The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
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It was in reply to someone talking about someone being twittered to death by Terminator fans.
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My post was I reply @boner posting the twitter shit
But since I hate guessing a story from twitter links I thought that others might actually appreciate a decent story.
Dammit ... It's all the way down
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Ahh yes, but don't let that obscure the fact that we both found / posted the same story at (virtually) the same time with the same sub text.
This sort of occurrence MUST be taken as a SIGN :P:
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She was born in 1917. The number in a username is always when they were born.
BZZT, wrong. (Where I work, it's a serial-number-of-sorts)
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BZZT, wrong. (Where I work, it's a serial-number-of-sorts)
She was also using different prefixes, all clearly based on her name: hdc22, hrod17, etc.
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And DTMF stands for--
Granted, I probably wouldn't have been able to expand the acronym correctly, but I certainly knew that it meant the newfangled tone dialling stuff (as opposed to the clunky pulse dialling of my youth), and I'm fairly surprised you didn't.
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and I'm fairly surprised you didn't
It's amazing how obvious something is if you already know it
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It begins: :shock: :horror:
Didn't even make the news over here. A more accurate headline would have been:
Man crushed to death by industrial equipment due to negligence
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Speaking of negligence -- some ID-10-T in a crane truck struck a railroad overpass and proceeded to drive off without telling anybody. Fortunately, the first train crew to come to it a) didn't get thrown off the tracks straight away by the damage and b) was able to figure out that things were messed up and called the dispatcher about it, which caused the bridge to be taken out of service and fixed, and one of our Special Agents to hit the streets to figure out whodunit. Fortunately, a local business caught the strike on their surveillance camera, and was able to provide footage of it sufficient to allow our agents to track the driver down and begin proceedings against his insurance to pay for the bridge damage.
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Exorcizing a country.
Also participating were Archbishop Jesús Carlos Cabrero of San Luis Potosí, Spanish demonologist and exorcist Father José Antonio Fortea and a smaller group of priests and laypeople.
The event was not made known to the general public beforehand. According to Archbishop Cabrero, the reserved character of the May 20 ceremony was intended to avoid any misguided interpretations of the ritual.-- Fr. Fortea
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She was born in 1917.
That explains how she looks, I guess. Generally speaking, if you make it to 98, you're happy your tits aren't dragging on the floor.
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A very demonic looking "exorcist"
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#Man dies instantly after trying to launch firework from head during Fourth of July celebrations
[his brother said] "It was a freak accident. But Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh."
One of those things is not like the other. Other news reports on the matter indicate that the brother is mistaken.
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One of those things is not like the other. Other news reports on the matter indicate that the brother is mistaken.
It does sound like a full-on alcohol-fuelled case of “Hey, watch this!”
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This story smells like a future Darwin Award Winner ...
And also as burned bacon ...
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The photo caption also calls it a "freak accident". I don't think that label applies here. At least not the word "accident".
Maybe if he like tripped and fell into the mortar, then while he was getting up his horse (there was a horse there, right?) had a lit match in its mouth and went up to lick him and lit the fuse-- then it might be accidental and also freaky.
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greek-bailout-fund#/story
The European Union is home to 503 million people, if we all just chip in a few Euro then we can get Greece sorted and hopefully get them back on track soon. Easy.
h/t Tim Blair:
As social media applauded Feeney’s initiative, Greece’s debt continued to blow out by a further $33 million per day. The collected $2.6 million represents less than 1 per cent of the amount needed to meet just one immediate debt repayment. Even if Feeney and friends did make it to $2.4 billion, they’d have only gathered 0.65 per cent of Greece’s overall $359 billion lending debt.
But of course, as updated on idiegogo:
As the campaign has now finished and we have not reached the target, all of your contributions will now be refunded. But please don't leave me just yet!
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Let us count the
HSBC has fired six staff after they performed a mock Islamic State-style execution video during a team-building day and posted footage online, a bank spokesman said on Tuesday.
1. Large organisation thinking money is well spent on Team Building Exercises
The bank described the video, showing staff members in balaclavas holding a fake knife over a kneeling man in an orange jumpsuit, as “abhorrent”.
2. The bad-taste stunt itself of course.
“We took the decision to sack the individuals involved,” a spokesman for the bank said.
“This is an abhorrent video and HSBC would like to apologise for any offence caused.”3. The fear of the offenderati resulting in the sacking of the employees, rather than handing out written warnings or whatever.
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the sacking of the employees, rather than handing out written warnings
I dunno, I feel like while the original stunt was childish, anyone who doesn't get how it'd be a bad idea to publicly link HSBC's reputation with terrorists is too stupid to be an asset to HSBC. If they hadn't posted it online, it'd be a different situation.
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You say that like the majority o people in such organisations are intelligent enough to be assets in general. My experience differs somewhat...
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3. The fear of the offenderati resulting in the sacking of the employees, rather than handing out written warnings or whatever.
How the hell do you turn a team-building exercise into a mock execution and still get to go to work the next day? It's like sitcom-level "YOU'RE FIRED" situation.
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And on topic: quick! How many people liked the post above?
Answered "4"? WRONG!
Good job, meta.d.
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I dunno, I feel like while the original stunt was childish, anyone who doesn't get how it'd be a bad idea to publicly link HSBC's reputation with terrorists is too stupid to be an asset to HSBC.
For all we know, these employees were there to fetch coffee and make copies. Or mop the floors.
