The most prestigious awards in the world. The most famous anti-prizes in the world World Prize for Stupidity

Every year, many different awards are awarded in the world for certain services to humanity. They did not bypass those nominees whose actions can hardly be called sane, because they invariably had a tragic ending.

So, let's talk about the winners of the Darwin award. This virtual prize is awarded annually posthumously to people for the monstrously stupid acts that led to their death.

1. My home is my castle

An elderly Belgian engineer was killed by one of his death traps he set in his own house. He lost the case for this house of his daughter and feared eviction.

2. Self-preservation instinct - self-defense or suicide

Someone falls asleep teddy bear, and 47-year-old Newtonian from North Carolina Ken Charles Barger used to fall asleep with his beloved Smith & Wesson .38. When I woke him up one night phone call, he automatically put a "deadly toy" to his ear and pulled the trigger.

3. Insurance - first of all

So reasoned a resident from Los Angeles, intending to repair the roof of his house. He firmly fixed the safety rope, and tied its other end to the bumper of a car standing in the yard. Just at this time, his wife was going shopping. The car started off, the man was torn off the roof and dragged to the first store, near which his wife stopped. And although he was saved this time, he died even more absurdly. The toilet in his closet exploded when he dropped his cigarette butt. The wife, filling the lighter, spilled some flammable liquid inside. Fate or bad luck?

4. Deadly love for nature

A young botanist from California was hiking in a nature reserve on a rocky coast. Atlantic Ocean. The walk took a little longer. In order not to pollute the soil with body waste, the young man decided to urinate from a cliff into the sea, but could not resist and fell a two-hundred-meter cliff and crashed to death.

5. Chasing the beautiful

In 2005, a middle-aged lady decided to take a walk in the mountains. On the way, a feather of amazing beauty caught her eye. She tried to pick it up, but a strong gust of wind carried it away towards the fence. The woman ran after him. As a result, she fell from a height of three hundred meters and died from a head injury.

6. Woe from Wit

2000, Philippines. A resident of the city of Davao decided to rob passengers on board the plane. He managed to carry a makeshift parachute, grenades and a gun on board. He robbed passengers of $25,000, demanded that the pilot lower the plane to a height from which to make a jump. Jumping out of the plane, instead of a grenade, he threw a ring from it into the cockpit. In addition, the parachute never opened.

7. Joker Lawyer

A successful lawyer from Toronto, proving the strength of the windows in the office, amused himself by throwing himself at the window with a run, frightening the visitors of the office. However, the 24th attempt was fatal. The window shattered, and the unfortunate joker made a fatal jump.

8. Saving drowning people is the work of hands ...

A resident from Austria, having taken a fair amount of alcohol and decided to go out for a breath of fresh air, for some reason could not open the door of his apartment. Trying to climb through a small window in the kitchen, he got stuck so that his head was in a sink of water. Being pretty drunk, he could not turn off the water and choked. Paradoxically, the keys to the apartment were in his pocket.

9. There is power - no mind needed

A Ukrainian fisherman decided not to waste time on trifles, fishing with a fishing rod, and threw a live electric cable into the river. When the fish surfaced, the unlucky angler went into the water to collect it, having previously forgotten to turn off the voltage. As a result, he suffered the fate of his own catch.

10. Revenge of the fish

Fisherman from South Korea prepared his catch for sale and was about to gut the fish. However, while still alive, the fish unexpectedly sharply waved its tail and the knife intended for butchering hit the fisherman in the chest. He died on the spot.

11. Travelers to Hell

Four Chinese teenagers, after watching supernatural films, decided to "go on a journey to hell." They ate a melon laced with rat poison and left a note saying they would return if they didn't like it. Two out of four seemed to enjoy it. Fortunately, two were saved.

12. Oh sport, you ...

The young gymnast, who was celebrating her 17th birthday, decided to demonstrate personal success in sports, making an impromptu trampoline out of a sofa. Entering into excitement, she flew out of the window of the sixth floor. The sad end of the celebration.

13. Curiosity is not a vice?

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh. A young girl decided to end her life by jumping from a bridge. More than 50 onlookers gathered to watch this sad spectacle. As a result, the bridge could not bear the total weight of curious spectators and collapsed. Nine people died.

14. Forgetful skydiver

Experienced skydiver Ivan McGuire decided to film his jump over North Carolina from a height of 3000 m, taking a camera with him, but forgetting to put a parachute. The end is known.

15. Died at work

French funeral home owner Mark Burjat was beaten to death by a pile of coffins he sold in his shop. He was buried in one of them.

16. Killer tampons

Hampshire resident Mark Gleason decided to fight snoring by using women's tampons, putting them in his nostrils. The self-taught healer just suffocated in his sleep.

17. Killer Help

Belgian humanitarian mission air force in Sudan ended in the death of three local residents when crates of food dropped by the Belgian military fell on their heads.

18. Deadly theft

When Henry M Bongo, an unfortunate thief from Cameroon, decided to steal a chicken, an angry mob of locals forced him to eat everything he stole. As a result, the unfortunate thief died of asphyxia, choking on feathers and bird bones.

19. Greed is not a vice?

Careless motorists often become winners of the Darwin Award. One American, who decided to sell his car, tried to pump out the remaining gasoline from the tank with a vacuum cleaner. A moment later there was an explosion. There was no car, no house, no garage. The owner himself did not survive.

20. Addiction

When driving a car, it is important to focus on driving itself, and not on yourself. A certain young American had the bad habit of picking his nose while the car was in motion. One day, the car shook slightly, and he badly damaged a blood vessel with his finger. The bleeding started. By the time patrolmen noticed his parked car, the man was already dead. He bled out.

21. Deadly Bet

Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old mechanic from Moscow, moved to the USA. Once, having met with two Russian young ladies, he made a bet with them that he could have sex for 12 hours in a row. Because of a $5,000 dispute, a young man drank two packs of Viagra at once, so as not to “fall into the dirt on his face”. His "triumph" lasted only a few minutes. He died of a heart attack.

22. Funny to death

50-year-old Alex Mitchell of King's Lynn laughed so hard at the jokes of his favorite BBC show in 1975 that his heart gave out and he died in front of the TV screen. Laughter and tears.

23. Weapons of Justice

Bonn resident Peter Gruber decided to rob the Museum of Art, but he panicked when he saw the museum guards and tried to flee. Turning sharply around the corner, he accidentally stumbled upon the meter-long sword of the statue. Ironically, the exhibit was called "The Weapons of Justice."

24. Saving your favorite toy

A young French woman lost control of her car at speed and crashed into a tree. A minute before the tragedy, her favorite Tamagotchi toy squealed sharply, demanding attention. The girl saved the toy's life at the cost of her life.

In 2001, Steve Conner, a California zookeeper, fed an elephant 22 doses of a strong laxative. Deciding to see the result, he approached the elephant from behind and as a result was buried under a centner of elephant dung.

26. Celebrated

Sweet old Debbie Milla was on her way to her 100th birthday party when she wheelchair hit by a car carrying a birthday cake. Grandmother lived 99 years and 364 days. It's embarrassing to tears.

27. Was in the wrong place

A young woman, Megan Fry, decided to play a trick on the police while training on a live shooting simulator. She suddenly jumped out at them with a loud cry and was shot with 14 barrels of police officers who mistook her for a target.

This, unfortunately, is far from full list the most ridiculous deaths in the world. Death, like birth, is a natural phenomenon. Don't rush her arrival. Do not try to walk the "ladder" of Darwin in the opposite direction, be attentive to yourself and others!

The ceremony brought together authors who, in all seriousness, studied issues that looked more like a joke. At the same time, the real prizes were received - a statuette and 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. It's actually not as much as it seems.

Not too scrupulous housewives already knew, and now science has confirmed: human saliva removes dirt better than a cleaner. Chemists from Portugal tried to clean paintings and gilded sculptures with various reagents from ammonia to toluene. But the old "spit and wipe" method gave the best result.

For 28 years now, Harvard University has been launching paper airplanes fooling around, handing out awards for the most ridiculous scientific achievements and muzzle laureates if their acceptance speech lasts more than a minute.

