# From the "point and laugh" department **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626 "2013-09-25T05:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/1 "2013-09-25T05:43:56Z")
[Nigerian grad student uses magnets to ‘prove’ gay marriage is wrong](http://io9.com/nigerian-grad-student-uses-magnets-to-prove-gay-marri-1326215449) From the article: > [@](#): > > Amalaha says his experiments show that the north and south poles of magnets are attracted to each other — but same poles repel each other. Astoundingly, this “means that man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same. That is how I used physics to prove gay marriage wrong.” It’d be even funnier if it weren’t so mindboggingly stupid. And from a graduate student, no less! > [@](#): > > Amalaha’s next step? To get published in an international journal. Uh… Mmmfff… Bwaahahahahahahaaaa!!! _wipes tears_ ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/2 "2013-09-25T05:55:49Z")
Wow. If we’re magnets, where’s all the cars and loose change I should’ve been attracting to myself? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/3 "2013-09-25T05:59:06Z")
Whoa, I never knew that about magnets. This changes everything. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/4 "2013-09-25T07:25:46Z")
But since the poles of the earth are shifting, that means trans people are cool, right? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/5 "2013-09-25T12:24:56Z")
Well shit, Nigerian grad school here I come! I figure I’ll be a post-doc by November. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/6 "2013-09-25T13:16:53Z")
His work is directly disproven by my research into fuckin rainbows. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/7 "2013-09-25T13:25:03Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > His work is directly disproven by my research into fuckin rainbows. I didn’t know rainbows could fuck. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/8 "2013-09-25T13:27:32Z")
I got your North Pole hangin’ right here. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/9 "2013-09-25T13:34:09Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > His work is directly disproven by my research into fuckin rainbows. How do they work? ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/10 "2013-09-25T13:46:07Z")
I’ve ‘proven’ gay marriage is right with my ‘research’ into Tab A and Slot B and Slot C. My primary discovery is that Tab A fits into both Slot B _and_ Slot C. So clearly gay marriage is ok. My secondary discovery is that there are in fact many combinations of interaction between Tabs and Slots, including but not limited to: Tab A and Tab B and Slot B and Slot C, Tab A and Tab B and Tab C and Tab D and Tab E and Tab F and Slot B, Tab A and Slot B and Slot C and Slot D and Slot E, etc. More ‘research’ is clearly required, and would be greatly enhanced with a better video card. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/11 "2013-09-25T13:59:55Z")
I thought the magnet thing disproved cats and dogs couldn’t live together? ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/12 "2013-09-25T14:31:39Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > His work is directly disproven by my research into fuckin rainbows. Pot of gold, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/13 "2013-09-25T14:49:12Z")
I wonder what he thinks of gravity? Oh, and there’s also the minor detail that every magnet has both a north pole and a south pole. Try to break them apart, and you get two new poles, so both pieces still have a north and a south. I guess we’re all hermaphrodites, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/14 "2013-09-25T16:25:49Z")
Huh. So **that’s** how they work… ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/15 "2013-09-25T16:32:15Z")
I was going with a sad smile, then I noticed the part about him being a graduate student, not an 8 year-old. Now I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/16 "2013-09-25T16:33:58Z")
Then horseshoe magnets are supportive of bestiality? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/17 "2013-09-25T17:15:33Z")
I had always thought that the Nigerians too stupid to get an education were the ones sending out scam emails. It’s shocking to discover that apparently they’re _ **all** _ stupid. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/18 "2013-09-25T17:34:38Z")
Ha-Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/19 "2013-09-25T17:39:58Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I didn’t know rainbows could fuck. Oh, yes, it’s well documented. (It may help to include “r34” in your research terms.) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626/20 "2013-09-25T17:51:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I wonder what he thinks of gravity? > > Oh, and there’s also the minor detail that every magnet has both a north pole and a south pole. Try to break them apart, and you get two new poles, so both pieces still have a north and a south. I guess we’re all hermaphrodites, eh? He just proved that anal sex is best. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-point-and-laugh-department/669626.md?page=2)