Idiot of the Day 2015: More stupid than stupid.

[SnowFire]

On a slightly less funny note, the dude who punches his teammates into the hospital gets picked up a day later by another team.  wat.  I can't imagine morale will be high in the locker room there?

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Well Geno Smith actually threw the first punch, it just fell several yards short and to the side.

[NotMiki]

On a slightly less funny note, the dude who punches his teammates into the hospital gets picked up a day later by another team.  wat.  I can't imagine morale will be high in the locker room there?

Low morale in the locker room of the Bills, who are a division rival of the Jets and whose season just got a little easier (maybe!) through no effort on their part?  Whose head coach, Rex Ryan, got canned by the Jets last year in part because punchee Geno Smith is a mediocre QB?  Yeah, I'm sure they're heartbroken.

[Luther Lansfeld]

That is such a Rex Ryan move in general.

[NotMiki]

It is the Rexest.

[SnowFire]

Low morale in the locker room of the Bills, who are a division rival of the Jets and whose season just got a little easier (maybe!) through no effort on their part?  Whose head coach, Rex Ryan, got canned by the Jets last year in part because punchee Geno Smith is a mediocre QB?  Yeah, I'm sure they're heartbroken.

If he punched him because he'd already been signed by the Bills and he was just welling up with new team spirit, fine.  This is a guy who was brought in for "charged with disturbing the peace and battery of a police officer" in a bar fight.  It sounds like he just has a temper and lashes out at people around him, except he's a huge monster that can fuck you up.  Not the most calming presence.

[NotMiki]

Well he wouldn't calm me down, but I am not a huge monster that can fuck you up.  Most football players, though?  Are huge monsters that can fuck you up.

[Cotigo]

Well he wouldn't calm me down, but I am not a huge monster that can fuck you up.

Girl. Don't doubt yourself. Believe in me, who believes in you.

[AndrewRogue]

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/aug/31/terry-pratchett-is-not-a-literary-genius

And people complain about games journalism.

Honestly, as a huge Pratchett fan, I'd be fine with this article, if not for one tiny, itty-bitty, little, insignificant detail: "I have never read a single one of his books and I never plan to."

[Luther Lansfeld]

"I didn't read the article, but I'm pretty sure Jonathan Jones is wrong about whatever this is about." is one of the first comments. Good one.

[superaielman]

By dissolving the difference between serious and light reading, our culture is justifying mental laziness and robbing readers of the true delights of ambitious fiction.

*Faaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrttttttttttttttttt* about sums up that article, good god.

[Grefter]

in an age of social media and ebooks

Yessssss because that is when Pratchett became famous and popular.

Fuck this "real literature can change your life" bullshit, Men at Arms made me the person I am today.

[Sierra]

Fuck this "real literature can change your life" bullshit, Men at Arms made me the person I am today.

Also didn't read article because who needs firsthand experience of a thing to know what's what, hey?

[Ranmilia]

I read the article and immediately regretted it.

[Cotigo]

Guys. In the last paragraph he praises an Austen novel for its social commentary and says he enjoyed Post Office by Bukowski. There's no way that wasn't on purpose.

Johnny Jo be trollin, yo. Y'all getting played.

[NotMiki]

"He must be someone who is adept at Stephen Harper's trickle-down theory of economics," Mulcair said.

Burn.

[superaielman]

Guys. In the last paragraph he praises an Austen novel for its social commentary and says he enjoyed Post Office by Bukowski. There's no way that wasn't on purpose.

Johnny Jo be trollin, yo. Y'all getting played.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/sep/11/jonathan-jones-ive-read-terry-pratchett-now-its-more-entertainment-than-art

If it's trolling he is remarkably dedicated, that really does read like someone who is serious (And is doing some serious backpeddling).

[AAA]

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”

I think my favorite part is how nobody can understand why a kid that likes electronics would try to build a clock, so it obviously must have been a bomb. That and they apparently needed 4 cops to handle a 14 year old kid.

[Grefter]

Yeah that fits my mood today.  good job reality

[Luther Lansfeld]

This story pisses me off beyond words.

[The Duck]

It's pretty fucking infuriating but if there's any positive from this, he is getting quite a lot of vocal support from a lot of people, including NASA and local engineering/science organizations, so his interest in science being encouraged by these outside sources even if it's really not by his own school administration.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

His own school administration is in Texas, of course he's not getting support from those subnormals.  They think bombs are circuit boards linked to big flashing timer displays like in 24.

[Fenrir]

Yeah the clock probably made a ticking sound like bombs obviously do IRL

[The Duck]

guys it looked like a movie bomb

[AAA]

pfft it wasn't a black sphere with a skull and crossbones label and a fuse sticking out of it, that's no bomb