Posted on 12/28/2024 7:55:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
How stupid was 2024? Let’s start with the art world, which over the centuries has given humanity so many beautiful, timeless masterpieces. This year, the biggest story involving art, by far, was that a cryptocurrency businessman paid $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction for . . . A banana. Which he ate. ”It’s much better than other bananas,” he told the press.
And that was not the stupidest thing that happened in 2024. It might not even crack the top ten. Because this was also a year when: —The Olympics awarded medals for breakdancing. —Fully grown adults got into fights in Target stores over Stanley brand drinking cups, which are part of the national obsession with hydration that causes many Americans to carry large-capacity beverage containers at all times, as if they’re setting off on a trek across the Sahara instead of going to Trader Joe’s. —Despite multiple instances of property damage, injury and even death, expectant couples continued to insist on revealing the genders of their unborn children by blowing things up, instead of simply telling people. —The number of people who identify as “influencers” continued to grow exponentially, which means that unless we find a cure, within ten years everybody on the planet will be trying to make a living by influencing everybody else. —Hundreds of millions of Americans set all their clocks ahead in March, then set them all back in November, without having the faintest idea why. (Granted, Americans do this every year; we’re just pointing out that it’s stupid.) But what made 2024 truly special, in terms of sustained idiocy, was that it was an election year. This meant that day after day, month after month, the average American voter was subjected to a relentless gushing spew of campaign messaging created by political professionals
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Happy New Year. Lets get this FReepathon over with!
::causes many Americans to carry large-capacity beverage containers at all times::
True and I don’t understand it. Seems people can’t be WITHOUT the beverage container or the cell phone....
“Trump is wanted on criminal charges in something like 23 states and, if elected, could become the first president to govern from a secret hideout. His speeches are sounding increasingly unhinged, which is no small feat since he did not sound particularly hinged in the first place.”
Such a card.
I smiled a couple times but no laughter.
Ah, classic Dave Barry.
I spite of the fact that he likes Biden, this was pretty funny.
Or maybe I just like him picking on Boeing.
Dave’s still got it.
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And finally the stupidest moment of 2024. Dave Barry wrote this infantilely stupid article.
Dave’s article has to be one of the most excessively STUPID posting every posted here. In a board with such a long rich history, that is a MAJOR accomplishment. This post is ultra, completely mega stupid. We will have to come up with a whole new classification of stupid to adequately address Dave’s level of idiocy. World Record Stupid! Rock hard dehydrated stupid! Lifetime Achievement Stupid! So stupid it MUST be a lost fragment of the primordial soup from with all imbeciles since have sprung. It sets a whole new standard by which stupidity will be judged from now on! Quick, call the Nobel Committee. We have to establish a whole new Nobel Prize for World Record Stupidity just so Dave can be award it!!!
I applaud Dave’s courage. Most people attempt to hide their moronic natures but Dave! NO, he FLAUNTS jos morondom. Dave proudly cruise the Internet squealing “I AM THE WORLDS LARGEST IDIOT”. I must say I have NEVER seen anyone so willing to make peace with a painful personal truth as Dave has embraced his imbecility. Well done brave soul!
I bet Dave Barry voted for Trump last month.
I like his style of humor. I can take a joke.
I’d bet Trump would think it’s funny.
Joe and Kamala... not so much.
Dave Barry has always maintained the ability to poke fun and find the humor in current events without lighting either side on fire.
“Americans to carry large-capacity beverage containers at all times,”
When we moved from Hawaii to California in the mid-’90s, I noticed that everyone was carrying bottled water or mega sippy cups with water EVERYWHERE. I’m thinking, “WTF?” It was an affectation of some sort, and amused me. Even the bums hanging out at the Thousand Oaks Mall were drinking Perrier - LOL!!
Some people just can’t take a joke. Sophisticated intellectuals would call them humorless.
Some great philosopher from somewhere that I don’t recall once said, “One cannot be truly happy until they’re able to laugh at themselves. Only then can they understand what everyone else is laughing about.”
And that sarcasm thing. Probably something that Boeing would use.
Courageously Yours,
Dave Barry.
The excerpt is fine. I hope you will pardon me for not following a link to the Miami Herald. I can only imagine what they are like.
Anyone, like Davie here, still defending the political status quo after the last 4 years is a record setting Grade A moron.
I loved reading him when he was published in the Washington Post!
Dave Barry? I haven’t heard from him in years.
I don’t remember him getting political back in the day. But this isn’t funny.
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