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That's BULLSHIT.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    If you gotta believe they're all trolling to sleep at night, Syphyre you go ahead

    but people are very willing to believe some completely stupid illogical shit.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    speaking of batshit comics people

    Grant Morrison is really into magic

    and he takes it seriously, unlike Alan Moore

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Things that you might not know are bullshit:

    You don't actually lose most of your body heat through your head.

    Reading in the dark will not make you require glasses, although you will be more likely to get temporary eyestrain headaches. Similarly, carrots do not make your eye sight any better, although in moderation their vitamins are good for you anyway.

    Cracking your knuckles won't make you any more susceptible to arthritis.

    Sugar doesn't make children hyperactive.

    Eating at night doesn't make you any fatter than eating at other times of day.

    The only thing that cures a hangover is horrible, horrible moderation.

    The north star is not the brightest star in the night sky. That would be Sirius. The north star is the 49th.


  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote:
    speaking of batshit comics people

    Grant Morrison is really into magic

    and he takes it seriously, unlike Alan Moore

    alan moore looks more like a magician though

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
    Cracking your knuckles won't make you any more susceptible to arthritis.

    And it feels good because of druuuugs.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    alan moore is just grant morrison wearing a wig and a false beard

  • T. J. Nutty Nub T. J. Nutty Nub Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
    Things that you might not know are bullshit:

    You don't actually lose most of your body heat through your head.

    Reading in the dark will not make you require glasses, although you will be more likely to get temporary eyestrain headaches. Similarly, carrots do not make your eye sight any better, although in moderation their vitamins are good for you anyway.

    Cracking your knuckles won't make you any more susceptible to arthritis.

    Sugar doesn't make children hyperactive.

    Eating at night doesn't make you any fatter than eating at other times of day.

    The only thing that cures a hangover is horrible, horrible moderation.

    The north star is not the brightest star in the night sky. That would be Sirius. The north star is the 49th.


    cite pls

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Syphyre wrote:
    Grey Ghost wrote:
    Ruby Rhod wrote:
    I think Growing Earth is my all time favorite of crazy shit people believe.

    Burn them all

    Is this...serious? As in...really really serious? I mean this isn't tongue in cheek like the flat-earthers is it?

    The most amazing thing is that the guy narrating that video is comics legend Neal Adams, who illustrated such classic stories as The Joker's Five-Way Revenge and Green Lantern-Green Arrow

    WHAT

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
    Eating at night doesn't make you any fatter than eating at other times of day.

    My trained, experienced veterinarian told me the other day that my dog was fat because I was feeding him too late in the day. No, my dog is fat because he is a lazy cunt. Let me show you these cohort study results supporting causation between fatness and being a lazy cunt.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Uh excuse me Alan Moore is a warlock

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
    Things that you might not know are bullshit:

    You don't actually lose most of your body heat through your head.

    Reading in the dark will not make you require glasses, although you will be more likely to get temporary eyestrain headaches. Similarly, carrots do not make your eye sight any better, although in moderation their vitamins are good for you anyway.

    Cracking your knuckles won't make you any more susceptible to arthritis.

    Sugar doesn't make children hyperactive.

    Eating at night doesn't make you any fatter than eating at other times of day.

    The only thing that cures a hangover is horrible, horrible moderation.

    The north star is not the brightest star in the night sky. That would be Sirius. The north star is the 49th.


    cite pls


    http://www.misconceptionjunction.com/index.php/2011/06/you-dont-lose-most-of-your-body-heat-through-your-head/

    http://www.howstuffworks.com/question462.htm

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1004074/

    http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52516

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3263249.stm

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/hangover6.htm

    http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/badpole.html






  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Most of that stuff in the article about hangovers says how true it is rolo

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    nah

    horrible moderation is what everyone is getting for christmas

    especially on these forums OOOOOOOOOOOH

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Knuckle Cracking will not cause arthritus

    but interestingly enough, the same studies point to a correlation between knuckle cracking and loss of grip strength.

