Shimrra Jamaane posted:

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like a TV timeout that stalls a drive

AAA DOLFAN posted:

What a miserable life that guy must lead

AAA DOLFAN posted:

Oh my god that should make me feel better but it's even worse.

Funny you bring up fluoride. My dad used to be a huge lobbyist for fluoride in the city water back in the early to mid 90s, and he used to go answer questions, as municipalities/towns across Florida hired him as an expert to give reports and go speak at open panels about it, all of which were obviously open to the public.

He used to receive all kinds of random threats from guys who were convinced he worked for the government. I never know about this until about 2-3 years ago when my mom came across some of the letters when clearing out his old den. There were death threats, pleas, you name it. All over the spectrum.

One of them was like 18 pages long with straight up fake newspaper articles from foreign countries showing how fluoride caused cancer and stuff. It was nuts. People.

AAA DOLFAN posted:

I mean I guess it'd make sense of a pediatric dentist who lived in the same city his entire life was somehow a member of the illuminati but come on people!

There was a little "ring of cancer" (something like 8 people were diagnosed with cancer in the same zip code, all people 25-30 years old, grew up in the same area their whole lives) and one guy showed up outside the PBC court house with a sign saying "Loxahatchee + Fluoride = TRUTH decay"

It was pretty clever actually. Oh and it turned out to be entirely unrelated, somehow.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Reminds me that Dante Stallworth went on a crazed anti-vaccination rant on twitter a couple months back. And how many pro athletes sponsor that power bracelet that balances your chi or some poo poo? Athletes are dumb.

Declan MacManus posted:

I read an article about that deer velvet company that Ray Lewis was involved with today. A lllloooooootttt of athletes believe in nonsense that any reasonable person should instantly sniff out as bullshit.

swickles posted:

The problem is that there is some stuff that sounds like bullshit, but actually has some evidence behind. I mean, think of Gatorade, one of the most basic things. People had tried electrolyte enriched drinks before, but then some guy comes along and says sugar is the key? Sounds like BS but its neccessary. Same with pickle juice. People think its the electrolytes in pickle juice, but there is apparently some novel compound in pickle juice that acts centrally (as in the Central nervous system) to reduce cramping. Deer horn has IGF-1 in it, which probably doesn't do much, much who knows. It hasn't been studied enough to determine one way or another. Its more that athletes are more willing to go out on a limb on a chance that something will help than the average populations, regardless of the evidence behind it.

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Three of the suspended Alabama players ? Calloway, Williams (the one arrested twice this week), and Hayes show very few offers, despite high rankings (Williams was the #1 Athlete and #24 in the Rivals 100, but shows only 5 offers…). Between them, they have 13 total stars, and only 13 offers, combined. While the offer list doesn't tell us everything, it seems to indicate in this case that many other programs may have passed on these guys, despite their rankings. None held offers from the Huskers. The fourth guy ? Pettway ? held lots of offers, but his recruit picture also displays facial decorations usually intended as a statement to show gang affiliation, in the diagonal slashes shaved systematically into his eyebrows. Not sayin' anyone should jump to conclusions about eyebrows, but he did turn out to be an at-risk prospect who is now in trouble with the law.

Maybe some of the highly-ranked recruits we don't get (or don't even offer) aren't really misses…

Declan MacManus posted:

I read an article about that deer velvet company that Ray Lewis was involved with today. A lllloooooootttt of athletes believe in nonsense that any reasonable person should instantly sniff out as bullshit.

limeincoke posted:

On Alabama's suspended players, taken from Nebraska's rivals site.


Yes, you heard it here first, folks. Slashes in your eyebrows makes you a gang-bangin thug.

limeincoke posted:

On Alabama's suspended players, taken from Nebraska's rivals site.


