"There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live with, how you wear your hair, whether you marry, whether you insist that your child take piano lessons, what are the brand names on your shelf; all these become political decisions. At other times, no act—no campaign or tract, statement or rampage—has any political charge at all. People with the least sense of which times are, and which are not, political are usually most avid about politics. At six one morning, Will went out in jeans and frayed sweater to buy a quart of milk. A tourist bus went by. The megaphone was directed at him. 'There’s one,' it said. That was in the 1960’s. Ever since, he’s wondered. There’s one what?"

About to finish the speedboat by Renata Adler & even though I didn't understood most of the time what was happening in the novel, I am enjoying it. The book is filled with little snippets. Renata writes with someone who has an excellently flair of observing people & finding humour in just about everything. Yet times do I wish, that novel had some structure to it.

Have you read this novel ? May be there should be a reader's companion published along with this novel.

I read hungrily, and I can't believe it took me forever to get around to SPEEDBOAT. It's a thing of beauty. Her tone is calm, the language is self-possessed, and it's made me laugh out loud in public places.

808s & Heartbreak is superior to Late Registration, but We Major is a hallmark of Ye being both triumphant and self-aware. I like hip-hop in a huge and dated way; I wish I were more up to date on the mixtapes dropping left and right, and my ultimate favorite album is still Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury. Run The Jewels is a close second, and I'm stoked for RTJ2!

In the Mood for Love is the gentlest film I have ever seen. I also caught Boyhood in the theater when it came out and it almost made my #1 spot. Wong Kar Wai does with intimacy what Richard Linklater does with time, I think.

Not gonna lie. I cried when I finished Journey.

25/F

Please help me find something funny to read that is not on every "top 100 funny books to read" list! I'm desperate. I somehow accidentally read 25 dour, tragic, serious books in a row this year and I need something a little lighter that won't also feel like a waste of time.

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have already read and loved:

Catch-22 [This is the gold standard of American comedy for me]

Everything by P.G. Wodehouse [and this is my gold standard of English comedy]

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky [I would be especially interested in other books that are about, or written by, people who are not from the USA or England, like this one]

Everything by David Sedaris

Everything by Kurt Vonnegut

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

Good Omens and other Terry Pratchett books

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Three Men in a Boat by J. K. Jerome

Running with Scissors/Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

I never see these recommended and I loved or liked them a lot:

Treasure Island!!! By Sarah Levine [A top example of 21st century comedy]

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis [A top example of 20th century comedy]

The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray [A top example of 19th century comedy]

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Hotels of North America by Rick Moody

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

Why Are You So Sad? By Jason Porter

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The Asterix comics

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have read and thought were fine, but wouldn’t necessarily seek more of:

Allie Brosh’s stuff

Hark! A Vagrant

I am America! (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert

The Night Vale books

John Dies at the End by David Wong

Christopher Moore’s books

Everything else by Bill Bryson

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I didn’t care for:

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk

Anything by Thomas Pynchon

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Dresden Files series

The Martian by Andy Weir

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern

Most celebrity comedian me

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

[Removed]

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.