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  • AprecheApreche
    If you do know your audience, then you just simply examine what the consequences are for that audience. I do it for GeekNights all the time.
    So where's our food and zombie episodes, eh? ^_~
    I give what you need, not what you want.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    I give what you need, not what you want.
    Cause we really needed an episode on Apocalypse Zero.
  • AprecheApreche
    I give what you need, not what you want.
    Cause we reallyneededan episode on Apocalypse Zero.
    VERY IMPORTANT.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    Cause we reallyneededan episode on Apocalypse Zero.
    Of course you did. Do not question your lord Scott and his benevolence. He works in mysterious ways!
  • CremlianCremlian
    edited January 2011
    Newsflash: Apocalypse Zero is a show about a high school and friendship in a ravaged world.

    And spiky vagina.
    Post edited by Cremlian on
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    Newsflash: Apocalypse Zero is a show about a high school and friendship in a ravaged world.
    It's a very memorable show. I promise that you'll be talking about it long after you're done watching it.
  • CremlianCremlian
    It's a very memorable show. I promise that you'll be talking about it long after you're done watching it.
    It's also a great story of triumph over adversity.

    ...and titbears.
  • RymRym
    It's a very memorable show. I promise that you'll be talking about it long after you're done watching it.
    In a way, it raped our minds. ScoJo put it on, so in a way, he raped us.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    ScoJo put it on, so in a way, he raped us.
    One of us is Jewish. ScoJo ordered the rape of a Jew. That means that ScoJo is Hitler.
    It's also a great story of triumph over adversity.
    There is a great deal of adversity in that show, that is true.
  • CremlianCremlian
    One of us is Jewish. ScoJo ordered the rape of a Jew. That means that ScoJo is Hitler.
    I would note, that I was paging through the anime and Rubin said "Lets watch that" and I said, "sure" and then left the room.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    I would note, that I was paging through the anime and Rubin said "Lets watch that" and I said, "sure" and then left the room.
    So they raped themselves.
  • lackofcheeselackofcheese
    If Scott Rubin alone made the decision, then he raped everyone including himself, right? Or was it not rape in his own case?
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    Or was it not rape in his own case?
    Was it...masturbation???
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    Or was it not rape in his own case?
    Was it...masturbation???
    So that would mean that Scott gets off on raping his friends.

    I know where I'm never staying.
  • ChurbaChurba
    So that would mean that Scott gets off on raping his friends.

    I know where I'm never staying.
    I dunno, you're bigger than Scott, and he seems pretty squishy.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    he seems pretty squishy.
    Scott is most certainly not squishy.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    he seems pretty squishy.
    Scott is most certainly not squishy.
    He seems a bit on the boney side.
  • ChurbaChurba
    Scott is most certainly not squishy.
    Crunchy, then.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Scott is most certainly not squishy.
    Crunchy, then.
    NEW Scott™, Now Crunchier Than Ever!
  • WyattWyatt
    edited January 2011
    Scott is most certainly not squishy.
    Crunchy, then.
    Dry and Boney are solid descriptors as well. Sandy would also work.
    Post edited by Wyatt on
  • AprecheApreche
    You want to talk about shitty news? How about the fact that it's suddenly the top headline that the vaccines cause autism study was a fraud. We've known that for years. I should start a newspaper that only reports things we've known since five years ago since apparently it doesn't need to be new to be news.
  • ChurbaChurba
    edited January 2011
    You want to talk about shitty news? How about the fact that it's suddenly the top headline that the vaccines cause autism study was a fraud. We've known that for years. I should start a newspaper that only reports things we've known since five years ago since apparently it doesn't need to be new to be news.
    Yep, but it was only retracted in early 2010, along with Wakefield being struck from the register in May 2010. It's not years old, it's this year - Still old, but don't make it out to be something it isn't. Reporting it as a fraud would be troublesome, since it was still a Peer Reviewed paper published in the Lancet, until it's retraction.

    And I'll wager that the story is about how the paper was retracted and Wakefield struck off, rather than just about how the paper is a fraud.

    EDIT - Reading over the CNN article, it specifically mentions when the paper was retracted, and when Wakefield was struck off. They're reporting on it now, because they have him on with Anderson Cooper.
    Post edited by Churba on
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    You're not gonna find me complaining about this story. Frankly, I'm just happy it's making the headlines that this anti-vaccination stuff is bullshit. Sure, sooner's better than later, but I'll take what I can get.
  • AprecheApreche
    You're not gonna find me complaining about this story. Frankly, I'm just happy it's making the headlines that this anti-vaccination stuff is bullshit. Sure, sooner's better than later, but I'll take what I can get.
    Oh, I'm happy to see it there, but I've known this for many years. Why couldn't they report it many years ago? Why is it big news now, but it wasn't big news then?
  • ChurbaChurba
    edited January 2011
    Oh, I'm happy to see it there, but I've known this for many years. Why couldn't they report it many years ago? Why is it big news now, but it wasn't big news then?
    Because years ago, the paper wasn't retracted, nor was Wakefield struck from the UK medical register, and of course, he wasn't having an interview with Anderson Cooper years ago. Reading and thinking - They're fundamental!
    Post edited by Churba on
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    an interview with Anderson Cooper
    Hope he tears Wakefield to shreds.
  • theknoxinatortheknoxinator
    Oh, I'm happy to see it there, but I've known this for many years. Why couldn't they report it many years ago? Why is it big news now, but it wasn't big news then?
    For the same reason some news broadcasts recently reported that nutmeg can make kids high. People are dumb and ignorant, including those who report it.
  • AndrewAndrew
    I lost faith in humanity after reading through the comments on various news reports of the Wakefield incident.
    Autism is caused/made worse by babies sleeping on their backs. It does not allow for proper sleep (for one it increases sleep apnea from 10% to around 70%, which has links to autism) which hampers and disrupts brain development. Don't take my word for it, research it. It makes such a drastic effect on child development that doctors have pushed back their estimated times for babies to hit developmental milestones.
    This is well timed propaganda to push the vaccines and discredit anyone who questions their safety. There's a good chance another avian flu/swine flu scare will pop up in the near future. For all the people who don't think these vaccine are dangerous.....step in line. I honestly don't understand how more people can't see through all the deception and lies.
  • AprecheApreche
    I lost faith in humanity after reading through the comments on various news reports of the Wakefield incident.
    Why did you have faith? And in humanity of all things?
  • CremlianCremlian
    You are surprised by wackjobs on the internet???
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