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Originally posted by: Arkaign
Ah yeah, for the people who thought an Accord w/H22 couldn't win against an old Vette :

Non-boosted H22 Accord = 14.76 1/4 @ 95.97mph http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ZMmijnX4o

Stock 1990 Corvette (240hp/345tq) = 15.1 1/4 @ 93mph http://www.corvetteguys.com/19...hevrolet-corvette.html

Not trying to thread-crap, and I don't know Zanejohnson from a hole in the ground. He could be FOS for all I know, but I do know for a fact that C4 Vettes weren't all that fast (not a lot was back then), and the H22 Hondas easily run 14s in the 1/4 without boost. Makes it a pretty even race, though both are slow by todays standards.
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I take issue with the vette's 1/4 mile ET. I have a road test of a 1987 Corvette (230 hp) running 14.00 flat bone stock.

The Calloway twin turbo vette (tested later) ran 13.6 et's.

5.0 mustangs (LX 5 speed) in the late 80's ran 14.7 ET's on average.

Grand Nationals ran anywhere from 13.85 to mid 14's.
 
I had this friend in college... he used to tell us all the time about how many drugs he did in high school and how often he and his friends would go out and get hammered.

the first party we took him to freshman year, this guy had like half a beer and he was wrecked :laugh: went down like a bitch and was like totally sloshed by the time he finished the beer.
 
Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: sirjonk
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: lozina
That drinking fluoridated water is good for you
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???

It's not good for you?
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There exists a fairly sizeable community of dissenters based upon not totally laughable evidence pointing out the limited benefits of ingested vs topically applied fluroide. Ultimately not a major issue for most people, but fun for conspiracy theorists.
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Lot's of fun. The only people that I've seen bring this up seriously are ones that can only explain why we still fluoridate water is that it is a huge government conspiracy that includes all peer reviewed research and dentists. I remember one guy on another forum telling a poster, whose dad was a dentist and believed that flouridated water did improve the overall dental health of his patients, that his dad was a flatout liar and in on the conspiracy.
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The problem is there is no peer-reviewed study which supports that actually ingesting fluoridated water improves your dental health. The only studies which show fluoride strengthens the enamel on your teeth is when it comes in direct contact with your teeth. NOT your stomach and your bloodstream. Therefore, why drink it? There are countless controversies on how your body handles fluoride so why take the risk if there is absolutely no benefit to ingesting it? That makes absolutely no sense at all.

If we want to help kids with fluoride, we have fluoridated tooth pastes and fluoride treatments at the dentist. Things which you do not ingest. Besides, how many kids do you know that drink any significant quantity of water? The kids I know drink Pepsi or bottled Iced-Teas, not tap water. And I know Pepsi for example uses water purified by a reverse osmosis system which eliminates fluoride if it is in the water. But I don't know you may live in some kind of utopia where kids do their homework, don't smoke and eat their vegetables.

But no, we can't question authority. We can't challenge government policies or practices endorsed by the government because the government knows best, they are never corrupt, they never lie and anything else is a conspiracy. :roll:
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I think the logic is that if you drink tap water, the water at the very leat touches your teeth, which is where the fluoride comes into play
 
Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: sirjonk
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: lozina
That drinking fluoridated water is good for you
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😕
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???

It's not good for you?
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There exists a fairly sizeable community of dissenters based upon not totally laughable evidence pointing out the limited benefits of ingested vs topically applied fluroide. Ultimately not a major issue for most people, but fun for conspiracy theorists.
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Lot's of fun. The only people that I've seen bring this up seriously are ones that can only explain why we still fluoridate water is that it is a huge government conspiracy that includes all peer reviewed research and dentists. I remember one guy on another forum telling a poster, whose dad was a dentist and believed that flouridated water did improve the overall dental health of his patients, that his dad was a flatout liar and in on the conspiracy.
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The problem is there is no peer-reviewed study which supports that actually ingesting fluoridated water improves your dental health. The only studies which show fluoride strengthens the enamel on your teeth is when it comes in direct contact with your teeth. NOT your stomach and your bloodstream. Therefore, why drink it? There are countless controversies on how your body handles fluoride so why take the risk if there is absolutely no benefit to ingesting it? That makes absolutely no sense at all.

