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Nonsense woo-doo?

  • 17-02-2014 05:58AM
    #1
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    What bugs you AH in terms of silly woo-doo that people believe without any scientific basis or thought?

    Me? Homoeopathy, Amber beads for babies and shovelling lactose powder (Teetha) into babies mouths.

    What do you get annoyed about?


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  • #2
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Scottish ninjas. Even at their most benign they sound like they could bottle you at any moment.


  • #3
    sawdoubters
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭sawdoubters


    kilts


  • #4
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    sawdoubters wrote: »
    kilts

    Non-Scottish people who wear kilts at weddings *cringe*


  • #5
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Non-Scottish people who wear kilts at weddings *cringe*

    Was at a wedding here in Australia a couple of months ago and someone who was born and bred in Australia but had Scottish heritage attended the wedding in the full outfit...


  • #6
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Was at a wedding here in Australia a couple of months ago and someone who was born and bred in Australia but had Scottish heritage attended the wedding in the full outfit...

    In fairness the wimmins seem to love it...


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  • #7
    MonaPizza
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    That you can make bombs out of household liquids that could bring down a plane.


  • #8
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    I admit it....I used to have "faith" and believed in hoodoo. Then my cousin's husband died a horrific death that he really didn't deserve. Leaving a wife he loved and 2 beautiful little girls Now I have faith in me and no one or nothing else. I took back the power.

    Had my mum ringing me from Florida today telling me that in America they would send me to a homeopath or such like for my allergies. Bollox. If science can't cure me nothing will. Made soothing "I believe ya" noises to my mum while thinking "feck off"


  • #9
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    MadsL wrote: »
    In fairness the wimmins seem to love it...

    He was married to a woman so far out of his league it 'literally' boggled my mind to see them as a couple but then apparently they were college sweethearts so I discounted the kilt as the reason for this.


  • #10
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    What bugs you AH in terms of silly woo-doo that people believe without any scientific basis or thought?
    God


  • #11
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    God
    God wrote:
    The Cookie Monster

    :D


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  • #12
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,606 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Organic food.


  • #13
    Oranage2
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    Some people believe that saying three fifty is funny


  • #14
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Some people believe that saying three fifty is funny

    three fiddy?


  • #15
    tritium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭tritium


    Folks who believe that a sample size of one outweighs the vast body of scientific study

    Folks who ask everyone for scientific evidence but,when the answer doesn't suit decide that all the rigorous studies are clearly rigged by 'da man' and revert to the belief in their intuition based on their extensive life experience

    Folks who keep quoting the same nonsense studies even when they've been shreeded by peer review


  • #16
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,082 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    MadsL wrote: »
    What bugs you AH in terms of silly woo-doo that people believe without any scientific basis or thought?

    Me? Homoeopathy, Amber beads for babies and shovelling lactose powder (Teetha) into babies mouths.

    What do you get annoyed about?
    I get very ranty and ravy about Pharmacies selling this snake oil as if it was medicine

    The same pharmacists that are claiming to be highly trained medical professionals often devlote their most prominent shelf space to magic water and 'supplements' that don't do anything.

    Ban billionaires



  • #17
    iDave
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    FGM


  • #18
    Elena Slow Sludge
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Elena Slow Sludge


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Some people believe that saying three fifty is funny

    Where does it come from anyway


  • #19
    rovoagho
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    Andrew Wakefield. Man needs a puck.


  • #20
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    People who buy into fad diets. Was talking to my two students in class today who are both starting diets: one is going on the apple diet, the other on some grape diet. All I can think is, "Why not go on the Spanish (Mediterranean) diet?". Eat the food your grandparents and parents ate which has lead to them outliving most Europeans and not gaining weight?


    And anyone who believes in angels or angel cards or any of that whoo-ha.


  • #21
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Karma.


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  • #22
    anncoates
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    Horoscopes.


  • #23
    Legs.Eleven
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Karma.



    Karma will get you for not believing in it.


  • #24
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,220 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Homeopathy
    Mediums/Psychics
    Religion
    MMR jabs give you Autism
    Aspertame is the devil
    Horoscopes


  • #25
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    maximoose wrote: »
    MMR jabs give you Autisms

    Forgot about that one!


  • #26
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Karma.

    Better do a good deed to make up for that.


  • #27
    eamonnq
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    The dignity of labour.


  • #28
    Davarus Walrus
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    That the writings of Marx still remain relevant today despite an absolute sea change in how labour and the conditions of work are organised.


  • #29
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    maximoose wrote: »
    Homeopathy
    Mediums/Psychics
    Religion
    MMR jabs give you Autism
    Aspertame is the devil
    Horoscopes


    Is Aspertame NOT the devil??


  • #30
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Is Aspertame NOT the devil??

    there's bugger all evidence either way, but no reason to assume it is


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  • #31
    catallus
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    Davarus Walrus wrote: »
    That the writings of Marx still remain relevant today despite an absolute sea change in how labour and the conditions of work are organised.

    Karl Marx was probably the greatest modern philosopher the world has had the fortune to see.

    His relevance is not disputed by any right thinking person who believes that the exploitation of the labour of the masses should not be solely aimed at the enrichment of the elites.


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