These stories are humorous and, yet, sad at the same time. But they make us human. Which are your favorites. What do they say about human evolution?
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Maggie Lambert
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These stories make me laugh because one minute, mankind is all macho and saying that we are the most sophisticated and advanced species on earth and then you hear stories of how someone won a Darwin Award. I actually own a book filled with people who have won Darwin Awards and the stories behind why. My favorites are the ones where, in the heat of the moment, a couple comes back from a date and can't wait to be in each others' arms, so they just decide that the garage is as good a place as any and forget to turn the car off. So they die of carbon monoxide poisoning while in the throes of... passion. At least they were happy when they expired.
I enjoy reading these stories because humans are supposed to be the smartest organisms on earth, but then you hear that someone won a Darwin Award you start to wonder. It is, in fact, extremely sad that these people have died, but you don’t feel as bad after a while when you read how incredibly unintelligent they are. One of my favorite stories is about a man who decided to play Russian Roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. For some of you who don’t know, a semiautomatic pistol AUTOMATICALLY puts the cartridge into the firing chamber when you cock the gun. As you can guess, that was one game he definitely did not win. He obviously was outstandingly stupid and had very bad judgment!
Well you told about them today in class and all i could simply do was laugh. Most people in class didn't even feel sorry for the people all they could do was laugh. If laughing is all you could do in a person's death then i truly believe that they deserve a Darwin Award. I enjoyed hearing about the female driver who put a winnebago in cruise controt, in the mean time she went back to the living quarter of it and made a sandwich (now this was a female driver to keep in mind). The vehicle ended up crashing and of course killed her, she thought the crusied control also ment auto pilot!
I'm VERY glad you put these up for us! I received the Darwin Awards last year, and they always make me laugh. It is amazing how stupid some people can be. Isn't mankind suposed to be the smartest creature on Earth? Some people's stupidity amazes me, but I do sometimes feel kind of sorry for those who earn Darwin Awards. It makes me wonder if I could personally be that stupid to result in my death...
While they are quite funny, these insodences make me wonder where our society is going to end up in a few generations. We're already being consumed with internet, constant half-witted communication techniques (e.g.-texting, facebook, ect.) and, of course, crazed addictions to drugs and alcohol; which is why my favorite story was the one about the 32 year old man who killed himself by purposely getting ran over to acquire pain killers. I guess common sense isn't so common...also, I'd like to know who these people's parents were.
Since you told us to read about the Darwin Awards, and i was amazed by the stupidity of some people.My favorite award was "Saw it coming" because it just shows how a persistent pest can got what he deserved.this guy had to be a total retard to try and mess with power lines, because everyone knows that if you mess up you will be instantly fried by the voltage. I think that people who have very little patients could learn a lot from this story, because if that man would have just waited for a few more hours his power probably been connected. Another good story is "she talks faster than she walks" because this shows the women intelligence level of motor vehicles. I think it was Hilarius that she stepped out of the vehicle going about 65.
My favorite was Doublemint Dumb! All of these stories just goes to show how oblivious people can be these days. These stories remind me of the stories off of 1000 ways to die. The people in these two are rediculously retarted. These stories show how some people need to be more patient, more conserned of what they are consuming, and caculate again or else you may not make it to see another day.
Personally, I dont believe these darwin awards are showing a regression in humans. Humans have died in freakish ways for as long as we have been on earth, its just that they haven't been documented like these occurances. I think the truth is, people simply make mistakes and if those mistakes cause their death, it is nothing to make fun of. The Darwin Awards seem more like something someone with alot of time on their hands started to give out!
They are really funny true but its so sad how they die. they die in a stupid way but ohwell they died. in the end they dont deserve death. But our evolution really needs to think a little more than others i like to say "think outside the box!" and its such a awesome pun. but we need to work on a lot of this evolution stuff we can learn but we just dont want to.
I agree with Jared N. on this subject. Human beings aren’t regressing we’re actually getting smarter. On the television show 1,000 Ways to Die, these exact same things happen. People aren’t perfect, they’re fallible and sometimes there fallibility can be fatal. It’s funny at first, but when you really think about it the same thing can happen to me or any one of us. I personally think the Darwin Awards are dumb, but that is just my opinion.
