Tag: funny

Laughter and MIRTH

This is excellent trolling, a study on the damaging effects of laughter. To lol or notlol is the question

Laughter is not purely beneficial. The harms it can cause are immediate and dose related, the risks being highest for Homeric (uncontrollable) laughter. The benefit-harm balance is probably favorable. It remains to be seen whether sick jokes make you ill or jokes in bad taste cause dysgeusia, and whether our views on comedians stand up to further scrutiny.

DC oompa loompa

Speaker of the House John Boehner has long denied that his perpetual tan skin color is the result of sunless tanning. He just spends a lot of time outdoors, the Ohio Republican is known to say. But despite his repeated denials of using tanning beds, Boehner has ties to the industry. Not only has he accepted campaign contributions from a group called the Indoor Tanning Association, Boehner actually lives in a D.C. apartment owned by a lobbyist for the American Suntanning Association.

i never understood this. is boehner from the jersey shore? does the orange-american constituency even vote?

Affluenza

I thought the perpetrator was a victim because of the Justin Bieber haircut, but this is amazing too:

You have this problem, if “you have too much and you don’t know how to distribute it.” in his view, this “defense” is “not exclusively for the rich.” So, good news—if you live in poverty but have too much stuff to distribute, this defense may also be available to you.

2022-01-31:

Responding to the tragedy with a triumphant show of support, members of a local community came together Monday to express hope that killing 2 people in a drunk-driving accident would serve as a wake-up call to the promising young rich kid responsible. “With any luck, this little mishap will be a turning point for [perpetrator of DUI manslaughter] Greg [Nelker], and he’ll graduate and go on to Yale without incident,” said concerned resident John Morgan, adding that he was sure the 17-year-old high school senior and frequent drunk driver realized how lucky he was that nothing worse had happened.