Saturday, August 13, 2011

Posted By on Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:00 PM

I get the feeling that it'll be revealed that this guy is part of some bizarre Best Buy viral media strategy, but for now, I'm going to just enjoy his video is one strange young man's expression of how much he likes his place of employment.

Related:

The same guy's ostensibly sincere cover of "Africa" by Toto:

The same guy, putting together a remarkably professional and strange video for his cover of Britney Spears' "Till the World Ends":

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Posted By on Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM

There are times when I think about mistakes I've made...foolish errors that I now regret. Next time I go to that emotional place, I'll just consider the guy who went outside to get his umbrella out of a lightning storm:

A 61-YEAR-old man has survived after being struck by lightning at his East Lancashire home.

Kevin Holden, of Deepdale Court, Barrowford, was thrown four feet into the air after being hit by the lightning bolt.

Mr Holden is thought to have survived after grabbing hold of a stainless steel sink which absorbed the charge. He had also been wearing trainers at the time.

However, he was left shaking, his right arm was tingling and he had a ringing headache after the lightning surge left his body.

Mr Holden had opened his back door to watch the lightning in Saturday morning’s storm when his house began shaking and the letter box was rattling with the intensity of the storm.

Remembering his large golfing umbrella was outside, he leaned out to grab hold of it and began opening and closing it to shake off the rain.

But within moments he saw a bright blue flash and was then thrown four feet backwards with the umbrella shooting off into the garden.

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Posted By on Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:24 PM

The Arizona Republic reports that a Chandler man shot himself in the dick with his girlfriend's pink handgun:

As Chandler residents Joshua Seto, 27, and his fiancée, Cara Christopher, walked over to a Fry's Food Store for refreshments, he tried securing her pink handgun in the front waistband of his pants.

The gun fired, striking Seto's penis and continuing through his left thigh. The bleeding started immediately and was heavy, according to police dispatch recordings released Sunday.

"He is still conscious, there is just a lot of blood," Christopher , 26, told 9-1-1 operators and dispatchers.

Good thing only responsible Arizonans carry guns around after we loosened up those concealed-weapon restrictions.

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Posted By on Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM

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There are thoughtful, intelligent reviewers using Yelp (including our TV-writer-who-writes-stuff-when-he-feels-like-it-I-guess Jordan Green, who is "Yelp Elite '11", whatever that means), offering their opinions on places they go to, giving others a sense of the options available in their community.


On the other hand, there are a bunch of dimwits who give arbitrary grades and have little to no context to provide for what they're reviewing. Thanks, Fuck You Yelper, for collecting the useless rantings of those reviewers.


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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Posted By on Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM

I applaud the home science hobbyist, trying to understand the universe on his own, outside the bounds of fancy universities and their safety standards, but perhaps when you're blogging about a mini-meltdown, that might be a sign that you've gone too far:

A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby.

Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden when police showed up and arrested him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material.

The 31-year-old Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Posted By on Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:40 PM

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Hey lay-dees: here's something to put on your Christmas Wish List. Who needs a CamelBak when you can wear a wine rack? Now attention-seeking gals can wear a sports bra that can hold up to 25 ounces of liquid-whatever-you-want in it. And, they say, it enhances your cup up to two sizes. Wow. What will they think of next?

P.S.—Is it just me, or does it look like she's getting blood drawn from her boobs? Hot.


"You won't find this at Victoria's Secret," boasted Paul Krasulja of BaronBob.com, whose Web site also sells toilet-shaped coffee mugs, a remote control fart machine and edible G-strings.

"It's not like one boob fills up and the other goes flat," Krasulja said. "I made my girlfriend put it on, and she looked good."

Ranging in size from the petite 32A to the amply endowed 38C, the Wine Rack would be a fit for either the Keira Knightley or Kim Kardashian set.

Krasulja touted the sports bra as a recession-friendly way to drink, offering women a sneaky method for combating high-priced drinks at sporting events. He said security guards aren't about to get hands-on, even with a well-endowed woman.

"You grab a woman there, fuggeddaboutit," he said. "But even if you put your hand on it, it would feel like a boob."

The Wine Bra sells for $29.95.

"I don't consider it fine lingerie," Krasulja said. "But it is a good-looking piece."

To view more stupid inventions, (if you have the patience to click through a whopping 61 pics in total) click here.

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Posted By on Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM

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Trendhunter.com writer Souzan Michael, I understand you're only doing your job, but letting people know that there's a "prank" out there to make people want to unexpectedly vomit might not exactly be a public service:

The high frequency sounds produced by the Sonic Nausea Device are very difficult to place, so the location of the device is not easily discovered making it the ultimate prank.

Be sure to use this practical joke device with caution, as there is always the risk that others will not appreciate your sense of humor.

I think you might be understating the "risk" a bit, Souzan.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Posted By on Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM

The understatement of the day:

"It is absolutely impossible for someone to fix their own hernia,” said Sam Carvajal, a surgeon at Glendale Adventist Medical Center.

Also, even if it were possible, using a butter knife for the task probably isn't ideal.

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Posted By on Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM


Listen, if your wallet falls down a storm drain, it's time to loudly scream profanities for a bit, then move on with your life. It would not be time to try to retrieve it, getting stuck in the process, and having your legs appear on TV.

[The Awl]

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Posted By on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:30 AM

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These boxes of free Similac keep arriving at my house. The company thinks we had a baby and wants to make sure we know that our lives would be better if we fed that baby their product instead of breast milk.

Shoving this product down the throats of families and their babies is shady. The months after a child is born are full of uncertainty and worry about so many issues, and the company is attempting to capitalize on that worry by basically getting mothers and their babies hooked on their product, which, by the way, costs a pretty penny.

This is the fourth package that has arrived. They’re really going for it with this campaign. It totally reminds me of a crack dealer, or the shady guy in middle school who said he’d give me a bag of marijuana for free, “But after that, I start charging you.”

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