The WTF thread.

sersoft · August 11, 2020, 11:07am

fff · August 12, 2020, 9:20am

CPU · August 11, 2020, 11:07am

Urban Outfitters sells tasteless, fake-blood-spattered Kent State shirt
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In today’s “I can’t believe I’m actually seeing this” news, this weekend Urban Outfitters briefly made available to buyers (a.k.a. possible serial killers) a “Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt” splattered with fake blood, for $130. And here’s the really horrifying part: It’s sold out. The “joke” is that in 1970 four Kent State students who were protesting the Vietnam War were shot to death by National Guard soldiers while protesting the Vietnam War.

I remember Kent State. I was 9. It’s actually my first “political” memory. My mom says I looked up at her from the TV and said, in complete seriousness, “I don’t want to go to college, Mommy, if you get shot there.” So yeah, totally funny, Urban Outfitters.

This isn’t the company’s first foray into — what to call it? — Incredibly Insensitive Retailing. In 2010 the company had T-shirt saying “Eat Less.” The “joke” there was that some people starve themselves because they believe they’re overweight. In 2004, there was “Jewish Girl,” covered in dollar signs. In 2003, they sold a board game called “Ghettopoly.” It had a card rewarding players “got yo whole neighborhood addicted to crack.” The joke is that poor people are drug addicts and drug dealers. (You can, believe it or not, still buy it on Amazon.com. It’s $92.50 — apparently it’s now a COLLECTOR’s ITEM. For people who need to be time-traveled back to Nazi Germany, that is.)

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I can’t wrap my mind around this. Or wrap the story up better than Salon.com did, so here’s a quote from them:

In 20[insert future dates here], Urban Outfitters will sell [item names] emblazoned with [image/text] referring to [historic tragedy and/or demeaning stereotype]. While it is true that [historic tragedy and/or demeaning stereotype] is a subject that could be referred to or perhaps even joked about in a different context without causing offense, it is difficult to see [item name] as anything other than a smug insult to [relatively powerless group] given that it is only the latest in a long line of similarly belittling products manufactured by acorporation controlled almost exclusively by [names of white males].” (Personally, I would change that last insertion to [complete and total racist idiots].

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Tiki · November 25, 2018, 4:15am

I remember it very well, when it was briefly glossed through in the movie Watchmen.

Diabolical · August 11, 2020, 11:07am

What fucking cunts.

Two Russian women and a man have been reported to police after they put a cat in a tumble dryer – and turned it on.
In the shocking clip, the trio, from Bezhetsky in the Tver Oblast region of western Russia, debate how to dry out the wet cat which has just been washed.
And the three then force the cat inside the tumble dryer, with one of the women, Alyona Ershova, 21, saying she would put it on ‘the six-minute cycle’, while the man, identified only as Ilya, says that after a few seconds the cat would likely die.
After taking the cat out, the trio laugh as the groggy feline struggles to stand – then throw the cat back into the dryer for a second cycle.
When they take out the poor cat, apparently named Sonya, it is so disorientated that it can be seen walking in small circles in confusion.
The trio then amused themselves by posting the footage online on Alyona’s social media account, where it faced a huge backlash and calls for police to investigate.
According to Russian media, Sonya has been placed in a shelter and is looking for a new home.

Video is in the source: https://metro.co.uk/2014/09/19/shocking-video-shows-cat-being-put-in-a-tumble-dryer-while-its-abusers-laugh-4875418/

LordSkunk_707 · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

I love cats too much. Reading that was really sad. I hate sickos that do that kind of shit to animals. They don’t deserve it.

Diabolical · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

Holy shit.

Chickenprotector · August 11, 2020, 11:08am

Why?

TL;DR: People are going into apple stores just to bend iphones.

In the wake of the uproar that followed last week’s purported iPhone 6 Plus pliability problem, some people have apparently taken it upon themselves to go into Apple Stores and bend iPhones. And while it pains us that this even needs to be said, guys, please: Breaking private property doesn’t prove anything. Except that you’re an asshole.

The most notable case of bandit benders so far comes in the form of a couple of British teens, who tried to stick it to the man by breaking wildly expensive smartphones that they did not pay for. As the Daily Dot notes, in the five-minute video the pair posted online, the kids not only recorded themselves breaking thousands of dollars worth of hardware for all the internet to see, but they round it all off with a solid “I don’t even care to be honest, because it’s Apple’s fault.” Except that no, it’s not.

Apple itself acknowledges that there are confirmed issues with new iPhones bending under some circumstances. But intentionally seeking to destroy an iPhone 6 Plus doesn’t mean it was poorly built, any more than walking into Best Buy with a baseball bat and smashing TVs doesn’t mean that the TVs should be more shatter-proof. It just means that you’re an idiot.

But they’re kids, you might say. Kids make mistakes. They sure do! And hopefully these particular teens have been publicly shamed enough that they’ll at least make their criminal activity less absurdly indictable in the future. But it’s not just kids that are doing this. Full-grown, literate, presumably mentally sound adults are walking into Apple Stores, bending iPhone 6 Plus floor models, and sharing their abuse of private property under the pretext that this somehow validates people’s complaints.

Why are you doing this? What is there to prove? Apple has received at least 9 official complaints. Some users have bent their iPhones through typical use. Consumer Reports did determine the exact amount of pressure required to bend it. And physicists have acknowledged that, yes, this phone does have some weak points. All of this is already established. When you go breaking private property on purpose, you’re not proving anything. You’re just creating noise. You’re distracting from the real conversation that needs to be had, which is just how common is this bending under normal circumstances, not under the circumstance where you intentionally act like a half-wit.

