MetaFilter posts tagged with stupid

The acceptable new faces of the unacceptable

Beautiful Screaming Lady — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:53:27 -0800

WHILE YOU WERE READING THIS ... I FARTED

Optimus Chyme — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:30:02 -0800

If you're tired of boring twee t-shirts with birds and swirly stuff and junk on them, maybe it's time you started running with the Big Dogs. From "Fart Now Loading" to "Talk Slower - I don't speak STUPID", Big Dogs brand graphic tees are a great way to communicate your hip, in-your-face, modern attitude. But they're not just for middle school anymore - the Big Dogs empire now stretches from Moms to Dads to Grandmas and even Bass Fishermen! Sadly, some juvenile losers think Big Dogs is some kind of joke. Looks like you CAN'T FIX STUPID!

Selling in the seventies

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:22:22 -0800

From the 70s version of a bad hair day to disco chart-toppers leaping out of cassette tape boxes to three-legged celebrities who are currently in jail to... well, you just gotta see this one, the Advertising Sillyness from the Seventies flickr group has the groovy images you'll recall (or may want to forget) if you were around in those halcyon days. The group also offers a sampling of the little ads that dotted the comic book back pages of the 1970s, like this old favorite, and this. And lo and behold! Here's an ad for that classic 70s book that I really wanted when I was sixteen, but somehow never got my hands on.: How to Pick Up Girls!. Yep, the future looked bright back then... See also: the Advertising Through the Years group, heavy on 50s and 60s ads.

Lazy Journalism

hnnrs — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:07:55 -0800

Fun lovin' prankster and b3ta user godspants edited the wikipedia page on Cypriot soccer team AC Omonia to include the "facts" that the fans are referred to as "the zany ones", wear hats made of shoes and sing a song about a little potato. Yesterday there was a match between Omonia and British club Manchester City. British Tabloid the Daily Mirror used the wikipedia "facts" in their build-up article. Daily Mirror obviously doesn't realise their journalist has been guilty of incredibly lazy research, despite the prankster emailing them, and the Mirror refers to the "Zany ones" in their post-match article the next day.

"In the long run, we are all dead" -- JM Keynes

orthogonality — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:08:24 -0800

oh shit (short-term?). oh shit (long-term!).

To be fair, the hosts can be stupid too.

flatluigi — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:44:53 -0800

Let's pause for a moment to view the best part of any gameshow -- the stupid contestants. One of my favorites so far.

flatluigi — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:32:48 -0800

Stupid people say stupid things. The last link may or may not be completely factual, but it's still funny.

Tu stultus es and get off my lawn

psmealey — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:51:29 -0800

Dumbening.com: Measuring the Dumbening of America for Like 20 Years. With Special Reports: God Clarifies Stance on Radical Islam, Why Children are Stupid, The Elderly: Pros and Cons, Ten Reasons to Bomb Denmark and Guest Columnist Pat Robertson offers This Week in God's Wrath. Fake news not your thing? Then check out Stupid Children, a humor blog with links to real news stories of people behaving stupidly (last post is from 2006, so maybe people have gotten smarter since then). This rash of humor sites is all well and good you say, but some pretty serious people have dared ask: "Is our children learning?" Columnist Mark Morford [SF Gate] responds with a resounding NO: American Kids are Dumber that Dirt. Though the reaction from the reddit crowd has been swift and severe.

"Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases."

amyms — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:17:18 -0800

StupidFilter is a work in progress which aims to recognize online stupidity programmatically. Keep in mind we grade stupidity on a scale of 1 to 5. Someone might get a 1 or 2 for a comment that used no punctuation, whereas a comment consisting of nothing but text message abbreviations with a dash of LOLLLLL thrown in for good measure would probably rate a solid 4 or 5. There is a certain amount of subjectivity, and our software is aware of that; scoring will be normalized to eliminate excessively generous or harsh estimations of stupidity. Read some examples of "the tyranny of idiocy" in their collection of Random Stupidity .

