In my world, it's a tie between my brother and my husband. The idiot of the day award I mean.

A badge is not, repeat NOT a reliable indication of intelligence.

Here in France, a comic (Coluche) once said that people in the police force were all those alchoolics that had been rejected by the postal service or the national train company.

ouch!! that's harsh man.

Meet today's idiot.

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Is that a snake in your pocket, or are you jus--holyfuckinshit!!!:eek:

He's a real idiot if he is planning to climb that thing without a safety harness.

Oh, wait ... OMG :eek:

Eta: notice left of screen ... is that another person with another snake? WTF King Cobra duelling???

The snakes are more interested in each other?...

It's for picking the higher hanging fruit

Listen, snake, I told you that fruit was FORBIDDEN!

doctorate, tenure, now messiah complex. He's nuts, but he's *our* :nuts:.

Idiot of the Day January 1, 2012
 

Idiot.

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Reader's Digest used send out that kind of stuff, surely that can't be counterfeit!? :rolleyes: - I remember the story when a customer once successfully made a train journey with a mock ticket from RD promotion material.

The bond is nothing for a guy with a million-dollar bill.

At least he didn't try to spend his round Tuit.

I gotta get me one o' them.

Hey, it's plausible!

Mr. Burns had a million dollar bill!

(but, sadly, Castro tricked him out of it)

Don't know when this made the rounds, but this idiot is in dire need of a brain douche.

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What a fucking dick.

I get what he's saying.

Those of us outside America who had regularly experienced terrorism did have this kind of reaction. The Police, the Armed Forces , the taxi drivers and builders and fast food delivery people who died during The Troubles didn't seem to impact America.
The children, the shoppers, the school-aged musicians didn't excite much disgust.
The veterans lined up to acknowledge their fallen comrades and then bombed by their own countrymen didn't get enough attention - because how much could ever be enough?

11 September was a horrific act of terrorism. Like any terrorist act, it hit and hurt people who had nothing to do with the politics or situation that inspired it. Innocent people died, and died horribly. People who are sworn to serve did serve. And many went above and beyond. And even those that didn't, and lived, have terrible memories to live with.

I had a friend who used to volunteer with the Red Cross. She witnessed the aftermath of a plane crash. Even though she knew her input on that day helped immensely, she quit after that. She simply could not live day to day in the knowledge that she might face that again.

So on review, I don't agree with the article above.
He lives in Iowa City.
He lives in America.
I can't send him back in time to Belfast as it was. But even if he went now, and interviewed police, ambulance drivers, firemen, builders, taxi drivers, pizza delivery people, school children, etc etc he'd understand what it is like to live in fear of your life. And to do that and still keep on in your average wage job makes you a fucking hero in my mind.

If he wants to use the term pathetic and spoiled for his countrymen then that is his right.
I'd respect him far more if he went somewhere dangerous enough to juxtapose that.
Otherwise it's just whining.

I'd agree with that Sundae. Though, I think what made 9/11 so shocking was the scale of it as well. Had something of that magnitude happened during the Troubles I think the whole world would have looked on in horror and shock. Instead it was the drip drip of constant smaller scale attacks across decades.

True dat.
But I suggest it made day to day life appalling.

I don't know how you guys stood up to that. The assholes over here who funded them didn't get it until 9/11. I still remember going out the Saint Patricks Day after 9/11 and the band refusing to play a rebel song. We make such a media circus out of everything over here that things cease to be real. Remembering how over-blown the Beltway Sniper was vs the Belfast bombings when both are pretty remote from me leaves me looking for perspective.

I still say he's a fucking dick.

He's still single, I should hope? The way Michael Newdow is single, though preferably without issue?

Not checked for truthiness...

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Id10T of the Day - Apr 25, 2012

from Yahoo!News

Idjit.

That is beyond idiot. We need a new word.

Here is a story about creative, young, desperate idiots. Drinking hand sanitizing gel? You're kidding, right? Nope, not kidding.

from RT.com

I'd say that the criminals in Connersville, and Fayette county are prolly pretty safe. Anyone in line next to Chief Councellor, not so much.

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:lol2:

Well that takes the taco

Walmart?? Do you mean Gordito's? We've eaten there several times. Never ate the baby though.

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I can feel the blood slowing down in my veins just looking at that behemoth.

