What's the deal with this BS?
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What's the deal with this BS?
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...
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.
Even Google doesn't turn up a damn thing.
Man there are some gullible people out there.
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.
Well, nobody is going to buy gas Monday. So, DON'T BUY GAS!! That'll show 'em.
<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 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.
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 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.
Sorry I've never heard of the bottle cap thing. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif[/img] I usually buy 3-4 20 oz. drinks a day while working. I'll start saving them and buy the end up the week we can give some vegetable another 20 minutes or so of battery power.
I didn't recognize you the other day, had to do a double take to figure out who you were. Next time I see you I expect free food. haha
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ironlung</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sorry I've never heard of the bottle cap thing. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif[/img] I usually buy 3-4 20 oz. drinks a day while working. I'll start saving them and buy the end up the week we can give some vegetable another 20 minutes or so of battery power. </div></div>
I'm glad I didn't have anything to drink in my mouth when I read that....
People at work send out emails all the time about those bottle caps. Something to the effect that collecting these will help some person out with medical expenses???????
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: burton2019</div><div class="ubbcode-body">People at work send out emails all the time about those bottle caps. Something to the effect that collecting these will help some person out with medical expenses???????</div></div>
Yeah supposedly there's a kid at Norton Community that is on life support and the family has no money no insurance so the hospital will give them one minute of life support for every bottle cap turned in.
At least that's the version I heard. I know Norton elementary school was collecting bottle caps for that reason (one of the parents there told me).
I always curse at people for parking there. I saw it was you and started laughing. I told the guy who was with me "I know that guy. I guess I shouldn't cuss at him.". [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]
I was going to sell a book so I'd have enough money to get into the baseball tournament that afternoon. It's ridiculous trying to find parking up there.
<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: 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. </div></div>
I guess he sent you the mountain lion killed in Wise? Maybe you should start forwarding him ones from your Mom that he hasn't sent you yet.