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dominic_dice
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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 Posted - 09/22/2004 : 15:40:36 [Permalink]
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Gee. This shows how retarded people can be.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/22/2004 : 16:07:56 [Permalink]
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Haha, wonderful!
And horrible. Even such an ignoramus as I knew what the prefixs 'di' and 'mono' ment at that age.
What the hell are they teaching the kids these days? Have the creationidiots already taken over the science classes?
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/22/2004 : 16:52:39 [Permalink]
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I could have sworn I've seen Penn and Teller take this bit on the street as well. They were walking around trying to get a petition signed to ban it. They kept spouting facts like: "Do you know that dihydrogen monoxide is in nearly everything you eat? In what they serve your children at school? Does this not concern you????"
It was hilarious--but disturbing at the same time--to see so many people just jumping on the bandwagon to ban this stuff without even knowing what it was or what it supposedly did. They added their names to that list almost as fast as when The Man Show went out and collected women's signatures to end "women's suffrage."
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 09/22/2004 16:54:42 |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 09/22/2004 : 17:59:27 [Permalink]
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H. Humbert wrote:quote:
I could have sworn I've seen Penn and Teller take this bit on the street as well.
Yeah, it was in the first season of Bullshit!, in the episode on environmental extremism. They did the petition thing at an environmental rally. Of course, it's unknown how many people they spoke with who wound up on the cutting-room floor because they knew the joke, but the fact that they nabbed a bunch of people at all - at an event at which one should be able to find many truly thoughful people - is a bit scary. |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 09/22/2004 : 23:50:25 [Permalink]
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This headline apeared in a Swedish newspaper (a long time ago.)
Toxic discharge!
800 liters of lethal Sodium Chloride released into local river
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/23/2004 : 05:11:51 [Permalink]
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Lethal if you injest all 800 liters maybe.
My foavorite is when the man show was at the mall convincing ladies of the validity of the 'chocolate diet' Eat as much as you want! |
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"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Plyss
Skeptic Friend
Netherlands
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Posted - 09/23/2004 : 07:06:02 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Lethal if you injest all 800 liters maybe.
Considering sodium chloride melts above 800 degrees celsius i'm willing to bet it's lethal in liquid form ;)
Still, for a newspaper such poor fact-checking is rather sloppy.
Incidentally, how old would a typical 9th grade student be? I'm not very familiar with the US school system.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/23/2004 : 07:17:19 [Permalink]
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quote:
Incidentally, how old would a typical 9th grade student be? I'm not very familiar with the US school system.
Fourteen. And it would seem that many of them too, lack an understanding of the US school system and it's contents. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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and Crypto-Communist!
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Ricky
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 09/23/2004 : 12:37:04 [Permalink]
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| I know for sure I learned how to name chemicals on the last year of High School... |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/29/2004 : 09:38:47 [Permalink]
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It's a sad statement on the scientific literacy of our country.
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