12:48
PM Mr. Blue
Of
course, the placebo effect can work for anyone.
So
if you buy into it, it might work.
12:52
PM Mr. Blue
They've
done studies where they give someone a placebo...*tell them* it's a
placebo...and it still works.
12:52
PM Mr. Silver
That's
my favorite placebo study! I was going to mention it next!
12:54
PM Mr. Blue
I'm
not sure what they were curing with it.
12:54
PM Mr. Silver
I
wanted to verify how many of the subjects knew what “placebo”
meant.
12:54
PM Mr. Blue
Yes.
I'd like to see a placebo study done where they take the people
where the placebo worked, and average out their IQs vs the IQs of the
placebo group where it did not work.
Is
there a correlation between intelligence and or general knowledge of
what a placebo is and whether or not it works?
Will
someone with a PhD be as likely to respond to a placebo as Joe Blow?
12:56
PM Mr. Silver
Well,
did they stay all clinical and use terminology on these people...or
did they say: "This is fake medicine and it does nothing.
Take 2 a day and tell us when you feel better."
12:57
PM Mr. Blue
An
example I can come up with is I bought Claritin Non-drowsy with
pseudo-ephedrine in it once and took one...and was wired all through
the night. I couldn't sleep, I was up doing all kinds of stuff
and my brain was all foggy. I even went to the gym. I checked
the packaging a few days later and realized it was just regular
Claritin...no pseudo-ephedrine
12:58
PM Mr. Brown
Did
you automatically believe it would do that to you?
12:58
PM Mr. Blue
I
thought I was taking pseudo-ephedrine, so apparently I did.
1:00
PM Mr. Silver
The
effect of alcoholic drinks with no alcohol are funny. It has been
verified that the very act of someone going to get alcohol makes
them start displaying symptoms of intoxication.
1:01
PM Mr. Blue
How
do placebos cure real, verifiable diseases and disorders?
1:01
PM Mr. Brown
Because
our bodies can do way more than we believe they can.
1:01
PM Mr. Silver
No
one knows...so people study placebos.
Anesthetics
and painkillers shouldn't work either. But they do.
1:02
PM Mr. Blue
If
you give someone a pill and tell them it's going to make them grow a
3rd arm...those people won't grow a 3rd arm.
What
percentage of people do placebos work for something very real and
very serious and very obvious, like cancer?
It's
probably a sliding scale.
1:03
PM Mr. Brown
Well,
cancer is something your own body makes; its a part of you in the
first place.
1:03
PM Mr. Blue
Yes.
1:03
PM Mr. Brown
So
you start believing that its being cured, and your body says 'hey
lets get rid of this'. Then it will happen.
1:03
PM Mr. Silver
There
was an intensive study in the last few years to finally determine how
a bicycle stays up. Conclusion: unknown...all theories
invalidated.
1:03
PM Mr. Blue
God
got lazy.
1:04
PM Mr. Silver
These
examples are just two of the compelling reasons I doubt this life is
anything more than a simulation.
1:06
PM Mr. Blue
But
I don't think of the universe in that way, so will I see different
results to medicine?
Will
certain people respond better to pharmaceuticals vs. new age stuff,
depending on their personality, intelligence, etc.?
1:08
PM Mr. Brown
Its
the idea of deciding what your body is capable of.
If
you believe entirely that you can cure yourself of anything, no help
from anybody,
I
believe there is a good chance you will.
But
that is also something very hard to prove or study.
Look
at people who somehow lift cars, or that stay alive long enough to
complete something they have to do when they should have died, like,
hours ago.
1:14
PM Mr. Brown
I
believe in the moment you believe that you have no control, then you
won't have control.
1:36
PM Mr. Silver
Well...yeah.
You consciously surrendered.
1:51
PM Mr. Brown
I
like how this oil says nothing about how much to take a day.
LOL
1:59
PM Mr. Silver
Nope.
1:59
PM Mr. Brown
“I
drank an entire bottle threw up. i guess that was too much.”
LOL
I
wonder if somebody has done that?
2:04
PM Mr. Silver
Silly
question. People aren't very bright, you know...
11:49
AM Mr. Silver
I
see Margaret Cho's headline about impersonating a North Korean turned
from "racist" to "promoting a racist stereotype".
