Fail Quotes

[BlameThe1st]

I found this in r/politicalhumor of all places, which left me scratching my head, wondering how this is political:



This just raises the question of who opposes planting more trees? Because even the evil, greedy logging companies support planting more trees. If they didn't, they would be out of business.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Look who this guy has for a profile picture.  Just look at it!  I mean just look at it!  URGH....

[Ibrahim90]

Look who this guy has for a profile picture.  Just look at it!  I mean just look at it!  URGH....

we all know he was the height of racial equality, what with his barring Jews from entering the country to escape the holocaust, or his decision to refuse integration of the US military in World War II.

[MrBogosity]

we all know he was the height of racial equality, what with his barring Jews from entering the country to escape the holocaust, or his decision to refuse integration of the US military in World War II.

And then there was that whole interning Japanese-Americans into concentration camps thing.

[Ibrahim90]

And then there was that whole interning Japanese-Americans into concentration camps thing.

damn it! you know full well that is too much for them Liberals to hear!

[nilecroc]

http://reason.com/24-7/2013/08/24/nationwide-porn-production-halted-after#comment

Kiss goodbye to the myth that Democrats want out of Women's vaginas. I hate these people.

[BlameThe1st]

Somebody get me a Tylenol. The false equivalency is giving me a massive migraine!

[BlameThe1st]

The mental midget who created this obviously never heard of the Community Reinvestment Act, otherwise, they would know that "peopleless homes" are a result of the government-created housing crisis.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Somebody get me a Tylenol. The false equivalency is giving me a massive migraine!

Funny thing is it's actually true according to studies.

Most people are NOT crazy kamikaze maniacs and only drive at a speed they feel comfortable with and those who are don't care about signs anyway.  Nobody has ever produced any solid evidence that speed limits make the roads safer.  In fact, the original stated goal of speed limits was to save gasoline, making the roads safer was just an added bonus according to Nixon (Yeah, there's a name you can trust right?)

Speed limits just create busy work for law enforcement and line the pockets of the political class with gold.

[Ibrahim90]

And they don't save gas--at least neither on their own, nor consistently: driving on a highway 539 miles long@ 80mph costs me the same amount of gas as driving 476 miles @ 70-75mph (a full tank of gas). It ends up balancing out, since the tests people conduct for the EPA and other agencies are for ideal conditions (65mph, flat roads, etc: myth-busters replicate these regularly). it works out to under 20 mpg for the former, 17 for the latter. If it were optimized, it would be 20 mpg or as close to it as possible (which is not that difficult to achieve).

similar results have been noted while I was in Colorado driving the Zipcars, or using mom's car to go to Midland the first time (to do the drugs tests): speed limits are at best a contributing factor to saving feul, and sometimes work against saving gas).

[nilecroc]

I know it was a website that had a very similar color scheme and design as this one and it had a list of 100 government inventions. All of them were supposed to be positive, of course. It included things like bridges, the internets, etc. The typical stuff people say. But then I remember very clearly that it included War in there. I saw it a few months ago, so if they deleted it, it wasn't from then.

Probably just a different website that I can't find right now. Darn.

EDIT:

FOUND IT! It IS from DailyKos, but it's actually called "75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America" and it blows:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America

I know this is old, but I just have to say this. How can anyone be this fucking stupid, and still able to perform basic human functions?

[evensgrey]

Funny thing is it's actually true according to studies.

Most people are NOT crazy kamikaze maniacs and only drive at a speed they feel comfortable with and those who are don't care about signs anyway.  Nobody has ever produced any solid evidence that speed limits make the roads safer.  In fact, the original stated goal of speed limits was to save gasoline, making the roads safer was just an added bonus according to Nixon (Yeah, there's a name you can trust right?)

Speed limits just create busy work for law enforcement and line the pockets of the political class with gold.

Another surprising thing that turned out to be true is that minimizing signage in complex intersections and other complex driving situations reduces collision rates.  (Partly, extra signage acts as a distraction, and less guidance creates more caution in drivers.)

[MrBogosity]

Actually, speed limits started in the UK in the late 1800s. All of those crazy speed demons in their horse-drawn carriages, I gather. In cities, the posted speed limit was 2mph. You can WALK faster than that!

[AnCap Dave]

[evensgrey]

Actually, speed limits started in the UK in the late 1800s. All of those crazy speed demons in their horse-drawn carriages, I gather. In cities, the posted speed limit was 2mph. You can WALK faster than that!

The only problems (other than the manure, which alone is more than enough reason for having cars and trucks) that I've ever heard of with horse drawn vehicles was horse-drawn sleighs being so quiet (before the introduction of sleigh bells, that is) in heavy snow that the inattentive pedestrian could be run down quite easily by them.