Posts under ‘Idiocy’

Wired has an article about how it’s legal to give police the finger but it’s not a good idea.
Hell, I can show you that in one short video and save you five minutes:

Yes, some cops are dicks. They don’t hand out reason and common sense with guns & badges. However, there are better ways to [...]

This is the planned layout of a new US Embassy building in London:
Writer Warren Ellis has some good thoughts about what this layout and design is actually saying about US post-9/11 policy, but in looking at the architecture itself, I’m wondering where the engineers pulled their inspiration from.
Could it be:
Or maybe they’re Star Trek geeks:
Either [...]

I do this to the cat all the time. Have been doing so for months, maybe over a year now.
And it still amuses me to no end.

Yesterday’s Workday:

Today’s Workday:

I’m sure someone makes a pill for this.

There are a lot of garbage techniques in the martial arts, often so obvious that someone with little or no training can recognize them as such. Yet some schools latch on to them, even attach some mysticism to them, and continue to teach these techniques as if they’d really work.
In the following video, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu [...]

Punch Dub, Slug Bug, Punch Buggy. Whatever you call it, you know how to play the game. Now VW has picked up on it and has turned it into an advertising campaign:

My favorite punch buggy incidents occurred in Los Angeles back during the first 4×4 tour. Brian Keene, Mike Huyck and I were all riding [...]

Word on the Internets is two of my friends have never heard of W.A.S.P., much less heard their infamous track “Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)”. While I wouldn’t count the band amongst my favorites, you have to have heard this song at least once, especially if you’re a fan at all of hard rock or [...]

No, really, it’s out there:

I saw this on a Cracked article and couldn’t believe it really existed, but there are several related videos featuring the same thing on YouTube. I can understand boxing and MMA, but why make such an arbitrary mix as arm wrestling? I suspect this is a product of a brainstorming session [...]

You’re no doubt familiar with rochambeau, aka rock-paper-scissors, but how about roshambo?
The concept is simple: two pinheads kick each other in the nuts until one gives up.

Yes, kids really are that stupid. Looking at the bright side, though, at least they’re taking their genes out of the pool.
They may even have a career in entertainment [...]

Wind Farm
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri
I drive past this wind farm when I visit my folks in Indiana, and every time I see it I get just a little jealous.
There are three separate wind farms in the works around here, but every one of them is under fire from locals who don’t want anything to do [...]