[Shinrei]

Can a UK'r confirm/deny my question about Kentucky Fried (chicken?) serving tacos?

I'm genuinely curious. Their UK website doesn't mention them, but that doesn't mean they didn't try to sell them in the past.

[Aptorian]

http://www.reddit.co...enagers_brains/

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So I'm on my way home from work, and am on the SkyTrain (subway) when I notice this group of 4 teenagers changing seats, moving all over the train, and generally acting odd. They end up sitting right beside me, and I overhear one say "man...I took like 3 tabs, and I am really starting to feel it...woah...". Realizing that they are on acid, I decide to have a little fun with them.

So I start whispering odd things: "Red is not the right colour. Red is never the right colour" , "My ears pierce eternity, splendid" , "Life is the muffin" and various other nonsensical oddities, and notice that they are visibly freaked out, and cannot figure out who is saying it.

People leave the train, and soon it's just me and them in the area, and one of them asks me "Dude...are you saying that?", so I look him straight in the eyes and say "The right choice is always hate, unless hate is the choice", and all of them suddenly turn towards me with a look on their face like "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????". So I say "Four makes two...UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD" and they all visibly lose their shit, and quickly rush to the other side of the train and start excitedly talking and shooting scared looks in my direction.

At this point we're nearly at my stop, and I find out their stop as well, and they rush ahead shooting me weird and frightened looks, and race down the stairs(no doubt assuming I am following them). I take my time getting down, and when I reach the bottom I see them clustered together in front of the stairs, so I walk up to them, and with a wild look in my eyes I repeat it: "Four makes two...UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD!"

At this point they are completely freaking out, and one of them asks "Are you for real man?" while another just keeps repeating "What the hell" over and over. They start walking quickly away, coincidentally in the direction I was headed anyways, so I follow behind them repeating it, and matching pace with them. They start walking faster and faster, and I just keep following, and at this point am shouting "FOUR MAKES TWO UNLESS YOU'RE DEAD!!!!!" and they start SCREAMING and run full speed down the block. By now I'm laughing so hard I can't keep up, and stop to catch my breath as I watch them run 3 more blocks before turning down an alley.

Some guy that was waiting for a bus nearby walks over and asks me what that was all about, so I explain the whole story, and he tells me "Dude...you're a real jerk.........but that was fucking hilarious".

[Malaclypse]

Shinrei, on 16 January 2010 - 11:38 AM, said:

Can a UK'r confirm/deny my question about Kentucky Fried (chicken?) serving tacos?

I'm genuinely curious. Their UK website doesn't mention them, but that doesn't mean they didn't try to sell them in the past.

I haven't been into a KFC here, but I'm sure I remember joint KFC/Taco Bell joints back in canada. They're owned by the same company IIRC, so I don't think it's too much of a stretch that they would sell tacos at a KFC.

[Tiste Simeon]

Never seen a taco at a UK KFC. And I have been to a few.

[Grumble]

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In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 am, regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the super natural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 am Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 am all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. Just when the clock struck 11:00 , Kenneth Roberts, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner.


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Betty came home to find Jerry in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

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[Aptorian]

Grumble, on 17 January 2010 - 07:35 PM, said:

In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 am, regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the super natural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 am Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 am all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. Just when the clock struck 11:00 , Kenneth Roberts, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner.

Please tell me this is a true story. It's almost too good to believe.

[Tiste Simeon]

I read most of them a few years ago on an email. I call BS. Still funny though.

[Aptorian]

http://www.phys.ufl....heavyboots.html

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Heavy Boots

About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that, while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon. My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?!" Looking around the room, I saw that only my friend Mark and one other student looked confused by the TA's statement. The other 17 people just looked at me like "What's your problem?" "But a pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more slowly." I protested.

"No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far away from the Earth's gravity." Think. Think. Aha! "You saw the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, didn't you?"

I countered, "why didn't they float away?"

"Because they were wearing heavy boots." he responded, as if this made perfect sense (remember, this is a Philosophy TA who's had plenty of logic classes). By then I realized that we were each living in totally different worlds, and did not speak each others language, so I gave up.

As we left the room, my friend Mark was raging. "My God! How can all those people be so stupid?" I tried to be understanding. "Mark, they knew this stuff at one time, but it's not part of their basic view of the world, so they've forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake."

To prove my point, we went back to our dorm room and began randomly selecting names from the campus phone book. We called about 30 people and asked each this question: 1

1. If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it
a) float away,
b ) float where it is,
or c) fall to the ground?

