Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Dear god, that's the proof? Two shots from slightly different angles showing differing approach angles as a result? And yes, despite their little perspective line, they are different angles...it's evident if you only look at the roof of the tower on the right (it helps if, like me, you have the freakish ability to move one eye independent of the other, and can overlay them).

As for their mysterious black spot, that's pretty bloody easy to explain. The glass on the towers is, as you might have noticed, reflective. When you have something moving at an angle to a reflective pane of glass, the image will then reflect at angle as well. In this case, it will reflect back on to the other tower, on the foreground corner.

I've watched Loose Change. I've watched god only knows how many Youtube videos where a kid whose voice has barely broken talks over looped footage with little arrows pointing at inconsequential ****, usually accompanied by UNNECESSARY capitalization of WORDS to add IMPACT. None of it is in the least bit convincing.
 
Watched the 10 o clock news comedy programme the other day in which Charlie Brooker investigated the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombing. Basically explained that if you could get an image of the event of a suspicious looking man, put a red circle around him with an arrow, that was then clear evidence that the police should use.
 
Schad said:
Wonderful logic, that:

- The measles vaccine is evil and causes autism. Don't let them poison your kids!

- Massive measles outbreak.

- This outbreak is totally the doing of the government (and not the fact that, like morons, we've taken a hammer to herd immunity to the disease) who just want to poison your kids!


When humanity dies out, it will not be because of a meteorite, or volcanic ash, or the simple fizzling out of the sun. It will not even be because of a global war, or the intentional use of nuclear weapons, or some unforeseen disease that we simply cannot beat. It will be because we as a species will contrive to do something unimaginably stupid, an act of absolute idiocy or continued acts of negligence that so fly in the face of good sense that the universe, deciding that we've become too divorced from the survival instinct that got us where we are, will say "alright, that's enough silliness out of you", and ****.
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The MMR-autism thing is way more interesting than your bog standard conspiracy because it was all about conventional media and the public understanding of science. MMR was undoubtably the science story of most of the last 10+ years, and huge numbers of people didn't get their children vaccinated, all despite the fact that the only person who said there was a link, now repeatedly disproved, happened to have his own version of the measles vaccine that wouldn't sell unless MMR was gone, and funded by ambulance chasers.

As it turned out, his research was fraudulent and unethical, based on just eight children (he disregarded the ones that didn't match his results), and pretty dangerous to the children who he performed spinal procedures on without approval. Taking blood samples at a kids birthday party was also not that smooth. He was struck off in 2010 and now hangs around with Yank anti-vax quacks, but less than two weeks ago got a front page column in the Independent where he declared that the current measles outbreak proved he was right all along (don't ask how) and made other vague assertions, a perfect way of sowing doubt amongst parents who are of course nervous about their child's health.

This is all happening 15 years after the original publication, 3 years after he was struck off the medical register. There's loads of quacks out there, but Mr Wakefield is by far the most dangerous.



Now look what you've done, I've written a whole rant <laugh>
 
Schad said:
Dear god, that's the proof? Two shots from slightly different angles showing differing approach angles as a result? And yes, despite their little perspective line, they are different angles...it's evident if you only look at the roof of the tower on the right (it helps if, like me, you have the freakish ability to move one eye independent of the other, and can overlay them).

As for their mysterious black spot, that's pretty bloody easy to explain. The glass on the towers is, as you might have noticed, reflective. When you have something moving at an angle to a reflective pane of glass, the image will then reflect at angle as well. In this case, it will reflect back on to the other tower, on the foreground corner.

I've watched Loose Change. I've watched god only knows how many Youtube videos where a kid whose voice has barely broken talks over looped footage with little arrows pointing at inconsequential ****, usually accompanied by UNNECESSARY capitalization of WORDS to add IMPACT. None of it is in the least bit convincing.
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What you say is fair and reasonable and hard to argue with tbh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Hw8sJE3R0 move onto 3:00 and you will perhaps be able to see that there is a difference in news broadcasts.

I watched this documentary a few years ago and I think you have to watch the whole thing through rather than see a few minutes worth. All the same the image where it outlines two different flight paths and two different backgrounds should raise enough interest for you to watch the whole video.
 
Yeah, even if (from what I heard) the Independent published a story or editorial blasting him, if there's one person out there who does not need even the slightest bit of publicity, it's Andrew Wakefield. Measles happens to be a disease with a really high herd immunity threshold because it's so contagious...if you have, say, 5% of the population who cannot get the MMR vaccine for medical reasons, and then another 5% prevent their children from getting it, you're not only unnecessarily creating a situation where your kids could get rather sick, but you're also likely to end up killing a decent number of those immuno-compromised people.

I watched this documentary a few years ago and I think you have to watch the whole thing through rather than see a few minutes worth.
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I have punished my brain enough over the years with this nonsense.
 
Joe Steinberg said:
The killer for me is being able to eat what you want. If I want to sit in my underwear eating Domino's and playing Skyrim on a Wednesday afternoon then that's what I'm going to do damn it!
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my boyfriend and i buy deli food from sainsburys, roti chicken and cheese and nice slices of tomato and bread and pig out in our underwear watching movies/playing fifa <ok>
 
We are all in the Matrix anyways, disease and famine etc don't exist. It's just the robots unplugging you from the network to feed on your life.
 
GoT spoilers seem to be impossible to avoid today so I'm torrenting the episode now. Sorry Murdoch.
 
The big four leagues in North America have their first openly gay player: Jason Collins.

He's been something of a running joke for years, because he has some of the worst stats humanly imaginable, but has stuck in the league for eons because he works hard, knows what he's doing, and is a consummate professional and leader. In other words, the perfect type of person to take the lead here. Bravo, Jason.
 
Hampshire's good start to the season has stalled after being bowled out for 197 by Essex. Essex 27/1 in reply. England captain Cook playing for Essex.
 
Didn't know where else to post this but Coventry are in talks with us to make Aaron Martin's deal permanent.
 
Saintmagic said:
Didn't know where else to post this but Coventry are in talks with us to make Aaron Martin's deal permanent.
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Embarrassingly I didn't realise that he had gone back out on loan after he had returned from Palace. I blame DTLW for not making this clear to me.

Just had a look and he has made 12 appearances, must have settled in better there. As long as they sort there financial woes out that would be a good destination for him, our lightning rise through the Leagues was too fast for Aaron.
 
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