sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - stupid

I don't know if I'm the only one who finds warning labels to be ridiculous, but they are. I've been under the impression that our society is actually retarded. Seen below is a list of warning labels I've seen either in picture or in person.

Source: thesun.co.uk

Poor Britney. As if she didn't have enough troubles already.

My article on "stupid users" seems to have stirred quite a bit of debate, with quite a few people seemingly convinced that the users are, in fact, stupid, and there's nothing that can be done about it. That's just not the case.

It's true. Every day, in web departments and web design firms across America (and probably the world), a common and ugly refrain is repeated" Our users are stupid. They won't get it.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

-- A lioness at Kiev's zoo has killed a man who climbed into her enclosure. A Ukrainian of Azerbaijani origin lowered himself into the enclosure using a rope. He was quoted as saying God would save him.

Source: journaltimesonline.com

VIENNA, Austria - A tax collector in the southern Austrian city of Graz accidentally left $28,000 in cash in a black attache case he placed on top of a toilet in the men's room of a local restaurant Thursday, police said.

Source: news.yahoo.com

LOWER BURRELL, Pa. - A middle school student was suspended for three days for sharing chewing gum because it contained caffeine, school officials said.

Source: wftv.com

WARREN, Ohio -- Police in Warren, Ohio, made an unexpected discovery when they pulled over three men suspected of trying to break into a home in that northeastern Ohio city. The 2-year-old son of one of the suspects was sleeping in the car's back seat.

Source: koin.com

Source: todaysthv.com

Police call it a case for a "World's Dumbest Criminals" show. More than a quarter million dollars worth of cocaine and marijuana are now off the street because of a taillight oversight.

Source: wftv.com

I don't know what to say about this. I've heard of stealing some weird things. I've heard of a couple who had their pool stolen. But I've never before heard of someone who had their yard stolen.

Source: click2houston.com

Officials at South Houston High School said they began asking questions after the English teacher, Sean Eckman, 29, asked his principal if he could take a 17-year-old student to prom.

Source: thisisnorthscotland.co.uk

A Shoplifter who chatted up a checkout operator while hiding a bottle of vodka up his sleeve was easily traced by police because he left his name and telephone number with the girl, a court heard.

Source: thisistravel.co.uk

Travel firms are used to dealing with holidaymakers' complaints about poor accommodation or dodgy meals.

Source: nst.com.my

Not only were the three robbers assaulted and caught, but to their dismay, they found that the cellphones which they had taken from the shop were all dummies.

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

I thought this was ridiculous. Here are some snippets from the article:

I'm sick of ribbons. Some cars I see may as well fly a rainbow flag, there's so many ribbons on the back of them — Pink, yellow, blue, red, and on and on…

After seeing yet another programming language comparison on Digg (of Java vs Python where Python won) I felt I had to say something. Please, for the sake of the sanity of intelligent programmers, stop trying to compare languages.

Source: kentucky.com

Long story short, an opposing campaign manger calls in to a radio show to ask a question and gets caught. (The audio is in Read Media format.)

Source: news.com.au

Source: wftv.com

You have to wonder about the mentality of these people.

So I am someone who hates very very few people in this world, but

Source: msnbc.msn.com

A gas station clerk thought there was a severed organ in the microwave - turns out it's a prosthetic used for beating drug tests.

Source: engadget.com

This has to be one of the poorest decisions in the pool of Sony bad decisions recently regarding their gaming products.

Source: ananova.com

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