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What Exit? 21st March 2020 07:41 AM
Fair enough, I wasn't aware. It is a much smaller problem than lead paint, leaded gas & lead solder, but still an important one.

mjmlabs 21st March 2020 07:51 AM
Lead fishing sinkers, too.

Cochrane 21st March 2020 08:09 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Green Bean (Post 1590948)
TL;DR either of them.

Sputnik 21st March 2020 08:12 AM
Those lead weights they used to use to balance tires. Gone. Too many of them ended up falling off on the roads.

Also, little known fact. Tire wear. It happens every time you drive on a street. Micro pieces of rubber/synthetic compounds end up on the street, wash into the streams and end up in the ocean where it contributes to the micro plastic problem. Mankind is the kind of tenant you'd never lease one of your properties too.

expectopatronum 21st March 2020 08:15 AM
:mad::verymad::violence::raeg::boom::boom: :fireworks:

Cochrane 21st March 2020 08:19 AM
Guess the Durper?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mystery Durper
Several Facebook groups I'm in sometimes have GoFundMe requests for medical bills and I like to ask who they voted for before donating money to the request.

I've received a lot of flack for asking that, and I don't understand why. If you voted for a person who wanted to abolish ObamaCare, why the hell would I send you money for your medical expenses? Reap what you sow is how I feel.

Am I wrong?
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...1#post22202088

Answer, in case you get timed out:

manson1972


Cochrane 21st March 2020 08:27 AM
Arkcon wants to "fix" native songbirds that mimic electronic sounds.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Arkcon
So, spring has sprung, and birds are singing and there's one some bird songs that, ages past, have sounded like ... electronics.

Please don't quote me on the lyrebird, the Australian bird that copies all sounds perfectly, even jack hammers and car alarms, nor tell me about your parrot's abilities, at least not early in this thread. I mean the Northeastern, United States, wild, song bird.

I assume its called the mockingbird? And I think I'd heard it copies other bird songs, adding its own tones to make it a mating song? And yes, years past, I'd heard what sounds like its incorporated microwave beeps and old times cell phone rings. Yeah, that always felt a little off for me, but life finds a way, even when it really shouldn't. At least they don't copy jackhammers and motor sounds.

Now, just this year, these birds seem to have incorporated the cell phone alerts into their songs, and I really don't like hearing those unless its a serious issue, like, I dunno, a ball of COVID-19 rolling down the street, or something.

Has anyone tried to fix this. I mean, made a recording of the correct mocking bird song, play it through external speakers, and would that make the mocking birds, or what ever bird it is, sound more "typical?" And not send me false alarms all day.

And part of the night too. Is that a thing? Should they be singing at night? Or am I listening to a neighbors alert? Hrm, is any of my rant real? Other people have heard North American songbird species copy electronic sounds, right?
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...d.php?t=892243

Sputnik 21st March 2020 09:22 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cochrane (Post 1590989)
Guess the Durper?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mystery Durper
Several Facebook groups I'm in sometimes have GoFundMe requests for medical bills and I like to ask who they voted for before donating money to the request.

I've received a lot of flack for asking that, and I don't understand why. If you voted for a person who wanted to abolish ObamaCare, why the hell would I send you money for your medical expenses? Reap what you sow is how I feel.

Am I wrong?
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...1#post22202088
Mr. DieYouTrumpVotingMaggot!

LostInSpace1972


Emiliana Z 21st March 2020 10:31 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Green Bean (Post 1590948)

I'm sure the admissions officers that receive JohnT's letter will appreciate his verbosity. Unfortunately, they won't be able to answer most of his questions, because they don't make decisions about the sorts of things he's asking about.

And really, it's pretty miraculous that they were able to send out admissions notices this week.

stichomythia 21st March 2020 10:49 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cochrane (Post 1590989)
Guess the Durper?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mystery Durper
Several Facebook groups I'm in sometimes have GoFundMe requests for medical bills and I like to ask who they voted for before donating money to the request.

I've received a lot of flack for asking that, and I don't understand why. If you voted for a person who wanted to abolish ObamaCare, why the hell would I send you money for your medical expenses? Reap what you sow is how I feel.

Am I wrong?
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...1#post22202088
My favorite reply in that thread: Inigo Montoya, who approaches charity as if he's on the Nobel Peace Prize selection committee.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya (Post 22202203)
I suggest turning it around and approaching it with the attitude of, "Nobody's entitled to my money, do you have any qualities I think will make the world a better place?" If you can't come up with anything, they get nothing.

Personal 21st March 2020 12:27 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by NoClueBoy (Post 1590817)
I'm still stuck there in 69, btw

With Sally Sparrow
Because life is short, and you are hot.

