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Comment on “Daily Feline Info” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:11 +0000

White pages I meant, the yellow pages maybe too, I don’t recall. (No pun intended.)

Comment on “Daily Feline Info” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:17:38 +0000

It might count as a prank call, and prank calls are illegal, even when performed by an individual. That information used to be even printed in the Bell yellow pages, along with a number to call to report prank calls to the authorities and allow Ma Bell to listen in to particularly egregious offenders in order to confirm the situation.

Comment on “Daily Feline Info” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:29:18 +0000

(Though I don’t know of anyone who would try to unsubscribe from that particular list. )

Comment on “Daily Feline Info” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:28:38 +0000

I don’t know about the legality (it’s probably legal, since it’s a person doing it and not a company), but I’m not a fan of practical jokes in general. I just had to post that one because it was so funny, and to let people know what they’re dealing with if anyone ever pulls it on them.

Comment on “Daily Feline Info” by Chris

Chris — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:09:03 +0000

Though funny, it’s also illegal. I certainly wouldn’t want to be that stranger. Nor the telemarketer (click on the comment that says ‘Relevant’) Yeah, in the end I think the harms outweigh the benefits, as you can’t really stop this, so I’m personally not a fan.

Comment on “Study links dim wits to conservative ideology” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:05:41 +0000

That’s why irrational people have an advantage over the rest of us: they’re willing to do crap like that. Fortunately, the rest of us significantly outnumber them, so the only way they can get enough power to do that sort of thing is when we can be distracted and divided, then intimidated into silence — that’s how the Nazis came to power in Germany.

Comment on “Study links dim wits to conservative ideology” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:48:30 +0000

Well, they could always do like the Nazis did and stuff them all in ovens. That didn’t go over too well though in the end though.

Comment on “Earphones know left from right even when you don’t” by Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:47:10 +0000

Watch out though, some of those left-right headphones are counterfeit! They are phone-y headphones.

Comment on “Study links dim wits to conservative ideology” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:21:22 +0000

He was certainly different.

Comment on “Study links dim wits to conservative ideology” by Head Geek

Head Geek — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:21:03 +0000

I can't disagree with you, but I don't think it's a conscious attempt on most peoples' parts. Most such people are just trying to make things like they were when they were younger, when no one talked about or acknowledged the things that now make them uncomfortable: people who are foreign, or atheist, or homosexual, or essentially different in any way. Since those things weren't talked about or acknowledged, they didn't exist, as far as those people were concerned.

Which might explain why it's primarily dumb people who espouse such opinions. The turban-wearing immigrant living down the street, or the gay son of a neighbor, won't stop existing because people don't acknowledge their existence, and anyone with any level of intelligence knows that.