By Smaktakula
If You Ever Have The Opportunity To See One Of These Magnificent Creatures In The Wild, You're About To Die.
Little Truths: Tigers
09 Thursday Sep 2010
Posted in Critters, Duh, General Foolishness
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A Great New Way To Make Mom And Dad Pay For What They Did
13 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Art, Cinema, Culture, Duh, General Foolishness, Health, Hollywood, People, Social Networking
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attention-seeking behavior, bad decisions, caveat emptor, Chicago, citizen of Clan Arquette, crazy fucker, crazy people, Dad, daddy issues, David A. Cox, David Arquette, Did Courtney Cox lose a bet?, foolish choices, gettin' inked, getting back at mom and dad, ink, Mom, obscure celebrities, tats, tattoos, tiresome anachronism, untalented stars
By Smaktakula
Why not get inked by tiresome former celebrity and citizen of Clan Arquette, David A. Cox?
"It's A Dragon That Shoots Dragons From Its Eyes! And Then Those Dragons Shoot Dragons From Their Eyes, Too! And Then Those Dragons--Guess What They Shoot From Their Eyes? Guess! Oh, Man! You Are So Not Gonna Regret This!"
Well, you know what, Mom? Maybe if you’d bought me Red Power Ranger with the light-up eyes and collectible key chain for Christmas 1999 like I asked you to, then maybe I wouldn’t need to get the Chinese character for ‘Fire’ tattooed on my chest. But what do I know, right? I’m only your son. You tell me, Mom. You tell me.
Something’s Cooking In The World Of Competitive Sauna
10 Tuesday Aug 2010
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a watched pot never boils, burns, competitive sauna, completely preventable deaths, crazy bastard, crazy macho bullshit, criminal stupidity, death-oven, Finland, Finnish, Finns, for the love of the game, grisly innuendo, idiots, jackassery, lobster, masochism, morons, natural selection, prison work farm, pseudosport, quasi-athlete, Russian, sports-related deaths, suicide, Timo Kaukonen, Vladimir Ladyzhensky, what the fuck is wrong with you people?, World Sauna Championship, you don't see the fucking lobster boiling itself do you?
By Smaktakula
The sporting world is still aboil about the news dispatches steaming out of Finland reporting the tragic death of Russian quasi-athlete Vladimir Ladyzhensky. Ladyzhensky, along with his Finnish opponent Timo Kaukonen, collapsed during the annual World Sauna Championships in Finland. Both men suffered severe burns and were admitted to the hospital, where Ladyzhensky later died.
It May Look Easy, Kids--But If You Want To Make It To The Big Leagues You've Got To Say Your Prayers, Eat Your Vitamins And Practice, Practice, Practice!
Thanks in large part to recent media coverage, a new generation of fans is coming to appreciate this exciting and fast-growing ‘sport.’ The roots of competitive sauna reach far back into Finland’s history; hanging around in a hot, steamy room with other dudes has long been a favored pastime. The ghastly exercise in masochism has been a professional sport in Finland since 1999.
Although most Finns readily welcome the dizzying globalization of their sport, they remain fiercely proud of its Finnish origins. This pride has manifested itself in a variety of ways, including the recent creation of a Finnish Bureau of Tourism. The Bureau’s first act as a body was to devise the popular slogan: Finland–A Little More Than Just Reindeer!
When It Was A Game: Florida Prison Farm Inmates Played Not For Money, But For The Love Of Competitive Sauna.
Ladyzhensky’s shocking death can’t help but cast a pall over professional sauna. Inwardly, everyone connected with the sport is no doubt plagued by the same internal question: Could we have done something to prevent this?
Sadly, the answer is No. Self-recrimination is a part of human nature, and while some soul-searching is probably inevitable, it comes to little in the end. Although this terrible event will no doubt be parsed and dissected by historians for generations to come, the exact cause of this tragedy will never truly be known. That athletes die sometimes with no apparent cause is perhaps the cruelest lesson that sports can teach us.
"What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People? Damn."
