Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

[Risla]

Woman stuck to toilet seat for two years.

[Shm Jay]

Developments
Some explanation
Further developments
Medical explanation

[Ketumak]

Phew! That's worrying. I didn't imagine anything like that remotely possible and when I first read it, I thought, must be an April Fools' Day story - but no.

This on the other hand was an April Fools' Day story. Flying Penguins from the BBC, now getting a healthy hit rate on YouTube. There's a bit of advertising at the end, which makes you wonder if they weren't aiming at a place on YouTube all along.

Two of our newspapers also carried the story to lend it extra weight -a first in April 1st spoofery as far as I'm aware.

[Delthayre]

Adventure Time!

Just watch it and it'll make no sense.

[Toko]

Two of our newspapers also carried the story to lend it extra weight -a first in April 1st spoofery as far as I'm aware.

Actually, back in Thomas Edison's day (you know, the inventor), a local newspaper near his hometown printed an April Fool's joke story that he had successfully built a machine that could convert dirt into food, thus solving world hunger. Because in that day no one questioned the great Thomas Edison, several other papers ran the story themselves (without even checking with Edison!).

The next day, the original paper printed an article revealing the truth, titled "They Bite!".

[Raphael]

Actually, back in Thomas Edison's day (you know, the inventor), a local newspaper near his hometown printed an April Fool's joke story that he had successfully built a machine that could convert dirt into food, thus solving world hunger.

He had reinvented the plant?

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The Adventure Time short is MATHEMATICAL RHOMBUS, as several YouTube commenters have noted. I love the part with Abraham Lincoln.

[Shm Jay]

Only a nobody walks in LA

[schwhatever]

The Adventure Time short is MATHEMATICAL RHOMBUS, as several YouTube commenters have noted. I love the part with Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln: Your mind has been transported into the past. And on Mars. But that's not important now. All you need to know is that you have to believe in yourself!
Kid: NEVER!

[Raphael]

The Adventure Time short is MATHEMATICAL RHOMBUS, as several YouTube commenters have noted. I love the part with Abraham Lincoln.

What exactly is this MATHEMATICAL RHOMBUS stuff about? I googled it and clicked on some of the links that came up, but oddly enough, that didn't really make it any clearer.

[Gulliver]

The simplest explanation is usually the most likely. Unless, of course, you are a mad person.

[Ollock]

The simplest explanation is usually the most likely. Unless, of course, you are a mad person.

Haha! Wow, her son being gay is that much worse than him sneaking a girl in his room that she can't fathom it?

[NakedCelt]

Someone who adopts the same "I'm the middle of a Usenet flamewar" tone for all public occasions will tend to come off as a dick.

So we're at about DH2 here.

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Raph: the "MATHEMATICAL RHOMBUS" thing is intentionally nonsensical; that's the joke.

So we're at about DH2 here.

You mean you've decided to excerpt one sentence from my post and pretend that's the substance of my disagreement with Dawkins, instead of merely the root of my personal distaste for him as explicitly stated right there? That's uncharacteristically DH0 of you, to be a little DH1 about it.

NakedCelt may already have seen this one, but I find the story of recently-deceased "Naked Nomad" Victor Flanagan pretty fascinating.

[NakedCelt]

So we're at about DH2 here.

You mean you've decided to excerpt one sentence from my post and pretend that's the substance of my disagreement with Dawkins, instead of merely the root of my personal distaste for him as explicitly stated right there?

Actually, I couldn't figure out where "objecting to choice of target" would fall on the DH scale. Not squaring off against content would make it DH2 (objection to tone). Then again a choice-of-target objection could be construed as: sides be blowed, he's on the wrong battlefield. He is meta-wrong. That seems more like DH4 (counterargument without refutation). But then again, choice of target is arguably even more important than one's central point, which would put an attack on it at DH7, off Graham's scale entirely.

So I gave up on that and just excerpted the bit that was clearly about tone and hence DH2. Sorry.

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So I guess what this means is that the gentleman in question has invented yet another thing to have pointless, divisive meta-arguments about! Shitty.

(However, if you object to my choice of target, kindly note that the post in question was a response to Gabor's inquiry about an aside in another post that was agreeing with and approving Dawkins' attack on a Creationist.)

[Ketumak]

Two of our newspapers also carried the story to lend it extra weight -a first in April 1st spoofery as far as I'm aware.

Actually, back in Thomas Edison's day (you know, the inventor), a local newspaper near his hometown printed an April Fool's joke story that he had successfully built a machine that could convert dirt into food, thus solving world hunger. Because in that day no one questioned the great Thomas Edison, several other papers ran the story themselves (without even checking with Edison!).

The next day, the original paper printed an article revealing the truth, titled "They Bite!".

I like it! A fact-checking lesson for the media and a "don't believe everything you read" lesson for the public rolled into one.

[Delthayre]

Some scientists at Purdue University has drawn a map of carbon emissions per capita in the United States up.

The map is a simple alternation of an earlier map that only charted emissions for one hundred kilometer square cells that looked more or less like merely a population density map. The map reveals some interesting patterns, viz. that the cities of the California coast have rather modest carbon outputs per capita while in the thinly populated western counties of Texas lthe people emit remarkably large amounts of carbon per capita.

[ketske]

More on the pregnant man:

His/her name used to be Tracey, Traci, some variant of /tr\esi/. I've seen the house where s/he grew up, and met his/her old neighbors.

Fucked up shit.

[Ketumak]

Interesting carbon emissions map. I note that below the map they talked about urban areas having economies of scale not available to rural populations - that may account for surprises like West Texas. I was surprised how far west the green area (medium emissions area) came generally.

[Shm Jay]

Cross-stitch for women only.

[Xephyr]

The simplest explanation is usually the most likely. Unless, of course, you are a mad person.

Haha! Wow, her son being gay is that much worse than him sneaking a girl in his room that she can't fathom it?

What's funny is that she thinks 16 years old isn't ready enough to date yet.

Though, not all that funny that my irl aunt seemed to think her 18 year old son wasn't old enough to date. (The girlfriend was 19). Entertaining, though, to hear stories from him of the shit he used to do with/to her, and to compare it to the mundane things his mother apparently assumes is his limits.

Still, better not to have anyway. The cunt totally has him pussywhipped. She must've dumped him five times by now then gotten back together with him, and he's being a complete subservient bitch about it the whole time.


This post does not digress at all.

Here's a neat link to ameliorate the situation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fp5hbwdW3E

(ps: that's not a Rick Roll)
(pps: OR IS IT???)

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Juno: The Short, Honest Version.

(And from SomethingAwful: leaked Diablo Cody screenplay.)

[Shm Jay]

The fashionable dance moves of 1983.

[Hokulani]

Want to save the planet? Dont get pregnant

Too much information can get you arrested