Tag Archive: funny

“Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal”

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We love ‘The Gos’, we really do. So when we heard about Ryan McHenry’s genius internet meme, “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal”, we couldn’t wait to share it with you. The Scotland-based writer and director made up of a series of short videos on Vine, each showing a spoonful of cereal slowly inching towards [...]

To Do Cat

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Apowl is having a wee break at the moment – if you must know, we’re in Denmark – while we change a few things on the site. Don’t worry, it’s going to mean more interesting things for you to look at – and a brand new section! In the meantime, we saw this and couldn’t [...]

Thumbs and Ammo

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The blog Thumbs and Ammo, have created this awesome collection of shoot’em up moments with one element removed: the guns. Suddenly tough guys like Al Pacino’s Tony Montana in Scarface don’t look so tough… he’s just enthusiastically giving a thumbs-up. Click the pic to see more.

Valentine Cards for Puritans

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Happy Valentine’s Day Owls! To celebrate, here’s a collection of Valentine’s Cards from those crazy Puritans. Thanks to Collegehumor for creating these little gems. Click the pic to see more.

Senior Tech Lessons

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The arduous task of educating senior citizens has fallen to a kindly gentleman named Bob. Bob’s the teacher at Senior Tech Lessons – a tongue-in-cheek web series designed to impart advice on how to tackle technology. Made by the Conan show,  it gives the elderly the tools “to join the cutting edge.” Bob teaches those [...]

Rap Colouring Book

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Rap hero Bun B is curating the greatest hip-hop colouring and activity Tumblr of all time. Never mind that it’s probably the only one. The American rapper, real name Bernard Freeman, has taken it upon himself to take some of his hip-hop heroes and turn them into print outs that you then colour in. “It’s [...]

Extremely Silly Photos of Extremely Serious Historical Figures

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Scientists, tsars, world leaders and intellectual innovators aren’t usually the types you’d turn to for larking about. However, these men and women, when not being deadly serious can be as puerile as the rest of us. Over on Flavorwire they’ve put together a cracking collection of iconic figures having a laugh. Our favourite is this [...]

Romney vs Obama, by Cassetteboy

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King of the mashup, Cassetteboy has turned his prodigious talents to the US election with an almighty mash-up of the Presidential debates. Using his black sense of humour, he opens the video with Obama talking about how he is going to fist Romney. Still undecided? The video could help. Click the pic to watch.

Andy Samberg’s Harvard Commencement Address

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Earlier this week, Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg headed to Harvard College, where he jokingly hoped to earn an honorary degree. Instead, the comedian was on campus to deliver a speech and even a kiss to a lucky or unlucky student, depending on how that dude feels about the experience. The speech itself was simply [...]

The difference between ‘you’re’ and ‘your’

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It is said that we are the generation who was never taught grammar, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re incapable of learning it. One of the biggest bug bears of YouTube rapper Mac Lethal is the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’. So, he decided to make a song about it. If only school was more [...]