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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    well, duh! Someone got paid to do this research?
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    Alcohol ads with pro-drinking comments on Facebook boost desire to drink, study finds

    Date:
    November 14, 2018
    Source:
    Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
    Summary:
    Alcohol advertisements on social media sites such as Facebook can increase young adults' desire to drink if the ads contain pro-drinking comments from users, according to new research.
    Ya think?  

    :o 

    So that's why little Junior drinks!  Thank goodness!  I thought we were going to have to blame ourselves!  I knew it had to be somebody else's fault.  Whew!  Close one, we almost had to take responsibility.

    :#
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I want to do a study on the effects of having unlimited funds to buy what I want.
    It's a scientific study, of course.
    All data will be compiled and published.

    Hey, it could happen.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sovereign Citizens
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2018
    0patience said:
    I want to do a study on the effects of having unlimited funds to buy what I want.
    It's a scientific study, of course.
    All data will be compiled and published.

    Hey, it could happen.
    I think that's been done, it was called "The Elvis Presley Story".  There was a sequel, "Michael Jackson, King of Pop".
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2018
    Stan Lee passed away.
    Bill Maher takes the time to insult his life and his fans.
    Bill Maher should go back to delivering pizzas.
  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Every generation has tried to bring along the good parts of their youth. Is that a surprise? From rock and roll to whatever, we have all done it. Is that a surprise?
    But for Bill maher to insult someone who has just passed away, someone with more intelligence and creativity then he will ever have, just for the sake of laughs from a bunch of deak head xxxxxxx is so far over the top it is disgusting, it can not be justified.
  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stopped watching or listening to bill maher long ago.

    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
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    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SNOWFLAKE Alert

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/leeds-trinity-university-staff-told-not-to-use-dont-or-frightening-capitals

    University staff told not to use ‘don’t’ or ‘frightening’ capital letters


  • YankeeMan
    YankeeMan Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jd50ae said:
    SNOWFLAKE Alert

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/leeds-trinity-university-staff-told-not-to-use-dont-or-frightening-capitals

    University staff told not to use ‘don’t’ or ‘frightening’ capital letters


    I saw that this morning.  As a college instructor, it makes me mad and sad at the same time.  We have to prepare students for the real world.  There are some mean people out there and they will not allow you to go off to a safe room with a stuffed animal and "feel better."
  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YankeeMan said:
    jd50ae said:
    SNOWFLAKE Alert

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/leeds-trinity-university-staff-told-not-to-use-dont-or-frightening-capitals

    University staff told not to use ‘don’t’ or ‘frightening’ capital letters


    I saw that this morning.  As a college instructor, it makes me mad and sad at the same time.  We have to prepare students for the real world.  There are some mean people out there and they will not allow you to go off to a safe room with a stuffed animal and "feel better."
    I won't be here to see it but you mark my words, the next generation and this kind of weenie BS and the liberals will turn this country on its head, it will be socialist and a complete failure. Preppers may very well be on to something.
  • deadman
    deadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Had an engineer mad yesterday because we didn’t give him credit for years worked at his previous job to count towards getting his extra week of vacation with us. 

     :/   I just looked at him and said really.
  • Hawkeye
    Hawkeye Posts: 246 ✭✭✭✭
    Just tell him that is something you ask for in negotiations before you accept a new job.  After you accept a job on specific terms you lose the right to complain about it IMO.
    Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    now that you've hired me I demand to work less for the same pay.
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Couple hundred frozen turtles washed up on the beach in Massachusetts. 



    ... and, yes, they do find a way to blame frozen turtles on global warming.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    happens here every year, if there is unseasonably cold weather it is worse. It's useless to discuss the issue of climate change, people believe what they want.
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    happens here every year, if there is unseasonably cold weather it is worse. It's useless to discuss the issue of climate change, people believe what they want.
    Really? You're saying it's normal?
    Kinda makes this event fake news, then.


    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    happens here every year, if there is unseasonably cold weather it is worse. It's useless to discuss the issue of climate change, people believe what they want.
    Really? You're saying it's normal?
    Kinda makes this event fake news, then.


    OMG! Fake news?
    They would never do that.
    They would never twist information around to mislead us.
    What is this world coming to? 
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,612 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So, there were no frozen turtles?
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  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pennsylvania woman claims she drove on train tracks because GPS told her to go that way

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-woman-claims-she-drove-on-train-tracks-because-gps-told-her-to-go-that-way

    College graduate?
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds about right.....  
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    wow
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Florida (where else) man reportedly stabbed woman in head with fork over undercooked potato

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-reportedly-stabbed-woman-in-head-with-fork-over-undercooked-potato

    I'm torn on this one. Good reason or not?
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

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    Whatcha think about this? This one is from a nurse I know. I think it's funny, maybe you do too. But if she was caring for your sick vulnerable family member, does that change how you might feel about it? And what if you were her employer, and you saw this? Everybody's so easily offended these days, are they firing nurses/doctors/police for posting dark humor stuff like this?
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,612 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jd50ae said:
    Florida (where else) man reportedly stabbed woman in head with fork over undercooked potato

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-reportedly-stabbed-woman-in-head-with-fork-over-undercooked-potato

    I'm torn on this one. Good reason or not?

    He was reportedly arrested?

    Bob_Luken said:

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    Whatcha think about this? This one is from a nurse I know. I think it's funny, maybe you do too. But if she was caring for your sick vulnerable family member, does that change how you might feel about it? And what if you were her employer, and you saw this? Everybody's so easily offended these days, are they firing nurses/doctors/police for posting dark humor stuff like this?

    Funny
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bob_Luken said:

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    Whatcha think about this? This one is from a nurse I know. I think it's funny, maybe you do too. But if she was caring for your sick vulnerable family member, does that change how you might feel about it? And what if you were her employer, and you saw this? Everybody's so easily offended these days, are they firing nurses/doctors/police for posting dark humor stuff like this?
    I'd be more concerned about the nurse who didn't have a sense of humor.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.