Category: Funny

This morning I was proofreading some documents for a field survey, and at one point in a training document it says “Now, we will do a demonstration interview. [—] will play the role of enumerator and [—-] will be the dead teacher.”  What?!

No interviewing of dead teachers in this particular survey.  Next week I’ll be pretesting my paranormal baseline, in which we interview dead librarians, so that’s closer. 

This reminds of a paper I co-authored once in which my colleague accidentally wrote about the implications of our findings for pubic policy. I’m not sure what those implications would be, besides washing your hands after going to the bathroom or encouraging male circumcision to reduce the risk of HIV transmission.

For now, I’ll stick with head teachers and public policy.

Today I went to a neighborhood rated (apparently) as one of the worst in the entire world.  I believe it; even I found it kind of depressing, with heaps of trash and no sanitation plan (I saw all kinds of sanitation being emptied into the central canal…all kinds, real time).

So instead of dwelling on that, I’ll share a video clip from Extras which I find wildly funny.  People sometimes say we have subtle racism hidden in our subconscious: Ricky Gervais gives us the true test.

One of the more popular white person activities of the past fifteen years is attempting to educate others on the evils of multi-national corporations. White people love nothing more than explaining to you how Wal*Mart, McDonalds, Microsoft, Halliburton are destroying the Earth’s culture and resources….When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.

from Stuff White People Like