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Written by a 5 year old. Drawn by his 29 year old brother. It’s immense. Read it!

You need to watch, at an absolute minimum, the first 42 seconds of this.

Then the genius of it will hit you.

Yes, at long last, thanks to the sterling efforts of these thoroughly amazing chaps, it’s now possible to express sarcasm on an Internet!

“HOW?!” I hear you cry!

It’s simple! You just send them the princely sum of $1.99 and they send you back a bit of software that installs the new sarcasm punctuation mark onto your PC!

Then your dreams of being able to use sarcasm online can finally be realised.

Never mind that for anyone else to even see it, they’ll also need to buy the thing. Just ignore that and buy it for yourself, and wave goodbye to wondering whether your own words are sarcastic or not!

Amazing!

Hot on the heels of that SRS BSNS post, then, is this: Tetris with a twist.

Literally.

You’ll see what I did there after you’ve tried it.

See?

A man was arrested under the Terrorism Act and issued with a life ban from Doncaster’s airport after joking on Twitter that he would blow it “sky high” if his flight was delayed.

Now, excuse me for being rational here for a second, but is that not the most absurd thing to have happened in years? Actually, it strikes me as being pretty equal on the scale of Batshit Insane as the guy who wasn’t allowed on a flight due to his t-shirt having a print of a Transformer on it.

There’s a write up on the Telegraph.

The gist of it is that he posted the following due to being concerned about missing a flight because of a snow-related airport closure (I’d link to the tweet itself, but it’s been deleted):

Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!

A hearty “Well done!” to whichever Daily Mail-reading shitpipe phoned that into the police. Really, it’s making me fear for my life even reading it now, after I knowingly pasted it in to this box myself, it’s just so obviously threatening. Oh wait: no it isn’t.

Part of me is thinking;

If you don’t want to get arrested for hoax bomb plots, don’t post things like that anywhere in the first place

and that’s all well and good. Sure, he was a bit silly, or perhaps, a tad careless, given that we should all be familiar with how encroached upon our civil liberties have become in recent years. To focus on that, though, is to miss a much more crucial part of this story, which is what another part of me is thinking about;

If things keep going along this sort of track, am I going to end up with the fuzz at my door for calling whoever phoned this in a shitpipe? Or even for posting about how dumb I think the police’s actions were? Or for calling them ‘the fuzz’? Where’s the line? Does one even exist?

A guy has been arrested for, essentially, a thought crime. It’s pretty major. Or at least, one step away from pretty major. Indicative of potential pretty major-ness, for certain.

As far as doing things on the Internets goes, I tend to take a view along the lines of that taken by Internet-famous Internet-funny Internet-guy David Thorne, to wit;

The Internet is a playground

yet here we have a stark warning that, hey, it’s actually not. It’s actually pretty serious business, and you need to think pretty carefully about what you say, lest the government decide to use anti-terror laws to teach you a lesson.

Anti-terror laws. Actually used to actually arrest a guy over something which was clearly harmless.

Doesn’t that concern you?

I know this is a year old, but so what. Also, all the versions on youtube with the actual video too have embedding disabled, those fucks.

So why the fuck is this thing, which leaked today, so fucking shit?

Liam Neeson looks lame and sounds terrible.

Quinton Jackson looks lame and sounds terrible.

Everything else looks lame and sounds: terrible.

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES RUINED, THANKS FOR THAT.

What childhood awesomeness will they ruin next?

Perhaps The Dukes O Hazz- oh.

What about Knight Ride- oh.

Maybe The Incredible Hu- oh.

Surely not Transform- oh.

Do we, the class of the 80s, actually have any memories left?

Two nights out in the snow with the camera, so far, with varying results.

Not sure yet why full auto mode gives nice white pictures and Av/Tv modes yellow-hued ones, but I’ll figure it out. Maybe.