Too Stupid for Words category archive

A breast cancer survivor’s Facebook page has been blocked after she published a photo of her reconstructed breasts following her operation.

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The social networking site blocked her page and removed the image because it said it broke its rules on nudity.

Ms Tullett said she had only intended to offer encouragement to fellow breast cancer sufferers.

“It was to show other women that after such an ordeal you can come out of it with your dignity and your womanhood again, and that it’s not all frightening,” she said.

I suspect that she should have known better. There’s nothing like pictures of real people to make other people get all stupid.

I’m beginning to think that life would be saner if we were willing to admit that real people look like real people from head to toe and dispense with the coyness.

Not likely to happen, though.

How “young” came to be paired with “stupid” came to be a cliche:

The (US DOT and Consumers Union–ed.) poll says 63 percent of people under 30 acknowledge driving while using a handheld phone and 30 percent say they’ve sent text messages while behind the wheel. For those over 30, the percentages were 41 percent on the phone and 9 percent texting.

Only about a third of the young people said they feel such behavior is very dangerous.

Arresting developments:

A violent domestic dispute was ignited when a Florida woman “un-friended” her beau on Facebook and changed her relationship status on the popular social networking site, according to police.

Language changes.

Not always for the better.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has ordered up a new translation of the Bible, one it says is more accurate, more accessible and more poetic.

Now “booty,” a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the “spoils” of war when the newest edition of the New American Bible, the English-language Catholic Bible, comes out on Ash Wednesday, March 9.

From El Reg:

A man who stole a laptop, then used it to post a gloating self-portrait of himself on the victim’s Facebook page is challenging for the title of the world’s thickest criminal.

If you tried to make this up, no one would believe you.

I think part of the problem is that some of these clowns have watched too many Dirty Harry movies and really do believe that solutions flow from the end of a gun.

Mother Jones had the twit’s twits in a twist:

The Indiana Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday afternoon its deputy attorney general is no longer employed by the agency, after reviewing political website Mother Jones’ published allegations that he advocated the use of force against protesters in Wisconsin.

According to the online article , Jeff Cox tweeted “Use Live Ammunition” in response to a Mother Jones tweet reporting riot police had been called into the state capital to remove protesters.

Via Balloon Juice.

You can’t make this stuff up.

It’s a pretty long list. Follow the link to find out why.

Here’s an example:

Via Thoreau.

Because he provided an excuse for this.

I would have thought that Sarah Palin and Little Ricky Santorum would have hit it off just fine. Peas in a pod and all that.

I would have been wrong.

Sarah Palin tells Sean Hannity that Christina Aquilera should be deported for missing some words in the national anthem at the Super Bowl. (Actually, “deported” is the wrong word. Since Aquilera is from New York, “banished” would be, I think, the more accurate term.)

Here is the crucial quote from Palin, offered without further comment:

“Here’s another case of an airhead diva going on TV, running her mouth off, sounding like a fool. She doesn’t understand something so basic about America, yet we’re supposed to tolerate her diva behavior? Americans can see through that, Sean.”

Via Eschaton.

Words fail me.

Republican Georgia state legislator Bobby Franklin thinks that driver’s licenses impose undue restrictions on the right of citizens to travel. So he’s proposed legislation to stop the state from issuing them.

Some bozo keeps coming on my telly vision saying that I should buy his book, Tick Tock, because “New York has never had a great detective hero.”

Like I’m going to buy a detective story from some doofus who denies Nero Wolfe, Ellery Queen, and John Putnam Thatcher, just to mention a few off the top of my head.

Don’t use a knife to slice that tomato. You might cut yourself.

Sleeping alongside your pets can make you sick.

It’s rare, but it happens. That’s why good hygiene means keeping Fluffy and Spot next to the bed, not on it, two experts in animal-human disease transmission say in a forthcoming paper.

In other news, cats creep up to you while you are sleeping and breathe in your spirit, then transport it to Ulthar.

They know where you are:

Tweeting about what club “y’all” are going to tonight? Must be from the South. Looking forward to “suttin” special? Then you probably live in New York. Think that new movie was “koo?” Northern California.

The words you write on Twitter can tell people more than just the status of your relationship or how you like the latest Bon Jovi CD. It may just indicate not only how you’re living, but where you’re living in the U.S.

And if you twit in Spanish, there’s a good chance you’re in Argentina.

One does so hope that the cuisine will be palatable.

Dick Destiny reports on a doctoral dissertation about “Food Defense Management Practices in Private Country Clubs.”

I’ve only dined at one or two private country clubs, once at a reunion and once at a wedding.

I did determine that I needed to defend myself against the food.

Aside:

It appears that, as the number of doctoral candidates increases, the number of non-silly dissertation subjects decreases.

Offered without comment:

A drunken driver with a woman on his lap crashed head-on into a game warden at Hungry Mother State Park on New Year’s Eve, according to police.

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“Only they know what they were doing; we can’t speculate on that,” said Virginia State Police Sgt. Steve E. Lowe. “As to what they were engaged in, you can draw your own conclusions. She was on his lap – we’re going to leave it at that.”

(Some) Details at the link.

Six girls have been arrested after students were invited on Facebook to take part in “Attack a Teacher Day” at two middle schools.

According to the story, they were arrested the same day as the Nebraska school shooting.

It’s not a Facebook issue, really.

It’s that the internet is a public place, and these folks don’t know how to behave in public.

When I was a teenager, “Don’t get caught” was one of my primary guidelines.

Dallas/Fort Worth Airport plans to file a protest with state liquor regulators over a request for a mixed-beverage license for an upscale strip club scheduled to open this month near the airport’s south entrance.

DFW officials are concerned that arrivals seeing a strip club as they leave airport property would create a bad first impression of Texas.

I’ve been to DFW.

The sight of anything indicating that you are leaving airport property is a welcome sight.