Satireday
Satire / BBA student gets married, calls it the best networking experience of his life
Nothing is impossible – if you believe in your ability to make the right connections, that is.
Satire / iPhone 16 users claim biggest feature is a scam
The iPhone 16 series launched a couple of weeks ago, coinciding with a sudden rise in online ads by people selling human kidneys.
Government losing ‘Aandar’ control trying to bring it under control
In an unprecedented twist, the government keeps losing Aandar control while attempting to bring it under control. Aanda, or egg -- whatever people choose to call it doesn’t matter anymore as they are having breakfast without eggs.
Holy League unveils new leftist wing
“We represent the thoughts, feelings and experiences of the majority of Bangladesh. Our policies, philosophies and ideals are all BLESSED. You must understand this,” he yelled at the crowd.
A tale from the future: Ordinary students celebrate lynching 100th person
The year is 2028. Ordinary students have done something extraordinary yet again. Yesterday, they organised “Lunch for Lynching” to celebrate beating a hundred people to death since the “lucky seventh independence”.
Satire / ‘Natok Kom Koro Pio’
“Natok kom koro Pio,” the man said, his white beard shaking with fury.
Altruistic prisoners demand work-from-jail permission
When the world is busy inventing and discovering new things, the people of Chapasthan 2.0 are busy coming up with new demands with every passing hour.
Satire / Nation struggles with newfound freedom of speech
Who would have thought? From the yoke of authoritarianism, where everything you said had to be checked for the presence of words that could anger the powers that be, today, Bangladeshis can say whatever they want to.
Obsessed with rainbows, ex-faculty member slapped with restraining order
When the former part-time lecturer of Crack University was let go last year for his discriminatory language and actions, he was at a loss. Why had the university dismissed him for tearing up a book as an educator?
The Cancelling
The TV hummed slowly, filling the room with a soothing sound. Almost acting like a form of white noise.
Tyrant wakes up after 15 years, becomes good person
A tyrant who was on a drip of liquefied sleeping pills for the last 15 years because another tyrant had usurped him, woke up on August 7 and became a good person.
Satire writer struggling with deadline decides to write about himself
The internet is a many-splendoured thing, but it has utterly failed to help me write a piece that will fill up column space.
The ethics of being unethical
Keeping animals in captivity and making a spectacle of them is bad, it is unethical. Trying to think of captions about evolution and how monkeys can eat lollies
Novax Djocovid doesn’t endorse hypocrisy, but...
When little Novax was young, he got what he wanted every time his birthday arrived. He had a way to get his stuff, for he had discovered the magic word, what he thought was the “Philosopher’s word”.
‘Putin only trying to find mental peace in Ukraine – he’s a Libra!’
Chief Astrologer to the European Union of Natural Sciences (EUNUS), Kazuki Kunikoto Erif, said on Monday that the Russian premier Vladimir Putin is only trying to find mental peace in Ukraine.
Schools to be shifted to shopping malls to avoid closures
The country has broken records for keeping schools, colleges and universities closed for the longest time after local scientists discovered that Covid thrives and is transmitted only in educational institutions.
Woman trapped in spiral to renew passport
The following is part of an interview of a woman who is still trying to collect all 634 documents to get her new passpor:.
BPL: The GOAT tourney at evoking nostalgia
Remember the time when you had to flee the streets impromptu to dodge “a stunner” right after you or one of your mates had hit a well-timed lofted shot, which triggered the arrival of a certain Stone Cold Steve Austin as the sweet sound of timbre preceded a crash?
Panic as users getting notified of all Messenger screenshots ever
Thousands of people have thrown away their smartphones in utter panic after news broke that users were getting notifications of every screenshot that was ever taken of their Facebook Messenger conversations.
British environ-mentalist shocked to find Desi wife’s plastic bag stash
British environmentalist Dr Susten Abeel was left utterly shocked to find a stash of plastic shopping bags in his new wife Sonali Roy’s closet.
#AllCovidsMatter gains steam amid latest wave
As everyone and their grandchildren are getting infected with the Omicron variant to the extent that news of someone getting infected is no longer surprising, a new movement called “#AllCovidsMatter” has gained traction on social media.