saving plastic bottle caps?

**NotSoSilentBob** · May 17th, 2008, 10:12 PM

What's the deal with this BS?

**imported_elp6n** · May 17th, 2008, 10:26 PM

Is this that "one minute of life support per bottle cap"?

I've been trying to find this one on snopes since I heard about it first a couple of months ago. Who would base life support on a per minute basis?..... "Sorry folks outta bottle caps - gotta unplug him"

Apparently some of the local schools caught word of this and are actually doing it...

**NotSoSilentBob** · May 17th, 2008, 10:58 PM

It isn't just the schools (although I think that is where my offending party is getting it from). Wal Mart is doing it as well.

I've been scouring Snopes for the last hour trying to find something about it. I hate this bullshit.

**NotSoSilentBob** · May 17th, 2008, 11:09 PM

Even Google doesn't turn up a damn thing.

Man there are some gullible people out there.

**imported_elp6n** · May 17th, 2008, 11:13 PM

We're completely surrounded.
When I get a stupid spam email from friends/family/coworkers I send them the snopes link (and usually a commentary) disproving the email.

People just don't use common sense anymore, and they don't educate themselves and they research nothing. The more outlandish and scandalous an email/gossip is the more they believe it and spread it further.
It drives me crazy.

**Ironlung** · May 17th, 2008, 11:15 PM

Well, nobody is going to buy gas Monday. So, DON'T BUY GAS!! That'll show 'em.

**NotSoSilentBob** · May 17th, 2008, 11:19 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elp6n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We're completely surrounded.
When I get a stupid spam email from friends/family/coworkers I send them the snopes link (and usually a commentary) disproving the email.

People just don't use common sense anymore, and they don't educate themselves and they research nothing. The more outlandish and scandalous an email/gossip is the more they believe it and spread it further.
It drives me crazy. </div></div>

I would love to do this, but most of my forwards come from my mom and my boss.

**imported_elp6n** · May 17th, 2008, 11:32 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NotSoSilentBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elp6n</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We're completely surrounded.
When I get a stupid spam email from friends/family/coworkers I send them the snopes link (and usually a commentary) disproving the email.

People just don't use common sense anymore, and they don't educate themselves and they research nothing. The more outlandish and scandalous an email/gossip is the more they believe it and spread it further.
It drives me crazy. </div></div>

I would love to do this, but most of my forwards come from my mom and my boss.</div></div>

Mine too but that still doesn't stop me lol
I'm like daaaaaaaaaad please stop sending that stuff! C'mon.. you don't want to spread stupidity! (dad's the main offender - mom kind of lays off that sutff)
And my bosses have forwarded some good ones too - but I guess they kind of expect those kinds of responses from me now [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img] I tell them I'm doing them a favor.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well, nobody is going to buy gas Monday. So, DON'T BUY GAS!! That'll show 'em. </div></div>
Now that's really one of the ones that gets my goat! I've given countless econ lessons over it. I wont stop until the stupid emails stop. dagnabbit.

**Ironlung** · May 17th, 2008, 11:36 PM

So you're saying that if 10 people in SWVA don't buy gas Monday and buy it Sunday or Tuesday instead that the price of gas won't drop to .87 a gallon by Friday?

**NotSoSilentBob** · May 17th, 2008, 11:44 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ironlung</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So you're saying that if 10 people in SWVA don't buy gas Monday and buy it Sunday or Tuesday instead that the price of gas won't drop to .87 a gallon by Friday? </div></div>

Stop harshing their buzz. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]

I've told my mom time and again that all of that stuff is BS. She's slacked off lately.

My boss, OTOH, won't listen to a word I say. I've printed Snopes articles and left them on his desk, he takes it the wrong way. Sometimes it is just better to let people wallow in their ignorance.