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[pete]

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[7 - No tomorrow]

A new McDonald's commercial aired tonight

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[7 - No tomorrow]

Tina and Amy. With the jokes and such.

Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Burn the Fuck Outta Bill Cosby at Golden Globes

 

[pete]

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[ann post]

Tina and Amy. With the jokes and such.

Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Burn the Fuck Outta Bill Cosby at Golden Globes

Crap. I came here to post that.

I wish Tina Fey would be my friend.

Or even my special friend.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Crap. I came here to post that.

I wish Tina Fey would be my friend.

Or even my special friend.

They nailed it a bit with the Clooney gag.

 

[ann post]

They nailed it a bit with the Clooney gag.

Just went and watched it. They should present everything.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Just went and watched it. They should present everything.

I was a bit annoyed when they took Gervais off it. It's the only thing I've liked him doing.
But this pair have killed it every year.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

My shame

 

[jonah]

Wasn't too fond of Gervais on it at all, I thought he was reprehensible at best. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, all praise the queens though, they were and always have been incredible.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I thought he was reprehensible at best.

I think the thing I liked was that he made everyone extremely uncomfortable.
I generally have no time for him at all.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

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My shame

Hold on, are you a girl?

 

[ann post]

Well now.

STUDY: Watching Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All - Business Insider

Media outlets such as Fox News and MSNBC have a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge while NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative sources of news, according to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s newest PublicMind survey.

Researchers asked 1,185 random nationwide respondents what news sources they had consumed in the past week and then asked them questions about events in the U.S. and abroad.

On average, people correctly answered 1.6 of 5 questions about domestic affairs.

Because the aim of the study was to isolate the effects of each type of news source, they then controlled for variables such as other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors.

They found that someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer 1.04 domestic questions correctly compared to 1.22 for those who watched no news at all. Those watching only "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" answered 1.42 questions correctly and people who only listened to NPR or only watched Sunday morning political talk shows answered 1.51 questions correctly.

Fairleigh Dickinson University



In terms of international news, people correctly answered an average of 1.8 of 4 questions.

With all else being equal, people who watched no news were expected to answer 1.28 correctly; those watching only Sunday morning shows figured at 1.52; those watching only "The Daily Show" figured at 1.60; and those just listening to NPR were expected to correctly answer 1.97 international questions.

Those watching only MSNBC were expected to correctly answer only 1.23 out of 4, while viewers of only Fox News figured at 1.08. The study noted that the effects of Fox News, MSNBC and talk radio depended on the ideology of the consumer.

“Ideological news sources, like Fox and MSNBC, are really just talking to one audience,” Political scientist and poll analyst Dan Cassino said in a press release. “This is solid evidence that if you’re not in that audience, you’re not going to get anything out of watching them.”

Fairleigh Dickinson University



Thus, those who watched no news—answering questions by guessing or relying on existing knowledge—fared much better than those who watched the most popular 24-hour cable news network (i.e. Fox News).

Cassino concluded that "the most popular of the national media sources—Fox, CNN, MSNBC—seem to be the least informative."

It is a follow-up to a 2011 survey of 612 New Jerseyans that found, among other things, that those who watched Fox News were 18 points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all.



Read more: STUDY: Watching Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All - Business Insider

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

A new McDonald's commercial aired tonight

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I wish I could embed this. It's very good.

The New McDonald's Ad Is Bullshit

 

[nooleen]

a pretty comprehensive list of circumstances in which some ticket insurance shysters won't refund you for a missed gig

(partial list featuring the most outrageous...or maybe this is standard?)

Music Glue Ticket Refund Protection

Reasons why an application for a refund may be declined
Music Glue reserves the right not to offer a refund in any of the event of:

• Any actual or threatened War, invasion, act of foreign enemies, or hostilities (whether war declared or not), civil war, rebellion, revolution, insurrection, military or usurped power.
• Any confiscation, nationalisation, requisition or destruction of or damage to property by or under order of any government or public or local authority.
• Ionising radiations or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel, the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof, nuclear reaction, nuclear radiation or radioactive contamination.
• Seizure or destruction under quarantine or customs regulations, confiscation, nationalisation or requisition or destruction of or damage to property, by or under the order of any government or public or local authority, or the handling of contraband or the engaging in illicit trade or transportation.
• The actual or threatened malicious use of pathogenic or poisonous biological or chemical materials
• Any declared epidemic or pandemic by the World Health Organisation, and/or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and/or Atypical Pneumonia and/or Avian Flu and/or any threat or fear of any of the above (whether actual or perceived).
• Any act of or threat of or fear of Terrorism (whether actual or perceived)

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I hate when ionising radiation gets in the way of a good gig, I was totally prepared for All Tomorrows Parties - Sellafield.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I hate when ionising radiation gets in the way of a good gig, I was totally prepared for All Tomorrows Parties - Sellafield.

I read this post before the previous one and assumed you were being serious and doing one of your scientist things again.

"oh he must work in a lab - a science lab - science labs always deal in radiation"

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I do perform ionisation but not using radiation.

 

[HMD]

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[ann post]

I do perform ionisation but not using radiation.

Do your like, Ions, align in science?