Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934668 times)

pbsaurus · « **Reply #4475 on:** November 17, 2009, 12:08:35 PM »

Nice!

h4wt_b3t4 · « **Reply #4476 on:** November 17, 2009, 08:00:45 PM »

Awesome!

xolik · « **Reply #4477 on:** November 20, 2009, 10:58:50 AM »

Court rules Army Corps of Engineers failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34028940/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Sounds like the Corps is all washed up.

*puts on sunglasses*

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Demosthenes · « **Reply #4478 on:** November 23, 2009, 02:17:17 PM »

I invite someone to do a Safe For Work photoshop of this picture to put her next to Ron Jeremy:

xolik · « **Reply #4479 on:** November 23, 2009, 02:45:30 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on November 23, 2009, 02:17:17 PM

I invite someone to do a Safe For Work photoshop of this picture to put her next to Ron Jeremy:

If my Photoshop instructor hadn't specifically said 'no nudity', I would totally do this as my final project for the semester.

All_Knowing_Ham · « **Reply #4480 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:09:19 PM »

I see you.

xolik · « **Reply #4481 on:** November 24, 2009, 03:30:22 PM »

Hammy hit the shoutbox and this thread.

Hammy is attention whoring at this point. I'm so let down.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #4482 on:** November 24, 2009, 05:29:11 PM »

Nah. Hammy's just adjusting to the new communications paradigm.

That makes the AKH a pretty hip food item.

12AX7 · « **Reply #4483 on:** December 12, 2009, 02:07:32 AM »

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If you don't have a gun, here's a more humane way to wreck someone’s evil plans for you.

A friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was concerned about someone coming into the office on Monday to rob them when they were counting the collection. She asked the local police department about using pepper spray and they recommended to her that she get a can of wasp spray instead.

The wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot more accurate, while with the pepper spray, they have to get too close to you and could overpower you. The wasp spray temporarily blinds an attacker until they get to the hospital for an antidote. She keeps a can on her desk in the office and it doesn't attract attention from people like a can of pepper spray would. She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection. Thought this was interesting and might be of use.

On the heels of a break in and beating that left an elderly woman in Toledo dead, self defense experts have a tip that could save your life.

Val Glinka teaches self-defense to students at Sylvania Southview High School. For decades, he's suggested putting a can of wasp and hornet spray near your door or bed. Glinka says, "This is better than anything I can teach them." Glinka considers it inexpensive, easy to find, and more effective than mace or pepper spray. The cans typically shoot 20 to 30 feet; so if someone tries to break into your home, Glinka says "spray the culprit in the eyes". It's a tip he's given to students for decades. [/]

Min · « **Reply #4484 on:** December 12, 2009, 07:51:15 AM »

That's interesting. They do make pepper spray that comes out in a spray but if you don't have any handy, wasp spray would do in a pinch. Just hope the feds don't bust you. I kinda doubt they would, but I don't know.

Min · « **Reply #4485 on:** December 12, 2009, 07:52:36 AM »

The high school where I work has a big (HUGE) football game today! State Championship! I aint driving all the way to Charlotteshole to see it, but it's on TV here!!

Novice · « **Reply #4486 on:** December 12, 2009, 06:01:58 PM »

Smells like school spirit.

Min · « **Reply #4487 on:** December 13, 2009, 08:24:43 AM »

I couldn't find it on TV, but I listened to the second half on the radio. It was awesome. And we won 35-21.

12AX7 · « **Reply #4488 on:** December 14, 2009, 12:24:37 AM »

Quote from: Detta on December 13, 2009, 08:24:43 AM

I couldn't find it on TV, but I listened to the second half on the radio. It was awesome. And we won 35-21.

12ax7 and several others Like this.

Min · « **Reply #4489 on:** December 14, 2009, 04:34:05 PM »

Are you annoyed by my cross-site post?

12AX7 · « **Reply #4490 on:** December 14, 2009, 04:36:37 PM »

Of course not!

Novice · « **Reply #4491 on:** December 14, 2009, 04:36:51 PM »

I was wondering what to do with myself after college . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/11/cannabis.kid/index.html

And then I knew.

xolik · « **Reply #4492 on:** December 15, 2009, 01:22:43 PM »

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BD4D020091214?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true

I hope they're ready to cut some pretty big checks out to ~~pope~~ Al Gore for carbon ~~indulgences~~ credits.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #4493 on:** December 15, 2009, 02:04:27 PM »

Yeah, don't they have live meeting?

Novice · « **Reply #4494 on:** December 15, 2009, 02:44:25 PM »

I like this carbon emission unit of measure : The Ethiopian. One Ethiopian in measure being equal to the annual emissions from one person from Ethiopia.

For example, the Copenhagen climate talks will generate .5 million Ɛ.

