Pull your own finger

I'm buggered by the blog for this week, renal failure.

It makes me want to cry. Not because it’s shit or anything, but because it’s supposed to be brilliant, it should be brilliant, but I just don’t get it.

It looks good, - really good, has a great title, simple template, decent colour scheme, cool header, and I even don’t really mind the spazzy jingly jangly sidebar because it kind of fits with the comic book type look. (I would move the character images higher up though)

It’s been around for an age in blog terms, it’s very well written, very articulate, and it’s as lovingly and carefully maintained as a high class prostitute’s bush.

There’s a whole cast of voices involved, maybe too many to be really welcoming to new readers perhaps, but it's shining a beacon of humour across the blogging universe.

All that is simply fantastic, except for one small thing - I don't find it funny.

Now, I could be just an uneducated, humourless runt, and all of this flew right over my inbred head, but I don’t think so.

I had to re-read some posts in case I had missed the funnies, to no avail.
I scratched my head at the dozens of re-posts of former glory, and I picked scabs from my own anal cavity in an attempt to make some of the oldest rehashed gags known to college students seem more entertaining.

Credit where it’s not particularly due, I did snort at this and their ‘precious encouragements’ series is indeed amusing, and probably my favourite feature.

Having said all that, I almost changed my point of view on this whole thing when I received a reply to my question if the submission for review was 'genuine and wanted'. The answer was in the affirmative and followed by ‘…unlike my daughter’.

Now that’s fucking funny.

To sum up, before I lose the will to live, this looks tasty, reads pretty good, there’s a mountain of effort and time put into it, which I simply adore, but the humour just didn’t tickle my testes. Another reviewer perhaps and you could have hit the jackpot.

So, cue everyone else saying how hilarious this was and the authors moaning about how unfunny I am.

There's no accounting for taste eh?

For the meticulous effort and good readability: