scav comments on Rationality Quotes: January 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: scav 05 January 2011 09:25:10AM *  16 points [-]

If you show me
That, say, homeopathy works,
Then I will change my mind
I’ll spin on a fucking dime
I’ll be embarrassed as hell,
But I will run through the streets yelling
It’s a miracle! Take physics and bin it!
Water has memory!
And while its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is Infinite
It somehow forgets all the poo it’s had in it!

You show me that it works and how it works
And when I’ve recovered from the shock
I will take a compass and carve Fancy That on the side of my cock.

Tim Minchin, Storm

Dammit, how do you get line-breaks? It's a poem, but the stanzas get flowed into paragraphs.

Comment author: Nominull 08 January 2011 05:32:40AM *  7 points [-]

That one seemed a little preachy and "rah-rah science" to me. I much preferred his "Fuck the Poor":

Fuck the poor!
I'm not pretending anymore
That I really give two shits about
Some kids in Bangalore.
I'm more interested in footie
Than seeing the Solomons rebuilt,
But I'll give you 50 bucks to take away my guilt.

Comment author: Document 26 May 2011 06:21:01AM 1 point [-]

I like to think of it as another post that's about not just about the quote itself but how a Less Wrong context completely changes its meaning.

Comment author: Wilka 05 January 2011 06:41:12PM 5 points [-]

For those who haven't heard the whole thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUQn0HhGEk

Comment author: wedrifid 05 January 2011 10:53:01AM 2 points [-]

Two spaces at the end of a line.

Comment author: scav 05 January 2011 01:12:56PM 1 point [-]

thanks!

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 05 January 2011 01:44:23PM 0 points [-]

please correct "it's memory" to "its memory" too.

Nice poem, btw :-)

Comment author: scav 06 January 2011 08:55:30AM 1 point [-]

OK