Media Shapes All of Your Perceptions

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

Not really at all though.

When I was pretty young there was this expose on 20/20 or something and my parents happened to be watching it. I was in the same room, so I naturally saw it.

The segment was on the dangers of microwaves and the issue of super superheated water. Basically, they were arguing that microwaves would heat water past the boiling point (steam, duh) and that when a metal spoon would be placed into it, the whole bowl of water would react and explode in the person's face.

They showed all these examples of it happening on those styrofoam dummy busts.

So now when I microwave soup, I fully expect it to explode in my face when I put my spoon in.

Try calling that not damaging. 

[Andria]

As long as you don't use distilled water and are careful not to reboil the water over and over in the same container without taking it out of the microwave you're pretty much safe.

[YPrrrr]

Yeah, basically if anything is in the water you're good to go

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

Yeah, but they showed exploding soup too.
How conflicting!

[Andria]

Yeah, but they showed exploding soup too.
How conflicting!

yeah but who cooks their soup to a point it is boiling in the microwave?

and who does that in a manner that can cause it to be super heated?

not many people

and like ypr said if anything is in the water you're good.

so just keep a bunch of popsicle sticks around and put them in it if you are that scared

[Travis]

I actually saw this on an episode of Mythbusters about a fortnight ago. Nah actually like 2 days

[silvertone]

fort knights.

[Samus Aran]

that is a very McLuhan-esque thread title

[snoorkel]

You don’t allow the government to control your grammar structure, listener? If you create one new language then you’re able to create a second new language. If you’re able to create a second new language then you’re able to create a third new language. You create one new language.

What’s government if words don’t have meaning?

[Socks]

What’s government if words don’t have meaning?

Who's gonna speak your language?

I saw a commercial on a television about hamsters beat dancing to every day I'm shuffling wearing bright clothes and beanie caps, compelling robot warriors sent after them to dance the same, in a vast and desolate wasteland. The hamsters drive in the car and say, soul, yeah.

I can imagine an earlier generation somehow looking at this and determining that we must be insane and unimaginable. An uncertainly strange race to approach very carefully.

Huh, and those of the future will look back fondly, thinking, hey, this was art. We have lost it. How can people relate to one another, whether now or in the past, when they live so vastly different? Their realities will be seen as different, and gradually grow meaningless.

We are amusing ourselves to death, for the sake of convenience.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

You don’t allow the government to control your grammar structure, listener? If you create one new language then you’re able to create a second new language. If you’re able to create a second new language then you’re able to create a third new language. You create one new language.

What’s government if words don’t have meaning?

Hello, Jared Loughner.
Also, prescribed grammars are the worst.

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

Hello, Jared Loughner.
Also, prescribed grammars are the worst.

I'm getting to a point in my life where the crazies are making the most sense.

where is the best place to hide a bom/toaster in a city hall?

[??????]

I'm getting to a point in my life where the crazies are making the most sense.

where is the best place to hide a bom/toaster in a city hall?

kitchen

[don't let's]

But what if perception shapes all of your media?

[Socks]

But what if perception shapes all of your media?

Then you better hope that your perception was shaped by the ocean, wind, fire and the trees. There is a small minority which form the two extremes of self realization, the paranoid, and the resigned, broken up into many little pieces in and of between. But, as unfortunately it is, the bubble in the middle, of dummies and hysterics, expands exponentially! And the result is death, and tears, from all over to begin. Look at your signature.