Smite stupid

[Dabbler]

KaeYoss wrote:

Dabbler wrote:

KaeYoss wrote:

Crimson Jester wrote:

We all have brain farts from time to time.

I'm not really talking about brain farts. I'm talking about explosive brain diarrhoea.

Ew ...

But I have to agree with you there. If anyone feels that we are not chlorinating the gene pool sufficiently in the modern world, go to the Darwin Awards website.

I mean seriously, stupidity that great can kill ...

Haven't read up on the Awards for some time, I think I'll have to get up to date.

I personally liked the guy checking gas levels with his lighter. Not the tank in his car, you understand - the gas station's...

That one has been topped.

I have not the words:

Quote:

EVOLUTION PRESENTS: The Human Bottle Rocket

AT-RISK SURVIVOR. We think. Could be a Darwin Award.

category: private parts, fireworks

2006 incident. News only now reaching the ears of Charles Darwin.
From HIS ears to your eyes. Sunderland, England paramedics found a
prone man suffering injuries including a scorched colon, caused by
a Black Cat Thunderbolt rocket. The 22-year-old had, unbelievably,
inserted this rocket in his back side, laid down on his front side,
and lit the fuse in an attempt to make the rocket fly up into the air.
But it was pointing the other way! The regional Firework Association
chairman spoke for us all when he said, "This sort of thing is beyond
belief."

Yes ... not only did he try to use his backside to launch a rocket, he put the WRONG END of the rocket in his rectum ... o_O

[Ross Thompson]

KaeYoss wrote:

I'm talking about warning signs like "Does not grant power of flight" on Superman costumes

Despite having made it onto the cover of a book about stupid warning labels, no-one's ever been able to find an actual example of that label.

Oh, and as for George Reeves, his suicide was pretty typical.

KaeYoss wrote:

I'm talking about "Warning: Hot" on a a cup for hot coffee.

When spilling coffee on yourself results in third degree burns because it's 20 degrees hotter than coffee is normally served, and it turns out that the company has been quietly paying off previous victims and clearly knew exactly how dangerous their coffee was, some hefty punative damages and a warning label seem entirely justified.

Derek Vande Brake wrote:

BTW, how many have seen the movie Idiocracy?

[url=http://xkcd.com/603/]

IQs have been increasing by 3 points per decade, and there's no sign of that trend reversing. Your kids are going to be smarter than you are, and the people they compete against in the job market are going to be smarter than the people you compete against.

[KaeYoss]

Dabbler wrote:

That one has been topped.

I have not the words:

I have:

"Up yours!"

Should be his nickname... :D