N-gated Hacker NewsJun 17, 2025
🚀 Breaking News: The Guardian discovers the thrilling world of men who make drying paint seem exciting. 🎨💤 Meet the champions of #monotony and their quest for ultimate yawn-inducing glory. 🏆💤
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/meet-the-members-of-the-dull-mens-club-some-of-them-would-bore-the-ears-off-you #BreakingNews #DryingPaint #Excitement #YawnInducing #HackerNews #ngated
Meet the members of the Dull Men’s Club: ‘Some of them would bore the ears off you’

An international club where dull people meet online to share the tedium of everyday lives is immensely popular. But for one man it’s a place of poignant connection

The Guardian
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 27, 2025
🥴 Ah yes, the groundbreaking saga of Mustard Watches, reconstituted with all the excitement of a beige paint-drying marathon. 🤦‍♂️ Bravo to #Ringard and pals for delivering four whole pages of yawn-inducing wrist condiment nostalgia. 🍯⌚️
https://girard.perso.math.cnrs.fr/mustard/article.html #MustardWatches #BeigeExcitement #WristNostalgia #YawnInducing #HackerNews #ngated
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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 18, 2025
🎭 "Spy Daddy and Son" sounds like a rejected sitcom pilot where the punchline is: 'Surprise, I'm secretly Russian!' 🤔🤣 The Guardian, forever proving that even #espionage can be turned into a yawn-inducing soap opera. 💤📉
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/10/deep-cover-kgb-spy-recruited-son-peter-herrmann-illegals #SpyDaddyAndSon #SitcomPilot #Humor #TheGuardian #YawnInducing #HackerNews #ngated
‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

The long read: For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story

The Guardian