todays xkcd is so good i have to post it

This made me smile.

That was a sudden avatar change.

remote viewing would be top tier for industrial espionage, i think that would rate slightly higher than oil prospecting, but lol at dowsing

i would have to put a check box under 'curses and hexing' for the military, since they have used other culture's superstitions against them. For example

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According to this recent piece in io9, the U.S. military has used local supernatural beliefs as an ongoing part of a psychological warfare agenda against its enemies. Following are two examples of how this was done against our Asian brethren; in the Philippines during the 1950s and then again a few years later during the Vietnam War.

 

Major General Edward G. Lansdale spearheaded the aforementioned effort in the Philippines while fighting the Communist Huk rebels to make it seem as if an Asuang, a traditional vampire-like creature in the Filipino culture that can fly (she has wings) and has a taste for unborn fetuses, was present in the area. Yup, the big military strategy was to pretend there was a vampire lose. Here’s how Lansdale explained it:

 

To the superstitious, the Huk battleground was a haunted place filled with ghosts and eerie creatures. A combat psy-war squad was brought in. It planted stories among town residents of an Asuang living on the hill where the Huks were based. Two nights later, after giving the stories time to make their way up to the hill camp, the psywar squad set up an ambush along the trail used by the Huks [...] When a Huk patrol came along the trail, the ambushers silently snatched the last man of the patrol, their move unseen in the dark night.

 

They punctured his neck with two holes, vampire-fashion, held the body up by the heels, drained it of blood, and put the corpse back on the trail. When the Huks returned to look for the missing man and found their bloodless comrade, every member of the patrol believed that the Asuang had got him and that one of them would be next if they remained on that hill. When daylight came, the whole Huk squadron moved out of the vicinity.

haha, dowsing is ridiculous.

remote viewing, come on..

and homeopathy gets really crazy..

anyone on here had experiences with homeopathic medicine and it actually doing anything?

  On 10/21/2010 at 11:48 PM, Xyrofen said:

That was a sudden avatar change.

it's the same girl. my plan being to have a rapidly changing series of hattie watson avatars, but i might have to repeat the previous one at some point cos it's so

this one is hardcore freckly ginger action. nom nom nom.

  On 10/22/2010 at 12:39 AM, kaini said:

  On 10/21/2010 at 11:48 PM, Xyrofen said:

That was a sudden avatar change.

 

it's the same girl. my plan being to have a rapidly changing series of hattie watson avatars, but i might have to repeat the previous one at some point cos it's so

this one is hardcore freckly ginger action. nom nom nom.

She looks like Pippi Longstocking in that photo

a heavily inked pippi longstocking with a tattoo involving fried chicken above her tittys.

'hey, you have cancer, and you're in a shitload of pain! can you quantify your pain enough to tell the difference between water and this bottle of stupid which contains 0.000001% liquid pain?'.

  On 10/22/2010 at 12:16 AM, fiznuthian said:

haha, dowsing is ridiculous.

remote viewing, come on..

 

and homeopathy gets really crazy..

anyone on here had experiences with homeopathic medicine and it actually doing anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWE1tH93G9U

  On 10/22/2010 at 1:01 AM, kaini said:

a heavily inked pippi longstocking with a tattoo involving fried chicken above her tittys.

holy fuck.

i think it's meant to be zombie fried chicken or something.

ask hattie anything! http://hattiewatson.tumblr.com/post/1367822364/i-would-love-to-get-you-in-front-of-a-camera-in-full

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Q: I would love to get you in front of a camera in full clown make-up. :)

Anonymous

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As much as a lot of people might think this is funny. I really really loathe clowns. :/ Very sorry. But that is something I just couldn’t do

acupuncture was the only thing that helped my hamstring injury. i've done the hot cups thing before too. fucking weird.

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:06 AM, chenGOD said:

acupuncture placebo was the only thing that helped my hamstring injury. i've done the hot cups thing before too. fucking weird.

  On 10/22/2010 at 3:39 AM, kaini said:

i think it's meant to be zombie fried chicken or something.

