krupintupple: oh, i heard this one last weekend, at my dad's place. you should probably get ready to LOL out loud!
Algore = Igor.
Rushbaugh had some old clips back in the day where clinton would rattle off something, and then they'd have "Algore" act like igor.
/dad was tittering like a drunken schoolgirl when he told me this, i explained that while it was almost a decade old, and maybe the original skit was funny, but otherwise it's not really ha ha funny.

Wow, so that's it. Thanks for the info.

Sick burn, Conservatives! Keep reaching for the stars!

Reading the article, I don't think that anyone is advocating 'junk science'. Anyone who takes the word of some blogger over their doctor is an idiot anyways. But for a lot of people, a good cleanse can improve overall well-being. I did one about a month and a half ago, and it definitely brought up my energy levels and had me feeling about as clean and clear as I have in years. The problem, of course, is that most people go right back to their old ways and end up right where they started. Gotta get away from the processed crap and all the meat, eat organic when you can. You'll live longer.

ninjakirby: Lando Lincoln: Algore: ???

Algore: "I'm an idiot."

Maybe it's an Allegory.

Lando Lincoln: DarkLancelot: Wouldn't we hear more about all this undigested meat from coroners if it were true? I've looked it up and there doesn't seem to be any proof to it.

From Elvis Presley's autopsy:

The colon is approximately five to seven feet in length in a person Elvis's size and should have been about two inches in diameter ... however, Elvis's colon was at least three and a half inches in diameter in some places and as large as four and half to five inches in diameter in others ... [T]he megacolon was jam-packed from the base of the descending colon all the way up and halfway across the transverse colon. It was filled with white, chalklike fecal material.

So yeah, you CAN have impacted fecal material clogging you up, but only if you take lots of drugs and eat peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches daily.

And considering where they found him....

Shaggy_C: ghare: That must be why they gave him a Nobel Prize, huh?

He and known terrorist Yassir Arafat are in the same company with their popularity contest prize.

Ahh, in troll mode now, eh, Shag?

Lando Lincoln: Algore: ???

Ra's al Gore?

Some Wapo: drjekel_mrhyde: We have PETA
You have Freepers
We have geekers
You have old geezers
We have truthers
You have birthers
We have bimbos
You have Limbaughs
/Someone add or fix that shiat

"Oh, he's very popular Ed. The PETAs, the Freepers, the geekers, geezers, birthers, truthers, bimbos, Limbaughs - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."

Your post made me think of this. Yeah, my productivity has gone to shiat today.

My off day and I am on my 5th beer already

Shaggy_C: Reading the article, I don't think that anyone is advocating 'junk science'. Anyone who takes the word of some blogger over their doctor is an idiot anyways. But for a lot of people, a good cleanse can improve overall well-being. I did one about a month and a half ago, and it definitely brought up my energy levels and had me feeling about as clean and clear as I have in years. The problem, of course, is that most people go right back to their old ways and end up right where they started. Gotta get away from the processed crap and all the meat, eat organic when you can. You'll live longer.



I'm of the mindset that you could eat cake frosting exclusively as long as you jogged a mile every day.

Which isn't much.

Food is food. Calories are calories. What kills people is our particular sedentary lifestyle.


You ever seen persistence hunting? (new window)

Evolutionarly, Human beings can out run any animal on earth. Yet most of us do nearly nothing all day long.

Lando Lincoln: whyarefartslumpy: I think it might be a takeoff of "Igor", as they have similar characteristics.

Similar characteristics? Such as?

Their fathers were politicians from Tennessee.

Snarfangel Their fathers were politicians from Tennessee.



/hot
//just because

ghare: Shaggy_C: ghare: That must be why they gave him a Nobel Prize, huh?

He and known terrorist Yassir Arafat are in the same company with their popularity contest prize.

Ahh, in troll mode now, eh, Shag?



No. You can't argue to the man.

Saying Al Gore won a Nobel Prize is an argument to association.

Like saying the interstate system is evil because Hitler built the first nationalized highway system.


MFL is wrong, climate science is sound if the power point presentation ain't entirely, but it's got nothing to do with the Nobel Prize.

moralpanic: They're not exactly anti-science. These folks are more science-ignorant.

Ignorance is benign, and can be excused. This crap is willful deception and misrepresentation.

Wheat is murder.



Seriously (new window).

