Fail Quotes

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

I made the mistake of reading the comments. Sweet Celestia, the stupidity burns like the sun!

I assume that these people are against monopolies, yet they are perfectly fine with the USPS holding a monopoly on postal service. Doy!

Considering the Post Office still expects you to be home when they deliver packages, when UPS and FEDEX stop doing that years ago.

[BogosityForumUser]

Considering the Post Office still expects you to be home when they deliver packages, when UPS and FEDEX stop doing that years ago.

You can have USPS deliver without requiring you to be home.  You can also have it so that UPS and FEDEX only deliver when you are home or designate special instructions, such as to leave them with neighbors or back porch.  In our neighborhood, most people have them hold them for pickup or get packages sent to the office because package theft is insanely common.

[Dukect45]

Why is Ring of Honor letting Roderick Strong have promo time he isn't good at promos he will never be good at promos

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[evensgrey]

Considering the Post Office still expects you to be home when they deliver packages, when UPS and FEDEX stop doing that years ago.

Canada Post doesn't deliver to my home, and we're RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the damn local office.  At least they don't expect me to pay for the mail box (which is supposed to be available 24/7, but the lobby is locked when they're closed down).

Oh, and even more fun, door-to-door delivery in towns is going away for EVERYONE.  Despite the fact this means 8000 fewer postal workers, Canada Post expects to still hire another 8000 people in the next 5 years (instead of 16000).  (Rural delivery is done by contractors instead of Canada Post employees anyway.)  When I order packages that don't come by mail, they get delivered right to my doorway, regardless of carrier.

I'm really hoping Amazon will start using drone delivery in my part of Canada, at least in good weather.  Not because I want things that much faster, but because it would just be really cool (and you can order damn near anything on Amazon these days).

[Travis Retriever]

A bit of a fail from Jason Fennec from this video's comment section:  "If your theory doesn't account for everything, it is either incomplete or wrong.  It most certainly is not a fact."--Um, no, a theory doesn't have to account for *everything.*  Hell, even evolution, the most proven of all scientific theories has things it can't account for and would potentially falsify it (fossilized bunnies in the Precambrian strata!).  A theory that explains everything, explains nothing as a wise man once said.  Still, judging by the full quote posted below, he might have meant differently, but it's such a common train of thought, I had to include here...nothing personal meant to him.

For full context, here's the entire quote: 

"I stated was how the actual political spectrums are."

That would be your political theory.  Considering that these concepts are abstract, I strongly question your use of "are" when we can't agree on how meaningful your spectrum is.  If your theory doesn't account for everything, it is either incomplete or wrong.  It most certainly is not a fact. 

A better political theory would be the two dimensional Nolan Chart.

The video:  [yt]e2-sURYO1Bo[/yt]

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

You can have USPS deliver without requiring you to be home.  You can also have it so that UPS and FEDEX only deliver when you are home or designate special instructions, such as to leave them with neighbors or back porch.  In our neighborhood, most people have them hold them for pickup or get packages sent to the office because package theft is insanely common.

Not in my neck of the woods. The post office openly refuses to drop stuff off unless you are home, I've tried.

[MrBogosity]

They always drop it off for me. I guess it varies.

[evensgrey]

Writing about _The Sixth Sense_

The big reveal, of course, came at the end of the picture, when young Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) realises that his therapist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), has been dead all along.

No, you blithering idiot!  Have you not seen the damn movie?  The big reveal is when CROWE realizes he's been dead since the opening scene!

[Travis Retriever]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=152402633
Any kind of momscience (much like broscience) is a huge fail.  Bonus bogons if it starts with them trying to refute your points with, "But Dr. Oz said..."

