WTF pictures - Don't f@$k with Vespas

Saw this hilarious sign on the sleepy streets of Pismo Beach, CA:

This was outside local Italian restaurant Giuseppe's. Quite the protector of Vespa owners' rights, this Giuseppe.

WTF pictures - Eastern Poland is apparently THE place to invest and make money

 So here I was, flipping through this week's Economist, reading about exotica such as passing away of Britain's famous speaking clock (apparently in Britain you call a number and have a voice tell you the time of the day) and gerrymandering in Georgia (the nation, not the state) when I came across this gem:

This old man looks awfully grumpy. In all honesty, he looks like a hardass. If this is my future father-in-law...yikes.

WTF Pictures! - 4: Awaken YOUR animal passions

From good friend and roommate (with whom - and I cannot stress this enough - I run a highly successful webcomic On Bogosity) shared this picture from Amazon's Kindle store today:

Not very subtle, are they?

Now I get why Amazon sold more Kindle e-books than print books this year.

WTF Pictures! - 3: A very unique proposition

UCLA's student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, is hardly the beacon of true journalism. While the paper serves its own, limited purpose well, let us not pretend that its news will bring about earth-shattering changes. Which is why it was hilarious when, a couple years ago, they featured a massive front-page ad by ice-cream specialist Haagen-Dazs and then promptly condemned its own decision in a very solemn editorial. 

Anyway, this ad caught my eye today and I thought it would make a great installment for my new series (plus, it saves me the effort of writing some new and original):

 

Now I have seen my fair share of ads that are weird, but this one clearly wins the award for the most bizarre ad of the year.

WTF pictures! - 2: Are YOU unlucky in love?

Are you a scientist (or a budding one) who happens to woefully unlucky in the department of love? Are you a master of DNA preps but not of date preps?

Banish away your fears and qualms ye mighty and embrace this newfangeled dating website so coyly advertised in Scientific American:

Oh right I must have been dozing off in my Marketing 101 class when they taught us how tactful placement of a few choice scientific words like probabilities and wavelength will attract flocks of love-hungry, desperate scientists to your website.

A friend actually went on this site, that brave soul, and found this:

"Why are we here? The world is a crowded Petri dish, and yet for those of an intellectual bent who happen to be single, it's not easy, especially past university age, to find that certain microbe for a great symbiotic relationship. Enter Science Connection."

I am dumbfounded. Speechless. Aghast. Hmm let me trudge up a few more thesaurus words: mortified. stunned. That should be enough. 

WTF pictures! - 1

Every so often, in our routine and exceedingly boring lives, we chance upon scenes of such horrendous proportions that our delicate senses are severely offended and temporarily depart in due haste.

Where does this leave us? At a stupendous loss, of course. Some of us stand there, gaping stupidly at the thoughtless culprit, that sore sight for our eyes. Others? Well, they post it on their insignificant blogs.

Fortify your senses. Throw in enough canned food to last a platoon. Fasten your seat-belts.

Presenting the first installment of this ambitious, occasional series "WTF Pictures!":

At my local Barnes and Noble

 WTF?! This is a genre now? These books dare rest in the same store as Kant, Mamet and Frost? If this is what's going to save the dying publishing/reading industry, may as well let the whole thing die out.

Allow me to reply to this hideousness with another picture, this one courtesy of the internetz:

Wait, wait, wait. I feel like that's not enough. How about this?

Or better yet: