Category: humour

what’s best for poor people

On By Rick McIn economics, education, humourLeave a comment

White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day.

They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job instead of studying art at a University. …

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original – flickr

… It is a poorly guarded secret that, deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be EXACTLY like them. In fact, the only reason that poor people make the choices they do is because they have not been given the means to make the right choices and care about the right things.

Stuff White People Like – #62 Knowing what’s best for poor people

stuff white people like

On By Rick McIn blogs, humourLeave a comment

Ah, white people. They are such an easy target.

New blog, uber-popular right now:

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A few samples:

#87 Outdoor Performance Clothes
#86 Shorts
#80 The Idea of Soccer
#78 Multilingual Children
#75 Threatening to Move to Canada

It’s almost more, stuff YUPPIES like. Still funny.

stuff white people like

TED conferences, videos and blog

On By Rick McIn humourLeave a comment

Garth recommended the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.

The format is fast-paced, with 50+ speakers over four days (plus short talks, performances and evening events). In 2005, an additional conference, TEDGlobal, was inaugurated. It’s held every other year, in a different location, focusing on a different theme.

TED brings in the best of the best, like Sergey Brin from Google, to speak to the wealthiest of the wealthy.

But when technical difficulties stopped the Brin presentation the other day, a heckler jumped up from the audience:

… He riffed about a new Apple product called the “iWhy?” and a few seconds later said, “I have just one question about the British royal family: All that money and no dental plan,” which got a lot of laughs and a few sympathetic nods toward the BBC presenter sitting behind him (who appeared to have perfectly fine dental hygiene).

He didn’t spare panelist Brin and Google, noting that if you walk into Google you see everyone in front of their computer sitting on exercise balls, “which I think is how they’re hatching new employees.” …

Robin Williams Saves the Day at TED When Tech Fails – Wired

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I’ve subscribed to the TED blog.

TED themes – official home page