Helena 21st March 2020 12:53 PM
When playing Guess the Durper, can we please put the answer in a spoiler box, too? I can rarely get there anymore. I did after clicking Cochrane's link, but it took about a minute. Most of the time I give up.

Thank you!

stichomythia 21st March 2020 01:11 PM
I was reminded of monstro's takedown of manson1972 last summer, for the same sort of "I don't get it" act he's pulling in that GoFundMe thread.

I'll quote the whole thing so you don't need to fight the derp's timeouts:
Quote:
Originally Posted by monstro (Post 21806758)
Since we're in the Pit, I'm going to say something to you I've been wanting to say for awhile. You are either an giant idiot or a major asshole. This is not the first time you've claimed not to get something any toddler can grasp, and then when someone explains it to you, you come back with more stupid questions.

Why the hell would someone talk to people who have the same problems as them, if doing so didn't help them feel better? Do you think people go to support groups to willingly torture themselves? Are you aware that not understanding something like this indicates you have the emotional intelligence of a cucumber? Does this bother you any?

Almost every single post of yours stinks of derpiness. It's been a shtick of yours for awhile. I don't know why you think it's cute, but it isn't. It's repugnant.

Cochrane 21st March 2020 02:15 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by helena330 (Post 1591044)
When playing Guess the Durper, can we please put the answer in a spoiler box, too? I can rarely get there anymore. I did after clicking Cochrane's link, but it took about a minute. Most of the time I give up.

Thank you!
Sorry. Yeah, I'm getting timeouts, too. I'll go back and edit my post.

neofishboy 21st March 2020 02:59 PM
No announcement, but looks like LAZombie got himself banned. I guess his whole "NOBODY EVER DIED OF AIDS IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HOAX!" was enough to convince them that there's no functional difference between a troll and stupid, stupid motherfucker.

Sputnik 21st March 2020 03:14 PM
Another one bites the dust. I'm betting RioRico has a ticket for the ban bus too.

mjmlabs 21st March 2020 03:14 PM
... and there was much a bit of rejoicing.

Larry Borgia 21st March 2020 03:19 PM
The mods seem to be doing better with banning useless trolly assholes without letting them go on and on until they can come up with some legalistic reason to justify a banning.

No snark, kudos to them. It's an improvement.

What Exit? 21st March 2020 03:46 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1591104)
Another one bites the dust. I'm betting RioRico has a ticket for the ban bus too.
I've seen him around, but didn't notice him as especially dumb or trollish. Why do you think he's headed for the ban bus? (Is that like the short bus?)

neofishboy 21st March 2020 03:53 PM
I get sort of a slightly-more-unbalanced version of Inigo Montoya from RioRico. He just seems a bit ... off.

Which is guess is sometimes exactly the sort of person who'd flip out over some random slight and say something bannable.

mjmlabs 21st March 2020 03:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by What Exit? (Post 1591113)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1591104)
Another one bites the dust. I'm betting RioRico has a ticket for the ban bus too.
I've seen him around, but didn't notice him as especially dumb or trollish. Why do you think he's headed for the ban bus? (Is that like the short bus?)
IME, he's a bit too passionate and a bit too unfiltered, outside of The Pit. Not a trolling ban, but an accumulation of etiquette warnings. I think I recall seeing him get a Mod Note (or two?) on his very first day.

Sputnik 21st March 2020 03:56 PM
He's abrasive. Like sand in your underwear.

George Kaplin 21st March 2020 04:05 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmlabs (Post 1591119)
Quote:
Originally Posted by What Exit? (Post 1591113)

I've seen him around, but didn't notice him as especially dumb or trollish. Why do you think he's headed for the ban bus? (Is that like the short bus?)
IME, he's a bit too passionate and a bit too unfiltered, outside of The Pit. Not a trolling ban, but an accumulation of etiquette warnings. I think I recall seeing him get a Mod Note (or two?) on his very first day.
He’s also one of those annoying dorks who insist on referring to Trump as Tramp like your aunt who voted for Jill Stein (#resistance).

Guinastasia 21st March 2020 06:06 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1590925)
Quote:
Originally Posted by helena330 (Post 1590864)
What on EARTH takes so long?!
Here's one reason...It hasn't been derped to death long enough.




And Tubasplaned




And to make sure everyone heard that, it's double posted. (timeout issues do not discriminate.)

Quote:
Duly noted.

Please understand that at this juncture we can make no promises. But we do hope you will have some options and choices. Just can't assure you of anything because I have no information.

Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...d.php?t=892209

I'm waiting for someone to suggest they make it awesome like the GB.

Could be too that the techs that normally sort this shit out are busy doing other things right now.

