The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band
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So was it an exercise band or did he get beat up by the mob? Also this is from a year and a half ago... what happened?
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The Nevada Democrat and Senate minority leader was exercising in his home with an elastic band when it snapped, throwing him into cabinets, causing him to lose sight in his right eye, changing his marriage and, ultimately, playing a role in ending his career.
He should have been more careful then. Also, that's one helluva elastic band.
On Tuesday, Reid and his wife, Landra Gould, filed a lawsuit against the maker of the elastic band he was using that fateful day.
Seriously? Why th- Oh, wait, America.
A resistance band that the 75-year-old Reid is using to exercise at his suburban Las Vegas home snaps and hits him in the face, causing him to fall.
Ah, so it's exercise equipment, not one of these:
It makes much more sense now. Also, the lawsuit now sounds reasonable.
Blogger John Hinderaker points out there is "zero evidence" Reid destroyed his eye in a fight but asks the question anyway: "I think it is questionable whether we are being told the truth about what happened to Harry Reid."
...and most of the rest of the article is about people making up crazy stories with zero evidence.
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@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
...and most of the rest of the article is about people making up crazy stories with zero evidence.
welcome to american politics.
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@accalia said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
...and most of the rest of the article is about people making up crazy stories with zero evidence.
welcome to
americanpolitics.Because UK politics ain't any better.
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@RaceProUK But you guys have (or had) a guy named Ed Balls.
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@hungrier said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
@RaceProUK But you guys have (or had) a guy named Ed Balls.
His biggest claim to fame is he tweeted his own name. Hardly a mark of quality :P
Edit: It's still there! :D
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@hungrier said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
Ed Balls.
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@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
...and most of the rest of the article is about people making up crazy stories with zero evidence.
Yeah, it's kind of a thing after this:
Harry Reid says anonymous source told him Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes for 10 years
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., touched off a firestorm last week after he claimed that an unnamed investor i
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@boomzilla Do you guys have a single politician with a mental age over 8?
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Did anyone else read this title and think of people creating cheesy 80s music for exercise videos?
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@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
Do you guys have a single politician with a mental age over 8?
Sure. You can tell because lots of them get in trouble for sex reasons, which isn't generally associated with 8 year olds.
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@boomzilla OK, for the sake of argument, let's rephrase this.
Do you guys have a single politician with a mental age over 16?
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@boomzilla I did ask specifically about mental age, rather than physical age. After all, I have a physical age of 32, but a mental age of strawberry :P
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@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
I did ask specifically about mental age, rather than physical age.
And I replied as such.
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@boomzilla said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
You can tell because lots of them get in trouble for sex reasons, which isn't generally associated with 8 year olds.
Well, children can make their first sexual experiences very early, so that's not a very strong argument. A child's view of sexuality is certainly very different from an adult's, but that doesn't mean children are necessarily asexual.
Filed under: Please don't misinterpret what I said and start a flamewar.
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@masonwheeler said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
Did anyone else read this title and think of people creating cheesy 80s music for exercise videos?
I didn't, but re-reading it just now, "Harry Reid and the Exercise Band" would make a
n interestingplausible book title.
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@asdf said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
Well, children can make their first sexual experiences very early, so that's not a very strong argument. A child's view of sexuality is certainly very different from an adult's, but that doesn't mean children are necessarily asexual.
You keep going with that.
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@boomzilla
Prediction: Although what I said is consistent with both scientific consensus and my personal memory, it will cause a garage thread in 3, 2, 1…
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@asdf File this one under, "Don't think zebras when you hear hoofbeats."
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@boomzilla ???
I may be
here, but I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me.
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@asdf It's an old saying: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. (Basically a more "clever" restatement of Occam's Razor: the simplest solution is the one most likely to be correct.)
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@masonwheeler
Thanks. I'd re-post this in the TIL thread, but I CBA to search for it on mobile.
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@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
@boomzilla Do you guys have a single politician with a mental age over 8?
A few. I think one's a comedian.
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@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
@boomzilla Do you guys have a single politician with a mental age over 8?
Sure we do. We also have people with a mental age of 108. We call them "the senate".
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@RaceProUK said in The long, strange saga of Harry Reid and the exercise band:
that's one helluva elastic band.
Yeah, they're usually like this:
Though I guess when you're talking exercise and not physical therapy, they sometimes look like this instead:
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@Yamikuronue You must be mistaken. That doesn't look anything like Harry Reid!
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@masonwheeler I think you misunderstand; she's the one who hit him.
