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pleco
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Posted - 04/20/2006 :  20:39:36   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
quote:
And I think that's good advice for all of us to follow.


ROFL

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JohnOAS
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Australia
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Posted - 04/20/2006 :  21:50:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit JohnOAS's Homepage Send JohnOAS a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by H. Humbert
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In both cases, she did not manage to save the implants - they got destroyed accidentally by such methods as dropping in the sink.
Ok, I lol'd at that one. But yes, it can be hard to keep from dropping off-world artifacts down the drain. Is her friend just clumsy? Or did the implants want to be destroyed? Perhaps some sort of protocol is order.


Truly awesome. Just in case the holographic command doesn't work for you, though, there's a whole section on how to destroy them. I really shouldn't read this stuff at work, I can't not laugh out loud at this luncay!

Now we've got to be wary of nutters wandering around with rare earth magnets in their headgear. At least they'll have somewhere to hang their keys.


John's just this guy, you know.
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JohnOAS
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Posted - 04/20/2006 :  21:54:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit JohnOAS's Homepage Send JohnOAS a Private Message
Ahh, synchronicity.

I should have guessed they'd be flogging something sooner or later:

quote:
Coincidentally, the above email arrived a few days after my husband Michael was offered a source of Neodymium magnets, even though we have never shown an interest in magnets before. Taking notice of synchronicity has often been important to me. Finally I felt that we were meant to source the best we could and so here they are:


Strangely, even though I've never before shown an interest in watches, hey anyone wanna buy a genuine rolex?


John's just this guy, you know.
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 04/20/2006 :  22:29:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
This thread is hilarious! One thing this proves: Unintentional humor kicks the teeth out of comedy that is intentionally written.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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Ghost_Skeptic
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Canada
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Posted - 04/20/2006 :  22:59:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Ghost_Skeptic a Private Message
Those little magnets are much less conspicuous than my trusty tinfoil hat. I will now be able to use public transit without people laughing at me.

I gotta get me some!
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler

"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell

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Gorgo
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Posted - 04/20/2006 :  23:58:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

So you're saying, Gorgo, that everyone is that stupid?



If you think people who buy into this are stupid, tell me that you don't think you are.

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It's even worse than it appears
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  00:17:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

So you're saying, Gorgo, that everyone is that stupid?



If you think people who buy into this are stupid, tell me that you don't think you are.

Ok, I don't think I'm that stupid.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
Edited by - H. Humbert on 04/21/2006 00:19:23
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Gorgo
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  03:02:22   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
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Ok, I don't think I'm that stupid.
Funny how people believe really stupid things, isn't it?

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The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
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filthy
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  03:13:40   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
For some perverse reason, I find myself reminded of the Coso Artifact.



It all fits into the same catagory..... faeces of the bull.




"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


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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 04/21/2006 :  03:58:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Your latest link was great reading once again Filthy! What's really illuminating about it is how the Creation Outreach people stopped communicating, yet kept promoting lies about the object, after learning the "Coso Artifact" was simply an old 1920's Champion spark plug. Typical behavior for lying Creationist shit-sacks.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
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USA
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  06:01:59   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo

If you think people who buy into this are stupid, tell me that you don't think you are.
How does that answer my question to you? Do you or don't you think that everyone has the same level of obvious gullibility expressed by Stephanie Relfe or not? Yes, everyone falls for something sometimes, but the amount of nonsense on the webpage in question is astounding.

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Gorgo
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  06:11:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
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How does that answer my question to you? Do you or don't you think that everyone has the same level of obvious gullibility expressed by Stephanie Relfe or not? Yes, everyone falls for something sometimes, but the amount of nonsense on the webpage in question is astounding.



Now you're using the word gullibility rather than stupid. Does gullible necessarily translate into stupid?

I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter



Edited by - Gorgo on 04/21/2006 06:12:58
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filthy
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  06:44:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">How does that answer my question to you? Do you or don't you think that everyone has the same level of obvious gullibility expressed by Stephanie Relfe or not? Yes, everyone falls for something sometimes, but the amount of nonsense on the webpage in question is astounding.



quote:
Now you're using the word gullibility rather than stupid. Does gullible necessarily translate into stupid?

If he gets hooked by the same gaff twice it does. Gullistupidibility is what keeps the quacks in business. They just keeps on a'comin' back.....




"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

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

Edited by - filthy on 04/21/2006 06:49:05
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Dave W.
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  07:02:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo

Now you're using the word gullibility rather than stupid. Does gullible necessarily translate into stupid?
Ah, I see: a semantic argument. Really, though, in what you categorized as "just off the cuff comments" I found "stupid" not to mean "of below average intelligence," but instead I read it as "accepting of unevidenced garbage," or gullible. As you pointed out, Gorgo, even highly intelligent people can believe stupid things. But that doesn't mean that everyone is equally gullible, as you seemed to be suggesting.

So again, is that what you meant to suggest or not?

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Gorgo
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Posted - 04/21/2006 :  07:19:40   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
Well, if you call a "semantic argument" excusing someone who says blue when they mean applesauce, I guess it is a "semantic argument."

If you think the meaning of words is unimportant, or as we might say here, cheeseburger, then what is it you think you're arguing with?

The point is I wonder if this sometimes seems like a place where people who have an interest in certain subjects, even a high ability to retain and convey information in those subjects, think that they're more intelligent than others, and can come here to laugh at those others.

Again, it's not a statement, it's just something that I wonder about.

Now if it's true, some of those people who know some things about certain subjects may happen to be less than brilliant about some subjects, so they may wish to rethink their position, that is, if they're not too "stupid" to do so.

If it's not true, then I'm just worrying about nothing. Please forgive the hijack.

I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter



Edited by - Gorgo on 04/21/2006 07:24:30
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