Shaggy_C: Reading the article, I don't think that anyone is advocating 'junk science'. Anyone who takes the word of some blogger over their doctor is an idiot anyways. But for a lot of people, a good cleanse can improve overall well-being. I did one about a month and a half ago, and it definitely brought up my energy levels and had me feeling about as clean and clear as I have in years. The problem, of course, is that most people go right back to their old ways and end up right where they started. Gotta get away from the processed crap and all the meat, eat organic when you can. You'll live longer.

Maybe *you* will. Blanket statements about dietary needs don't take genetic history into account. If I did as you demanded, I'd likely die of starvation.

I'm get-offa-mah-lawn-aged, 6'0", 140 lbs, and eat a diet that makes "Super-Size Me" look healthy -- almost all fatty meats and carbohydrates.

My cholesterol is fine. A colonoscopy a few years ago (investigating a loss of appetite) showed fresh pink tissue all the way up. (It also showed that I was born without an appendix, but that's another tale of genetic superiority....)

It's likely because my family spent over 350 years in Appalachia as subsistence farmers, cooking nearly everything in fat from the animals they raised themselves.

Science has shown that among the Amish, likely due to their lifestyle, there is a gene that leads to more effective fat processing. They've also shown low incidence of heart disease in cultures that survive with fat as a primary food (like Eskimo cultures).

Our dietary needs are as diverse as our cultures and the foods they found. It only takes a few hundred years to bring the genes out.

Not long ago, I was at a spa reading over some stuff on colonic cleansing. The brochure made the point that we take in so many pounds of food per day, but only eliminate a lesser amount -- so the excess has to be stuck inside, right? I turned to the people around me and said "and that's why we all gain a pound every day and now weigh over 2,000 pounds." Blank stares. But I think it would have gone over well as a Fark headline.

DarnoKonrad: I'm of the mindset that you could eat cake frosting exclusively as long as you jogged a mile every day.

Which isn't much.

Food is food. Calories are calories. What kills people is our particular sedentary lifestyle.

I think you greatly overestimate how many calories you burn jogging a mile. You get that many calories eating a spoonful of frosting or so. And my point wasn't about the sheer number of calories - it's the highly processed nature of foods, the preservatives and chemicals that make them bad. That, and the high cholesterol and carbohydrate content associated with the things that taste really good because they were supposed to be rarities...Take potatoes, for example, those were things that you would eat one of in a great while, made for building up bulk whenever fresh greens were scarce and meat was hard to find, are now in almost every effing dish we eat.

DarnoKonrad: You ever seen persistence hunting? (new window)

Evolutionarly, Human beings can out run any animal on earth. Yet most of us do nearly nothing all day long.

Humans who live in communities with no clubbed feet, asthma, bad eyesight, etc.

I don't think the distance they go, their speed, or even their tracking is that badass. It is how far they go with little to no water.

Still a badass video

/except for the sneaker and plastic water bottle part...

Shaggy_C: Reading the article, I don't think that anyone is advocating 'junk science'. Anyone who takes the word of some blogger over their doctor is an idiot anyways. But for a lot of people, a good cleanse can improve overall well-being. I did one about a month and a half ago, and it definitely brought up my energy levels and had me feeling about as clean and clear as I have in years. The problem, of course, is that most people go right back to their old ways and end up right where they started. Gotta get away from the processed crap and all the meat, eat organic when you can. You'll live longer.



"God, it really clears out your head."

"Head? Head? You should go back in there and tell them they're doing it wrong. Well, it was a great lunch and enema, thanks."

Shaggy_C: DarnoKonrad: I'm of the mindset that you could eat cake frosting exclusively as long as you jogged a mile every day.

Which isn't much.

Food is food. Calories are calories. What kills people is our particular sedentary lifestyle.

I think you greatly overestimate how many calories you burn jogging a mile. You get that many calories eating a spoonful of frosting or so. And my point wasn't about the sheer number of calories - it's the highly processed nature of foods, the preservatives and chemicals that make them bad. That, and the high cholesterol and carbohydrate content associated with the things that taste really good because they were supposed to be rarities...Take potatoes, for example, those were things that you would eat one of in a great while, made for building up bulk whenever fresh greens were scarce and meat was hard to find, are now in almost every effing dish we eat.



I agree with your assessment. Cake frosting is a great food to take with you if you're hiking the Appalachian Trail or The Rockies (you need supplements to avoid scurvy of course) because you're burning 5000 calories a day or more.

