History according to random people...

[Greg Boeser]

The problem is the emphasis on safety means that the culling that would normally occur in nature isn't happening. Thus maladaptive behavior doesn't have the usual detrimental effects, and as a consequence the prevelance of the stupid gene in a given population is kept artificially high.

 

[SaparotRob]

The problem is the emphasis on safety means that the culling that would normally occur in nature isn't happening. Thus maladaptive behavior doesn't have the usual detrimental effects, and as a consequence the prevelance of the stupid gene in a given population is kept artificially high.

The only reason they're alive is because of the it's against the law to kill them hypothesis?

 

[Greg Boeser]

The only reason they're alive is because of the it's against the law to kill them hypothesis?

Well, that's certainly in play, but I was thinking of the natural adverse selection process. Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Well, that's certainly in play, but I was thinking of the natural adverse selection process. Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.

It's the old biological-vs-cultural evolution thang.

 

[SaparotRob]

I just wanted to get that line in. I think Greg was talking along the lines of a society with warnings about not drinking battery acid and the like.

 

[Greg Boeser]

When you have to put peanut allergy warnings on a jar of peanut butter...

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I just wanted to get that line in. I think Greg was talking along the lines of a society with warnings about not drinking battery acid and the like.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the Darwin Awards.

 

[Greg Boeser]

I came in as honorable mention one year. Got my sleeve caught trying to grease the inside bearings on my machine while it was running. The gears devoured the sleeve from cuff to elbow, and if the key on the drive shaft hadn't failed they would be calling me "Ol' One Arm".

 

[SaparotRob]

I have a treasure trove of "why am I still alive" incidents. I'd hate to be forced to compete in a stupid-off.

 

[pgeno71]

Most people in life at some point would win a Bone-Head Award. The really stupid people don't learn from their mistakes.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Don't feel bad, y'all. It happens to enough people that coroners have a cause-of-death classification for it: death by misadventure.

 

[Chuck]

I'll bet some of these folks think the moon landings and maybe even the Holocost never happened.

 

[Peter Gunn]

I'll bet some of these folks think the moon landings and maybe even the Holocost never happened.

Yes, I've met several that fall into both those categories, unfortunately.

 

[GrauGeist]

Yes, I've met several that fall into both those categories, unfortunately.

Don't forget about the "tabletop terra firma" crowd...

 

[cammerjeff]

Don't forget about the "tabletop terra firma" crowd...

Hey i was a member of that crowd (at least until I 1st entered the forward baggage compartment of 757-300! and I swear I could see the curvature of the earth in it!)

 

[SaparotRob]

Hey i was a member of that crowd (at least until I 1st entered the forward baggage compartment of 757-300! and I swear I could see the curvature of the earth in it!)

Did you see the giant ice cliff at the edge of the Earth?

 

[Marcel]

Isn't this true then?

 

[SaparotRob]

Of course it's true!

 

[Shortround6]

It is true!!!!!!

I HAVE SEEN THE TURTLE!!!!!!

 

[GrauGeist]

This clickable gem keeps circulating around Facebook and is ridiculously misleading:
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