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• Commented on Crucifix multi-screwdriver
  This is blasphemalicious!...
• Commented on Hitler: football coach?
  After reading this FiveThirtyEight-post, I'm never going to trust "look how stupid kids are"-surveys ever again....
• Commented on French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has died
  "Among the more striking conclusions of his work was the idea that there is no fundamental difference between the belief systems and myths of so-called 'primitive' races and those of modern western societies." Duh! I don't mean to demean the...
• Commented on Wee English church rebuilt on 22nd floor of Osaka tower
  Ok, I'm just gonna say it: The Japanese, they crazy motherfuckers!...
• Commented on Civil War buff fires cannonball into neighbor's home
  Charges: discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and, of course, Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer of the Confederacy. Corporal Maser to be flogged at dawn!...
• Commented on Chess variant from 1934 that pitted agitators against engineers
  I wonder what the equivalent chess set would be today? Republicans vs. Democrats? Rush Limbaugh as King, Michelle Bachmann as Queen? And all the pawns are Fox News-anchors....
• Commented on XKCD's eye-watering Geocities tribute
  Ohh, animated gif backgrounds. How I miss thee....
• Commented on Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating
  4. Everybody LIKED living that way. Somebody needs to read The Feminine Mystique. No, dumbass, everybody did not like living that way, women suffered tremendously because of it. They just weren't allowed to complain, lest they be considered "unfeminine" or...
• Commented on Wild Mook: Japanese '80s fanzine devoted to American cops
  Is there nothing teh Nipponese will not fetishize in print?!? Yeah, 'cause cops have NEVER been idolized, fetishized or even admired in American media. Hasn't happened even once! No sirree, Bob!...
• Commented on National Lampoon cover gallery 1970-1998
  Probably not everyone knows the backstory to this cover, but it's a spoof on this Esquire cover which is one of the most famous covers in American magazine history. Read the page for more....
• Commented on Snow kite boarder gets carried away by kite
  Seriously dude, at the point where you feel yourself taking off the ground, YOU DROP THE FUCKING KITE!!! JUST DROP IT!...
• Commented on Exorcisms vs. schizophrenia drugs
  This begs the question, if the patient was treated for his belief in spirit possession and his apparent hallucinations as to the reality of the ghost, why were the chaplain and the others not considered to be ill ? There's...
• Commented on SWAT team raids orchid grower for fudging import paperwork
  Fish and Wildlife has SWAT-teams? Seriously? Do the National Parks Service have CSI-teams?...
• Commented on Levitation secret revealed (70 years ago)
  I would go much further than just "jackass" and call these people complete amoral assholes. There's a difference between when guys like David Blaine (even though I have not much love for him, he annoys me to bits) levitate and...
• Commented on "Results from Slate's "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" poll
  I find Peak Oil to be one of the most annoying "apocalypse" scenarios there is. I mean, yes, on the face of it it's hard to argue with: there's a finite amount of oil in the world, if we keep...
• Commented on India's airlines to ground all planes and press for bailout
  This strikes me as an odd twist on a very old concept: the airlines are basically striking. But instead of it being the workers who strike to force the bosses to give them better wages and conditions, it's the bosses...
• Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
  I'm telling you guys, all these fancy-schmanzy quantum mechanical tricks are more trouble than they're worth! This problem was solved 450 years ago! Grille, baby, grille!...
• Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
  What most people here are missing is that only having two sheets should give no information at all. Many people (#1, #2, #3, #5 and #16, for instance) for instance have suggested some variation of "Print every third letter on...
• Commented on Alice in Wonderland, Remixed: "Smokin' on the Dro," by Three Six Mafia
  The gold standard for Alice in Wonderland remixes is the video Xeni (and now Zikman) linked to like a year ago. I've basically seen that thing at least once a week since I first clicked the link. It always gets...
• Commented on UK chiropractors try to silence critic with libel claim
  The relief of pain is not always permanent, but but it lasts longer and has fewer side effects that pain killers. The problem is that it's impossible to tell how much of that pain relief is due to actual medical...
• Commented on Breathlyzer source-code sucks
  @#15 Paul McLaughlin: Stupid confusing us with your clever math-skillz and your good arguments! Don't you get it, we want them to suck! You're taking all the fun out it by being all reasonable and stuff!...
• Commented on The Doctor Will Sue You Now: the missing chapter of Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science" about the selling of vitamin therapy instead of anti-virals to AIDS patients in South Africa
  I'm reading this chapter right now, and I just got to the point where this Rath guy sued Médecins Sans Frontières. He sued Doctors Without Borders! Seriously!! Doctors Without Borders!?!??! What's next, the Red Cross? Suicide hotlines? I agree with...
• Commented on I Love Charts
  Charts DO rule!...
• Commented on Intimidatingly awesome science fair projects
  Dear Math Girl: Please time travel into the past and go to my high school. You're ten times more awesome than anyone else I met there....
• Commented on HOWTO Make a business-card catapault
  Such a wonderful idea, such a terrible jpeg compression....
• Commented on Bletchley Park rebuilds the bombes -- code crackers that won the war
  As Nelson says, Turing did indeed have everything to do with the British bombes. The Poles did the first versions, based on the work of Marian Rejewski and others, but what Turing did is that he came up with a...
• Commented on Plush anatomical knee
  Now she should do a plush anatomically correct steampunk knee! You know, like, rivets and brass and things! That would be the height of awesome!...
• Commented on Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA
  "Mom, why is that lady giving Abe Lincoln and BJ?"...
• Commented on Perfectly Good Names The SciFi Channel Could Have Chosen Instead of The Utterly Stupid "SyFy"
  I'm sorry, but who wouldn't watch the All Grace Park All The Time Channel? Seriously, that's brilliant! Evil genius brilliant!...
• Commented on Visualizing $1 Trillion as an endless field of bales of C-notes
  If this image had 300 million people standing around the money for "scale," we might understand that these are the kinds of sums it takes to run the country with the highest GDP in the world. Extremely good point....