Just had to post this as a follow-up to yesterday’s story about recliner sales.

MSNBC.com reports that a man driving a motorized Laz-E-Boy was charged with a DWI after crashing into a parked car. He drank “eight or nine” beers and then headed home in his souped-up recliner, which police said was “powered by a converted lawnmower and had a stereo and cup holders.”

We slouch closer and closer to the dystopias described in Idiocracy and Wall-E.  All this guy needs is a toilet and maybe a retractable roof feature, and he’ll never have to use those weird fleshy appendages attaches to his pelvis again.

According to the Atlanta JC (can’t find the full name of the publication and can’t be bothered to spend more than a minute looking for it), sales of recliners has increased during these tough economic times.

In addition to an aging, widening population and the increasing popularity of giant televisions, analysts believe that the recession itself is partly responsible for the rise in recliner sales (emphasis mine):

Sales of reclining chairs are getting a lift from the growing popularity of high-tech TVs, home theater equipment and video games, as well as an aging population that is less active. Even the recession, which forced many Americans to cancel vacation plans, seemed to have help sales of the comfy lounge chairs.

I realize that Americans are vacationing at home rather than Disneyland these days, but part of me giggles at the idea that some Americans might be celebrating their unemployment by treating themselves to a Laz-E Boy.

From here:

A Saudi woman filed for divorce after discovering by chance that her husband gave her name “Guantanamo” on his mobile phone, reports newspaper al-Watan.

The newspaper said the woman, aged 30 and living in the city of Jeddah, saw this after her husband left the phone at home.

The furious wife filed for divorce, arguing that by assigning such a nickname, the husband saw her as a tyrannical person and she could no longer continue to live with him after 17 years of marriage.

I don’t know; she sounds pretty reasonable to me!

Also, I’m not a math expert or anything, but 30 years old minus 17 years of marriage equals holy shit!