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Title: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: Wunderkind on November 06, 2008, 05:47:52 AM
Yet another pointless study. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sci_dirty_hands)

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A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do.

And they wasted good science on this... why?
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: RubberFingerStan on November 06, 2008, 07:30:09 AM
Is it cos they have to touch us?
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: ivan on November 06, 2008, 10:42:51 AM
No doubt.

Thus the primordial fear of cooties finds scientific footing.
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: MISTER MASSACRE on November 06, 2008, 12:58:27 PM
Why is this a waste of "good science" again?


Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: pbsaurus on November 06, 2008, 02:05:55 PM
Yeah, put yourself in the shoes of the PhD student trying to find a thesis that hasn't been done before.  Do you want there to be no more PhDs?
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: Joe Sixpack on November 06, 2008, 03:20:34 PM
What do you have against abstract knowledge?
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: Wunderkind on November 06, 2008, 05:15:45 PM
What do you have against abstract knowledge?

Nothing. However, I do know people who will actually legitimately think like this:

Thus the primordial fear of cooties finds scientific footing.

Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: ivan on November 06, 2008, 06:59:25 PM
Actually, I legitimately thought like that.

Can YOU explain the instinctive fear of cooties among adolescents in pre-industrialized societies?

I thought not.
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: Wunderkind on November 06, 2008, 07:42:47 PM
I thought it was because gurlz were evul.
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: RubberFingerStan on November 07, 2008, 01:58:52 AM
If you asked Friederich Nietzsche about woman however he woulda replied: You’re going to women? Don’t forget your whip
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: pbsaurus on November 07, 2008, 05:54:58 PM
And if it were TehJudge it would have been:

"You’re going to women? Don’t forget your gravy."
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: Min on November 07, 2008, 06:03:45 PM
lol
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: Min on November 08, 2008, 12:21:40 AM
Don't worry, the cheese cools it off.
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: pbsaurus on November 11, 2008, 09:26:20 PM
And if you concentrate on the hot sex, the cheese will follow, naturally.
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: Demosthenes on November 12, 2008, 01:28:33 PM
And if you concentrate on the hot sex, the cheese will follow, naturally.

Old-school Defect reference, +1.   :-D
Title: Re: Stupid News of the Week
Post by: RubberFingerStan on November 18, 2008, 05:37:27 AM
Can I throw in the "my-musical saw-just-broke" anecdote?