2012-366 Day 276 – Funny RSS

You know what we haven’t done in a while? (235 days to be exact.) Looked into my RSS feeds. I’ve covered the Dodger blogs and Webcomics in previous editions, and now we’ll go for something a little lighter. These feeds are under the tag “Funny” and when I want a laugh, they’re the ones I turn to.

Autocowrecks – http://failblog.cheezburger.com/autocowrecks
This site has expanded from auto correct errors to all manner of mobile mayhem. Texts, tweets, and apps are all fair game and usually pretty funny. Apparently I’m too hipster for D@#N You Auto Correct, since this site has the same idea but I don’t follow DYAC. Actually, the true problem is I am too completionist, and if I can’t go through all of your archives in a couple hours or days, I’m not going to follow your site because I’ll feel like I missed something. Yeah, I’m a special person that way.

FAIL Nation – http://failblog.cheezburger.com/fails

Essentially America’s Funniest Home Videos for the internet. Probably has just as many groin shots too. Honestly is probably first on the chopping block if I ever go through and prune this down, but when I need a healthy dose of schadenfreude, this is where I turn.

Superheroes – http://memebase.cheezburger.com/superheroes

While FAIL Nation may be my least favorite on this list, Superheroes is by far my favorite. Poking fun at all of the worst in Superhero-dom while also celebrating the best, it’s rare that I am not totally caught up on this feed (other feeds I many be a few ::cough:: dozen ::cough:: entries behind on). Definitely on the geeky side, but that is my side so I’ll take it.

Win! – http://failblog.cheezburger.com/wins

Fail Nation’s opposite number, there are all manner of cool things that show up here. Ninety five percent of the time I can only shake my head in agreement and mutter, “That’s a win.” I also don’t have the problem with terminology that I do with the Fail site: When someone accomplishes what they set out to do, even if it is a bad thing, how can you term it a “Fail”? No nerdy semantic issues on the Win side, which helps with my cognitive dissonance (I do believe I have set a record for biggest psychological terms used in reviewing mostly dumb sites between this and schadenfreude).

Fake Science – http://fakescience.tumblr.com/

I suppose we can leave Cheezburger land (check the addresses of the previous links) and move over to Tumblr, another source for funny sites. Fake Science is exactly what it claims to be, one “page” (think magazine ads or posters) bits of science that is not quite . . . correct. Usually well done, they just published a book as well highlighting some of their previous entries.

Failbook – http://failblog.cheezburger.com/failbook

Back to the land of Cheez, and the feed that makes me laugh but also most often makes me weep for the future of humanity. Trawling all of Facebook and bringing back the dumbest examples is probably the easiest job in the world, and this is one place to find it all. Okay, there’s some pretty funny stories too. Heaven help us if I ever find someone I know on there, I may leave the Internet for good.

Passive Agressive Notes – http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

And these guys just speak for themselves. If you ever leave an anonymous note for someone that threatens or is sarcastic, expect to find it here shortly. Also funny are the childhood notes to parents that people have submitted, usually by the child themselves since the note was generally written a couple decades ago. This was one of the originals, and has produced many moments of laughter and/or facepalm.

A couple other sites like I Can Haz Cheezburger and There I Fixed it used to be on the list, but got trimmed mid-year. I’m actually due for another trimming as I’ve gotten pretty far behind on my RSS reading in the past couple months (mainly since the Road Trip vacation), but this is the status of the Funny at the moment.

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