David Wortinger of the University of Michigan made a discovery that, as required by the rules of the Ig Nobel Committee, first made me laugh and then made me think. Kidney stones will help bring out a trip to the Luna Park. One of his patients got rid of three stones at once when he rode a roller coaster.

“Big, powerful rides are not good. How people think. The higher the hill, the faster you fly on it - the better. Nothing like this. We found out that in order to affect the stones, you need to drive slowly, no more than 50 kilometers per hour, but with sharp turns, and that it shakes a lot. You need to sit in the last trailer. Then the stones are well crushed, ”said David Wortinger, winner of the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine.

The experience of the Ig Nobel Prize winners in biology was repeated by the Nobel Prize winners, honored guests of the ceremony. And now it's been proven twice: a fruit fly, Drosophila, can change the taste of wine in just a few seconds.

The Schnobel in Economics was awarded to a team from Canada, the USA, China and Singapore. The researchers suggested that disgruntled employees take out their evil on a bad boss by switching their emotions to a voodoo doll.

“People who took revenge on the boss-like doll were relieved. For them, justice has been restored,” explained Douglas Brown, winner of the Ig Nobel Prize in Economics.

"Where is the economy?" - asked the journalist to clarify.

“Yes, we don’t know. We thought that they would give us the Peace Prize!” - answered the scientist.

James Cole from Great Britain proved that ancient people were engaged in cannibalism not because of hunger. The calorie content of human meat is only 125 kilocalories, which is several times less than the calorie content, for example, of a mammoth. For his discovery, like all laureates, Cole received 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.

“Well, since I’m a trillionaire now, I’ll probably retire. But actually, Zimbabwe, in my opinion, has already switched to dollars. And it's about 30 cents in total. You can't even buy a hamburger," said James Cole.

Japan's Akira Horiuchi received the Schnobel for the study "Colonoscopy in the Seated Position". He is at personal experience I was convinced that it is no less effective to carry out this procedure while sitting than traditionally lying down. And now, like every Ig Nobel laureate, he will be given the opportunity to give a lecture about this in one of the most prestigious universities peace.

Already in early October, the Nobel Prize winners will be announced. And in history, by the way, there were cases when Ig Nobel laureates received the Nobel in a few years. Therefore, the ceremony in Cambridge traditionally ends with the words: if you became an Ig Nobel laureate, and especially if you did not, we wish you good luck next year!

Ig Nobel Prize

For achievements that make you laugh and then think

The prizes are awarded by the real Nobel Prize winners, only with false noses and make-up, and the time of the recipients' speech is limited by little Miss Sweetie Poo, who after 60 seconds says "Please stop, I'm bored!".

Since 1991, at the behest of founder Mark Abrahams and the scientific publication Annals of Improbable Research, Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded along with the announcement of Nobel Prize winners. Rarely does an anti-Nobel award express criticism, more often it draws attention to a work with an amusingly formulated theme or a ridiculous subject of research. For example, the research of two Austrian researchers who applied mathematical methods to determine if the Sultan of Morocco, Ismail the Bloodthirsty, could have conceived 888 children between 1697 and 1727.

The medal parodies the Nobel

Several times "Schnobel" was received by citizens of Russia. For example, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chemist and crystallographer Yuri Struchkov received the Literature Prize for publishing 948 papers between 1981 and 1990. scientific works, that is, one scientific article once every 4 days. In 2012, our compatriots received three Schnobels. World Prize for the synthesis of nanodiamonds from old ammunition was received by the owner Russian company SKN Igor Petrov; the prize in physics (“for the study of how to properly wear coffee so as not to spill it”) was awarded to a former citizen of the Russian Federation, scientist Ruslan Krechetnikov (together with the American Hans Mayer); the prize in psychology went to Tulio Guadelupe from the Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, representing Russia and Peru, for treatise"To the left, the Eiffel Tower appears shorter." In 2000, Andrey Game, a native of the USSR, received the Ig Nobel Prize for an experiment with diamagnetic levitation (he made a frog fly), and ten years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the practical production of graphene.

