Too Stupid for Words category archive
Snobs 0
First wine snobs.
Then beer snobs.
Give me a break.
Afterthought:
I have nothing against quality, but I expect a reasonable ROI.
Some years ago in the very early days of my time on the railroad, a couple of us went on a business trip to a regional office. At dinner one night, our host, the head of said regional office, ordered a bottle of Dom Perignon (and later stuck my coworker with the tab, but that’s another story). As he surveyed the bill for the evening, my coworker said, “I don’t care what’s on the label. No booze is worth $35.00* a glass.”
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*1980 dollars.
The Mouth Roars . . . 0
. . . but the skin is thin.
A Rasher Move 0
Now, you, too, can have your own bacon bits.
Fly the Fiendly Skies, Reprise 0
See foot. Shoot foot.
Investigators at the airport, using surveillance footage, were able to determine that the man made the calls from a pay phone inside the airport, and arrested him without incident, according to Sullivan.
His alleged motive? He and his traveling companion had missed their outbound flight to London’s Heathrow Airport, and were so desperate to catch their rescheduled flight on British Airways that they took these extreme measures, Sullivan said.
Facebook Frolics 0
Here come de judge. Here come de judge.
And, in other news, yet more racists take to frolicking . . . .
The Mything Piece 0
Despite the assurances of Hollywood, the that “we only use 10% of our brain” is crap somewhat lacking in veracity. At Psychology Today Blogs, Keven Bennett tries to track down who perpetrated the lie. A snippet:
Have you ever met anyone who is missing 90% of their brain? Probably not. If you have you could ask them what congressional district they represent. Whammy.
You’ve never heard of anyone with that much brain missing because pretty much all areas of the brain are active. They wouldn’t be able to function with that tidbit of grey matter. Even the regions of cortex in blind people that normally process vision are co-opted for other functions. Everyone makes use of the entire brain.
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebook (and many others) seem to have forgotten that, 4,000 years before ISIS was an acronym, Isis was an Egyptian goddess.
We are a society of stupid.
Droning On 0
Boys and their toys (and you just know it was an overgrown boy):
“At this point, we don’t know who was operating it,” Jamieson said. “No one came forward while we were investigating; security didn’t have any information when we were there.”
Damn right no one’s come forward. You can bet your bippy ain’t no one coming forward either.
A Matter of Time 0
Portland, Maine, has come out with a new logo which states that Portland was founded in 1633, despite it’s having been founded a year earlier. When someone complained, stupid followed.
Chris Busby picks up the story:
The “logic” behind Portland Downtown’s decision is that the logo is a marketing tool, and as such, like most corporate advertising these days, it need bear no relation to facts, history or reality. “While historians may not agree with our logic,” Gilbert wrote to Schechter, “we were really looking at the new brand/logo as a marketing piece and something that people would want to have on tote bags, t-shirts, postcards…”
Suggested debate topic:
- Resolved: That the United States began to go to directly to Hell, without passing “GO” and without collecting $200, the moment that everything became all about the “Brand.”
Follow the link for more.
“The Smart One” 0
Honest to Betsy*, you can’t make this stuff up.
All snark aside, I suspect that Jeb! has been somewhat taken aback to learn how little import being a “Bush” conveys. One suspects he has not paid attention to the origins of the term, “Bush crime family.”
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*Pete’s taking the day off.
Droning On 0
Mike Kelly’s buddy has bought a quadcopter and wants to take it out joyriding. Mike is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his column.
A drone.
My friend, with laughter interrupting his words, went on to point out how much “fun” he was already having, flying his remote-controlled device up to 1,000 feet above ground and hovering over friends’ houses or cruising down various streets. He said he might even drop into someone’s back yard and snap some candid photographs before buzzing off, leaving everyone to wonder what had just taken place.
“Isn’t that illegal?” I asked.
“Not at all,” he said.
And that’s the problem.
Boys and their toys: a combination that unerringly eventually spells s-t-u-p-i-d.
No, It Isn’t “Challenging Our Assumptions” 0
If it has to be “installed,” it’s not art. It’s a washing machine.
Corollary: If folks who are around art all the time can’t tell that it’s “art,” it’s not art.
Chris-Crossed 0
And this surprises you how?
(snip)
Alexander Mann, a passenger in the Quiet Car, informed Gawker and CNN that Christie, clutching a strawberry smoothie, started by berating a staffer about messing up the seating arrangement.
Then, Mann reported, Christie continued bellowing on his cellphone – a double no-no, violating both the “quiet” in “Quiet Car” and the prohibition against all cellphone calls.
Follow the link, in which a Christie spokesperson suffering from a fit of projection refers to the “quiet car” as “notorious.”