Daily FAIL - Terrifying Teddy...

What deranged dentist thought this would be a cute way to show little kids teeth? This is about the creepiest teddy I've ever seen... I'm gonna see this thing in my nightmares.

A man with a true super-power: stupidity.

I've talked about people who claim to have supernatural powers before... for some reason, many people simply can't accept reality for what it is. For them, super-human powers and ghostly spirits and predicting the future simply MUST be true. I don't really get it.

We are fragile humans... some people are stronger, or smarter, or taller, or more beautiful, but we all have physical limitations. No-one is immortal, no-one has super powers, and no, sorry, no-one can talk to dead people (but that's a topic for another post).

Still and all, people claim these abilities all the time... sometimes they are true charlatans looking to bilk credulous people out of their money, and sometimes they actually convince themselves that they do have these abilities. The latter group are less dishonest, but more dangerous because they truly believe it. A charlatan will know when he's gone too far before he's done any real harm... a true believer won't.

Most times, it's other people that are damaged as a result of the claims of these people... but sometimes, these kooks are so convinced of their own supernatural abilities that they will put themselves in harms way... usually to their own detriment.

That brings us to today's whackaloon, Dmitry Butakov, who believed that he had "super-powers"... specifically the ability to ingest poisonous liquids without being harmed. It seems that Dmitry's body did have a somewhat high tolerance for certain types of toxic liquids. For example, he once drank some dissolvent in front of reporters and survived. He decided to use his "super-powers" to gain fame and perhaps fortune.

You'll notice that I've been talking about Dmitri in the past-tense. You can probably guess why. After setting up a demonstration with reporters in which he drank about 10 oz. of anti-freeze, he gave a couple of interviews, then started to feel sick. He later died, predictably, of blood poisoning.

I'd wrap this up with a lesson about stupidly believing in super (or supernatural) powers, but if you didn't get that already, I'm not sure it would help you anyhow.

Get in the f..ing sack!

We need more comedians like this guy... rationalists are too often portrayed as being humorless and boring. This made me chuckle out loud. Enjoy, and please, send this any of your friends who are into "alternative medicine" and the like.

Daily FAIL - this would be funnier to me...

but I think the guy that built this place also built my house... grrr....

Daily FAIL - why we need to increase education spending...

You'll really be appalled when you find out how much money the guys who did this make...

Daily FAIL - a diet I could stay on...

Man... if this were accurate I'd be sooooooo much thinner than I am right now.

Daily FAIL - If you can't...

... Love the one you pork...

Daily FAIL - honest dishonesty.

We all know someone who would write a note like this, don't we?

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Daily FAIL - I don't remember ordering this...

At that price, she couldn't have been all that good anyhow...

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Daily FAIL - We're back from church... let the beatings commence.

I wonder how many christian fundies will read this and have no idea what's wrong with it?

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Daily FAIL - OOOUUUUUUUCH

"Smilin Bob" from the Cialis commercials has nothin' on E.T.

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Daily FAIL - Inaugural.

The world is full of stupid.  You know it, I know it... and so do the folks at Failblog.

So, as a tribute to epic stupidity, captured for our amusement, I will post some of my favorite FAILs here on a semi-regular basis.  I know the post says "Daily"... but come on... there's no way I'm doing this every day.  Deal with it.

For your inaugural daily fail I offer you TWO!  That's right, TWO epic fails.  Enjoy!

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