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shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:07 pm

Didn't they find what they thought to be the ark in the Himalayas?

Maybe it wasn't a flood, but a glacier shift...or maybe a flood caused by a volcano UNDER a glacier that rapidly melted it.

Well that is just my spur of the moment theory, based on the assumption what they found WAS in fact Noah's ark.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:51 pm

shadzar wrote:Didn't they find what they thought to be the ark in the Himalayas?

No, you are thinking of The Durupınar site "a large aggregate structure in the Tendürek mountains of eastern Turkey."

Another claim is the Elburz Mountains about 54 miles from Tehran.

Anpother claim is on Mt. Ararat in Turkey.

The Himalayas are north of India. That would place it far away from even the most simplified definition of "far out."

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:15 pm

Must have been a "what if" episode on Nat Geo, like that "what if" dragons were real with Jean-Luc Picard narrating it.

Last I had heard before that was Ararat. I am more inclined to think a wooden vessel has since deteriorated and you aren't going to find it.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:23 pm

Well, you're not going to find a boat that carried 7 giraffes for 40 days at all, because that's fucking retarded. Deterioration or no, the fact is that no one ever put seven tapirs onto a boat and then dropped them off in South America to seed the entire Tapir population before going back to Africa to release 7 Cape Buffalo.

Even before we get to the point where there are so many kinds of beetles that the idea of putting 2 of each of them on a boat is absurdity, the fact remains that all the really fucking huge animals are kosher. So there's supposed to be seven of them.

Noah's Ark never happened. That's not even up for debate.

-Username17

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:43 pm

Even ignoring the impossibility of transportation and such...

Lava floes. Fucking lava floes. Not only is Noah so dumb he can't tell that water isn't supposed to be red...

Noah's ark is apparently a force effect that is also a bag of holding.

I guess it being made of force would explain why it can support it's own weight being so fucking huge though.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:08 pm

Kaelik wrote:Even ignoring the impossibility of transportation and such...

Lava floes. Fucking lava floes. Not only is Noah so dumb he can't tell that water isn't supposed to be red...

Noah's ark is apparently a force effect that is also a bag of holding.

I guess it being made of force would explain why it can support it's own weight being so fucking huge though.

ugh, now I want to stat out the ark...

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:29 pm

Not often you get anything to be considered as news from Fox but holy shit!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569685,00.html

Found this while looking at the other crap they spew, and a drunk cop pulling a gun on someone for trying to scare him at a haunted house?

I guess he should have sued the haunted house for trying to scare him like the lady that sued McDonald's for serving her hot coffee.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:53 pm

The lady was served coffee that was not only impossible to drink, but spilling it caused her massive third degree burns.

That's hardly a gleaming example of your education.

-Crissa

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:56 pm

The lady was served coffee that was not only impossible to drink, but spilling it caused her massive third degree burns.

That's hardly a gleaming example of your education.

-Crissa

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:02 pm

Crissa, in my experience they don't teach about coffee lawsuits in school.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:22 pm

1- the old bag shouldn't have been trying to drink coffee and drive.
2- the McDonald's in questions was serving beverages at above the state allowed temperature.

The second is where the suit came into play, but the fact she was trying to drink the coffee while driving was never mentioned and a problem on her part in that she could have been drinking anything and not paying attention to the road and could have caused an accident. Same for texting while driving, or being on the phone, etc.

They fucked up, and so did she; but only McDonald's got blamed for it.

The point was the stupidity of it all, just like the cop pulling a gun like that, the fact that he was drunk was another problem in and of itself; likewise him being on duty and going to a haunted house in the first place.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:51 pm

I suppose that's true, Catharz.

Shad, before you use a court case as a talking point, look up the facts. Just having the wherewithal to go look up on the Great Gazoogle to see what the facts really were when you're pointed out as wrong would help you quite a bit.

So, what does it say? 1) She wasn't driving. 2) The car wasn't moving. 3) She was sitting still, holding the cup in her lap. 4) Third-degree burns. 5) She accepted a portion of the blame in her court position.

So basically, only one thing 'they were serving coffee above the allowed temperature' was true.

The educational system obviously failed shadzar, but we can at least remind him to engage in critical learning behavior.

-Crissa

PS: 55 Federally-Elected Republicans who receive publicly-administered health insurance, who don't support the publicly-administered health insurance for anyone else.

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:06 am

Crissa wrote:PS: 55 Federally-Elected Republicans who receive publicly-administered health insurance, who don't support the publicly-administered health insurance for anyone else.

Crissa! You should know by now that only elderly white people deserve a public option. Anyone that is younger then 65 years old can either sign the rest of their life away to a medical insurance company or they can fuck off and die in a ditch somewhere. Those that suffer from the sin of poverty don't deserve to live. The grace of god and survival of the fittest and all that.

