Lunchtime Diversions for Monday, July 02

Good afternoon. Do not go outside. It's hot and soupy and you will get Balmer-stains on your shirt if you walk more than a block.

VIRAL: By the way, I hate that term. Anyway, the video of the day would seem to be the angry man wrecking a cellphone store in Manchester.

The person who posted it asks:

Any minute now. The fellow is probably itching for the opportunity to explain things. Possible answers:

* Bath salts? Seems too calm and methodical for that.

* As a Buzzfeed editor said on their post, he was bothered by the high cost of service. Ha ha! Oh stop you're killin' me here

* The sort of general low-level entitlement you find in the modern world, where people's sense of self is matched in side only by their disregard of others.

TNT Magazine says his name is Jason Codner, and he's 42, which is 31 years too old for this sort of tantrum. Wait for the end, and take a look at the size of the crowd that gathered.

INTERNET WARS If you've been following the Oatmeal vs. Funny Junk saga, you know the lawyer for the latter made a decision to take on the internet. This rarely ends well. In this instance, a creator of a very funny comic strip took issue with his work showing up on one of those sites that specializes in Rage Comics and meme pictures and animated gifs of people falling down the stairs and hitting their heads. He wrote about his attempts to get the site purged of his work. The site sued for defamation, and asked $20,000. Matthew Inman, Oatmeal's creator, said he'd raise $20,000, but give it for charity. There was also some stuff about drawing a picture of the complainant's mother making love to a bear, which admittedly did not calm the waters. Inman raised over $200,000, and was promptly sued for impersonating a charity, or something.

As Popehat notes:

The full story in Popehat's words is here, where you can follow links to very funny cartoons with bad language. I'd link directly, but, well, our bad language policy on this blog is to let you find it yourself.

Oh, Balmer stains? Balmer stains. I did that last week, but in case you missed it:

DISNEY: If you've been to Disneyland or Disneyworld, you know how incredible the parks are, how much money and skill and ingenuity have gone into creating fantasy worlds that delight the eye. So brace yourself for an incredible Disney park that no longer exists: Holidayland!

Wow! Look at that ride! E-ticket for sure!