12AX7 · « **Reply #4495 on:** December 15, 2009, 02:58:06 PM »

Best Comment::

CO2 is a greenhouse gas for good reason: green=photosynthesis, photosynthesis requires C02 and light. Consequently, limiting atmospheric CO2 emissions will suffocate plants and turns the green to brown. High levels of greenhouse production are achieved by controlling CO2 and light; i.e.: increased greenhouse production is accomplished using bottled or gas-generated CO2 and oftentimes even artificial light to promote the photosynthesis required to make plants grow and produce. Pumping large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere also stimulates plant growth. The burning of fossil fuels and the resulting tons of carbon emissions can be claimed responsible, at least in part, for the abundance of the food supply during the last century thereby helping us to avoid the Malthusian famines predicted for our day over 200 years ago. Luckily, Parkinson’s Law of photosynthesis indicates that vegetation will expand to deplete the CO2 in the atmosphere regardless of the source and/or the amount released into the atmosphere. Bottom line: drive your car, heat and cool your home, create as much CO2 as possible, your may just be saving the planet for others and preventing a future famine!
Green = Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis requires CO2 and sunlight. Why not associate the increased worldwide food production as actually being made possible by the increased CO2 emissions be they man made or otherwise. Burning coal, oil, and driving your SUV may actually help prevent famine and food shortages in our future. On the other hand, preventing CO2 emissions slows photosynthesis and equates with going brown not green.

CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) is the most friendly gas in our atmosphere. CO2 remains as a trace gas because photosynthesis converts it to O2 (Oxygen) almost immediately. We need mega-tons of CO2 to be put into our atmosphere daily to grow our food for an expanding population of the world. Our food supply depends on the CO2 emissions of SUVs, Volcanoes, Fires, and Plant-rot, to supply this essential greenhouse gas at sufficient levels to ward off famine. By the way, current levels of CO2 have been measured at 385 p.p.m., yet a good greenhouse requires 4 to 5 times that level to get a decent green plant production. To avoid a famine the government regulators better hope they do not lower the atmospheric level of CO2 from current levels; in fact, they should hope CO2 levels will rise to accommodate the increasing global food supply requirement, otherwise, world-wide anthropogenic famine!

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #4496 on:** December 15, 2009, 07:34:35 PM »

so very true. this intelligence of that post boggles my mind.

actually, i think it's ridiculous to worry about the disappearance of arctic ice. arctic ice is at sea level for the most part, so since ice takes up more space then water (Al Gore should probably go read a third grade science book) and arctic ice happens to contain air as well as water, that means that if the north polar ice cap were to melt completely, sea levels would actually go down.

antarctic ice is another story, since there is in fact a continent down there. of course, this is assuming they melt at all.

so all this talk about the entire north polar ice caps melting is both funny and endlessly annoying,

xolik · « **Reply #4497 on:** December 15, 2009, 08:35:02 PM »

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Oral Roberts Dead at 91

Oral Roberts has finally been killed by God for not raising enough money.

Oral Roberts was a pioneer of televangelism, and he profited handsomely from it. Born into poverty in Oklahoma, he suffered from tuberculosis as a child, thereby learning early on that desperately sick people are willing to part with their money in exchange for some hope. You can make a good living this way if you travel around and take cash directly. Roberts' innovation was in lying to hundreds of thousands—millions!—of people at a time through the miracle of television, and taking checks in the mail.

His show "Oral Roberts Presents" was a forum for healing the sick and disposessed through God's power, but God doesn't work for free. Roberts famously told his viewers in 1987 that God was going to "call him home" if he didn't raise $8 million from the poor dupes who believed what he said. The death threat worked: After climbing up into a "prayer tower" and going on a hunger strike—a "fast"—until he got his money, Roberts hit the $8 million mark.

He was worth every penny, though, because he had the rare ability to raise the dead. When someone died in the crowd at one of his revivals, he told an audience once, "I had to stop and go back in the crowd and raise the dead person so I could go ahead with the service." Sadly, he couldn't pull the trick off when his son Ronald committed suicide in 1981 after struggling with drug problems. We'd feel bad writing glibly about the death of the man's son if not for the fact that hundreds of thousands of people who suffered similar tragedies sent Roberts more money than they could afford to based on his toxic and preposterous lies.

Other toxic and preposterous lies: A 900-foot-tall Jesus appeared before him and commanded him to raise $120 million to build a hospital. The devil tried to strangle him in his bedroom, only to be driven away by his wife. Special holy water sprinkled on a billfold will bring prosperity. God told him he would return from the dead to rule over the Earth.

In addition to a legacy of fraud and theft, Roberts left us Oral Roberts University, a Christian educational institute that served as a playground for his son Richard, who ran it, and his wife. According to a 2007 lawsuit, Richard's wife spent school money to remodel their home 11 times in 14 years, employ her "underaged male" friends, run up $800 cell phone bills, spend $39,000 a pop on clothes at Chico's, and fly their daughter to Orlando for spring break on a private jet. The couple also allegedly forced professors and students to do their daughter's homework.

Anyway, he's dead.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #4498 on:** December 16, 2009, 09:23:52 AM »

Oral Roberts was still alive!?

?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #4499 on:** December 16, 2009, 12:23:52 PM »

I always wondered if he had a sibling named Anal.

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