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10:49 AM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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Today's WTF Moment of Scientific Research |
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Okay now this is interesting....
www.msnbc.msn.com
Some of these things make sense, and some of them don't. 
On the positive side, I don't watch a ton of TV myself. BUT... it didn't mention the Internet or video games!! lol
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain
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11:16 AM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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And reading articles written by the idiots that write for the web proves you're dead?
"every hour spent in front of the TV translated into an 11 percent increase in the risk of death from any cause, a 9 percent increase in the risk of death from cancer and an 18 percent increase in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease."
so in your tenth hour of TV watching you die from any cause.
it takes 12 hours of TV to die from cancer
6 hours of TV you die from heart disease!
How many hour of reading this idiot before you die from reading this idiot?
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11:38 AM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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| davilan wrote: | And reading articles written by the idiots that write for the web proves you're dead?
"every hour spent in front of the TV translated into an 11 percent increase in the risk of death from any cause, a 9 percent increase in the risk of death from cancer and an 18 percent increase in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease."
so in your tenth hour of TV watching you die from any cause.
it takes 12 hours of TV to die from cancer
6 hours of TV you die from heart disease!
How many hour of reading this idiot before you die from reading this idiot? |
Haha, I don't think it was meant THAT way... I think the percentages were meant as INCREASES over the percentages of non-TV watchers. Still, I found this article to be EXTREMELY odd... it just didn't make sense in so many ways.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain
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11:44 AM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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Here's MUCH more interesting stuff to read:
Bizarre Fact #4:
Did you know...
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Bizarre Fact #9:
Did you know...
Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.
Bizarre Fact #13:
Did you know...
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.
Bizarre Fact #15:
Did you know...
Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.
Bizarre Fact #16:
Did you know...
Close to fifty percent of Internet shoppers spend over five hours a week online.
Bizarre Fact #17:
Did you know...
Coca-cola used to use the slogan "Good to the last drop," in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House.
Bizarre Fact #18:
Did you know...
Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke.
Did you know...
Fossilized bird droppings are one of the chief exports of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
Bizarre Fact #28:
Did you know...
Frosted Flakes mascot "Tony the Tiger" has a wife, son (Tony Jr.) and daughter (Antoinette) that were used in early advertising commercials.
Bizarre Fact #29:
Did you know...
Google.com's company headquarters is nicknamed the Googleplex, which houses over two hundred and seventy employees.
Bizarre Fact #35:
Did you know...
In 1890, Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham and was originally called "Brad's Drink."
Did you know...
In 1907, for an ad campaign, women were offered a free box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereal for winking at the grocer. At the time, the company was called the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.
Bizarre Fact #48:
Did you know...
In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
Bizarre Fact #56:
Did you know...
In the U.S., 75% of the pencils sold are painted yellow.
Bizarre Fact #64:
Did you know...
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
Bizarre Fact #65:
Did you know...
MS-DOS was originally calle QDOS and was bought from the author by Microsoft for a small fee. The rest is history.
Bizarre Fact #67:
Did you know...
Nintendo was first establish in 1889 and they started out making special playing cards.
Bizarre Fact #75:
Did you know...
Over one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975, makine Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet that was easy to take care of, which was a rock.
Bizarre Fact #79:
Did you know...
Sales of antacids increase by as much as 20% the day after the Superbowl.
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11:49 AM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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"I don't think it was meant THAT way..."
"I didn't know it was loaded" doesn't mean much to the guy dead on the floor from the bullet wound!
I don't know what was meant-but what was WRITTEN was
"every hour spent in front of the TV translated into an 11 percent increase in the risk of death from any cause, a 9 percent increase in the risk of death from cancer and an 18 percent increase in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease."
Even if the writer doesn't know how to write in English, I do know how to read English...
If you think about it-it's even stupider than I first wrote it was:
If you die after 6 hours from heart disease, how could they figure out you will die in 12 hours from cancer?
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11:51 AM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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| davilan wrote: |
How many hour of reading this idiot before you die from reading this idiot? |
LOL... I'd say under 1 hour.
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12:50 PM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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| davilan wrote: | Here's MUCH more interesting stuff to read:
Bizarre Fact #4:
Did you know...
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
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This one right here is why we're destined for decreasing quality of service as long as we allow local, smaller businesses to die in favor of large, multi-national corporations. They'll always look for ways to shave a little more, a little more, a little more, because it translates to a lot for them.
I've noticed that "Olive Garden" skimps on the olives too in their salads... lol
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain
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01:09 PM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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I had a freakin pet rock!!
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01:18 PM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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This site is MUCH more interesting than MSN-WARNING!!! It's so habit forming that you'll die of cancer if you live through the heart disease...
Did you know the average person farts 14 times every day?
ebizarre.com
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01:21 PM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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"I had a freakin pet rock!! "
When I first moved to Russia I started to produce the Pet Rock in Russian. Couldn't remember all the stupid tricks it could do. Do you still have the instructions? I think it's time to get back to that project...I'll bet an original pet rock is now worth a ton of money.
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01:22 PM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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Well... I was 6. I only remember my babysitter giving me one and I had it for a few years and just didn't "get it".
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01:35 PM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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Just thought this was to good not to share it-in my search for a pet rock I came across this:
"Where to find a pet rock training?
where do you find the online pet rock training manual! don`t laugh at me and don`t tell me to make my own!!"
Answer
"There is no manual; you need to hire a professional rock trainer. They are relatively expensive, but you will see results effective immediately after the training process. Most will teach sit, fetch, roll over, and how to kill flies, but if you ask, they may also teach how to scan something on the computer."
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01:48 PM EST, Friday Mar 05, 2010
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I had a pet rock too-but I put on "Your Papa Was a Rolling Stone" one afternoon and the next day it was gone...
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03:06 PM EST, Sunday Mar 07, 2010
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Bizarre Fact #31:
Did you know...
Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.
so that's 360-720 calories burned while waiting to die of heart disease. No wonder I get hungry...
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05:15 PM EST, Sunday Mar 07, 2010
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| davilan wrote: | Bizarre Fact #64:Did you know...
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
Bizarre Fact #65:
Did you know...
MS-DOS was originally calle QDOS and was bought from the author by Microsoft for a small fee. The rest is history. |
Did you know...
QDOS stood for "Quick and Dirty Operating System."
Did you know...
Bill Gates' predecessor to MicroSoft (their original spelling) was Traf-o-Data.
And I never had a pet rock--couldn't afford one. I tried using an old brick, but the damn thing was so stupid it never learned anything (hence the phrase "thick as a brick").
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