Fail Quotes

[Ibrahim90]

OK...I am going to have to call bullshit on the age.

[Travis Retriever]

OK...I am going to have to call bullshit on the age.

Especially when the oldest--verified--human lived to about 122 years old, according to Genius World Records:  http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/1/oldest-person-%28female%29
And even if it WAS true that Li Ching-Yuen loved that old: one data point does not, a trend make.  So double fail.

[MrBogosity]

OK...I am going to have to call bullshit on the age.

That myth's been going around awhile. It's been as debunked as it can be. I think even the Guiness World Records people investigated it.

[Ibrahim90]

That myth's been going around awhile. It's been as debunked as it can be. I think even the Guiness World Records people investigated it.

I figured. I'm interested though in seeing how anyone would honestly think that a guy could live that long.

[BogosityForumUser]

I figured. I'm interested though in seeing how anyone would honestly think that a guy could live that long.

Many people who would laugh at even the thought of that guy living anywhere near that age also think that Methuselah lived to 969, among other long-lived Biblical figures.

[Ibrahim90]

Many people who would laugh at even the thought of that guy living anywhere near that age also think that Methuselah lived to 969, among other long-lived Biblical figures.

that makes even less sense: they'll disbelieve a guy living to be 256, but not a guy living to be 969?

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

that makes even less sense: they'll disbelieve a guy living to be 256, but not a guy living to be 969?

But there was more oxygen in those days.
(channeling my inner Kent Hovind.)

[dallen68]

that makes even less sense: they'll disbelieve a guy living to be 256, but not a guy living to be 969?

But back then, a year only averaged 8 months by our standards! (Because they went by the apparent position of the sun, moon and stars & a "day" was sunset to sunset. [why it wouldn't be sunrise to sunrise  ]

[evensgrey]

Many people who would laugh at even the thought of that guy living anywhere near that age also think that Methuselah lived to 969, among other long-lived Biblical figures.

Methuselah is, IIRC, one of the more obvious contradictions in the Bible as well.  He's stated as living to 969, his age when his son is born is given, the age his son was when Noah was born is given, and the age Noah was when he finished his storage crate (the word translated as 'ark' in this story is the exact same word translated as 'ark' in the phrase 'Ark of the Covenant' and denotes a box used to hold things, so Noah's ark was not a boat of any kind, just a big wooden box, which matches the description given perfectly) and God killed all humans except Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives (note this specifically requires Methuselah to have died as well) us given as well, and when you do the addition Methuselah wasn't 969 yet when this happened.

How did this escape notice?  Well, the thing to keep in mind is that the people editing together the random selection of folk tales, nursery rhymes, poems, folk songs, ritual chants, etc. into what became the Torah weren't all that good at it.  There are numerous repetitions of things like the promising of Canaan to Israel, people abruptly have their names changed for no reason apparent inside the story (and almost certainly because the editors just mashed multiple stories together in a very crude fashion and barely noticed that the names weren't the same and that they repeated important events), versions of stories from different places or different periods were mashed together and were written to express different ideas about what aspects were important or what specifically was considered more sacred or more mystical at the time (say, Noah bringing in pairs of animals, but also bringing in seven of certain animals, or seven pairs of certain animals, and these decisions being made with reference to dietary rules that Noah couldn't possible know about because they aren't given until many centuries later according to the stories as written).

With all this editorial chaos going on, it's not surprising that nobody bothered doing the math to notice that even small sections of the text didn't make sense.

[Travis Retriever]

When I showed mom these two articles:
http://www.wannabebig.com/diet-and-nutrition/the-dirt-on-clean-eating/
http://evidencemag.com/clean-eating/

And her response in terms of clean eating was, "Oh, I was talking about what the Bible says--don't eat pork, don't eat the blood and organs.  God made us, so he should know what we should eat!"
*headdesk* 
She also thinks I'll "see the light and return to God" when I thin down.  Yeah, she can keep dreaming.

[dallen68]

Massive enviro-scare bogons here:

http://t.healthyliving.msn.com/health-wellness/men/sex/12-unhealthy-products-all-guys-should-avoid

Get your Free Bogons here!

[Travis Retriever]

Massive enviro-scare bogons here:

http://t.healthyliving.msn.com/health-wellness/men/sex/12-unhealthy-products-all-guys-should-avoid

Get your Free Bogons here!

I'll say! Hell, I stopped skimming as soon as I saw this: "#5: Nonorganic Food"
@The article's author:
http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AR_Organic-Marketing-Report_Print.pdf
Organic farming is a hoax to sell worse quality crops for a jacked up price by tugging people's heartstrings.  You've been duped, now stop throwing your money away on hippie, voodoo nonsense and start paying attention to REAL scientists like the late Norman Borlaugh who's work in agriculture is credited with saving a billion lives from starvation.  Can your dippy organic store claim that? I didn't think so.

[BlameThe1st]

This is the top rated image on r/political humor right now:



Except that libertarians want to get rid of the boot altogether, assuming that the boot represents the government.

[Travis Retriever]

This is the top rated image on r/political humor right now:



Except that libertarians want to get rid of the boot altogether, assuming that the boot represents the government.

@The image's OP:  Projection so hard we could summon batman from the moon.

[BlameThe1st]

This is the top rated image on r/political humor right now:



Except that libertarians want to get rid of the boot altogether, assuming that the boot represents the government.

I actually decided to register on reddit just so I could comment on this. This was my reply:

Replace "libertarians" with "statists" and this would actually be accurate.

Thing is, libertarians want to get rid of the boot. Statists assume that the boot would be better off on another foot. (The right foot is pushing down too hard? Let's try the left one!)

That comment recieved -11 karma. And these were the replies I recieved:

No. They want to get rid of the state boot, while titanium plating the corporate boot on the other foot.

And:

no they don't. they don't want to get rid of it at all. they want to own it with the rest of the corporate fuckheads and grind anyone who speaks against big corporate into the dust.

Funny that these people agree that government tyranny is wrong, but they are more than willing to tolerate it if it protects them from "corporate tyranny," which does not exist. So they are willing to tolerate literal tyranny if it mean being protected from a hypothetical tyranny. And they say we're not living in reality?