Fails of the Week: Lil Wayne’s Twitter, Traitor Olympics, Bus Fights & More

Schadenfreude is a psychological terms used to describe someone who takes pleasure in the failure of others (aka haters), and while I certainly didn't derive any enjoyment from some of the epic f**k ups below, they were too egregious not to be called out. In the latest of an ongoing series that will include the best...or worst...fails of the week from the world of hip-hop, sports, pop culture and beyond, I examine Lil Wayne's unbelievably overhyped Twitter account, the worst thing about the winter Olympics, the greatest bus fight ever and more...

Lil Wayne's Twitter

For a little while there it seemed like everyone and their grandma (props to @grannyslavik) was on Twitter, except for Lil Wayne. while fortunately unfortunately that Weezy F has no become a full-fledged memory of the Twitterati, launching his new account @liltunechi and promting the interwebs to react like topless photos of Cassie and Rihanns making out just got leaked. So what gems are Wayne's 75,000 (so far) followers being treated to? Masterpieces like this; "im super new to this twitter shit but wudup tho !..........follow me biot¢h..........wudup mak......happy bday LO......8 days of freedom..ym." In all seriousness, I'm a big Lil Wayne supporter, but I can live without that kind of wordly insight for the next few days before he goes to jail and falls off the Twitter map again.

Olympic Traitors

Ok, so I love me some Olympics, but there's a fundamental problem in the Olympics that needs to be addressed now traitorism (yeah, it's a word now). What's up with these people who don't make the team in their home country, then claim "dual citizenship" under some sketchy logic and compete for another country. Case in point Davey Barr (see above), a dude who grew up in Colorado his entire life but is now skiing for Canada. And he's not alone, it happens all the time. Fuck that. I say you have to have lived in a country for at least five years previous to the Olympics to be eligible to compete. Otherwise it's like two teams reaching the Super Bowl, and then getting to pick up any player from a team that didn't make it. This can't be allowed to continue.

Bus Fights

I know it's a little old now, but I've been waiting on this one since last Monday's Fails of the Week. In case you haven't seen it, some dude starts talking crazy shit on an Oakland bus to an old white guy, apparently over some racial remark that's never made clear, things escalate, and old white guy completely destroys the younger black dude. Just crushed him. And the thing that really caps it odd? The woman in the background urging her (boyfriend?) to take a swing at the old white guy, and then has to ask him if he needs an ambulance. "Oh, he leakin." Loved every second.

LMFAO vs. Mitt Romney

I can't believe I'm going to write this, but this fight is even crazier than the one above. And no, I'm not making making this up. Sky Blu, one half of the painfully bad rap-pop group LMFAO, was escorted off an Air Canada flight preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia after he got into a physical altercation with former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Blu contends that Romney hit him first, allegedly because Blu refused to bring his seat to an upright postions (no joke), and that he was simply defending himself from an aggressive Romney. I hate that I live in a world where LMFAO's on the radio 23 hours a day, but I love the fact that random connections like this happen. It's like a really bad, real life version of "Crash".