Anyway, I'm heading to the Haliburton/KBR website to put in a job application. Word on the street is that thanks to Daniel Inouye, there's a good chance that the anti-rape provision that was passed by Al Franken isn't going to become law. Looks like the prosecution-free gang-rape gravy train is gonna keep on rollin'! It warms my heart to know that such a distinguished Senator is keeping the best interests of rapists and evil corporations close to his heart.

But maybe Xe is hiring?

/sarcasm

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:17 am

Crissa: I was working at McDonald's at the time, not that one but one....and just have the facts given to the employees. So take that into account when telling me to check the facts.

But it doesn't need me to tell people that McDonald's lies...how else do they get people to eat that crap?

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:30 am

shadzar wrote:But it doesn't need me to tell people that McDonald's lies...how else do they get people to eat that crap?

Clown power?

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:21 am

So... Public records of a lawsuit are "McDonald's lies"? WTF, man. Do your own research. The lie is that she was driving, that the lawsuit was frivolous. Food shouldn't maim you, should it?

-Crissa

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:25 am

Crissa wrote:So... Public records of a lawsuit are "McDonald's lies"? WTF, man. Do your own research. The lie is that she was driving, that the lawsuit was frivolous. Food shouldn't maim you, should it?

-Crissa

I don't know, there are some people that would be greatly improved by food maimings...

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:07 am

If you like fugu then your food could possibly maim you.

Also, I recall there being a huge debate on this, earlier, before Shad's time. It led to the general agreement that because some people want plasma-in-a-cup they should use that as a selling point and advertise it as "So hot it's banned under the Geneva convention!" which in turn led to a debate on the uses of whipho and napalm.

So we've been there, done that.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:47 am

Crissa wrote:So... Public records of a lawsuit are "McDonald's lies"? WTF, man. Do your own research. The lie is that she was driving, that the lawsuit was frivolous. Food shouldn't maim you, should it?

-Crissa

Pull the retard stick out of your ass and use your brain. I said I was working there, and that is what I was told, in case anyone asked me about it. The facts I presented is what we were all told.

And that McDonald's commercial is scary!

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:01 am

You generally can't get fugu in the US, either.

Why would you repeat things you know to be false, shad? That's no excuse.

-Crissa

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:48 am

Want to see my angry face?

Supposedly anti internet censorship Green party have a complete 'think of the children' wanker running in the Higgins bi-election. Fan fucking tastic. Since Labour isn't contesting I'm actually hoping for a Liberal whitewash. FUCK YOU.

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:25 am

shadzar wrote:1- the old bag shouldn't have been trying to drink coffee and drive.
2- the McDonald's in questions was serving beverages at above the state allowed temperature.

My only complaints about this are:

A. Crissa beat me to it

B. She wasn't as derisive as I would have been

The coffee incident is one of my favorite canary-in-a-coal-mine canards. Whenever anyone brings it up with the whole "tort reform DURRRR people sue for anything LAWYER R DUMB HURRR" angle it's like chum to a shark. I can't help myself.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:25 pm

shadzar wrote:1- the old bag shouldn't have been trying to drink coffee and drive.

I hate frivolous lawsuits with a passion, but having recently ordered coffee from McDonalds, years after the event, the basic cup of Joe, prior to any cream and sugar is orders of magnitude hotter than what you get from your basic deli, workplace cafeteria, or even your home coffee machine. I treated that with kid gloves until I got to the point where I could put in cream and put a lid on it. Seated in a car, that still is danger city, and it’s not like any other coffee I’ve seen.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:26 pm

^^Well most fat factories, sell coffee at temps higher than you would grab and drink it right away. This one just exceeded that by a LOT.

They sell coffee so hot, because it is assumed you are also buying food, and you will use the coffee to wash down the food AFTER you have eaten some and the coffee has had a chance to cool a bit without the coffee getting cold by the time you have finished eating.

I can understand that. What I don't understand is anyone eating or drinking in a car no matter who is driving that could become a disturbance for the driver.

A car isn't made for dining in to begin with.

But what to you expect from a place that puts everything in a microwave before serving it to customers? They can call it a queuing-oven all they want, but it is a jumbo fucking microwave to reheat things before placing them under the heat lamps. :barf:

violence in the media · Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:52 pm

shadzar wrote: They sell coffee so hot, because it is assumed you are also buying food, and you will use the coffee to wash down the food AFTER you have eaten some and the coffee has had a chance to cool a bit without the coffee getting cold by the time you have finished eating.

Really? I thought the line they used at the time was that they kept it that hot to "maintain optimal taste quality" or something to that effect.

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