This hilarious thread on bad drivers reminds me of a video that’s way funnier than it should… was shot of some cars sliding on fresh snow down a hill. It’s pretty common: someone brakes too hard or not soon enough, or steers to sharp, or whatever, and loses control. It’s scary. But watch that video–in particular, the first car.
How is that even possible?!
Borat, you may have lucked out.
I was just trying to play some Team Fortress 2 on my laptop… Without a mouse. It wasn’t going so well. Plus, I couldn’t find anyone on the map. (It was a big map with only a few people on it.) So I’m just moving around trying to find where everyone is.
And all of a sudden a Scout comes through the door and fires his shotgun. I don’t think he even hit me on the first shot.
But I totally panicked. I jumped back in my seat and began flailing my arms. He proceeded to shoot me again and I died.
Me: 0. Pathetic: +1.
Check out this radio‘s description. It’s got excess value and pettiness! And a phrase-lock-loop. And “LCD aphellotropic lights of showing screen,facile operation in dark” has got to mean “backlit screen.” (Facile is Spanish for “easy,” no your mom jokes.) Oh, and you can’t forget the Auto-charger rabbet. And it comes with a chargeable battery.
Anyone else confused? (Bonus points: I tried to copy-and-paste a quote, and it carried over the HTML tags, which included at one point….?!)
This is way funnier than it should be. I do wonder who writes to their maid about the free soap, though, but it does quickly mushroom out of control.
Alright, this might be obscure, but think back to Arrested Development and one of the attorneys.
One of my roommates just cited Robert Loblaw, JD, in his paper. Bob Loblaw. From the Bob Loblaw Law Blog.
I can’t be the only one that remembers this!
Last night I was in the police station getting data for the police logs. As I sat there in the lobby perusing the logs, some girl came in and approached the dispatch desk.
“Hi, I don’t know what to do… This has never happened before. I think my car was towed.”
A few minutes go by, and the dispatcher concludes, “Ma’am, we didn’t tow your car.”
She told him exactly where she’d parked, so he pulled it up on the camera and zoomed in. (The zoom on those cameras is ridiculous!) “I was right next to that Jeep,” she said. Sure enough, her car wasn’t there.
She called to get information on activating Lo-jack in her car. The dispatcher called local tow yards to confirm that no one had towed the car without telling him. One by one, they came back negative.
I was sitting there, intrigued. Part of me didn’t believe that a car had just been stolen on campus. But the other part of me was irritated that the dispatcher was was lallygagging around instead of putting out a BOLO for the recently-stolen car.
Finally, he radioed to one of the officers who was patrolling the parking lot, and asked him to look for the car. About ten seconds later, he radioed back. “I’m sitting right in front of it.” He turned on his lights so they could see where he was on camera.
He was maybe four cars down from where she said she’d parked.
I tried to refrain from cracking up. And as I soon realized that it’s exactly what everyone else in the station was trying to do.
(As an added bonus, she freely admitted that she was illegally parked in a handicapped spot and had no parking permit, although they seemed to distracted with the hunt for her lost car to issue her a citation.)
CNet posted a list of the “Top ten terrible tech products.” (The “products,” sadly, breaks their alliteration streak.)
I’ll direct you to the funniest one ever—#2, the Barcode Battler. And, well, just watch it. The video starts off slow, but it’s well worth it.