Sustainable is the new Green. Sustainable energy,
sustainable Job Programs and sustainable Time-Wasters.
Unlike a traditional Time-Waster that can be won or
completed, a Sustainable Time-Waster is a dynamic, growing waste of
time that takes on a life of it's own.
The ultimate in Sustainable Time-Wasters, just
my humble opinion, are the following.
Urban Dictionary, Cash 4 Cadavers, Texts From Last Night, and F My Life.
Urban Dictionary
has 6,387,025 definitions. You can look up words and phrases,
browse by letter, use it's thesaurus and even look up your name.
Urban
Dictionary is like Wikipedia in that the community contributes the
content, but doesn't seem to have much in the way of moderation.
Take Shantel for instance.
I
think it's important to point out that 6,387,025 definitions does
not mean 6,387,025 words, phrases or names. There can be many
definitions applied to the same word, phrase or name. Take Shantel
for instance.
Shantel (redacted)
A
Gorgeous girl, who is nice and funny. Sometimes emotional. She
smiles alot and likes to have a good time. Long hair. Nice ass. She
has alot of money. She is always there for people. She has a great
sense of style. But get her mad and you wish you never did cause
you will be put on the spot.
-or-
A
shantel is someone who always thinks that she is right. Doesn't
like anyone, and will do anything to get a guy to like her. She
likes to be two-faced and a whore. She usually gets STD's from
people because she sleeps around so much. She has bad teeth, nasty
black hair, and never showers. She doesn't have any true
friends.
What
really gives Urban Dictionary a life of it's own is its free
Word-of-the-Day emails. Every day we're entertained by definitions
like this;
Rick Perry Strong
To use hate and bigotry to spread a political
message.
Named after Republican presidential candidate Rick
Perry's infamous video/ad of the
same name.
Rick Perry lover: If we want to
fix our economy, we need to stop giving welfare to the minority races.
Normal guy: Oh no he's gone Rick Perry Strong! Quick
let's get him to a psychiatrist before he starts talking about
making his religion and homophobia mandatory.
Cash4Cadavers.
(c4c)
It's
a Dead Pool. You can get in on it once a year and there are
currently 68 teams competing for cash and prizes. You don't
have to be in it to watch though. You can sign up to get emails
telling you who's passed away, how many points they're worth,
and what teams got them.
Bill Janklow (1939 - January 12, 2012), former
governor of South Dakota
Talk about learning your legal expertise firsthand!
Even before he was named Attorney General of S.D., good ol' Bill
was arrested for drunk driving (while not wearing pants). Then a
15-year-old girl accused Janklow of rape (did I mention he was her
legal guardian?). The case was dismissed for lack of evidence, but
she was mysteriously killed in a hit-and-run a year later. And then
Janklow sued various entities for libel for covering the case.
That didn't stop the good people of South Dakota
from electing him governor - four times. To cap his career, Janklow
was convicted in 2003 of manslaughter for running a stop sign,
killing a motorcyclist.
Dead of brain cancer. Never let it be said that what
goes around doesn't come around.
2000 points to teams 1, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 54,
59, 66, 68!
As if that's not enough, the Cash4Cadavers website has exciting and entertaining links
too. Links like The Dead People Server and The
Internet Movie Database.
People die every day making c4c as sustainable
as our attraction to the Dead Pool and the long list of public
figures teetering on the edge of extinction. The emails keep it
coming.
TFLN is so popular it has an iApp you actually have
to pay for. You can still use the full website version freely.
The TFLN community seems to be mostly college and
post college (not graduates) which is a head's up as to the focus
of the content they contribute.
(606):
At what point in my life
did a night that has strippers, belly dancers, tequila and a midget
become "average"?
(608):
I am sitting here.
Drinking from a bottle of vodka. Eating shredded cheese from a bag
and waiting on him to pick me up after he finishes with his
girlfriend. This is what dreams are made of.
(905):
Found my wallet. It was under my dresser with a note
that said "good job you found me". Drunk me is an ass.
A full bottle of Vodka, empty heads, and Mommy
paying the Cell bill make TFLN highly sustainable. You get to vote
on these entries too.
Someone doesn't like it though, and set up a virus
trap for anyone mistakenly trying to access tfln instead of
textsfromlastnight dot com. Be aware.
FML is nowhere as crude as TFLN, and has an iApp
that's free. FML is about the embarrassing, uncomfortable, unjust
moments that happen to everyone.
Today, while I was getting ready to take a shower, I
placed my phone on the counter next to the toilet. While I was
washing my hair, someone called me. My phone was on vibrate,
so I didn't hear it until it vibrated off the counter and into the
toilet. FML
I agree, your life sucks (2183) - you
deserved it (3072)
On 01/22/2012 at 5:03pm - misc - by
needanewphone - United States (Illinois)
Today, I turned on the news to see a live report
about an increase in crime in my town. One minute in, my drunk
daughter appears behind the news reporter, butt naked, dancing. FML
I agree, your life sucks (9388) - you
deserved it (1502)
On 01/18/2012 at 5:30pm - misc - by
MakesMeLol (man) - Ireland (Dublin)
You even get to vote whether they had it coming or
not. There's a never ending supply of calamity and as long as
people can laugh at themselves, and others, FML remains
sustainable.
Sustainable,
or not, funny, or not, that's your call, and that's Cocktail Talk.
