Too Stupid for Words category archive

Oops.

It would appear that using computers gives people who can’t spell, think, or proofread diploma-tic immunity (emphasis added).

The university discovered Tuesday that about 1,480 undergraduate and graduate students received diplomas in May 2013 and December 2012 that were missing the final “i” in Virginia and the second “e” in thereto.

Radford said the problem was caused when a commercial software system used to produce the diplomas within the university’s registrar’s office was upgraded last fall.

The software upgrade required the diploma wording to be re-keyed into the program and during that process the typographical errors were introduced into the template.

But the error in Wildberger’s diploma occurred before that change.

“I’m not racist, but” is always an oxymoron.

Facebooking the foreclosure-based economy.

Bringing new meaning to “sesame seed buns.”

I miss Philly.

Compared to Philly, Virgina Beach is pretty damned dull.

And where have they been for last 12 years?

It would seem that not paying attention is its own reward.

Grandstanders.

Pah!

Twits who HAARP on stupidly.

Now, ladies and gentlemen in the jury of public opinion, we have the three young men in Cocoa Beach who were not only reckless enough to jump cannonball-style onto a manatee and her calf, but also to post a video of the crime to Facebook.

Social media don’t make people stupid. But here in Florida they sure make stupid people stand out.

More frolicking Floridians at the link.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Yeah, it may be old news, but it’s still timely.

“Countless” twits. (Do the math.)

Noz explains.

The stupid, it burns!

Dick Polman catalogs the twitnoxiousness.

No mama’s boy he:

A 19-year-old Florida man who twice called 911 because he “didn’t like how his mom was talking to him” was arrested early yesterday for misuse of the police emergency system.

Yesterday, as I drew up to a red light (Ferry Plantation and Haygood, if you must know), I noticed that the gentleman in the car in the left lane, also still moving, was looking down at his cell phone, which he was holding in both hands.

He somehow managed to stay in his lane and come to a stop.

It was creepy, but it was nothing like this.

I give you the evidence.

Is there too little mold in your life?

Fight back now!

H/T Susan for catching this.

Kids do stupid stuff.

I certainly did. To outward appearances, I was a well-behaved kid, but I was quite the surreptitious smartass.

I think that stealing a stop sign and dumping it in a deputy sheriff’s front yard for all to see would fall into the category of “stupid stuff,” even if the deputy was more qualified to be a bozo than a deputy and the disrespect was well-deserved.

But I did it under cover of darkness, stealthily, late at night, anonymously.

(Embarrassed, he remounted the sign to the post with roofing nails–roofing nails, for Pete’s sake. The intersection was not 15 yards from his house. The next night, we re-stole it and re-dumped it in his front yard.)

I must say, though, I never did stupid sexual stuff. Oh, I wanted to,* but I was not part of that crowd.

Now kids do stupid sexual stuff on the internet, where you can’t hide and it doesn’t go away.

Remember, the internet is a public place.

I can find you.

Anyone can find you.

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*That’s the dirty little grown-up secret that grown-ups don’t want their kids to know.

They wanted to.

That’s why they know what their kids want and don’t want them to.