Except that you’re being completely dishonest in your descriptions of those efforts.
I don’t think anyone would say we should be massaging bunnies just for the fuck of it at the governments expense, but that’s not at all what’s happening and frankly you’re a lying sleazeball douchbag for intentionally making gross misrepresentations in a lame attempt to validate your political biases.
Other than that, Welcome to the boards!
And risk a strategic luck shortage?
But in any case, the money spent on studying rabbit feet, and rabbits in general, is trivial compared to other government expenditures and may be more useful, or if nothing else adds to the collective knowledge of zoology. There are certainly worse ways to spend.
Same here, Sparky.
Not dishonest at all. What misrepresentations have I made about the study in question, or anything else? They were giving fucking Swedish massages to bunny rabbits’ feet.
This is something one would expect out of The Onion, not a government grant.
What misrepresentations have you made? After mhendo showed the inaccuracies (to use the most charitable term) in a few of your examples, your credibility is not very high right now. If you want to rant about massaging rabbits’ feet you’re gonna need to bring a few more facts to your side of the debate.
Is U.S. News good enough?
The actual point of the study was to measure if massage improved recovery from exercise.
From the asshole’s Wastebook Page 8.
So, yes, you did misrepresent the expenditure. You did not actually state why the massages were being done or the goal of the study.
Yes, and? That article explains why the study was being done. Which you don’t want to hear.
The research actually sounds kind of interesting and potentially useful to me, exercising the rabbits and seeing if massage afterward promotes faster recovery. It sounds like a bad deal for the rabbits, but could be helpful to us. Did you read your own cite or just grab an item from a Google search list?
They weren’t just massaging the rabbits’ feet. They were studying the effects of massage in helping muscles recover after exercise. What misrepresentations have you made? There’s another one for you right there.
Now, if you’d like to debate whether that sort of study is a good use of government funds, go for it. But you don’t do your argument any favors when you say that all they were doing was massaging little bunnies’ feet.
I’d prefer you first address my question in #2679.
So basically it is a medical/exercise study where rabbits are the subjects.
Yeah… not having a problem with that.
Maybe I can play this game as well:
*How about an overstuffed annual $550 million dollar program teaching government employees how to play musical instruments?
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So you don’t care that the government is spending other people’s money on foot massages for rabbits? My guess is that you don’t pay any federal income tax. Am I correct?
So you’re going to continue to misrepresent the facts.
That much is clear.
Well. there’s always the “nose flutists” which at least two people in this thread claim that they exist.
I sense a meme in its infancy.
“But… but… but… rabbit massages!”
What fact have I misrepresented?
What does that have to do with it?
Because people who aren’t paying for things, who don’t have any skin in the game, can wish for the sky, including bunny rubs.
That doesn’t make it a good idea.
Okay, I’ll try to explain this calmly, but even a brain-damaged freakin’ orangutan…
Sorry. They didn’t just massage little bunny’s feet. They exercised the rabbits’ muscles, and studied how those muscles recovered in rabbits that received a massage compared to those that didn’t. You are leaving out the purpose of the study. That is what you are misrepresenting.
Jeez, they’ll need to start putting instructions on toilet paper next.