Interesting Facts

Oct 30, 2014 12:07 PM

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It sounds like that Lou guy created a big mess. A Lou Pai Fiasco if you will...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But Robin couldnt be a pole vaulter..

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Suicide by jaguar. How pretentious can one get?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I think it's save to say that Woody Harrelson is a dick.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

still love him

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All the while I'm sure Sean Penn was yelling "IS THIS FOR WHAT I DID TO MADONNA?!"

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

KickassFacts.com Most of these are half true by default

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Okay im no scientist but that last one sounds like bullshit

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

These are all bogus.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

so when she fell, did the baby survive?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Glowing trees...? How Lovecraftian.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

First you have glowing trees then you'll have cthulhu flying around to hunt terrorists.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Last week on /r/TodayILearned...

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 3

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11 years ago (deleted Oct 21, 2024 11:44 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Yup. There are a bunch of users that just post blogspam now. I have reported them to the Imgur abuse inbox but no luck getting them banned.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Good thing it was Sean Penn, not Sean Bean...

11 years ago | Likes 288 Dislikes 0

He ded.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Its shawn bawn

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I like the idea that they had never met before, only vaguely heard of each other, and Woody decided to do this for the hell of it.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Would have ended up getting shot.

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Not before slaying a bunch of the cops with a sword and thus saving Merry and Pippin.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

*Merry and Pimpin'

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Kim Peek is like if Rain Man & Milton from office space had a baby.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Kim Peek literally was Rain Man.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Literally as in the movie Rain Man was based off him?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yep.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Sean Penn totally deserves being dragged outside and shot. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911106&slug=1315618

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fuck kickassfacts, all they do is steal the top posts from last week on /r/todayilearned

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

it still saves me from having to type all of those letters into a subreddit

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I knew it! That she was pregnant!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

OP, you have failed my challenge and started off with yet another beautiful woman for clickbair purposes! -1

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Do you downvote them all too? Do you want to form an alliance with me?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not all of them, but from here on out yeah!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

my nigga.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And then you hear how Sean Penn paid back to Woody Harrelson: http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0062477/

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

hopefully u get more upvotes because that's great.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thanks, that was not really my goal though. I just wanted to do some fact checking and was surprised to find out more :)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And he fell for it!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sean Penn doesn't mess around! Left at night in the land of nopes!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Kim Peek was allegedly expelled from school in only seven minutes, but went on to graduate high school at age 14.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Kim Peek could divide by zero.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Microsoft created at least FOUR billionaires: Gates, Allen, Ballmer, and Charles Simonyi.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

but... according to Hilary Clinton... companies don't create jobs. So how did they create billionaires D:

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I feel like it would be somewhat challenging to skin a jaguar with a pistol.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pointing a gun at anybody, loaded or not, as a prank is one of the most irresponsible uses of a gun, period. Respect the danger people.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No good without sources... -1

11 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 5

The sources were on Reddit. KickassFacts.com steals all of the best content from /r/TodayILearned

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

and op steals it from kickassfacts

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Most of these facts are twisted, construed, and over simplified. I really wish they would stop getting upvoted.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The average imgur user grows wool and has babies with delicious chops.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Lou Pai is crazy as shit; check out the documentary "The Smartest Guys in the Room".

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#3 if that spread to the forrests, it would fuck up the ecosystem real bad. Nocturnal species need darkness.

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 6

I agree.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I'm sure it would be very hard to track down glow in the dark trees at night

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 3

Yeah that seems like a real bad idea for a myriad of reasons.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

my mate knows one of the guys working on the project, this came up early on and they made the tree's sterile with some Gm stuff

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

How do they get trees to violate thermodynamics like that? The added energy can't be coming from sunlight.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i wouldnt know exactly, but the light isnt incrediby strong its similar to a firefly's

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Nov 1, 2014 8:16 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Who do you think you are, Dr. Ian Malcolm?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

yes because a sterile tree can evolve... are you fucking shitting me

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Kim Peek is awesome

11 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 2

Kevin from The Office did the same thing.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love learning about him

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Just another example of being too good at your job. You make it look easy, and they'll try to replace you with something cheaper.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's a documentary on him over here that's on every so often. He's an incredible person.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What's the name of the documentary?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Indeed he is! Another interesting savant is Daniel Tammet google him for mindblown.jpeg

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I met him once, completely by random chance. It was a dark, foggy night and he and his dad(?) were lost and stopped to ask for directions.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sounds like the start to a weird story. Or a great book.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

was awesome.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

For the filthy casuals, he's the inspiration for "Rain Man".

