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Fuck yeah, videosift... epic thread!

@RFlagg, I'm almost certain I read somewhere that Napoleon changing the road side is an urban legend.

This is a really good site for looking up any urban legend or folk tale.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/babybird.asp

Why ask why? To see eif the urban legend is true.

*british

Can't find any source for it on the web, but I remember reading that the second part of that song was written to be technically impossible for a human to sing. The idea was to record a human singing it and then pitch shift it to make it more "alien". But no-one told Inva Mula and she just went in sang the song as written and the songwriter was totally shocked.

Could just be an urban legend though...

They're racist. If they suggest that a group of people may be dangerous ONLY because they're black, that's racism. If they appear strange or aggressive or they're posturing or dressed like gangsters, then it's wise to avoid them, no matter their colour of skin. I avoid groups of ganster-looking white people as much as black. Every single one of those statements is racist because they indicate that ANY black person is a danger.

There are times when it's good advice, but that's only when you know for sure the blacks are up to no good. One example is in Toronto, we have a midway every year called the Canadian National Exhibition for the three weeks before school starts. When I was in high school, the last Monday of the midway was referred to as "Black Monday" because young blacks would come out that day en masse and stir shit. Mostly they did nothing, many were just full of attitude, but many started fights or stole stuff and vandalized the palce. As I recall, it got worse and worse each year until the police showed up in huge numbers one year and it never happened again. In such a case, yes it would be wise to stay away from them. But it's not because they're black, but because we know they have arrived with the intent of causing trouble (Maybe the whole scenario was urban legend; none of my friends ever went on that day for that reason, so I never saw it).

That's not what this guy is talking about in any of his statements. He just says blacks are dangerous because they're black. Period. That's racist.

If I see a black person and I feel fear only because they're black, that's prejudice. If I treat him as a threat, that's racism.>> ^Payback:

A couple of his statements, the ones you mention, are the ones I believe are predjudiced, not racist per se.

This is a bit of an urban legend that has been traced back to the late 1800's
Spoken version - (Gerard Hoffnung, 1958)

Another reason it is fake:

The source book where the myth originated from in 1954, has no mention of mouth, swallow, or anything related to this myth. In fact, the author of the insect book clearly labels spiders as not insects.
http://books.google.com/books?id=o_raAAAAMAAJ&q=spider

So the snopes about a spider myth is debunked with its own urban legend debunking.

Another reason it is fake:

The source book where the myth originated from in 1954, has no mention of mouth, swallow, or anything related to this myth. In fact, the author of the insect book clearly labels spiders as not insects.
http://books.google.com/books?id=o_raAAAAMAAJ&q=spider

So the snopes about a spider myth is debunked with its own urban legend debunking.

>> ^Payback:

...you assume it was an accident. I assume it was an "accident", much like the urban legend about the guy who "accidentally" sat on a beer bottle and it got lodged in his rectum.
Are you implying she was having sex with a drying rack?

aww man, I fell into the chasm that is internet insinuation.

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Sorry, I forgot to click on the non-existent "Facetious" checkbox. :

In reply to this comment by BoneRemake:
I did not assume anything, the same information mintbbb has is what I have. She filtered EIA from that information and eia is a bad channel call with the information at hand.

Heh ?

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>> ^BoneRemake:

"A student had to be cut free from a clothes horse by firefighters in a freak accident that has gone viral on YouTube."
An accident is not Eia, eia channel is willful.

nochannel

Wtf
British
Viral
Fail at.. sleeping ?


...you assume it was an accident. I assume it was an "accident", much like the urban legend about the guy who "accidentally" sat on a beer bottle and it got lodged in his rectum.

I did not assume anything, the same information mintbbb has is what I have. She filtered EIA from that information and eia is a bad channel call with the information at hand.

Heh ?

In reply to this comment by Payback:
>> ^BoneRemake:

"A student had to be cut free from a clothes horse by firefighters in a freak accident that has gone viral on YouTube."
An accident is not Eia, eia channel is willful.

nochannel

Wtf
British
Viral
Fail at.. sleeping ?


...you assume it was an accident. I assume it was an "accident", much like the urban legend about the guy who "accidentally" sat on a beer bottle and it got lodged in his rectum.

>> ^BoneRemake:

"A student had to be cut free from a clothes horse by firefighters in a freak accident that has gone viral on YouTube."
An accident is not Eia, eia channel is willful.

nochannel

Wtf
British
Viral
Fail at.. sleeping ?


...you assume it was an accident. I assume it was an "accident", much like the urban legend about the guy who "accidentally" sat on a beer bottle and it got lodged in his rectum.

>> ^shponglefan:

So are Bigfoot, Nessie and the Roswell aliens...
>> ^rougy:
Whoever attacked America on 9/11 is still out there


9/11 was not a myth or an urban legend, but the official investigation was.


@Yogi - did you actually take the time to tell me that everybody dies? Wow. Deep.

>> ^shinyblurry:

A classic example would be the Hittite Empire. Critics of the bibles historicity used to claim that it was made up and didn't exist..until its capital was unearthed in 1906.

Please provide some evidence of this supposed denial, which while cute in a urban legend sort of way, smells of classic christian revisionism rather than fact.

>> ^shinyblurry:

It's not a question of whether the bible is historically accurate, because that has already been proven conclusively.

I question it, so it is obviously questioned. But as to it being proven, by whom and when? You continue to assert this without the slightest bit of evidence.

>> ^shinyblurry:

The question is, what will it take for you to believe the very obvious fact that the bible refers to real people and places?

Sometimes it does, and so do Doyle's novels about sherlock holmes, that does not make either of them historically accurate.

>> ^shinyblurry:

the general history it recounts has been proven time and time again. Never once has it been seriously disputed, and skeptics have been forced to backtrack from their claims for centuries.

There is no reason to believe that anything said to happen in the bible before the Babylonian Exile ( you know, the actual historical event with Cyrus and all) is the slightest bit historical, if you have any EVIDENCE to counter that I would be interested to get actual verifiable links to it.