this was in some hick town in backwoods America, yes? then it's hardly surprising. still funny though!

not to be too harsh on our American friends here (i actually do look on most of you as friends) but out in the sticks I seriously wonder how people like this manage to cope with life on a day-to-day basis, they are so stupid and so gullible.

Mind you, over here a few years ago when there was yet another public outcry about "the ever present threat of paedophiles" a doctor had her house firebombed because somebody had found out she was a paediatrician.

So the US doesn't have a monopoly on idiot backwoods hicks

why is the media always creating an atmosphere of fear and tension? if you believed half of what you read or inferred there's drug-pushers, terrorists and perverts round every corner. Yet most people go through their lives without ever actually experiencing any of these supposedely immediate and ever-present threats at all?

Not to be rude, but how ignorant can YOU be? BBSpot is a satire site, meaning they write bogus news for entertainment purposes. I go there almost daily for a laugh! Brian Briggs (writer/site owner) even has a group for you: BBSpot Believers, a.k.a. people who fell for his half-truths

Even tho the article aint true, ther ARE people who really think that
I'm not totally stupid you know
I mean I guess even if I walked into my computerstudy hihger grade class now, there whould be people who wouldnt know what php is.
So in the end the article aint so fare fetched besides its funny

Edited by - studying_warrior on 10/10/2004 11:15:04 AM

oh this is going to degenerate into a this-is-true-no-its-not fest isn't it?

btw my example WAS true. unfortunately.

and, again unfortunately, even if this particular instance isn't true, if i could be bothered i could find you countless examples of similar ignorance and stupidity. you know as well as i do that a great many people will believe anything at all, no matter how ludicrous it sounds, if it's perceived to be *harmful* to children etc etc. Want to destroy someone's career or reputation? make some sexual slanders against him, especially involving kids. Works every time. Drugs is a good one too, accuse anyone of drug taking or any kind of involvement with any sort of drug, legal or illegal and their marked, usually for life. now there's terrorism. And the audience for all these *threats* are ordinary people, made to be so paranoid and fearful by a hysterical press that they wil believe anything of anyone especially if it falls into the above categories.

So I'm afraid this isn't a matter of me or sw being gullible, more realistically that stories like this sadly are all too common and usually all too true, n'est ce-pas?

and it takes none of the validity out of my observations, which are based on a lifetime of experience and NOT on the premise of one article I thank you.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 10/10/2004 11:39:36 AM

About as good as the one that said Dihydrogen monoxide was harmful and could kill you

It can. It's fatal if inhaled.

How can you inhale a liquid?

you inhale the vapours
a guy in my school died 3 years ago becus of inhaling lighter gas

It's talking about inhaling in the sense of accidentally getting it down the windpipe ie drowning.

Weel, you might drown if trying to breath it, but thats all. H2O

not really a fair comparison. the dihydrogen monoxide one predated itself on a common ignorance of basic physics. the example sw cited was far more convincing and relied on a track-record of sadly similar (and true) incidents.

so there is in fact no real comparison between the two.

Point of information:

Topeka, Kansas is a major city in that State. It happens to be the State Capital, home to its legislature, the chief executive and headquarters of all state agencies.

Having said this, I am forced to add that, some four or five years ago, this is the State whose school board voted to ban all science books that taught evolution from public schools.

So it suprises me not that this could happen there but it is not a backwoods sort of place, most unfortunately.

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this was in some hick town in backwoods America

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i know it i live in one

Ed, that just makes it worse