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Topic Started: Aug 26 2011, 09:24 AM (681 Views)
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For your entertainment, a new thread dedicated to news of the funny, daring, sad, or just plain stupid...

08/26/11:
Maybe we're not paying our teachers enough?

He's fricking 80 years old, how do you punish to fit the crime?

Odds are he's even stupider than he is unlucky

In cases like this, how do you decide who goes first? Seriously, they're not helping the stereotype of inbred Alabamans!

Hey lady, wanna see my trouser snake?

08/27/11:
Ticketed for flashing, resident fights and wins
--- Seriously, I wonder if it's truly illegal in Georgia or just cops pulling a fast one.

08/30/11:
When it comes to escaping this guy has a leg up on the competition

Ouch!


08/31/11:

Just think if she'd kicked him

Arrrrhhhh Matey!

Edited by Andrul, Aug 31 2011, 04:49 PM.
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Dude, you're posting from the future! Cool. ;)
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I was going to comment on the legal nature of the tickets but since it hasn't happened yet I'm not sure if I should wait or not.

Police in GA can ticket for flashing your lights. I believe it's under some provision about improperly operating a motor vehicle. Back in high school, my friend was pulled over around 1am for flashing and honking at a red light. Around Marietta, many of us figured out which stop lights had the light/sound sensors and we would trigger them to cycle faster late at night. She got a warning. I like how the lawyer speak is all about improper detention which lead to 'illegal' searches. It's just a way for a lawyer to grand stand about Constitutional rights because an officer needs so little to pull someone over in the first place. If your tire touches either line they can stop you. If you don't stop 100% behind a stop sign even if you can't see traffic, they can pull you over. And so on.

It is dumb to write tickets for it but I never warn anyone of police running radar. Moving violation stops lead to the most arrests of drunk drivers, drug dealers, smugglers and people with arrest warrents.


edit: Having your high beams on when there is other traffic is illegal and I love when people get ticketed for it. I hate when people do that. I wanted to smack KT for doing it because she had one light out. She claimed she couldn't see with one light.. on the interstate with a hundred other people with lights. Then she gets freaked out when the truckers start tailgaiting her and flashing their lights at her yet she continues on with her infant and toddler in the car. Gah!
Edited by lgm, Aug 28 2011, 04:53 PM.
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the law that the the article referred to as being abused is one that states you can't have flashing lights on your car to appear to be an emergency vehicle (ie: cop car) but is loosely worded enough that the cops use it to stop the flashing headlights. I am not so sure about the legality of it in Georgia ever since that cop pulled me over because he thought I was flashing my lights to warn of another cop car (which I didn't know was there, and I was telling the car ahead of him to drop the high-beams). He harassed me about that but when I didn't react he then went on to claim that the tag on my car was registered to a Honda. That tag had never been anywhere near another car and I told him so and he departed. The reason I question the flashing lights thing is that he never said a word about my busted tail light which was an obvious and undeniable breaking of the law.
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09/01/11:

Sisters in chains
it's easy for people to condemn the family until you get to the part about the cost of their care being $20,000 a month and the breadwinner brings home $15 on a good day.

This guy on the other hand should be water-boarded.

RealDolls are just too expensive

I don't recommend doing this

09/02/11:

On the bright side, we're halfway to completing a planetary shield against alien attacks from space

09/03/11:

They still contend that the universe is geocentric
Edited by Andrul, Sep 3 2011, 08:39 AM.
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Those chained sisters is the fault of the family. There are two facilities to help them and they went to the wrong people for help. The problem is the culture where rape requires honor killing the female. The bigger problem is the father abiding by irrationality. And speaking on irrational people, when did we still have geocentric Catholics? It's impossible to find creationists within our ranks but we have geocentrics? I'm not sure which is dumber. We still can't dispell the Galileo myth. People still think he was jailed for his theories. He was told before he came to the Vatican that the Church had no interest in scientific dispute. We did hold the wrong theory as correct along with the rest of the world and weren't interested in alternative theories. Galileo travels to Vatican to specifically say the Church is wrong. He was turned away. He then demands an audience with the Pope... over and over again. They tell him to go away. He continues. Due to his behavior, he is told he is to be confined to his quarters (quite nice ones at that since he was a guest). That constitutes "house arrest" which later becomes "imprisoned". At all times he is freely allowed to leave Rome though he remains for some time demanding an audience and all that jazz. Obviously the Church was so anti-science and theory that they safeguarded all accumilated knowledge in Europe and the Near East they could so that it didn't disappear during the Dark Ages.. which the learned monks and priest scholars used to help foster the Renaissance. All this so they could fight with a single man about a theory that did not affect Catholic theology in any matter. Way to go Protestant written history books. They butchered that history as badly as they did the reality of Martin Luther.

Normally religion is off limits but this is me talking about finding people of my own religion to go beat. That's just plain fair.
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Remember, history is the winner's side of the story :)
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09/07/2011:

As a citizen of a "breakaway province" myself I say we should tell China where to stick their opposition.