11 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

I didn't know that. Thank you!

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

He was the only person in recorded history to have been able to read two pages of a book at the same time, one with each eye.

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

The company made a dumb mistake. You make sure the new system is working BEFORE getting rid of the old. Also help him get a new job, too.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So Lou Pai is the one everyone's trying to kill.

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11 years ago (deleted Dec 8, 2014 7:32 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Most politicians, bankers, and leaders in general tend toward the sociopathic end of the empathy spectrum.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He then invented BITCOIN

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

he ded

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I guess his Pai wasn't so Lou after all.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"The Smartest Guys in the Room" Bethany McLean. Read it, such a good biography of the whole Enron thing, especially the execs

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

* Solou Pai

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

he has a fortress in antarctica... I found a journal saying I should be worried

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Lou Pai: there's a time traveler if I ever saw one.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

According to wikipedia, he lives in Houston raising race horses. That is obscurity...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

What a fiasco

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

WGN weatherman brother was th e CFO of Enron, WGN coverage was the best, because they would report on the trial then go to weather.

11 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

Tom Skilling!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like to picture after Enron collapsed he just got drunk on his own luck. "Welp, guess I'm a jammy fucker. Better roll with it."

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I like this expression.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He didn't die, he lives in Florida with his current wife and kids and raises horses. His daughter competes in equestrian circuits

11 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Lou Pai, such a rotten guy, left the shareholders high and dry, oh Lou Pai, I hope you die.

11 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 3

Reddit claims that he had to sell his stock to pay off his wife from the divorce, then Enron went boom boom.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

To be fair, he wasn't the CEO of Enron. But i suppose what he did might be considered insider trading. But not proven.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Pai resolved the insider trading charges against him with a $31.5 million out of court settlement. Is that what an innocent man does?

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Settling out of court doesn't mean someone is guilty or innocent. It means they decided to stop fighting and take a partial success/failure.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

An innocent man who is wealthy and tired of be harassed might....

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Anyone who hasn't watched the documentary 'Smartest Guys in the Room', and has any interest in corporate greed/illusion, really should.

11 years ago | Likes 190 Dislikes 1

Commenting because that sounds interesting and I would like to watch it later

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I JUST watched that on Tuesday-it was great!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Commenting to remember this. Though I never will.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

replying as a reminder, commenting to remember.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Upvote because you put the "nickspud" in "dickpuns" and my name is "Nic".

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Commenting for later

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Awesome documentary.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Comment so I can find to watch later

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Have a friend i'm definitely going to recommend this to

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cfl

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I loved that movie, it opened my eyes to see just how cold hearted some people can be.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I actually bought it because it was so good. But as Ericjn said, it's available on Netflix streaming. Enjoy.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Crap! Wrong place! And I'm on my phone! Son of a...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

comment for later

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Check this out - you can find those people on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/f?orig=SPCK&keywords=rebecca+mark+enron

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why no just society can lack socialism. It's needed to keep unfettered greed/capitalism in check.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Never heard of this before, definitely wilk wathch.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're drunk imguring, are you?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

phone doesnt autocorrect, so i just hit submit without looking

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

John Fairfax sounds like a complete sociopath

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I love him.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Killing a jaguar or being a pirate are not a good things. He sounds like an arsehole .

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

sounds more like bipolar disorder with crazy manic episodes

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, a fucking case-study.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah I kinda sounds like an asshole!

