{"id":153600,"date":"2015-12-28T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T19:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/?p=153600"},"modified":"2015-12-28T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T19:56:30","slug":"koalemos-awards-looking-for-nominees-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/2015\/12\/28\/koalemos-awards-looking-for-nominees-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Koalemos Awards looking for nominees, support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people are familiar with the experience of dealing with an idiot. You know what I mean; that driver on the highway who can\u2019t follow the same road rules as everybody else, or the customer at the grocery who doesn\u2019t understand how sales tax works. We\u2019ve all run into those people at some point, but have you ever had the distinct displeasure of encountering an individual whose idiocy is not just annoying, but willful, maybe even cultivated? This is not your run of the mill foolishness, nor is it common stupidity, but fine-tuned, heavily shielded absurdity.<\/p>\n

It takes effort to maintain such an astounding level of ignorance in the middle of the information age. It\u2019s not as though refraining from seeking knowledge is enough. A truly dedicated idiot must also strive to ignore every bit of readily available information that contradicts her worldview. Blinders are not enough; this kind of idiot must gird his brains in belief armor of the highest grade in order to avoid that uncomfortable mind-changing sensation.<\/p>\n

Have you ever listened to someone bury her head so far into her colon you\u2019re afraid that even surgery won\u2019t do her any good? Someone whose profound foolishness has the effect of sending others in search of knowledge to counter it? Such an epic quest for quackery deserves a prize at the end.<\/p>\n

There just happens to be one: The Koalemos awards, created by Sage Gerard. According to the patreon page for the award show, \u201cThe Koalemos Awards is a comedy series that commemorates outstanding acts of unintentional self-deprecation in the spirit of Matthijs Van Boxsel. Anyone can nominate another individual for a Koalemos, but the qualifications for the award are specific. They require not just run of the mill stupidity, but stubborn, arrogant irresponsible, public idiocy despite a capacity for intelligence, compassion, and growth.<\/p>\n

Two \u201cwinners\u201d have already been selected, and videos posted.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/s94Eb7FUuzE<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/tWBatRYXtlA<\/a><\/p>\n

Nominations are being taken for the next award.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/koalemos<\/a><\/p>\n


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Genuine, unavoidable idiocy deserves our sympathy… but what do you do when it’s maintained on purpose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":153603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[781,782,425],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153608,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153600\/revisions\/153608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=153600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}