CheatCommando: elleeffe: everything starts to shake - we immediately evacuate the building [i work in an oil company, so we take evacuations pretty seriously, even when they are drills]
can't go back to fetch car keys, wallet, phone - the building needs to be assessed for damages.

Man, I worked for a chemical company and we also took evacuations very seriously.

Which is why my car keys and wallet were always on my person. Didn't have one of those cell phone thingies back in the day.

dude, the building is only offices.. our stuff is all offshore.. the most dangerous thing one can expect when in the office onshore is a paper cut

All this Iran negativity.  If people actually knew the history of the last one hundred years of Iran, it is obvious why they have antipathy towards the U.S. (removing a democratically elected president and installing a corrupt Shah who stole billions $ from the country and massacred his own people).  Read history, we are reaping that which we have sown.

flyin1: Read history, we are reaping that which we have sown.

Well, sadly, Iranians are reaping what we've sown.

"Nothing of value was lost"
"Hey, that's totally inappropriate. Plenty of those people LOVE the west and are totally willing to suck our freedom boner".

Yep, sure is enlightened in here.

Except some human lives. But who cares about that amirite??

Stimied in a Rut: Half Right: That's not nice, subby. A majority of Iranians don't at all support the regime, and like many aspects of Western culture. It's not entirely their fault that their leadership sucks.

/More importantly, Persian women are hot.

I agree with all of this and also all the Iranian people I've met have been wonderful, friendly and insanely smart people. Sometimes people's worldviews are terrible because they are just ignorant.

Seconded.

Jesus, did every Iranian Farker wake up and jump into the thread or what? It's God vs Allah!

Half Right: That's not nice, subby. A majority of Iranians don't at all support the regime, and like many aspects of Western culture. It's not entirely their fault that their leadership sucks.

/More importantly, Persian women are hot.

If that's true, they should consider doing something about it.

elleeffe: liam76: elleeffe: Shat my pants... pretty much.
In the office in Doha, Qatar - conveniently located on the opposite side of the arabian gulf..
everything starts to shake - we immediately evacuate the building [i work in an oil company, so we take evacuations pretty seriously, even when they are drills]
can't go back to fetch car keys, wallet, phone - the building needs to be assessed for damages.
and then, the security guards tell us to vacate the area [straight on the sea, lovely view] and to reach a high point as soon as possible due to a potential Tzunami alert..
it sucks people - managed to get home now, thank goodness one of the few 'higher points' in a completely deserted and flat land, and I am pretty shook up.
i hope everyone in Qatar is safe...

They invented these things called pockets.  Check into them....

I am a woman! we don't do pockets... they completely ruin the dress... i'd rather walk home for hours during an emer.... wait. :P

flyin1: All this Iran negativity.  If people actually knew the history of the last one hundred years of Iran, it is obvious why they have antipathy towards the U.S. (removing a democratically elected president and installing a corrupt Shah who stole billions $ from the country and massacred his own people).  Read history, we are reaping that which we have sown.

It's important to at some point recognize that not everything that's happened since an event 60 years ago is the US's fault.  Islamic extremism started well before that and has continued under its own power.

That said, nobody deserves to have an earthquake wished upon them, even by the most trolltastic asshole.

xoxo: Not everyone in Iran is an extremist asshole.

and there are areas of Iran that are gorgeous.

t3knomanser: Klippoklondike: If their leaders fell into a bottomless pit though...I'd be ok with that.

Most Iranians would be perfectly happy with that, too.

Fun fact: Iran is one of the more atheist countries in the world (currently ranking at #10 on the Atheist Census, which is a bit of a self-selecting sample), and definitely one of the most in the Middle East (Turkey being the most secular in the region).

I doubt if "Most" would be happy witht hat.  But woudl be interested in any polling data you have tot hat effect.

Fun fact, if you are using self selecting samples and only looking at raw numbers you can't really make a claim about a country being the "most" anything.

macadamnut: Says America, the world's Arkansas.

I was considering saying something but then I read your profile and saw that you're a card carrying troll.  That takes all the fun out of it.   :(     You should be more covert.

Louisiana_Sitar_Club: macadamnut: Says America, the world's Arkansas.

I was considering saying something but then I read your profile and saw that you're a card carrying troll.  That takes all the fun out of it.   :(     You should be more covert.


Louisiana, Arkansas's power bottom.

liam76: Fun fact, if you are using self selecting samples and only looking at raw numbers you can't really make a claim about a country being the "most" anything

I'm not making scientific claims, just observing general trends and making general statements. The fact that enough respondents came in from Iran, a nation that blocks huge swathes of the Internet, to even register demonstrates a higher-than-average interest in atheism.

Iran has a strong, but quiet, atheist population. They also have a great metal scene. And when you go to someone's house, you'll be hard pressed to leave without having a glass of wine.

