It's a BOOBQUAKE!!! (Or not.)

Apr 28, 2010 12:06

As some of you know, the Boobquake on Monday was the inadvertent brainchild of a college student from Indiana who responded with delightful tongue-in-cheek humor to that Iranian cleric who said that promiscuous women cause earthquakes.  So the natural, scientific way to test that assertion was to dress provocatively and then check the earthquake ( Read more... )

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Don't Laugh... sgt_majorette April 28 2010, 17:37:28 UTC
Mine might register some seismic activity. I'm a 42-H and I once caught them leaning on the spacebar, trying to type.

Could be I just don't know how to operate a fat body, though. I'm more than double the weight I was in high school.

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Re: Don't Laugh... mijan April 28 2010, 18:12:56 UTC
Oh my, that's a lot! Although I did meet a woman once who was a 42-K. I didn't realize they MADE that size!

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Re: Don't Laugh... celticwhistlin April 30 2010, 14:06:43 UTC
Then you met me. 44-II just last year. Of course, I'm down to a 40-E atm.

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Re: Don't Laugh... mijan April 30 2010, 14:39:19 UTC
That's still somewhat enormous. A person could die in there. But die happy, indeed!

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sphynxle April 28 2010, 18:47:45 UTC
I thought there was an earthquake in Taiwan on Monday? o.O

I found the whole Boobquake thing insanely hysterical xD I was tempted, but really. No one wants to see my cleavage - It might cause some people to pass out xD

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triad_serpent April 28 2010, 18:53:33 UTC
There was. 6.9, if I remember correctly... I felt almost guilty, with my short-shorts and low-cut shirt, because I used to live in Taipei....lol! ^..^

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anruiukimi April 29 2010, 01:00:03 UTC
Heck, I did it for two days, just to accommodate for the time difference...and if I didn't get seismically unstable Japan rocking, nothing will. ;)

I was told to wear this outfit to work: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs191.snc1/6413_150915215434_576945434_3951527_1718728_n.jpg (Jeebuz this is a horrible picture) But I said I wanted to keep my job. ;)

Pat Robertson makes/made my head hurt. He was blaming the gays for 9/11 at one point, I'm pretty sure. :|

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mijan April 29 2010, 13:16:03 UTC
You're a dedicated experimenter! But alas, we merely proved that the boobquake myth can be relegated to the same category as stepping on a crack to break your mother's back.

And yeah, Pat Robertson takes stupid religious propaganda to a whole new level of hate and bigotry.

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probing_grays April 29 2010, 01:30:07 UTC
Man, part of me wishes promiscuous women really did cause earthquakes. HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE? If I wasn't getting my way, I could just be like "DON'T MAKE ME PULL THIS SHIRT DOWN" and everyone would be all "O noes, I don't want an earthquake!"

How would that not be awesome? :P

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mijan April 29 2010, 13:11:11 UTC
It would be interesting, but it wouldn't be good, really. And it would also be completely irrational for a correlation like that to actually have a causal relationship.

Instead, I think boobs should just be used to make men and gay women quiver in our pants. That's enough of a way to shake the earth, methinks! :D

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annulvapore April 29 2010, 02:36:38 UTC
There actually was a 6.9 earthquake in Taiwan as of like 12:30 AM on boobquake day. Technically, if we are to believe this garbage, the cleric was "correct" =\

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mijan April 29 2010, 04:13:26 UTC
Actually, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake is common enough that it was statistically insignificant. As a scientific experiment, evaluated by standard rules of statistics, the "Boobquake" experiment disproved the cleric's postulate. Additionally, the Taiwan earthquake was on the other side of the planet from Indiana. Now, if there had been a significant earthquake along the New Madrid fault line (which could impact Indiana), then there might be some correlation between promiscuously dressed women and earthquake frequency and magnitude. However, the New Madrid fault was fairly quiet that day, and earthquake frequency and magnitude around the rest of the world was incredibly normal.

So... no dice.

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