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Rebel Blob posted:Western medicine treats the symptoms Plenty of new-agey Westerners believe this poo poo, including my mother, who likes to refer to evidence-based medicine as "allopathic" medicine, which was the term coined by the quack who invented homeopathy to refer, disparagingly of course, to anything that was not homeopathy. For someone as smart as her it's depressing how much ridiculous woo she buys into. My dad, too. He got personally offended when I told him ear candling was bullshit, because he knows people who do it.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Plenty of new-agey Westerners believe this poo poo, including my mother, who likes to refer to evidence-based medicine as "allopathic" medicine, which was the term coined by the quack who invented homeopathy to refer, disparagingly of course, to anything that was not homeopathy. Just go all out: "The people you know who ear candle are idiots who bought into the bullshit."
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Jan 21, 2016 21:18
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Bobby Digital posted:My mom's a nurse and apparently a lot of her coworkers fully believe that a full moon means their patients will be unruly that night. Hospital workers are as superstitious as sailors and the Moon thing is a very common belief.
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Jan 21, 2016 21:33
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Zeroisanumber posted:Hospital workers are as superstitious as sailors and the Moon thing is a very common belief. My mom believes in this and she was a cop for 12 years and a dispatcher for 10
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Jan 21, 2016 21:35
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Dongicus posted:My uncle said to me the other day "I'm a MLP Brony fedora trilby weeaboo jort republican internet critic juggallo nazi trump supporter libertarian bitcoin racist homophobe athiest mra pua pozzer tumblr freak gamergater furry pedo ephebophile doodoo liker lets player memer 4channer redditor goon and i like the wrong politics of the xbox one gamergate gender equality wage gap tipping religion." Ah, so it does run in the family.
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Jan 21, 2016 21:41
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"What comes after C-?...Is it F?" Said one graduate student to the other graduate student. "I don't know" replies graduate student #2, "Let's look it up on google."
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Jan 21, 2016 22:01
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Plenty of new-agey Westerners believe this poo poo, including my mother, who likes to refer to evidence-based medicine as "allopathic" medicine, which was the term coined by the quack who invented homeopathy to refer, disparagingly of course, to anything that was not homeopathy. One of my favorite quotes. "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine."
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Jan 21, 2016 22:10
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VoteTedJameson posted:"What comes after C-?...Is it F?" Said one graduate student to the other graduate student. I could see this being them being unaware where the cutoff for passing is. Our program has A, B, and F grades and that's it.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:23
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coronatae posted:Southern Baptists get really weird about Catholics. I grew up near a Baptist megachurch and sometimes my classmates would try to educate me on Catholicism like I wasn't going to RCIA and stuff every week anyways. Except all their info was wildly innacurate and it was basically an explanation of why I was going to hell. A friend and I were walking through town one day and we were stopped by some evangelists of some sort.  Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about Jesus? Um, sorry, not interested, we're not Christians. Oh? What are you, Catholics?
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Jan 21, 2016 22:34
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Second hand report here. On the radio today a sort of editorial came on explaining that yes, Ted Cruz's parents were born in America so he counts as naturalized by laws in the books over 200 years old now. He sequed into that however by talking about a conversation he overheard recently at a cafe wherein a woman said: "I like Ted Cruz as a candidate. But what if he actually can't be president? Even worse, what if he wins and then they find out he can't be? Then Biden will take his place..." The newscaster was as dumbfounded as you.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:37
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Dienes posted:I could see this being them being unaware where the cutoff for passing is. Our program has A, B, and F grades and that's it. That would be a reasonable assumption, but from having heard the rest of their conversation...nope, this person was asking, in the most literal possible sense, what comes after C-. They googled it and there was a big, collective "Ohhhhhhhh".
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Jan 21, 2016 22:46
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Choco1980 posted:Second hand report here. On the radio today a sort of editorial came on explaining that yes, Ted Cruz's parents were born in America so he counts as naturalized by laws in the books over 200 years old now. He sequed into that however by talking about a conversation he overheard recently at a cafe wherein a woman said: Any outcome that results in President Biden is the best possible outcome.
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Jan 21, 2016 22:54
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Booblord Zagats posted:My mom believes in this and she was a cop for 12 years and a dispatcher for 10 I had a girlfriend who was a cop who believed the same thing. I think I read an article at some point that had some sort of possible explanation, in that because it was easier to see outside at night during a full moon people were more likely to decide to go out and get into trouble. Or maybe more likely to get caught since it was easier to see? Anyway, her and her cop buddies believed it had more to do with "unleashing animal instincts" and other bullshit reasons. El Cid has a new favorite as of 23:01 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Jan 21, 2016 22:58
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Zeroisanumber posted:Hospital workers are as superstitious as sailors and the Moon thing is a very common belief. I was going to say that there was apparently a study a while back that showed that car crashes, accidents, and ER visits spike around the full moon. That and suicides. Then when I Google searched it the first few results were "that study turned out to be bullshit, sorry folks." Welp.