If we want to help kids with fluoride, we have fluoridated tooth pastes and fluoride treatments at the dentist. Things which you do not ingest. Besides, how many kids do you know that drink any significant quantity of water? The kids I know drink Pepsi or bottled Iced-Teas, not tap water. And I know Pepsi for example uses water purified by a reverse osmosis system which eliminates fluoride if it is in the water. But I don't know you may live in some kind of utopia where kids do their homework, don't smoke and eat their vegetables.

But no, we can't question authority. We can't challenge government policies or practices endorsed by the government because the government knows best, they are never corrupt, they never lie and anything else is a conspiracy. :roll:
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let me educate you a bit.

topical fluoride will help strengthen your teeth on the surfaces it touches.
ingesting fluoride will help strengthen your teeth from the inside along with topically. ingesting fluoride is especially helpful for developing teeth.

both types of fluoride uptake are beneficial.

years ago studies found that children living in areas with naturally occurring fluoride in their well water had fewer cavities than their peers. there is no conspiracy.

 
Originally posted by: loki8481
I had this friend in college... he used to tell us all the time about how many drugs he did in high school and how often he and his friends would go out and get hammered.

the first party we took him to freshman year, this guy had like half a beer and he was wrecked :laugh: went down like a bitch and was like totally sloshed by the time he finished the beer.
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Sounds like a BS story right there. 😛
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: loki8481
I had this friend in college... he used to tell us all the time about how many drugs he did in high school and how often he and his friends would go out and get hammered.

the first party we took him to freshman year, this guy had like half a beer and he was wrecked :laugh: went down like a bitch and was like totally sloshed by the time he finished the beer.
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Sounds like a BS story right there. 😛
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clearly my liberal use of the word like gives me cover 😉
 
The story where all permanently banned users were allowed to come back and wreck havoc on Off-Topic. Ain't that some bullshit?
 
I have a relative (Bob) who tells outrageous lies for no good reason. When he was in college, he told a bunch of friends there that he lived on a 1,000 acre farm and they had a fleet of 4-wheelers for family and hired help to use when getting around the farm. The best part was he invited some of them to visit the farm (about an hour's drive from the college) so they could spend the day 4-wheeling all over the place.

Reality is that while Bob lived out in the country where there was a decent amount of land, it was nowhere near a 1,000 acre place, and there was no fleet of 4-wheelers. No hired help, either.

So on the appointed day a carload of college students show up at Bob's house to spend the day 4-wheeling, and Bob is conveniently not home. His father has to tell the students he isn't sure what the story is, but Bob isn't home and they certainly don't have a bunch of 4-wheelers around. Students are confused, but head back to school. When they ask Bob what the heck happened, Bob actually tried to tell them they had gone to the wrong place, saying that they should have realized they weren't at the right place when they saw it wasn't a 1,000 acre farm. He completely glossed over the fact that the person they talked to (Bob's father) knew who Bob was and told them Bob wasn't home at the time.

I rate that as one of the best BS stories I ever heard because of the unfathomable invitation which was certain to prove the story to be fake, and still maintaining it was true even after everyone knew it was a crock.
 
A buddy once told me that he and buck found a bail of pot that floated in from the sea. They took a brick each and took it home. The both made a couple of thousand dollars off of it. It wasnt the best quality, but it wasnt awful either.

He was full of shit man.
 
I had a friend back in the day who was a pathological liar. I mean, this dude lied about EVERYTHING, big or small. Funny part was, he'd tell lies that were easily check-able/debunked. Me and my other friends wanted to start compiling a book of all his lies, because there were just so many. Unfortunately we forgot most of them over the years, but there were some whoppers there.

