Fail Quotes

[dallen68]

This is related to the "I got the flu vaccine and got sick from it" crapola. Since it can take days for the body to generate an immunity, if you were infected at the time or slightly earlier then guess what? You've got the flu. So "I got the flu vaccine and 3 days later I was sick" does NOT mean you got sick from the vaccine, as that isn't enough time for the vaccine to do ANYTHING, even if it DID make you sick (which it doesn't). It means you ALREADY HAD THE FLU.

And of course, if you get a flu strain that isn't one of the 3 or 4 included in the vaccine, then yes, you got the flu despite getting the vaccine. That's how it works!

Makes sense, one question: Is it possible to be allergic to the serum it's based in?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

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perhaps this could be in a podcast this week or the next?

Well, technically God isn't dead.  You have to have been alive first.

[Skm1091]

Well, technically God isn't dead.  You have to have been alive first.

even if there is a god, which one?

[R.E.H.W.R.]

even if there is a god, which one?

Plus, what interpretation of said god?

[MrBogosity]

Makes sense, one question: Is it possible to be allergic to the serum it's based in?

There used to be a problem with people who are allergic to eggs, but I think that's been fixed.

[Dallas Wildman]

Ladies and Gentleman irony:

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Does anyone remember how much this anchor bashed the company over the years?

[evensgrey]

Also, if it's something like an earthquake, they've found that the texts and tweets travel faster than the seismic waves, so people can get at least a LITTLE notice ahead of time.

Some years ago in California a large fraction of fire trucks and ambulances were trapped in their stations following an earthquake due to slight damage jamming the doors. As a result, California installed a system that automatically opens the doors when earthquakes are detected in the area.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

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I hate that my friends decide to send this guy to bug me.

So now I've got someone using Hitler's Table Talk as proof that Hitler was not a christian.

[BlameThe1st]

http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSLiberty/

It combines the two things that I hate: anti-libertarian statists and feminist SJWs. Oh, the horror!

TL;DR: Libertarians are privilege-blind arch-fascists who deserve even less consideration than the openly bigoted right-wing shitheads they pretend to be different from.

Have you recently seen a post by internet Libertarians that dripped from the beard of unexamined privilege and ignorance of basic economics? Of course you have! Post it here so we can all laugh about it.

Arch-fascists? Sweet Celestia. At this point, "fascist" is nothing more than an insult against a politically opponent.

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSLiberty/

It combines the two things that I hate: anti-libertarian statists and feminist SJWs. Oh, the horror!

>>Implying those things were ever different at all.

Arch-fascists? Sweet Celestia. At this point, "fascist" is nothing more than an insult against a political opponent.

You're just realizing this now?

[Skm1091]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2014/03/29/piers-morgan-last-show/7052009/

*Rolls eyes* 

[Skm1091]

http://aattp.org/

Warning the amount of stupid is potentially lethal.

[AnCap Dave]

This asshole

I know you already have BBE and IE, but there should be a segment for general douchebaggery.

[Travis Retriever]

@Skm1091 & D:  You know what they say, better a Tea Bag than a Douchebag.

[Travis Retriever]

I don't want to have to post this here...but damnit, I can't not do it:  http://www.weightrainer.net/training/rules.html
Don't get me wrong, I do generally like Casey's articles, but this one, while it has a lot of good in it, also has a LOT of bogosity in it too.  For one, he pulls the old, "well scientific methods and stuff can't compare to experience!" bullshit we've all heard from parents who spank their children.  And made even more condescending and annoying with an ad hominem/strawman/red herring of, "Just because you know the rules of boxing and the science of it doesn't mean you could take on a professional boxer in the ring. hur dur!"  Um, dude.  NO ONE is saying that.  Get off your high horse, you crotchety, old fuddy duddy.
Does he not see it as arrogant that he believes the 0.0001% of all experiences there are that he has represents all of it?  Without the benefits of scientific theory, falsification, and the like, it's as good as any other anecdote as far as I'm concerned.

And of course, goes into how, "well, I've seen students/grad students just make shit up just to get it published--which is probably most of the stuff you'll read from the scientific articles!  And scientists flat out plagiarize/fabricate stuff to keep getting grants!"  This might also explain the fact that his article only has one reference...Folks, if you have reason to believe a study/etc is bogus, that burden is on you.  Either give a methodological failure on part of the scientists or show another study that, say, wasn't funded by a supplement company or whatever to show it wrong.  But don't throw out all scientific studies like that--when he shows the results of his OWN on his own damn site--and still expect to be taken seriously.  Because now I have to wonder if the other stuff on his site is bogus too.  It's a shame as he's the only person I know of to do decent research into predicting muscular potential.

And of course him saying, "you MUST eat something right before and right after training!" Um, Casey?  That's the "anabolic window 'theory'" that has been long debunked by the likes of folks like Menno Henselmans and Armi Legge.  It's true that fasted training isn't a good idea in general, but come on! You don't need to eat right before/after a workout.  You underestimate just how efficient our bodies are, brofessor.

And some fun contradictions--he says don't waste money on supplements...then gives you a grocery list of them later in the article, he says to avoid machine exercises, while giving at least *one* of those in his trainee exercise program, which, as far as I could tell, he didn't offer an explanation for why he wants a trainee to do Donkey Calf Raises (requires a machine, or at least a person to sit on your back) instead of say, Standing Calf Raises (done with free weights & body weight).  As for the training 3x a week thing, what about folks like me who train 4x a week...but who only train for about 10-20 minutes a session, and who are only doing a section of our body each day (e.g. two days of upper body, two days of lower body)?  And of course the appeals to authority in that section too. *sigh* Not a shred of research presented, just the old "well MY authority can beat up THEIR authority!" pea-cocking bollocks.