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[Scoops]

Pardon my ignorance but what movie is this from?

 

[Atrophis]

Pardon my ignorance but what movie is this from?

Man of Steel.

 

[MechaX]

I like how in the blurb people were considering using a flamethrower in a fucking high wind environment.

 

[tonysidaway]

Man of Steel.

So that's Kevin Costner playing Glenn Ford? Not bad.

 

[BlastCore]

Is there some kind of 4th dimentional portal in Florida that saps all rational thinking?

 

[tonysidaway]

I like how in the blurb people were considering using a flamethrower in a fucking high wind environment.

But you see, the idea is if you get the flame hot enough, it will actually cut through the wind.

 

[le.phat]

It never ceases to amaze how stupid Americans are.

What a country.

I know right? I actually find I offensive when someone calls the US leaders of the Free world. Intellectually broke as a fucking third world country.

 

[WaterAstro]

Too soon?

Shop that with a hurricane blowing it away.

 

[CosmicQueso]

I know right? I actually find I offensive when someone calls the US leaders of the Free world. Intellectually broke as a fucking third world country.

It's Florida.

 

[ChainedMaster]

Seems like it was a joke.

 

[le.phat]

It's Florida.

So only Florida is intellectually broke then?

 

[rgoulart]

Oh, so that's why they don't sell ammo on times like these.

 

[Kthulhu]

ROFL.

 

[megalowho]

we're going to be alright guys, they got this

 

[Staccat0]

Pretty funny. Clearly just being goofy for a laugh.

People reading about it and getting riled up worry me.
Ya'll know that redneck types also think resnecks are funny and like ironically playing into the tropes for a laugh right?

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

 

[SapientWolf]

Already has been responded to

You just have to aim for the weak point.

 

[Whales]

god damn are some people idiots

the "lets all blow our fans in the direction of irma to blow it away" was funny

but this? just 100% stupid and dangerous, how long until a stray bullet hits someone?

 

[Dhx]

I know right? I actually find I offensive when someone calls the US leaders of the Free world. Intellectually broke as a fucking third world country.

Let the hate flow through you.

 

[CanUKlehead]

Nailed it. Post of the season.

 

[lightus]

Shop that with a hurricane blowing it away.

Haha so funny! People in Florida are so dumb! Let's keep making fun of them while they lose their homes and loved ones!


On topic: I always assumed those Facebook groups were a joke. I know he doesn't think it would actually work but didn't think they actually go shoot at a storm.

 

[OG Shaka Zulu]

This is the worst idea I've heard in a long time. FB should ban this event.

 

[Dhx]

Haha so funny! People in Florida are so dumb! Let's keep making fun of them while they lose their homes and loved ones!


On topic: I always assumed those Facebook groups were a joke. I know he doesn't think it would actually work but didn't think they actually go shoot at a storm.

Don't let logic get in the way. Tens of thousands of Floridians are going to stand outside and fire relentlessly into the hurricane! They said so by joining a joke Facebook group.

 

[bishopcruz]

Hey, what do you know it was a joke and he wasn't serious but hey the internet y'all.

http://wsvn.com/news/local/florida-mans-joke-about-shooting-irma-gets-taken-seriously/

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man says his Facebook event inviting people to shoot at Hurricane Irma was a joke that got out of hand, saying Sunday that he never expected anyone to take his suggestion seriously.

More than 50,000 people had signed up by Sunday after 22-year Ryon Edwards of Daytona Beach posted the invitation with the note, “YO SO THIS GOOFY LOOKING WINDY HEADA** NAMED IRMA SAID THEY PULLING UP ON US, LETS SHOW IRMA THAT WE SHOOT FIRST.”

Edwards told The Associated Press on Sunday in a Facebook message it “seems the joke may have gone over many people’s heads. I’ve got people in my inbox mad as hell because they think this is actually happening. I don’t know whether to laugh or sigh.”

Most, but not all, Facebook responders seemed to understand that Edwards was not serious, posting photos and comments making fun of Florida stereotypes, including pot-bellied men dressed only in their underwear holding handguns and rifles.

...



“I’ve learned that about 50 percent of the world could not understand sarcasm to save their lives. Carry on,” he wrote.

Might want to update the OP.

On the other hand.

I just wanted to say, I love this image. Giant Robo is the best.

 

[Chmpocalypse]

Do Americans feel embarrassed for other Americans ?

Only every day.

 

[III-V]

Florida Man trolls the world.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Just nuke the damn thing, the winds will nicely thin out the radiation.

 

[Caj814]

is this for when the bullets come flying right back?

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Hey, what do you know it was a joke and he wasn't serious but hey the internet y'all.

http://wsvn.com/news/local/florida-mans-joke-about-shooting-irma-gets-taken-seriously/

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Reality is slowly becoming satire. Where in our history did we go wrong???

 

[ManDudeChild]

Reality is slowly becoming satire. Where in our history did we go wrong???

The division of the Bernstain and Bernstein universes is wreaking havoc on the timeline. This is the result.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

People are joking about these idiots killing themselves, but that undermines the actual danger; that their bullets will end up causing damage/injury/death to something or someone else.

Anybody caught doing this should be charged with public endangerment.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

People are joking about these idiots killing themselves, but that undermines the actual danger; that their bullets will end up causing damage/injury/death to something or someone else.

Anybody caught doing this should be charged with public endangerment.

nobody is doing this

do you honestly believe he was doing this? and it wasn't a clear joke?

 

[Rolfgang]

Yeah, that doesn't sound like a great idea. But Florida gonna Florida, I guess.

 

[SarcasticRedRover]

The fact that everyone was actually worried about people being stupid enough to do this should speak volumes how tragically non-existant expectations for Americans are.

also would this be Poe's Law in effrect?

 

[Holy Order Sol]

So only Florida is intellectually broke then?

FLORIDA MACHINE BROKE

 

[Lightning_Roller]

The division of the Bernstain and Bernstein universes is wreaking havoc on the timeline. This is the result.

....


We gotta go back...

 

[Sweeney Tom]

Do Americans feel embarrassed for other Americans ?

Every moment of every day

 

[Discotheque]

haha. prolly the best use of this gif.

 

[Mindlog]

All out of 9mm and switching to buckshot. When the storm stops I stop. Until then I continue to exercise my legal right to stand my ground.

 

[jm89]

When your grandkids ask you to explain what an American is you show them that article.

 

[vareon]

nobody is doing this


do you honestly believe he was doing this? and it wasn't a clear joke?

Hey, what do you know it was a joke and he wasn't serious but hey the internet y'all.

http://wsvn.com/news/local/florida-mans-joke-about-shooting-irma-gets-taken-seriously/




Might want to update the OP.

On the other hand.



I just wanted to say, I love this image. Giant Robo is the best.

1) This joke was doable enough that some people could do it, even as a joke. We had a Scream Like Goku event just a few days ago.
2) Unlike Scream Like Goku event, this one has a potential danger however freakish that might be. People are right to issue warnings because there *might* be someone stupid enough to do this.

 

[tpfkanep]

Keepin' an eye on it is best (works for tornados):
http://images.glaciermedia.ca/polop...erivatives/landscape_804/cpt109409578-jpg.jpg

 

[Machina]

This thread is so American, it's almost funny

 

[Northernlights]

Oh for fucks sake.

 

[PeskyToaster]

Sounds awesome

 

[Earthbound64]

The division of the Bernstain and Bernstein universes is wreaking havoc on the timeline. This is the result.

Neither of those are the correct spelling, so I don't know what universe you're in.