Ydobon 21st March 2020 06:52 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by neofishboy (Post 1591101)
No announcement, but looks like LAZombie got himself banned. I guess his whole "NOBODY EVER DIED OF AIDS IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HOAX!" was enough to convince them that there's no functional difference between a troll and stupid, stupid motherfucker.
I reported one offending post around noontime.

3 hours later he was toast.

:ratdiva:

Green Bean 21st March 2020 10:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by What Exit? (Post 1591113)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1591104)
Another one bites the dust. I'm betting RioRico has a ticket for the ban bus too.
I've seen him around, but didn't notice him as especially dumb or trollish. Why do you think he's headed for the ban bus? (Is that like the short bus?)
He’s been annoying the bejeebers out of me for months. No one particular post seemed worthwhile to discuss here, but the boy ain’t right.

stichomythia 21st March 2020 11:35 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1591104)
I'm betting RioRico has a ticket for the ban bus too.
He reminds me of Royal Nonesutch—who, oddly enough, was banned a couple of weeks before RioRico joined.

Pencil 22nd March 2020 02:50 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ludovic (Post 1590906)
Introducing all that lead into the environment while hunting has a non-zero impact, now if and what regulations are needed is another discussion.
Quote:
Originally Posted by What Exit? (Post 1590917)
Are small amounts of sulfur actually hazardous? I don't recall that being accurate.
I thought mentioning organic, sustainable weapon grease would put it sufficiently over the top to make it derpy. I guess not. :sciencefail:

So the woosh is on me, I guess.

kayaker 22nd March 2020 05:29 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1591120)
He's abrasive. Like sand in your underwear.
Like sand in your underwear, so are the days of our lives.

babale 22nd March 2020 05:55 AM
I hate sand. It's coarse and its rough and it gets everywhere

What Exit? 22nd March 2020 06:09 AM
And the Dope seems to be down hard again. Longer than normal at least.

JackieLikesVariety 22nd March 2020 06:23 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by What Exit? (Post 1591236)
And the Dope seems to be down hard again. Longer than normal at least.
it's working for me right now. durp, I hadn't been in the mood to read/post there until I did know if I had the option! :rebo:

Sputnik 22nd March 2020 06:52 AM
Too bad those heathens and infidels at the derp never read the Bible. They would have known this was coming.

Matthew 13:50
and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when they can't reach the derp.

Matthew 13:50a subsection 1
and the derp shall slow to a crawl while those in charge party and drink and practice all forms of evil upon the masses. My revenge, the Lord sayeth, for their treatment of my missionaries.

Matthew 13:50a subsection 2
and the masses were placated with a new forum, a wonderful forum that they could neither see nor use because the serpent had cut the power to the server again. And there was no tech among them to plug it back in again.

Matthew 13:50a subsection 3
and there arose a hero among them who led with toots from a giant horn. Who said "it is the will of Cecil that we suffer to prove our alliance with his righteousness. We must give alms, PayPal please.

Matthew 13:50a subsection 4
and in the neighborhood of gweeb, there was much pointing and laughing. And stations were set to check the temperatures of those trying infiltrate at night from the burning Sulphur of the derpabyss.

Matthew 13:50a subsection 5
Beer and toilet paper for the masses.

ASL 22nd March 2020 07:33 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by neofishboy (Post 1591101)
No announcement, but looks like LAZombie got himself banned. I guess his whole "NOBODY EVER DIED OF AIDS IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HOAX!" was enough to convince them that there's no functional difference between a troll and stupid, stupid motherfucker.
He wasn't simply stupid. He was a troll, and like many of the "one to two hundred posts a year, most of them controversial" posters I see on the derp, I strongly suspect a sock as well (which means we’re not really rid of him, never will be). What convinced me that he was a troll, and not merely misguided or stupid, though (as if his 9/11 trutherism comments, in which he claimed to have been only lately convinced, after believing "the official story" for almost eighteen years), was this comment:

Quote:
Originally Posted by LAZombie (Post 21900248)
Quote:
Originally Posted by aceplace57 (Post 21900172)
One of Jeans neighbors, Joshua Brown, a witness at the trial has been shot & killed.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tmz...t-dead-killed/
That's horrible. I watched his testimony. He was just a kid. At least to someone as old as me. I remember his wore some sort of t-shirt with a cartoon on it when he was on the witness stand.. He had probably never been in a court room before.
It was one of those things (based off the fact that he is obviously a racist, as evidenced by some of his other posts) where it was pretty clear that he meant the exact opposite of what he was saying, and was just trolling for someone to say it, or to challenge his supposedly honest assessment, so it could turn into a sealioning/JAQing off/"I’m not a racist, you’re a racist" threadjack.

Argument Clinic 22nd March 2020 07:40 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by neofishboy (Post 1591101)
No announcement, but looks like LAZombie got himself banned. I guess his whole "NOBODY EVER DIED OF AIDS IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HOAX!" was enough to convince them that there's no functional difference between a troll and stupid, stupid motherfucker.
Sorry link?

