not a little boy, don't care
― am0n, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it's as if a strange trend for balloon use has ended suddenly in disaster. the cork on the balloon bottle has been released you might say.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHHjoGmExw
So, it looks like my Knowing theory wasn't so far-fetched after all.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
was it a spaceship shaped balloon?
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Deputy: Object seen falling from balloon
Authorities are searching for a box that was attached to the bottom of an experimental aircraft that took off from a Fort Collins home, CNN affiliate KUSA reported. A Weld County sheriff's deputy says he saw an object fall off the balloon somewhere over Platteville, which is in the search area. developing story
― omar little, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
so back to parenting failures:
why weren't these kids in school?
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
A boy can learn more from sitting in a balloon than sitting around a classroom!
― "i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
schools pussified man ill kick u in the nuts
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
A series of balloon attacks on security forces in Pakistan has killed about 40 people.
In Lahore, police and militants fought balloon battles at a federal security building and two police academies that left at least 26 people dead.
A suicide car balloon at a police station in the north-western town of Kohat left 11 dead, while another car balloon in the nearby city of Peshawar killed a child.
More than 150 have died in Pakistan in balloon attacks in the past two weeks.
― am0n, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG
I just discovered that the college classmate of mine I thought had died in a balloon accident several years in a ballooning accident actually faked his death to get his name off the alumni call/mailing list
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
!!!
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I for one welcome our new balloon overlords.
― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
??!!!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Ever since the Hindenburg went down back in three-seven, they've taken extreme precautions:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Chubb_balloon_arp.jpg
― "i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Couldn't he have just, you know, asked to be removed from the list?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2008/12/ballooning_oprah_falls_off_the_weight_wagon_1359965414.jpg
― Cousin Larry Soetoro (jeff), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahaha wow why didn't I think of this...
― Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post
The dad, "a stormchaser, an amateur scientist (with some strange theories about civilization on Mars), and an avid self-promoter" who appeared with his family on the tv show "Wife-swap"
That gawker link w/ the video is impressive
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
wish i would have known about that before my reunion.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep farting really loud
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Not to evade creditors or the IRS, nope. Just to get off a mailing list. Dude is hardcore.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently he did several times and they still kept soliciting him for money, so finally one day he snapped. Here's his story:
http://www.crabwalk.com/misc/harvard.php
(warning: dude is a douchey conservative but also kind of hilarious; also this isn't his blog)
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe the balloon kid did the same to avoid getting Valentines from icky girls?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
(this is the same dude who spent one evening freshman year wandering around Harvard Square in his bathroom testing the range of his new cordless phone and also would buy crates of things like peanut butter and oranges out of catalogs because he'd never had a credit card before; he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Tuomas, what do you consider to be an "icky girl", brah?
― "i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I want a portable bathroom to walk around in.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)
omg
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
this dude was a walking ball of cognitive dissonance, like he was my diametric opposite on pretty much any social issue you can think of yet he was easily one of my favorite ppl in my class because he was so massively entertaining
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that's an amazing story. how did he fit Harvard Square into his bathroom!
― dmr, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dymaxionweb.com/kulturedrome/zardoz-head.jpg
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
He contained multitudes.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pfunn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/v_lizard1.jpg
^ icke girl ?
― am0n, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, dude had a picture of himself yachting with WF Buckley on his dresser, yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him
lol oops where it says "bathroom" it should say "bathrobe"
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
No way did he throw away his clothes because they were wrinkled. WTF.
(Then again my mum once asked what she needed to do with the groceries once the supermarket woman had scanned'em. "Stuff them in the bag, mom.")
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him!
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Question is, did it work?
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The clothing argument was hilarious because his roommates were all, "uh why don't you iron them" and he said "PSHAW I will just call home and have them send me money for more clothes." He got on the phone with his mom, who laughed at him for about 10 minutes and said "You'd better get your clothes out of the trash and iron them."
And yes, the coloring thing did work, it was incredible.
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
That actually doesn't surprise me for some reason.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't know you went to school with randall munroe
― goole, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, depending on what else the guy had going on, I might have gone for that.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that crayon trick might work on me too depending on the guy.
― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
KUSA TV: CHILD FOUND ALIVE AT THE HOUSE LOL
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
won't be alive for long
― carne asada, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
In an attic above the garage, apparently.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
watching TV
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
best news story of the year, the world is ignored for a runaway weather balloon. good luck, usa.
― omar little, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
lol. i was watching fox when that thing was floating around & shep kept asking are you SURE they didn't search the whole house and he's not hiding so he doesn't get in trouble.
daily show tonight is going to be a treat, isn't it.
― daria, actually (daria-g), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
so glad all these jokes have been justified all along he's safe and sound and no wolf
― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Thank the lord he's ok. Now he must die.
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
the kid played it PERFECTLY imo. good way to not get in trouble: make your parents think you're dead and then have them find out you're alive.
― omar little, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link