Smacktard of the day...

[Mythor]

Apparently there can be only one, and Kerri-Anne's it at the moment?
I'd've thought a better solution would have been to have more Bert, less flogging of shonky merchandise like the "Pest Contro"?


And my minor one for the day would have to be Ch7/Beyond Productions for last night's Beyond Tomorrow.
Again, they pilfered a not-particularly-future-y myth from the Mythbusters - is it better to run or walk in the rain in order to get less wet. They heavily chopped down the original segment to be not much more than a disjointed mishmash of sections that jumped all over the process.

But that's not why they're smacktards.

No, it's because the new season of Mythbusters that started about a week ago in America opened with another "Myths Revisited" episode, where they address viewer concerns with the methodology or results of earlier tests.
One of the myths they revisited was the walking/running in the rain myth, with Grant Imahara and Tori Bellucci ending up running a series of side-by-side tests of the myth, in real rain from the sky... and ultimately they actually busted the results from the original test - the one Beyond Tomorrow ran last night - as being wrong.

There really is no excuse for it. Beyond Productions produce both and so they would have known the busting of the original test was going to happen.

[Alisso]

Second the nomination for channel ten, but for the random repeat of an early episode of House last night when they haven't actually finished playing the first season episodes so they have no REASON to play old episodes yet. I think they're turning into channel seven...

[Renee_Turner]

Religion good, actually talking about relevant issues bad

No wonder kids these days are taking up guns. These shows are depicting things that HAPPEN, morons, regardless of whether you choose to acknowledge them or not. What you should do is watch these shows with your kids and explain/talk about them. Oh hang on, that would actually be PARENTING, so you wouldn't be able to blame society and schools if your kids ended up fucked-up. You know, if you actually talked to them, maybe they wouldn't.

[Renee_Turner]

That being said, I guess it all depends on what beliefs you decide to teach them.

People are stupid.

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Nazi Twins

"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx.

BWA HA HA HA HA!!!
Yeah, 'cos if you let them dark fellers have all them freedoms like ridin' up the front of the bus then innocent white folk might wake up one day and discover they've turned into negroes!

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rgh


WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF??????

[Renee_Turner]

Some people just can't take a joke.

Yes, puns suck. But The Simpsons has been making those jokes for years. Get over it.

[Mythor]

Even if, God forbid, children do see the signs, they are either going to understand them, or not.
If they understand them, they're already "corrupted" anyway, so the sign isn't going to do them any harm, they'll just get a giggle out of it. And how is getting a giggle on the way to/from school a bad thing?
If they don't understand them, then how exactly is it going to cause them any harm? They'll just look like any of a thousand other Halloween displays... You know, the ones with dismembered bodies, skeletons, witches, werewolves...

I heard all those jokes from friends and we even came up with some of our own, without ever having to see a Halloween display of them.

"Is Amanda there?" "Last name?" "Huggenkiss." "Hey, guys? I need Amanda. Amanda Huggenkiss? Come on, can I get Amanda Huggenkiss please?"

[Renee_Turner]

Post-Smacktard nomination for whoever decided to change Dick, Fanny and Bessie into Rick, Franny and whatever-they-called-her for similar reasons. You must protect children from harmless innuendo. *sigh*

[Edward]

Originally Posted by Mythor

"Is Amanda there?" "Last name?" "Huggenkiss." "Hey, guys? I need Amanda. Amanda Huggenkiss? Come on, can I get Amanda Huggenkiss please?"

Not to mention Oliver Clothesoff, Jacques Strap, Homer Sexual and Mike Rotch. If you feel uncomfortable explaining phrases like "my cunt" or "fill my crack in" to your child then you can always claim not to be sure what the names actually mean, or better yet get over it - knowing what "cunt" means or why someone might want their crack filled is not going to break your child, it's really not.

[sara]

I think the child they chose to prove that some kids do understand what the names mean really proves the point that if they already understand it they'll think it's funny, if not they won't. I mean the kid chose "hugh jass" as his favourite. That's really quite innocent. If he had have understood the others I'm guessing that one wouldn't be his favourite.

[Casanova]

so, nobody else thought it was funny that her last name was PRANKE?

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Casanova

so, nobody else thought it was funny that her last name was PRANKE?

Only if her first name is Ivana or something ...

[Mythor]

Smacktards of the day: Al Qaeda.

Whilst I can certainly believe that the US may be covering up some of the deaths that have occurred in Iraq, I find it extraordinarly unlikely that they would be resorting to dumping the bodies of their soliders in the river.
They might want to keep the exact figure under wraps, but they're not going to treat the bodies of their fallen with such disrespect. If they tried to do it, someone in the military would "leak" the information to the media, it's that simple.

And dumping bodies in the river is an extremely poor solution if you're trying to cover up the death toll - it is extremely likely that the bodies will wash up downriver, leading to potential discovery by non-US forces. Leaving aside the cover-up angle, they're not going to chance bodies falling into the hands of "insurgents", if it can be avoided.

[unfrufru]

see i thought i'd just read this title wrong, but no its worse than i thought. i'd like to say i'm surprised but guess which state he comes from!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...720476436.html

Man allegedly fantasised about eating girlsOctober 31, 2005

A man who allegedly fantasised about eating the internal organs of young girls has appeared in court charged with child pornography.



Robert John Walker, 42, appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today charged with one count of possessing child pornography.

It is alleged Walker, from suburban Athelstone, had more than 2000 images of children on his computer and on computer disks, along with children's underpants.

Documents filed with the court also claim Walker had unsigned contracts for principals of kindergartens and primary schools to "supply" him with students.

The contracts allegedly contained a clause preventing the principals from going to the police.

"[The contracts] included ... bondage and food supply contracts detailing the removal of young girls' bodily parts for food," the court documents say.

"[They] were labelled 'Rape and Bondage', 'Bondage and Food Supply' and [had] authorisation letters to remove children from school to carry out these acts."

The contracts allegedly contained details to remove the body parts of children, including their brains, eyes, hearts and sexual organs, "to cook and eat".
One court document allegedly seized from Walker - titled "Bondages and Food Supply for SA" - contained details of the addresses of more than 60 potential victims, including a baby girl, pre-schoolers, school girls and mothers.

Another document was titled "Last Will and Testament for Boys", while another detailed numerous types of sexual abuse and sexual acts on animals.

In the court documents, police say Walker "thought [about] these things regularly. He wrote and typed them out to avoid carrying out these acts".

Today's court appearance was to determine whether Walker should be released on bail but the court heard he had decided to withdraw his bail application.

Police prosecutor Fred Wojtasik said investigations into Walker's alleged offences were continuing and further charges could be laid.

Walker will appear in court again next month.

[Renee_Turner]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

In the court documents, police say Walker "thought [about] these things regularly. He wrote and typed them out to avoid carrying out these acts".

Yes, because we all know sick people like that (read: potential serial killers) are often satisfied with writing about their thoughts.

Thank Bob he got caught.