10 February 2026

Afro SatNav Fail

When GPS and maps fail hard

 When baboons are in charge of the roads

 Ever had maps tell you to U-turn on the highway? Or disagree with the road signage? Or lead you 10 miles off course onto a dead-end farm road? Or tell you the point of departure and the destination are in the same direction?

If you think maps must have gone haywire, it didn't. What it encountered is the maddening stupidity of whichever idiots were in charge of naming roads. See if you can spot the problem here...


Yes! No fewer than FOUR major roads are all called the same thing, but that's not the actual issue. That map is in fact wrong, it is, in reality...

Yes sir, to make matters exponentially worse, the National Highway is called the same thing as all the other roads, but only for 5 miles. However, we are still not at the real problem.

The road on the left doesn't have a name. To go south you ignore both turnoffs to the road you want and instead take road you don't want and if you miss your exit, the road you're on magically becomes the road you originally wanted. For a short while.

Fortunately, here, the issues with the roads result in massive numbers of deaths and piles of wrecked cars, which... wait for it... leads to even more deaths and crashed cars, the afro version of natural selection.


11 January 2026

Futurama Relationship-O-Meter

 Doing it... in the future!

Futurama's Dating Advice

When you think of Futurama's long, broken run, it was only when the show reached Hulu that one cast member was with another cast member long enough to spawn children. Amy Wong, of the Mars Wongs, somehow managed to get "reptilicus" (the spineless, cowering, weak, floppy, green, annoying alien aide to the magnificent Zapp Brannigan) to get her pregnant. 

Of all the creatures Amy could have dated... and there were many... Amy chose the most annoying, the most clueless and the most terrified gelatinous blob, by far the least useful of any character, including washbucket. So ignoring the unsightly mess that Hulu made (a celebration of trends that died 1000 years earlier), which of the characters was the most prolific at banging the other characters? Gotta be Bender, right?

 
You'll notice that Kif is the least popular one here, even the Professor has more luck with the women. Still, Kif joins Amy's other workplace lovers for a total of 7... good enough for third place. Joint first place is Fry and Bender with 10 lovers each, but only Amy has slept with everyone at Planet Express.

Leela bring up the rear with a disappointing 5 lovers, of which two are too brief to count, one is with a girl and the other two will sleep with anything that doesn't say no. Even worse, Zapp's paltry 3 lovers comes dangerously close to Kif's two, but at least he slept with Amy!

The lesson to learn here is this: sleep with as many people outside your work as you can, then sleep with as many people at work as you can. That's a lot of sleeping but fortunately sleeping at work is fine.