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Ugly People Are Unattentive Parents?

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First we heard that ugly people commit more crime. Now we're being told that they're less attentive to their children than attractive people.

"'Unattractive parents are less likely than attractive parents to supervise their children closely,' said Andrew Harrell. He's the same social scientist who took a fair bit of heat last year when he presented evidence suggesting parents pay more attention to attractive children. Now he's onto new findings bound to stir up further familial feelings. 'The unattractive parents may be ugly because they have had economic difficulties, health problems, diabetes, poor eyesight, psychological and physical hardships that distract them,' Harrell offers as an explanation. 'They have their own personal concerns and they have less time to be attentive to their children. They are in such physical and psychological misery they are not there.' He admits his limited data can't prove the theory, since his team never interviewed the parents or children who were observed."

Can you say "junk science"?

Gas Guzzlers

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Teeheehee…

"It seems someone in the marketing department of/for GM thought it would be a grand idea to advertise the 2007 a Chevy Tahoe by running a contest – a DIY (Do It Yourself) commercial."

I love the results. *evil grin*

A whole bunchmore can be found here.

If they get yanked, look for them on YouTube.

Update 04/03/06: CNET has an article about the broader phenomenon of amatuer advertizing.  The Tahoe campaign is mentioned.

Poop For Peace

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[peace_118x175.gif]Lest we should start taking ourselves to seriously…

"The east hates the west. The Christians hate the Muslims. The liberals hate the conservatives. The Sunnis hate the Shiites. All across the globe, the chasm dividing humanity is ever deeper. In all the world’s wars against terror, the distinction of who is perpetrating which depends on what side you ask — so divided are we as a species that we can’t even agree why we’re killing each other."

"For there to be peace, there must be understanding. For there to be understanding, there must be a common ground. But the further the chasm deepens, the more fundamental to basic human nature the common ground has to be."

"And so April 14 is Poop For Peace Day."

"Poop is the one experience all human beings have in common. We may have varying ideas of God and politics, but the power of an impending poop is a higher calling to which every human must answer. Side by side in a public bathroom, any two human beings are stripped of their differences and reduced to their most basic essence: a pair of feet sticking out below the stall, and a pair of butt trumpets performing a greasy symphony to lament humanity’s non-negotiable deference to the call of the vile."

Get the poop on Poop for Peace Day.

Too Weird For Words

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From time to time I get bizarre email. Some of it is from Fundies giving me a “drive-by” Bible-thumping. Some is from Muslims trying to enlighten me. Most is spam. Occasionally, though, I get a message that I just can’t quite classify. It’s something so strange that it just has to be shared with the world. In that spirit, I give you the email “drinkme” by “super genius from outer space”.

“A conduct can be pathological or non pathological (phisiological), no
external or middle case is expected. 90% of the people who killed a parent
is declared mentally healthful, this means: non pathological conduct,
phisiological conduct (genetic or non genetic), good doctor, not ‘infected
cattle’.”

“Medicine is an exact science, jurisprudence is an exact science. Enemies and
friends, of the mental hygiene only : war between doctors isn’t expected
value; Fighting with islam against the devil : announcing this obvious
information could save some health.
Siegmund Freud lies not knowing to be lying: he is a conceptual pedophile
who says children has sexual attraction for parent (edipus) and that mind is
partitioned in 3 parts (ego superego es). False premiss brings wrong result:
like Freud says, cognitive error is associated with pathological conduct,
biological group self-destructive activity.
‘Your parent acts with you like with friends’: the medical doctor must
suggest this or enhanced reflection to the habitants, for excluding
non-genetic behavioral epidemics. Slapping child is a crime and a mania,
like by the general rule, ‘if child doesn’t born genetically stupid,
handicapped, diseased, socially dangerous’. Habitants of the planet kill
gays but children don’t born gays, habitants corrupt and kill children doing
a ‘sacrifice to the devil’: this non genetic epidemic is familiarly but not
geneticaly transmitted.”

“With baptism christians forgive themselfs from god’s sentence.
If vegetarian diet gives longer and better life than non-vegetarian diet,
non-vegetarian diet is alimentary behavior pathology. Eating another
human is a behavioral disturb; a cow has 96,5% dna perfectly matching
with human dna. I am racist: i think animals is inferior race, so i don’t
have to eat cadavers, thing that induce a phisiological genetic reflex :
vomiting.”

“You are authorized by the author to the use u think is necessary, pls
forward. This is a final version or close, you will be excluded from future
mailing.”

The last bit really caught my attention. This bad acid trip is somebody’s idea of a final version. What of, I do not know.