would have reached its...
  • King tim starts his own country

    You are about to find out about a king that no one else has ever heard of before. I know a man who has officially begun his own country, successfully succeeding from the Queen of England. He does many of the things that a normal king would do. He...
  • The trick shot Doc [video]

    This video shows a possibly fake doctor messing around with a range of stuff that you might find in a doctor’s office: x-ray film, tongue depressors and the like. It is a short video that is really worth watching all the way to the climactic conclusion – I am...
  • Making coffee in Afghanistan

    A group of Canadian troops made a video that details the complicated process of making coffee in a combat zone. Please note that the video makers are soldiers in a combat zone – the language that they use is savory to say the least and may offend some viewers...
  • Big Wheel vs. New York City bus

    Mark Malkoff took to the streets of New York in a big wheel to race the city’s famously slow buses. To keep things legal (riding bicycles on sidewalks is against the law in NYC) Mark rode his big wheel through traffic....
  • Segway jousting, one of many ways you can entertain yourself if you are suddenly super rich

    If you win the lottery you can entertain yourself in ways that regularly monied folks can only imagine – like strapping on a suit of armor and abusing a couple of Segways in a test of one’s warrior mettle. ...
  • Chinese cab driver’s stupidity leaves him stranded on stairs

    Spare a thought for Chinese cab driver Xiao Cheng because it looks like he had quite a bad day – or night. His problems started, as they are given to do, with booze. Cheng wasn’t drinking but his passenger had been. Anyway, Cheng’s passenger explained where he wanted to...
  • Britons play live-action rude-word Scrabble in supermarkets

    It seems a movement is underway in the United Kingdom. A bunch of cheeky shoppers have taken to rearranging common items in supermarkets and department stores to create rude, offensive and funny words. The spices are obvious, but there are a few other examples where people have gotten creative...