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(Time) Obvious And so, inevitably, it has come to this: "Cute Things Falling Asleep." It's not news, it's TIME.com   (time.com) divider line 68
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Small Hands Make It Look Bigger 2009-01-11 11:16:36 AM  
Oh god, I felt like I was clicking on The Sun. Make it stop!

 
sarahthustra [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 11:43:26 AM  
hahahaha. i love it.

 
MaxxLarge [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 12:03:09 PM  
FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

My thoughts exactly. And yet TIME fails to see the irony inherent in putting this quote in their article?

I think I need to go lie down.

 
monsieurstabby [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 01:36:56 PM  
awwww

 
jackiepaper 2009-01-11 01:45:11 PM  
MaxxLarge: FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

My thoughts exactly. And yet TIME fails to see the irony inherent in putting this quote in their article?

I think I need to go lie down.


And I was like "Do you realize that there's 300 million people in this country trying to ignore the fact that there's a war going on and just live their lives?"

 
Gosling [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 01:46:25 PM  
MaxxLarge: FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

That right there is where someone should have taken his advice and killed this story. The fact that they heard those words and kept going...

 
Zasteva 2009-01-11 01:47:28 PM  
You know by posting this you are just encouraging them.

 
MaritimeGirl [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-11 01:48:53 PM  
"My attitude is this: I didn't make your baby a 2 - you did. It just happens to be a 2. That's what it is; I'm sorry."

He handled that well. It's amazing how some parents can't comprehend how not everyone thinks their offspring is beautiful and cute. There are an awful lot of truly ugly human babies out there.

 
Tsunami Ditka 2009-01-11 01:48:53 PM  
Granted, it wasn't a story about cute things falling asleep per se, but a story about a popular website about cute things falling asleep...but that distinction might mean little to nothing.

 
Freak Flag Fly [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 01:49:19 PM  
jackiepaper: And I was like "Do you realize that there's 300 million people in this country trying to ignore the fact that there's a war going on and just live their lives?"

And then I totally thought, like, "Dude, the best non-war new analysis your news program can come up with is puppies going nighty-night?!"

 
Phil McKraken 2009-01-11 01:50:23 PM  
Fark is boring me and I'm getting sleepy, so I am getting a kick out of these replies...

 
Jonathan Hohensee 2009-01-11 01:52:12 PM  
MaxxLarge: FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

My thoughts exactly. And yet TIME fails to see the irony inherent in putting this quote in their article?

I think I need to go lie down.


"THIS JUST IN! You know that war that has been going on? Yeah, it is still going on.
...we don't really have much else to say about that."

"Now THAT is journalism, Wolfy"

 
citpes 2009-01-11 01:54:09 PM  
images2.wikia.nocookie.net

Approves

 
peebles 2009-01-11 01:55:29 PM  
This is preferable to the slop that usually passes as "Entertainment News."

 
deevo 2009-01-11 01:55:50 PM  
"puppies on the cover of part 2 of the newspaper: AWESOME
puppies on the front page of the newspaper: WHAT THE fark"

never change, Fark

 
Greenville 2009-01-11 01:56:25 PM  
No thanks, I gave up on that fetish already.

...


Oh...cute THINGS...never mind.

 
GungFu 2009-01-11 02:01:54 PM  
Cute Things Falling Asleep?

This is related to Missing White Girl, obviously.

 
NicoFinn [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 02:07:24 PM  
That poor chick on the bread! farking cruel biatch!

 
Mr. Potatoass 2009-01-11 02:07:50 PM  
the site will have you cooing like a 12-year-old girl at a petting zoo.

When I was a kid, they only had animals.

 
pivazena 2009-01-11 02:09:52 PM  
The polar bear sleeping with the stuffed animal polar bear makes a sound like the Alien being sucked out of the air lock around minute 1... it stopped being cute then

 
bunny_of_chaos 2009-01-11 02:12:02 PM  
peebles: This is preferable to the slop that usually passes as "Entertainment News."

CNN needs to replace Nancy Grace with an hour of Cute Things Falling Asleep - their ratings would skyrocket!

Actually an hour of a fire in a fireplace would have better ratings than Nancy Grace.

Why yes, I loathe Nancy Grace! Thanks for asking.

 
fernandez 2009-01-11 02:15:01 PM  
Mr. Potatoass: the site will have you cooing like a 12-year-old girl at a petting zoo.

When I was a kid, they only had animals.


