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Hacky Repair Jobs

This is for all guys, and the women who will never again ask them to fix something: There I Fixed It. Part of me laughs as I scoff at other guy’s shoddy work. Part of me knows I’ve done some of these same things.

Like the time I held my hood down with a rope. Or the ‘79 Mercury Bobcat that didn’t have reverse, so I always had to park on an incline so I could coast backwards from the spot. Right now, my computer case is open and there’s an internal hard disk literally hanging from it’s cable because I didn’t have a slot for it. Once I plugged in two desktops next to each other and ran an internal power cable from one computer to the other, because my computer didn’t have enough connectors. Oh, and I stuck a computer precariously to my dash because I was too cheap to buy navigation.

More pics after the jump.

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Worst Song of 2009

ZingZama announces the worst song of 2009: “I Can Transform Ya” by Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne & Swiss Beatz. By combining auto-tuning, a movie tie-in to Transformers, and strikingly abysmal lyrics, you’ve done what nobody thought was possible: beaten out The Black-Eyed Peas.

To summarize the song, the performer is so very wealthy that he has access to a large number of luxury brands, and he is willing to trade resources for sex. While that summarizes most hip-hop songs of this decade, what sets this song apart is the marketing mandate to use sound effects from the movie and the word “transform”.

My favorite line from the song seems to be a nod to the movie’s target audience of 11-15 year old males: “Something like Pinocchio if you lie down; Imma grow.” For those who are not 11-15 year old males, this analogy compares the growing nose of a beloved children’s character to the performer’s penis. I sincerely appreciate the appropriate use of a semi-colon.

Full lyrics after the jump, plus the video for the second place runner-up.

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Deadlift Humiliation

OK, he had only been working out a month, so props to him for that. Don’t lock your knees though! I love that he yelled at the end of his deadlift, surely causing everyone in the gym to look over at him. His after pic, complete with stitches, after the jump.

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