What Exit? 22nd March 2020 07:43 AM
Sealioning is a weird one though. Trying to get an answer out of some posters could appear to be Sealioning unless you just decide to let it drop. But you know posters that never give straight answers, will answer questions with unrelated answers or even unrelated questions.

Myself, I tend to just let it drop, but I could see someone infuriating me enough with unsupported statement that pegged my bullshit meter and then getting accused of Sealioning. As I said, Sealioning, sometimes it is not, sometimes it is the willfully ignorant or troll on the other side of it.

Sputnik 22nd March 2020 08:01 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Argument Clinic (Post 1591261)
Quote:
Originally Posted by neofishboy (Post 1591101)
No announcement, but looks like LAZombie got himself banned. I guess his whole "NOBODY EVER DIED OF AIDS IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HOAX!" was enough to convince them that there's no functional difference between a troll and stupid, stupid motherfucker.
Sorry link?
Check the LAZombie pit thread. It's because of that post.

elmwood 22nd March 2020 08:22 AM
Best spam ever. You will kindly do the needful and examine it while it remains very much please.

https://i.imgur.com/bQckl5H.png

Sputnik 22nd March 2020 08:43 AM
they appear younger till the mature age...
That'll get the attention of a doper or two.

will never enable sexual exercise with you...
Is that like Pilates?

Malacandra 22nd March 2020 09:19 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by babale (Post 1591231)
I hate sand. It's coarse and its rough and it gets everywhere
If ever there was a "ur mom" feed line...

Cochrane 22nd March 2020 11:36 AM
Does Mangosteen consider himself to be some kind of sovereign citizen or something?

(OP's quoted in case of timeouts.)

"The people of the State must 'heed' the Governors orders"

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mangosteen
Do you think most people in English speaking countries believe the word "heed" in this sentence means "obey"? When used together with the word "must", it gives the impression that "heed" means "obey" which, of course, it does not.

The Title sentence simply means that the people of the State should "consider" or "pay attention to" the orders, but these orders do not carry the weight of Law and are not compulsory and cannot be enforced by the police or the Courts.


California Government "Closes Down" State

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mangosteen
The governor in CA has issued some kind of "Stay Home" order.

Does he really have the authority to suspend the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution? And for how long, a week, a month, a year or until the State decides its "ALL CLEAR".

Supposedly, Californians are not allowed to go out of their homes unless they have what the State considers to be "essential" business outside of their homes, grocery shopping, doctor appointments, etc.

So I will be arrested for driving down to the beach to watch the sunset?

Have we really become a nation of sheep?

silenus 22nd March 2020 11:37 AM
This is why I love the "Ignore" function. Mangosteen has been on that list for years.

Ludovic 22nd March 2020 11:43 AM
Ever since he was just a Mangtostoddler?

Rat Diva 22nd March 2020 12:15 PM
Anyone have a six-foot stick I can tie my kabonger to? This social distancing thing is making my job kind of difficult.

rothe'che 22nd March 2020 12:32 PM
You are properly cleaning that kabonger between uses, right?

Sputnik 22nd March 2020 12:32 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rat Diva (Post 1591352)
Anyone have a six-foot stick I can tie my kabonger to? This social distancing thing is making my job kind of difficult.
Use your marimba, they are long enough.

JackieLikesVariety 22nd March 2020 01:33 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rat Diva (Post 1591352)
Anyone have a six-foot stick I can tie my kabonger to? This social distancing thing is making my job kind of difficult.
suck it up, Buttercup, life is hard in a pandemic!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1591360)

Use your marimba, they are long enough.
WTF do you mean the mallets???????

Cochrane 22nd March 2020 02:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by silenus (Post 1591313)
This is why I love the "Ignore" function. Mangosteen has been on that list for years.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ludovic (Post 1591314)
Ever since he was just a Mangtostoddler?
He's no spring Mangosteen anymore.

stichomythia 22nd March 2020 02:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety (Post 1591381)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sputnik (Post 1591360)

Use your marimba, they are long enough.
WTF do you mean the mallets???????
I wondered the same thing. Marimbas are huge, but you couldn't pick one up and hit somebody with it.

It's like that George Carlin routine about sentences you never hear; one of them was "Hand me the piano."

Sputnik 22nd March 2020 02:42 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by stichomythia (Post 1591396)
Quote:
Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety (Post 1591381)

WTF do you mean the mallets???????
I wondered the same thing. Marimbas are huge, but you couldn't pick one up and hit somebody with it.

It's like that George Carlin routine about sentences you never hear; one of them was "Hand me the piano."
Never say can't. Ratty has superpowers. Most the wimmen here do too.


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