This Is Just Stupid!

The TwoDaLoo is one of those products that seems like it can’t possibly be real. It’s a two-person toilet that lets you and your partner sit facing each other while using the restroom simultaneously. Would anyone actually buy this? It’s doubtful but this is one of those products that’s been popping up on blogs again lately. For some reason, folks seem to think it’s a good idea to include this toilet in lists of things that you might want to get for Valentine’s Day.

The toilet was actually released back in 2007. It made a lot of headlines and did a good job of getting media attention. Nobody really wants to buy this thing but everyone is a little bit morbidly curious about just who would buy it. Shopping around to try to purchase it, you’ll find that there are very few details about where you can actually get it. One site vaguely says that it costs $1400 and you have to buy a minimum of 12 of them. Our imaginations are going wild trying to picture where you might need to use 24 toilet seats at once but the information on how to actually buy them isn’t very clear.

If you have the money to buy these things in bulk, you might as well go ahead and "upgrade" them as well. For more money, you can get built-in TV screens to help distract you while you’re on the toilet with others. Perhaps this type of thing would be great in busy households where a large number of people are sharing one bathroom? But then those people aren’t going to be able to afford this product, are they? Definitely something that ranks on the stupid list!

We know that there are a lot of people out there who love Reality TV. We’ll admit that we’ve even gotten sucked in to certain shows. However there are just way too many reality TV shows being made these days. And some of them are just really, really stupid.

Here’s our picks for the ten stupidest reality TV shows:

1. Paradise Hotel. A bunch of single people are put into a hotel together. They’re paired up in rooms together as the season progresses with people being kicked off. The two people left at the end win money. What is the point?
2. Re-inventing Bonaduce. Most Reality TV shows that follow the lives of celebrities are stupid. This one follows the "reinvention" of Gretchen Bonaduce, the ex of I-guess-he’s-a-celebrity Danny Bonaduce. Because anyone cares to know about her?
3. Hammertime. Another celebrity reality TV show – this one follows the life of MC Hammer. Yeah, remember him? Really?
4. Househusbands of Hollywood. Rich women have stay-at-home-husbands and apparently we want to watch their lives play out. Not so much. These guys are mostly just pathetic and the people who watch them kind of are as well.
5. American Idol. Okay, we know we’re going to take a lot of flak for including this popular show. But you know what? It’s stupid! Bad singers turn into bad pseudo-celebrities and millions of people watch them do it. Maybe it was a good idea when it first aired but now it’s just dumb.

What do you think is the stupidest reality TV show?

Take a look at the categories that we’ve got featured on this blog. It will give you a clue about some of the things that are stupid more often than they are smart. This isn’t true for all of the categories of course. For example, there is some really stupid technology out there but for the most part technology is a smart thing.

Ten of the things that we talk about which tend to be stupid more than they’re smart are:

1. Celebrities. We have to say it; there are just a lot of stupid celebrities out there. Internet celebrities are the worst!
2. Television. There’s a reason that you so often find yourself looking at five hundred channels and not seeing a single thing to watch. It’s because most television is really stupid.
3. Drivers. There are probably more smart drivers than stupid drivers. However, stupid drivers are common. And they have a terrifying impact on driving as a whole. That makes this a topic where it’s easy to find stupidity.
4. Criminals. This one goes without saying. A lot of criminals are just plain stupid. Some just happen to be more stupid than others.
5. Videos. We love YouTube. However this site and so many others like it make it possible for stupid people to post a whole lot of stupid videos. We hate having to sift through them to find good things to watch online.
6. Laws. Lawmakers often try to solve problems that they can’t solve by creating laws around them. All of these laws end up just being stupid. We know it’s not easy to find real solutions but dumb laws are not the answer!
7. Sports. The main sports that we all watch are arguably pretty cool. Then there are a bunch of newfangled sports that have no business being played.
8. Weddings. Do you realize that a cheap wedding now costs upwards of $20,000? Is there anything stupider than that?!
9. Pets. It isn’t usually the pets that are stupid; it’s the people who own these pets. Pet owners are doing some crazy things these days.
10. Stupid Men, Stupid Women and Stupid People. Let’s face it; there are a lot of dumb folks out there doing dumb things.

