Also, let me point out that there is only so much oxygen you can compress into a bottle of water. It certainly is not enough to even equal a single breath. And even if you got it in there, as soon as you opened the bottle it would all escape back into the air. I mean, you should take serious offense to this! These companies think you are a complete moron; dumb enough to buy into something that is completely obvious. And the sad thing is that LOTS of people buy into this. Don’t be another sucker.

So, rest assured you are not missing anything by not drinking this miracle drink. This is just another drink fad that has no merit or scientific research to back the medicinal claims. It is bottled snake oil; just a modern reject from a traveling medicine show. Be sure to get plenty of regular water because dehydration can cause muscle fatigue and all kinds of other problems, but don’t forgot to breath while doing so or you will FUCKING DIE!

Here’s some more stuff to check out (although a simple google search will give you plenty of debunking facts–I had to really try to find an actual article or page supporting this hunk of shit).

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/oxyscams.html

http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/news/bottled-water.html

First of all, a “granddaddy long-legs” is called a Harvestmen and is not a spider at all.  It is an Arachnid; part of the spider family, but it’s order is actually Opilones. But the main part we want to look at is the myth of the deadly venom bullshit.  So let us start and finish there.

It’s as easy as this: they have no venom in their bodies.  People study these things, and anyone who has studied them or even thought about them logically knows they have no venom and have no use for venom. They are omnivores and mainly eat fruits, dead stuff, fecal matter, and other types of plants, fungi, etc. while only occasionally eating small insects.  If this was in fact the “most deadly spider in the world” why isn’t it out there taking down elephants and shit? Giving an animal a seriously deadly venom, and no way to use it, is a major flaw in evolution and just doesn’t happen.

I’m not going to waste any more time on this stupid myth. You can find this information anywhere if you just take the time to look it up.

Here, just check out Wikipedia.  They have a pretty in depth bio on the Harvestman. Or here for even more information!

But some simple research into the matter led me to this statement located at mosquito.org: “In general, mosquitoes that bite humans prefer to fly at heights of less than 25 ft. Asian Tiger Mosquitoes have been found breeding in treeholes over 40 feet above ground. In Singapore, they have been found in apartments 21 stories above ground. Mosquitoes have been found breeding up to 8,000 feet in the Himalayas and 2000 feet underground in mines in India. “

And here’s a picture of a swarm of mosquitoes flying about a hundred feet above Lake Malawi in Chitimba, Malawi.

So there you go folks. Mosquitoes can fly as high as they damn well please, as long as something doesn’t kill them.

The truth is that life is neither meaningful, beautiful, or anything. Life is just a series of events that have no real definition or direction. It never really leads anywhere

because life never stops

.

People die, people are born. Life has no color or description; it is neither gray, black & white, purple, or magenta. Life is basically clear and translucent; a vast empty, figurative space. Its “color” is totally dependent on on its backdrop. For some people, life is a veil over a series of beautiful memories, wealth and fame, love and generosity. For others the backdrop is something far worse; far more terrifying, far more cruel.

So my point is that all of you who are out there looking for a meaning to life–some kind of reason behind living–you can stop now and stop wasting your time. No other animal sits around and thinks this. A squirrel just wants to keep living, eating, shitting, etc. Stop questioning why and just continue on with the next event. Just be lucky you are getting to experience life because before you know it, it could snub you out completely. Life is only meaningful to people who are alive, anyway. It’s called self-interest. Go ask a dead person what they think about life. Go ahead, try it. Looking for meaning in life is just as big a waste as trying to talk to a corpse. And it’s rude as fuck to walk around saying “Life is beautiful. Life is so meaningful.” It’s like walking into a homeless shelter and telling everyone how great it is to own a house and have a family, and to have food to eat every night. Or like blowing smoke in the face of a 5 year old with terminal cancer.

And every time you say life is beautiful, you are giving an African baby full blown AIDS. Thanks a lot.

Enter “Amelie” the zebra to save the day. Yes that’s correct, Mr. Ed was in fact a female zebra. A park in Thousand Oak, CA called Jungleland happened to have a trained Grevy’s zebra and with a hefty donation to the park by the producers, they were allowed to use Amelie for their show. But how could they pull off making a zebra look like a horse without changing the name to Mr. Ed, the talking zebra? Well, they didn’t say anything. And with all the televisions back then being black and white, no one could tell the difference. It is difficult to resolve closely integrated black and white lines on a black and white television. As a funny side note, when Johnny Cash was performing at Folsom prison, many of the inmates who were wearing the traditional black and white prison garb slipped passed guards who were viewing the performance on black & white security monitors. Anyone know if this is why the switch to orange jumpsuits was made?

Later on and whenever Mr. Ed was to make a public appearance or have a photo shoot a palomino horse by the name of Bamboo Harvester was used, and this horse basically took all the fame from poor Amelie. But luckily she was a zebra and simply did not care.

But now the twist. There is also apparently a Mr. Ed Zebra hoax. This myth about the zebra may not be true at all. I have found sources that say both. But apparently, Snopes will try to trick you from time to time. I’ve read the Zebra story in a lot of different places and now I’m seeing another side where it could be completely false, so who knows what to believe anymore?

Now here’s a twist, I came across this person’s blog and apparently the information about the Article above just might be a fabrication by Snopes (which is where I learned of this myth being false). The guy in this blog could find no record of a writer named Lisa Holst or the magazine PC Professional. Even the library of congress couldn’t find such a magazine. This article may not have checked out but the 1954 book does and while Lisa Holst may not have actually started the rumor, it’s just a rumor nonetheless, and not an actual statistic with any merit. So you can sleep a little more soundly, unless you enjoyed the thought of eating spiders.