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These stories make me laugh because one minute, mankind is all macho and saying that we are the most sophisticated and advanced species on earth and then you hear stories of how someone won a Darwin Award. I actually own a book filled with people who have won Darwin Awards and the stories behind why. My favorites are the ones where, in the heat of the moment, a couple comes back from a date and can't wait to be in each others' arms, so they just decide that the garage is as good a place as any and forget to turn the car off. So they die of carbon monoxide poisoning while in the throes of... passion. At least they were happy when they expired.
I enjoy reading these stories because humans are supposed to be the smartest organisms on earth, but then you hear that someone won a Darwin Award you start to wonder. It is, in fact, extremely sad that these people have died, but you don’t feel as bad after a while when you read how incredibly unintelligent they are. One of my favorite stories is about a man who decided to play Russian Roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. For some of you who don’t know, a semiautomatic pistol AUTOMATICALLY puts the cartridge into the firing chamber when you cock the gun. As you can guess, that was one game he definitely did not win. He obviously was outstandingly stupid and had very bad judgment!
Well you told about them today in class and all i could simply do was laugh. Most people in class didn't even feel sorry for the people all they could do was laugh. If laughing is all you could do in a person's death then i truly believe that they deserve a Darwin Award.
I enjoyed hearing about the female driver who put a winnebago in cruise controt, in the mean time she went back to the living quarter of it and made a sandwich (now this was a female driver to keep in mind). The vehicle ended up crashing and of course killed her, she thought the crusied control also ment auto pilot!
I'm VERY glad you put these up for us! I received the Darwin Awards last year, and they always make me laugh. It is amazing how stupid some people can be. Isn't mankind suposed to be the smartest creature on Earth? Some people's stupidity amazes me, but I do sometimes feel kind of sorry for those who earn Darwin Awards. It makes me wonder if I could personally be that stupid to result in my death...
While they are quite funny, these insodences make me wonder where our society is going to end up in a few generations. We're already being consumed with internet, constant half-witted communication techniques (e.g.-texting, facebook, ect.) and, of course, crazed addictions to drugs and alcohol; which is why my favorite story was the one about the 32 year old man who killed himself by purposely getting ran over to acquire pain killers. I guess common sense isn't so common...also, I'd like to know who these people's parents were.
Since you told us to read about the Darwin Awards, and i was amazed by the stupidity of some people.My favorite award was "Saw it coming" because it just shows how a persistent pest can got what he deserved.this guy had to be a total retard to try and mess with power lines, because everyone knows that if you mess up you will be instantly fried by the voltage. I think that people who have very little patients could learn a lot from this story, because if that man would have just waited for a few more hours his power probably been connected. Another good story is "she talks faster than she walks" because this shows the women intelligence level of motor vehicles. I think it was Hilarius that she stepped out of the vehicle going about 65.
My favorite was Doublemint Dumb! All of these stories just goes to show how oblivious people can be these days. These stories remind me of the stories off of 1000 ways to die. The people in these two are rediculously retarted. These stories show how some people need to be more patient, more conserned of what they are consuming, and caculate again or else you may not make it to see another day.
Personally, I dont believe these darwin awards are showing a regression in humans. Humans have died in freakish ways for as long as we have been on earth, its just that they haven't been documented like these occurances. I think the truth is, people simply make mistakes and if those mistakes cause their death, it is nothing to make fun of. The Darwin Awards seem more like something someone with alot of time on their hands started to give out!
They are really funny true but its so sad how they die. they die in a stupid way but ohwell they died. in the end they dont deserve death. But our evolution really needs to think a little more than others i like to say "think outside the box!" and its such a awesome pun. but we need to work on a lot of this evolution stuff we can learn but we just dont want to.
I agree with Jared N. on this subject. Human beings aren’t regressing we’re actually getting smarter. On the television show 1,000 Ways to Die, these exact same things happen. People aren’t perfect, they’re fallible and sometimes there fallibility can be fatal. It’s funny at first, but when you really think about it the same thing can happen to me or any one of us. I personally think the Darwin Awards are dumb, but that is just my opinion.
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