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  5. Posted

    Okay, Drinkwel was the first sponsor that legit annoyed me.

     

    1. No one with a decent diet needs a multivitamin.

    2. Anything claiming to "support" any system of the body is junk. They're saying that because it means nothing legally so they can.

    3. If you're not an alcoholic and drinking tons and tons every day, your liver can handle the alcohol you drink.

    4. Of course, they had the Quack Miranda Warning in their copy because no one's proven their product does anything at all.

     

    So, yeah, boo that company.

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    When I was in high school, a teacher told us that marijuana use causes schizophrenia and that that was why her brother was schizophrenic. When I researched that idea, I found that scientists have found a correlation between marijuana use and first episodes of schizophrenia BUT the direction of the effect has not been established. In short, it's possible the people who are dealing with symptoms of schizophrenia (which would obviously be upsetting) might start using marijuana to cope with them. It might also lead to earlier onset schizophrenia but not create it out of nothing.

     

    See:

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322395006095

    http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09030311

     

    I'm also fairly sure that if marijuana use does have a causal relationship with schizophrenia, it's in people who are already predisposed to schizophrenia.

     

     

     

     

    TL;DR: Marijuana use and schizophrenia are associated but one does not necessarily cause the other.

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  15. Posted

    CORRECTIONS AND OMISSIONS

    1. I think a lot of the confusion over Tara Reid's arm in the shark was that the prop arm was wayyyy more than was actually bitten off. The boyfriend's response, "They could've fixed that with a hacksaw!"

     

    2. I don't understand the dynamic of Fin's old friends and him. "I can't believe he doesn't like me just because I got with his sister. What a douche! We got him a ticket to this game but he probably won't show! That's just like him. What an asshole! Fin's the WORST!" Why are they mad at him? Especially Judah Friedlander's character.

     

    3. There's an amazing extra when they're running from the stadium to the subway. She's a little girl next to Fin and she's smiling her head off because she's having the most fun ever getting to run around screaming in a movie. She's having THE TIME OF HER LIFE and it's fantastic.

    post-36049-0-67383100-1407090843_thumb.jpg

     

    4. What happened to/where are Fin and Tara Reid's kids? Nova?

     

    5. Apparently, they did crowd fund! http://www.today.com...950013#54950013

     

     

    P.S. "Oh baby, you, you got all those teeth. You say they're just for krill, but I know you want to kill." -Biz Markie

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  17. Posted

    Correction on corrections:

    Left Behind is not at all a Catholic movie. Catholics aren't into the rapture stuff; that's an evangelical Christian thing (and a very recent invention). I'd bet lots of people who believe in the rapture don't believe Catholics are "real" Christians.

     

    Also: I'm curious if the movie will be as anti-Semitic as the books.

     

    Also also: I highly recommend Daniel Radosh's book, Rapture Ready. He has a whole chapter on evangelical pop fiction.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_Case

     

     

    Look under "The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You".

    You're welcome.

     

    So you're the one who added that Neko Case was on a "controversial show" and that she later said she hadn't expected such a "confrontational interview"?

     

    Also, you're the person who edited Jessica St. Clair's entry to add, "She is commonly known as the funniest human being on earth. Her comedy bang bang appearances are consistently rated in the top ten yearly episodes. Her character, Marrisa Wompler is referred to some in the improv world as the only thing to come close to the unattainable yet highly sought after, 'perfect' character." Awesome Wikipedia work to make the show look good!

     

    P.S. Who's Dani Singer? (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Off_the_derech&diff=prev&oldid=533463889)

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  20. Posted

    I was just doing what he does to help prove my point. This was not a Case Closed. This was a parody of his show and nobody on his show gets to defend themselves. No one dishes it out more than him (5 eps a week?) Surely he can take one ribbing so everyone stop shariqing* so much.

     

    And come on Mississippi, did you really Miss a level on our bit?

     

    *Shariqing - To give oneself a orgasm by calling others racist. An addiction to a delusional feeling of being more righteous than others.

     

    I know it wasn't a Case Closed. My point was that this is the perfect example of when it wouldn't be bullying to have a Case Closed but instead of facing off against someone you're pissed at, you dedicated an entire episode of your show to mocking him when he's on the same podcasting network as you and you're both anti-racism. Plus, you seemed to think it's racist to stereotype Southerners, as if "Southerner" were a race. Why scream about him and use the N-word to make some non-point when you're both overall on the same side? Why not do a Case Closed and argue it out instead of yelling about insults to Arkansas (especially when you shit on Mississippi)? Are you really angrier about Arkansas jokes than gay rights or racism or gun control or anything else? Because if so, that's disappointing.

     

    As a white woman, the worst thing about racism for me is someone might think I'm being racist when I'm not. But I am at least somewhat racist at least some of the time because racism is a part of our ridiculous society that I have to work on getting de-ingrained from myself. People of color have to worry about getting killed, at the worst, and earning enough money, at the very least. So I just find it hard to feel that bad about people's fear of being called racist or insults to their regions as major problems when "1 Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes."

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