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Or a complete badass

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And a phony

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badass*

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And one of the best rowers of all time! (1\2)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(2/2) Of all time!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also kind

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

a sounds like an internet browser. Oops, I hit enter by mistake.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Who I wish to sex.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think you mean bullshit

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was thinking more of bi-polar.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The "facts" try to make him crazier than he is. He shot a wall, boy scouts were on the other side of that wall.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And he wasn't a pirate at all, he was a smuggler. Oh and he was sent a letter by the Apollo 11 crew saluting his achievements. Pretty cool.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You don't know what the word sociopath means.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I learned in Psych class that the term sociopath is outdated and not used professionally. Anti-social personality disorder or (1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

ASPD is the disorder, but typically, a sociopath isn't fully detached from empathy and morals, like he'll feel some empathy for those close

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

of course, this is by no means a legal or medical definition, but just what it would typically mean for a psych to call you a sociopath.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

to him, while a psychopath lacks the traits entirely, and are far more violent. You can still enjoy the company of a sociopath.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I tend toward very low empathy for nearly all humans, but am a pacifist and sometimes nice guy.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

full blown psychopath I guess. There are a few more in-betweens, but apparently sociopath is no longer a thing. (2/2)

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

Really? They've featured articles in Scientific American Mind & Psychology Today in the last two years.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You are correct as far as the DSM is concerned

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Is it considered too general?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If he really did pirate for three years, he should be shot. Piracy is not a charming and fun romp, it's murder and theft.

11 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 11

Turns out those three years as a pirate was spent trying to download all the Metallica albums via AOL with a 9800 baud modem.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it seems that the term "pirate" was used loosely, it seems that he was more of a smuggler than a pirate

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

You should watch the interviews from somalians, done of their piracy is to ward off internationals who come to dump waste.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

That would be a blockade. Teft and murder is what piracy is.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

theft

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Software pirate.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's because the definition of stealing is horribly antiquated and doesn't cover all facets of "taking that which doesn't belong to you".

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I agree that some other word should have been coopted for that context.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Also we don't even shoot rapists, paedophiles or murderers (at least in my country) let him off with his little bit of pirating

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

I didn't mean in a judicial sense. I just meant that I wouldn't object if the path of a bullet just happened to intersect with his groin.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

haha to be fair, neither would I

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who says murder and theft can't also be fun? I feel like somebody's never given piracy a good go.

11 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 1

"how can yous says yous against abortions if yous yourself have never had had one?"

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I'm the captain now.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Yeah, an awesome sociopath.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

He sounds like he's living the dream of every young kid

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Yeah, I immediately thought to myself that this guy just never grew up.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

But he could control the "monster" inside of him.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't always commit suicide by jaguar, but when I do, I bitch out and end up making a jacket out of him.

11 years ago | Likes 477 Dislikes 1

I'd say that deciding against committing suicide and subsequently killing a jaguar is the opposite of bitching out.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Killing an innocent animal, because it dared to do what you went out of your way to invoke it to makes him a bitch.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

i lol'd

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

I lol'd so hard I farted.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Damn you! Same..

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I farted so hard I lol'd.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just shitted my pants

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You should read "Into the Wild"; it explores these men who are driven to be like that. The mental state behind it is really interesting.

11 years ago | Likes 141 Dislikes 5

I just might, thanks!

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I'll read it, because I could use a few good pointers on how to further my career in Corporate America!

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 3

I hated that book. It was so slow and poorly put together, and Chris was an asshat.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

I fucking hated that kid. Every fiber of my being detested that hypocritical, ignorant child that was "Alex Supertramp". (1)

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

(2) He was incompetent. And while he touched many lives he still died in a bus used by hunters on a yearly basis. He never found the wild.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

(3) The kid couldnt even tell an elk (possibly deer) from a moose for fucks sake. And yet here we all are, reading a book by his fanboy.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

(4) I hate McCandless, not totally because of the above things, but for one big one. He felt the way I do. But he fucked it up.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Nah, I'll just watch the movie they're always better (joking)

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It was actually a pretty good movie though.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

you might be better of with the movie (not joking)

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Feb 18, 2015 4:57 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

THIS.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Which is why you should read it, in the end he realised his mistake and wanted to be with his family again, that's the message.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You're doing the Lord's work, son.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Feb 18, 2015 4:54 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

No clue how to live in the *Alaskan* woods. He'd done ok for himself on earlier excursions, which made him think he could survive Alaska

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

He did read a book. The book was wrong or incomplete, he ate some stuff that paralysed and he lay starving to death all alone.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago | Likes 129 Dislikes 3

That caption works a lot better with this gif.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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Fuck I've been looking for this gif everywhere

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

your welcome

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

http://imgur.com/GGdcuOC Please let this happen in my lifetime!

