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April 10, 2013

Bad Ads You Might Have Missed

Last month, Ford Motors landed in hot water after a series of sexist advertisements it ran in India.

The three bad ads feature illustrations of Paris Hilton, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and German racecar driver Michael Schumacher each sitting in the front seat of a Ford Figo. In each ad, the celebrity had their “enemies” tied up in the trunk (to demonstrate how big it was). Hilton had paparrazi bound and gaggedl Schumaker had rival drivers. Berlusconi had a bunch of scantily clad models in his trunk.

Of course, this isn’t the first time an ad campaign has courted controversy. Last year, the makers of Pop Chips thought it would be hilarious to dress actor Ashton Kutcher up as “Raj,” a sleazy, thick-accented Bollywood producer and stick him in a commercial. Following an outcry on the Internet, the company yanked the bad ads. But here it is!

In spring of 2012, the Lung Cancer Alliance rolled out a series of bizarre posters arguing that nobody deserved to die of cancer, each people widely thought to be annoying, including “hipsters,” “crazy old aunts” and “cat people.” The ads, which the LCA hoped would lead people to its informational website, were a little too subtle, though, when people thought they were saying that those groups deserved to die. Many of the posters were torn down in several cities, presumably by hipsters, crazy old aunts, and cat lovers.

Bad Ads

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April 5, 2013

Did You Have a Nice Pranksgiving (April Fools)?

April Fools’ Day 2013 will go down in history as one that was particularly saturated with public pranks. Among our favorites:

april fools• The British car show Top Gear announced it was filming in the Netherlands, and that in order to set a new land speed record, a busy 20-mile stretch of highway outside of Amsterdam would have to be closed. Citizens grumbled about the delays and rerouting…until it was revealed that there was no show. It was all a prank from a mischievous Dutch police officer.

YouTube released a video declaring that the site’s entire existence was a contest to find “the best video.” Furthermore, the service announced it would be shutting down for 10 years so its panel of judges could watch all of the billions of videos and decide on a winner. The prize: $500.

• Outdoor supply company REI announced that it would be selling “Adventure Kitten Gear”. Among the items: a “Wild Cat” backpack that held “100 cubic inches of kibble and catnip,” and an $11 bandana that “doesn’t do anything, but looks cute in photos.”

• Perhaps the most talked about joke of April Fools’ Day this year was Google’s announcement of its new service, Google Nose. Supposedly, it would allow users to search the company’s “Aromabase” of more than 15 million smellable “Scentibytes.” Among the available scents? Dumpsters and wet dogs.

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February 26, 2013

An Odd Holiday: National Public Sleeping Day

pillows for national sleeping dayGrab your pillows: National Public Sleeping Day is just around the corner, on February 28th. How to celebrate: take a nap in public. That’s it. The dubious, obscure holiday dates all the way back to 2011, and ever since bloggers and news organizations have used it to discuss sleep health issues, or use it as an excuse to run a cheeky photo of their boss napping while on the clock.

Even if it was created by a bored college student or an overworked office drone (its origins are murky), maybe Public Sleeping Day should become a nationally recognized holiday. Given our hectic lifestyles, more and more Americans are having a hard time getting a good night’s rest. Now, some people can get by on only a few hours a sleep a night. (If you have a newborn baby, you know this all too well.) According to one estimate, babies can cause their parents to lose between 400 and 750 hours of sleep during their first year alone. In his 2010 autobiography, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards boasted that he once managed to go nine days without sleep.

A guy named Randy Gardner holds the scientifically documented record for the longest stint of sleeplessness. He managed to stay awake for 264 hours (around 11 days) in 1964. Meanwhile, Guinness World Records claims that the real record stands at 449 hours (which works out to 18 days, 17 hours). It was set in 1977 in England by a woman named Maureen Weston, who supposedly managed to stay awake that long during a “rocking chair marathon.”

