# Things I learned from a coworker **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992 "2023-07-13T15:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/41 "2023-07-14T21:25:31Z")
She also doesn’t want to be around wi-fi because it weakens the blood-brain barrier according to RFK JR. Did I mention we are an IT company? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/42 "2023-07-14T21:38:26Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > weakens the blood-brain barrier I guess she hasn’t figured out that in her case, the brain is apparently not a vital organ, so no loss. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/43 "2023-07-14T21:54:45Z")
> [@solost](#): > > [https://culturesforhealth.com/blogs/learn/kombucha-kombucha-vinegar-eels](https://culturesforhealth.com/blogs/learn/kombucha-kombucha-vinegar-eels) Great link, thanks. Next time I run into an altie who thinks apple cider vinegar is a cure-all (it has lots of fans), I’ll let them know they’re ingesting tiny roundworms with their ACV. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/44 "2023-07-14T22:09:25Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > Did you know we’ve had interstellar travel since the 50’s from technology we acquired in the 40’s from a crashed alien ship? See, there’s this secret multinational agency that runs all this. You know how the B-2 bomber costs $2 billion? Well it doesn’t. It costs $150 million. The rest gets siphoned off to this agency. $30,000 toilet seats? More like $3 and guess where the rest goes?? Yeah. Actually, the space stuff is not too far off the mark from what I read. If I remember, the $ 30,000 toilet seats were some quick accounting cover-ups for Reagan’s Star Wars Program. Supposedly, it played a big part in the collapse of the Soviet Union, because they couldn’t keep up with the spending that we were doing. After the collapse, the Star Wars Program faded into obscurity. But what do I know. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/45 "2023-07-14T22:41:03Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Looking at the world around us and apparently it is impossible to get three people to agree on anything. Actually lots more than three people agree on quite a lot. But it’s all enshittification. On _that_ we can get agreement. Nice things? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/46 "2023-07-14T22:53:07Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > Actually, the space stuff is not too far off the mark from what I read. If I remember, the $ 30,000 toilet seats were some quick accounting cover-ups for Reagan’s Star Wars Program. Supposedly, it played a big part in the collapse of the Soviet Union, because they couldn’t keep up with the spending that we were doing. After the collapse, the Star Wars Program faded into obscurity. > > But what do I know. The Black Budget part of the US government is currently somewhere around 80 billion dollars. This is after the stated military and domestic parts of the US government budget. No accountability for this at all. No real idea what it is for or where it goes. They don’t really need to hide money in buying expensive toilet seats. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/47 "2023-07-15T01:10:07Z")
> [@Common\_Tater](#): > > Even as recently as the 1990s government warehouses stockpiled Mohair… Must be an Air Force thing. You know, Bennie & The Jets. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/48 "2023-07-15T01:51:52Z")
Like this: > 🎼 Roger Ramjet And His Eagles > Fighting for Our Mohair > Fly through In And Outer Space > Not to Cheat 'Em But to Play Fair 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/49 "2023-07-15T12:32:16Z")
Heck, David Brin used that idea in his 1986 story “Senses Three and Six” ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/50 "2023-07-15T14:08:47Z")
I worked with a guy who never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. I met him after Covid had started but apparently that was the beginning of the end for him. He got caught up in the vaccine craziness, even before Taiwan started requiring vaccines. He was antimask with all the reasons they were crazy. Then apparently he went down the Qanon rabbit hole, and became a flat Earther. I say apparently, because I simply refused to say anything more than “hello” to him. I just heard from other people who did talk to him. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/51 "2023-07-18T02:01:13Z")
Cattle mutilation is still a thing? I haven’t heard anything about them since the 90s. Them and crop circles. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/52 "2023-07-18T02:03:42Z")
I thought the current incarnation was “crop mutilations” and “cow circles.” ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/53 "2023-07-18T05:00:42Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > Them and crop circles. I miss crop circles. Some of the human made art was simply amazing. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/54 "2023-07-18T15:22:45Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > human made That’s just what _They_ want you to think… ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/55 "2023-07-18T16:53:58Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I miss crop circles. Some of the human made art was simply amazing. I remember years ago, this goes back to when I was a kid, when crop circles were considered this big mystery; the argument against them being of human origin is that it would be impossible for humans to create perfect circles on such a large scale using basic equipment in the dead of night. I thought, couldn’t you just plant a stake in the ground, run a long rope from the stake, attach it to a board and use the board to stamp down the wheat? Then re-stake and repeat as necessary. A few years later two simple working-class British blokes admitted to being at least one of the groups responsible for the crop circles. I saw them on some talk show where they were asked how they did it. “Well, we would just plant a stake in the ground, run a long rope from the stake, attach it to a board and use the board to stamp down the wheat…” ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/56 "2023-07-18T17:16:28Z")
I also read that “experts” had asserted that plant stocks could not be bent the way they are in crop circles through any normal means. Guess dragging a board is not considered normal by these experts. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/57 "2023-07-18T17:29:27Z")
And don’t forget the [stoned wallabies !](http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/stoned_wallabies_make_crop_circles) ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992/58 "2023-07-18T17:52:13Z")
I became convinced it was crazed hedgehogs after watching a documentary about them. Sadly, that is all I remember about the show so I can’t link to it. The geezer who proposed this theory was certainly convincing! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-a-coworker/986992.md?page=2)