And yes, popular sentiment is against the government, and why wouldn't it be? The nation is run by incompetent kleptocrats. While the older population still remembers the Iran/Iraq War and may hold some loyalty, it's the post-war Iranian baby-boomers who don't. And just like the American baby-boomers of a generation before, they're a large population discovering progressivism in their 20s. Ironically, these 20-somethings are the largest threat to the government, and they exist because the government actively encouraged their parents to produce large families to replace the generation lost in revolution and hideous war.

More fun facts from Iran:
At the 30-year memorial for Khomeni, they had to ship in mourners from the hinterlands and other countries to make the memorial look good. They couldn't find enough people in Iran willing to attend. Many of them didn't even speak Farsi.

A Persian tradition is to throw coins at a coffin as it passes. At Khomeni's original funeral, people weren't throwing coins- they loved him so much they were throwing bills. The bills were wrapped in dogshiat, but hey, bills!

macadamnut: Louisiana_Sitar_Club: macadamnut: Says America, the world's Arkansas.

I was considering saying something but then I read your profile and saw that you're a card carrying troll.  That takes all the fun out of it.   :(     You should be more covert.


Louisiana, Arkansas's power bottom.

I don't care what that other guy says you're funny.

Submitter, you're an asshole.

How bad is a 6.3 anyway? Isn't that like, 1000 times weaker than the one that hit Japan? We don't get quakes here, so I don't know these things...

t3knomanser: liam76: Fun fact, if you are using self selecting samples and only looking at raw numbers you can't really make a claim about a country being the "most" anything

I'm not making scientific claims, just observing general trends and making general statements. The fact that enough respondents came in from Iran, a nation that blocks huge swathes of the Internet, to even register demonstrates a higher-than-average interest in atheism.

Iran has a strong, but quiet, atheist population. They also have a great metal scene. And when you go to someone's house, you'll be hard pressed to leave without having a glass of wine.

And yes, popular sentiment is against the government, and why wouldn't it be? The nation is run by incompetent kleptocrats. While the older population still remembers the Iran/Iraq War and may hold some loyalty, it's the post-war Iranian baby-boomers who don't. And just like the American baby-boomers of a generation before, they're a large population discovering progressivism in their 20s. Ironically, these 20-somethings are the largest threat to the government, and they exist because the government actively encouraged their parents to produce large families to replace the generation lost in revolution and hideous war.

More fun facts from Iran:
At the 30-year memorial for Khomeni, they had to ship in mourners from the hinterlands and other countries to make the memorial look good. They couldn't find enough people in Iran willing to attend. Many of them didn't even speak Farsi.

A Persian tradition is to throw coins at a coffin as it passes. At Khomeni's original funeral, people weren't throwing coins- they loved him so much they were throwing bills. The bills were wrapped in dogshiat, but hey, bills!

I have a few buddies from Iran (I used to work in the oil business in Indonseia and Egypt, a lot of expat co-workers), so I have no illusions about them all buying into the BS of their leaders.

But I have never seen a poll or anything else ot lead me to believe most people are against the Ayatollah.

I have heard those rumors abotu the funeral, but seen aboslutly no proof.

Basically I am saying ti woudl be great if you are right, but it all sounds like wishful thinking to me.  People in this thread are putting the average Iranians on a pedastal, and haven't presented anything to really back up what they are saying.

Which is all off topic, because no matter what most of them believe the average joe there doesn't have a hand in a crime that makes it ok to get happy that a earthquake hit.  That is WBC level of derp, and is inexcuesable, not just inexcuseable if you think most don't like the ayatollah or are into heavy metal.

ginandbacon: The fact that this headline got greened justifies some real soul-searching on this site. 

What an awful way to start a discussion about a disaster.

I notice it seems to happen about once a year. My guess is it happens, Drew gets pissed, the admin losses their free beer shipment for the month, things calm down, then they forget at a year later and it happens again.

Even tho this is Fark, I didn't interpret the headline as being crass or snarky. I thought it was saying, in all seriousness, "No damage, no lives lost."  Because we see a lot of headlines about earthquakes with high magnitudes & sometimes there is horrific damage & sometimes there is none; you can't tell until you read the article.  So, I thought the headline was meant to be reassuring.

make me some tea: Well, you see, it's all about the trainwreck.

The trainwreck of what? I submit more than my share of troll headlines and comments, however I attempt to make the funny. This is just pathetic 4Chan-level humor.

t3knomanser: liam76: Fun fact, if you are using self selecting samples and only looking at raw numbers you can't really make a claim about a country being the "most" anything

I'm not making scientific claims, just observing general trends and making general statements. The fact that enough respondents came in from Iran, a nation that blocks huge swathes of the Internet, to even register demonstrates a higher-than-average interest in atheism.

