Too Stupid for Words category archive
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.
Collectives 0
If it’s a murder of crows, a pride of lions, and a gaggle of geese, why not a meme of hipsters?
Errata 0
Last night we watched the latest episode of Bones from our DVR, in which Emily Deschanel stated that the Iliad (it sounded like “Ilium” on the soundtrack) told the story of Odysseus and Scylla and Charybdis.
It doesn’t. That’s from the Odyssey.
We are a society of stupid.
The Walking Braindead 0
Meet the “smombies”:
Stockholm had by far the worst smartphone abusers with 23.6 percent, or nearly a quarter of people on foot distracted by their phones while crossing through traffic.
Amsterdam on the other hand had the lowest number of “smombies” (smartphone zombies) at 8.3 percent of pedestrians, while Berlin fell somewhere in the middle at 14.9 percent.
When I ride my bicycle around my neighborhood, I fear the smombies much more than the car drivers, and I fear a car driving smombie most of all.
Fifty Shades of Stupid 0
My school trips were so very tame.
Buried deep in the story is a qualifier that the students in question picked out the film, no one was forced to watch it, and everyone who did watch it was old enough to see it in a movie theatre.
But, really, now, there is no way that this could have turned out well.
Pretentious Posturing 0
Apparently, “food tech” is a guy thing.