*buh-dum-tish*

 
FunkOut [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 02:20:24 PM  
bunny_of_chaos: peebles: This is preferable to the slop that usually passes as "Entertainment News."

CNN needs to replace Nancy Grace with an hour of Cute Things Falling Asleep - their ratings would skyrocket!

Actually an hour of a fire in a fireplace would have better ratings than Nancy Grace.

Why yes, I loathe Nancy Grace! Thanks for asking.


How about Nancy Grace falling asleep in a roaring hot fireplace? I think that would get a lot of viewers.

Although she would probably be passing out drunk rather than just falling asleep.

 
Bob16 2009-01-11 02:21:20 PM  
"Time has too much too lose by telling the news" - Bob Dylan

 
BallPeenHammer 2009-01-11 02:24:38 PM  
any mother would give her own baby a high rating for falling asleep, no matter how they look while doing it...

 
Quasar [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 02:24:40 PM  
NicoFinn: That poor chick on the bread! farking cruel biatch!

It was cute until the end, when it became creepy.

 
Je5tEr 2009-01-11 02:25:56 PM  
jackiepaper: MaxxLarge: FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

My thoughts exactly. And yet TIME fails to see the irony inherent in putting this quote in their article?

I think I need to go lie down.

And I was like "Do you realize that there's 300 million people in this country trying to ignore the fact that there's a war going on and just live their lives?"


Wait wait wait... we declared war? Oh wait no we didn't. Call me when we do and have stopped trying to play world-cop with people who aren't trained to do that sort of thing and using it as an excuse to strip-mine the rights they are supposed to be defending.

 
Wizzin 2009-01-11 02:28:16 PM  
FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

When is there not one or more wars going on? Unless someone starts chucking nukes around, no one even pays attention anymore. They have no problem doing round the clock celebutard coverage. They have no problem devoting endless hours on random, missing children and blonde chicks. Is this news? No, but then again, neither is most of what they cram down our throats every day.

 
matt2891 2009-01-11 02:29:24 PM  
Hey, even TIME needs filler/fluff articles to take updead space. Keep in mind that this is an article for their website. Now, when shiat like this starts making the front cover and legit news starts getting pushed back, THEN bring your righteous indignation.

 
Mouser 2009-01-11 02:30:31 PM  
Je5tEr: jackiepaper: MaxxLarge: FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

My thoughts exactly. And yet TIME fails to see the irony inherent in putting this quote in their article?

I think I need to go lie down.

And I was like "Do you realize that there's 300 million people in this country trying to ignore the fact that there's a war going on and just live their lives?"

Wait wait wait... we declared war? Oh wait no we didn't. Call me when we do and have stopped trying to play world-cop with people who aren't trained to do that sort of thing and using it as an excuse to strip-mine the rights they are supposed to be defending.


Someone here needs to spend a little time watching cute things fall asleep.

 
notyoucoach 2009-01-11 02:31:04 PM  
FunkOut: bunny_of_chaos: peebles: This is preferable to the slop that usually passes as "Entertainment News."

CNN needs to replace Nancy Grace with an hour of Cute Things Falling Asleep - their ratings would skyrocket!

Actually an hour of a fire in a fireplace would have better ratings than Nancy Grace.

Why yes, I loathe Nancy Grace! Thanks for asking.

How about Nancy Grace falling asleep in a roaring hot fireplace? I think that would get a lot of viewers.

Although she would probably be passing out drunk rather than just falling asleep.


Could make a bundle with pay per view of that.

 
matt2891 2009-01-11 02:31:57 PM  
Furthermore, given the state of so called 'legit' journalism these days, I don't think anyone should be casting stones y'know. When we have a news media that regularly give credibility to people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, then the whole institution is farked anyway.

 
eno 2009-01-11 02:32:33 PM  
We're linking to places that link to places now?

Why not just link to the blog in the first place?

/Drew is in bed with Time
//I mean that in an entirely SFW kind of way

 
PsyLord 2009-01-11 02:35:57 PM  
Mouser: Someone here needs to spend a little time watching cute things fall asleep.

Like this?

Kitten Falling Asleep (new window)

 
NicoFinn [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 02:36:12 PM  
Quasar: NicoFinn: That poor chick on the bread! farking cruel biatch!

It was cute until the end, when it became creepy.


Very cute until I realized he was sitting on a piece of bread. Poor little dude.

I guess it doesn't help that I'm eating chicken for dinner.