So please, stop going into Apple Stores to break the iPhones. And for god’s sake, don’t put it on the internet if you do.

CPU · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

"This video is brought to you from Koreans - people who think it’s cool to eat dogs on a regular basis.! Nuff said."

fff · August 11, 2020, 11:08am

thats cool though

sersoft · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

brb going to the store to bend an iphone

fff · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

they did a good job on the compositing there

Diabolical · August 11, 2020, 11:09am

Kill me.

Pyroclase · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

During class today, someone handed out surveys for a group project. It was just a questionnaire with some questions about racism and stereotyping, and gave the incredibly vague directions to “write your thoughts about stereotypes of these races”.

I shit you not, one of the questions was “Which race stereotypes the most?”

GilCMassey · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

Haha is that one even possible to answer?

Chickenprotector · August 11, 2020, 11:09am

@Pyro Hah!

@0_22 Yes, but trying to not be racist at the same time while answering the question… think you can do the mental leaps?

As for my WTF:

They apparently have laboratory grown penises ready to be tested on humans… no this isn’t an onion article.

Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine could be offering new hope to men with genital abnormalities or injuries in as little as five years, thanks to one of their many tissue engineering endeavors: lab-grown penises.

While that may sound a little far-out, these guys are among the world leaders in regenerative medicine and they’ve achieved some remarkable things in the past. Back in 1999, they became the first in the world to successfully implant a lab-grown organ into humans—a bladder. Since then, they’ve transplanted engineered vaginas into women born with defects or without vaginas entirely, and have started working on growing tissues and organs for more than 30 different areas of the body.

Team leader Anthony Atala began this genital journey back in 1992, but it was not until 2008 that the scientists proved transplanting engineered penises was theoretically possible. Having spent a considerable amount of time working out the best way to engineer these tricky organs, the team managed to grow 12 functioning penises for rabbit subjects. After grafting them on to the recipients, all tried to mate with a female, eight successfully ejaculated, and four produced offspring. While these results were certainly encouraging, gaining approval for human trials is another kettle of fish. However, Atala is confident that it could be granted by the FDA within five years if they can prove the technique is safe.

So how do they do it? They first obtain a donor penis and strip all the cells from it with a detergent. The researchers are then left with a collagen scaffold which they then seed with a combination of cultivated smooth muscle and endothelial cells from the recipient. Using the patient’s own cells eliminates the risk of immunological rejection that often occurs when transplants are given from another individual. However, because the cells are taken from the male’s genitals, it means that the procedure could not be used for female-to-male sex reassignment surgery.

The team has already engineered six human penises that are ready for transplantation; if approval for trials is granted and they prove to be a success, the researchers hope that they could be used all over the world to help people with a variety of problems. In particular, they envisage them being used in men who have suffered from traumatic injuries, for example those returning from the battlefield. However, they could also be used in individuals with congenital abnormalities, or children born with a disorder known as ambiguous genitalia. In the majority of instances, boys born with this condition are given a sex-change at birth, which can lead to serious psychological problems throughout life.

This technique also offers a vast improvement from existing penis replacement options, which are far from ideal. The procedure involves constructing a penis from thigh or forearm tissue and then inserting a prosthetic inside in order to achieve sexual function. The prosthetic is either a permanently rigid rod that is difficult to conceal, or an inflatable rod that requires a pump.

Although the team is hoping to be able to replace entire penises when they initiate trials, they think that a more realistic goal is to start with partial replacements, for example helping patients with erectile dysfunction.

… wat? I mean, that’s good, but wat?

GilCMassey · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

I’m saved!

And I guess x) I just figured that every race has stereotypes that they see in other races. I missed the joke

Tiki · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

I’ll take two!

Tiki · November 25, 2018, 4:16am

One of my colleagues remembered being in the fifth-or-so grade when September 11th occurred. The next day they were assigned to draw a picture about how the event made them feel.

Kids, they didn’t know how to do that stuff, so most of them ended up just drawing it happening.

Chickenprotector · August 11, 2020, 11:09am

Wat?

A homeowner is looking to get rid of his home (and it’s falling apart from the looks of it); no one’ll touch it, so he’s willing to trade it for just about anything at this point, including an iphone 6…

A man in Detroit has had a hard time selling his three-bedroom fixer-upper after a few months on the market, so he’s resorting to other measures.

According to Fox 2 News in Detroit, the homeowner has offered to trade the house for a new iPhone 6.

“Is this a joke?” Fox 2 reporter Maurielle Lue asked broker Larry Else, who’s representing the buyer.

“No, it’s a real listing,” Else said. “My client is overseas and he told me he would be willing to trade the property for an iPhone 6. It sounds to me like he wants the (iPhone 6+) version, but I think he’s willing to negotiate.”

The home was initially listed for $5,000, but it’s currently on the market for $3,000 after several price cuts.

Though the listing boasts a finished basement and a two-car detached garage, it’s definitely a fixer-upper.

There’s also an additional $6,000 of back taxes owed on the home, but that, like the payment method, would be open to negotiation.

Else added that the homeowner would even be open to trading the house for a 32 GB iPad.

“He may be willing to take anything, maybe an Android, I don’t know,” he said.