Too Stupid for Words category archive
First Things First 0
Priorities matter.
As he walked out of court , Shkreli had something more pressing on his mind. He asked his lawyer: “Can I play Pokémon Go now?” according to a New York Daily News reporter who overheard the question.
Droning On 2
Boys and their toys . . . .
The presence of the drone forced Cal Fire to ground firefighting aircraft due to the risk of a collision.
Information posted on social media helped lead Cal Fire law enforcement officers to 57-year-old Eric Wamser. He was arrested Friday afternoon and booked into the Placer County Jail.
Tell Me Again Why They Are Called “Smart” Phones? Once More All Over Again 0
The four teenagers had ventured into the network of caves at Box to play the augmented reality game, which launched in the UK this week and is already sweeping the nation.
The stupid. It burns.
Addendum:
And then there’s this.
Tell Me Again, Why Are They Called “Smart” Phones? Reprise 0
What’s a little breaking and entering when it can get you hit points*?
After one such ‘gym’ was discovered on the grounds of the Technical University of Denmark, where construction work is currently taking place, a number of people tried to break in.
The university has asked via its website that players refrain from trespassing on the building site.
We are an society of international stupid.
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*Do gamers still call them “hit points”?
Short Attention Span Theatre 0
The resident curmudgeon at my local rag is driven to distraction.
Later:
When I was on my way to the TWUUG meeting the day after I posted this, some bozo coming the other way tried to swing a left at a light in front of me while I was trying to go straight with the right-of-way. I seldom use my horn, but using it gave me pleasure at that point in a juncture of a confluence of time.
He was not texting or talking on a cell. He was just a bozo incapable of thinking of anything other than hisownself.
Virtual Unreality 0
This looks like a clear case of date-and-switch:
The existence of the fembots – fake profiles used to keep men on the “Life is short, have an affair” forking out funds in case they got lucky – was revealed after the infamous hack of the site. . . .
At its worst, the site was accused of having just 1 per cent of “real women” among its members: the rest of its female profiles were fembots.
Headline of the Day 0
Police: Man critical after being struck by car while riding stolen moped
If I ever see a car riding a stolen moped run into someone, I’ll write a headline about it too.
Mulligan, Virginia: A Variation on the Stadium Scam 0
The small city of Buena Vista, out on the other side of the state, thought a new shiny municipal golf course would solve all its problems. It didn’t, so the city took a drop.
Then, in December 2014, the city council voted to stop making payments, which left ACA (ACA Financial Guaranty Corp–ed.) holding the bag.
Try just stop paying your taxes. By the by, ACA is suing.
Afterthought:
I have a suspicion that, until the editor got hold of it, the last sentence of the excerpt above included the word “golf” before the word “bag.” If it didn’t, it should have.
Flagging Interest (Updated) 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Aside:
I too get irritated when I see persons show disrespect to the United States flag under the delusion that violating the flag code is somehow a display of patriotism–it is indeed perhaps my most pet peeve–but I don’t steal their flags. Or their tee shirts. Or their greasy hair rags.
What such persons display is often not patriotism. Rather, it’s patriotism’s drunken, violent cousin, jingoism.
Addendum, the Next Week:
Math Skillz 0
A UPenn prof was taken off a plane for writing in math.
A fellow passenger apparently thought it was Arabic.
We are a society of stupid.