Iran has a strong, but quiet, atheist population. They also have a great metal scene. And when you go to someone's house, you'll be hard pressed to leave without having a glass of wine.

And yes, popular sentiment is against the government, and why wouldn't it be? The nation is run by incompetent kleptocrats. While the older population still remembers the Iran/Iraq War and may hold some loyalty, it's the post-war Iranian baby-boomers who don't. And just like the American baby-boomers of a generation before, they're a large population discovering progressivism in their 20s. Ironically, these 20-somethings are the largest threat to the government, and they exist because the government actively encouraged their parents to produce large families to replace the generation lost in revolution and hideous war.

More fun facts from Iran:
At the 30-year memorial for Khomeni, they had to ship in mourners from the hinterlands and other countries to make the memorial look good. They couldn't find enough people in Iran willing to attend. Many of them didn't even speak Farsi.

A Persian tradition is to throw coins at a coffin as it passes. At Khomeni's original funeral, people weren't throwing coins- they loved him so much they were throwing bills. The bills were wrapped in dogshiat, but hey, bills!

According to "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ," that description of Iranian society only covers the educated, affluent city folk, who are VASTLY outnumbered by an extremely religious, undereducated population outside Tehran. And the second group gets larger every day, because the revolutionaries wrecked the education system.

That's why there's an Islamic Republic in the first place. The revolution against the Shah was mainly led by secular leftists, but when they held elections, the religious fundamentalists wiped out all the other parties.

liam76: I have heard those rumors abotu the funeral, but seen aboslutly no proof.

At least for the memorial, my mother-in-law was physically there and spoke with a few of the mourners. Well, "spoke", since they didn't share a common language.

liam76: People in this thread are putting the average Iranians on a pedastal, and haven't presented anything to really back up what they are saying.

Aside from the fact that the 20-somethings I'm referencing basically shut down the country for a few weeks during their "Green Revolution" protests. There's a strong rural/urban dichotomy in the country. The urban population is the one that Farkers tend to have experience with- these are the people who use the web, who tweet and IM and use TOR nodes. When we talk about the "Western" Iranian, that's really who we're talking about.

But then there's the rural population. And you're 100% right about the rural population. The urban Iranians call them "villagers", we'd call them "rednecks" in the US. And much like the "send all the Indians back to Africa" derpers we have here who wrap themselves in the American flag, the Bible, and ignorance, the villagers wrap themselves in the Iranian flag, the Quran, and ignorance.

make me some tea: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: How bad is a 6.3 anyway? Isn't that like, 1000 times weaker than the one that hit Japan? We don't get quakes here, so I don't know these things...

For buildings built to modern earthquake-resistant architecture, a 6.3 generally would not be a huge concern. However, we're talking about Iran here...

A 6.3 demolished or critically damaged most of downtown Christchurch, NZ, in 2011; they've had to tear down a lot of modern architecture. It depends on how close to the buildings the earthquake occurs.

If this happened near an older Iranian city, the death toll could run into the tens of thousands, just from collapsed masonry.

Which brings us back to what a dick subby is.

Parmenius: flyin1: All this Iran negativity.  If people actually knew the history of the last one hundred years of Iran, it is obvious why they have antipathy towards the U.S. (removing a democratically elected president and installing a corrupt Shah who stole billions $ from the country and massacred his own people).  Read history, we are reaping that which we have sown.

It's important to at some point recognize that not everything that's happened since an event 60 years ago is the US's fault.  Islamic extremism started well before that and has continued under its own power.

That said, nobody deserves to have an earthquake wished upon them, even by the most trolltastic asshole.

The current regime was put in place by a popular uprising of the people who were being subjected to massacres and corruption by the Shah.  The Islam extremists were a response to the murderous despot that was put in place by the U.S. and Great Britain against a popular democratically-elected president-- in times of despair people turned to their religious leaders and this is the result.  We (anglo-americans) created this problem in the name of oil profits being placed above the will of the people.  Read your history.

t3knomanser: liam76: I have heard those rumors abotu the funeral, but seen aboslutly no proof.

At least for the memorial, my mother-in-law was physically there and spoke with a few of the mourners. Well, "spoke", since they didn't share a common language.

Old people love trumors, news at 11.


t3knomanser: Aside from the fact that the 20-somethings I'm referencing basically shut down the country for a few weeks during their "Green Revolution" protests.

I don't think you can say they shut down the country.  They gave the leadership a big black eye, btu that was abotu it.

That is the wishful thinking I am talking about.  I hope and wish I was wrong dude, but I don't think they are the majority.  Maybe in 10 years...

make me some tea: Got you to click on the thread though, didn't it?

