The Japanese space agency has developed a new kind of underwear, which can be worn for a week before needing a wash. This is amazing news – undies need washing? The Japanese space agency has developed a new kind of underwear, which can be worn for a week before needing a wash. Pah – I […]
Author: Wok and Mat
Warwick Holt and Mat Blackwell are long-time writing partners, who created the mega-award winning web series Bruce, and wrote loads of jokes for TV shows including Good News Week, The Sideshow and The Glass House. Several years of their raw material for those shows is posted right here on this blog.
The infamous outlaw Bandidos Motorcycle Club is selling T-shirts for kids as young as eight. They also stock miniature Harleys, small plastic knives, tiny little bags of speed. / bags of speed in “fun size”. The infamous outlaw Bandidos Motorcycle Club is selling T-shirts for kids as young as eight. They also offer stick-on tattoos […]
I’m not sure what’s happening in the week ahead. I think my memory erasing pills must be working backwards. The Japanese space agency will turn their research departments towards developing solar-powered shoes, and hope desperately that they’ll one day have a space program to work on. Things will go terribly wrong when the artificial terrorist-sniffing […]
An American doctor has invented a device to ease the trauma of sedating children for operations. The “PediSedate” is a helmet connected to a GameBoy or portable CD player that the child can be entertained by while a mouthpiece administers nitrous oxide gas. Of course, it’s not much help to the kids who are scared […]
Audi are introducing a new feature to their cars – tips on how to save fuel. Tips include the best gear to be in, not putting your foot on the clutch too early, and avoiding smashing in the annoying bloody dashboard. Unfortunately the power expended in the fuel-saving tips does tend to negate any gains […]
A British website has collected extreme money-saving tips from people they’re calling “daredevil scrooges”. That’s right, daredevil scrooges! They’re so tight they risk their lives through anal implosion! Ah, daredevil scrooges. They’d be superheroes, if it wasn’t so damn expensive. / if capes weren’t so expensive. / if saving people wasn’t so damn costly. Daredevil […]
A Sydney-based graffiti crew have been jailed for defacing trains in London after having graffitied in Australia, Japan, Spain, Italy and Germany. And they say graffiti will get you nowhere! / vandalism won’t get you far! Some people tour the world to see the wonders of the world – and some go to tag the […]
A 49-year-old Brooklyn man has been charged over impersonating his dead mother to claim her government benefits. At least it wasn’t to have sex with his dad. That would be weird. Footage of the man’s strange behaviour was shown in court, shocking the jury. And the judge shrieked during the shower scene. After the man’s […]
Psychologists have trained rats to become successful gamblers, before showing how modifying the brain chemistry could make the rats less rational. It was their only hope of winning back their losses. Rats, left to their own devices, quickly learned to minimise their losses and maximise their profits. The scientists then injected the rats with brain-effecting […]
In Britain, a gang of jewellery robbers have been caught by police when their getaway driver refused to break the speed limit. He may be a jewel thief, but he’s no criminal! Looks like their hold up was held up. Armed robbery is one thing, but speed kills. For his safe driving, he got 5 […]