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Henways, board stretchers, left-handed monkey wrenches, blinker fluid, muffler bearings (some cars actually do have those now, so, not so much a gag anymore)...I'd not heard of The Olde Fill Up The Drinking Fountain gag.

...from the mop bucket, no less.:greenface

"Can you think of a tree that has leaves? I have Maple already."

Huh?

I just saw that. :thumb:

As opposed to needles or fronds, I suppose?

I would hope, except he doesn't know about needles and fronds. Getting maple was a feather in his cap, being surrounded by maples and all...

/sarcasm

Heheh, ijit.

These things happen:rolleyes:

Yeah, he put his foot up like he was going into first gear, but he got distracted, or for whatever reason, just didn't snick it into gear.

And then got throttle-happy trying to catch up.

My husband. He's trying to tell me there's no scientific correlation between maintaining a constant body temperature, and faster recovery times after illness. You don't need a fucking degree to know your body will be under less stress, therefore able to fight illness if it's not using it's resources trying to keep you warm or cool.

not commenting on idiocy, but it occurs to me that the body does alter its temperature in response to illness. a fever sometimes is the result of the body responding to an infection by raising the temperature as an immune response. the discomfort is, to my understanding, because of the difference between the body's actual temperature and the body's "set point" temperature, which itself can vary.

I'm not a doctor, but played one in my youth...:blush:

What a colossal fucking idiot
 

Public Schools Cop Shoots At Fleeing Kids Who Had Been MAKING OUT

I hope this guy gets sued to death. What an ijit. Prolly unable to get a girlfriend himself. Also, prolly couldn't make the cut as a 'real' cop.

Dumbass.

Hey man, he hit the tire. Assuming that's what he was aiming at that's good shootin'. Isn't that what the Lone Ranger or John Wayne would have done? :cool:

We've got a local stealing skin... $357,000 dollars worth. :mg:

I bet he was eating it, the freaky fucker.

Yup.

Woman photographed driving ten miles along the M1 at 70mph while reading a book.
 

The M1 is a particularly busy Motorway and, if only in the interests of self-preservation, requires the full attention of the driver at all times.

The speed limit is 70mph but is honoured more in the breach than the observance and you need your wits about you. (See 'self-preservation' above)

Heaven alone knows what was going on here:

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Nottingham Post

Daily Mail

I've seen that several times on the PA Turnpike

Me too, newspapers, books, and most mind boggling to me, paperbacks. They are hard to keep open with one hand and have tiny print that's hard to look away from and find my place again so I tend to want to finish the paragraph before looking away. :rolleyes:

I saw a man (or was it a woman? I forgot) reading a magazine while driving. The only difference here was that it was bumper to bumper traffic. Still doesn't make it right.

It's not the dumping of the cement on the car that makes this guy an idiot. It's standing there with his phone in his hand, when he could grab the water hose from the truck and spray the cement off the car, and potentially save the company a couple thousand bucks, or more.

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"not his money" / insurance will pay for it is what I'm guessing is keeping him from doing such a thing. though I reckon there'll be replacement galore on that accident regardless.

Let it dry. No more stone chips to worry about

good point!

Hopefully the dipstick can be accessed through the ashtray in the dash, and can we get some roof mounted lights please?

Heh. Once I was driving and my Mom was in the passenger seat. She had a stroke several years ago and as a result can not speak, but she is johhny-on-the-spot when it comes to taking her medicine on time. Well, it was time. When we came to the red light, I opened my wide mouth Nalgene water bottle for her (the stroke also paralyzed her right arm and right leg so she can't easily open the bottle on her own). She popped the pills into her mouth and started to take a drink to wash down the medicine. Then the light turned green and I pulled forward. Along with my Mom, and the bottle, but the water wanted to stay right where it was. As I drove out from underneath the water, it seemed to rush out of the bottle and into my Mom's face, but actually, the water was just minding its own damn business when my Mom's face smashed into it.

What a shock! She was soaked and I was embarrassed as hell "Sorry MOM!!!!" She's a good sport though and we had a laugh about it. I make sure she doesn't have the bottle aimed at her face when the light turns green now.

I wonder if the cement sloshed out of the mixer in the same way...

Back when I was younger and stupider, and we would ride around drinking, I would do that to my friends on purpose. Hold the gear just a little longer than necessary, and, a half-beat after the bottle/can gets to their lip, goose the gas.

Good times, man.

If it can be done from the cab, I'd say he prolly reversed the drum, for whatever reason, at exactly the wrong time/place.