Farewell! Possibly forever, most likely not forever

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

Atheists don't believe in choirs?

[mountainmage]

Nah, just that why would I be in a choir that gets preached to in the first place?

[LordRetard]

No one preaches to choirs. That's the whole point of that saying, "preaching to the choir". No one does it because it's not necessary.

[mountainmage]

Well, I guess my joke doesn't make sense, but I stand by it. Take that, logic!

[LordRetard]

You totally just gave logic "the gift", man.

[Apocalyptus]

But isn't 'the gift that keeps on giving' herpes? I mean, if we can't be consistent in our humourous similes for STDs, of what use are we? Why keep on living?

[LordRetard]

In a manner of speaking, all diseases are gifts!

[Apocalyptus]

What about obesity? And cancer? And flancer?

[LordRetard]

You can give someone cancer, that's second-hand smoking. You can give someone obesity, that's bad parenting.

[Cirtur]

In another manner of speaking, all gifts are diseases.

Because no one gives me any.

[Apocalyptus]

But studies are pretty inconclusive when it comes to second hand smoking. And what about flancer, eh?

[LordRetard]

In another manner of speaking, all gifts are diseases.

Because no one gives me any.

Didn't Ed give you the Space-AIDS?

But studies are pretty inconclusive when it comes to second hand smoking. And what about flancer, eh?

Technically, science can't prove anything! Studies are inconclusive when it comes to second-hand smoking because tobacco companies give grants to researchers that give results that say "smoking is cool, kids". General scientific opinion is that these studies are poppycock and second-hand smoking is kinda harmful. But you're right that they can't prove it.

As for flancer, I will refer the question to a leading flancer expert.

[Cirtur]

Didn't Ed give you the Space-AIDs?

No, because real cool cats use condoms.

[Sahan]

But studies are pretty inconclusive when it comes to second hand smoking. And what about flancer, eh?

Technically, science can't prove anything! Studies are inconclusive when it comes to second-hand smoking because tobacco companies give grants to researchers that give results that say "smoking is cool, kids". General scientific opinion is that these studies are poppycock and second-hand smoking is kinda harmful. But you're right that they can't prove it.

Beat me to it. There is a lot of money put into keeping results corporoation friendly. That's why global warming keeps being cast into doubt by people who have no real qualifications to speak on the issue. What I've learned from my brief stint learning statistics is how a study can be manipulated so that for the same data, you can make "There is enough evidence to suggest that these people aren't being honest" become "There isn't enough evidence to say they're lying." just by changing the way you go about your analysis, and it is still perfectly statistically valid. Usually when a company tries to get the results to favour them, they will set it so that the data has to prove they are in the wrong, which is a lot harder to do than proving they are not in the right.

Regarding flancer, it is a very rare disease, so the cause is still very much unknown. Some say it is a heridatary disease, others say it's caused by enviromnmemntal factors. it's still a dark area for medical knowledge.

[Lethal Interjection]

Have fun, Cow ! As a parting gift, I will link you to something that reminded me of you when I was reading a magazine.

Recycled leather is "not unnecessary suffering". It's like "we had all of these dead animals. What were we gonna do with all of 'em?" You may as well say "I'm going to buy this leather jacket, it's already been made anyway." Yeah, it was made for you. I could never be a vegetarian because that's exactly the sort of thing I would start doing. "Well, someone already cooked this hamburger... May as well eat it."

We have a new hire at work. Apparently raised vegetarian. And he's gotta be over 40, so that's rather surprising. Must've had quite the hippy parents.
Anyways, the guy has a goose down leather jacket.
WHAT?
I don't understand how you could be vegetarian and wear a garment that required two animals to die.
Someone please explain.