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threedaymonk + stupid   41

Can lunar cycles affect the taste of wine?
No, but your suggestibility and belief in pseudoscientific hogwash can.
pseudoscience  wine  psychology  stupid 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Sun Certified Specialist for NetBeans IDE exam
A qualification in using a text editor? Give me a break!
stupid 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Gender Barrier Persists At Vancouver Olympics
Add sexism to the long list of things that are wrong with the Olympics.
olympics  stupid  sexism  discrimination  sport 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
How Form 696 could pull the plug on the capital's music scene
Met Police demand racial profiles of gig attendees.
racism  stupid  london  police  music  performance 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
Web providers to be named and shamed over offensive content
Oh dear. Looks very ill-conceived and unworkable.
uk  government  stupid  internet  censorship 
november 2008 by threedaymonk
Where's Charlton Heston when you need him?
Christians pray to a golden bull to save the economy. Not very biblical!
weird  religion  stupid  humour 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Tattoo clue led police to thief
Car thief caught because he has his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck. Extra irony points: he’s illiterate.
weird  news  stupid  tattoos  crime 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Apple Covers App Store Denials with NDA
Embarrassed by coverage of your arbitrariness in rejecting applications? Silence your critics!
apple  iphone  evil  nda  stupid 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
Schneier on Security: The Two Classes of Airport Contraband
I wish Bruce made the rules instead of the idiots who currently do it.
security  politics  travel  airline  airport  stupid 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
No atheist burials in Co Donegal
religion  uk  ireland  northern-ireland  donegal  atheism  stupid 
august 2008 by threedaymonk
Plz Send Me The Code
‘The best of the worst in software engineering.’
computing  programming  stupid  humour 
august 2008 by threedaymonk
Fellow wiccans please help, how do I tell if it's cursed?
LOLWICCANS. Some hilarious answers.
stupid  superstition  humour 
august 2008 by threedaymonk
'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'
Misogynistic, atavistic, bronze age, nihilistic, pathetic. It makes me so angry.
iraq  religion  culture  violence  women  stupid  islam 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
StupidFilter
'The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English.'
stupid  humour  internet  linguistics  classification 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Embedded OpenType (EOT) File Format
Hilariously bad, incompetent and trivial. For example, font data is 'encrypted using an XOR algorithm using an XOR key of 0x50 on each byte of the font data'.
microsoft  stupid  fonts  format  webdev 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Louis Vuitton Sues Darfur Fundraiser for Copyright Infringement
Seem LV is run by people every bit as distasteful as their customers.
stupid  fashion  copyright 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
London torch security cost £750,000
Only three quarters of a million? That's quite a bargain by Olympic standards.
olympics  uk  london  stupid 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Microsoft wants to worm its way into your PC
'Microsoft is [...] hoping to use friendly "worms" to distribute software patches surreptitiously.' Yeah, that'll end well.
microsoft  security  stupid 
february 2008 by threedaymonk
Online tax system 'too risky' for the famous
Everyone is secure! But some people are more secure than others. This doesn't actually make sense.
uk  politics  tax  stupid 
february 2008 by threedaymonk
Kid Lays Down on Train Track
Cheats Darwin. This time.
video  stupid  trains 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
Bishop attacks safe sex lessons
Presumably, he feels that ignorance is a more effective protection. There's irony, too, in hearing a bishop describe something as a 'deluded theory'.
stupid  religion  sex  education  health 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
The Airport Security Follies
I know it’s bullshit; you know it’s bullshit; pilots know it’s bullshit: but when will the idiots who make up these stupid rules realise?
travel  airline  security  stupid 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
Badvertising: This Boneless Spiral Ham Is "Delicious For Chanukah"
Now, I'm no rabbi, but this seems very questionable.
advertising  stupid  humour  religion 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
spEak You’re bRanes
'A collection of ignorance, narcissism, stupidity, hypocrisy and bad grammar' culled from the BBC 'Have Your Say' site.
humour  stupid  uk  bbc 
november 2007 by threedaymonk
€50,000 Corkscrew by Sveid
My lifetime's ambition is to start some kind of company where I can relieve rich idiots of their money by selling them ridiculously expensive objects. These guys are my role models.
weird  stupid  rich 
november 2007 by threedaymonk
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
How Mickey Mouse got to design your computer.
stupid  microsoft  windows  vista  drm  freedom 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
StupidFilter
This has a lot of potential.
internet  webdev  stupid  fun 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
HIV-infected condoms sent to kill Africans, claims archbishop
How can anyone be that stupid and still remember to breathe?
religion  stupid 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
Excel goes nuts at 65,535
850 x 77.1 = 100,000?!
microsoft  stupid  excel  bug 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
Secular school barred by Whitehall
You can have a christian school, or a muslim one, or a jewish one, but you can't have a secular one. What is this, the 15th century?
stupid  uk  religion  education 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why
See, this kind of shit is why I have no desire to visit the US.
stupid  us  bureaucracy  freedom 
september 2007 by threedaymonk
Lourdes Water Shop
Twenty bucks for 9 cl? I've really got to get into the con game!
religion  stupid  ripoff 
august 2007 by threedaymonk
‘Vatican air’ passengers’ holy water confiscated
The so-called security restrictions are stupid, but in this case I can’t help but laugh!
religion  travel  security  stupid 
august 2007 by threedaymonk
Vicars ban ‘un-Christian’ yoga for toddlers
Idiotic.
religion  stupid 
august 2007 by threedaymonk
'Taleban-like beard' sees Metallica frontman detained at airport
Airport security is stupid.
security  stupid  humour 
july 2007 by threedaymonk
This screw, it is SPECIAL
Looks bog standard to me. Sony, on the other hand, want €61 for it!
sony  stupid  humour 
may 2007 by threedaymonk
Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!
This is stupid even by creationist standards. Surely they can’t be serious!
evolution  religion  stupid  video  humour 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
Tidy tape exercise ‘is madness’
‘Black tape has been put on civil servants' desks to show them where to put their pens.’ More half-baked ideas from consultants.
stupid  humour  news  uk  consultants 
january 2007 by threedaymonk
Transcript: Verizon Doesn't Know How To Count
According to Verizon, 0.002¢ x 35,893 = $71.786. According to mathematics, it's a lot less.
humour  stupid  maths 
december 2006 by threedaymonk
Asians thrown off flight
Once again, a reactionary bigot succeeds in getting four people marched off a plane for wearing Islamic dress and not speaking English.
stupid  security  racism  airline  travel 
november 2006 by threedaymonk
‘Bumfire’ night display goes wrong
‘A dangerous prank quite literally backfired and landed a 22-year-old squaddie in hospital with a scorched colon’.
weird  stupid  darwin 
november 2006 by threedaymonk

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