Humour VIII

I know better, but I occasionally click on it anyway. Here's a few items I liked from 25 hilarious times people tried and failed to reason against scientific facts: --Percy

Did that list include thermos intelligence?You put something hot into a thermos and it keeps it hot. You put something cold in to a thermos and it keeps it cold. How does the thermos know which one it's supposed to do?

The second law of thermos dynamics.

Such complexity couldn't possibly have been produced by blind chance! The thermos' ability to make a conscious decision must have been intelligently designed! Goddidit!

4-20

Still not legal here. Doubt it ever will be at the state level.

You have my sympathies, my friend. I will take an extra toke or 6 in symbolic solidarity.

This is made current by the recent instance of persistent creationist confusion: You may have to think about it for a bit. I read it as referring to their inability to apply the correct dating methods.

I thought it was a pun. Girls are carbon-based lifeforms.--Percy

rock bands=bands of rocks (Grand Canyon) dating refers to scientific dating methods challenged by creationist dogma. No?

Yeah, you're on the right track.As jokes always do, this joke works on multiple levels based on different meanings of key words, the humor often depending on taking metaphoric leaps between parallels (or tangents) that don't actually exist but which make some kind of metaphoric sense that tells us more about the levels.In this joke, the two unrelated meanings are of "to date" are used with social dating being the surface meaning and geological methods for determining the age of a formation being the tangential meaning.If you want to date someone or something (depending on which meaning of "date" you use), then use a methodology that is applicable.From my purely theoretical understanding, if you want to pick up girls then for a first date you should offer an activity that you know would interest them and to avoid one that would not interest them. If she's already involved in a particular kind of activity, then that should be a safe bet.So, if she's involved in rock music, then you'd have a better chance for success by suggesting another rock event instead of a Lawrence Welk cover band.

Blues Brothers:

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At a country bar they're about to play in:

Jake (to waitress): So tell me, what kind of music do your customers like?
Waitress: Oh, both kinds: country and western!

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In the other kind of "dating", it is very important to use the correct dating method. Certain methods work well for rocks but not for organic material, while others work well for organic material but are useless with rock samples.Creationists are notorious for using the entirely wrong dating method just so they can get a "bad date", similar to how cynics of social dating might set themselves up for bad dates just to prove there's no such thing as a good date.Specifically, creationists keep trying to apply radiocarbon dating to rocks. Sure, it gets them the "bad dates" that they want, but it's completely wrong and leads to false conclusions. And to deceptive claims.You want to date rocks? Use an appropriate method for dating rocks.You want to date alphas (ie, organics; Class Alpha fires are from burning solid organic materials; US Navy Firefighting School warns about "screaming alphas")?
Use an appropriate method for dating organics.Creationists can't understand that, so they continue to do it completely wrong and then blame the science. At least that's my take on the joke.

YouTube Shorts video (wouldn't embed): Siri and Alexa say goodbye to Cortana: Typical breakroom send-off for a retiring co-worker which starts going South when ChatGPT swaggers in bragging. Watch for "The Return of Clippy."