Vladimir Ladyzhensky may have left competitive sauna, but the rare Russian will forever be seared into the collective consciousness of the game he loved. His fellow competitors will no doubt shed a collective tear* in his memory as they take that first barefoot step into the searing death-oven that is the symbol of this much-beloved pseudosport. Ladyzhensky wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
*This is intended for figurative purposes only. When one’s profession involves killing time in a 230° hot box, remaining well-hydrated is the surest strategy to victory, and may help to stave off death for a few precious seconds.
Everything Suddenly Coming Up Promethean Times
02 Monday Aug 2010
Posted in Cinema, Culture, Duh, General Foolishness, Hollywood, Music, National Events, People, Relationships, Television
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Still Not What You Were Looking For?
30 Friday Jul 2010
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By Smaktakula
In which we once again present some of the various search-engine keywords used to find Promethean Times. Some, we suspect, were not on purpose. See our first installment here: Not What You Were Looking For?.
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News Of The Duh: Evidence Suggests Some Illegal Drug Use In Rave Culture
05 Monday Jul 2010
Posted in Art, Crime, Culture, Drug Culture, Drugs, Duh, General Foolishness, Music, People, Relationships, Social Networking
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15 year-old, blind unreasoning panic, club kids, designer drugs, drug overdose, drugs, ecstacy, Electric Daisy Carnival. Los Angeles, illegal drugs, LA Memorial Coliseum, News of the Duh, one percenters, panic, rave culture, raves, Rock & Roll, techno music
There’s much wisdom in the old maxim, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Readers of Promethean Times will know that we subscribe not only to this aphorism, but also its corollary: “If it is broke, the best course of action is immediate panic.” We favor blind, unreasoning panic over most other varieties of temporary fear-based madness.
When a 15 year-old girl died of a suspected drug overdose after attending the 14th annual Electric Daisy Carnival at the LA Memorial Coliseum, authorities scurried into action. The obvious solution was to prohibit further raves at the Coliseum.
This is a troubling development for everyone touched by the rave scene. This is not to suggest that all or even most clubbers use illicit drugs. It is likely a very small minority, a group of “one percenters.”
Starchyld Von Asskandy (Pictured Above) Says Most Ravers "Will Not Tolerate Illegal Drug Use."
Promethean Times applauds the decision to ban raves at the Coliseum. Although the young girl’s accidental death appears to be an isolated incident, the danger remains that if unchecked, an incident like this could blow open the doorway for drugs into rave culture. This would be a pity. In 2010 there are very few places a young person can go where drugs aren’t a constant temptation. For many years, raves have been just that kind of environment, and now a few bad apples seem hellbent to sully this wholesome activity.
The ban on raves in the Coliseum will have two positive effects. First, it will send a strong message to the one percenters in the rave community that these kinds of shenanigans won’t be tolerated. Drugs have already ruined Rock & Roll; we mustn’t let them sully the soulless electronic chirp of techno.
The second result will be even more profound. With no more raves at the Coliseum, the attendant drug problem should trickle away. The ban will also give pause to ravers who might be thinking about trying illegal drugs.
Critics of the ban charge that these young people will simply take their party elsewhere. This is unlikely. The promoters of such an event would be breaking several laws, as well as jeopardizing the health of children. The notion of an illegal, underground rave is pure fantasy.
This Young Fellow Is Tuckered Out From All That Dancing.
Some People Just Have To Ruin It For Everybody: Teenage girl dies of suspected drug overdose after attending weekend rave at L.A. Coliseum – latimes.com.
Smaktakula
Michael Steele: Cut And Run
02 Friday Jul 2010
Posted in Duh, General Foolishness, History, National Events, People, Politics, Terrorism
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Afghanistan, Barack Obama, black Republicans, blunder, douchebaggery, encephalitis is no laughing matter, George W. Bush, idiotic comments, incompetent boobery, jackassery, Michael Steele, Michael Steele is a boob, Republican National Committee, Republicans, RNC, war of Obama's choosing
By Smaktakula
Michael Steele’s impotent tenure as Chairman of the Republican National Committee has come to the sad end everyone has long expected. Steele, who aside from being a black Republican is best known for his remarkably incompetent boobery, recently referred to the Afghan conflict as ‘a war of Obama’s choosing.’ This claim is absolutely true, if by Obama he means George W. Bush. Otherwise, it’s pretty idiotic.
