From its namesake, John Batman's wiki page:

The artist John Glover, Batman's neighbour in Van Diemens Land said Batman was "a rogue, thief, cheat and liar, a murderer of blacks and the vilest man I have ever known"

What a joker.

The Streisand effect is when someone attempts to hide something by suppressing it, and that this something instead becomes popularised because of the suppression attempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Barbara Streisand was incredibly famous before her particular namesake incident (just like Purple might be).

For all your ranting about "The First Lady is subjected to this shit and she wasn't even elected," @Yogi, the same can be said of Tom Perkins, and David and Charles Koch, and the many many others who aren't elected and yet they're subjected to all kinds of attacks and sleights for what they say or don't say on or off the record.

In this instance, Michelle went on national TV for political purposes and she said something stupid, if not downright condescending or truly insulting, and she got backlash.

So chill out dude, don't stress out over this... live up to your "yogi" namesake, (unless, of course, you're trying to be more like Yogi Bear.. in which case, get the FUCK away from my "pic-a-nic basket!").

"Degrees of darkness" sounds like that meaningless phrase people say when trying to make someone feel better about a shitty situation. Prison systems period. Corrupt rackets, all.

Rodman in his surreal romp to Ill-ville does smell a bit like some diplomatic inroad concocted by handlers designed to prep BabyDic for some lessons in how to keep a nuke out of his anus should he flex according to HIS handlers retardedly brilliant strategies in diplomacy and universal humanitarianism.

I have never imagined Un to have any real power beyond that of his namesake-He's a carbon-copy of the human garbage that was his father, grandfather-The real power is in their jackboots and their thugs.

Edsel has to be one of the coolest names ever-My dad worked as a car salesman at a Ford dealership in 1960 and couldn't sell the automobile after the namesake to save his job! Total hipster car today and hard to come by one cheap.
https://www.google.com/search?q=edsel&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
&ei=ZN3tUJjAM6Wf2QXH4YGIDw&biw=1600&bih=821&sei=wN3tULrcN6Lw2gW8_4HYBA

You must be racking up those power points! I guess sifting videos would go against your namesake, still it's good to see your contribution is welcomed by many

Fun fact: It has been proposed that raptors actually used their claws in a similar manner to their namesake birds of prey - by hooking onto their prey and pinning them under bodyweight. Either way, they probably didn't kill their prey before starting to eat it

Oh, and velociraptor means swift seizer. Thanks wiki.

Important to know the facts should you ever be a victim of a raptor attack. Even if the facts only serve inform you of just how painful your death is about to be.

>> ^NetRunner:

I've been thinking it might be worth having a godwin channel.
It should include any hyperbolic comparison to a totalitarian dictator (and/or his regime) though, and not narrowly limited to Hitler/Nazi comparisons.


How about we generalize it more? How about #fallacy? So few people even properly understand Godwin's Law that I'd hate to see it be the namesake of a channel, especially one that covers more than just that.

>> ^NetRunner:

I also think we need a delusion channel. This would be for the "Obama was born in Kenya", "Vaccinations cause mental retardation", strain of lies. They're not true, but they're not really lies per se -- the people saying them seem to believe they're true, they're just delusional.
It'd also give rude atheists the chance to slap it on religious videos for added hilarity and hijinx.

#lies does actually cover this, despite its title.

Any videos stating,showing or blowing the whistle on blatant falsehoods are welcome here.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Everyone knows that the earth is the center of the universe, and that all bodies rotate around it. There is only one person in the world that thinks otherwise and he recanted after he was confronted.

However, unlike your historically famous example, the naysayers didn't have mountains of evidence to support their position, merely hearsay and conjecture.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

I doubt any of us here are climatologists, but we are people. As people, we can expect people doing science on climate to not be entirely dissimilar to us...


While I'm not a climatologist, I do have my PhD in Ecology and I regularly teach Environmental science. With that being said, I concur with most of the posts here in that climate change is indeed occurring and is largely anthropogenic. I agree with you that science shifts its focus from one foundation to another, but I disagree with you on most of your statements, namely:

a) "Peer review is more of a contest of popularity and not overall truth value."

This is ridiculous. I am both a reviewer of ecological journals and have had papers reviewed by those journals. While some authors may have an easier time getting published based on their namesake, the vast majority rely on their science alone. Most climatology papers are from large groups where most authors are unknown to the overall scientific community (grad students, post-docs, assistant professors and the like).

b) "Where is the data to support that global warming would even be bad?"

Most data revolving around the immediate biological effects of global warming are located not in climatology journals, but in ecological ones, particularly those on elevational gradients. For example, if an organism has a range at a specific altitude on a mountainside and the climate warms, it has no where to go but up - once he runs out of space, extirpation is eminent. Biological diversity will be reduce drastically in this manner in similarly smaller-ranged habitats or ecotones.

c) "We will entwine any evidence into the web of belief . And ostracize anyone that deviates."

The first person who comes up with solid proof that global climate change is not anthropogenic in a peer-reviewed article will have all the prestige granted to him that he could ever desire. That's always good motivation to deviate from the norm. The problem is, nobody can discover any evidence to the contrary. It's not ostracization by will, but by nature itself.

Full Youtube Description:

Where is the cheesiest place in Britain? Helen and Olly from comedy podcast Answer Me This! (http://bit.ly/bay3c9) launch their new video series GREAT BRITISH QUESTIONS with this investigation into Britain's cheese obsession.

They visit Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, and see its famous namesake maturing in the caves; Leagram's Organic Dairy in Lancashire, where cheesemaker Bob Kitching teaches them how to turn milk into cheese in minutes; and renowned cheese emporium Paxton and Whitfield in Bath. Then it's off to meet film star Warwick Davis at the annual cheese-roll championships in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, where dozens of teams compete in this bizarre sport to win a cheese the size of a footstool.

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"Thanks to a $1 million donation from its namesake, US multi-millionaire Ady Gil, formerly known as Earthrace, the Ady Gil has become the latest addition to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's protest fleet". I quote Linda Carel: "(do you) you support the Japanese fisherman illegally shooting pregnant mother whales with spear guns that explode inside of them…in an area named a sanctuary by the IWC, which Japan refuses to abide by? Why would they? It serves them to refuse to recognize this sanctuary… the fish are so plentiful - they come to what they think is their safe haven to give birth to their calves." Whaling is wrong - especially in protected waters - so these people should be applauded for braving the harsh conditions and putting up a fight. >> ^westy:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
1.5m dollars on a boat...the true spirit of the modern conservationist movement.

lol yah if they had any brains they would have gotten say 20 cheep boats that way they could scare whales of from all the whalers.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^shuac:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?

Nonsense? Really, nonsense?
You remain true to your namesake. Well done.

What a rude comment when I was asking for others opinions, not slander. Give the man with pork flu a break.


You had to bring SWINES into this!

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^shuac:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?

Nonsense? Really, nonsense?
You remain true to your namesake. Well done.

What a rude comment when I was asking for others opinions, not slander. Give the man with pork flu a break.


What a bunch of poppycock, sir! POPPYCOCK! <removes glove and slaps gsf across the face>

And who'd ever ask for slander? I'll tell you who: ME!

Slander me! Do it! Do it now! I'm right here! What are you waiting for?

>> ^shuac:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
I enjoyed him grilling Bernanke , but this just seemed like self congratulatory non-sense, I thought I was watching Micheal Moore. Anyone else get the same sentiment?

Nonsense? Really, nonsense?
You remain true to your namesake. Well done.


What a rude comment when I was asking for others opinions, not slander. Give the man with pork flu a break.