Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 12.9
- Day without a Gay – Tomorrow is the day to call in gay! The idea is to fight hate with love by taking tomorrow to donate your time to volunteering/helping others.
- Drinking feminists – “The article, titled “Should Gender Equality Extend to Drinking?,†basically argues that drinking is bad for us ladies, and that increased alcohol consumption among women is the fault of feminism and college.”
- The amazing Water Vitalizer Plus! – See, vitalized water goes straight to your cells and doesn’t make you nauseous like undigested tap water does. Thanks Alice.
- Atheist singing contest – “Q Transmissions, a skeptical radio talk show based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is having a contest.”
- Where to go if you have a dirty chupacabra – Thanks Mike.
WTF?
A moderate drinker = 2 or fewer drinks/day.
Mostly college, I would say.
I looked up “hexagonal water” and found this: Structured Water Pseudoscience and Quackery. Love the bit about “beautiful, star-shaped molecules”.
I think anyone who gets their chupacabra washed there should automatically get him named as Friday’s cute animal.
Whoa, The Water Vitalizer Plus is only $497! I’ll take 8!
Check it out! It spins the water around using vortex technology, increasing the water’s oxygen content by 30%! Plus drinking the water it “vitalizes” balances your organs within minutes! I always wondered why my pancreas was leaning to one side. My local municipal water system will be receiving a sternly worded letter, let me tell you.
@Steve DeGroof: Heh. When I first saw this I looked up “hexagonal water” too, and found the very same website :)
I wonder what “vitalized hexagonal water” would do to my tropical fish?
And, no, my chupacabra is quite clean, thank you.
@QuestionAuthority: Well, since it’s vitalized it would go directly into their cells, meaning that they would explode.
You must make it down to the reviews.
Waterboy Save Us!!!!
I have just read the water crap. I know despair for all of humanity. We are so screwed.
I bet the aliens from the movie Cocoon had an awful lot of Water Vitalizer Plusâ„¢ units to treat the water in the swimming pool. I wonder if they got a quantity discount.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the financial stability to call in gay. Practicality wins out.
@Amanda: “Exploding tropical fish?!” Cool! ;-)
Finally, scientific validation of the evils of feminism and college.
I am a Hedge
I just bought my wife the water vitalizer for the holidays. It’s such a deal – marked down from $899 usually.
Thanks for the info Skepchicks!
“One study found that teenage girls whose mothers drank during pregnancy were six times more likely to drink, though there seemed to be no such effect on boys…”
Maybe the article should have read:
One study found that teenage girls whose mothers drank during pregnancy (moderately I assume) were also more likely to drink after pregnancy, thus creating an environment in which women drinking alcohol was not demonized. It doesn’t apply to sons because their mothers don’t influence what is and what isn’t appropriate male behavior.
The whole article is just so stupid. If it wasn’t for drunken chicks and there loose values obtained from feminism, I’d probably still be a virgin today. So in conclusion, Viva alcohol! Viva feminism!
You learn something new every day. I thought all chupababras were dirty… if you know what I mean.
I was once groped by one in an elevator in Brownsville.
Did anyone think of finding out whether or not the Water Vitalizer Plus is based on a solid shitload of homeopathic research? If it is, it probably could make Hexagonal Daiquiris (any flavor) that are not detectable with a breathalyzer and would not cause educated feminists to become drunks. (They’re drunks, not alcoholics – alcoholics go to meetings.)
@Knurl: What are they if the meetings are for getting drunk?
@Knurl:
I have always lived by that mantra. I’m not an alcoholic because I don’t go to meetings.
@Kimbo Jones: They’re always welcome at my place.
I’ve always felt my water didn’t have enough structure. Always lazing about, accomplishing nothing… Thank you Water Vitalizer!
I think that drinking has to do with each person.. not a “group”. Several of my Asian friends suffer from a genetic blip that makes their faces flush when they have only a few drinks. They just aren’t built for drinking. They drink lightly, and that’s that. It’s not women vs. men so much as weight and size differences. Each person has to figure out what their body, mind and health will allow them to drink… and be safe.
Regardless of Men V Women in the Drinking stakes (I suspect its the relative alcohol content of the drinks each sex “usually” drinks that does the damage) the UK has a monumental Alcohol problem, both sexes.
Currently supermarkets are selling 1Litre of Vodka/Whiskey/Brandy/Sherry for ~£8 (~$12), bottles of 14% wine for ~£3 (~$4.50) and a bottle of beer for ~£0.40 (~$0.60).
A loaf of bread costs £1.10 for christ’s sakes! Alcohol has become a loss-leader for all the major supermarkets (even, sadly, the Co-Op Chain, of which I am a member). They not only pay the government tax, but sell it at less than cost!
When the Russians start taking the piss about your country’s excesive drinking, it’s time to start thinking seriously about doing something about it.
As the official Biggest Fan of Q Transmissions I urge all of you to practice your vocals for the contest.
Dirty Chupacabra sounds like something that would have a far too graphic and elaborate definition at urbandictionary.com
@russellsugden: You got that right. The Russians, as a society, are world-class drinkers. If they are pointing the finger at you, you’re probably one drink short of drowning…
out of all the mythical, blood sucking creatures out there, the Chupacabra is almost certainly the sneakiest