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Author Topic: Stupid News of the Week  (Read 4158 times)

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Stupid News of the Week
« on: November 06, 2008, 05:47:52 AM »
Yet another pointless study.

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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?
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2008, 07:30:09 AM »
Is it cos they have to touch us?
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2008, 10:42:51 AM »
No doubt.

Thus the primordial fear of cooties finds scientific footing.
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2008, 12:58:27 PM »
Why is this a waste of "good science" again?


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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #4 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?
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2008, 03:20:34 PM »
What do you have against abstract knowledge?
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2008, 05:15:45 PM »
Quote from: Joe Sixpack on November 06, 2008, 03:20:34 PM
What do you have against abstract knowledge?

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

Quote from: ivan on November 06, 2008, 10:42:51 AM
Thus the primordial fear of cooties finds scientific footing.

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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2008, 07:42:47 PM »
I thought it was because gurlz were evul.
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #9 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
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #10 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."
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2008, 06:03:45 PM »
lol
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2008, 12:21:40 AM »
Don't worry, the cheese cools it off.
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2008, 09:26:20 PM »
And if you concentrate on the hot sex, the cheese will follow, naturally.
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2008, 01:28:33 PM »
Quote from: pbsaurus on November 11, 2008, 09:26:20 PM
And if you concentrate on the hot sex, the cheese will follow, naturally.

Old-school Defect reference, +1.   :-D
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Re: Stupid News of the Week
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2008, 05:37:27 AM »
Can I throw in the "my-musical saw-just-broke" anecdote?
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