Too Stupid for Words category archive
Twits on Twitter 0
Occasionally I toy with the notion of signing up for Twitter, then I think, “Heavens, no. Why invite more stupid into my life?”
A Parliament of Dunces 0
In the Seattle Times, a science teacher marvels. A snippet; read the rest and weep:
I reckon that, if your mind is open enough, stuff just falls right through it.
Blowback 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
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.