Which topic do you think is the one that has the most stupid news in it? Are we missing an important topic here?

There are so many reasons that this video is stupid. We’ll give you seven of them:

1. It feeds off of the popularity of Two Girls, One Cup. We’re so sick of hearing anything about this infamous porn video. It was a nasty video and the fact that it got so popular just speaks to the idiocy of the online viewing population.
2. Nothing happens in this video. You waste almost a full minute of your life watching two guys do absolutely nothing.
3. The music is terrible. It just makes the video that much more dumb. At least some cool music could have made it interesting.
4. The camera work is bad. It’s not horrible or jittery. It’s just not good. That doesn’t exactly add to the idea that watching this video is a smart thing to do.
5. It fails at being funny. The whole point of this video is to be funny. It absolutely fails. The basic joke at the end of the video barely even deserves an eye roll.
6. It fails at being a parody. It claims to be a parody. It may be a spoof but it’s not a parody. It doesn’t mirror enough of the stylistic effects of the original video to be a true parody. Try again guys.
7. Over 1000 people have watched this. That means there are at least 1000 stupid people out there proving how stupid they are.

Can you find anything redeeming at all about this video?

Is the Snuggie a stupid product? We will concede that this is a debatable topic. However we don’t think there’s anything debatable about the Japanese Snuggie. This product is just absolutely ridiculous. The Japanese took an already questionable product and managed to make it even worse.

How the Japanese Snuggie differs from the traditional Snuggie:

• It has a hood on it. Now this could have actually been a kind of cool addition to the Snuggie design. However this hood is less like a hoodie hood and more like a Mummy-Bag hood. That does not look comfortable at all.
• It is a one-piece outfit with legs. It’s not really a blanket. It’s more like an adult onesie outfit. You can walk around wearing this thing which is convenient but you know that it means people will start wearing this out in public places. Not cool.
• The material doesn’t look comfortable at all. It’s not blanket-comfy on the outside. Maybe it’s cozy inside but it looks more like it’s made from sleeping bag material.

Yuck.

There are going to be some people out there who say that there are so many differences between this and the Snuggie that it shouldn’t even be called a Snuggie. We agree. That’s the way it’s being promoted around the web though which is why it came to our attention in the first place.

What do you think about this product? Is it better or worse than Snuggie for Pets?!

As an aside, we do have to say we’re loving this video that shows off the creepy factor of the original Snuggie:

Earlier this month there was a problem in a small town in Louisiana. The problem was that the police department in this town had bought new cars that it couldn’t actually afford. Ignoring the problems in the economy, they went ahead and made the purchase but then they couldn’t actually make the payments. The two cop cars ended up getting repossessed!

The whole thing happened in Napoleonville which is a small town in Louisiana. The police believed that they were going to receive stimulus money which they could then use to pay for the new vehicles. However they counted their chickens before they hatched. Problems with paperwork caused the money to never come through. The cops were left holding the bag, needing to make car payments that they couldn’t afford.

The mayor of this town explained the problem to the auto dealer. Have you ever tried telling an auto dealer that you just can’t pay for the vehicle that you bought? They treated the police department just like they would treat you; they came over and repossessed the cars. And that’s not all; the car dealer filed a lawsuit seeking $20,000 for his trouble.

There are all too many cases of stupid things happening just because government agencies don’t know how to do their paperwork properly. Everyone passes the buck and payments that should be made never go through. Usually these problems end up affecting employees. In this case, the problem impacted the whole town. The police department not only looks bad but also has fewer vehicles than it needs to get the job done in Napoleonville. Someone better pay the bills next time!