🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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possibly this is the first time it's had to be enforced?
or at least now that there's some media attention for it‽
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Or the last time anyone does some sort of ticketed event who wants to make any money off it at this park.
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>because of a policy banning single men or women without children from visiting the attraction in case they are paedophiles.
Because everyone knows that all pedophiles are single and childless. :roll_eyes:
Recent example:Jerry Sandusky
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I've seen this kind of thing before, but always at things that are explicitly targeted at kids 10 and under... stuff where adults have 0 interest in going without their kids, like play-pits where everything is child sized, or museums where everything's in bright colors with "see spot run" language.
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I'd actually be shocked to find kids who really cared about a falconry display. It seems an adult thing for adults.
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I could totally see taking, e.g., my Cub Scout pack to a falconry display. Sounds pretty cool. I think I would have liked to see it as a kid. I say that not knowing exactly what's involved with a falconry display, but it sounds like badass birds doing cool stuff.
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Well maybe. I dunno.
I was thinking back to the last time I was at Ocean Shores, and there was a big "kite dancing" event/competition on the beach. And it seemed outwardly like the kind of thing that maybe kids would like, but man it was really boring in reality. I watched about 20 minutes myself before walking away.
But maybe that's different. Maybe only "kite dancers" enjoy "kite dancing". And yes, it goes in the quote marks. At least until it's featured on ESPN.
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Yeah, this was clearly not the place for that kind of thing
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Maybe only "kite dancers" enjoy "kite dancing". And yes, it goes in the quote marks. At least until it's featured on ESPN.
Just wait, it's coming:
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We are sorry but we are unable to let single MEN OR WOMEN without children into the park. If you are here to meet someone let one of our reception staff know and they will happily do a tannoy announcement asking them to come and meet you.
I wonder if you can get in if you bring your own falcon
** tasteless
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The new trend in falconry, BYOF!
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And when everyone's hot and tired from a long day of falconry, we'll all regroup at the clubhouse for a refreshing bowl of Falcon PUNCH!!
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Falcon PUNCH
It is better with a meme.
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11112/111124701/4171555-8216324478-13813.jpg
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Both in the UK:
A police officer has accidentally pepper-sprayed eight young children while delivering a botched lesson at a school.
A seven-year-old girl suffered facial injuries after a police officer accidentally fired a gun during a children’s tour of his police station.
The girl, who has not been named, was reportedly among a group of children who were being shown around the station as a prize for winning a colouring competition.Second prize was, apparently, getting tasered...
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A police officer has accidentally pepper-sprayed eight young children while delivering a botched lesson at a school.
Not sure if you ever saw the story about this happening here in the colonies, but the insane twist after it was over is nearly sickening.
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Censoring transcripts of debates at a university:
This censored transcript is therefore itself an excellent example of how censorship hurts dialogue. All instances of “nigger” are written as “[n-word].” Kaminer’s use of the word “cunt”—which she used one time, to clarify a student’s reference to “the c-word,” was written as “[c-word],” resulting in this line in the transcript:
WK: And by, “the c-word,” you mean the word [c-word]?
Clarification was evidently needed, considering that another c-word was also censored from the transcript:
Kathleen McCartney: … We’re just wild and [ableist slur], aren’t we?
That’s right, wild and crazy.
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T*** recursion?
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@Intercourse said:
http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw4933xVq31qz92vfo1_500.jpg
Damn. Is that Kato Kaelin on the right?
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a police officer accidentally fired a gun
"I'm the only one I know of, in this room, professional enough to...[figuratively and literally shoot myself in the foot]".
Trigger warning[2]: Youtube put a trigger warning on the video; you'll have to sign in to watch it, or find it somewhere else.
[2] if only someone'd given that cop a trigger warning.
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A man has been barred from entering a park because of a policy banning single men or women without children from visiting the attraction in case they are paedophile
The same thing happened to a man who wanted to visit Legoland.
My wife and I visited it as adults and it's definitely a place anyone, not just children, would find interesting.
Filed under: [Paedogeddon][1]
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That helmet looks like it really softened the collision for his... hand.
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His hand must be really important to him. So much protective gear
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A 2000 calorie doughnut burger.
The Double Donut burger consists of two beef burgers topped with cheese, four bacon rashers and BBQ sauce, sandwiched between two glazed ring-doughnuts.
