BS: Tin foil safety helmet game

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: leeneia
Date: 24 Jul 16 - 04:02 PM

You are not stupid, Donuel, I.Q. test or no.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 05:18 PM

Not me leeneia,
I know how stupid I am. I am tested well below average intelligence , never convincingly changed mankind's penchant for self destruction and subservience by hypnosis, innate in our species, and never mastered any of the things that I have practiced over 10,000 hours.

However in my youth, despite constant evidence to the contrary, I used to think I was exceptional hot shit.

Whatever D&K were thinking, it wears off.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: leeneia
Date: 23 Jul 16 - 04:17 PM

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately."

1. Why can't they make this simple point in simple English?

2. Define "unskilled." Is an affluent, computer-literate Pokemon Go player who steps into traffic while glued to his Smartphone to be considered skilled?

3. Most of us overrate our intelligence, and the fewer dangers we know of, the confident we are. Why do Dunning and Kruger think they deserve to be immortalized by writing this up?

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jul 16 - 05:15 PM

Why has nobody mentioned the "Signs" film with Mel Gibson, directed by M. Night Shmyalan?

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Jul 16 - 11:50 AM

I've just looked this up leeneia, and it does indeed have a whiff of BS about it. In the Wikipedia account, it mentions the case of a bank-robber, a Mr McArthur Wheeler, who instead of the more conventional balaclava, covered his face in lemon juice. Its properties as an invisible ink were assumed by Mr Wheeler to render his face invisible too.
Now either this is a load of the proverbial, or the unfortunate chap was as mad as a box of frogs.

One of my Siamese cats appears to think that if his little head is out of sight under his blanket, I can't see him at all. He tries this on if he's been having a wicked gnaw of our roast meat cooling on the counter top. But then he's a cat....

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Jul 16 - 10:12 AM

I read about the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect itself has a strong whiff of BS about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 04:37 PM

I suspect the tin foil safety helmet game is related to the 4:20 safety meeting game.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Jul 16 - 04:05 AM

That's quite sad Padre. One wonders what became of them. (Maybe the radio waves got them in spite of their foil hats!)

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Padre
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 09:54 PM

Long years ago, when I worked in downtown Washington, DC, I used to go for a walk at lunchtime. One day, I walked through the park across from the White House (now called Presidents' Park) and saw a couple sitting on one of the benches, holding a sign protesting something. Both of them were wearing aluminum foil hats on their heads, and the sign made reference to 'government radio waves' attacking them. Over the next few years, until my office moved to Crystal City, I would see the same couple, on the same bench in the park, and wearing what became increasingly thick foil hats. In 1985, when I was back in DC for a meeting, a walked by the park, but the couple was no longer there.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Jul 16 - 03:57 AM

Donuel - 2 & 3 probably come under the spell of the Dunning-Kruger effect

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 08:17 PM

bull shit is everywhere

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 08:06 PM

Super bullshit youtubes are funny.
Robomatic had one of a comedian spreading bull but there are regular people doin it too like the Ancient alien theorists.
Humor at the expense of the ignorant is cruel but charlatans deserve everything they have coming.
There are valid esoteric or meta physical subjects but then there is crap that is so psychotic , psychotic people actually believe them. For example; Texas is being will be attacked by UN and Obama troops in defiance of the posse comitatus act. The governor even declared some sort of alert. Great Caesar's Ghost !

George Carlin said that he could peg a speaker inside of a minute with one of 3 categories.

1. He/She's OK
2. Ah ha! Ass Hole
3. There it is, He's Full Of Shit!

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Greg F.
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 06:36 PM

You talking a person or a post?

If a person, I have along list. I'll try to put them in order of ascending batshit.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 06:28 PM

I think BS threads should be closed at 256 posts.

Why? Because 256 is 16 x 16, so it's musical.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:39 PM

There is hilarity, tenderness and art there.

Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:32 PM

There's this....

Subject: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 16 - 02:22 PM

music example

There are so many full goose bonker bat shit crazy things on the internet I thought a game of posting the craziest all time winner of the mudcat ultimate bull shit award might be entertaining and educational.

Have you found a contender???

post one.


all entries will be judged subjectively and electrically.