 
Jonathan Hohensee 2009-01-11 02:37:54 PM  
Doesn't the news just report on non-news when their isn't any real news going on?
I remember the day before 9/11, Chandra Levy was in all of the news cycles...then she got pushed for more important things, obviously.
There really aren't things happening all of the time in the world, at least things that have journalistic heft.

Enjoy the pictures.

Mouser: Je5tEr: jackiepaper: MaxxLarge: FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

My thoughts exactly. And yet TIME fails to see the irony inherent in putting this quote in their article?

I think I need to go lie down.

And I was like "Do you realize that there's 300 million people in this country trying to ignore the fact that there's a war going on and just live their lives?"

Wait wait wait... we declared war? Oh wait no we didn't. Call me when we do and have stopped trying to play world-cop with people who aren't trained to do that sort of thing and using it as an excuse to strip-mine the rights they are supposed to be defending.

Someone here needs to spend a little time watching cute things fall asleep.


It'd just distract him from his mission of saving America from becoming a fascist nation....

/dude, we already are, like, in a fascist nation, man.

 
Another Pretentious Nickname 2009-01-11 02:38:10 PM  
I don't understand the significance of the bread. Can it not sit down or something? This is troubling me.

 
submarinecaptain 2009-01-11 02:45:47 PM  
MaxxLarge: FTA: "CNN called, and suddenly I found myself on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," says Malis. "I was like, 'Do you realize there's a war going on?'"

My thoughts exactly. And yet TIME fails to see the irony inherent in putting this quote in their article?

I think I need to go lie down.


Cause you're sleepy? Somebody get the camcorder

 
toejam 2009-01-11 02:48:49 PM  
farm1.static.flickr.com

 
hershmire 2009-01-11 02:52:53 PM  
Jonathan Hohensee: "THIS JUST IN! You know that war that has been going on? Yeah, it is still going on.
...we don't really have much else to say about that."

"Now THAT is journalism, Wolfy"


Ok, maybe not Iraq; but how about Afghanistan. I haven't heard shiat from a journalist in that country since late 2006. Perhaps instead of analyzing puppies they could tell me why CNN has been ignoring that war.

 
PullmyHair 2009-01-11 03:11:27 PM  
img.photobucket.com

/Approvezzzzz

 
self destruction 2009-01-11 03:13:23 PM  
www.wackyarchives.com

 
Je5tEr 2009-01-11 03:13:37 PM  
hershmire: Jonathan Hohensee: "THIS JUST IN! You know that war that has been going on? Yeah, it is still going on.
...we don't really have much else to say about that."

"Now THAT is journalism, Wolfy"

Ok, maybe not Iraq; but how about Afghanistan. I haven't heard shiat from a journalist in that country since late 2006. Perhaps instead of analyzing puppies they could tell me why CNN has been ignoring that war.


Because no one ever wins in Afghanistan. Go talk to any Russian that served there about how farked up it is to fight in that place.

 
Je5tEr 2009-01-11 03:15:18 PM  
And the Russian spent what, 12 years?, there with many more troopers on the ground than we have.

 
SobrietyFighter 2009-01-11 03:28:02 PM  
Je5tEr: And the Russian spent what, 12 years?, there with many more troopers on the ground than we have.

"Grammer Nazi, cleanup on aisle 4, Grammer Nazi, cleanup on aisle 4"

 
Je5tEr 2009-01-11 03:30:44 PM  
SobrietyFighter: Je5tEr: And the Russian spent what, 12 years?, there with many more troopers on the ground than we have.

"Grammer Nazi, cleanup on aisle 4, Grammer Nazi, cleanup on aisle 4"


Yeah, the Nazis lost too.

 
Seit_N_Zounde [TotalFark] 2009-01-11 03:31:09 PM  
Quasar: NicoFinn: That poor chick on the bread! farking cruel biatch!

It was cute until the end, when it became creepy.



That second piece of bread passing through part of the frame made me nervous. I thought, "Oh no they are going to smash the chick.", but it was kinda cute with it not waking up.

 
toejam 2009-01-11 03:46:55 PM  
i39.tinypic.com

 
SobrietyFighter 2009-01-11 03:49:22 PM  
toejam... you had 30 minutes to photoshop and all you can include is a can of 'salsa'... I am disappointed...

 
toejam 2009-01-11 03:50:12 PM  
SobrietyFighter: toejam... you had 30 minutes to photoshop and all you can include is a can of 'salsa'... I am disappointed...

Maybe you missed that thread?

 
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