But Steele wasn’t done: “This was not something that the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in,” he said. This statement is also true, assuming that the “not” was a verbal typo. If it wasn’t, this statement would sound moronic coming from an encephalic six-year-old.
"Okay, We've Got Three Happy Meals, Two Milkshakes And An Apple Pie. Would You Care To Supersize It?"
Put Down The Crisco, Jabba!
25 Friday Jun 2010
Posted in Constitutional Issues, Culture, Duh, Food, General Foolishness, Health, National Events, People, Political Correctness
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big fatso, Center for Science in Public Interest, customer of size, do-gooders, fat ass, fat people, Jabba the Hutt, McDonald's, nanny state, person of size, syphilitic monkeys, Two and a Half Men, Why am I so fat?
The Center for Science in Public Interest wants you to know that it’s okay that you’re too stupid to make nutrition choices on your own, either for yourself or your children.
That’s why the CSPI is threatening to sue McDonald’s, the world’s most popular purveyor of food-flavored edible products, unless the fast-food giant stops including toys with its popular Happy Meals.
Not Only Did McDonald's Make Him An Evil Mutant, But It May Also Have Contributed To His Little Weight Problem.
“McDonald’s is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children,” CSPI’s litigation director, Stephen Gardner, said in a prepared statement. “It’s a creepy and predatory practice that warrants an injunction.”
Countered a McDonald’s representative:
“The toy is plastic, retard. Zero calories.
Y’know, if we really gave a fuck about the nation’s creme-filled arteries, we’d leave out the food.”
It boils down to this: You’re a syphilitic monkey too stupid to refuse poison if it’s presented to you in a nice bottle with a shiny bow.
Don’t bother thinking about it. Why don’t you watch some TV? I think Two and a Half Men is on . . .
I’ll Just Take My Fat Ass Somewhere Else: McDonald’s faces lawsuit over marketing to kids – Jun. 22, 2010.
Smaktakula
NAACP Achieves Goal Of Attaching Racist Connotations To Every Expression Containing The Word ‘Black’
11 Friday Jun 2010
Posted in Art, Culture, Duh, General Foolishness, National Events, National Politics, People, Political Correctness, Politics, Race, Relationships
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The Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP broke out their Black Leadership Scowls recently to protest a Hallmark Card which they call racist.
The space-themed graduation card plays an audio track which, among other things, refers to black holes as “ominous.”
Presumably, the NAACP regards the card as offensive to descendents of the supermassive space feature, who might rightly take umbrage at being labelled “ominous.”
It should also be noted that comets and zephyrs, typically considered “white” celestial phenomena, are not mentioned at all in the card’s message.
Longs For The Day When He Will Be Judged Solely By The Gravitational Pull Of His Event Horizon
Okay, Now You’re Just Being Silly: NAACP calls Hallmark graduation card racist | abc7.com.
Smaktakula
From Hillbuzz: Tipper To Divorce ManBearPig
01 Tuesday Jun 2010
Posted in Critters, Culture, Duh, General Foolishness, Mythology, National Events, National Politics, People, Politics, Relationships
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Al Gore, Al Gore sleeps alone, An Inconvenient Truth, bedroom cooling, climate change, divorce, Environmental Chicken Littleism, environmentalism, fat people, gasbag, global warming, good move Tipper!, has-been, Hillbuzz, I'm super-serial!, laughingstock, ManBearPig, mid-life crisis, Ragnarok, scaremongering, search for meaning, search for relevance, separation, South Park, sweat act, Tipper Gore, Tipper leaving Al, Vice President Gore
Another unintended consequence of Ragnarök.
Watch Out For Bedroom Cooling. I'm Super-Serial!
