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radiorahim
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posted 16 August 2005 01:36 AM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Researchers in Singapore have developed a paper battery that is powered by urine. Despite sounding gloriously silly, the breakthrough promises a cheap and disposable power source for home health tests for things like diabetes.

article - The Register


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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 01:44 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Heh. Radiorahim, with that thread title, I thought you had finally broken through the barrier of civil language and joined the vulgus like me. Alas...
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posted 16 August 2005 01:45 AM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I figured you had just reposted the first post from this thread.
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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 01:48 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
I figured you had just reposted the first post from this thread.

What are you talking about, Heywood?

[ 16 August 2005: Message edited by: Hinterland ]


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posted 16 August 2005 01:55 AM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Urinal cake pictures
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posted 16 August 2005 01:57 AM      Profile for Reality. Bites.        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
the breakthrough promises a cheap and disposable power source for home health tests for things like diabetes.

Wow, maybe they'll even have urine-powered pregnancy tests.

Disposable? Is there anyone who'd want to keep it???


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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 02:02 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Urinal cake pictures

No, I still don't get it. Why does a thread entitled jokingly "piss on this" remind you of the thread featuring Rachel Marsden? Seriously, Heywood, I don't get it.


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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 02:17 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Absent your response here and to my PM, (I guess), with the "I figured you had just reposted the first post from this thread." you're suggesting that this thread was about pissing on Rachel Marsden.

That's really revolting, Heywood. I have no idea why that thought would ever occur to you, but I think you've crossed a line.


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posted 16 August 2005 02:21 AM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, I meant the pic not the person but if I crossed a line then my apologies.

edited to add

I was just having a flashback to an article about urinal cake pictures and went from there to the "pisschrist" controversy.

From there, it was a short trip to the Marsden thread.

[ 16 August 2005: Message edited by: HeywoodFloyd ]


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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 02:33 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't have much of an idea what you're talking about, Heywood. I can't stand Rachel Marsden. I hate her...blech blech blech.

What makes you think it's acceptable to suggest that anyone piss on her? God, I'm feeling so creeped out, defensive, and protective of her now. No one, Rachel Marsden, anyone, NO ONE...should ever be subjected to such humiliation.

I feel like throwing up.


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posted 16 August 2005 02:40 AM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Good lord man. No-one is suggesting pissing on Rachel Marsden. That's just nasty dude. Seriously.

It was a JOKE - based on the references that I included in the follow-on post.

Just so you can get the explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

I can't find the article on Urinal Cake Pictures I was thinking of.

edited to add

Found it

http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2004/04040315urinalcakes.html

[ 16 August 2005: Message edited by: HeywoodFloyd ]


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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 02:51 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Fine, whatever...

I have no idea what the fuck you're trying to explain to me, Heywood. The Wikipedia "Piss Christ" article only mystified me further.

I'm done with this discussion. If you think you're going to convince anyone that you didn't suggest this thread was about pissing on Rachel Marsden, then have at it.

I'm really sorry that Radiorahim's rather innocuous thread turned into something this crappy.


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posted 16 August 2005 02:54 AM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
K. Whatever.

Sorry you didn't get it.

And like I said, if I've stepped over a line then I apologize.


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Jacob Two-Two
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posted 16 August 2005 03:23 AM      Profile for Jacob Two-Two     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It made sense to me. People here hate Rachel Marsden, so he joked that a thread entitled "Piss on this" could have been a picture of Rachel. Literally, it is an indication of a strong disrespect (hence the urinal cakes), and colloquially, "pissing on" something is criticising it.
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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 03:28 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, I guess I just didn't get the humour, did I? But then, humour involving pissing on people has never struck me as particularly engaging. In fact, I find it vulgar and brutal.
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posted 16 August 2005 03:41 AM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Given your consistent use of the word here, that makes sense.
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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 03:51 AM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And what word would that be, Heywood Floyd? Brutal or vulgar? Since you ventured a comment, I'm sure you wouldn't be adverse to responding.
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posted 16 August 2005 04:10 AM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh sorry. I wasn't clear enough.

