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"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
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gopher321
2011-12-28 09:23:59 AM
No, honey, you're talking about your hair.
insertdip
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?
Diogenes
2011-12-28 09:39:23 AM
insertdip
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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?
I was really looking for Troy McClure in his aquarium-adorned bedroom, but this seemed so much better.
Mr. Coffee Nerves
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.
Dead for Tax Reasons
2011-12-28 09:52:59 AM
The girl knows her sperm
I_Am_Weasel
2011-12-28 09:56:30 AM
Dead for Tax Reasons
:
The girl knows her sperm
To her, they are sacred.
66dude
2011-12-28 10:58:39 AM
Bethany Hamilton approves.
CravenMorehead
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...
JNowe
2011-12-28 11:00:21 AM
Suzi Quatro? Leather Tuscadero is still around and people are listening to the things she says?
Wasilla Hillbilly
2011-12-28 11:01:37 AM
Can't taste salt
JNowe
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.
whidbey
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?
Lord_Dubu
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.
brantgoose
2011-12-28 11:08:19 AM
Sharks are nature's
garde-fous
. They save more fool lives from drowning than they ever take.
runcible spork
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
Death_Poot
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.""
ORLY?
Burchill
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
brantgoose
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.
boobsrgood
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.
MAYORBOB
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".
ArcadianRefugee
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>
SDRR
2011-12-28 11:22:31 AM
I don't drink water. Fish
poop
fark in it.
W.C. Fields
runcible spork
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.
Pants full of macaroni!!
2011-12-28 11:28:11 AM
runcible spork
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And why the fark link to HuffPo when Reuters is the source?
For the flamewar potential.
JesusHoffaChrysler
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....................
Morpheses
2011-12-28 11:31:29 AM
I_Am_Weasel
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Dead for Tax Reasons: The girl knows her sperm
To her, they are sacred.
Every sperm? Every sperm is sacred?
Ostman
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"?
The $25000 Dodecahedron
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?
LouDobbsAwaaaay
2011-12-28 11:35:31 AM
Snooki, Michele Bachmann Make Worst Scientific Claims Of 2011
Looks like Michele just found her running-mate.
Galileo's Daughter
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.
spentmiles
2011-12-28 11:37:16 AM
meanmutton
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.
stuffy
2011-12-28 11:38:19 AM
But what about the ocean tides?
groppet
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.
RedPhoenix122
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.
Mr_Ectomy
2011-12-28 11:41:57 AM
What about this gem?
pkellmey
2011-12-28 11:42:04 AM
Oh, it's HuffPost. Never worth the effort to click.
RedPhoenix122
2011-12-28 11:44:49 AM
Mr_Ectomy
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What about this gem?
[s3.amazonaws.com image 526x640]
Because Christians never pee.
discgolfguru
2011-12-28 11:46:28 AM
Mr_Ectomy
:
What about this gem?
Hahahahahaha!
TimonC346
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?
anfrind
2011-12-28 11:49:08 AM
Page contains an auto-playing Flash ad. Not reading.
/will try the Reuters link upthread later
rnatalie
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:
silvervial
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)
Fireproof
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.
mitEj
2011-12-28 11:53:58 AM
Mr_Ectomy
:
What about this gem?
[s3.amazonaws.com image 526x640]
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.
runcible spork
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.
vice_magnet
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:
[4.bp.blogspot.com image 400x257]
[2.bp.blogspot.com image 399x400]
[2.bp.blogspot.com image 254x320]
She had me stumblin'
in
(pops like wood).
Lord Jubjub
2011-12-28 12:03:23 PM
stuffy
:
But what about the ocean tides?
[www.blogcdn.com image 294x240]
Also mentioned in the
originating piece
(new window).
That coward David Lopan
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.
Sapper_Topo
2011-12-28 12:25:44 PM
I am not 100% positive its from 2011 but it deserves mention.
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