Duh?

washburn — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:57:07 -0800

Have you noticed quite a number of stupid things lately? Perhaps now you will find them documented in the Encyclopedia of Stupid.

Flickr Self-Incrimination

AccordionGuy — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:29:21 -0800

Bill MacEwen's laptop got stolen last week, but all might not be lost. Someone in possession of the laptop -- possibly the thief -- just posted a self-portrait to Flickr using the account stored in the laptop. If you know anything about the gentleman in the photo, please contact Bill through his blog. If you like to fantasize about committing "the perfect crime", add this boo-boo to your "DO NOT DO" list.

lolsecretz--memes collide

amberglow — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:43:06 -0800

lolsecretz --The meeting of two of the internet's most famous memes– the touching postsecret and the sublimely stupid LOLcats

GYOMFBYFFW

loquacious — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:51:10 -0800

Get the hell off our Internet.

Have too much money?

pantsrobot — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:04:19 -0800

Do all your friends already own yachts? Perhaps you should consider getting a luxury submarine.

Fear Teh Google

fenriq — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:05:22 -0800

Google Demonstrates Capabilities of Space Based Weapon on 50m Insect Menacing German Town All you folks saying Google wasn't out to take over the world, where are your arguments now? Google now has the capability to destroy enormous mutant bugs from space.

What Not To Do and How Not To Do It

fenriq — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:27:41 -0800

Idiot Tries to Hire Hacker to Change his GPA
Why study when you can just hire a hacker to adjust your GPA to something more to your liking? Or not.
And now an amazing (and scary) amount of his personal information is pwned!

"One side has power, and one side does not"

Artw — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:51:34 -0800

A Mall Divided (youtube) - a musical tale of commerce, employment and electrical distribution for our times.

some light-hearted moments from the war

sergeant sandwich — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:52:29 -0800

A different perspective on the war in Iraq: herein, a small collection of juvenile yet amusing clips of bored soldiers entertaining themselves by singing, dancing, interacting with animals, engaged in sport, using a rocket launcher as a bong, and all sorts of intentional and unintentional screwing around.

Smokin!

joelf — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:20:19 -0800

According to this site

More than 700 Trillion BEEDIES or BIRI are smoked annually
Indians smoke more than one trillion bidis every year.
An experienced worker can roll 2,000 a day.

Step inside and learn more about these unrealistic stats!

Thanks, lawyers!

mullingitover — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:32:15 -0800

It's over. YouTube is taking down Daily Show and Colbert Report clips.

Because Hewlett-Packard knows that every woman wants to look like Katie Couric.

longdaysjourney — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:33:12 -0800

The Slimming Camera.

Security is for Suckers

fenriq — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:38:13 -0800

The Best Hiding Place is Right Out in the Open?
Yes, its a simple Google search. But it returns confidential pdf's and pages from all over the internet. Business plans, powerpoint presentations and other naughty bits exposed to, well, anyone who finds it.
Oops.

It's time to nominate three years worth of security idiocy

TheDonF — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:34:19 -0800

It's the Privacy International Stupid Security Competition 2006. Human rights group Privacy International (who also hand out annual Big Brother awards have launched the 2006 Stupid Security Competition. Following on from 2003's awards (also here) where everyone from T Mobile UK, the Australian Government to Philadelphia International Airport won with displays of idiocy, what will the results of the past three years of press and government hyperbole and lies, amongst many other things bring?

Furor over Fuhrer Food

FeldBum — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:38:49 -0800

Furor over Fuhrer Food But it's not the only Hitler-themed restaurant. Taipei had the Prison restaurant with Concentration Camp murals, and Korea had the infamous 1939 Hitler Bar.

Not that the U.S. was spared. Colorado had a Mao-themed eatery.

sharing the stupid

Tryptophan-5ht — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:26:58 -0800

Globally, there are about 105-107 boys born for every 100 girls. I was led to believe this was because men do stupid things that get themselves killed/injured. I wonder if this theory accounts for those times when men do something stupid that gets women killed/injured. (youTube link: video of a really stupid idea getting two women bruised up. If you laugh, it means you're going to hell.)