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Jan 21, 2016 23:13
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Bobby Digital posted:My mom's a nurse and apparently a lot of her coworkers fully believe that a full moon means their patients will be unruly that night. Yeah this belief was widespread among middle school teachers.
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Jan 21, 2016 23:45
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I also had some nurses in the hospital who told me that my prescription deodorant would give me breast cancer so I shouldn't use it. No thanks ladies, my body sucks and the prescription works wonders so I'll take the nonexistent risk. Also a surprisingly large amount of nurses don't get flu shots because of all the dumb autism Mercury formaldehyde whatever BS.
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Jan 21, 2016 23:55
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Stoatbringer posted:A friend and I were walking through town one day and we were stopped by some evangelists of some sort. Yeah, I never realized the hate for Catholics from Baptists was such a wide spread thing. When I was like 12 or 13 there was Baptist youth group that used to have a bunch of skate ramps and so me and my friends would always go. The caveat, of course, was that you had to attend the bible study deal if you wanted to go there, which I always thought was fair. So one day the subject of Catholicism came up Pastor: ... and therefore Catholics aren't Christians. Me: Wait, what? Why? P: Because they sanctioned the Crusades and had all those people murdered. So anybody who is Catholic is directly responsible. M: But doesn't being Christian mean believing Jesus died for our sins and rose again? Also trying to live like him and forgiving others? P: Well, technically that's correct but all Catholics are barbarians and are going to hell for the sins of what the church did. Needless to say I didn't feel very welcome after that.
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I know two nurses. One of them is a really cool dude, in good shape, fun to party with, shares articles about local policies that are being passed that will either gently caress over healthcare, or help it, and various interesting health-related articles. The other is as wide as she is tall, never stops making GBS threads out superstitions, inspirational quotes, and memes about how hard nurses work.
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Jan 22, 2016 00:03
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Thin Privilege posted:
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Jan 22, 2016 00:05
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My hair guy, about the attacks in Paris in late 2015: "They allowed it to happen, to have an excuse to attack" Relatively minor, but if they had that much control, why not something that DIDN'T kill people and made them look weak? Would "these dudes tried, and our awesome guys got them, payback time" be too unrealistic?
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Jan 22, 2016 00:16
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Serperoth posted:My hair guy, about the attacks in Paris in late 2015: "They allowed it to happen, to have an excuse to attack" Same question about 9/11 conspiracies, really.
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Jan 22, 2016 00:18
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VoteTedJameson posted:"What comes after C-?...Is it F?" Said one graduate student to the other graduate student. When I was in college, there was no D grade. If you had a C, you were skating on thin ice as far as the class was concerned. HOWEVER, as loving graduate students you'd think they be aware of the grading system their school uses. VoteTedJameson posted:That would be a reasonable assumption, but from having heard the rest of their conversation...nope, this person was asking, in the most literal possible sense, what comes after C-. They googled it and there was a big, collective "Ohhhhhhhh". Oh, holy poo poo. 
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Jan 22, 2016 01:04
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Geniasis posted:Same question about 9/11 conspiracies, really. The real question is that if the Bush administration planned 9/11, don't you think that they would have made at least some of the attackers Iraqis?
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Jan 22, 2016 01:22
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Sucrose posted:The real question is that if the Bush administration planned 9/11, don't you think that they would have made at least some of the attackers Iraqis? Although I really love the idea that it was a false flag, but in true Dubya fashion, someone bungled the details and the wrong faction was blamed.
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We got married in a Catholic church and I invited some of my fundie sheltered baptist friends and they were apprehensive about setting foot in a Catholic church because apparently we're all statue worshipping pagans. Who knew!
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Geniasis posted:Although I really love the idea that it was a false flag, but in true Dubya fashion, someone bungled the details and the wrong faction was blamed. "Eh, gently caress it, I've got a tee time. Just make sure they're brown."
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Jan 22, 2016 01:46
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"I saw two refugees fighting at the mall so we have to stop letting them into the country" 1. How do you know they were refugees and not older immigrants/born here? 2. White people start fights too, why is it okay for them to do it? 3. Can we close the borders to white people now? Please?
