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« Reply #425 on: March 27, 2012, 02:55:27 AM » |
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This is so utterly insane that it's funny: http://naturalsociety.com...corporate-advertisements/Smoke to lose weight:  There are more at the link: - In Order to Lose Weight, You Need to Eat More Sugar
- Forget Vegetables, Eat Psychoactive Drugs
- Feed Your Baby Lots of Soda
You can't make this stuff up!  Advertisements for cigarettes used to say things like "My Doctor Recommends Lucky Strike Cigarettes!" It kind of makes you wonder if doctors and the health industry in general really know any better today than they did back then.  I'm guessing in another ~75 years people will look back on health recommendations of today with the same kind of bewildered amusement. |
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« Reply #426 on: March 27, 2012, 03:17:43 AM » |
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It kind of makes you wonder if doctors and the health industry in general really know any better today than they did back then. I'm guessing in another ~75 years people will look back on health recommendations of today with the same kind of bewildered amusement. I read quite a few different health sites, and the stuff out there right now would blow your mind. I can't really post any of it here, because it's just so far off topic, but man... Once you ditch the mainstream media, the information out there is simply astounding. So, if things go the way they are now, well... Anyways... You can get information right now that will make you look at the conventional picture of health and shake your head in bewildered amusement/amazement/disgust. |
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« Reply #427 on: March 27, 2012, 03:50:10 AM » |
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Smoking takes 10 years off your life, if I hadn't of smoked when I was 20 I'd be 60 by now.
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« Reply #428 on: March 27, 2012, 12:38:49 PM » |
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You can't make this stuff up!  smoking for a cough is another one I've seen - from 40's or 50's |
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« Reply #429 on: March 27, 2012, 04:40:58 PM » |
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http://www.madsci.org/cgi.../cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCGThe Surrealist Compliment Generator Your wit, your teeth, your pasty reflection can but incorporate freely into the powerful surface of a disintegrating mirror set afloat upon a swarm of locusts. Your dashingly colored toupee twists my right boot into a state of ennui with the speed and dexterity of many lemon meringue-coated conquistadors.
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« Reply #430 on: March 27, 2012, 07:39:12 PM » |
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Just saw this on the Dilbert blog:  |
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« Reply #432 on: April 01, 2012, 07:08:56 AM » |
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A new Nyan cat. Reminds me of a cat we once had... |
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« Reply #433 on: April 01, 2012, 07:14:46 AM » |
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A new Nyan cat. Reminds me of a cat we once had... I was expecting some unicorns to come out of there.  But it reminds me of my wife... |
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« Reply #434 on: April 05, 2012, 06:10:46 AM » |
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« Reply #436 on: April 05, 2012, 06:44:50 PM » |
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I just knew I had to post this the moment I saw it... Speaks for itself. I thought the term was "... screwed the pooch," NOT "the pooch screwed the goose!" |
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« Reply #437 on: April 05, 2012, 10:37:37 PM » |
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This is worth a laugh or 2: http://www.huffingtonpost...tle=Detention_For_Browser That there is just so utterly ridiculous... "Although he was correct... Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance." That's seriously ****ed. Ignorance is strength.  Foxfire.exe~! Nothing like making a mockery of education... Because resistance is futile~! |
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« Reply #438 on: April 07, 2012, 05:13:19 AM » |
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« Reply #439 on: April 07, 2012, 11:40:26 AM » |
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This one is for you, Josh:  |
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« Reply #440 on: April 07, 2012, 12:50:46 PM » |
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If these are true, then your point is spot-on: - ignorance is strength. - or rather, ignorance can be and is used as a lever to indoctrinate, browbeat and manipulate people's (in this case children's) minds. Splattergate was a superb example of that practice. The irony is that insisting that children believe what their teacher tells them is true, without proof, actually invites children to override their critical thinking (CT being something that teachers are supposed to help their students develop). In that first example (1Km > 1 Mile) there seems to be at least these 4 logical fallacies in play: - argumentum ad hominem (argument against the person)
- argumentum ad baculum (appeal to fear).
- argumentum ad ignorantiam (forwarding a proposition without any certain proof).
- argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority).
An amazing achievement by a so-called "teacher"! Could that be another nominee for The Skeksy Award?
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« Reply #441 on: April 08, 2012, 01:50:45 AM » |
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Love it deo!
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« Reply #442 on: April 09, 2012, 03:28:52 AM » |
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« Reply #443 on: April 09, 2012, 10:46:29 AM » |
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« Reply #444 on: April 09, 2012, 05:22:40 PM » |
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Wait Iain, is that part of a Lost episode? Har-de-har.  |
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« Reply #445 on: April 21, 2012, 07:52:15 AM » |
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To the last Sugar Puff,
You may see me as a senseless, greedy consumer but let me explain... I know you have just witnessed mass genocide, I have indeed just eaten your entire family. Nonetheless, I fund your cause on a bi-monthly basis, I have donated countless amounts of money and copious amounts of milk to you and your ilk. What you ahven't realzied is if it wasn't for me and my greed of the common sugar puff, your species would cease to exist. I may appear a tyrant, looking for nothing but personal satisfaction, but the true evil here is the one known as the Honey Monster. We both know who he is and what he's done, but if we work together, we can stop his reign of supremacy! It's warm and safe inside my belly, I promise you. I can offer you more than you could ever imagine. The sugar puffs inside me run free in a land of peace and prosperity. It's nothing like the concentration cardboard camp the furred one forced you to reside in. You were enslaved. It's horrrible, but it is the truth.
So now you have heard my words of promise. Join me. Join me in love, join me in hope...Join me in freedom!
And together- we will prevail...
Now stop evading my spoon you worthless piece of wheat!
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« Reply #446 on: April 28, 2012, 10:17:45 AM » |
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« Reply #447 on: April 28, 2012, 10:27:59 AM » |
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"No no no Iain, xkcd is holy scripture and should be treated as such. While it doesn't have chapters, it has Verses. So you should have quoted "xkcd verse 386". P.S. It's a play off the cartoon you posted - get it?  |
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« Reply #448 on: April 28, 2012, 07:04:49 PM » |
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Here is a nice inspiring picture of a train.  |
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« Reply #449 on: April 28, 2012, 11:44:43 PM » |
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It's a picture of a train wreck, actually... |
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