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[dutchfire]

The Rutherford experiment is 100 years ago. Since then, we've learned that atoms aren't really fundamental. The fact that most people still consider this wizardry says more about most people than about this.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So the weak/strong nuclear forces that are manipulated to create Plutonium aren't fundamental? Or did you misread me?

 

[Zack]

Hey let's get back to funny quotes

 

[Birdjaguar]

I agree.

 

[madviking]

[22:50] VRWCAgent: I kinda thought you really were gay

Referring to me, obviously.

 

[Angst]

I know darn well were Alabama is, it's a country in Africa next to Tasmania and Bosnia.

oioio

 

[NedimNapoleon]

It cant be close to Bosnia, it has too many rednecks.

 

[Takhisis]

You have a Red Star right next door IIRC.

 

[choxorn]

Bosnia doesn't have rednecks?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I dunno man, you tossed around words like gluttonous while displaying a remarkable amount of sympathy for somebody who couldn't eat broccoli or coliflour. Obesity is no more a joke than is nicotine addiction and I don't see many people poking fun at people who think hypnotism worked for them on the smoking front. Fatsters are just easy targets, them being big and all, that are hard to miss. I've seen plenty of people basically tell fatty fat mcfatties to "buck the eff up" and get it done, but amazingly that tends not to work worth two deuces in the pool. Maybe we will one day come up with effective fat-loss pills, would that be a bad thing? Certainly seems like it would be cheaper than providing safe parks and recreation or more subsidized fresh fruits and veggies for the poor and obese.

I probably would have understood that better in the OP if it was somewhat more focused on the innovation and less on the person.

Well, I guess if we decide we should just be callin' it like it is and calling fat people gluttons rather than doing anything about it then we might have a fun couple of decades seeing how much some societies can catch up to us. We can see if emphasis on women's looks in China beats out desire for richer diet, and if so, how much!

Farm Boy gets a medal for trying to reach someone who ain't having it, no way, no how.

Seriously, you have great patience. You'd make a great teacher of small children Farm Boy.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Probably with sweeteners, yes. Sugar/corn syrup people et all. Republicans usually want to regulate different things that people may want to put in their mouths. Penises for example. Regulation of that is usually more a Republican issue.

Farm Boy gets two mentions in a row. This one was about Democrats regulating sugar and it's really funny.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

You need to realize the rants thread can be tough for us. What else are we going to complain about? The beaches? The economy? The beautiful girls?

We just wanna make a contribution.

hahahaha (talking about Australians)

 

[madviking]

...if I was out of beer and had to drink soft drink, I'd be 100% more likely to get depressed.

I can't agree more.

 

[Takhisis]

Starting tomorrow I'll be traveling around Eastern Europe (Poland, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania)…

QFT, man.

 

[Borachio]

Bit of a cold time of year for it, isn't it?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

From a thread about marijuana:

Well, that's clear enough.



Illusion is correct. No dopehead has ever had a genius idea.

Carl Sagan had plenty of great ideas and was a dopehead.

Sagan was a user and advocate of marijuana. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he contributed an essay about smoking cannabis to the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered.[61][62] The essay explained that marijuana use had helped to inspire some of Sagan's works and enhance sensual and intellectual experiences. After Sagan's death, his friend Lester Grinspoon disclosed this information to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. The publishing of the biography, Carl Sagan: A Life, in 1999 brought media attention to this aspect of Sagan's life.[63][64][65] Not long after his death, widow Ann Druyan had gone on to preside over the board of directors of NORML, a foundation dedicated to reforming cannabis laws.[66]

He was also widely acclaimed to be a genius:

Isaac Asimov described Sagan as one of only two people he ever met whose intellect surpassed his own.

I can haz ?

Slight correction: did any of the above have their brilliant ideas while on dope? No?

(And I wouldn't call Sagan a genius by any measure).

I don't even feel the need to argue this point, but I had to save the exchange for posterity.

 

[choxorn]

At least virginty can be "cured", CivGeneral, with ten bottles of brandy at a cheap bar. Getting married tends to be a lot more expensive.

 

[JohannaK]

So where is this haiku thread?

I LOVE haikus. I dream in haikus.

Well, okay, I don't. but I could

HERE IT IS!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Of course we kill our kids. We don't have enough resources to raise our dikes with climate change and all, so we use them as landfill.

Gotta love the way Ziggy roles with the punches.


Anyone remember Horses and Bayonets?

To me it feels like Romney won. Dunno why, it's a gut feeling.

I still think Obama's gonna win overall. Please have him do so Murica.

EDIT: Oh. and:

 

[Antilogic]

Mentioned in reference to Massa' Cooper wanting Obama to make his bid for ultimate power and thus clear up moral ambiguities:

Consider it noted that you, at 4:59PM on the 15th of January, did state that you wished to see Obama naked, grasping his scepter.

Maybe it was the whiskey, but I was laughing pretty hard.