I meant your consistent use of the word "piss" and various forms of the word in such phrases as "pissing match", "pissing war", "piss you off", "pissed off", "piss-poor", "got pissy with him", "piss me off", "pissing himself", "pisses off", "pissing me off", "pissing off", "exceedingly pissed off", "lightly pissed off", and "pissing in the wind" to express something which you find vulgar or brutal.


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skdadl
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posted 16 August 2005 09:02 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
... not giggling, me ... not giggling ...
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anne cameron
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posted 16 August 2005 12:44 PM      Profile for anne cameron     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Really, such a piss poor way to start the day.
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posted 16 August 2005 12:51 PM      Profile for Contrarian     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Pistachio, anyone?
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posted 16 August 2005 12:55 PM      Profile for deBeauxOs     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Looks like someone is being pissy today ...


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chubbybear
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posted 16 August 2005 01:13 PM      Profile for chubbybear        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think we need to frame this discussion of language, knowledge and meaning within a more coherent epistemological framework.
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DrConway
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posted 16 August 2005 02:38 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Should I write an epistle or close the thread?
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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 02:39 PM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ha, hilarious...oops, I wet'em
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Tulsamai Downey
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posted 16 August 2005 02:43 PM      Profile for Tulsamai Downey        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You would wouldn't you you pathetic fucking pig
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Hinterland
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posted 16 August 2005 02:46 PM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, well...what brought that on?
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Michelle
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posted 16 August 2005 02:46 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't think it's necessary to wait for Audra on this one.
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posted 16 August 2005 03:21 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What -- you mean we have the power?

What does it mean, not to wait for audra?


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Michelle
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posted 16 August 2005 03:26 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
No, I'm just saying that instead of waiting for Audra, I went ahead and locked the account since he was flaming out.
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Sara Mayo
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posted 16 August 2005 03:30 PM      Profile for Sara Mayo     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Good move, Michelle!
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skdadl
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posted 16 August 2005 03:30 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ah. I did not know that you could do that.

I guess I'll watch my language around you from now on.


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posted 16 August 2005 03:36 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yeah, I don't do it normally unless someone's really crapping all over the place and I happen to notice at the time.
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posted 16 August 2005 04:56 PM      Profile for Raos     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That's what he gets for having a piss-poor attitude.
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posted 16 August 2005 05:02 PM      Profile for HeywoodFloyd     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And I bet he doesn't lift the seat at home either. Practitioners of Stehpinkeln in mixed-gender houses must be very careful and clean.

[ 16 August 2005: Message edited by: HeywoodFloyd ]


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posted 17 August 2005 08:21 PM      Profile for MartinArendt     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A new battery, eh? That's interesting.

The rest of this thread (after post 1) is absolutely ridiculous!


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posted 17 August 2005 10:20 PM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
When I saw 35 posts on my "piss-powered battery" thread I was intrigued. Little did I know it would generate a flame war.

Oh well...I'm out of bad puns for the day


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posted 17 August 2005 11:12 PM      Profile for maestro     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I presume this would be a wet cell?

Hey, this could start a new euphemisitic phrase for 'taking a leak'.

"Yeah...I'll be right with ya, I just gotta charge the battery."


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Soon corporations will be lining up at the WTO scrambling to get the property and intellectual rights to our urine so that we'll have to pay to pee. I can see it all now.
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posted 18 August 2005 07:40 PM      Profile for A longsuffering conservative     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
We Conservatives tend to be piss poor in the comeback department... I envy all of you.
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posted 18 August 2005 10:23 PM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
But just think of all the unemployed sewage treatment plant workers and the plumbers too!

No more urinals...they'll be "battery charging stations".

"Powered by piss"...kinda has a nice ring to it doesn't it??


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posted 18 August 2005 10:35 PM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
God, bringing up this thread just reminds me of how angry I was at Heywood that night. I still don't understand how anyone would think pissing on Rachel Marsden is funny. Especially a Con like Heywood.
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