If I ever get arrested I hope my mugshot looks better than these guys

"People have been pretty upset by it, there have been photos and media appearances where she has completely had her crotch out,"

“Literally, a dead horse is being flogged.”
Once you read the article you'll probably understand why I thought that quote was funny


09/08/2011:

If you're going to keep pets, don't starve them!


09/09/2011:

Idiot of the Week

I guess vampires aren't all that fast after all

Just don't ask for creamer


Edited by Andrul, Sep 9 2011, 03:58 PM.
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09/14/2011:

Bystanders perform daring rescue
They mentioned several broken bones, didn't say anything about head injuries but had to throw in that he wasn't wearing a helmet. Which isn't against the law for his age in Utah anyway. Oh, and kudos to all the rescuers.

Edited by Andrul, Sep 14 2011, 12:13 PM.
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That's the town I used to live in. Nice place.
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Pfft. I would have hulked out and lifted the car and bike by myself.
Last week, we had some tornadoes zip through. Had one confirmed and two other storms with rotation. The one that was sighted was coming straight at us so I made sure there was plenty of room in the hall closet for stuffing all the kids and myself. It was moving quite straight for many miles and then veered to the east when it got within a 1/2 mile of us. We lucked out. I finally drove by the damaged area which I didn't realize was so very close to my house. I'm having a close encounter with a tornado every 10 years. No one visit in 2021.
Edited by lgm, Sep 14 2011, 05:25 PM.
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Closest I ever got to a tornado was while living in a trailer park in Georgia. I hit the trailer next to us, skipped over, and hit the trailer on the other side of us. Also, I once sat on the side of the road prepared to jump in a ditch if it came my way and watched a tornado take out a couple of barn roofs. For the 17 years I lived in tornado alley none came within 5 miles of me.
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09/15/2011:

Well, you know what the say, "Easy thumb, easy toe!"

Gee, nobody every complained about heavy weapons in MY backseat

She can give me a physical any time

Up to 20 meters of snow per year!

Edited by Andrul, Sep 16 2011, 02:09 PM.
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09/20/2011:

Those crazy Italians

Somebody needs to watch the Terminator trilogy

Women: for a nominal fee I am willing to slap your breasts

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09/23/11:

This is serious stuff. Once they get it smoothed out more they should start looking into stimulating the brain through emf fields to produce images in the brain. I want my Laforge Visor!
Reproducting what the brain sees

FTL particles?

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10/08/11:
Where's Waldo?

Speaking of looking for things of astronomical significance...
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10/27/11:

Oddly enough, customer service couldn't understand them either.


10/28/11

Windows 8 BSOD facelift

GPS shoes now available for Alzheimer's patients, confused seniors, Rams wide receivers

Edited by Andrul, Oct 28 2011, 03:10 PM.
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Does Windows 7 still have a BSOD? I haven't seen one since I upgraded.
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It must. But I've not seen it, either.
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I have. It was glorious.

I installed Win7 onto a machine whose motherboard was incompatible with it. I never figured out why because it was pre-installed with 64bit Vista. During the long road in fetching motherboard drivers, altering BIOS commands and other fun stuff, Microsoft tech support left us high and dry by not resetting a bunch of defaults after remotely tinkering with it. We would get the BSoD trying to boot Win7. It was so much fun.
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Much to the chagrin of Micro$oft haters, while Windows 7 does indeed have a BSOD it is a very bashful creature and very rarely allows itself to be seen. It was interesting reading all the chatter from supposed experts who claim the bsod is caused by bad hardware and not the o/s. I've supported and worked with Windows for over 20 years now and very rarely has a BSOD actually turned out to be a hardware or even a driver issue. Typically they start occurring after the installation of multiple applications with conflicting changes to the operating system libraries. Which reinforces what I've always said about installing software should never make changes to the operating system. Alas, Microsoft has ignored my many attempts to explain this to them and have gone so far as to issue a restraining order against me communicating with them in any manner including smoke signals (I only tried that one time).
Since the board was older than the o/s, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the o/s was incompatible with the hardware? You mentioned the techs didn't put in the correct settings. I blame that on poor tech support and not the product itself.
Edited by Andrul, Oct 28 2011, 04:01 PM.
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I suppose if they don't listen to you long enough and redesign Windows a dozen times then they will be right at some point. Win7 BSoDs do seem to be hardware conflicts now.. after several decades. Persistence in a monopoly wins!
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My Vista BSOD are all hardware related. But that's what I get for buying a crappy Acer laptop.
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No, that's what you get for buying an Acer with a crappy operating system. Although I have to admit my wife's e-Machine hasn't ever BSOD'd on her. It just runs like I do after eating a 2 pound steak. Very, very slowly.
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That is lucky because eMachines were one of the worst computers ever made. They even took top honors over Compaq (pre-HP). I still want to stab Compaqs when I see them.
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