    A researcher also won an ignobel prize for carrying out a study on himself for something like 30 years, where he happily cracked the knuckles on one hand and never on the other. The cracking hand had no sign of arthritus but his grip strength in that hand was significantly less.

    I mean, sample size of one and all that but it's an interesting story

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    ahahaha

    nice

  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    the only cure for a hangover is to never stop drinking


    Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    Did he control for which had he masturbated with?

    Battletag BYToady#1454
  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Gravity doesn't exist. Things aren't just drawn to each other. When you jump, you're not really pushing away from the earth and then falling back down. Both you and the earth get slightly smaller for a second and distance appears between you which is then closed when you both return to your previous size.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    scientists don't masturbate!!

    They achieve sexual release by proving or disproving a hypothesis

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    #pipe wrote:
    Knuckle Cracking will not cause arthritus

    but interestingly enough, the same studies point to a correlation between knuckle cracking and loss of grip strength.

    A researcher also won an ignobel prize for carrying out a study on himself for something like 30 years, where he happily cracked the knuckles on one hand and never on the other. The cracking hand had no sign of arthritus but his grip strength in that hand was significantly less.

    I mean, sample size of one and all that but it's an interesting story

    I think handedness would be the biggest determining factor

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Man I had someone tell me that they don't understand why I have to take pills for my bipolar disorder

    because don't I want to have raw creative energy to make works of arts and be an arteest

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    #pipe wrote:
    scientists don't masturbate!!

    They achieve sexual release by proving or disproving a hypothesis

    I actually did put off sex just yesterday in order to talk about science for a little bit longer so...

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote:
    speaking of batshit comics people

    Grant Morrison is really into magic

    and he takes it seriously, unlike Alan Moore

    you say that like Alan Moore doesn't really worship the snake god Glycon

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Man I had someone tell me that they don't understand why I have to take pills for my bipolar disorder

    because don't I want to have raw creative energy to make works of arts and be an arteest

    when you find the stress gets to be too much, just start taking nature's all-natural cure, opium

  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
    Man I had someone tell me that they don't understand why I have to take pills for my bipolar disorder

    because don't I want to have raw creative energy to make works of arts and be an arteest

    when you find the stress gets to be too much, just start taking nature's all-natural cure, opium

    this sounds like a solid plan

  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    #pipe wrote:
    Knuckle Cracking will not cause arthritus

    but interestingly enough, the same studies point to a correlation between knuckle cracking and loss of grip strength.

    A researcher also won an ignobel prize for carrying out a study on himself for something like 30 years, where he happily cracked the knuckles on one hand and never on the other. The cracking hand had no sign of arthritus but his grip strength in that hand was significantly less.

    I mean, sample size of one and all that but it's an interesting story

    Your grip strength is only lowered somewhat immediately after cracking your knuckles. It returns to normal shortly afterward.

  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    One of my instructors told me about a news story she saw about a cat and a rabbit that had mated and produced "cabbits". I thought she was making fun of the story so I laughed and rolled my eyes. Turns out she thought it was real. I explained that rabbit and cats are not only different species, they are not even in the same order. I said that even if a cat and a rabbit got past the fact that they are not sexually attracted to each other and mated (animals hump all sorts of things after all), they cannot possibly conceive young. If a human had sex with a dog, you wouldn't get dog/human babies, despite what happened on Family Guy.

    Her response was that it was on the news and therefore had to be true.

  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    You then performed the actions depicted in your sig to this person.

    Battletag BYToady#1454
  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    But is grip strength supposed to be equal for both hands? I wouldn't be surprised if the dominant hand had a better grip.

    Did he use one hand more than the other? That could affect it too.

    There are far too many variables to say that study means anything.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    Which hand did he jack off with?

    Most important variable.