I'm just saying that generally speaking people are too concerned with 'processed foods' and 'persevatives' over basic exercise considering our evolutionary stock.

GAT_00: 90

You might be on to something there.

Most of the people who deny established science are probably on the right.

On the other hand most of the people who have absolute faith in junk science are on the left.

So it evens out.

liam76: Humans who live in communities with no clubbed feet, asthma, bad eyesight, etc.


I'm just saying don't blame Doritos.

Even if hydrogenated oils are quite terrible for the human body. (those should be outlawed)

It's like people who bad mouth corn syrup -- which chemically identical to honey.

The problem isn't that it's processed into glucose faster, it's that people don't farking move hardly at all compared to our ancestors to use that glucose.

drjekel_mrhyde: My off day and I am on my 5th beer already

(shakes tiny fist)

DarnoKonrad: Shaggy_C: DarnoKonrad: I'm of the mindset that you could eat cake frosting exclusively as long as you jogged a mile every day.

Which isn't much.

Food is food. Calories are calories. What kills people is our particular sedentary lifestyle.

I think you greatly overestimate how many calories you burn jogging a mile. You get that many calories eating a spoonful of frosting or so. And my point wasn't about the sheer number of calories - it's the highly processed nature of foods, the preservatives and chemicals that make them bad. That, and the high cholesterol and carbohydrate content associated with the things that taste really good because they were supposed to be rarities...Take potatoes, for example, those were things that you would eat one of in a great while, made for building up bulk whenever fresh greens were scarce and meat was hard to find, are now in almost every effing dish we eat.



I agree with your assessment. Cake frosting is a great food to take with you if you're hiking the Appalachian Trail or The Rockies (you need supplements to avoid scurvy of course) because you're burning 5000 calories a day or more.

I'm just saying that generally speaking people are too concerned with 'processed foods' and 'persevatives' over basic exercise considering our evolutionary stock.

You forgot to mention GMO foods. Can't over exercise to get rid of random ass DNA and chemicals they're putting in fruit and whatnot.

DarnoKonrad: I'm just saying that generally speaking people are too concerned with 'processed foods' and 'persevatives' over basic exercise considering our evolutionary stock.

Totally agree. A lardass eating a tub of 'organic' ice cream every day isn't doing themselves any favors. It's not good for you, just comparatively less bad, if that makes sense. Still gotta stick with the low fat food groups and exercise is definitely important. I'm on a kick right now trying to run at least 100 miles a month, it's great to be that active. But it would be pointless if I kept eating hamburgers, fries, and wings every night while guzzling 300 calorie dark beers.

Snarfangel:

Maybe it's an Allegory.



Well played.

GAT_00: No, but I'd say that 90+% are on the right.

[citation needed]

and

When has the ICC ever been abused?

Shaggy_C: Totally agree. A lardass eating a tub of 'organic' ice cream every day isn't doing themselves any favors. It's not good for you, just comparatively less bad, if that makes sense. Still gotta stick with the low fat food groups and exercise is definitely important. I'm on a kick right now trying to run at least 100 miles a month, it's great to be that active. But it would be pointless if I kept eating hamburgers, fries, and wings every night while guzzling 300 calorie dark beers.

I run close to that when I am training for a marathon.

And I only do it so I can eat hamburgers, fries, and wings pizzas every night while guzzling 300 calorie dark beers and rum.

ghare
That must be why they gave him a Nobel Prize, huh?

I'll believe what nobel prize winner Al Gore said about global warming if you believe what nobel prize winner Milton Friedman said about economics. Deal?

MFL: if you believe what nobel prize winner Milton Friedman said about economics. Deal?

Sure. But he's dead. So we only have the neo-liberals left to guess what that might be.

Greenspan, Paulson, and Bernanke have all weighed in. Hands off didn't work out so hot.


Here's a quote for you from Keynesian days past:

The job of the Federal Reserve is "to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going," -- William McChesney Martin, Jr. Fed chair from 1951-1970

At time known as the Middle Class Renaissance.

Shaggy_C I'm on a kick right now trying to run at least 100 miles a month

Wow that's impressive Shaggy. You training for something? or just doing it for shiats and giggles.

I used to run 15 miles a week and pump iron 5 times a week...now I just think about doing it after I get a half dozen pilsners in me.

Is the Obvious tag out protesting the latest nuclear power plant construction?

BiblioTech: As someone who has a colonoscopy scheduled for Monday, I am NOT getting a kick out of this thread.

Have fun on Sunday, but eat a low-protein diet on Saturday, and it will be less "traumatic"
At least the drugs they give you for the procedure are good.

DarnoKonrad: Greenspan, Paulson, and Bernanke have all weighed in. Hands off didn't work out so hot.

And then they put their hands in just as all of those failures of businesses were about to fail and said, "We'll try to save you unimaginative failures because we need your failure!! We might even make some money!!"

Just when the market was going to correct itself, the government stepped in and said that the market failed to protect everyone from getting hurt, except people get hurt anyway, we won't likely make any money, and if we do, it's not the government's job to try and fix it anyway (in my opinion).

Guess what, if we made it a habit of giving convicted felons money, a pat on the back, a stern "Don't do that again, OK?", and told them we'd garnish their wages until they'd pay us back, do you think they would go back to being productive members of society? Or do you think they'd run away with their money in-hand? I know what I'd do...

Anyway, the point is that my belief is that the government is here to make sure that people uphold their ends of contracts. Regulations exist to make sure that they are doing what they can do have the ability to fulfill their contracts (ie must keep a certain amount of reserves for banks or insurance). I think that this approach is a much better way to start.

We can't stop all felons from committing crimes (in fact, by definition we can't stop any), but we can actually punish them after they do.

Lenny_da_Hog: I'll forgive all if Arianna Huffington agrees to speak only with a Steven Hawkings-style voice synthesizer from now on.

/most annoying voice ever
//and that includes Fran Drescher

That's weird. I think she has the greatest accent ever. I could listen to her read the phone book and find it relaxing as hell.

BiblioTech: museisluse: BiblioTech: As someone who has a colonoscopy scheduled for Monday, I am NOT getting a kick out of this thread.

Have fun on Sunday, but eat a low-protein diet on Saturday, and it will be less "traumatic"
At least the drugs they give you for the procedure are good.

Thanks for the advice. My husband went through it a couple of weeks ago (the joys of turning 50 together) so at least I have some clue. Sounds like the drugs may be the same ones I had when I had my frozen shoulder ripped free. They asked what I remembered of that and I said the IV and coming around in the recovery room. They said I should be good to go then.

As someone who has experienced an undrugged colonoscopy, I saw the squeeky clean inside of my colon and lost a pound at most after the nuclear laxative and double enema prep. This 10lb business is complete horseshiat promoted by people who just get off on enemas. (NTTAWWT) I would also point out that I eat a very meat heavy diet. Good luck on Monday, the drugs are a godsend.

Speaking of colons, my cousin kept having these terrible stomach cramps. After a few doctors and tests, she decided to go to a natural healer, who proceeded to tell her that she was allergic to meat. So she went vegetarian, which worked for awhile because of the placebo, but then her pain came back. Finally she went to another doctor who suggested that maybe she had a slow digestive tract and that drinking laxatives everyday would help. She hasn't had pain since.

Also, the phrase anti-science is very vague. I prefer the term anti-empiricism.

I just wish the proponents of woo-woo healing would stop portraying western medicine in a bad light and accusing real doctors of trying to keep people sick. No doctor wants to see people die of cancer and if there was some herb they could give you or magic diet that would make you better they would.

I blame this guy for most of this attitude

drjekel_mrhyde: We have truthers
You have birthers

"We" do not have truthers.


They belong to the universe.

dogcow69: I just wish the proponents of woo-woo healing would stop portraying western medicine in a bad light and accusing real doctors of trying to keep people sick. No doctor wants to see people die of cancer and if there was some herb they could give you or magic diet that would make you better they would.

I blame this guy for most of this attitude

It doesn't help that the whole Woo Movement is just another extension of anti-intellectualism disguised with an unhealthy dose of anti-corporatism. They can scream Big Pharma all they want, but their methods of misusing the word 'organic' and demonizing 'frankenfood' is almost the same as demonizing 'liberal' and 'the Left.' A case could be made here for the whole extremists being of both sides, but let's keep in mind that anti-intellectualism is a main Right Wing cause and the Woo Movement, at its heart, believes in misinformation so much that it's hard to call it liberal, progressive, or anything near the true extreme left-wing.