Sometimes – which usually means always – it’s a bad idea to use Google Translate when trying to translate non-English phrases to English ones. Because, admit it, something always goes wrong during the translation process.
Just take these following signs of business names for example. The owners obviously meant well (who wouldn’t want their products or services to sell?) and probably wanted to cater to English-speaking customers, but their translated signs turned out to be too hilarious to take seriously.
The Boston’s Museum of Bad Art only showcases pieces of art that you can never really call “fine art”. Here are some of the paintings being showcased during the Museum of Bad Art: Art Too Bad to Be Ignored exhibit.
Some people just aren’t cut out to be crooks. It’s a profitable “job”, sure, but some of these crooks are always at the risk of getting caught by the police, thwarted by a 90-year old grandma, or worse, they end up getting laughed at. Yep, some bad guys are either just too drunk, too high, too clumsy or too stupid to “properly” do what they’re there to do: rob people. Some crooks ended up getting wrestled by 60-year old men, while the more fortunate ones just end up getting laughed at in the face as they attempt to steal from grocery store owners and other people.
Check out these three crooks right here:
Robber gets caught while trying to claim reward
On August 31, a burglar broke into the Gold Mind Jewelers store and took some 100 rings worth $10,000. The owner, Mark Multari, said that the robber knew exactly what he wanted to take, passing a couple of laptop displays and watches on his way to the stand holding the jewelries. It was an almost perfect crime as the store’s alarm had failed, allowing the robber to escape.
Now, this is where the robber’s stupidity (or maybe ill-conceived but well-meaning plan) kicked in: he offered to “help in any way” with the case when the owner put up an unspecified reward for the capture of the crook. The robber was planning to pose as a witness and claim the reward money. Unfortunately for him, the Police were already on to him – they had found the stolen items which were sold to pawn shops and stores by the crook. He was charged with the crime.
Before you get a tattoo, you need to remember this: While tattoos are no longer considered permanent, it’s expensive and physically painful to have one removed. Copious amounts of alcoholic beverages and bad relationship decisions are the usual culprits, and people end up with tattoos they’d regret at some point in their lives. Here are some examples of said ill-advised and ill-conceived tattoos.
Connect the Dots
Unless you want to make yourself a walking activity book, then this tattoo may not be for you. Sharpie not included.
Eyes at the Back of Your Head, Literally
It’s all right if you’re trying to scare little children and small forest animals, but adults may find this funny – or just plain creepy.
Face or Name of Current Object of Affection
We’ll go out on a limb here and say that it’s probably okay to get a beloved family member’s portrait or name to drawn indelibly to your skin since they aren’t likely to break up with you.
To see more ill-conceived and ill-advised tattoos, check out the link below.
What is it with Apple employees and losing unreleased iPhones in public places (specifically bars)? CNET reports that the consumer electronics giant may have lost another unreleased and advanced iPhone prototype in a bar. Just last year, an Apple employee lost an iPhone 4 prototype that ended up in the hands of gadget blog Gizmodo. This year, another iPhone was lost in a Mexican restaurant and bar.
The rumor mill has been busy churning out theories for this one: It may be an iPhone 5 (rumored to have an October launch date). If it is an iPhone 5, what does it look like? What iOS is it running on?
Well, there’s an ongoing investigation about the missing phone. Whether it turns up or not – or the better question may be, who gets the scoop (i. e. the phone) is anybody’s bet. Or anybody’s bid, for that matter. Stay tuned.
If you’re a parent, then you must know how difficult it is to wake up your child in the morning, regardless of his or her age. When the kid decides to sleep in especially on a school day, you’ll have to be either very patient or very creative to wake him up. One father decides to be cool (and geeky) when waking up his four-year old child. Take a look at the video below and let’s see if you can figure out what the father’s singing.
Here’s another cool dad who you might have heard of before. Dale Price decided to play the best prank on his kid Rain who just entered his sophomore year. Every morning, dad would stand at his front lawn all costumed out and wave goodbye at his kid riding the school bus. According to Rain, it was embarrassing at first to see his father dressed up as a princess, a mermaid or as Anakin Skywalker waving at his bus. It was obvious, however, that his son appreciated the effort. The other kids in the bus also looked forward to the father’s costume every day, and this little ritual from the cool dad somehow became popular among other kids and their neighbors. Check out some of his costumes below.
It’s a given that people in the past had different priorities and different activities compared to people nowadays. So it’s no surprise that the items and appliances they used in their everyday activities were also different. However, some of these items are just plain odd, even if you think about their living standards in the past.
Jar-packed Sanitized Tape Worm
Even in the past, people worried about gaining and losing weight, so products for weight control and reduction were available in the market. What’s odd about this particular product is that it promised to “banish” fat that is “shortening your life”. The product? Sanitized tape worms in jars which should be added to your food. They were advertised as “easy to swallow” and with “no ill effects”. Maybe except throwing up whatever food you ate. It was claimed that the parasites would feed off digesting food.
Radium Suppositories
Radium suppositories: two words that clearly shouldn’t be used together. Unfortunately, there was a product named as such. The radioactive suppositories were targeted at men. They would end up with “joyous vitality” upon the use of the products.
Egg Cuber
For people who prefer their hardboiled eggs in a square shape.
Wonder Sauna Hot Pants
This product is pretty recent, and you’d wonder why infomercials late at night or during the wee hours of the morning have become so unbelievable. Here’s a 1970s product: Wonder Sauna Hot Pants. You can skip the tummy tuck and the work out and still lose those pounds by wearing the hot pants! It fits all sizes because they’re inflatable!
Interchangeable Oven Handles
You had the option to change the color of you Caloric Gas Range’s handle to match the color of your kitchen. When you redecorate or repaint your kitchen, you can just change the green handle with a red or yellow one.
At least once in your life, you’ve shared living quarters with somebody else – most probably back in college. If you have and switched roommates while you were at it, then you’re probably well acquainted with the different monsters that lurk in college dormitories.
One good example is the Ghost. You never see your roommate, but you feel his/her presence in the form of sheets on the other bed magically changing when you’re not looking or you running out of milk and cereals at a rate that suggests that another person is eating breakfast other than yourself. You’re quite sure you have a roommate… or don’t you?
CollegeHumor educates us on the other types of roommates you may or may not have lived with in this video. Check it out:
There are several ways to make the office lively, and apparently, doing cubicle pranks tops the list. Rearranging the desk, PC, chair and other personal items in your officemate’s cubicle is almost always done in good faith – to make the pranksters and the rest of the office laugh. This kind of practical joke also shows just how important it is not to go on a long vacation, leaving your poor cubicle in the hands of your bored officemates. You’ll notice as well how creative your officemates can get to get a good laugh…at your expense.
With the royal wedding coming up, we’ve seen a lot of royal wedding-related souvenirs and memorabilia cropping up – including mugs, sick bags, refrigerators, toilet seat covers, and other more disconcerting items. As it turns out, there exist tacky and downright strange souvenirs from around the world and featuring odd themes. Souvenirs are basically what you’d buy to remember a certain event or a certain place; these souvenirs go the extra mile and make sure you never, ever forget.
This is a shot glass hoof, yes.
Did you think we were kidding when we said there are Royal Wedding Sick Bags available?
Pope John Paul II, who is about to be beatified, appears on a bottle opener.