Filed under: The delicious ideas thread
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I had one of those at a place called Crave in Denver. Absolutely delicious! I also had a plate of sweet potato fries and some ridiculous brownie sundae thing. My buddies downloaded a calorie app and estimated I ate around 3,500 calories that meal.
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a place called Crave in Denver
Any relation to the most pretentious restaurant in Akron?
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Nice! Sounds like a pretty awesome meal.
My buddies downloaded a calorie app and estimated I ate around 3,500 calories that meal.
You should treat that as a high score and challenge your friends to beat it!
Filed under: Youbeat the high score!
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Whatever resulted in this headline:
One in 10 sausages 'carries risk of hepatitis E virus'
Unless you fucking cook them properly first, like generations of people have previously been able to.
They'll be wanting to ban sausages next. Seriously, can we take all the labels off yet?
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You can see the death in his eyes
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If our films have a female director, a female lead who is not simply there to support the male lead, or are specifically about women then they will receive an F-Rated stamp of approval.
Director Elaine Constantine said she thought the F-rating was "a good idea even if it only serves to highlight who the women film makers are. It's a job that takes balls. The laws in this country changed a long time ago in order to stamp out sexual discrimination."
Filed under: So naturally there will be an equivalent M-rating, right?
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...and the coveted MF rating?
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Filed under: So naturally there will be an equivalent M-rating, right?
I think that anything that isn't F-rated is M-rated by default.
I'm just wondering why they haven't extended this to Ag-, An-, Cis-F, Ge-, Hig-, Pan-, Trans-F, Trans-M, ...
And what happens if it's a Cis-F director with a Trans-F lead (or vice-versa..)
Oh, you get the point.
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I'm just wondering why they haven't extended this...
They'll be found in violation soon enough. Assuming it all just doesn't go away due to apathy.
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...and the coveted MF rating?
That's reserved for movies involving Samuel L. Jackson.
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He was in one of them.
True. But I'd say that Die Hard and Die Harder also deserve the MF-rating, wouldn't you?
The other two? Meh.
BTW, did you know about this?
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I guess it's appropriate for the franchise to keep on living.
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"carries risk of"? Isn't that literally every food item ever?
They kind of need to enumerate the risk before that headline is useful in any way. Are we talking 1/100? Or 1/1000000000000000?
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Did you read the headline?
No, he's clearly decided to cut back on reading what other people wrote.
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Yes?
It says 1/10 sausages carry "some" risk. But it doesn't enumerate what that risk is.
So we get a probability and inside it another probability, but the second one has no numbers attached. The only conclusion we can draw is at least 90% of sausages are perfectly safe. Perhaps 99.99999999999% of sausages are safe, but we don't know based on that headline.
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This figure was taken from a small survey (63 sausages), and is unlikely to be representative of the UK as a whole.
So in other words, the figure is bullshit and was just used to sensationalise the piece.
"Given what is known about the prevalence of high viraemia at the time of slaughter in the UK, a more representative figure would be about 1 in 100, or 1% of sausages, and any risk of infection can be alleviated by ensuring sausages are cooked thoroughly."
In other words "our best guess would be... yada yada yada".
Filed under: 1% of the time, you get Hepatitis E every time
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It says 1/10 sausages carry "some" risk. But it doesn't enumerate what that risk is.
Maybe the stuff I stuck in
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tags was missed on you.The risk is 0% if you actually bother to cook them properly.
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Well obviously, I was just commenting on the SIZE 43643 headline that dominates the entire thre-- you know what? Nevermind.
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So we get a probability and inside it another probability, but the second one has no numbers attached.
What conditions are you interested in? What does "undercooked" mean? What if the outer part of the sausage got up to temperature but the center didn't (or some other combination)? What if you have a kickass immune system?
I think the figure itself is the right one to report (with the usual caveats about how it was arrived at). Honestly, I'd never realized that HepE was so common in pigs (though TFA disputes the 10% figure).
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What does "undercooked" mean?
To prevent foodborne illness, uncooked sausages that contain ground beef, pork, lamb or veal should be cooked to 160 °F. Uncooked sausages that contain ground turkey and chicken should be cooked to 165 °F.
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Apparently you also can't properly escape a tag either. :/