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Picnic Princess posted:3. Can we close the borders to white people now? Please? America has enough white people, go back to Whitelandia.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:America has enough white people, go back to Whitelandia. Buy me a ticket and I will.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Uh... in what way? She doesn't really personally know anybody with it she just really likes the idea I guess? Her facebook is a mess of reshares of nurse memes and Down's syndrome stories. I get the strong feeling that she would be overjoyed if she had her own child with a chromosomal disorder.  In a separate bout of nurse insanity she's started to sign cards and letters with her and her cat's name. RillAkBea has a new favorite as of 07:19 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Jan 22, 2016 07:16
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I don't want to go to hospitals anymore.
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Grad student: "Using a ruler to measure something is a colonial undertaking." You see measuring makes a thing knowable, which makes a thing controllable. This is "the crux of imperialism." Not a joke. This occurred.
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I work at a Walgreens and recently I had a customer ask me about vitamins. She wanted multivitamins but not the men's or women's specific kinds. "I want a vitamin that both me and my husband can take. I can't take the men's vitamins cause I don't want hair to grow on my chest, and he can't take the women's vitamins cause then he'll grow boobs! Cause of the hormones!" My coworker and I tried to assure her that no, over the counter multivitamins do not contain hormones, but she was not listening to us.
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VoteTedJameson posted:Grad student: "Using a ruler to measure something is a colonial undertaking." You see measuring makes a thing knowable, which makes a thing controllable. This is "the crux of imperialism." What the gently caress  I'm pretty far left but come the gently caress on, that's idiotic.
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VoteTedJameson posted:Grad student: "Using a ruler to measure something is a colonial undertaking." You see measuring makes a thing knowable, which makes a thing controllable. This is "the crux of imperialism." Never slapped anyone in a class before, but I might have in this case.
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Telemaze posted:Do idiots also do stuff like ask everyday English people if they live in a castle? I'm not even joking. The irony here is that as an American I visited a friend of mine in the UK and I swear that a one bedroom apartment here has more square feet to it than the average full sized family house over there. poo poo is incredibly tiny and if you're claustrophobic you're absolutely hosed.
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In art school, we were looking at art in Russia created after the communist revolution. This was so dumb I wrote it down in my notes: Student: "Why is there so much emphasis on red?"
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:We got married in a Catholic church and I invited some of my fundie sheltered baptist friends and they were apprehensive about setting foot in a Catholic church because apparently we're all statue worshipping pagans. Who knew! To be fair Catholics are Idolaters, though i'm not sure I'd call you pagans.
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GWBBQ posted:I was raised Catholic, and I was still fairly religious when I was in high school. I was on a trip to Tennessee in high school and I said that I was Catholic to a group of people I was chatting with when religion came up. They all looked shocked and someone said said something like "Really? you seem so normal!" I know it's not the same as antisemitism, but it was a tiny glimpse at the "us versus the lizard people" mentality that a lot of fundamentalists have toward everyone else. I live in Northern Ireland. My grandmother says when she was a girl, her education as such that she believed the only Catholics in the world lived in a) West Belfast; b) the Republic; and c) Rome until she was a teenager.  Telemaze posted:Do idiots also do stuff like ask everyday English people if they live in a castle? I'm not even joking. My family visited America once, and my mum was asked where we're from. "Ireland," she said (the path of least resistance when one goes abroad), and the gentleman in question asked first whether we had cars, or if we were still on horses and carts, and second whether or not the potato famine was still a problem for us.
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:"I'm moving to Korea to teach English" Every loving time when I lived in Montana. Also, once when I had to get into this street party to look for my father-in-law and they asked for ID, and I gave them my passport to use as ID. GIRL 1: Um... ME: What? GIRL 1: What...is this? ME: It's a passport. *blank stare* ME: Passport. *blank stare* ME: Do you speak English? GIRL 1: What? (Girl 2 walks over) GIRL 1: Oh, thank GOD! Can you handle this? GIRL 2: What's going on? ME: Look, I just want to go in and find my father-in-law. She asked for ID, here it is. GIRL 2: What is this? ME: It's a passport! GIRL 2: Why do you have this? ME: What?! GIRL 2: Where are you from? ME: NEW YORK. CAN YOU HURRY UP, PLEASE? GIRL 2: Um.... ME: Look. Look at this. It says "United States of America" on the front. GIRL 2: So why are you in this country? ME: I was born in it. Can you please let me inside? GIRL 2: Um...okay...but like...I dunno...okay... WHAT THE gently caress I HATE MONTANA.
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