🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Air blowers are a bad idea, too.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324705104578151751460513268
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Time spent in a public restroom:
2%: Doing my business.
3%: Eating Doritos.
98%: Trying to make enough money to afford something from the vending machine.FTFM
Yes, I know it adds up to more than 100%. Multitasking.
#hardouthereforagimp
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98%: Trying to make enough money to afford something from the vending machine.
In the bathroom?
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In the bathroom?
That's where the action is, babe.
You want us to do it in the lobby?
Maybe you're the degenerate!
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You had me at Doritos.
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http://minx.cc:1080/?post=351050
Ace follows up on the trolling action.
@Ace said:While his handle is "@dogboner," the name that comes on the screen for his tweets is "im literally 12" (I'm literally 12 (years old)).
Also, his twitter account identifies him as a "dipshit."
These are all what we in the trade call "Context Clues" that this man might be running a humor account, and that things he says might be jokes.
Eventually @dogboner followed up with:
Filed Under: Trolling genius, how long before @dogboner is registered here?
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I'm actually not a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He has a stink of a politician.
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I've known who he was, vaguely, but most of my exposure has been in the handful of episodes of the rebooted Cosmos. He's OK in there, though some of the stuff they throw out is wrong or at least misleading.
It's not clear to me how he got to be so cool, but I suspect that's mostly me not paying attention to whatever the bien pensant normally pay attention to.
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It's not clear to me how he got to be so cool, but I suspect that's mostly me not paying attention to whatever the bien pensant normally pay attention to.
He's charismatic. Good in front of cameras. Always has a sound byte or a funny anecdote ready. His talks are mostly accurate, but shallow. His one call to scientific achievement is that he presided over the comity that changed the status of Pluto. Once again, political more than scientific role. Finally, he's black, which is a big deal for the white-guilt Americans (the last one is, obviously, my conjecture).
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the guy. I guess he is an effective science promoter. However, I wouldn't call him a great or even a good scientist, which he's often labeled as.
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He played an important role in getting Pluto turned into an dwarf-planet. It turned him into a bit of a physics celebrity, since he was just so darn reasonable about it, despite all the venom directed at him.
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I know him from Nova scienceNOW.
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He's charismatic. Good in front of cameras. Always has a sound byte or a funny anecdote ready. His talks are mostly accurate, but shallow.
Well, I guess I'm really wondering how so many people have been exposed to him enough to become fanbois.
I know him from Nova scienceNOW.
Ahhhh, now it makes sense. Thanks.
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Political ad A:
Politician B promised to do thing C. Here's a video of politician B saying he wanted to be held to his promise on this issue. Here's a statistic about how he's not even halfway there.
Political ad D:
Politician B is a leader in the community! When politician B's predecessor, politician E was in office, he reduced the number of good things by 130!
Now politician B is in office and he increased the number of good things by a whopping 100!
[voice speed="8999"] this statistic ignores the good things politician E added, which is 500. [/voice]
Political ad F:
Politician G is unfit for his job. Here are three non-candid videos of him saying things that are the opposite of what someone doing his job should think. Here's a picture of him riding a horse with a sour expression on his face. This is not related to our statement, but it's a pretty funny picture so we wanted to share it.
Political ad H:
Politician I's advertisement is mean to politician G! Mean things are not the right thing to say, even if they are true. Politician I is a poop head. Re-elect politician G!
Yes, these are real political ads with the names redacted.
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Automatic sinks. There's no way to control the temperature, and I might need more than a 2 second burst of water.
Are you sure of that? I find that 2 second burst is more than enough to soak my clothes with near-scalding water, and I can then make my hands wet from that…
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Yes, these are real political ads with the names redacted.
Eh - in one state they were running a political ad listing a bunch of US Supreme Court decisions that have not gone the way the right-wing wanted (like repealing obama care, which is disingenuously mention in the ad considering the state's supreme court has never deliberated an Obamacare-related case), then telling you to vote so-and-so into the Supreme Court to stop the liberals from ruining our country.
The ad fails to even mention that the person is running for the STATE supreme court. Anyone should know that they were running for the state level court since citizens don't get to vote on US Supreme court members. But they're hoping that there are just enough morons out there that don't know and vote for them.
edit - The candidates/group responsible for that lying piece of shit commercial lost, fortunately.
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Time spent in a public restroom:
5%: Doing your business.15%: Frantically waving your hands in front of the sink to activate it.50%: Washing and rinsing your hands with the super low-flow faucet.25%: Trying to dry your hands off with the air blower.5%: Drying your hands off on your pants and leaving the restroom.
You didn't account for the time spent trying to look for a non-empty soap dispenser, as well as a non-empty paper towel dispenser.Edit: added quote for context.