11 years ago | Likes 290 Dislikes 1

Korea has cloned dogs cats and monkeys that glow in the dark like that.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Seeing bright green lights everywhere will hurt my eyes.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What is it?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A town in Tales of Xillia named Fennmont

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh my God people are we really advocating GMO trees? Oh my God the world is going to end!!!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The best part is that a team of "developers" are working on it... I imagine they meant some special type of biologists.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are they are talking about GFP there? if so: it needs to *absorb* light for fluorescence. so it shouldn't glow in the dark, if I'm correct?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I really can't see that power equation working out. Great idea and all, but trees don't have all that much excess energy.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Think of it more like a splice rather than drawing from the tree. The bio-luminescent parts are themselves the mechanism.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm confused, where else would it draw glucose from if not the tree?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Makes me think of Groot

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ok, so the bioluminescent trees....does no one remember the glowing squirrel incident from Better Off Ted?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And that's how mutants start, people! Haven't you seen any movies?!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I read a Glitch in the Matrix story with a guy saying he somehow shifted into a parallel universe. Bio-lum. trees were a part of it I think.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not going to happen, sorry to let you down. Somebody needs to make a shitload of money powering all the electric street lights we have.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 8

I've worked with that protein in biology and it glows, which wouldn't be enough to light anything up. I could provide waypoints though.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

But someone also needs to PAY for all of those. The will of the rational consumer > the wishes of the producer.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not everything is a big money-grabbing conspiracy, or we'd have incandescent lamps everywhere and white LEDs would be just a curiosity.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not exactly true, many places don't have the economy to have streetlights where it's needed, this will be a perfect thing for them.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

True, I didn't think of that!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Plants are about 1to 5 percent efficient at turning light into chemical energy. This idea is impossible for anything but very dim light.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

wont happen because trees and plants has this thing called chlorophyll that makes them really good at absorbing light, so they wont glow.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also you need to calm down all the people screaming "GMO" or "god didn't make that". They're a small group, but loud.

11 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 3

Fuck those guys.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It just depends on the effects of the changed genetics. We want glowing trees so long as they do not poison the wildlife or something.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well They should stfu. God made fuck all. We humans made everything, we can make more things. We are the new God

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 17

Why are you being downvoted? This is quite inspiring.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

It's grandiose and angry. You know who else was grandiose and angry? Literally Hitler.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

And General Patton

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because he's taking a serious topic lime GMOs and giving a random statement that doesn't tell anyone about the actual controversy

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Like*

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've still yet to see some serious evidence that GMOs are harmful to people after 40 years

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, you know how it goes, if you post a loud opinion, people will object:) I'll take my downvotes with pride

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

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11 years ago (deleted Oct 31, 2014 7:01 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

It can still mess up with wildlife. Many predators *and* prey rely on darkness, and some others can be disoriented or out of circadian sync.

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 7

But the lights would be there anyway, they're supposed to replace street lights.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

It can't be worse than streetlamps.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In the wilderness (where wildlife lives, and there are no street lamps), it can.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The light will take a lot of energy to create, in the wild it is likely that it will prove a detriment and they won't live in the wild.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Now that you mention it... do you know any figures about tree metabolism? Everybody knows humans use 1500~2500 kcal/day, but a tree...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We would have to know which species they were using, the season, and how large it was, though we could probably use percentages.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It can mess up badly with fauna. Many predators *and* prey rely on darkness; other critters can get disoriented or out of circadian sync.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

They're supposed to replace street lights, it would be lit up anyway.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Fair enough.Just beware that the new genes will eventually propagate outside urban areas.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is true but I'm sure if there was suddenly a glowing sapling people could get rid of it pretty quickly.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

See also: kudzu and other invasive plant species.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thing is, by the time you spot a glowing sapling, the cat's already out of the bag (thousands of cats, actually). Because seeds and pollen.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She "fell pregnant"...?

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11 years ago (deleted Feb 27, 2018 12:37 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Yes, that was the joke.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

oh and it's the ones with her holding her handbag.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I hear its contagious.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It's a devastating condition that can ruin lives.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

To quote the famous Detroitian poet Eminem, "She tripped? Fell? Landed on his dick."

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Whoops- I seem to have come down with a case of the babies".

