BSometer?!

[rxmd]

how much bs is shoved about in these forums

"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshіt. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshіt and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshіt is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. In other words, we have no theory."

Take a look at Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshіt (Princeton University Press 2005, ISBN 0691122946). It's a good read.

 

[hawkeye]

What a fine extended meditation on BS. This thread has reached a purity of thought that's almost jazz while neatly avoiding any substance.

we have met the enemy and he is us...................................................

 

[Al Patterson]

One should not venture upon the Internets without a functional BSometer. Now, I find that RFF is better than a lot of places, but I usually browse here with my BSometer set to "FULL", and my hip waders on...

Oh, and the shovel is 10 feet away in the garage.

 

[back alley]

i love that 'pogo' line...

 

[DNG]

The truth of the matter is, back when Al Gore first created the Internet, he envisioned it as both a perpetual source of BS Energy, powering Alien refueling stations located by the U.N. beneath the Andes, and as a medium which one day will allow the detailed cataloging of every human being on the planet for export to Vega Seven, once global warming succeeds in turning Earth into a proper green house for the return of dissident cephalopods from the Third Great Terran Exodus.

Until then, Free Range BS is needed to jump-start Bipedal man's evolution into the gassy windbag anatomy needed for surviving the winds above Vega Sevens floating, magnetic black-sand deserts in the Season of Erl. Evidence of this engineered evolution can be clearly seen in the ever expanding dimensions of Director Michael Moore, partially induced by self-cultivated quasi-documentaries.

Or Not...

Eli

That explains it !
Thanks for the post... 😀