Yeah it did. But then a less dickish headline would have too. I love troll headlines, however there is a fine line between troll-ish and asshole-ish. You're still going to get clicks with the former, but the latter may cause you to lose future clicks. Hell, even the link was terrible since the reason this was story is that the epicenter is very near Iran's nuclear testing site. This earthquake could have serious implications to international relations, but instead we are talking about an assholic headline.

liam76: I hope and wish I was wrong dude, but I don't think they are the majority

I know my initial statement was "most Iranians would like it", but I don't disagree with you. But I also don't think that a majority is required for social change to occur.

elleeffe: Shat my pants... pretty much.
In the office in Doha, Qatar - conveniently located on the opposite side of the arabian gulf..
everything starts to shake - we immediately evacuate the building [i work in an oil company, so we take evacuations pretty seriously, even when they are drills]
can't go back to fetch car keys, wallet, phone - the building needs to be assessed for damages.
and then, the security guards tell us to vacate the area [straight on the sea, lovely view] and to reach a high point as soon as possible due to a potential Tzunami alert..
it sucks people - managed to get home now, thank goodness one of the few 'higher points' in a completely deserted and flat land, and I am pretty shook up.
i hope everyone in Qatar is safe...

Do you go to work in a swimsuit? Do pants in Qatar be forbidden to have pockets? How in the tarnation can you not have your keys, wallet, and cellphone in your pockets at work?

macadamnut: Louisiana_Sitar_Club: macadamnut: Says America, the world's Arkansas.

I was considering saying something but then I read your profile and saw that you're a card carrying troll.  That takes all the fun out of it.   :(     You should be more covert.


Louisiana, Arkansas's power bottom.

I'm not even sure what that means but if you would like to insult my home state, you're going to have to come up with something for So Cal  (bonus info:  I've never even seen a sitar in person)

Kevin72: elleeffe: Shat my pants... pretty much.
In the office in Doha, Qatar - conveniently located on the opposite side of the arabian gulf..
everything starts to shake - we immediately evacuate the building [i work in an oil company, so we take evacuations pretty seriously, even when they are drills]
can't go back to fetch car keys, wallet, phone - the building needs to be assessed for damages.
and then, the security guards tell us to vacate the area [straight on the sea, lovely view] and to reach a high point as soon as possible due to a potential Tzunami alert..
it sucks people - managed to get home now, thank goodness one of the few 'higher points' in a completely deserted and flat land, and I am pretty shook up.
i hope everyone in Qatar is safe...

Do you go to work in a swimsuit? Do pants in Qatar be forbidden to have pockets? How in the tarnation can you not have your keys, wallet, and cellphone in your pockets at work?

tight dress = no pocket
sowwy

elleeffe: Kevin72: elleeffe: Shat my pants... pretty much.
In the office in Doha, Qatar - conveniently located on the opposite side of the arabian gulf..
everything starts to shake - we immediately evacuate the building [i work in an oil company, so we take evacuations pretty seriously, even when they are drills]
can't go back to fetch car keys, wallet, phone - the building needs to be assessed for damages.
and then, the security guards tell us to vacate the area [straight on the sea, lovely view] and to reach a high point as soon as possible due to a potential Tzunami alert..
it sucks people - managed to get home now, thank goodness one of the few 'higher points' in a completely deserted and flat land, and I am pretty shook up.
i hope everyone in Qatar is safe...

Do you go to work in a swimsuit? Do pants in Qatar be forbidden to have pockets? How in the tarnation can you not have your keys, wallet, and cellphone in your pockets at work?

tight dress = no pocket
sowwy

oh and when i wrote pants, i meant pants, not trousers!

DamnYankees: Go fark yourself, Subby. Iranians are people.

Yes but I believe subby was referring to the fact that they are brown.

All political bullshiat aside, that piece on Middle-eastern plate tectonics and geography was fascinating reading.

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sethen320: Yes but I believe subby was referring to the fact that they are brown.

Well, some of them. Aryans are still the largest ethnic group in Iran (Iran and Aryan derive from the same roots). But they still have a funny religion.

Headline is funny.  You people have your panties in a serious bunch.

elleeffe: CheatCommando: elleeffe: everything starts to shake - we immediately evacuate the building [i work in an oil company, so we take evacuations pretty seriously, even when they are drills]
can't go back to fetch car keys, wallet, phone - the building needs to be assessed for damages.

Man, I worked for a chemical company and we also took evacuations very seriously.

Which is why my car keys and wallet were always on my person. Didn't have one of those cell phone thingies back in the day.

dude, the building is only offices.. our stuff is all offshore.. the most dangerous thing one can expect when in the office onshore is a paper cut

Still no reason not to have the essentials on your person at all times.

sethen320: DamnYankees: Go fark yourself, Subby. Iranians are people.

Yes but I believe subby was referring to the fact that they are brown.

This is the most tiresome trope on the Internet. Most "brown" people are that color because they live in sunny, hot climates and get a tan. Most Iranians are no more "brown" than Italians or Spaniards. Same goes for Arabs.