Dionysus is another savior-god whose birth was observed on December 25th. He was worshiped throughout much of the Middle East and had a center of worship in Jerusalem in the 1st century BCE. Some ancient coins have been found in Gaza with Dionysus on one side and JHWH (Jehovah) on the other. In later years, his flesh and blood were symbolically eaten in the form of bread and wine. He was viewed as the son of Zeus, the Father God.

Jesus’ life and death were also not very original because the same story had been told many times before. Take for example Apollonius of Tyana who was a Greek philosopher and is believed to have been born three years before Jesus. Apollonius was a messiah to a large following of people, was killed for teaching his beliefs, was resurrected three days later, and so on. Exact same story, different guy. Appolonius was actually a lot better than Jesus if you ask me. Go here to read more about him or go here to see more parallels.

And the list goes on and on. So not only did Christians steal the date for the birth of their own Lord and savior, but they stole every facet of the story itself. And you know what? Mithra and Dionysus were all made up legends and are considered myths today…sooooooo, is it maybe possible that Jesus was just the result of Christians murdering and destroying everything that contradicted them until Jesus just became the winner in what is a collective bullshit story? You can make that decision on your own but you might as well be celebrating Santa Claus’s birthday on December 25th. That would be more historically accurate and certainly have more truth behind it based on what is practiced today.

For more information, see http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_sel.htm

Few (if any) pirates ever used a plank to force people off of a ship. When a ship was captured the crew had the option of joining them or jumping overboard. There wasn’t any kind of weird ceremony where they blind folded crew members poked them in the butt with a sword until they reached the end of a board. That’s a waste of time, and pirates where all about business.

Pirates certainly never buried treasure and no pirate would trust his captain to bury it for him. While there may be some isolated cases of buried treasure, it is certainly not something a pirate just did all the time for the hell of it. The men who became pirates did so because they wanted money, not to bury it, and as soon money was made it was divided and then they would typically gamble with it or bring it home. They would have thought of it as insane to bury their earnings on some deserted island, or anywhere.

If you’ve seen a pirate movie you have probably seen the pirates swinging from ropes, storming a ship with reckless abandon, swords swinging, pistol packing, cannons blasting. Again, another misconception. Most ship captains owned their cargos and had everything fully insured so they would typically just surrender when pirates would show up as not to risk the lives of them and their crew. It was just a part of doing business, and they accepted it as something that just happens. If only the RIAA would have the same mentality.

Another common thing associated with pirates is the skull & crossbones, or “Jolly Roger,” flag that would fly all the time from their ships and has become synonymous with pirates. The truth is that pirates used lot’s of flags for different reasons. The Jolly Roger was used to coerce ships to allow them to board. It was their, “we mean business flag.” Some pirate ships would actually fly a flag with an hourglass on it that signified that “time was running out.” And it is believed that the term Jolly Roger comes from a mispronunciation of the Arabic word, Ali Raja, which means “King of the Sea.”

And the big ships just did not make sense for what pirates did. Having a big ship is hard to maneuver and is certainly not ideal for catching or escaping from anyone. Real pirates relied on small, swift vessels for hit-and-run attacks.

And the biggest misconception is that pirates where rough-and-tumble, dirty, drunks who loved to drink rum, rape women, hang with parrots, and fight. While there were some who were like this, most pirates were a strict order and functioned much like a small navy and operated under a small document similar to a constitution with some rules and regulations such as:

If any man shall offer to run away, or keep and secret from the company, he will be marooned with one Bottle of Powder, one bottled of water, one small arm, and shot.

So there you go. Pirates…debunked!

Dec. 20, 2007 — Can you separate medical myth from fact? A new report may help you do just that.

Take a look at these seven medical myths, noted in BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal).

The debunkers include Rachel Vreeman, MD, a fellow in children’s health services research at Indiana University’s medical school in Indianapolis.

1. Medical Myth: Drink at least eight glasses of water per day.

Reality: There’s no evidence that you have to drink that much water to assure adequate fluid intake — and drinking too much water can be unhealthy.

2. Medical Myth: We use only 10% of our brains.

Reality: Most of the brain isn’t loafing. Detailed brain studies haven’t found the “non-functioning” 90% of the brain.

3. Medical Myth: Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

Reality: Hair and fingernails don’t keep growing after death. But it may seem that way because dehydration can make the skin shrink back from hair and nails, making them look longer.

4. Medical Myth: Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight.

Reality: Dim light isn’t great for focusing, but it’s “unlikely to cause a permanent change in the function or structure of the eyes,” Vreeman’s team writes.

5. Medical Myth: Shaving causes hair to grow back faster or coarser.

Reality: “Shaving does not affect the thickness or rate of hair regrowth,” write Vreeman and colleagues. But shaved hair doesn’t have the fine taper of unshaved hair, making it seem coarser.

6. Medical Myth: Mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals.

Reality: “Rigorous testing in Europe found minimal interference and only at distances of less than one meter [about 3.28 feet],” write the researchers. But that may be a point of controversy. In September, Dutch doctors reported that cell phones may interfere with critical care equipment and shouldn’t be used within a meter of medical equipment or hospital beds.

7. Medical Myth: Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy.

Reality: Turkey isn’t all that rich in tryptophan, the chemical linked to sleepiness after eating turkey. But eating a big, decadent meal can cause sleepiness, even if turkey isn’t on the menu.