Brave Little Hitachi Wand

Oh, dear. There’s been a huge misunderstanding. You’re thinking of objectivity. Jokes are not objects, they’re sub-

Look, I can’t do everything. Dear reader, please look into this and report back with your findings.

Exactly, that’s… That’s exactly how subjectivity works. Is there a problem?

I really don’t care to litigate anyone’s comedy, it’s the reaction that damned him. The simple truth is that if someone doesn’t like your joke, they’re right.

Nobody has ever seriously defended or explained a joke so well that it eventually became funny, and every professional comedian knows it. You either spin it into a different bit or apologise and move on. You’ve got to be a real prick to be that rich, privileged, safe, and still think you have to defend a joke that hurt someone’s feelings. “Sorry that one sucked, no hate.” How hard is that?

If a veteran comedian like him chooses to get serious and defend a joke, that tells me they weren’t joking or they have a different motive than mere entertainment. Trust is built slowly, quickly lost. Especially among persecuted groups.

Yeah you are, you’re fucking off!

His older work stands up mostly, but lately he has thrown in with the wave of “anti-woke” comedians, repeatedly doubling down when criticised for making transphobic remarks.

A comedian these days has a very difficult choice to make, it must be said. I fully admit it! They have to do a lot of emotional and mental labour to make light of the very dark times we live in, or they can just side with far-right billionaires and culture war reactionaries and just make easy punch-down jokes about people who already face incredible violence. It’s got to be so hard!

If you like

Ricky Gervais

you can fuck off

I know the casualties number is not “dead” per se, but even if you go by estimated dead at something like 325k the difference is staggering. More than an order of magnitude more deaths on their side. That’s the cost of meat wave tactics versus a modern military.

Clever.

They’re right though, it’s the gen z equivalent of a laugh track.

🫡

Goddamn. I wish I was either more autistic or less, I just mildly suffer all the time.

Plastic plants aren’t great, it’s true. At least you’re ready to take a few shits.

Twenty years… Ghastly and chilling. I spent just a short stint in online and phone sales at a motorcycle parts manufacturer, ten years ago. I got calls back then that I’m still annoyed about.

I feel certain that the precious store of good will towards humanity I ever had would now be deep in the red had I stayed. Not that boat insurance has been great for my mental health, but at least I get to hear fisherman’s tales without the bother of buying them beer. I turn the inherent risk of crabbing into box wine, and if it involves calling dumbass hospital billers sometimes, so be it.

You worked a call centre for twenty godforsaken years? What are you? Are you a golem?

It’d go AAAAAAAA in a Pee Wee Herman voice and scare the shit out of everyone

Also extra calories, keeping in mind it’s a struggle meal

It was invented for a “cheapest meal” competition if I recall. If someone really made this, the inside bread would be drowned in something with several insane flavours. Probably Branston pickle.

That can’t be my problem, you know? It’s just me and this dirty ass air fryer on a mission.

He thinks we are a problem. We had better prove him right.