Stupid Thread

What’s the stupidest thing on the internet?

16 Comments

joe from Lowell on November 13, 2012 at 5:30 pm

The Yahoo comment section.

It is also the most appropriately named thing on the internet.

ejmw on November 13, 2012 at 5:34 pm

As a web professional, I can confidently say that the stupidest thing on the internet is its users.

JeffL on November 13, 2012 at 7:16 pm

In one of my dbms tech support jobs we called that PEBKAC:

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
- ejmw on November 13, 2012 at 10:06 pm
  
  Yup.
  
  Back in the day one of my jobs was doing hardware and software support for faculty and staff of certain departments at the University of Michigan. I got a call from a professor (history, of course) one day who absolutely could not get his computer to turn on. He had just changed offices, and moved everything himself. After going through the normal procedure (monitor cable connected? any green lights? cord plugged into computer? blah blah blah) it became clear I was actually going to have to go on site.
  
  So, I walked over to his office with my little toolkit, and started taking a look at the mess of cords to try to figure out where the problem might lie. After about 30 seconds of searching, I found the problem : he had connected everything correctly, except that he had plugged the power strip INTO ITSELF! Stifling my laughter at his attempt to solve the world’s energy problems, I surreptitiously plugged it into the wall, and miraculously everything worked.
  
  Of course I just told him something was loose, but…wow!
stormkite on November 13, 2012 at 7:27 pm

USER = ID10T
budr on November 13, 2012 at 9:59 pm

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Quaker in a Basement on November 13, 2012 at 6:22 pm

Jonah.

freeandeasywandering on November 13, 2012 at 7:13 pm

Definitely zombo.com, but I love it just the same.

Geov Parrish on November 13, 2012 at 7:39 pm

That’s a stiff competition, but I’d have to say Daily Caller may at this point have supplanted World Net Daily for the title. But Lord knows there are plenty of non-political things (Lindsay Lohan fan sites, for example) that are also right up there. And plenty of stuff in other languages that none of us are aware of.