I think that's a big part of the whole alternative facts universe. Sort of a "cosmic unconsciousness" of things that are more enduring because they're more memorable and less mundane than the truth.
This seems to play out with all the really awesome "Darwin awards" stories as well. When you look into the facts surrounding them, they are either much less lurid than originally presented or, more often, complete fabrications.
The opposite also occurs. Very obscure and offhand comments from years ago are dug up by political opponents and flaunted as evidence that "this is how that person thinks".
Later someone looks into the matter, providing the context, and essentially debunking the criticism. By then, the "evidence" has been accepted as fact, in the alternative-fact universe.
I hadn't heard that either. Very interesting. I'll have to read up on that story.
We tend to hear, and care, only about wildly interesting (either scary or exciting) stories. We tend not to hear that they are bullshit unless it's something that people are not going to forget about.
@VA
I had not heard about the de-bunking of the Venus findings. Too bad from a "cooler solar system" standpoint.
Sort of reminds me of the "Do power lines cause cancer?" controversy that raged for decades. Several US studies said "very possibly". Studies in Canada, Norway, and the EU said "No." Many, many years later a researcher looked at the original data that was the basis for all the US studies and found that it was intentionally manipulated by a researcher and all the studies had look at the same transcribed and reduced, manipulated data. There was a fascinating story on NPR about this which ended with the responsible researcher, by then a tenured college professor being academically disciplined and fired. No on I know seems aware of this history when the subject of power line hazards comes up which, granted, it doesn't often.
Amidst the shaking heads and confusion, somewhere in NJ, Peghey’s decimal system is becoming quite dewy.
I’m not a ratatouille fan...the food, not the movie. Loved the movie.
BT
That's from your biogeneration of phosphine. Lay off the ratatouille.
Va, I was trying to figure out why my sleep’s been a bit restless these last few nights. That might explain it.
BT
Fun fact: the news reports from 2019 that more phosphine had been found in the atmosphere of Venus than could be explained with mechanisms unrelated to life were far more widely circulated than the re-analyses which showed that the original conclusions were completely wrong
Prohibition, a “noble experiment” according to Herbert Hoover, ended today in 1933.
I’ll drink to that.
BT
That is any deep fried food.
You don't know about the fried chicken wings?
When they float, they're done.
Same with fish filets.
A couple of posts in another thread inspired this post...
FF: The last words from the Edmund Fitzgerald: "We're holding our own."
That was a radio message to the Arthur M Anderson also battling the storm on Lake Superior on 11/10/75. She was slightly ahead of the EFG. 10 minutes later, the Arthur M Anderson lost radar and radio contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald. Just prior to that last message, the EFG had radioed to the AMA: "I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I've ever been in."
The Arthur M Anderson turned around to begin a search for the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew in the heavy seas, she found nothing. A US Navy plane detected the wreck 4 days later in 530 feet of water- 15 miles west of Deadman's Cove.
On 11/10/20, during a snowstorm, the Arthur M Anderson entered the Port of Duluth on Lake Superior. She blasted a Master Salute (3 long and 2 short bursts) on her horn in honor of the EFG as she entered.
My grandson is taking part in a virtual school social experiment for his civics class. He has to wear a Biden 2020 T-shirt for two weeks and write a report on how people react. On his very first day, he’s been cursed at, spit on, punched, and had a bottle thrown at him! I’m curious what will happen when he leaves the house.
I prefer to see the eggshell crack and the chicken wings float before I pull them out.
According to the State of Minnesota, today is Indigenous People's Day.
The Federal government calls it Columbus Day.
I call it "No Political Bullshit in the Mail Day".
Also no bills in the mail, but I hate the plethora of political bullshit worse than I hate the bills. I pay the bills, they go away. Politicians never do.
It was not technically extramarital sex.
He started dating Shannon Tweed in 1983, but they did not marry until 2011.
Fun Fact:
Chaim With- better known as Gene Simmons from the rock band Kiss, made a deal with his mother in 1964.
He was 15 and wanted to be a rock star, like the Beatles. He asked his mother to buy him a guitar. His mother offered to do so as long as he promised three things: he would never smoke, drink, or do drugs. He agreed.
He kept his end of the bargain. He insists he had never in his adult life smoked, done illicit drugs, or drank alcohol, in keeping with the promise to his mother.
Apparently loads of extramarital sex wasn't part of the promise though.
Fun Fact: 99 year old Prince Philip is believed, by the Kastom people of the island of Tanna in Vanuatu (a south Pacific archipelago) to be a god.
(a condensed version of the wikipedia article)
According to ancient Yaohnanen tales, the son of a mountain spirit travelled over the seas to a distant land. There, he married a powerful woman and in time would return to them.
The people of the Yaohnanen area believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, must be this mythical figure. They had seen the respect accorded to Queen Elizabeth II by the colonial officials and concluded that her husband, Prince Philip, must be the son referred to in their legends.
It is unclear just when this belief came about, but it was probably some time in the 1950s or 1960s. It was strengthened by the royal couple's official visit to Vanuatu in 1974, when a few villagers had the opportunity to actually see Prince Philip from a distance. The Prince was not then aware of the sect, but it was brought to his attention several years later by John Champion, the British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.
Champion suggested that Prince Philip send them a portrait of himself. He agreed and sent a signed official photograph. The villagers responded by sending him a traditional pig-killing club called a nal-nal. In compliance with their request, the Prince sent a photograph of himself posing with the club. Another photograph was sent in 2000.
Princess Anne (Prince Philip's daughter) visited Tanna in October 2014. She had visited Vanuatu in 1974, but had not previously travelled to the island.
In 2007, five Tanna men from the Prince Philip Movement visited Britain. Their trip culminated in an audience with Philip, where gifts were exchanged, including a new photograph of the Prince.
Just picture, at a memorial service for southern men, Neil Young singing:
"well I hope Neil Young will remember, A southern man don't need him around anyhow."
Good - I’ve heard that story before. It’s one of my favorite music-centric story.
Good - I’ve heard that story before. It’s one of my favorite music-centric story.
This FF brought to you because of current, current events...
FF: Ronnie Van Zant (Lynyrd Skynyrd) wrote "Sweet Home Alabama", their biggest hit single, in response to Neil Young's "Southern Man".
In his autobiography, Neil Young wrote about Southern Man: "I don't like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue."
Neil Young played Sweet Home Alabama at a memorial service for the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a plane crash.
FF: Weighing in at 4,700 pounds, the world's largest Snickers bar was produced this year. Guinness Book of World Records requires that food products entered into its book must be distributed for human consumption.
Brought to you because I was thinking that in light of everything that is happening this year, what 2020 needs is for someone to give it a Snickers bar.
It appears that someone did, but it turns out the world has a peanut allergy. Big time.
I've swallowed a Canadian and I fucked a Canadian.....Mary Jo
"So far I've been too polite to fuck a Canadian"
Not me, I did in Jamaica. He was actually from Jamaica but lives in Canada. Jamaican and Canada accent mixed eh