"Golden Raspberry"

For dubious achievements in the field of cinema

Sprawling and golden, like an Oscar

The Golden Raspberry Awards was invented in 1981 by publicist John Wilson, author of a guide to the worst films. The name comes from the English slang expression (to) blow raspberry (tongue) - to snort in mockery, blowing into a protruding tongue. While the Oscars are drowning in tolerance and predictability, members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation, as they say, keep filmmakers in a sporty tone. The 36th awards ceremony took place on February 27 on Broadway - as always, the day before the Oscars. Like last year, nine failed nominations were diluted with a berry of mercy: “redemptive raspberry” became an indulgence for someone who was able to bring his career out of a steep dive. Among the applicants were Night Shyamalan (for the film The Visit), Elizabeth Banks (for Pitch Perfect 2), Will Smith (role in The Protector). Sylvester Stallone got it for "Creed" (by the way, he was named the worst actor of the 20th century when summing up the film results of the century). Among other favorites of the 36th Golden Raspberry ceremony, Jupiter Ascending and the Fantastic Four were named, but as a result, almost all the statuettes were taken away by Fifty Shades of Grey.

Runet anti-premium

For the brightest, unformatted and dubious projects of the Russian Internet

Users fell in love with the informal anti-premium much more than its source - the Runet Prize, which, for example, did not award Pavel Durov for VKontakte, which is why he staged a DDoS attack on the site with popular vote. The Runet Antipremiya remains in memory, if only thanks to the nominations - risky, witty and surprisingly accurately showing key events. For example, in 2014 Lenta.ru won in the “Not a Runet Cake” nomination, Meduza made its debut in the “Bombed!” section, and Lentach became a leader in the “BDSMM and other PR poses” category. Sites - winners of the anti-premium regularly found themselves under the yoke of Roskomnadzor: for example, "Lurkomorye" (winner of 2014 in the "Underground" nomination) and RuTracker.org (nominee "Mom, I rocked again in a dream"), it is hardly possible in the same nomination note the social network "VKontakte", where there is less and less pirated content, sidelong glances periodically catch the Kermlin Russia account (the winner of the nomination "Kitten named.GOV") and the public "The Decaying West" ("Fun of the Year"). The award did not last until 2016.

Pigasus Award

For contributions to pseudoscience and paranormal research

The Pigasus Award was created by James Randi, an illusionist, scientific skeptic and fighter against paranormal crooks. Back in the 1970s, Randy was involved with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. The Pigasus Award is another achievement by Randy in the fight against sorcerers and psychics. The name Pigasus itself is a derivative of "Pegasus" and pig, referring to the expression "when pigs fly" ("when the cancer whistles on the mountain"). The ceremony takes place on April 1, and the prize is a flying pig on a stand, "which the winner takes with the help of telekinesis." In total, the award has five categories: the scientist who did the most stupid thing (in 2012 - Stanislav Burzynski for selling an expensive cancer cure); organizations - for supporting parapsychological research (in the same year - Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center for supporting the healing laying of hands on the sick - "Therapeutic Touch"); the media - for the assertion of paranormal phenomena as facts; to the performer who fooled the largest number of people; and finally, an award "for the most desperate refusal to face reality."

Bent Spoon Award

Australian Award for Paranormal Stupidity

Bent spoon given to Australian charlatans

A special anti-award from the Australian Skeptics Society, named after Uri Geller, who allegedly bent spoons using telekinesis. In 2013, the Bent Spoon Award was won by the Australian Chiropractic Association, which refused to insure its members, and in 2014, by Dr. Larry R. Marshall, President of the state scientific organization CSIRO, for supporting dowsing. The most recent winner of the Bent Spoon is Australian celebrity chef and TV presenter Pete Evans, who has been nominated for his praise of the Paleo diet, a diet based on the supposed ancient food people during the Paleolithic.

Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year

For the strangest, funniest and most ridiculous book title

A detailed guide to blowing gas on a date won an award in 2014, although not only is the title outstanding - the topic of the book deserves a separate prize

The idea for the award came from The Bookseller magazine and the publishers Diagram Group, who wanted to draw attention to the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair. Since then, every year, with rare exceptions, a prize is awarded - a bottle of champagne or Bordeaux - to active readers who sent in the strangest, funny or ridiculous title of a book that came out during the past year. The first nominee for the award was the non-fiction “Materials of the Second international conference on naked mice" (1978); following books deserved public recognition: "Madame as an entrepreneur: domestic prostitution and career management" (1979), "Significant moments in the history of concrete" (1994), "The Joy of Sex. Pocket edition” (1997), “Knitting adventures with hyperbolic planes” (2009), “Managing a dental clinic in Genghis Khan style” (2010) and many others. The latest winner was Margaret Meps Schulte's Strangers Have the Best Candy (2015).

Bad Sex in Fiction Award

For the worst erotic scene in literature

The winning scene featured "a giggling full copulation snowball" and a "sexually violent rollercoaster loop"

Until last year, the BSIFA prize was more of a local meme for readers of the Literary Review magazine, but in 2015 the news of the award spread all over the media when it was awarded to The Smiths vocalist Stephen Morrissey for the book The Lost List. The author described the plot of his book as follows: “A team of American runners from the 70s accidentally kills another athlete, thus releasing a demon from him. This demon is the devil in the flesh, and death awaits every killer. But it all ends up being a ritual of exile, so the death at the very beginning of the book is just an illusion.” The author himself did not come for a prize in the form of a naked woman on an open book and did not comment on the situation.

"Paragraph"

Award of the newspaper "Book Review" for dubious achievements in the field of book publishing

Not every anti-prize has a budget for such a commemorative sculpture

It is a double-broken pen in the form of the letter Z on a stand, is awarded in the categories "Worst Proofreading", "Worst Translation", "Worst Editing" and "Complete Paragraph" (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for "particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature" give "Honorary Illiteracy". “Illiterate” was once received by Andrei Fursenko for the education reform and Konstantin Ernst with the wording “as the physical embodiment of the largest rating share of television, stupefying common man tearing him away from books and reading, from any manifestation of culture. In addition to them, Anatoly Fomenko has "Paragraph" for " New chronology"(2004) and Boris Akunin for the book" History Russian state. From origins to Mongol invasion» (2014).

Turnip Prize

Parody of the Turner Prize - for the worst works of contemporary art

Work shortlisted for 2011. Called "First Class Mail" by TeamGB

In response to the controversial decisions of the Turner Prize jury, the organizers of the Turnip Prize say: "You can submit any work to us, provided it sucks." At the same time, the leitmotif of the anti-award is the hypothesis: “We know that it sucks, but is it art?” Before the final decision, each candidate receives an assessment of his creation: “not enough effort” and “well, isn’t it shit?” - go to the finals, and the work with the marks "too tried" and "not enough shit" are eliminated. In 2003, the winner was James Timms with "Take a leaf from my club" (raw chicken in leaves). In 2007, Bracey Vermin won the award with his work "Tea P", which consisted of several soaked tea bags laid out in the shape of the letter P. This year, the artist Bonksy won the prize with his work "Dismal And" - an homage to Banksy with his thematic park Dismaland, is a piece of wood with a sad muzzle Winning Job as an ampersand.

Location London, Great Britain

years 1999 - present

Golden Fleece Award (1975–1987)

For grant-eating and stupid research

The US National Science Foundation won the first prize in 1975 for spending $84,000 on laboratory research the phenomenon of love. Later, NSF would again be the winner of the Golden Fleece Award - for analyzing the aggression of moon fish, one of which drank tequila and the other rum. The US Department of Defense received an award for spending $3,000 on a study that found that soldiers should use an umbrella when it rains; Ronald Reagan - for spending $ 15.5 million from the pockets of the taxpayers (the money was needed for re-inauguration). The Golden Fleece Prize was established by American Democratic politician William Proxmire and awarded it until 1987.

