Stupid Kids Ruin The Fun For Everyone Else

erendorerendor Join Date: 2003-02-06 Member: 13180Members
edited July 2003 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Damn those stupid kids....</div> This is pretty old, but i've had an urge to share it for quite some time now:

<a href='http://www.theonion.com/onion3628/fun_toy_banned.html' target='_blank'>Fun toy banned because of three stupid dead kids</a>

its a story of 3 kids who got a incredibly fun toy banned, ruining the fun for everybody else.

and another hilarious one

<a href='http://www.theonion.com/onion3118/rccola.html' target='_blank'>RC Cola celebrates their 10th soft drink purchase!</a>

Hwo a cola company celebrates their 10th soft drink purchase in 68 years.

EDIT: comments?
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Meh, nothing but flamebait.

    I hate forged stories that try to be amusing....

    Real stupidity contains far greater comedic properties.
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  • erendorerendor Join Date: 2003-02-06 Member: 13180Members
    edited July 2003
    some of the stuff on that site is real i think. Maybe the dead kids one, but probably not RC cola sales. I mean, i bought that....once....because they hid the coke....bah.
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    It's prolly a bad idea posting their pictures, considering the track-record for this forum =/
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  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    None of it is real, it's The Onion.

    I, for one, absolutely love The Onion and find it hillarious. But i guess that's just me.
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  • SeraphyGoodnessSeraphyGoodness Join Date: 2003-06-05 Member: 17029Members
    All fake... It's TheOnion fer chrissakes. they are a Spoof tabloid.

    A quick search on google should show this

    <a href='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Aqua+Assault+Robofighter' target='_blank'>Robofighter? Wossat?</a>

    All the links are to copies of the same article.

    check the language as well, what reputable publication would call the dead children Retards? insta-lawsuit...
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  • erendorerendor Join Date: 2003-02-06 Member: 13180Members
    SSHHHHHHHH.... You gave it away <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> my plan to take you all over by making you read fake articles and proclaiming them to be true has backfired! RUN AWAY!! <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    I suppose that article's a phony, at least the statements from the medical personnel (I don't know the site, so I dunno if they're making stuff up like this all the time). You simply can't say things the way they did (however true it may be), there are always grieving parents ready to throw you into the fires of hell (or a courtroom) for statements like these. The poor, poor kids.
    Having worked in a hospital, I know that nobody would dare to speak like that about a dead child (the risk of getting sued to smithereens or losing your job is simply too great). They might very well THINK so, or say so to colleagues, but not to the media. Unh-unh. Not gonna happen.
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  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    Guys, goto <a href='http://www.theonion.com/' target='_blank'>The Onion</a> and read the news stories for a while. It's all fake, so shh. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • BigMadSteveBigMadSteve Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
    The Onion is a great website. I remember the first time I got tricked by it. It was saying that North Dakota was a rogue state producing nuclear weapons. I believed it lol.
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  • Spyder_MonkeySpyder_Monkey Vampire-Ninja-Monkey Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 8Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    It's right up there with www.landoverbaptist.com <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    landoverbaptist eh ?
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  • Spyder_MonkeySpyder_Monkey Vampire-Ninja-Monkey Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 8Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    You'd have to visit the site to know... trust me. >=)
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  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    Secular site making fun of Christianity. In a pretty untasteful way, I might add.
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I kind of picked that up from the title. Thus the question, thanks anyways Spydie.

    And, we'll talk about that in the discussions forums post-2.0.
    See ya there. :)
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    Well, if I didn't know (i.e, from you guys saying it in this post), I would assume that the story is real, but the quotes are not.

    The sad thing is that it sounds believeable; I seem to remember hearing somewhere that since their release in America, the Teletubbies have been responsible for 27 deaths due to televisions falling on children while they were trying to hug the teletubbies......

    Note that the teletubby-related deaths in the U.K are still at zero.... interesting.... (I wonder if that counts teletubby related <b>suicides</b> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )

    Well my point is, people are stupid. Fair enougth, those 27 children (if the figure is accurate, and I really dont think it is) were probably under 3, and so can't really be blamed for their actions, but people really ARE stupid. Don't believe me?

    www.darwinawards.com

    Note how almost all of these deaths are by men in the USA (although a disturbing percentage are in the UK...)

    Sorry if this is a little.... morbid, but..... um... sorry.
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  • XzilenXzilen Join Date: 2002-12-30 Member: 11642Members, Constellation
    Haha

    The Onion provides yet another laugh <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I love them <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    The Onion is great lol
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  • MajinMajin Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16829Members, Constellation
    If you can read some of that stuff, like the one about the stupid kids and not be able to laugh.. WTH is wrong with you!
    Its the kind of comidy you find at places like <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com' target='_blank'>Penny Acrade</a> Its violence made funny!
    thats my fav type of Violence! You know that Itchy and Scratchy type!
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    I can't believe some people didn't know The Onion was fake... Then again, I've met people who are convinced Weekly World News is real too...

    I remember a few years back there was a story on a site, "mIRC Announces 10th Registration". The whole story is gone, but I managed to find a snipplet:<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->After nearly 6 years, two million downloads and an estimated 1.8 billion connections to IRC networks around the globe, mIRC Co. Ltd announced that the number of registered copies of their flagship product has reached the elusive double-digit mark. At 7:21pm GMT, Ronnie47, who has used mIRC for less than a month, made the historic $20 purchase using his credit card. A regular chatter in EFNet's #40+chat channel, Ronnie47 believed he was required to purchase the software." <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    :P
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