BRB cardio, not creating a caloric deficit is how you lose weight...
BRB If I eat before bed I'll feel like crap in the morning because the food turns into alcohol in my stomach as it doesn't get digested while I'm sleeping and makes me hungover when I wake up. (I wish I was making that one up).
brb eating a dozen eggs in a day is too expensive and unhealthy/gorging/ridiculous...despite the fact that they cost less than $2 a dozen if look for the cheapest (even AFTER inflation) and is only like, 840 Calories...while my mom buys the expensive organic, cage free brown eggs...that are identical in nutritional data. Gourmet bling ftw...
BRB organic/all natural is better for health and the environment...just like how snake venom, arsenic and HIV are better for your health...and how naturally occurring fecal matter that attracts lots of snakes is good for the environment...pay no mind to the roaches and the people dying of sepsis and snake bites...
BRB pesticides and "chemicals" cause cancer

The following from my (former) dietician *sigh*
You MUST have carbs every day or you'll lose brain and organ tissue. I'm working with my professor and Doctor Oz (yes, THAT Doctor Oz) on stuff about this. And you must eat within 2 hours of getting up for the same reason.
Avoid saturated/"bad" fats...
Don't eat more than 3 eggs a week
You MUST eat within 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after a workout, or your muscles will break down and/or you'll experience health problems!(?)
supplements are bad, they cause kidney damage!
Needless to say I don't plan on scheduling another appointment with this dingbat anytime soon.

And of course, the folks on the bodybuilding.com forums who are apparently naturopaths:  http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=121933221
Meat with Estrogen? The fuck does that even mean?  And really? That stuff is the reason why we're getting cancer? Bitch, please, people were getting cancer LONG before those chemicals were a thing.  And sorry, but anecdotes are not evidence.  As Hawkeye and I have shown, organic food is a scam.  Deal with it.

I could go on...but yeah...you'd think these people would be familiar with the spam principle: If I didn't ask for your input, I don't want it. Nobody likes spam--it's no good.
Or the story of the boy who cried wolf. I mean, after crying "THIS WILL KILL YOU!" & it not happening for the 9001st time, they shouldn't be surprised when people stop listening to them. I'm just sick of the scaremongering. It's food, not drugs or medication. That level of micromanagement is NOT required and is even counterproductive.

[dallen68]

the food turns into alcohol in my stomach as it doesn't get digested while I'm sleeping and makes me hungover when I wake up. (I wish I was making that one up).

I wish that one was true! I'd be like all "bedtime? Nom, nom, nom"

[Travis Retriever]

I wish that one was true! I'd be like all "bedtime? Nom, nom, nom"

You just made my day with that one. +1 cluons for you.

And yeah, if I seem a bit bitter/annoyed regarding health stuff, well, it doesn't help that both my parents--mom especially--tends to dismiss the beautifully sourced information I find online regarding health (unless it fits something they like/want/agree with, natch) as crazy stuff from a kook; often while my mom says, "when you get lean, you'll see the truth and god will be back in you and you'll see through bullshit." all while she and dad watch Dr. Oz for years and are really getting into his show in recent weeks...Yeah, it's called having a bullshit detector in the form of thinking like a skeptic.  Why don't you try it sometime?  And yeah, I ain't going to be a theist again.  Sorry. Will not happen.  Especially after having done the blasphemy challenge.  So even if it is real *and* I went back to it, I'd be going to hell regardless. 

[Travis Retriever]

And mom talking about how there was an article about someone who died from caffeine.  OD'ed on it and had the equivalent of 25 cups of coffee.  And making a stupid comment about how, "And of course someone has to die before that start regulating this stuff." and how, "Oh! All these young people are using it as a drug to lose weight!" (yeah, because they weren't already? Gimme a fucking break) Yeah, because they weren't already regulating the shit to begin with, right? Gimme a fucking break.  You mean like how they regulated banking and everything went awesome and there was no crisis? It's like Harry Browne once said.  This is how government grows.  Government fucks up things by meddling where it had no right to do so, and turns on the propaganda and gets people to believe it was a "lack of government intervention" that caused the problem, lather rinse repeat.  Really, those are feel good policies...like prayer.  No, actually, it's even worse, because at least prayer does nothing.  Government actually harms.