I decided to stop being his friend after this one, though, it just was the icing on the cake of 8+ years of lies.

A little back story:

I stopped over at his house and was playing some basketball with him in his driveway. He was a short, gremlin looking dude and to my knowledge had no experience/luck with the ladies. He was working some dead end job for IBM (in their shipping dept or something) and he knew I was working towards my CCNA cert.

So we're shooting some hoops, and out of the blue, he says he has to go inside his house and get ready. I ask for what. He says "my company is going to be sending a limo here to get me and then pick up my girl. I'm giving a presentation at the Javits Center tomorrow about OC connections and fiber optic technology to the industry and they're putting us up for free at the Ritz for the weekend." He then proceeds to tell me his "girlfriend" was a Playboy Playmate of the Month for some year (I can't remember) and I could look her up.

My mouth just dropped. We were like 19 at the time, he didnt have any knowledge of networking whatsoever (let alone to be qualified to give a presentation to a group of industry pros at the goddamn Javits Center!) and I had never seen a girl look his way, let alone date him. But now he's pulling an ex-Playmate!

I said okay, went home and never talked to him again after that. I still laugh to myself about that shit.

Try and top that!
 
Originally posted by: rpanic
Boss was coked out and partying with strippers all night and woke up the next day with crabs in his beard.

Edit: Missed the part of the topic that said BS.
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lol at Edit :beer:
 
Originally posted by: mikej007
I had a friend back in the day who was a pathological liar. I mean, this dude lied about EVERYTHING, big or small. Funny part was, he'd tell lies that were easily check-able/debunked. Me and my other friends wanted to start compiling a book of all his lies, because there were just so many. Unfortunately we forgot most of them over the years, but there were some whoppers there.

I decided to stop being his friend after this one, though, it just was the icing on the cake of 8+ years of lies.

A little back story:

I stopped over at his house and was playing some basketball with him in his driveway. He was a short, gremlin looking dude and to my knowledge had no experience/luck with the ladies. He was working some dead end job for IBM (in their shipping dept or something) and he knew I was working towards my CCNA cert.

So we're shooting some hoops, and out of the blue, he says he has to go inside his house and get ready. I ask for what. He says "my company is going to be sending a limo here to get me and then pick up my girl. I'm giving a presentation at the Javits Center tomorrow about OC connections and fiber optic technology to the industry and they're putting us up for free at the Ritz for the weekend." He then proceeds to tell me his "girlfriend" was a Playboy Playmate of the Month for some year (I can't remember) and I could look her up.

My mouth just dropped. We were like 19 at the time, he didnt have any knowledge of networking whatsoever (let alone to be qualified to give a presentation to a group of industry pros at the goddamn Javits Center!) and I had never seen a girl look his way, let alone date him. But now he's pulling an ex-Playmate!

I said okay, went home and never talked to him again after that. I still laugh to myself about that shit.

Try and top that!
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I can top that. I knew a guy EXACTLY like that. You could be standing outside with him in the sun, ask him the weather and he'd say it was raining just cause he had to lie.

There are 4 gems he told. One is way too long to type out, but the others are okay.

First a little background. He's a very pudgy short East Indian dude, 23 yrs old at the time and working a summer golf course job with me.

1. Parachuting. His brother was in the cadets. Spencer said his brother was on base in Edmonton and would go parachuting. One of the other guys on our work crew did some jumping and was talking to Spencer about it one day.

Spencer: Oh I've gone parachuting too.
Other guy: Oh?
Spencer: Yeah, I get free jumps with the military when I go out to visit my brother.
Other guy: (knows it's BS at this point). Oh yeah? What altitude do you jump at?
Spencer: Uh.... 5000 feet?

(Apparently 5000 feet is very low to jump from. Military guys do it, but there's no chance in hell the military would let a civvy jump from one of their planes for free).

