The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

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[Revoltingest]

A sunny Saturday in Revoltistan.
It's supposed to get above freezing today.
Spring will be sprung!

 

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[Revoltingest]

Genetically Modified Trees Planted in U.S. Forest for First Time...

 

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[Wu Wei]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

We don't get paid in Australia and they make it so hard to donate. Never ending questions about your recent and ancient health and recent sexual history and whether you've been to prison recently or had tattoos or etc etc.
I got sick of it years ago and stopped donating and it did not teach them a lesson even after all those years. They still ask the same or even more questions and make it hard for you.

They ask the same questions here. They have to to make sure the plasma is safe for recipients.

 

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[Shadow Wolf]

I don't hear much of it, but those things used to be in the Evangelical Crosshairs like Judas Priest and Harry Potter.

 

[Wu Wei]

 

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[Wu Wei]

I don't hear much of it, but those things used to be in the Evangelical Crosshairs like Judas Priest and Harry Potter.

My ex-fiancee's ex-husband was convinced thier son liking that show, especially Tinky Winky, was going to make their son gay....

 

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My ex-fiancee's ex-husband was convinced thier son liking that show, especially Tinky Winky, was going to make their son gay....

Gay is stronger than straight - the obvious conclusion.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My ex-fiancee's ex-husband was convinced thier son liking that show, especially Tinky Winky, was going to make their son gay....

That was indeed one of their concerns.

 

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I don't hear much of it, but those things used to be in the Evangelical Crosshairs like Judas Priest and Harry Potter.

They used to think that Jazz was the devil's music and even a public health crisis.

In the 1920s America, Jazz Music Was Considered Harmful to Human Health, the Cause of "Neurasthenia," “Perpetually Jerking Jaws” & More | Open Culture


Milwaukee’s public health commissioner claimed that the music damaged the nervous system, and a Ladies’ Home Journal article reported that it caused brain cells to atrophy. In Cincinnati, a maternity hospital successfully petitioned to have a nearby jazz club shut down, arguing that exposing newborns to the offending music would have the effect of “imperiling the happiness of future generations.”

Jazz was “unrhythmical,” opponents argued, and so was disease. Q.E.D. In 1923, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a ruling that shut down a jazz club, citing in their opinion a belief the music “wears upon the nervous system and produces that feeling which we call ‘tired.’” Doctors warned that too much jazz could cause neurasthenia, a catch-all for anxiety, depression, headaches, fatigue, etc. But jazz could also cause patients to become “nervous and fidgety” with “perpetually jerking jaws.” Whatever it did, jazz was hazardous.

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Of course, it all makes sense now. Jazz and blues brought us to rock and roll, which then brought us to...Led Zeppelin, which is a giant balloon. And we've been having trouble with balloons lately. Satan is responsible for sending us giant jazz balloons to make us all nervous and fidgety with perpetually jerking jaws.

 

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[Shadow Wolf]

Jazz was “unrhythmical,” opponents argued, and so was disease. Q.E.D. In 1923, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a ruling that shut down a jazz club, citing in their opinion a belief the music “wears upon the nervous system and produces that feeling which we call ‘tired.’”

You mean it made those pasty white Protestants get up and bogey?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The bed I'm on now is hard, not comfortable, but my body doesn't sound like a bowl of Rice Crispies when I move so it'll work for now.