There are some things that women need to hear over and over again before they believe it. Some guys are patient enough to repeat affirmatives and reassurances each and every time, while the clever ones have found a way to save their breaths with the Lazy Husband app. It’s basically an audio recording app that lazy husbands and boyfriends can use to record and play common phrases and compliments so they won’t have to keep repeating themselves.
Wives and girlfriends are bound to find out that they’re listening to a recording instead of the real thing, but they won’t mind (at least, not that much) if they have a sense of humor.
You can download the Lazy Husband app from Google Play.
Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro said that he wanted the robots to be unique. Apparently that also applies to their names. How else do you explain monikers like Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka? And now we have 4th String Jaegers:
4th String Jaegers is a single purpose blog. Its contributors use the Jaeger Designer web app that Warner Bros. made to promote the movie to create hilarious posters featuring their own ideas for Jaeger names. Some of them bring countries to the mix to make puns, while others go off on another tangent and replace the names with funny captions instead. Sadly some of them use offensive language, so the blog isn’t safe for kids.
4th String Jaegers accepts contributions from anyone, and the Jaeger Designer is still online. Make your own 4th String Jaeger and cancel the apocalypse! Or just delay its flight! There is a Jaeger named Caramel Fluffybutt, your argument is invalid!
[via I Heart Chaos]
Think you’ve seen the last of Cobra? Think again. They’re getting ready to wreak terror once more, but before they can do that, they need to rebuild their secret headquarters that was destroyed by GI Joe. Unfortunately, that’s going to require a whole lot of money–money that the Cobra organization doesn’t have. Rallying behind them are their colleagues Destro and Dr. Mindbender, but they can’t spare that much cash as well.
The solution? Kickstarter.
I mean, people managed to raise money for a Veronica Mars movie using the platform; why not use it to rebuild the Cobra’s secret base?
In case you haven’t figured it out yourself, the whole Kickstart Cobra is a pretty hilarious joke that’s gone viral. Obviously, Cobra doesn’t exist in the real world (or does it?) The whole thing was thought up by Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group, Dumbshit Mountain, who set up and drafted the project’s Kickstarter page.
Make sure you check the page out on Kickstarter though, because they’ve updated it with a hilarious list of backer rewards.
VIA [ Laughing Squid ]
Some of you may have thought that the (non) news about the U.S. government wisely turning down a petition to use its resources to build a Death Star had reached its conclusion with the Death Star fundraiser. Apparently this space cow has not been Force Milked dry just yet, because now someone’s asking for money to build a fleet of X-Wing fighters.
The representatives of the Rebel Alliance analyzed their enemy’s plans and have set up several effective countermeasures. For instance, they are merely asking for $11,000,000, way less than the $31.4M target fund for the Death Star. And whereas the Sith supporters only had a drawing of a circle – albeit, a well drawn one – as their initial design, the Rebel Alliance used the power of the Force Google and posted this on their project page:
If that’s not enough to persuade you to donate to the light side, the Rebels have also indicated a desire to build a heavily modified YT-1300 Freighter:
The Rebels are also offering lightsaber construction classes to people who pledge $5,000 and a Jedi training camp to rich padawans who can pledge at least $10,000. I say we start a Kickstarter to help start an organization that prevents people from using Kickstarter for their jokes. Then let’s start another one that calls that other Kickstarter a buzzkill. Plot twist: we’ll only ask for $500 for each fundraiser, then we’ll split the cash and vanish. Jokes on you, backers!
[via Kickstarter via Inquisitr]
The U.S. government said ‘no’ to a petition signed by thousands of people asking for the construction of an actual Death Star. Not to be deterred, another group of concerned citizens have taken to the internet to raise funds to build the massive structure themselves.
It’s called the Open Source Death Star project and it’s currently up for funding on Kickstarter. The goal? A massive £20,000,000 (~$31.4 million USD). But that money won’t go toward building the actual thing; rather, it’s going to be used to come up with “more detailed plans and enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports.”
Yeah, okay.
The stretch goal is $850,000,000,000,000,000, which is the amount required to build the Death Star, as per the estimates of the U.S. government.
That circle above? That’s no ordinary circle, since that’s the “initial design” posted on the Kickstarter page for everyone’s reference.
Funnily enough, the project has raised over £191,000 (~$300,000 USD) so far. It’s clearly a joke, as the project’s creators have indicated on their project page under ‘Risks and Challenges’: “The main challenge is assuring Kickstarter that this is a joke and not a serious project. As proof, the goal has been set high enough to make successful funding almost impossible.”
Of course, if the project should reach actually its goal, they’re gonna have a whopper of a challenge on their hands.
[via Bit Rebels]
Plungers. You can’t live without them, especially if you’ve got crappy plumbing, and you can’t live with them, if you’ve got a weak heart and believe that octopuses will invade your home via toilet one day. Of course, the previous statement only applies if you’re considering the Octopus Tentacle plunger, which looks amusing in the light but infinitely scarier in the dark.
Imagine walking into the bathroom in the middle of the night and opening the cover–only to have a huge-ass tentacle spring out at you. If it were me, I’d probably run away, screaming my head off (and giving the prankster who planted the plunger a good swift kick on the behind, if I catch who did it.)
It’s such a worthwhile prank that I’m surprised no one thought to design one–until now, that is. The Octopus Tentacle plunger is still a concept design at the moment, but I’m sure someone will come along and turn it into a real thing, given the scares it can elicit and the fact that it’s actually supposed to work as an actual plunger as well.
VIA [ Gadget Review ]
You have to wonder: if that girl who was wearing the itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polkadot bikini was afraid to come out in the open, how would she feel if she were wearing this bubble wrap bikini instead?
I know that there’s some sort of craze involving bubble wrap these days, but I never imagined that it would come to this. It’s not that it’s bad; it’s actually pretty cool in a very strange and offbeat way. It also kind of reminds me about that story about the emperor and his new clothes; while it’s definitely something to be awestruck about, it’ll leave the wearer exposed and out in the open, in the figurative and very literal sense.
As you can see, the bikini leaves nothing to the imagination. The bubbles on the bikini aren’t the only thing that’ll go pop when you wear it to the beach, that’s for sure.
Apparently, this extremely daring bikini was an actual product from the early 1990s and was kept in storage (with minimal bubbles popped!) by Etsy seller BlackBettyVintage. The bubble wrap bikini is up for sale for $25 NZD (~$22 USD).
[via GizmoDiva via Incredible Things]