Location Washington, USA

Years 1975–1987

Doublespeak Award

For the most cunning political rhetoric

This anti-award, established by the National Council of Teachers of English language, is awarded for the most ambiguous statement. The very first was received by US Air Force Press Officer David Opfer for calling the bombings in Southeast Asia "air support." In 1986, the NASA contractors who tried to hide the meaning of the disaster with the Challenger shuttle became the winner. The explosion was called an "anomaly", the bodies of the dead astronauts - "a detachment that returned to Earth", and the coffins - "containers for transporting the team." It is interesting that in England there is an analogue of the anti-premium called. Among the champions of absurdity there are Naomi Campbell ("I love England, especially your national food - there is nothing tastier than pasta"), Silvio Berlusconi ("I'm truthful quite often") and Donald Trump for reminding McCain of the Vietnamese captivity ("He not a war hero. He was a hero because he was taken prisoner. And I love people who were not taken prisoner").

Darwin Award

For idiocy. Posthumously

American Larry Walters made a balloon flight

This is one of the most cruel, famous and funny anti-prizes. Awarded annually to persons who died or deprived themselves of the opportunity to have children through stupidity. It grew from the ancient usenet forum launched on August 7, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, biology student Wendy Northcut created a website dedicated to the Darwin Prize and that same year began compiling obituary books for "human lemmings." For selection, Northcut was guided by five rules: the nominee must die or be sterilized as a result of his actions, self-harm must be as stupid as possible, a person must harm himself on his own, while being over 18 years old and mentally healthy; Finally, the incident must be verified. In 2014, a posthumous award was given to a young magician from Spain who tried to use his body as a current conductor in order to light a light bulb in his hand; In 2015, the Darwin Prize was won by a woman from South Africa who fell off a cliff while trying to take a selfie.

Everyone knows about the most prestigious award in the field of cinema - Oscar. But in this article I would like to talk about anti-premiums, i.e. awards for the worst or dubious achievements. So the 8 most popular anti-premiums.

Anti-prizes of the world

1. Ig Nobel Prize (Antinobel Prize) - The award was established by Mark Abrahams and the humor magazine Annals of Incredible Research in 1991. This award is given for dubious achievements. This award is presented at the beginning of October each year by the real Nobel Prize winners, and the award ceremony takes place at Harvard.

2. Stella Award - This award is given for the most ridiculous judgment in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who in 1992 spilled hot coffee from McDonald's and sued him, thereby suing the fast food for $ 2.9 million.

3. Golden Raspberry - anti-award, anti-Oscar. The award is given for achievements in the field of cinema. It was founded in 1981 by American John Wilson. The nominees for this award are announced the day before the Oscars.

4. Silver galosh - Russian anti-prize in the field of show business. The award was established by Silver Rain Radio in 1996.

5. Darwin Award - An unofficial award for the most ridiculous death (or at least for the most ridiculous loss of reproductive function). The prize is awarded to people who died in the most ridiculous way, thereby leaving no offspring, thereby clearing the gene pool of mankind.

6. Glass Bolt Award - established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of arranging the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.

7. Latern Rouge - the award is given to the cyclist who takes the last place in the Tour de France race. Translated as "Red Lantern" and this award is named after the red lantern on the last car of the train.

8. Paragraph - Literary anti-award. Created in 2001 and awarded in the following categories: "Worst Proofreading", "Worst Translation", "Worst Editing" and "Complete Paragraph" (for complete violation of all book publishing standards). "Honorary illiterates" are also awarded.

We are used to the fact that prizes are awarded for some achievements and merits. But unfortunately, the examples shown by individuals or organizations are not only positive, but also negative.

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And some, the brightest of these negative examples some part of society also considers it necessary to celebrate, not, of course, for the rest to repeat them, but vice versa. In this post - a list of the most famous "anti-prizes", that is, prizes that are awarded for dubious, stupid and harmful deeds and "achievements".

Runet anti-premium
The Russian independent award for alternative achievements in the field of Runet - both positive and dubious - "as opposed to" the Runet Prize. The Runet anti-prize is awarded to both Internet projects and individuals who, for some reason, are bypassed by official competitions, awards and prizes.

Glass Bolt Award
Established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of arranging the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.

Latern Rouge
The award is given to the cyclist who finishes in the very last place in the Tour de France. Translated as "Red Lantern" and this award is named after the red lantern on the last car of the train.