There’s something ironic in the shittiest possible way about a band deciding to change its name in order to not feel quite so racist, but then finding that the new one that the members have lazily chosen already belongs to a black artist and then using their major label resources to drag her through the …
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Come Visit Our Interactive What Not To Do Exhibit
This is so head slappingly stupid that you could be forgiven for thinking it couldn’t possibly be real. But it is real, because the world is sometimes a very dumb, garbage place. But I suppose in its own way this bout of ridiculousness is a fine example of why we need a human rights museum …
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Local Irony Tag Wonders Where It’s Supposed To Send Its Garbage Now
Old story alert, but I believe that it is still worth noting that the city of Edmonton was forced to shut down its fancy composting facility because the roof rotted. What caused that, you may ask. Well, that would be the effects of composting, natch. The city announced Wednesday that, effective immediately, the Edmonton Composting …
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Too Distracted By Your Phone To Drive Properly? There’s An App For That, Because That Makes A Lot Of Sense
New app targets distracted drivers with traffic alerts Maybe I’m the idiot here, but it strikes me that the only app we should need to tackle distracted driving is one called the power button that shuts the fucking phone off while you’re driving because clearly you don’t have enough self control built in. Instead of …
Anybody Know A Good Lawyer?
A billboard worker wound up in the hospital Tuesday morning when he tumbled off a rooftop sign in Brooklyn that happened to be touting the famed personal injury law firm Cellino & Barnes, family and officials said. David Fricker, 49, was working on the billboard around 10:28 a.m. near the corner of Church and Flatbush …
Call Before You…Never Mind
We don’t use our irony tag all that much, but this seems like a good reason to give it some love. Construction crew hits underground fiber line, causes outage of ‘call before you dig’ hotline It looks like someone may have forgotten to call before they started digging and now others are unable to do …
Way To Go, Premier Labels And Tags
I suppose that something like this could probably happen to anybody, but I’m going to take a moment to delight in it because it’s happening to people who spend most of their time doing their best impression of a rudderless ship, drifting from thing to thing, just kind of doing stuff without any sort of …
Is Anyone Here A Plumber *And* A Wing Walker?
There’s a perfectly logical reason for it, but don’t tell me it’s not amusing that a flight carrying dozens of plumbers was forced to make an unscheduled landing because of a faulty toilet. ‘Is there a plumber on board?’ A Norwegian flight with 84 plumbers on board turned back to Oslo this weekend because a …
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Love Is A 47-Year-Old Christmas Present
It appears the mystery of the 47-year-old gift has been solved, and it was captured on video! I guess the articles from last year made their way to Vicki Allen, the ex girlfriend who handed him the gift and dumped him, and they reconnected and decided to open the mystery gift for a charity. Thank …
It’s One, Two Hit-And-Runs And You’re Out AT The Old Ball Game
We live in a world where not everything is just and not everyone gets justice. But many times there is justice, even if sometimes that justice takes half a century and is kind of cold-hearted and weird. In 1968, Douglas Parkhurst killed 4-year-old Carolee Ashby in a hit-and-run, or at least he’s pretty sure he …
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