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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby The Cid on Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:24 pm

It's 2012, and the National Ocean Service still feels it necessary to weigh in on whether or not mermaids exist.

Repeat: It is two thousand and twelve. We have a world of information in our pockets now. Science has cured a number of terrible diseases so hard that they're basically wiped from the planet entirely now. And we're just getting around to making it official that there are no mermaids.
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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby ampersand on Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:22 pm

Well, it can't do zombie updates so it has to keep itself relevant somehow.
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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby collegestudent22 on Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:33 pm

The Cid wrote:And we're just getting around to making it official that there are no mermaids.


I'm willing to bet some bureaucrat or another actually was paid to "research" the subject first. Just to make certain, you understand.
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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby Seir on Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:01 am

The Cid wrote:It's 2012, and the National Ocean Service still feels it necessary to weigh in on whether or not mermaids exist.

Repeat: It is two thousand and twelve. We have a world of information in our pockets now. Science has cured a number of terrible diseases so hard that they're basically wiped from the planet entirely now. And we're just getting around to making it official that there are no mermaids.



Maybe it might be in response to things like this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/25/american-fundamentalists-loch-ness-monster-is-real_n_1623533.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby Rorschach on Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:17 pm

Shh, Seir. We need something to keep our economy going until the Brave dollars kick in.
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Just throwing that out there

Postby ampersand on Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:56 pm

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Just throwing that out there

Postby Deacon on Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:52 am

Anyone anywhere within driving distance of the DFW area can loot an arcade auction. Just throwing that out there for the arcade lovers...

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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby spikegirl7 on Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:22 am



Wait, what? I read through the entire article and that was my response. I generally consider most of what Fundamentalists push as just uneducated silliness and laugh it off, but this was disgusting:

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Postby ampersand on Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:28 am

Would France be upset if their uniforms were made in China? Would China be upset if their uniforms were made in Vietnam? It's just a uniform. I suspect all of the countries' uniforms in the Olympic were part of some huge batch order at a Chinese plant that the Chinese didn't care about.

I understand the desire to keep all sorts of jobs and merchandise made from your home country, but once the purchase has been made, it's too late to whine.
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Just throwing that out there

Postby ampersand on Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:30 am

spikegirl7 wrote:


Wait, what? I read through the entire article and that was my response. I generally consider most of what Fundamentalists push as just uneducated silliness and laugh it off, but this was disgusting:

•Apartheid was beneficial to South Africa as segregated schools meant different heritages could be passed on to children


Moving on

I walked into Gamestop to buy a new copy of Fable 2 because I felt like murdering innocent civilian NPCs. The two men working there were watching a fake game of football. They weren't PLAYING a fake game of football, they were watching it. They were watching the computer play a game against itself.

I will never understand men.

which is why my idea for a sports forecasting stream will be quite interesting.
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Just throwing that out there

Postby Deacon on Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:14 am

ampersand wrote:Would France be upset if their uniforms were made in China? Would China be upset if their uniforms were made in Vietnam? It's just a uniform. I suspect all of the countries' uniforms in the Olympic were part of some huge batch order at a Chinese plant that the Chinese didn't care about.

I understand the desire to keep all sorts of jobs and merchandise made from your home country, but once the purchase has been made, it's too late to whine.

What.
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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby collegestudent22 on Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:41 am

ampersand wrote:I understand the desire to keep all sorts of jobs and merchandise made from your home country


Only if you really, really want to keep some subset of the labor force working to make clothes when they could be earning more making something more valuable....
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Just throwing that out there

Postby Deacon on Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:44 am

All the best uniforms are made in Italy.
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Re: Just throwing that out there

Postby ampersand on Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:47 am

There's a story or two out there that the US Olympic Team's Opening Ceremony uniforms, and possibly other US team uniforms, were made in China. That's the story. That's what some people are all in a huff over. And my point was, it was probably part of a really large batch of uniforms made around the world as requested by Nike, Adidas or whomever is the official uniform supplier to the United States Olympic team.

And I really agree with CS22, better to have more skilled laborers making more sophisticated equipment than it is to have them mass producing less sophisticated equipment. However, have you checked how high tech some of the running clothes that Nike and Under Armor have come out with?
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Just throwing that out there

Postby Deacon on Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:27 pm

I can see why that'd cause a kerfuffle. I'd rather they be made in the US as well. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were made anywhere else, but it'd be nice to know Americans worked to make those uniforms.

ampersand wrote:And I really agree with CS22, better to have more skilled laborers making more sophisticated equipment than it is to have them mass producing less sophisticated equipment.

That really depends on the situation. It's certainly not an absolute. Really, like China, you'd prefer to be making both.
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