The Truth About The Peanut Study

After talking about the peanut study (which suggested that peanuts in a bar were tested and x amount of strains of urine were found) in one of our lectures i decided that i would simply follow up whether or not it was true or not.

What i came across was the blatant truth that No peanut bar study has ever been conducted. It does make me wonder where on earth people come up with these crazy 'made-up' studies just to prove a point about washing hands! I mean the truth is that a 'myth' is simply a massive lie that many of us believe.

However on the contrary i came across a study that was conducted on Ice Cubes in bars. It was found in 2003 that 44% of ice cubes in UK bars contained Coliform. Which is the bacteria present in human poo... nice eh? and amazingly 5% contained E.Coli (which is deadly).

Come to think of it i also failed to find any truth behind the idea that masturbation could cause blindness by stressing the veins in the back of your eyes. All i managed to find was that semen contains a lot of zinc, and Zinc defeciency can cause blindness. However... to get that far one would most likely DIE long before actually expelling enough Zinc.

Anyway,

See the rest of the list on 10 facts that are not true HERE

and for more old wives tales that are false see HERE

Lies Elections and Marijuana!

David Frost: Are you really saying the President can do something illegal?

Richard Nixon: I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal!

David Frost: ...I'm sorry?

Do Politicians Lie?

YES!

But Why?

My point to all of this is that Politicians only lie based on what the public need to hear and know. The public doesn't necessarily always want to hear the truth. People want to hear what best suits them at the time. When two candidates are running and one of them tells the truth and the other says what the public wants to hear, the one who says what the public wants to hear wins the election. Thus;

If you want to win an election, start lying, because if your telling the truth you dont have a chance.

(Of course there are some exceptions!)

An example would be Bill Clinton in the 1992 election he ran against George Bush Snr. and won by telling the entire truth about the economic situation in America. However, the public didn't want to hear the 'whole truth'. When it came to smoking Marijuana, Clinton 'didn't inhale'. Now it doenst take a genius to honestly work out that, that is a massive lie and im almost certain he got completely stoned. But to admit to this would mean he is admitting to purposefully breaking the law, and how can the public possibly elect someone who has done that, and more importantly justify that election?

Personally, If I had been of voting age and American at that time, i cant say i would have cared if he would have experimented with that substance as half of Americans have, and which is arguably less dangerous than beer.

Simply put. If you want to get elected remember, you're expected to lie about smoking Green.

See the Article on Clinton trying marijuana here

And for Humourous reasons see this Urban Dictionary definition of the 'Bill Clinton Hit' :)

Comment on Eloheem's Blog: Is it Stalking?

I made this comment to Daniel's blog on Is It Stalking?
See link: http://eloheem.blogspot.com/

"I like your post Dj. Your views on how the view of 'stalking' has changed with things like facebook are smart. I agree with you its true that looking at a profile isnt stalking, maybe the word is changing in its meaning over time due to social-networking sites. I mean you 'follow' people on Twitter imagine following someone around and just listening to random statements they make, that could get you arrested."

Smoking Spoof Advertisements

We have all seen those terrible advertisements about smoking (for example the daily mail picture seen here) on T.V, YouTube, papers and magazines. They always seem to make smoking sound like an instant death sentence.

Youth culture and Viral videos have begun to revolt against these life endangering ads. For example if you follow the links you'll see a video on 'Nico breeze' and a collegehumor.com video about the sacrifices a man has had to make due to his addiction.

These advertisements seem to hint that people are becoming desensitized towards the 'horrors' of smoking being pushed in their face. I feel that this attempt of scaring people has actually played into the idea of smoking being rebellious and that these campaigns should be rethought.

Links!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR07vsnWjA - College Humour Ad.

http://www.spike.com/video/hilarious-anti/2906617 - Nico Breeze Ad.

Watch these videos, tell me what you think.