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PERSISTENCE
When his factory was forced to shut down, he fought his government. When the laws banned his research on land, he built a lab-boat. In no instance in human history, has there been such a passion for blowing shit up.

(The Nobel Prize)

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  1. LULZ says:

    This captioner has obviously never seen “Mythbusters.” Or the g-d “Die Hard” movies….

  2. Kristoph says:

    Michael Bay

  3. Danbala says:

    He worked his whole life to invent TNT? That was kinda daft of him. :p

  4. charro says:

    This is the worst de-motivational poster ever.

  5. justacanuck the booty wench says:

    I thought that too. Wordy, but made me laugh out loud.

  6. BAW says:

    I remember reading that he intended TNT to help farmers clear their fields of rocks and tree stumps and was horrified when it was used as the late 19th C. equivalent of a ‘weapon of mass destruction.’ Which was why he established the Peace Prize in his name.

  7. Vella says:

    I dunno. Mythbusters and the fans thereof come pretty darn close, if you ask me. XD

  8. Kelly says:

    It’s suspected that he came up with the Peace Prize after there was a premature obituary mistakenly printed about him in France. They called him a ‘merchant of death’ and its said that he was so offended by it, he came up with the idea for the Peace Prize.

  9. Sqwirk says:

    Just think, if it wasn’t for the French we’d have a Liberty prize or the Freedom prize instead.

  10. Tfad says:

    Um… Obviously they have never heard of Mythbusters… lol

  11. charro says:

    Hai Gaiz! What about Myth Busters?

  12. Hierophantria says:

    Words from my father, a bomb tech…

    Actually, Albert Nobel invented dynamite in 1867. Joseph Wilbrand invented TNT in 1863. It is a common misconception that TNT and dynamite are the same thing. Though both are high explosives, there is no other similarity between them. Dynamite is an absorbent mixture which consists of three parts nitroglycerin, one part diatomaceous earth and a small admixture of sodium carbonate (C3H5N3O9.). These compounds are then soaked in nitroglycerin, then compacted into a cylindrical shape and wrapped in paper,

    TNT or Trinitrotoluene is a specific chemical compound called 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene.
    (C7H5N3O6). The explosive yield of TNT is considered to be the standard measure of strength of other explosives. Dynamite has a 60% greater energy density than TNT.

    • dissimilitude says:

      ;-) Words from Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott:

      See me ride out of that sunset,
      On your color TV screen,
      Out for all that I can get,
      If you know what I mean….
      Women to the left of me,
      And women to the right,
      Ain’t got no gun,
      Ain’t got no knife,
      Don’t you start no fight….

      Cause I’m T.N.T, I’m dynamite,
      T.N.T., and I’ll win that fight!
      T.N.T., I’m a power load,
      T.N.T., watch me explode!

    • UnhappyVegemite says:

      Actually C3H5N3O9 is the chemical symbol for nitroglycerin, sodium carbonate is Na2CO3 :P

    • It's so obvious! says:

      Very kind of you to post this, Hierophantria. Kudos to you for trying to help educate people and passing on the knowledge you’ve learned. I bet dinner conversation at your house is the bomb! :)

  13. azjh bob says:

    Didn’t he make dynamite to make working in mines safer, and when it got used to kill people he killed him self out of guilt?

  14. keithybabes says:

    Well I never. Wikipedia says that Dynamite was first demonstrated at a quarry about two miles from where I live. You learn something every day on this site! (If you trust Wiki that is…)

    • UnhappyVegemite says:

      Isn’t Wikipedia run by a bunch of dirty librulls? Or at least that is what the “trustworthy encyclopedia” conservapedia says about Wiki :twisted:

      • Maxwell Silverhammer With No Introductory APR says:

        Please tell me it’s not actually called conservapedia….

        • Default User says:

          It’s not actually called conservapedia. [/lying]

        • UnhappyVegemite says:

          Google it. But guard yourself… for it can very damaging to your IQ even if you treat it as a joke. It can also create ulcers and make you invent new obscenities. :(

          Cry ‘Havoc’, and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial :)

    • mabsba says:

      There actually was an article in the paper last year about Wiki: someone did a study of random facts on Wiki to see how accurate they were. They found that more commonly accessed facts (such as who invented dynamite) were accurate while facts such as where Virginia Woolf got her money were more likely to remain uncorrected if wrong.

      • Jane St.Clair Glamorous First Lady of PK says:

        In summation: More people care about dynamite than about Virginia Woolf and/or her money.

        • mabsba says:

          :) And more people know the answer about dynamite. I actually only know that trivia about Woolf because I took a class from a Woolf scholar.

  15. Kristian says:

    He invented dynamite, because TNT is unstable and dangerous for mining and lots of people were dying doing it.
    Dynamite is much safer, and allowed itself to be used in war.
    Horrified at this unintended use, Nobel founded the peace price…

  16. SGTADMAN says:

    He invent Dynamite not TNT. Idiots.

  17. I Like Peanut Butter says:

    I wish Sqwirk would learn to use the reply button so people wouldn’t have to try and guess who he/she was replying to……..

  18. Nic says:

    Maybe in the future we can have a “Manhatten Project” Peace Prize too?
    Or a George Bush Jnr Peace Prize?

    Or a Tony Blair Peace Prize?

    Screw, let’s have all three.

    And an Barrack Obama Peace Prize…

    oh this could run long..

  19. Truth says:

    Alfred Nobel did NOT discover TNT, he invented dynamite.

  20. Captain Acid says:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite#Difference_from_TNT

    Don’t enyone here read wikipedia? If anyone did the stupid argument of what dynamite and TNT is and who invented what whould have died.

  21. Biggles says:

    Ironically, Ol’ Alfred’s passion for blowing up stuff was because he wanted the blowing-up-stuff business safer. And he succeeded.

    Oh and
    Please. Stop comparing Alfred Nobel, one of greatest inventors and Swedes that has ever lived, to “Mythbusters”. That’s simply outrageous.

    • Danbala says:

      I suspect you don’t get the Mythbusters thing. No one has compared Nobel to them, really. :p

    • mabsba says:

      Ironically, someone has already made this point.

      Oh, and the Mythbusters jokes have much more to do with this being a lolsite than with Nobel. Even some Swedes get that. ;)

    • Jane St.Clair is Having a Tea Party says:

      Ladies and Gentlemen, as First Lady of PK I come to you today with a very special announcement. Sadly, 1 in 10 posters were born without a sense of humor. I don’t think any of us can truly know what it’s like to go through life constantly missing the joke and being way too serious but the sad plight of these individuals is nothing to laugh about (they really wouldn’t know why we were laughing anyway). Please, donate your time and your money and together we can find a cure for those afflicted. Won’t you please help this poor soul get the joke? Please?

      • Danbala says:

        This case was particularly bad. As I read the post, Biggles took two erroneous steps:
        1: I disapprove of attempts to compare Nobel to Mythbusters because Nobel is sacred, or something tantamount to that
        2: I really think people did seriously compare Nobel to Mythbusters

        Oh me, oh my.

        • Danbala says:

          (Before someone comments on all of my own complaints on this lol, I must say that I don’t find it funny because it’s based on facts which are all pretty much wrong. That breaks the fun for me.)

          • mabsba says:

            Well, it’s bad enough when people can’t get the spelling right in the caption, but getting the facts wrong is surely much more egregious. Probably reasonable cause for summoning HOW.

  22. ProudAmerican says:

    … Except on Mythbusters. Those guys blow up everything from water heaters to pants.

  23. ..... says:

    other than mythbusters


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