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  • gtrmpgtrmp Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Shorty wrote:
    speaking of batshit comics people

    Grant Morrison is really into magic

    and he takes it seriously, unlike Alan Moore

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    edit: and as i go looking for this, the topic shifts to masturbation, of course

    gtrmp on
  • SliderSlider Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    This is bullshit: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/21/politics/super-committee/index.html

    "Despite the broad agreement that exists for such an approach, there are still too many Republicans in Congress that have refused to listen to the voices of reason and compromise that are coming from outside of Washington," Obama told reporters after the super committee announced its failure.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Spectre-x wrote:
    Your grip strength is only lowered somewhat immediately after cracking your knuckles. It returns to normal shortly afterward.

    studies would suggest otherwise
    To investigate the relation of habitual knuckle cracking to hand function 300 consecutive patients aged 45 years or above and without evidence of neuromuscular, inflammatory, or malignant disease were evaluated for the presence of habitual knuckle cracking and hand arthritis/dysfunction. The age and sex distribution of the patients (74 habitual knuckle crackers, 226 non-knuckle crackers) was similar. There was no increased preponderance of arthritis of the hand in either group; however, habitual knuckle crackers were more likely to have hand swelling and lower grip strength.

    In the article details it suggests grip strength may be lessened up to 75% in the long term

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    No wonder I can't open jars any more.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    But is grip strength supposed to be equal for both hands? I wouldn't be surprised if the dominant hand had a better grip.

    Did he use one hand more than the other? That could affect it too.

    There are far too many variables to say that study means anything.

    Unfortunatly the study isn't available online for free

    but it was carried out with an emphasis on Arthritis & Rheumatism. After 50 years of cracking on one hand, that hand was no more arthritic than the other. The weakening and joint swelling was an unexpected, but noted effect.

    Like I said, it's a sample size of one so it's not hard science

    it's just interesting

  • DontShootToastersDontShootToasters the prettiest bulb at the ballRegistered User regular
    Man I had someone tell me that they don't understand why I have to take pills for my bipolar disorder

    because don't I want to have raw creative energy to make works of arts and be an arteest

    Were you the one with the story about people being jealous of you for being bipolar, because some famous artists happened to be bipolar or some such nonsense

    because man, those people

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  • psyck0psyck0 Registered User regular
    #pipe wrote:
    Spectre-x wrote:
    Your grip strength is only lowered somewhat immediately after cracking your knuckles. It returns to normal shortly afterward.

    studies would suggest otherwise
    To investigate the relation of habitual knuckle cracking to hand function 300 consecutive patients aged 45 years or above and without evidence of neuromuscular, inflammatory, or malignant disease were evaluated for the presence of habitual knuckle cracking and hand arthritis/dysfunction. The age and sex distribution of the patients (74 habitual knuckle crackers, 226 non-knuckle crackers) was similar. There was no increased preponderance of arthritis of the hand in either group; however, habitual knuckle crackers were more likely to have hand swelling and lower grip strength.

    In the article details it suggests grip strength may be lessened up to 75% in the long term

    I suspect that a stronger determinant would be use of the hand. I mean, I crack my knuckles a few times a day, probably, but I can deadlift 500 lbs. I doubt the knuckle-cracking has much affected my ability to grip that.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    psyck0 wrote:
    I suspect that a stronger determinant would be use of the hand. I mean, I crack my knuckles a few times a day, probably, but I can deadlift 500 lbs. I doubt the knuckle-cracking has much affected my ability to grip that.

    When you have 225 people who don't crack their knuckles

    and 75 people who do

    and the people who do have 75% less grip strength than those who don't

    that's statistically significant.

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    #pipe wrote: »
    psyck0 wrote:
    I suspect that a stronger determinant would be use of the hand. I mean, I crack my knuckles a few times a day, probably, but I can deadlift 500 lbs. I doubt the knuckle-cracking has much affected my ability to grip that.

    When you have 225 people who don't crack their knuckles

    and 75 people who do

    and the people who do have 75% less grip strength than those who don't

    that's statistically significant.

    That's also merely correlation.

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  • B:LB:L I've done worse. Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
    Rolo wrote:
    Eating at night doesn't make you any fatter than eating at other times of day.

    cite pls
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3263249.stm

    That's BULLSHIT.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/health/17really.html

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