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Large organisation thinking money is well spent on Team Building Exercises
That depends on the sort of team building exercise. If they are psychobabble exercises that are designed to "help your team to derive real benefit from the event," no thanks. But I have worked in big organizations (e.g., Intel, who are not known for their generosity to employees) that pay for employees to go blow off steam and have fun together. The budget isn't much — less than an hour's salary for an engineer per quarter; the time off costs more than the event — but it's enough for things like spending the afternoon go-kart racing together, or going to a flight-sim place and shooting down the boss's plane. Now that's good for morale!
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The budget isn't much — less than an hour's salary for an engineer per quarter; the time off costs more than the event — but it's enough for things like spending the afternoon go-kart racing together, or going to a flight-sim place and shooting down the boss's plane. Now that's good for morale!
Going to a military range and shooting down the boss's plane would be even better for morale! :-D
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But significantly more expensive.
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boiled the methanol off
Inside a submarine? That sounds like a quasi-official-stupid-ideas-that-have-actually-been-done-thread/4621/218
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But significantly more expensive.
Anti-aircraft gun ammunition is not free, no. Nothing in life is perfect.
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I learned to ride a bike two decades ago with a device that kept my bike upright even when I wobbled. It was called 'stabilisers'. In what way does this improve on that?
I learned to ride a bike using a device called "my big brother pushing me down a hill". Actually, "learning to ride a bike" was stage 2 with stage 1 being "learning to fall off a bike".
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"learning to ride a bike" was stage 2 with stage 1 being "learning to fall off a bike".
I never learned to fall off. It was the same with riding a horse, which I did regularly for many years. They say you can't be a good rider until you;ve fallen off at least half a dozen times, so I guess I will never be any good. I just missed that valuable learning experience and skipped straight to being able to stay upright. I think I fell off a bike once in my life (and not when I was learning, just a freak accident. Into a patch of nettles.) and never off a horse
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never off a horse
On my honeymoon, we went horse riding. One member of the group was already a bit scared of horses, was probably far too tense and scared her horse. Pretty early on it thought "fuck this", turned around and ran off. All we heard was he screaming getting more and more faint. It bucked her off and she had to go to the doctor's.
I've only ever fallen off a horse I was helping to break in, it' kind of expected the first time it's backed. I don't pretend to be a particularly good rider.
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Pretty early on it thought "fuck this", turned around and ran off. All we heard was he screaming getting more and more faint.
I'm very sorry for your friend, but this image made me lol.
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Not my friend, just someone else who'd paid for the experience day. It was a little bit funny
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"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."
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I've only been horseback riding once since I was, I dunno, high school age, maybe longer than that. My (now ex-)wife and I took a nice, relaxing weekend for ourselves. One of the things we did for fun was go for a horseback ride. My horse and her horse didn't get along well. Between that and the "uncomfortable in the middle," we were both happy when the hour ride was done. After the fact, I was glad we had gotten there too late for the 2 – 3 hour (each way) ride to the beach.
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If you're going at a fairly relaxed pace horses are pretty comfortable, assuming the saddle is decent. It's just a matter of getting the stirrup leathers the right length, sitting correctly, and getting used to the motion. It's a wonderful way to see some countryside.
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If you're going at a fairly relaxed pace horses are pretty comfortable, assuming the saddle is decent. It's just a matter of getting the stirrup leathers the right length, sitting correctly, and getting used to the motion. It's a wonderful way to see some countryside.
And having comfortable, well fit pants. If your pants are too loose in the legs, you will chafe. That's one reason why many people who spend a lot of time on horseback wear tight pants.
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And having comfortable, well fit pants. If your pants are too loose in the legs, you will chafe. That's one reason why many people who spend a lot of time on horseback wear tight pants.
Fair point. I guess I assumed appropriate clothing.
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I was once barred from buying a screwdriver. Admittedly that can be used as a weapon, like a million other household objects, but I was over 18. The store had a policy of not selling them to under 21s.
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Anything can be used as a weapon. In prisons they sharpen toothbrushes and stab people with them. Maybe they should have an age limit on those also.
I would never give that store another cent of my money. Ever. And I would call them and let them know why.
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That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
The store was probably in England, the place that--possibly justifiably--believes its people are the kind of sheeple who need over-engineered outlets to keep from sticking their tongues in them, and where people who suggest things like banning pointy kitchen knives aren't hounded from public life in shame.
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where people who suggest things like banning pointy kitchen knives aren't
hounded from public life in shamebeaten to death with a blunt tree limb to show them how futile their silly policies are.FTFY
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And having comfortable, well fit pants. If your pants are too loose in the legs, you will chafe. That's one reason why many people who spend a lot of time on horseback wear tight pants.
Of course, the typical vacationer who sees a riding stable and says, "Hey, that looks like fun," doesn't know this and isn't prepared for it.
If you're going at a fairly relaxed pace horses are pretty comfortable
In my limited experience, it seems like lasting discomfort can occur from even brief interval of non-relaxed pace. E.g., you pause to, say, take a picture, and your horse is eager to catch up to the rest of the group — that half-minute of bouncing can be the start of discomfort that lasts the rest of the ride. Presumably, experienced riders know how to not get bounced around by this, but I seem to recall that when I tried, that started the leg chafing that caused a whole other sort of discomfort.
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It's England. They'd all faint if you suggested that!
Don't they also have regular riots and things over soccer matches?
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Don't they also have regular riots and things over soccer matches?
I'm not sure it's regular per se, and I think the Continentals are actually worse on that score.
But it's soccer so I fell asleep three times just writing these sentences. I'm certainly not going to risk looking it up.
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Yes, we have been known to riot over football (that "American Football" thing is more properly "hand egg") and the whole knives thing was after a spate of knife murders by teenage gangs in London.
See, here we don't have guns to shoot people at a distance...
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that "American Football" thing is more properly "hand egg")
WTF is wrong with your chickens?