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Eh - in one state they were running a political ad listing a bunch of US Supreme Court decisions that have not gone the way the right-wing wanted (like repealing obama care, which is disingenuously mention in the ad considering the state's supreme court has never deliberated an Obamacare-related case), then telling you to vote so-and-so into the Supreme Court to stop the liberals from ruining our country.
The ad fails to even mention that the person is running for the <big>STATE</big> supreme court. Anyone should know that they were running for the state level court since citizens don't get to vote on US Supreme court members. But they're hoping that there are just enough morons out there that don't know and vote for them.
edit - The candidates/group responsible for that lying piece of shit commercial lost, fortunately.
This is very simplistic reasoning on your part. Just because they're different courts, the still do the same sort of thing, just for different levels of government. The message seems to be that voters can keep the sort of asshatery recently seen in SCOTUS out of their state.
And that's a great message, even if it was accidental.
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Having careless editors:
(Link)
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Seems good enough to this (small r) republican.
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Pretending facts are racist.
<you never posted it dumbfuck discourse>
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The original article is written in that snarky, hate-disguised-as-sarcasm tone that I see in too many places and absolutely loathe no matter where it is.
But in their defense, the app does not warn you about "neighborhoods likely to have high crime rates", it warns you about neighborhoods people find "sketchy", which is much more likely to involve racism.
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Today I called to deliver your 1 parcel(s).
It was left: stuck on roof. Sorry!
Filed under: How the fuck?
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...it warns you about neighborhoods people find "sketchy", which is much more likely to involve racism.
Maybe I'm just not hipster enough to associate "sketchy" with racism. I mean, essentially instead of accidentally.
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Agreed, I've seen this story knocking around today. The news outlets are just trying to do their ignorant outrage shit to create some clickbait. I think the app is a pretty good idea, some of the accounts I've heard about it were pretty funny, like the guy giving out unsolicited bear hugs.
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Now we know what Santa does for the rest of the year.
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Two for one:
First, a comment to the main article, just to give a clue to what the article is about:
Yeah, you know if they were made by the state they'd just be bits of offcut dowelling from an Ikea warehouse.
Ok, ok, that's probably one for the Evil Ideas thread, but that topic seems to have taken on a rather sombre mood of late.
And the bad idea:
Feminazi wants free tampons. Because reasons. Among them she wants (UK) VAT of 5% removed from tampons because there's no VAT on mens razors.
Possibly a valid argument. Except for the fact that mens razors aren't actually VAT exempt, and attract VAT at the full rate of
17.5%20%.
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Two for one:
First, a comment to the main article, just to give a clue to what the article is about:
> Yeah, you know if they were made by the state they'd just be bits of offcut dowelling from an Ikea warehouse.
Ok, ok, that's probably one for the Evil Ideas thread, but that topic seems to have taken on a rather sombre mood of late.
And the bad idea:
Feminazi wants free tampons. Because reasons. Among them she wants (UK) VAT of 5% removed from tampons because there's no VAT on mens razors.
Possibly a valid argument. Except for the fact that mens razors aren't actually VAT exempt, and attract VAT at the full rate of 17.5%.
VAT is currently 20% in the UK.
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Ta. I've corrected it.
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Presented without comment. See if you can see it. Seems to have been something introduced today.
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.. after some investigation, this appears to be an artefact of my agent string... changing it to IE8 fixes it.
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Is it the screwy thing with the font, or is that just aliasing due to resizing?
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Filed under: you can keep the ladder
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Is it the screwy thing with the font, or is that just aliasing due to resizing?
I usually have my browser at <100% zoom, and I think compression artifacts will be playing some part in it.
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Ah, is it the fact that the search box is tiny?
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search box is tiny
Yup. I'm presuming, given my digging and for whatever reason, Google has decided I'm now using a mobile device, yet still serving up desktop everything else on those pages..
UA for those that care:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
- I'm fairly certain nothing's too different there from yesterday when everything was fine, specifically I'm sure nightly didn't jump to 34 in the past few days.
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http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-bad-ideas-thread/254/1380?u=pjh
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-bad-ideas-thread/254/1392?u=pjh
Is this a spot the difference competition?
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Is this a spot the difference competition?
How did I fucking miss that?
Sorry for the double post.
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How did I fucking miss that?
Sorry for the double post.
It's almost like not reading what was in a topic could be a bad idea (but it isn't, please don't lump me in with Jeff).
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Not checking what your political message will look like with the train doors open.
Filed under: accurate
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Alas, I can only like that once.
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Oooh we should file that as a feature request (that would get rebuffed).
Filed under: Proudly doing it wrong™
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Not checking what your political message will look like with the train doors open.
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Well while we're doing
UKScottish politicians: