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(Huffington Post) Amusing "I don't really like the beach. I hate sharks, and the water's all whale sperm. That's why the ocean's salty," and other scientifically-challenged gems from 2011   (huffingtonpost.com) divider line 69
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2011-12-28 09:23:59 AM
No, honey, you're talking about your hair.
 
2011-12-28 09:28:59 AM
FTFA Simon Boxall, a marine expert and oceanographer dismissed Polizzi's suggestion. "It would take a lot of whale sperm to make the sea that salty," he said

How does this guy know that whale sperm is salty?
 
2011-12-28 09:39:23 AM
insertdip: FTFA Simon Boxall, a marine expert and oceanographer dismissed Polizzi's suggestion. "It would take a lot of whale sperm to make the sea that salty," he said

How does this guy know that whale sperm is salty?


venturebrosblog.com

I was really looking for Troy McClure in his aquarium-adorned bedroom, but this seemed so much better.
 
2011-12-28 09:41:53 AM
Despite the fact that both have equal qualifications for the office, very few people support Snooki for President as opposed to the distressingly large number of asspipes who think Bachmann should be in charge of the free world.
 
2011-12-28 09:52:59 AM
The girl knows her sperm
 
2011-12-28 09:56:30 AM
Dead for Tax Reasons: The girl knows her sperm

To her, they are sacred.
 
2011-12-28 10:58:39 AM
Bethany Hamilton approves.
 
2011-12-28 10:59:09 AM
"A woman's foot may be in this position during orgasm, but that does not mean that putting her foot into this position under other circumstances will result in orgasm,"

if only it were that easy...
 
2011-12-28 11:00:21 AM
Suzi Quatro? Leather Tuscadero is still around and people are listening to the things she says?
 
2011-12-28 11:01:37 AM
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Can't taste salt
 
2011-12-28 11:02:05 AM
I_Am_Weasel: Dead for Tax Reasons: The girl knows her sperm

To her, they are sacred.


Only in her eyes.
 
2011-12-28 11:02:06 AM
JNowe: Suzi Quatro? Leather Tuscadero is still around and people are listening to the things she says?

No shiat. Who the fark dug HER up?
 
2011-12-28 11:04:42 AM
I hate when articles are written this way... just give me the gaffs. I don't need them sprinkled about in miles and miles of scientific rebuttal.
 
2011-12-28 11:08:19 AM
Sharks are nature's garde-fous. They save more fool lives from drowning than they ever take.
 
2011-12-28 11:08:47 AM
Lord_Dubu: I hate when articles are written this way... just give me the gaffs. I don't need them sprinkled about in miles and miles of scientific rebuttal.

Total word count of article: 531

And why the fark link to HuffPo when Reuters is the source?

/p.s. gaffes
 
2011-12-28 11:14:11 AM
FTFA - ""Sore throats do not come from your colon; they are caused by viruses that come in through your nose and mouth. Taking 'colon cleansers' has no beneficial effect on your throat - or on your colon.""

tvmedia.ign.com


ORLY?
 
2011-12-28 11:14:37 AM
Should have used the Daily Mail link, just for the amusement of the headline

Rubbished! Stars who peddle 'silly science' to cure our ailments
 
2011-12-28 11:15:36 AM
All sperm is salty. Like blood, it contains the same concentration of salts as ocean water. But if there is a causal connection, it goes the other way: from the oceans we have come, carrying the oceans in our blood.

There simply aren't enough sea mammals to make the oceans salty, although there are enough humans to make the oceans less salty by pumping fossil water and melting glaciers and ice caps. On the other hand, we are causing more salt to flow into the oceans as well through irrigating large areas of land and producing a lot of industrial, agricultural and residential waste, so it is taking really large volumes of melting ice to dilute the oceans. All the sea mammals combined just don't match the volume of water being moved for the first time in thousands or millions of years since it was deposited on or under the ground.
 
2011-12-28 11:16:31 AM
What's important is that these things feel true. How factual they are is far less important than how factual they feel. Feelings matter more than knowledge or science. No 9/11 connection or WMD's, and yet we all feel great about our decade-long invasion of Iraq. That's all the proof you will ever need.

Feelings: close enough to science for most of us.
 
2011-12-28 11:18:06 AM
Hmm, Michele Bachmann and Snooki made bizarre, false statements? Must have been a day ending in the letter "y".
 
2011-12-28 11:21:55 AM
"I used to get a lot of sore throats and then one of my sisters told me that all illnesses start in the colon. I started taking a daily colon cleanser powder mixed with fresh juice every morning and it made an enormous difference," Quatro told the Daily Mail newspaper.

Where the hell did she have her mouth?

<paradox>
Of course with a claim like that, it's obvious she's talking out of her ass ... so maybe there's something to it after all.
</paradox>
 
2011-12-28 11:22:31 AM
I don't drink water. Fish poop fark in it. W.C. Fields
 
2011-12-28 11:23:25 AM
boobsrgood: They don't even come close to feeling correct, to anyone with at least a lick-and-a-half of common sense. That's what's so frightening.
 
2011-12-28 11:28:11 AM
runcible spork: And why the fark link to HuffPo when Reuters is the source?

For the flamewar potential.
 
2011-12-28 11:28:57 AM
Link (new window)I fed my Ice Cream to a shark, and now I have nothing to eat....................
 
2011-12-28 11:31:29 AM
I_Am_Weasel: Dead for Tax Reasons: The girl knows her sperm

To her, they are sacred.


Every sperm? Every sperm is sacred?
 
2011-12-28 11:32:37 AM
Did anyone else notice that the top 3 offenders are all women.
This must mean that women are mentally inferior to men. Therefore, these women must be wrong, which invalidates my theory......wait.

/It's science.
//Also, what the hell is a "Snooki"?
 
2011-12-28 11:32:56 AM
Is it wrong that I would like to see every person associated with Jersey Shore deported and possible shot at the border?
 
2011-12-28 11:35:31 AM
Snooki, Michele Bachmann Make Worst Scientific Claims Of 2011

Looks like Michele just found her running-mate.
 
2011-12-28 11:36:58 AM
The $25000 Dodecahedron: Is it wrong that I would like to see every person associated with Jersey Shore deported and possible shot at the border out of a cannon into the sun?

Fixed that for..well, everyone, really.
 
2011-12-28 11:37:16 AM
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2011-12-28 11:38:15 AM
Mr. Coffee Nerves: Despite the fact that both have equal qualifications for the office, very few people support Snooki for President as opposed to the distressingly large number of asspipes who think Bachmann should be in charge of the free world.

Where did Snooki get her two post-graduate degrees? What district does she represent in Congress?

/There's enough about Bachmann to hate; there's no need to go full retard.
 
2011-12-28 11:38:19 AM
But what about the ocean tides?
www.blogcdn.com
 
2011-12-28 11:39:01 AM
Well I know when I need my science I go to a celebrity or politician. Because who needs them scienticians.
 
2011-12-28 11:39:43 AM
Ostman: //Also, what the hell is a "Snooki"?

A "Snooki" is an Oompa Loompa when set loose in the wild.
 
2011-12-28 11:41:57 AM
What about this gem?

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2011-12-28 11:42:04 AM
Oh, it's HuffPost. Never worth the effort to click.
 
2011-12-28 11:44:49 AM
Mr_Ectomy: What about this gem?

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Because Christians never pee.
 
2011-12-28 11:46:28 AM
Mr_Ectomy: What about this gem?

Hahahahahaha!
 
2011-12-28 11:47:38 AM
Mr. Coffee Nerves: Despite the fact that both have equal qualifications for the office, very few people support Snooki for President as opposed to the distressingly large number of asspipes who think Bachmann should be in charge of the free world.

She polls anywhere from 6-10 percent, which, even without a farking snowballs chance in my mom's basement, is alarmingly high. Are fringe elements growing, or is stupidity just at an all time high?
 
2011-12-28 11:49:08 AM
Page contains an auto-playing Flash ad. Not reading.

/will try the Reuters link upthread later
 
2011-12-28 11:51:50 AM
Suzi Quatro is still alive? She was the target of a lot of teenage mastubatory fantasies in the day:

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2011-12-28 11:53:41 AM
No, no, no - the ocean is salty because of shark tears:

And the shark has tears
And they roll down its face
But the shark lives in water
So no one sees the tears

In the deep, it's lonely
And many tears flow
That's why the water
In the sea is salty

Link (new window) - warning! German! (but there's translation supplied)
 
2011-12-28 11:53:53 AM
Mr_Ectomy: What about this gem?

Wow. Just. Wow. Has that person never urinated in their life?

And the "What now?!" bit at the end really adds a heavy layer of unwarranted self-confidence to it.
 
2011-12-28 11:53:58 AM
Mr_Ectomy: What about this gem?

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That one is so egregious that I itch to correct it every time I see it.

I pray to the gods above and below that that was originally designed as a troll, if so it is a ting of glorious beauty.

If not it is an abomination that should be banished to void outside of space and time before it can do its anti-thought work.
 
2011-12-28 11:54:19 AM
runcible spork: /p.s. gaffes

I just double-checked to discover that gaff is an acceptable variant spelling; of course this muddies the difference between the 'two' words. Nevertheless, oops.
 
2011-12-28 12:02:10 PM
rnatalie: Suzi Quatro is still alive? She was the target of a lot of teenage mastubatory fantasies in the day:

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She had me stumblin' in (pops like wood).
 
2011-12-28 12:03:23 PM
stuffy: But what about the ocean tides?
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Also mentioned in the originating piece (new window).
 
2011-12-28 12:24:20 PM
Did any one else notice that all four "facts" were spoken and spread around by women?

/Don't get mad, pussycat.
 
2011-12-28 12:25:44 PM
I am not 100% positive its from 2011 but it deserves mention.

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