About 47 percent got this question correct. Of the ones who got it wrong, we asked the obvious follow-up question:

2. You've seen films of the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, why didn't they fall off?

About 20 percent of the people changed their answer to the first question when they heard this one! But the most amazing part was that about half of them confidently answered, "Because they were wearing heavy boots."


MORE ON THE BURNING QUESTION OF HEAVY BOOTS

I decided to settle this question once and for all. Therefore, I put two multiple choice questions on my Physics 111 test, after the study of elementary mechanics and gravity.

13. If you are standing on the Moon, and holding a rock, and you let it go, it will:
(a) float away
(b )float where it is
(c ) move sideways
(d) fall to the ground
(e) none of the above

25. When the Apollo astronauts wre on the Moon, they did not fall off because:
(a) the Earth's gravity extends to the Moon
(b ) the Moon has gravity
(c ) they wore heavy boots
(d) they had safety ropes
(e) they had spiked shoes

The response showed some interesting patterns! The first question was generally of average difficulty, compared with the rest of the test: 57% got it right. The second question was easier: 73% got it right. So, we need more research to explain the people who got #25 right but did not get #13 right!

The second interesting point is that these questions proved to be excellent discriminators: that is, success on these two questions proved to be an extremely good predictor of overall success on the test. On the first question, 92% of those in the upper quarter of the test score got it right; only 20% of those in the bottom quarter did. They generally chose answers (a) or (b ). On the second question, 97% in the upper quarter got it right and 33% in the lower quarter did. The big popular choice of this group was (c ) ...33% chose heavy boots, followed closely by safety ropes at 27%.

A telling comment on the issue of fairness in teaching elementary physics: Two students asked if I was going to continue asking them about things they had never studied in the class.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 21 January 2010 - 09:27 AM

[HoosierDaddy]

Hrm.

This post has been edited by H.D.: 21 January 2010 - 06:05 PM

[Aptorian]

Do you believe in Heavy Boots, Hoosier?

[HoosierDaddy]

Spiked shoes. The Moon is like a mountain in space.

[Obdigore]

Wait, that was a University? That question should be a joke on a Middle-School physics exam.

It is the same as 'Which would fall faster, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks'.

[K'Chain Bull'shite]

Obdigore, on 21 January 2010 - 09:22 PM, said:

Wait, that was a University? That question should be a joke on a Middle-School physics exam.

It is the same as 'Which would fall faster, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks'.

It's not the same. It requires a moment of actual thought

[Aptorian]

Obdigore, on 21 January 2010 - 09:22 PM, said:

Wait, that was a University? That question should be a joke on a Middle-School physics exam.

It is the same as 'Which would fall faster, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks'.

I actually often get confused on that one because I mix up the zero gravity scenario and the zero air resistance scenario.

[HoosierDaddy]

I believe that story as much as I believe that man ever went to the Moon at all.

[K'Chain Bull'shite]

Aptorian, on 21 January 2010 - 09:34 PM, said:

Obdigore, on 21 January 2010 - 09:22 PM, said:

Wait, that was a University? That question should be a joke on a Middle-School physics exam.

It is the same as 'Which would fall faster, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks'.

I actually often get confused on that one because I mix up the zero gravity scenario and the zero air resistance scenario.

you piss-taking cocksucker, this is srs bznss!

[Gothos]

H.D., on 21 January 2010 - 09:37 PM, said:

I believe that story as much as I believe that man ever went to the Moon at all.

that's... I'm at a loss of words, really.

[HoosierDaddy]

1. That pic confuses me. If the hoax theory is insane who is lying? Isn't that the same thing the hoax theory is stupid?
2. I was being sarcastic. I'm a big NASA fan.

Edit: for clarity

This post has been edited by H.D.: 21 January 2010 - 10:19 PM

[K'Chain Bull'shite]

I hate spammers...Why? because they are, by definition, cowards. When challenged, no matter the outrageous claims they have previously championed, they find a way to make it seem as if they were just 'asking questions' when opinion turns against them. And/Or they occupy positions that are championed by others and never really take a stand. Change the subject, relegate the threatening one to the next page...bah, can't escape the worst bits of community, but I can identify the bastards

[HoosierDaddy]

Bre, on 21 January 2010 - 10:26 PM, said:

I hate spammers...Why? because they are, by definition, cowards. When challenged, no matter the outrageous claims they have previously championed, they find a way to make it seem as if they were just 'asking questions' when opinion turns against them. And/Or they occupy positions that are championed by others and never really take a stand. Change the subject, relegate the threatening one to the next page...bah, can't escape the worst bits of community, but I can identify the bastards

? Are you referring to me?