Even Apeldoorn Bellen…

There’s not much joy to be had out of Dutch tv – it’s mostly turgid, incomprehensible soaps or mammothly dull talkshows, punctuated by a rotating series of about five ads, randomly interspersed with big-jawed women with unbrushed hair or a squint reading endless repeats of the provincial news. Either that or wall to wall music videos punctuated by sexline ads. Entertainment it ain’t.

But one bright spot is Apeldoorn’s Central Beheer insurance company’s hilarious series of commercials. All of these are SFW, except for the bonus clip, which is emphatically not.

You don’t need any Dutch to get this joke:

If you’ve been thinking about getting a tattoo – don’t watch this.

Sometimes there are very few advantages to being a minor sleb.

Bonus Clip [NSFW]

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Comedy Double: Political Dumbassery Knows No Borders

This is all over the place – that McCain/Palin veep conversation in full:

Insufficiently vicious, to my mind, but then it is American. Quite funny, but I’d like to have seen what Spitting Image would’ve done with it.

But if you thought Palin was crude and provincial, watch this. “The front fell off!” A classic political interview from Australia:

That is all. Isn’t it enough?
Nah.

Bonus Clip:

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Comment of The Day

On Riazat Butt’s Guardian post on responding to vocal bigots:

CritKing

Aug 27 08, 12:25pm (about 20 hours ago)

fight fire with fire I say…

the other day I was out on my race bike training in Amsterdam (CK is a top bike racer) and a group of moroccan teenagars called me a poofter, probably something to do with tight lycra.

As CK is also quite a ladies man I stopped, and asked the ringleader how many women he had been to bed with, also adding, “besides your sisters and cousins”.

That shut him up.