 

ask hattie anything! http://hattiewatson.tumblr.com/post/1367822364/i-would-love-to-get-you-in-front-of-a-camera-in-full

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Q: I would love to get you in front of a camera in full clown make-up. :)

Anonymous

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As much as a lot of people might think this is funny. I really really loathe clowns. :/ Very sorry. But that is something I just couldn’t do

And you having her as your avatar is a kind of Pavlovian thing innit. So WATMMers get hard-ons when they think about you.

dowsing works, the charged water moving under the ground creates an electric field which then acts upon the rod and our hands can detect the slightest pressure differences in the rod being held. The are of course many variables to consider when confronted with an individual claim of water strike attributed to dowsing, but i can at least accept in principle that it could work.

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:10 AM, wake said:

  On 10/22/2010 at 3:39 AM, kaini said:

i think it's meant to be zombie fried chicken or something.

 

ask hattie anything! http://hattiewatson.tumblr.com/post/1367822364/i-would-love-to-get-you-in-front-of-a-camera-in-full

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Q: I would love to get you in front of a camera in full clown make-up. :)

Anonymous

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As much as a lot of people might think this is funny. I really really loathe clowns. :/ Very sorry. But that is something I just couldn’t do

And you having her as your avatar is a kind of Pavlovian thing innit. So WATMMers get hard-ons when they think about you.

you're over-reaching, son.

  On 10/22/2010 at 7:02 AM, delet... said:

dowsing works, the charged water moving under the ground creates an electric field which then acts upon the rod and our hands can detect the slightest pressure differences in the rod being held. The are of course many variables to consider when confronted with an individual claim of water strike attributed to dowsing, but i can at least accept in principle that it could work.

  On 10/22/2010 at 7:51 AM, kaini said:

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:10 AM, wake said:

 

And you having her as your avatar is a kind of Pavlovian thing innit. So WATMMers get hard-ons when they think about you.

you're over-reaching, son.

Oh, he's reaching round alright.

I don't care that much about the avatar, but the checkbox thing made me snigger.

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:07 AM, wake said:

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:06 AM, chenGOD said:

acupuncture was the only thing that helped my hamstring injury. i've done the hot cups thing before too. fucking weird.

Acupuncture is great for muscle related injuries. Since you're stimulating nerve endings it does work well for that kind of stuff. It's never going to cure cancer or get rid of tumours. The hot cups thing is straight up bullshit, but I figured I wouldn't have many opportunities to try...

my main problem with homeopathy is that if it really worked in the way it's been explained to me (ie, stuff that helps you is diluted in water, the more diluted it is the more powerful it is) then the logical extension of that is that we're always, everytime we drink anything, ingesting massive high doses of dead things and poo, which doesn't seem too healthy.

also, my housemate had the hot cups thing a couple months ago, no discernible effect except for making his back look fucking awesome/weird for about 3 weeks

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:10 AM, wake said:

And you having her as your avatar is a kind of Pavlovian thing innit. So WATMMers get hard-ons when they think about you.

Thanks to WATMM, hearing "kaini" and "sneaksta" now gives me a raging bone.

  On 10/22/2010 at 9:48 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:07 AM, wake said:

  On 10/22/2010 at 6:06 AM, chenGOD said:

acupuncture was the only thing that helped my hamstring injury. i've done the hot cups thing before too. fucking weird.

 

Acupuncture is great for muscle related injuries. Since you're stimulating nerve endings it does work well for that kind of stuff. It's never going to cure cancer or get rid of tumours. The hot cups thing is straight up bullshit, but I figured I wouldn't have many opportunities to try...

I agree, I'm willing to buy that acupuncture stimulates self-healing or the immune system in some way. I've had it many times and it certainly triggers my sympathetic flight-or-fight response - sweating, and then a strange blissful calm. The different locations also do seem to have different effects. I quite like it, but I would agree it's not going to cure cancer (though in some cases it might prevent it, by lowering stress).

Sorry guys - "real" acupuncture is no more effective than a guy pretending to pierce your skin with toothpicks. 100% placebo effect.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=492

  On 10/22/2010 at 10:30 AM, analogue wings said:

Sorry guys - "real" acupuncture is no more effective than a guy pretending to pierce your skin with toothpicks. 100% placebo effect.

 

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=492

And if you actually bothered to read the study instead of the reporting you'd see that their conclusion is

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Although acupuncture was found effective for chronic low back pain, tailoring needling sites to each patient and penetration of the skin appear to be unimportant in eliciting therapeutic benefits. These findings raise questions about acupuncture's purported mechanisms of action. It remains unclear whether acupuncture or our simulated method of acupuncture provide physiologically important stimulation or represent placebo or nonspecific effects.