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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

Comedian and author Paul Verhoeven
‘If technology allows, I’d like these 10 things beamed into whatever is left of my brain long after I’m dead’ .. Paul Verhoeven. Photograph: Katrina Loprete

Malcolm Gladwell said that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Now I don’t know if being an expert at “the internet” is worth the paper it’s printed on – which it isn’t, because nobody has printers any more, so please stop sending me PDFs to print and sign, this isn’t 2009, DAD.

… But I’ve been steeping in the internet’s murky depths long enough to know what I find funny. So here, without further ado, are the 10 things which helped me not to go off the deep end during Covid purgatory, and which, if technology allows, I’d like beamed into whatever is left of my brain long after I’m dead.

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