2. Rower. I used to row for my school's team. I rowed for the season a year or so before the olympics and knew a few of the Canadian rowers who went. I was talking about it at work one day when the olympics were on that summer and he pipes up: Oh I used to row. He's 5'6" and probably 260 lbs... Uh huh...

3. Drug dealer. He said he made friends with this chinese guy who was into drugs and stuff. He said he'd pick up drugs from some guy, go out on the street at night, sell it, then give the money to the guy. He then got promoted and put in charge of the safe where they kept all their stuff, and had a crew working under him. Then the head guy said he was leaving to go back to China and said he was handing the business over to him. Oh and his bonus present: He got a brand new S2000 for it, but he had to keep it in some garage so his parents wouldn't know about it. When asked how much he was selling his stuff for, or even what it was he was selling, he didn't know...

4. Physicist. When I started that job everyone said I should meet Spencer cause he was doing physics at the same university I was going to. I met him, he said he was doing all these classes, I was in them, never saw him, he said he was getting great grades, yet I knew the people who were. He then said he was skipping, then said he was withdrawing.
 
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282
JohnOfSheffield claiming to be in SAS.
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I loled. Then I changed my contact information, cause if he is in SAS, I don't want him hunting me down and killing me.
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Not just SAS, but the commanding officer of all SAS in Afghanistan. :Q

Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield on 11/14/2007 10:41 PM
Because i can't control more than one area at a time and the general principle is not the one of the SAS which i'm a Captain in.
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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield on 12/15/2007 02:42 PM
I'm not a blue collar anything, i'm a Captain of the SAS.
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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield on 12/27/2007 10:22 PM
My assessment of the situation as an SAS Captain is that we need more of us, not the SAS in paricular but on the whole.
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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield on 02/27/2008 02:55 PM
I'm a Captain in the SAS, currently in Afghanistan, you are a 16 year old POS that dosn't know shit about anything.
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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield on 02/27/2008 08:58 PM
I really do despise you ad everything you stand for and i say that as the Commanding officer of the SAS troops in Afghanistan, i wish you would just get dead because you and those like you are pathetic excuses for human beings.
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As far as I know you had to be a lieutenant-colonel to command that amount of troops, but I'm just a desk/Xbox 360 jockey. 😉
 
B.S.

Fake moon landing? Universe isn't over 6000yrs old, GWB's IQ is above 76, silent black helicopters, aliens have visited us, anything Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad say.
 
A man at work (he's one of the cooks) claims that he sued a restaurant chain he used to work for because they made him work for 12 straight days and it did damage to his back. Okay, I think I could believe that. He then tells me that he got a settlement of $10 million. He brags about his condo in North Carolina and how he makes $90,000 in interest every year.

He drives an hour to work each way in a pick up truck that has duct tape holding on the headlights. He only makes $9.00/hour working where I work. I saw him in the grocery store and he told me "Yeah, I just won $10,000 on a scratchoff ticket, I guess I'd better get my truck fixed". Ugh. I realize there are wealthy people who like to live below their means, but this guy is just unbelievable.
 
Everything in his story is sligjy possible, but this is just wrong

Originally posted by: yovonbishop
He then tells me that he got a settlement of $10 million. He brags about his condo in North Carolina and how he makes $90,000 in interest every year.
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that guy only gets 0.9% on what investment? I think it's just hidden under his mattress, or more likely i his imagination. Even US savings bonds aND MOST CHECKING ACCOUNT GIVE BETTER INTEREST RATES THAN THAT!
 
I convinced most of my friends when I was in high school that I was mexican for almost a whole year. Im about as white as they come and so are my parents. . . Most of them knew my mom and myself for some time but eh o well.

Then my best friend tried to convice me he was Jewish but I called him on that BS. I was happy until he started speaking hebrew and confirmed with his family he actually was Jewish.
 
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