Yes, you heard it here first, folks. Slashes in your eyebrows makes you a gang-bangin thug.

swickles posted:

One of the most surreal moments of med school involved watching two trauma surgery attendings argue over whether a teardrop tattoo on your face indicated that someone you knew was murdered, or how many murders you have committed. At 5 am.

sweet thursday posted:

In the United States, it can mean the wearer has killed someone.[3] The number of teardrops may indicate the number of years spent in prison, or the number of times the wearer was raped.[1] It may also indicate time spent in prison or the loss of a loved one or fellow gang member.[1]

What a wildly varying thing, one extreme to the other. It can either mean you killed a man or you've been raped by one. So Lil Wayne might have been raped 4 times; killed 4 people; killed 2, got raped by one, critically injured one and gave one blowjob, maybe those are .5? Who knows.

swickles posted:

One of the most surreal moments of med school involved watching two trauma surgery attendings argue over whether a teardrop tattoo on your face indicated that someone you knew was murdered, or how many murders you have committed. At 5 am.

sweet thursday posted:

critically injured one and gave one blowjob,

dumb rear end in a top hat posted:

I have no problem with him making what someone is willing to pay him. That's how it should be in America.

My problem is with his politics. He's a liberal Dem whose party bashes the rich at every turn, all the while pulling down thirty million per year. He wants everyone except himself to 'pay their fair share' and totes the party line except when it comes to his fortune. Typical.

sweet thursday posted:

Roger Goodell: enemy of the rich

limeincoke posted:

What's the story behind that? I know Roger is the NFL commissioner (I think). Is he actually really generous with his money, or what?

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Ribsauce posted:

I guess this rant belongs here.

Why in the hell do big respectable organizations like ESPN and yahoo! Sports allow user comments? It would be one thing if they were even remotely worthwhile, but they are nothing but cesspools of racism and the like. If it was one out of every hundred comments, fine, you can't have a perfect user base, but it is practically every third comment. Do they not understand how badly it reflects on their brand? I think less of yahoo! Sports now because I they allow that garbage.

Grittybeard posted:

It's flat out wrong from everything I know. Maybe his personal politics are different, I have no idea how the man votes. But he's not generous at all with the NFL's money. His dad was a republican politician...uh the only thing I can think of is that his brother is gay?

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- Return to a strengthened family unit as the norm for society, rejecting feminism, homosexuality and all other types of so-called "alternative lifestyles."
- Return to Americans their traditional right of freedom of association, including voluntary racial separation, along with the abolishment of all forms of government-mandated racial discrimination, such as affirmative action and quotas.

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The news of Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher showing a complete lack of impulse control shouldn’t startle anyone who pays attention to the reality of race and crime.

limeincoke posted:

On Alabama's suspended players, taken from Nebraska's rivals site.


Yes, you heard it here first, folks. Slashes in your eyebrows makes you a gang-bangin thug.

Lasagna Pilot posted:

CFB fans go through so much spin and self-delusion to convince themselves that their team is better off without the stud recruits they aren't getting.

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Aileen, Penn State already looks bad. Joe Paterno was railroaded by an out of control rush to injustice mainstream media. Sara Ganim started it all.

Any way you slice it, Sara Ganim put this out there without thinking of the ramifications. once the scandal got going, she got hired by CNN. she literally used pedophilia to propel her career and her "journalism" have negatively impacted hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. it's disgusting, and she's no hero.

then as if that wasn't enough, she puts out a tweet the other day about how she "doesn't understand why PSU doesn't open their books like other charities". Um Sara dear, PSU isn't a charity! it's a university. and ever since her scandal, the new PSU have opened their books more then ever, and by doing that they let the NCAA sanction them without any due process.

we still haven't even had the trial of the PSU admins that supposedly conspired to cover up something, when in reality they were just following the law.

Ms. Ganim put herself out there, and continues to act like everything that happened is perfectly normal. she created this madness so she shouldn't complain when people speak their mind.

she goes around acting like she's this big hero and she's not. alieen, would Joe Paterno be proud of me for my comment? that's not for me to say, PSU isn't my university. I'm not representing PSU. Joe Paterno would be very troubled obviously by what has happened to PSU. he worked his whole life to do good and put PSU in the best position he could for the future. and PSU was doing great, but then Sara Ganim and the rest of the mainstream media clowns made this sandusky scandal all about PSU and it won't ever be the same again.

Joe Paterno would still be alive today if it wasn't for people like Sara Ganim.