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Women get pregnant? What an interesting fact!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yea it's a parasite

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I believe we addressed this before.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I know, right? That phrase probably went out of style two centuries ago.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

TIL Pregnancy is a disease/sickness.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It's a disease, apparently.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yep. She caught the pregnant. I hear it's going around.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Makes it sound so bad.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds like a mistake a Francophone would make. It's a direct translation of the French 'tombée enceinte'.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Maybe that's how it turned into an English saying, what either all the French speaking in the upper classes over the centuries.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It could be. You hear a lot of expressions like that anywhere that both French & English are spoken. I say that I "pass the vaccuum".

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are you French? I say I do the vacuuming. I remember that in French, but I haven't heard a native English speaker say it.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I am bilingual, but my husband is French. It's an expression he uses that rubbed off on me. I never used to say it. My mum laughs at me!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's an old phrase that nobody really uses anymore, like "gayl meaning happy.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

It's a very normal, common saying in Britain today.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh fuck! I caught a parasite!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Whoever wrote this is probably French. Our expression for getting pregnant is "tomber enceinte", literally translates to "falling pregnant".

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's like when you trip and slip right onto a dick.

11 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 2

She must have a...Guilty Conscience

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What? She tripped, fell, landed on his dick?!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Worst STD ever.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

You gotta be careful with that contagious pregnancy. Its like a 24 hour virus. Except it lasts 9 months.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

It's a common phrase in certain locations. I think it's weird too, but I frequent a lot of fertility boards and I see it frequently.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Common enough among older people in Ireland

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pregnant was originally a euphemism for "with child".

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That' s what we say in France: "tomber enceinte" , kinda stupid I agree

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Appears to be a European thing. Americans seem to say "got pregnant," which sounds terrible. I think we should switch to "became impregnated

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You know, contracted pregnancy

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Is this really not a phrase of speech in America? It's quite common where I'm from

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

I think it used to be a common phrase here, but definitely not within the last 50+ years.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nowhere in English-speaking North America. When I see that idiom I immediately start hearing a British accent in my head.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I've heard it rarely here in Oregon. I'm pretty sure that's in North America. ;)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Just curious, where are you from that it is common?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm from Guernsey. I think it's really normal to hear in British English

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's common in New Zealand as well

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's common but I always think it sounds like it was an accident.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Interesting. Yeah, I'm from the US and I can't say I've heard that one.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

British saying.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Usually falling ends "pregnant". Why "am" I using "quotation" "marks" all "the" time "?"

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Kirk?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

:) here's a fun blast from the past. Enjoy! https://screen.yahoo.com/chris-farley-snl-skits/bennett-brauer-000000367.html

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

ha me and my friend "Shane" used to "do" that cuz it made us laugh. We were "stoned"....

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And shortly afterward got a case of the vapors

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

"What? She tripped? Fell? Landed on his dick?" -Eminem

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's what you say in French "tomber enceinte" is literally translated by "to fall pregnant"... Maybe OP is a French native speaker ?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

It's a saying used by people of all age groups in all areas of the UK.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Came down with a case of the babies

11 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

This. This I like.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yea she contracted a parasite

11 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 5

tripped and fell on an ejaculating penis... WOOPS!

11 years ago | Likes 778 Dislikes 5

Sex is never an accident

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I salute you

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is the only logical explanation.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

isn't that always what happens??

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I bet there's an infomercial for that.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

another thing white hose wives cant do right

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

wouldn't mind catching her....

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Shit I imagined her doing that, now I have this weird boner.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Doesn't surprise me that it's from MTv

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Well it's not like its actual music :D

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Hate it when that happens :(

11 years ago | Likes 128 Dislikes 2

As a guy, it's one of my favorite things

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Love it when that happens :)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hi, i bought you socks, why dont you come by to my place so we can wax the floor?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Without the getting pregnant part it is actually very enjoyable.

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

How so?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sex.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Sounds devastating.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

got em coach

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm liking the mental picture I have

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Luck penis

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

yep. she slipped and fell on a dick. case closed.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

well now I'm horny

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...there's a solution to that problem

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She caught the pregnancy bug. "What's the prognosis? 9 months of recovery, then 18+ years of therapy."

11 years ago | Likes 230 Dislikes 4

what if its contagious! I DON'T WANT PREGNANCY

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

If you don't hold a boy's hand, you should be fine.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

18+ years of *expensive therapy, not covered by most insurances

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

18+ years of therapy not all of which money can buy

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0