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« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2007, 05:52:13 PM »
Quote from: zc1 on December 23, 2007, 05:47:00 PM

...Anyway, love the use of stats online.  So much gets thrown around as fact.


65% of the population agrees with you, 80% of the time. That is what mother said anyway.
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2007, 07:14:43 PM »
Quote from: spinalator on December 23, 2007, 05:52:13 PM



65% of the population agrees with you, 80% of the time. That is what mother said anyway.


But my sister's boyfriend's uncle said...

Just kidding.  I believe you.  I saw it in Wikipedia so it must be true...

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« Reply #22 on: December 24, 2007, 12:13:19 PM »
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Hey I remember that.  I was 16 and that was my last winter in Ottawa. I remember walking up the snowdrifts and stepping onto the roof of our house. The view out my bedroom window for months was a solid bank of snow. I opened the window and tunneled into it. It was a good place to hide booze!

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Guns vs. Doctors

Here's a new twist on the firearms issue.

Doctors:

1. The number of doctors in Canada is 700,000

2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000

3. Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%

Statistics courtesy of the Canadian Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

1. The number of guns owned in Canada is 80,000,000 (yes that's 80 million)

2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500

3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%

Statistics courtesy of the RCMP

So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, guns don't kill people, doctors do.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic

and seek medical attention. Then we would be in real trouble.   Crazy



It's just a stupid internet forward that's been around for at least 10 years.  The original, however, claimed to be talking about the U.S.  Rolleyes

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/drguns.html
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« Reply #23 on: January 03, 2008, 08:06:42 PM »
You're not one of them bleeding heart liberals are ya? Huh?  Lol
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« Reply #24 on: January 03, 2008, 09:31:44 PM »
Quote from: Baz on January 03, 2008, 08:06:42 PM

You're not one of them bleeding heart liberals are ya? Huh?  Lol


They have those in Canada too?
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« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2008, 11:34:37 PM »
Quote from: Baz on January 03, 2008, 08:06:42 PM

You're not one of them bleeding heart liberals are ya? Huh?  Lol


Shouldn't that be spelled "lubrul moonbat" or something?  Lol

I'm actually one of those weird people who doesn't fit or identify with any particular political ideology - My beliefs are all over the map as far as politics are concerned.  I just intensely dislike stupid, misleading bullshite masquerading as truth whatever the source.  I guess that just means that politicians of any stripe tend to piss me off.
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« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2008, 07:35:53 AM »
You have to be careful with statistics....

64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot
82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not
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« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2008, 12:39:54 PM »
The worst thing about percentages is that 90 % of the time, its 50-50...
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« Reply #28 on: January 07, 2008, 02:46:28 PM »
I resemble that remark.
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« Reply #29 on: January 07, 2008, 02:47:03 PM »
...but only half the time.
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