As I'm reading here and on FriendFeed.com, I'll often open a link in a new tab. Sometimes, ADDish, I forget to check it out 'til 20 min later. So I just saw this cool story and I'd like to share it with people but I'm in serious danger of sharing it with the people who shared it with me because I can't remember which person on which board linked to it! *headsmack*
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Spidra Webster - Sep 13, 2010 10:08:51 am PDT #23673 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Spidra Webster - Sep 13, 2010 10:17:52 am PDT #23674 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Ha! I'm in the clear. I got the link off Twitter!
How our cities come to reflect the shallow, soulless people we Americans have become: [link]
flea - Sep 13, 2010 10:18:23 am PDT #23675 of 30001
information libertarian
I am not worried about any of the Top 5 Parent Worries, and am worried about some of the actual worries. Does that mean I win something? (I mean, I don't drive for a reason, people.)
aurelia - Sep 13, 2010 10:21:53 am PDT #23676 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Anyone want to see a medieval fortress being built? [link]
Jessica - Sep 13, 2010 10:23:39 am PDT #23677 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Snipers? Really? Or is that poor NPR-speak for "guns in schools"?
Amy - Sep 13, 2010 10:24:46 am PDT #23678 of 30001
Because books.
I am not worried about any of the Top 5 Parent Worries, and am worried about some of the actual worries. Does that mean I win something?
Right?
Spidra Webster - Sep 13, 2010 10:27:28 am PDT #23679 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Yeah, aurelia. I totally want to go to that place.
-t - Sep 13, 2010 10:37:43 am PDT #23680 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Does that mean I win something?
Sanity? I'm picturing a nice certificate with a big red "SANE" stamped across it a la the Simpsons.
tommyrot - Sep 13, 2010 10:43:57 am PDT #23681 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've seen a few other articles on those geocentric folks and their conference. Here's a Gallup poll that shows the US isn't much worse than other countries when it comes to geocentricism.
Probing a more universal measure of knowledge, Gallup also asked the following basic science question, which has been used to indicate the level of public knowledge in two European countries in recent years: "As far as you know, does the earth revolve around the sun or does the sun revolve around the earth?" In the new poll, about four out of five Americans (79%) correctly respond that the earth revolves around the sun, while 18% say it is the other way around. These results are comparable to those found in Germany when a similar question was asked there in 1996; in response to that poll, 74% of Germans gave the correct answer, while 16% thought the sun revolved around the earth, and 10% said they didn't know. When the question was asked in Great Britain that same year, 67% answered correctly, 19% answered incorrectly, and 14% didn't know.
flea - Sep 13, 2010 10:46:30 am PDT #23682 of 30001
information libertarian
For the record: both my 7 year old and my 4 year old know the earth revolves around the sun, although the little one gets confused about the difference between rotation and revolution. Also he refuses to believe that the sun is a star.