The craziest %#*$ing thing I've seen all day... - Page 5

[timo888]

Yes!

I knew you'd trip over that listing, Timo!

One wonders if the canapes served at that house would've suited, say, Renfield? (teasing, running like mad. . .) All that's missing would be authentic rat-tail demitasse (mouse-tail?) spoons!

The twin spouts do look like dripping fangs ...

[timo888]

A recent article in Scientific American suggests that intransigence is built in to human nature. The report details a study where partisan subjects were presented with items that either confirmed their existing beliefs or that contradicted them. MRI testing pinpointed areas of the brain that were activated when these pieces of information were presented.

Magnetic resonance imaging showed that the part of the brain that is associated with critical reasoning - the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex - was not active when presented with material about which the subjects already had an opinion. In other words, the partisan brain is almost incapable of reasoning.

http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/PermaLink.aspx?guid=cbb5ef57-d448-43d3-a91c-0852ca4db8a6

[espressme]

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Magnetic resonance imaging showed that the part of the brain that is associated with critical reasoning - the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex - was not active when presented with material about which the subjects already had an opinion. In other words, the partisan brain is almost incapable of reasoning.

The story of my wife. ex!
richard

[timo888]

The story of my wife. ex!

Who would've thunk the comment "Your brain just shuts off .... " could be literally true!

Regards
Timo

[jesawdy]

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Oh, can you feel the love!

[HB]

I recommend "Do stupid things twice as fast!" for their next ad...

[timo888]

While human taste receptors are limited to the tongue, the receptors in flies are mounted on bristles scattered all over the body, including the legs, the wings, the food-sucking proboscis and the egg-laying ovipositor.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/25_flies.shtml

Lu-u-u-cky

[RegulatorJohnson]

ok.. this is strange.

a japanese doctor found out that by putting written messages on a water bottle like "i love you" can change the structure of the water.


"you make me sick"



"love and gratitude"


"listened to heavy metal music"


"listened to mozart symphony"

the page with these images - http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystals/

dr emotos website - http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html

i am thinking of experimenting with this using messages on my tank of water. i wonder if a similar message like "jonR10 rules" on my water tank will improve my triple ristrettos?

i need all the help i can get.

oh yeah people are made of water also.
there are theories that this can change the structure of your body as well as others. makes me think about how i talk to and treat others in a new way.

jon

[another_jim]

The good news is that water is literate; the bad news is that it has really corny taste.

[timo888]

Creation(ism) Science Fair

An oldie but goodie.

Elementary School Level
1st Place: "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"
2nd Place: "Pine Cones Are Complicated"

Honorable Mention:

"God Made Kitty"
"The Bible Says Creation"
"Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False"


Middle School Level
1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life"
2nd Place: "Women Were Designed For Homemaking"

Honorable Mention:

"Mousetrap Reduced To Pile Of Functionless Parts"
"Dinosaur & Man Walked Together"
"Rocks Can't Evolve, Where Did They Come From Mr. Darwin?"


High School Level
1st Place: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria"
2nd Place: "Maximal Packing Of Rodentia Kinds: A Feasibility Study"

Honorable Mention:

"Geocentrism: Politically Incorrect"
"Young Earth, Old Lies"
"Thermodynamics Of Hell Fire" [my favorite]

Regards
Timo

[cpl593h]

ok.. this is strange.

a japanese doctor found out that by putting written messages on a water bottle like "i love you" can change the structure of the water.

The Emoto water experiments are completely bogus. Changing the structure of water? Bull. The experiments are flawed. They aren't double blind, and the photographs you see are selections from numerous photographs from numerous samples.

wiki on Emoto

Anything related to What the Bleep is also bogus. It was produced by associates of phony JZ Knight. I'm baffled as to why people buy into this ridiculous comic book "quantum mechanics" garbage.

wiki on What the Bleep.

Salon article on What the Bleep.

Have I seen the film? Yes. My boss at the time recommended the film and I saw it cold. Why the bleep didn't I do my homework before seeing the film? I would have saved a few bucks.

[RegulatorJohnson]

well the thread is NOT "the most believe-able thing ive seen all day"

its "the most craziest $#!t ive seen all day"




jon

[timo888]

Astoria Sibilla SAE1
Electronic version equipped with a built-in microcomputer which overseas all operations....

http://www.astoriaespresso.com/sibilla.asp

I had heard of offshoring, but not with espresso. That is one temperature-management challenge.

[cpl593h]

well the thread is NOT "the most believe-able thing ive seen all day"

its "the most craziest $#!t ive seen all day"




jon

Touche!

I'm a little sensitive about that subject, in case you can't tell

[Jasonian]

Touche!

I'm a little sensitive about that subject, in case you can't tell

Down with mystic cults!.. aye?

[timo888]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100729.html

You can't find "Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings" at the Pohick Regional Library anymore. Or "The Education of Henry Adams" at Sherwood Regional. Want Emily Dickinson's "Final Harvest"? Don't look to the Kingstowne branch.

It's not that the books are checked out. They're just gone. No one was reading them, so librarians took them off the shelves and dumped them.

... thousands of novels and nonfiction works have been eliminated from the Fairfax County collection after a new computer software program showed that no one had checked them out in at least 24 months.

Like Borders and Barnes & Noble, Fairfax is responding aggressively to market preferences, calculating the system's return on its investment by each foot of space on the library shelves -- and figuring out which products will generate the biggest buzz. So books that people actually want are easy to find, but many books that no one is reading are gone -- even if they are classics.

[Jasonian]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100729.html

Wow.. that's seriously #$%#ed up.

I figured there were still sections of the world not influenced by popularity and the current market trend in favor of historical value and fundamental principles.

Looks like I was wrong.

[another_jim]

"Preinfusion? What's that?"

[cannonfodder]

I wonder if those were supposed to be edible.

Such a poor fate for a proud machine.

[cannonfodder]

Quote of the day,

Just because you own an espresso machine does not mean you can make espresso.