They’re still not as big as beer cans, though.
The mere fact that the person in question came up with beer cans as his preferred frame of reference for estimating the size of an object gives me reason to doubt his intelligence, or at least to wonder if he’s stared at a few too many in his time.
Yes, I’m aware of that.
I’ve looked into MANY a shark’s mouth.
But his insistence that their teeth are as “big as beer cans” and “can grow in an hour” is what had me blinking.
Well, maybe he meant Megalodon It could happen.
I’m betting he was misquoting Hooper from Jaws, who said he found a “tooth the size of a shot glass” on the sunken boat.
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Awww, thanks for fixing that 
Makes sense to me. As I know from my DMV training manuals, there’s no difference between a beer and a shot.
Sorry, I read the heart 'o carb bit, but I guess it sounded sooo wrong, I wouldn’t let it into my brain. :smack:
S’ok. Seriously, if I hadn’t been right there when she said it I wouldn’t have believed it was actually said myself!
Of course, this really is going to make my job as a parent so much easier. I mean, why bother trying to get my kids to eat low-fat, lean proteins when they’d much rather be eating the oh-so-much-healthier potato chips, cakes, cookies, french fries, etc? Gosh, this is a real eye-opener. :rolleyes:
You know, I know that the idiots at my workplace really are in the minority, I just want to know why they come near me?
Maybe that’s why she thinks people can be soft hearted? Or they get all mushy–due to the carbs? (who knows how she connects her dots?)
And we do need some cholesterol, just like we need some salt and fat. We have an overabundance of them all.
Now I feel like a steak. Hmmm…
I once told an internet friend that men and horses can mate and create centaurs… and she believed me. Her home-schooling was clearly lax on at least a few subjects :eek:
picunurse where do you get the idea that Dr. Atkins diet is a “fasting diet”. Have you read his book? If one follows the diet as it is described in his book it doesn’t include any kind of fasting…ever. It also lowers cholesterol more than low fat/high carb diets. (Cite NY Times Article “What if it’s all been a big fat lie” that came out a couple of years ago)
I’m sorry, but in the interest of fighting ignorance I’d like to suggest that anyone who hasn’t actually read the book Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution keep their mouth shut when it comes to describing what his diet does or doesn’t do.
Interesting. By that logic, my heart is made out of chocolate cake, “Project Runway” episodes and ABBA. To the Zog Cave!
There is no general correlation between dietary cholesterol levels and serum-cholesterol levels that I am aware of, and IIRC many recent studies show that overeating anything can cause an increase in serum-cholesterol levels, not only fats. From what I understand your body produces 75% or more of all the serum-cholesterol in your blood, and only 25% comes from food sources. It complicates things when some people cut down cholesterol intake to almost nothing but still have to increase their cholesterol medication regularly, and others can eat half a dozen eggs a day all their lives and not have a single increase.
I don’t know why people still spout that ignorance that eating dietary cholesterol will clog your arteries or other nonsense, other than that used to be the accepted view and the modern view has changed because of new studies and knowledge.
Conversation I recently had with a potential suitor.
Him: I don’t believe in the theory of evolution. It’s just a theory, you know? It’s just a theory!
Me (feeling my fists ball up with tension instinctively, as if bracing myself for hand to hand combat): Uh huh. Have you studied the topic thoroughly, just to make sure you understand it?
Him: Yes, I have. I’ve read a whole lot about it.
Me (sensing many landminds afoot and treading carefully, but glad that he seemed well read): Okay, so what’s your problems with it?
Him: Well, I don’t believe that life can be formed out of non-life. That doesn’t make any sense!
It was like the shot heard round the world, yall.
Alternate ending to your conversation:
Him: ‘I don’t believe in the theory of evolution. It’s just a theory, you know? It’s just a theory!’
You: ‘Really? Well, gravity is just a theory as well, do you believe in that?’
And if he should bite the bullet on that, you can always try number theory or game theory or graph theory or probability theory or a million other such mathematical studies with the word “theory” in their name where our knowledge is at the very apex of our abilities to be rock-hard certain and logically watertight.
Yeah, I could have cut him off at the knees by eviscerating his “it’s just a theory!” argument early on. But at that point in the conversation, I still wanted him to like me.
Until, that is, he conflated abiogenesis with evolution, despite his claims of being knowledgeable on the subject.
I almost put him in the hospital.