What are the chances that the same cat that’s telling James Anthony Shroyer to rob banks, steal cars and run down the cops is the same little 4-pawed criminal bastard who downloaded all that child pornography onto the computer of poor, unsuspecting Keith R. Griffin all those years ago? During an interview with troopers at …
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Sony And Amazon Don’t Think You Should Be Reading This Post, Blind Person
Why do companies that make products and provide services I enjoy have to be such complete and total discriminatory arseholes? Check out these utterly absurd reasons why Sony and Amazon don’t think they should have to comply with the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, which mandates that electronic devices be made …
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How Those Fake Asian Pilot Names Appear To Have Found Their Way To That Newscast
Thanks to Rich Lieberman who blogs about media in the area, more information is coming out about how exactly those fake Asian pilot names wound up making it to air on the KTVU news. It turns out that the names were read out loud after all and even flagged as suspect by at least one …
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Calling Any Of These Things Food Seems Mighty Generous
Since I’m about to go get lunch and I’m sure many of you are too, I figured why not send us all on our way with this. 10 Foods that Thankfully Flopped There are some real winners in here including Cereal Mates, which I don’t remember but which sounds completely wrong and horrifying. Number 2, …
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Mr. Dube
You know, I kind of want to feel sorry for Sunith Baheerathan. I mean lots of us get the occasional weed craving, nothing wrong with that. And hey, people post things they ought not on the internet all the time, even ones we know personally. Everybody makes mistakes, right? But tweeting that you’d really like …
Misfortune Cookies
Ug! People in 2013 are just the worst! Seriously, the worst! I know this sort of thing goes back far beyond 2013, but the web and it’s various social media have given every uptight idiot’s complaint more of a voice than it ever should be allowed to have and they’re taking full advantage of it. …
This Phone Is Delicious
You’ve seen the wooden iPad and the potato iPad. Now, meet the apple iPhone. Police from the Upper Mt Gravatt Crime Prevention Unit say the 21-year-old woman placed an advertisement on the site saying she was interested in buying a few iPhones. Not long after she put the word out, a woman called and said …
Is The Place Called Little Temples Because We Need To Pray That The Kids Don’t End Up As Dumb As The Owner?
Since this is a story about kids and their daycare, let’s play a game. I’m going to tell you a tale and you’re going to guess what happened to this teacher. Michelle Hammack was inside her classroom at the Little Temples Childcare in Jacksonville, when she suddenly smelled smoke. “I just leaned over and peeked …
Crap! Nobody Told Us You People Read Braille With Your Hands!
Well done, Conservative Party research office, well done. Conservative disability mailout uses braille that’s unreadable The so-called “householder” pamphlets, prepared by the party’s research office and sent out by MPs using their parliamentary mailing privileges, were intended to flag the government’s efforts to help people with disabilities enter the workforce. The headline on the document, …
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Yes, There’s Definitely Sum Ting Wong Here
I don’t know what the names of the crew aboard Asiana flight 214 are, but I’m pretty sure I know what they aren’t. Really, we’re not racist. Some of our best friends are Asian pilots. Indeed, to the surprise of no one other than the KTVU news team who apparently don’t bother reading anything aloud …
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