Category Archives: Humour

This stuff is funny, to me anyway.

One enormous footer

Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Registered Office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales, number 2065. Telephone: 020 7626 1500. Bank of Scotland plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland, number 327000. Telephone: … Continue reading

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How customer service should be

Awesome and entertaining customer service from IWOOT! I’m sorry to hear about this, but thank you for letting us know. I’ve just sent a request for a new one to be sent out to you, so you should receive it … Continue reading

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HP strikes back

Hewlett Packard, and others, strike back with ever more excessive cardboard gluttony; the Register has the details. BT’s feeble attempts at a cardboard indulgence.

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Home Office Gaffe

The UK Home Office published a consultation paper on the 24th April detailing their plans for draconian data retention and access rules, which will see ‘communications data’ retained by ‘communications service providers’. As concerning as the whole thing is, there … Continue reading

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Mah Pizza

Thanks Will! and Kenny.

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Can anybody explain?

chris@sandman:/mnt$ sudo df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 459G -1.9G 461G 0% /mnt chris@sandman:/mnt$ sudo du -hs . 4.0G . I sure as hell cannot!

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The Art of Shipping, HP Style

Hewlett Packard seem to have an internal shipping and packaging manual which enforces excess, for crying out loud we don’t want our precious consignments broken so we give them plenty of impact absorbing cardboard crumple zones. The Register has been … Continue reading

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Out of Office Road Sign

Discovered this little gem on BBC News. The Welsh translation reads: I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.

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Credit Crunch Jokes

I came across a fantastic collection of jokes on the BBC News website, submitted by readers, about the credit crisis. What’s the difference between Investment Bankers and London Pigeons? The Pigeons are still capable of making deposits on new BMW’s. … Continue reading

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It’s the moon stupid!

Seriously, a Welsh bloke phoned 999 (the UK emergency number) to report a large bright stationary object in the sky which had been there for at least thirty minutes. What a total waste of police time and taxpayers money.

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