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Dumbass Picture of the Day

Posted on: September 19, 2009 9:02 AM, by Ed Brayton

This was emailed to me with the caption "I sure wish someone would invent something to keep the sun out of my eyes."

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Ah! A fine specimen of Dumbassa chicagocubfanus. A common sight in the northern Illinois area. . What else would you expect?

Posted by: Budbear | September 19, 2009 9:15 AM

Now you know how engineers feel. We go to the trouble of designing things to solve problems and people insist on doing things their own way.

Posted by: KeithB | September 19, 2009 9:36 AM

KeithB,
The more you make thing idiot proof, the harder the universe works to make better idiots.

Posted by: MikeMa | September 19, 2009 10:15 AM

He needs the new Sherlock Holmes deerstalker baseball cap™. It has two bills, so you can keep both hands free to eat, drink, or whatever.

(And if anyone actually markets such a thing after this date, I am so suing them for intellectual property infringement!)

Posted by: wheatdogg | September 19, 2009 10:22 AM

Seems to be taken (and cropped) from failblog.

Posted by: amk | September 19, 2009 10:23 AM

MikeMA - Isn't that the essence of the evolution of idiots? :)
wheatdogg - Nah, the jackass pictured would just wear it sideways - DJ

Posted by: DingoJack | September 19, 2009 10:28 AM

These things happen when you buy cheep sunglasses.

Posted by: theroachman | September 19, 2009 10:40 AM

@wheatdogg,

You have, of course, already been beaten.

Posted by: Savagemutt | September 19, 2009 10:58 AM

DJ - That tactic is then countered by the four-billed cap, where the best a jackass can do is wear it at a diagonal. Of course, certain countries have already passed this point, which is why we have such a thing as the sombrero.

Posted by: Infophile | September 19, 2009 1:39 PM

Kindof cute tho....

Posted by: yoshi | September 19, 2009 2:19 PM

I call it "Profiles in Extreme Douchebaggery." Turning your hat around is a canonical example of douchebaggery. It takes an extreme douchebag to embrace it even at the expense of his eyesight/comfort.

Posted by: Mr. Upright | September 19, 2009 4:04 PM

Turning your hat around is a canonical example of douchebaggery.

Coupled with pants worn saggily, the effect is known to be blinding.

Posted by: Gretchen | September 19, 2009 4:22 PM

To put this in the absolute best possible light, perhaps he is just cripplingly superstitious and wearing a rally cap. I mean, he's still a dumbass, but from his magical POV he is logical.

Posted by: Charles | September 19, 2009 5:51 PM

For sure, a denizen of the end of the bell curve closest to the confluence of the X and Y axes.

Posted by: Jim Talbot | September 19, 2009 9:30 PM

The faster respondents were significantly less accurate than slower ones. In many studies measuring reaction times, it's important to see if there's a trade-off between speed an accuracy. Often if such a trade-off exists, it nullifies the study results. In this case, that's clearly part of what's going on.

Posted by: sikiş | September 20, 2009 3:39 PM

Kindof cute tho....

Yep. Preservation of the species is much more complicated than a simple Mendelian model.

Posted by: Uncle Glenny | September 21, 2009 12:42 AM

It was cropped somewhere along the way to you. The original is at http://failblog.org/2009/07/24/hat-fail/ .

Posted by: Joe Shelby | September 21, 2009 11:21 AM

You know, that looks like Matt Damon sitting with Ben Affleck.

Posted by: BongoBob | September 21, 2009 7:10 PM