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Post by moon/Laura on May 14, 2020 18:16:50 GMT -5
is that like when you pull the covers up over your head? Can't see danger = there is no danger?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 18:21:34 GMT -5
is that like when you pull the covers up over your head? Can't see danger = there is no danger? Yup. There's a name for it. It's called the Ostrich Syndrome. |
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Post by billisonboard on May 14, 2020 18:30:54 GMT -5
Step right up to get your pair: “Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.”
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Post by moon/Laura on May 14, 2020 18:41:57 GMT -5
I was going to use the ostrich thing as an example, but it turns out that that's more of an urban legend.
They do put their heads in holes in the sand, but it's to check the eggs that are there, rather than pretend danger doesn't exist.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 18:43:01 GMT -5
Dang! I did not know that. How did that bit of fact escape me for all these years?
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Post by NastyWoman on May 14, 2020 18:59:40 GMT -5
Cynicism: Dear Mr. Jones, you mother passed away today in our care facilty at age 84 of Covid19 related causes. However, since she was already past the average life expectancy of 81 years her death will be recorded as the effects of old age. Please make a generous donation to reelection campaign of the man who made it possible for your mother to die of old age. And be certain to vote for him come November. sincerely yours, a true strumpet. MAGA |
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Post by Tennesseer on May 14, 2020 19:58:14 GMT -5
Cynicism: Dear Mr. Jones, you mother passed away today in our care facilty at age 84 of Covid19 related causes. However, since she was already past the average life expectancy of 81 years her death will be recorded as the effects of old age. Please make a generous donation to reelection campaign of the man who made it possible for your mother to die of old age. And be certain to vote for him come November. sincerely yours, a true strumpet. MAGA Mrs. Jones took one for trump and the country. #MAGA! |
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Post by hoops902 on May 15, 2020 9:50:00 GMT -5
Cynicism: Dear Mr. Jones, you mother passed away today in our care facilty at age 84 of Covid19 related causes. However, since she was already past the average life expectancy of 81 years her death will be recorded as the effects of old age. Please make a generous donation to reelection campaign of the man who made it possible for your mother to die of old age. And be certain to vote for him come November. sincerely yours, a true strumpet. MAGA Fun Fact, nobody dies after their average life expectancy. We all die before our average life expectancy, which is a bit depressing. |
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2020 10:08:06 GMT -5
Cynicism: Dear Mr. Jones, you mother passed away today in our care facilty at age 84 of Covid19 related causes. However, since she was already past the average life expectancy of 81 years her death will be recorded as the effects of old age. Please make a generous donation to reelection campaign of the man who made it possible for your mother to die of old age. And be certain to vote for him come November. sincerely yours, a true strumpet. MAGA Fun Fact, nobody dies after their average life expectancy. We all die before our average life expectancy, which is a bit depressing. Since "average life expectancy" does not exist other than as a someone playing with numbers game, your "fun fact" can be true or false. |
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Post by hoops902 on May 15, 2020 10:12:54 GMT -5
Fun Fact, nobody dies after their average life expectancy. We all die before our average life expectancy, which is a bit depressing. Since "average life expectancy" does not exist other than as a someone playing with numbers game, your "fun fact" can be true or false. It only exists as science...so to the level that science "does not exist"...that's true. The measurement of a mile only exists as someone plying with numbers. All science only exists as someone playing with inputs. But then again if you don't believe in science...then anything can be true or false in your mind. |
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2020 10:47:59 GMT -5
Since "average life expectancy" does not exist other than as a someone playing with numbers game, your "fun fact" can be true or false. It only exists as science...so to the level that science "does not exist"...that's true. The measurement of a mile only exists as someone plying with numbers. All science only exists as someone playing with inputs. But then again if you don't believe in science...then anything can be true or false in your mind.  There is a need to "believe" in science. Or an acceptance of things to be what human beings have decided them to be. If one does not "believe" that the distance generally agreed upon to be a mile is actually what a mile is, then anything reported in miles using that generally agreed upon distance would not be accepted as the accurate number to use to represent the distance. I do believe that there is a physical world that exists outside of human awareness and that there is space that exists between objects. I also believe that if all human beings were to cease to exist, "miles" would die with them. Average life expectancy is a human construct, totally dependent on what is used to create it. A talented person can play with definitions and data to create all sorts of fun facts concerning it. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 11:06:36 GMT -5
I practically peed my pants when I saw this...
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Post by Tennesseer on May 15, 2020 11:13:43 GMT -5
I practically peed my pants when I saw this...
Uncanny characterization of trump. |
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Post by Gardening Grandma on May 15, 2020 11:55:23 GMT -5
I practically peed my pants when I saw this...
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 12:18:23 GMT -5
hands are too big!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 12:21:12 GMT -5
He's currently on TV talking about rebuilding our great economy... Nice he never seems to care about the 86,000 Americans who have died.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 12:26:26 GMT -5
He doesn't seem to care because he doesn't care.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 15, 2020 12:29:11 GMT -5
 but an Oscar worthy performance you have to admit. The clarity, deeply thought out presidential responses are perfectly reproduced. Heck if it weren't for that hand thingy that @missrigby pointed out you would have a hard time differentiating between the two.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 12:34:06 GMT -5
He doesn't seem to care because he doesn't care. He's a narcissist, and they don't care by mental defect. CNN is currently trashing the rapidio vaccination plan. lol |
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Post by irishpad on May 15, 2020 12:34:47 GMT -5
but an Oscar worthy performance you have to admit. The clarity, deeply thought out presidential responses are perfectly reproduced. Heck if it weren't for that hand thingy that @missrigby pointed out you would have a hard time differentiating between the two. Besides the hands, of course, also way too much natural hair, no comb over and actually a normal color. You all are funny as heck. |
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Post by NastyWoman on May 15, 2020 12:40:42 GMT -5
but an Oscar worthy performance you have to admit. The clarity, deeply thought out presidential responses are perfectly reproduced. Heck if it weren't for that hand thingy that @missrigby pointed out you would have a hard time differentiating between the two. Besides the hands, of course, also way too much natural hair, no comb over and actually a normal color. You all are funny as heck. There is also no lectern yet to stand behing so this is clearly a rehearsal. once the spray paint partment and the hairdressers get done with him, believe he would be the new "Dave" LOL |
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Post by Icelandic Woman on May 15, 2020 14:06:59 GMT -5
I posted this on another thread but it probably applies better here.
Testing we don't need no stinking Testing!
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