I hope the girl using that board as a sunshade knows it will go yellow then brown if she keeps that up

petermac33 said...

Another tool to dehumanise us or to knock us off with radiation?


hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.com/2012/08/palm-zombie-apocalypse.html

lol they just had the world texting competition...maybe that will make the Olympics one day.

Back in my day we had no entertainment, we made do with marbles an suchlike.

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a 10 cents and in those days, 10 cent coins had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a fifty, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen some guy flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and... hey! Where are you going? Anyway, about my washtub. I'd just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird.

Before mobile phones, I remember everyone used to read newspapers or books on the train.

I can't ever remember everyone sitting and chatting to each other on the way to London.

Maybe most people just don't like other people.

I fart on trains

Wakes the zombies up.

Actually I'll do the trips with you, I'm not working yet - back still stuffed.

evlPanda said...

cisco said...

petermac33 said...

Another tool to dehumanise us or to knock us off with radiation?


hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.com/2012/08/palm-zombie-apocalypse.html

You better believe it!!

Been on a suburban train in Brisbane lately?? Nobody looks at anybody else, nobody talks to anybody else and nobody sits next to anybody else. All eyes are down and all ears are plugged by the iPhone/Pod/MP3 and nobody even bursts into song with their favourite tune.

What kind of "Sick Society" is that??

I am talking to you from the 19th century.

Have you been on a steam train lately? Nobody looks at anybody else, nobody talks to anybody else and nobody sits next to anybody else.

...hang on, how does nobody sit next to anybody else Cisco?

All eyes are down and reading the newspaper or a book. What kind of "Sick Society" is that??

I'm talking to you from 200 B.C Egypt.

Have you been on a camel train lately? Nobody looks at anybody else, nobody talks to anybody else and nobody sits next to anybody else. All eyes are down and reading this new fangled papyrus. What kind of "Sick Society" is that??

Book/Web/Facebook; what's the difference? You make it sound like everyone used to socialise on the train and discuss higher learning, philosophy, history and give poetry recitals, or something. Where the **** did this ever happen? 1970's Brisbane? I don't think so. People have been ignoring each other for millennia.

myusernam said...

peterM I am sure the new world order inventing them to dehumanise them appeals to you more, but I do believe that the lonng term effects of RF close to the head are of a concern. I think everyone should practise a bit of inverse square law by using the speaker function as much as possible. If you have kids please consider encouraging them to not put the phone to their head. Many brain surgeons are saying that since advent of mobile phones, the rate of certain cancers are much higher. While science can currently show now link, they couldn't prove asbestos or smoking was bad for you either. Untill they can prove what causes brain cancer they can't say that long term RF close to the head doesn't contrubute somehow.

Would headphones isolate the RF? Or is the speaker thats the problem? Or the wire?

doggie said...

myusernam said...

peterM I am sure the new world order inventing them to dehumanise them appeals to you more, but I do believe that the lonng term effects of RF close to the head are of a concern. I think everyone should practise a bit of inverse square law by using the speaker function as much as possible. If you have kids please consider encouraging them to not put the phone to their head. Many brain surgeons are saying that since advent of mobile phones, the rate of certain cancers are much higher. While science can currently show now link, they couldn't prove asbestos or smoking was bad for you either. Untill they can prove what causes brain cancer they can't say that long term RF close to the head doesn't contrubute somehow.

Would headphones isolate the RF? Or is the speaker thats the problem? Or the wire?

headphones are meant to make it worse. Acts as an antenna for the signal. Was in a 60 minutes episode a few years ago...

PM's mates in Brissie today

Who says no one talks on the train these days? It was only last month this Kiwi decided to bring a blown up sheep sex toy on the Joondalup line. That got the passengers talking.

evlPanda said...

You make it sound like everyone used to socialise on the train and discuss higher learning, philosophy, history and give poetry recitals, or something.

I don't make it sound like that at all. Nothing so high highfalutin as that at all. Just friendly conversation with fellow passengers whose body language indicates they are happy with themselves, the people around them and are not averse to a bit of conversation (almost a lost art today) even if it about such a mundane subject as the current weather.

Where the **** did this ever happen? 1970's Brisbane?

Yes it did happen then and even into the 80s. I know so because I was there then.

I don't think so. You don't think so and neither do you know so.

People have been ignoring each other for millennia.

Have you been around for millenia, or is that something you read in a book, or is that something somebody told you, or is that just some concept you plucked out of the ether??

petermac33 said...

Line from Rihanna song....ignoring all prior advice and fore warning...is this the way you live your life kiteboy?

1. I don't listen to commercial radio. I don't need super secret conspiracy theories to tell me it's mind-numbing **** that rots your brain. Hence I know zero Rihanna songs, so you lost me there.

2. The way I live my life is to learn to discriminate between good information and bad. Let me explain in simple terms.:




Some people will believe anything. Google breatharianism, I once met a chick who was into that. I doubt she's still alive.

The people that believe one ridiculous thing are not the same as the people that believe another ridiculous thing, however there tend to be common traits.

The internet allows people to widely broadcast ridiculous ideas.

The internet allows people to easily find ridiculous ideas and support them.

I could pick any ridiculous idea (Cats and Dogs mated thousands of years ago to make Wombats) and use my head to make a half-convincing argument for it.

If I put this idea on the internet, there would be some suckers who would choose to believe it.

Over time, these people would add to the argument, and slowly build up more 'evidence' of how cats and dogs bred wombats.

More and more people would believe it and a movement would be born.

More and more web sites would spring up confirming this theory, and they would all add more and more weight to the argument for believers.

Unfortunately these people would still be wrong. There's no sense in the idea. If you examine the idea, nothing fits. The real scientific evidence -ie our best understanding of the world- all points elsewhere.

When confronted with this truth, believers would make all sorts of claims to justify their beliefs. (it's a conspiracy, fossils were planted, blah blah)

The root of the problem for these believers is generally an inability or unwillingness to apply reason to ideas. Roots might be poor education, maybe borderline personality traits, maybe deep unsatisfaction with life, or they could be perfectly intelligent and high functioning but they need an outlet or a weird side - ie "I want to believe".

Anyway, there's my little essay on the topic, hope you enjoyed. Actually it probably equally describes door knocking religious fundies as well as conspiracy theory nuts.

Remember folks - Dogs and Cats mated to make Wombats

kiteboy dave said...

don't bother with logic or sound reasoning dave. the beauty of the system is that you can never be proved wrong no matter how farfetched your theory. if science or facts contradict what you propose, it simply means the facts have been manipulated by the faceless puppet masters...(eg chem trails- the fact they can be easily explained by physics obviously means that we have been fed incorrect scientific methods to mask the real truth).
it's self-fuelling paranoia and it's brilliant in it's circular stupidity- just pick the facts that support your idea, anything else is propaganda or lies.
even more convenient- most of the world's medical scientific political & corporate industries are in on the ruse.