[dallen68]

And mom talking about how there was an article about someone who died from caffeine.  OD'ed on it and had the equivalent of 25 cups of coffee.  And making a stupid comment about how, "And of course someone has to die before that start regulating this stuff." and how, "Oh! All these young people are using it as a drug to lose weight!" (yeah, because they weren't already? Gimme a fucking break) Yeah, because they weren't already regulating the shit to begin with, right? Gimme a fucking break.  You mean like how they regulated banking and everything went awesome and there was no crisis? It's like Harry Browne once said.  This is how government grows.  Government fucks up things by meddling where it had no right to do so, and turns on the propaganda and gets people to believe it was a "lack of government intervention" that caused the problem, lather rinse repeat.  Really, those are feel good policies...like prayer.  No, actually, it's even worse, because at least prayer does nothing.  Government actually harms.

I actually think you'd have to drink more coffee than that to OD on it, 25 cups is only 2 pots. I think you'd get there faster if you just ate a box of no-doze.

That being out of the way, there's also the problem of... Not only does the government regulate, it half-ass regulates so that at some future point, they'll be something else to regulate. Take for instance food labeling. Time was you saw "Chicken Soup" on a can, you trusted it was chicken soup. Then someone said "oh, we have to know what's in the chicken soup", so somebody passed a regulation that said ingredients had to be listed. It doesn't have to be in any particular order.

Eventually, somebody figured out that it didn't have to be in any particular order, so they said "we need to know the nutritional content of the chicken soup", so somebody pulled nutrition label regulation out of the ether. Except, the manufacturer can use any portion they want and call it a serving, and you have to piece together for yourself what the nutrition actually is... Much like you would if there wasn't a label... If you were to go into your cupboard right now, and took the labels at face value, I bet dollars to donuts the breakfast cereal is the most nutritious thing in there, and the fucking doritos are second. Everything else is Iron, Vit A, Vit D, Calcium... And once in a great while something else.

But of course now somebody's worked out that the nutrition label is useless without a standard serving to compare, so... Guess what? They are now working on regulating what a serving is....

[Travis Retriever]

I actually think you'd have to drink more coffee than that to OD on it, 25 cups is only 2 pots. I think you'd get there faster if you just ate a box of no-doze.

That being out of the way, there's also the problem of... Not only does the government regulate, it half-ass regulates so that at some future point, they'll be something else to regulate. Take for instance food labeling. Time was you saw "Chicken Soup" on a can, you trusted it was chicken soup. Then someone said "oh, we have to know what's in the chicken soup", so somebody passed a regulation that said ingredients had to be listed. It doesn't have to be in any particular order.

Eventually, somebody figured out that it didn't have to be in any particular order, so they said "we need to know the nutritional content of the chicken soup", so somebody pulled nutrition label regulation out of the ether. Except, the manufacturer can use any portion they want and call it a serving, and you have to piece together for yourself what the nutrition actually is... Much like you would if there wasn't a label... If you were to go into your cupboard right now, and took the labels at face value, I bet dollars to donuts the breakfast cereal is the most nutritious thing in there, and the fucking doritos are second. Everything else is Iron, Vit A, Vit D, Calcium... And once in a great while something else.

But of course now somebody's worked out that the nutrition label is useless without a standard serving to compare, so... Guess what? They are now working on regulating what a serving is....

If it wasn't clear, the EQUIVALENT of 25 cups of coffee.  I think she said it was pure caffeine--in anhydrous powder form being used as a weight loss supplement--that was in his system.

[AnCap Dave]

This asshole.

I donate occasionally to varying purposes, but mostly to those who stand near to me. Multiple scelerosis is one of them, cancer is another and drugs and alcohol addiction a third. As a medical student, I am curious if you have a source to the doctors or scientists that have claimed to have a 99% chance of reaching a cure, through funding. While it is tragic, the reason why a government is not willing to support a health initiative, is usually because there is too little evidence to support that there will be found a cure, and that the money will be able to save more lives if spent in a different health sector. It is a definite amount of money, that has to be delegated by means they deem most cost effective. If every genetic disease were to be researched extensively upon, then the cost would be too much to handle. Grave, but true.

So before I engage myself into donations, I want more intel on the people claiming they will be able to find a cure for certain, and that they indeed need donations because the governments are falsified and mistaken.