Someone must have noticed she's half Korean.
11:50
AM Mr. Brown
Hahah
Yeah,
I never understood that one. I looked at it and went “Um yeah,
except she is making fun of what she is.”
11:50
AM Mr. Silver
Sorry
folks...it's merely political lampooning now.
Is
me adopting an English accent racist?
11:51
AM Mr. Blue
'parently.
That's
been Cho's shtick for like 15 years - making fun of her parents.
I
still do my grandma's accent; she couldn't say "Doobie Brothers"
right.
11:51
AM Mr. Silver
"Man...Silver's
in for it...he went to the party in Brit-Face."
"Disgusting...you'd
think he would have learned from Blue's German-Face thing last year."
11:56
AM Mr. Blue
It's
probably just white people complaining because if they did it, they'd
be in trouble.
Mr.
Blue
It's
pretty cool that Zildjian started as noise makers Ottoman's used to
use to frighten their enemies in the early 1600s.
Now
they're noise makers that teens use to frighten their parents!!!!
Come
on folks!
1:51
PM Mr. Amethyst
Ba
dum tsh!!
1:55
PM Mr. Silver
^
So
the ideal terror instrument would be a bagpipe topped with Aztec
death whistles and a cymbal attachment.
2:21
PM Mr. Blue
Maybe
just Miley Cyrus' album Bangerz!!!!!
Remember
to tip your waitress! I'm here all week!
Mr.
Brown
For
a boost to the economy, the releasing of leopards has created new
jobs.
7:17
AM Mr. Silver
Not
quite up to the FPS quality of the other Loose Leopard story.
(Appallingly,
lost. We were hilarious – Mr. Silver)
7:17
AM Mr. Brown
An
old car tyre.
7:17
AM Mr. Silver
...?
7:19
AM Mr. Brown
That
is in that story.
7:21
AM Mr. Silver
"There's
a leopard loose!"
"Quick!
Build a fire in the middle of the road!"
"Uhh..."
7:23
AM Mr. Brown
"Here
y'all! I gots a tyre!"
7:25
AM Mr. Silver
Many
leopard-hunting mobs make the mistake of not lighting a fire
in the middle of the street and smashing government vehicles. However
this is a known successful strategy for confusing
leopards...and international audiences.
7:35
AM Mr. Silver
(Cries)
I
just looked, and I didn't save the other Loose Leopard chat!
(See
“appalling loss” - Mr. Silver)
8:21
AM Mr. Blue
Darn...I
root for the leopards in India.
There's
too many people as it is; obviously the leopards feel the same.
8:25
AM Mr. Blue
Instead
of killing man-eating mega-fauna, we should offer them retirement
packages in cushy animal sanctuaries.
8:26
AM Mr. Silver
So,
you’re suggesting we treat them the same as any other white-collar
man-eating mega-tycoon human?
8:26
AM Mr. Blue
Yes.
Like
the Tsavo lions: "They're not killing for food...they're doing
it for the sport!!!" "So...just like you do?"
8:29
AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
8:29
AM Mr. Brown
I
just hate when they have to go kill stuff like that because WE messed
up.
It's
not the animal's fault.
8:29
AM Mr. Blue
Yeah.
We encroached on their territory. Maybe a couple hundred years ago
I can see that if a man eater shows up in a town, you kill it. The
animals had plenty of open space to do their thing. Now, they don't.
8:31
AM Mr. Brown
Right
and the fact that this one escaped a place that humans had it.
So
we even put it there. Instead of recapturing it, they just kill it.
Makes no sense.
8:59
AM Mr. Silver
The
point you're missing here is that leopards
cause tire fires in the middle of streets and incite the destruction
of government vehicles.
You
put these beasts back out in the wild with tires and vehicles, and
it'll just be a disaster.
Wait...that's
stupid humans, not leopards...nevermind.
9:02
AM Mr. Amethyst
I'm
OK with this.
9:02
AM Mr. Silver
Putting
stupid humans out in the wild?
9:22
AM Mr. Brown
I’m
eating stupid deer right now.
Stupid
human is probably bitter.
9:23
AM Mr. Amethyst
^
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