Hill Parking for the Dummy Driver

Turn the wheels to the curb

Maybe we're picky, but when the staffers here at the Antisocial Network find themselves looking for how-to information, we tend to notice mistakes in things as simple as correct spelling. Oh, sure, we can understand someone submitting a typo in an article about meiosis and mitosis or calculating birefringence, but we're much less inclined to accept the advice of someone who thinks you stop a car with the "breaks." Someone, that is, like Julia Drake, who made that precise mistake (among others) in "Uphill & Downhill Parking Directions" at ItStillRuns.com.

Parking for Our Dummy Neighbors

You can't legally park here, either, Becky

Ever heard the adage "Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer"? Few displays of internet dumbassery are more fascinating than seeing a penny-starved "freelance journalist" from some content farm attempting to answer a question that was itself apparently posed by a dumbass. Take, for instance, questions so broad as to be unanswerable (though a greedy freelancer tries anyway); or questions whose answers require so many qualifiers that they expand to fill all available space (sort of like Carrie Bradshaw's shoe collection). Here's an example: eHow.com contributor Rebekah Richards attempts, and fails, to answer the stupid question, "Illegal Places to Park a Car" at ItStillRuns.com.