Author Topic: Idiot of the day 2014: Your one stop topic for everything dumb. (Read 16059 times)

NotMiki · « **Reply #100 on:** June 16, 2014, 08:47:59 PM »

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joseph-houseman-police-standoff

this week in folks who should be happy they didn't get shot.

NotMiki · « **Reply #101 on:** June 17, 2014, 04:28:16 PM »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-heritages-ugly-benghazi-panel/2014/06/16/b8bd423c-f5a3-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html?hpid=z6

Die in a fire, Heritage Foundation.

Captain K. · « **Reply #102 on:** June 18, 2014, 04:59:58 AM »

Quote

Ahmed answered quietly, as before. “I guess it’s me right now,” she said.

Thumbs up to her. It took real courage just to attend that place.

superaielman · « **Reply #103 on:** June 24, 2014, 03:18:21 PM »

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/24/us/texas-jogger-finds-child/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The mother here is a special kind of dumb. DON'T LEAVE YOUR BABY ALONE IN A RUNNING CAR, WHAT THE FUCK

Cotigo · « **Reply #104 on:** June 25, 2014, 01:38:58 AM »

I am apparently a lot less appalled by that than Super? I mean yeah, it's bad, but sleep deprived people don't make the best decisions in the first place, and I've never met someone with a baby who was getting a proper amount of sleep.

Grefter · « **Reply #105 on:** June 25, 2014, 02:00:29 AM »

I think it is still pretty IotD to leave your keys in ignition and car running at a petrol station even if you are just going to be there for a second, but so it goes.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #106 on:** June 25, 2014, 04:43:51 AM »

For what it's worth yeah, it was stupid but not hardly a "special" kind of stupid. Leaving your keys in the car is the kind of questionable decision people make all the time and I feel like the only reason you'd consider this for IotD is because she suffered for it, which smacks of victim-blaming to me.

superaielman · « **Reply #107 on:** June 25, 2014, 04:44:55 AM »

Leaving your keys in the car is dumb but not that special. Leaving your keys in the car when you have your baby in the car is idiocy.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #108 on:** June 25, 2014, 04:54:52 AM »

God forbid anyone with a child make a mistake ever (even though, as Zenny points out, the added stress and lack of sleep makes it more likely for such mental errors to happen). If the 1 in 10000 (or whatever) chance of someone stealing the car doesn't kick in we aren't having this conversation.

Like yeah obviously nobody is defending what she did and obviously in that same situation we'd hope someone wouldn't make that decision but pillorying this person for this really rubs me the wrong way.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #109 on:** June 25, 2014, 05:13:38 AM »

I'm pretty much in agreement with Elfboy here. It's dumb, sure, but not "IotD" worthy dumb. People make mistakes, and in this case, there happened to be repercussions.

It's akin to forgetting to lock the door to your house. Sure, you probably won't get robbed, but you aren't any stupider than the person who did get robbed in the same circumstance. It's not a defendable action, but it can also only be considered so dumb and the outcome of the event does not make the action any stupider, just more noteworthy. And yeah, sleep deprivation just adds further to the "it was a brain fart" more than actual idiocy.

Grefter · « **Reply #110 on:** June 25, 2014, 05:43:00 AM »

How about we say the IotD is the dumbarse that dumped a kid in the middle of nowhere while committing a serious felony because that is a great way to potentially inflate your charges. Especially when they ditched the car back near where they got it.

Cotigo · « **Reply #111 on:** June 25, 2014, 06:06:21 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on June 25, 2014, 05:43:00 AM

How about we say the IotD is the dumbarse that dumped a kid in the middle of nowhere while committing a serious felony because that is a great way to potentially inflate your charges. Especially when they ditched the car back near where they got it.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #112 on:** June 29, 2014, 07:27:34 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on June 25, 2014, 05:43:00 AM

How about we say the IotD is the dumbarse that dumped a kid in the middle of nowhere while committing a serious felony because that is a great way to potentially inflate your charges. Especially when they ditched the car back near where they got it.

I'm starting to think people who don't figure out what to do with their kids before they commit a felony maybe don't give much though to consequences.

Cotigo · « **Reply #113 on:** June 29, 2014, 07:51:14 AM »

Gold Star for not reading the article. The mother of the kids left her kids in the car with the key in the ignition while someone else stole it. The person committing the felony and the parent are two different people.

Fenrir · « **Reply #114 on:** July 20, 2014, 02:29:53 PM »

I just heard about rolling coal.
The biggest assholes in the world are americans, I'm afraid

Captain K. · « **Reply #115 on:** July 20, 2014, 03:26:47 PM »

Why does this surprise anyone?

Shale · « **Reply #116 on:** July 20, 2014, 06:39:26 PM »

Quote from: Fenrir on July 20, 2014, 02:29:53 PM

I just heard about rolling coal.
The biggest assholes in the world are americans, I'm afraid

Why did I google it

What could I possibly have thought that would help

NotMiki · « **Reply #117 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:23:30 PM »

Quote from: Fenrir on July 20, 2014, 02:29:53 PM

I just heard about rolling coal.
The biggest assholes in the world are americans, I'm afraid

Well Hamas is keeping its civilians in harms' way so Israelis will kill them, and Israelis are happily obliging. So there's that.

Grefter · « **Reply #118 on:** July 20, 2014, 10:52:57 PM »

I went to search for it and google has decided to not work. Go me.

Edit - It worked now. I was curious. I wish I wasn't.

superaielman · « **Reply #119 on:** July 26, 2014, 02:42:12 AM »

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2014/07/25/wwe-daniel-bryan-chases-burglar-suspect-arizona/13187847/ The thieves here, not Danielson. Holy crap did they pick the wrong time and place for a breakin.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #120 on:** July 26, 2014, 09:11:17 PM »

By "subdue" they mean "Bryan slapped a rear naked choke on the guy and held it until the police showed up."

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #121 on:** July 28, 2014, 01:10:45 AM »

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/7/26/5941203/hanwha-eagles-robot-baseball-fans-video

"People don't come to our games. We lose about 2/3 of our games every season. Why don't they show up? Must be because they can't make it to our ballpark. Let's spend a shitload of money building robots to sit in the seats so that people can watch a sporting event through a robot."

NotMiki · « **Reply #122 on:** July 28, 2014, 07:03:44 PM »

Anything that gets your team name in the paper for a reason other than all the losing you do.

Captain K. · « **Reply #123 on:** July 31, 2014, 12:14:32 AM »

It's possible this is an elaborate troll, but if it is, it's exceptional.

Guy gets his skill to level 20 and believes he is first to do so because he took a screenshot. Never mind that a very large number of people probably accomplished the same thing over six months ago.

https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/110760/first-cyclops-with-max-ult-spare-ult-token-edit-second-d/p1

Cotigo · « **Reply #124 on:** August 31, 2014, 03:03:27 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpDAAZM4bNU

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Author Topic: Idiot of the day 2014: Your one stop topic for everything dumb. (Read 16059 times)