But for those of us without these superhuman powers, sleep deprivation can cause some very real problems. A 2012 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that as many as 40 million workers in the U.S. get fewer than six hours of sleep a night, significantly less than the seven to nine recommended by the National Sleep Foundation. That’s a big concern, especially considering that an estimated 20% of vehicular crashes in the U.S. are caused by drowsiness. Not getting enough sleep can also cause health issues like depression and lead to occupational injuries.

So when your boss finds you napping at your desk on the 28th, be sure to tell him you’re celebrating a national holiday for the good health of both yourself and America.

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January 20, 2013

Cheeky Wikipedia Writer Already Has Ravens Losers of Super Bowl XLVII

Naughty!

It’ll be changed soon, for sure – so here’s a screen grab of the Wikipedia list of Super Bowl winners – up to 2015 (click to enlarge):

If you look down at the bottom you see “Baltimore Ravens” in the right hand column of Super Bowl XLVII.

That’s the “losing team” column. In case you’re not a football fan…that game won’t be played until February 3. (The Ravens just clinched a spot in the game minutes ago.)

Naughty 49ers fan Wikipedia writer!

Update: It’s already gone!

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January 17, 2013

Pelican Looks Like Urinal

Oh man, this is funny:

Bonus Urinal Related News: Open air urinals.

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January 9, 2013

Dog Shaved Like Lion Sparks 911 Calls

Too funny:

A dog shaved like a lion made for an eventful night for Norfolk, Va., dispatchers, when several people who saw the dog on Tuesday called 9-1-1 to report a lion on the loose, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports.

The newspaper obtained 9-1-1 call audio, in which one woman says, “There was a lion that ran across the street – a baby lion. It was about the size of a Labrador retriever.

The dog’s owner, Daniel Painter, told the Virginian-Pilot that he shaved his pet to look like the mascot for Old Dominion University.

Too much. “It was about the size – and genus – of a Labrador retriever!”

• The dog is a Labradoodle. His name: Charles the Monarch. He has his own FaceBook page.

• Staff at the Virginia Zoo were actually scrambling to check their lion cages.

• Related UJBR right this way!

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August 5, 2012

5 Guys Pose For Same Photo Every 5 Years For 30 Years

From the website of the five friends:

In 1982 five friends took a seemingly insignificant photo that became a longstanding tradition about true friendship. We call it the FIVE YEAR PHOTO.

The photos (click to enlarge):

1982

1987

1992

1997

2002

2007

2012

 

And so oldish men are made.

Our favorite part: How, in the course of those thirty years, the second guy from the far left went from Blond-Haired Beach Boys Dude:

Blond-Haired Beach Boys Dude

 

…to Angry Tim Robbins Dude:

Angry Tim Robbins Dude

 

Time is a funny beast, isn’t it?

Their website, once again.

CNN did this story, too.

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August 2, 2012

Aussie Newspaper: “Nice Korea: 3 Golds; Naughty Korea: 3 Golds”

Naughty newspaper:

An Australian daily newspaper has rebranded North and South Korea as “Naughty Korea” and “Nice Korea” in their standing medal count, drawing split social media responses with some on Twitter lauding the idea as comic genius and others insisting that it is tantamount to racism.

As noted by the Trending Now blog on the UK edition of MSN.com, the Australian free daily, The Mx, also referred to as the Brisbane Metro, published a medal count that included North Korea as “Naughty Korea” and South Korea as “Nice Korea” in Wednesday’s edition. At the time, the two nations were right next to each other in the medal count, making the contrast between their names visible and notable.

Related: UJBR Sports Spectacular

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July 25, 2012

Redneck Palindrome

Tastes exactly the same—darn good!—no matter which way you eat it.

 

Palindrome.

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July 19, 2012

Premier Episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s New Web Show is Up

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

First thought: Promising. Not all he way there – but promising. (Hard to go wrong with Larry David, though. And you have no idea how much Uncle John is Larry David’s brother from another mother. Seriously.)

* The “free-range chicken” part is hilarious.

More here.

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