George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[scottydawg]

Okies fellow Gabbers its almost time to head into the bunkers and grab your Art Bell Mp3's. Tonite C2C is the same old tired SETI Shit!
2 Commercial filled hours of "We've been listening to radio frequencies in space, but we haven't really discovered anything yet!"
it's as bad as the search for the Loch Ness Monster shows! :

[albrecht]

Thanks.

Actually what got to Chris McCandless, the kid in Into the Wild, was not enough food.  He took a big bag of rice and planned to hunt. His meat preservation techniques didn't work out, and the meat went bad. And then he was getting weaker and weaker. Also the passage into the place he went had a creek or river to cross and he was able to do this when he went in.  But snow melt caused it to swell and he couldn't get back out, especially in his weakened condition. This was a good book and I have to admit that Sean Penn did a good job bringing it to the screen.

Never saw the movie but distinctly remember Krakauer mentioning the "rabbit starvation" hypothesis in the book. Quick search and he has updated the cause. In any event a bad deal. And the rabbit stuff and liver stuff is true (at least according to arctic experiences and journals.)
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/chris-mccandless-died-update
-GNS

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

...BTW, did anybody hear a week or so ago when George mentioned being in a pre-dental track in college at one point?  Or did I imagine it?  ...

I missed that but George has often mentioned that he started off studying to go into dentistry according to his father's wishes, but switched to communications (on his father's dime?) and kept it hidden for a couple years.  Most likely he couldn't understand his science and math courses.

[akwilly]

This is a pretty well-known thing. It is not that rabbit meat has "no nutritional" value but that it is too lean and lacks necessary fat to sustain people long-term (other similar lean meats have this issue.) So you have to have carbs or other types of "fatty" meat in addition otherwise you can die (Eskimos etc eat blubber or other actual fat to help make up for this.) I think is what got that kid who went "Into The Wild" and had the book/movie about him?


I spent time in barrow and ate whale. It is not something I can recomend. The natives that eat it all the time benefit not only nutricinally but it litterally adds a layer of fat on them that keeps them warm.

[Who]

Great news.  Dave's personal veterinarian will be offering medical advice to Dave's loyal audience Sunday night.  Here's Stosh Shickelgruber, president of the Coast Insiders Club.  Stosh gets all his medical advice from Dave's veterinarian and drinks Beyond Tangy Tangerine while listening.  When he's not picking his nose.

[albrecht]

I spent time in barrow and ate whale. It is not something I can recomend. The natives that eat it all the time benefit not only nutricinally but it litterally adds a layer of fat on them that keeps them warm.

Ugh. I know been known for many a time even smearing lard or fat will help in extreme cold. I recall some old Norskie type telling me you shouldnt shower esp not use soap, esp on face n hands in winter. What I wonder is...how the heck did people survive past one generation with those practices? Haha. Now days everybody gotta be groomed,heck even waxes etc to pro-create. Then again, verrry long winter nights.
-GNS

[nextgen.fm]

Okies fellow Gabbers its almost time to head into the bunkers and grab your Art Bell Mp3's. Tonite C2C is the same old tired SETI Shit!
2 Commercial filled hours of "We've been listening to radio frequencies in space, but we haven't really discovered anything yet!"
it's as bad as the search for the Loch Ness Monster shows! :

The search for snoorge!

[zeebo]

...Now, onto the second guest.  I really had some issues with her.  She kept claiming that NONE of the food in the supermarket has any nutritional value ....

She said at one point that a carrot from like fifty years ago was eleven times more nutritious than one today.  I'd love to know if there's any truth to this.

[zeebo]

TONIGHT'S SHOW
SETI & Strange Space Signals/ Open Lines
In the first half, senior astronomer at SETI, Seth Shostak ...

Seth's one of my fave c2c guests.  But he's on with Noory.  Definition of ambivalence for me.

[paladin1991]

Reading through the posts, the one that caught my eye is that KFI is scheduling another show over Coast on Saturday night.  I think ratings are down on the weekends and the attempt at the musical carousel of guest hosts is not panning out.  The last two weekends with George Knapp was an attempt to revive ratings over the weekend.

Did I miss the announcement?  Has anyone heard that C3C is being pushed back?  they must figure that only morons listen to the show and they won't even notice. 
*shrug* Maybe they're right.  Mouth breathers, stand by.

[albrecht]

She said at one point that a carrot from like fifty years ago was eleven times more nutritious than one today.  I'd love to know if there's any truth to this.

I'm not one to partake but I wonder, from other poster's likings why wouldn't it be the opposite- with training, GMOs, hydroponics, etc? If weed, as the government (and some posters claim) keeps "getting stronger" why wouldn't other vegetables (or is it a fruit?) I can certainly understand soil depletion (been known for quite some millennium, maybe not the science, but the theory, hence burning fields, fertilizer, and then, crop rotation, etc etc.) I do know that certain fruits taste better? I don't know about the nutrition when they are home grown? Yes. But ask anyone who has tried, without experience and time, to really raise a decent crop of anything. And any farmer knows. Its is not simple shit. Plant a few tomato plants in your backyard. Wait. See what happens. Compare with what you buy at grocery store (if varmints, birds, forgot to water, etc didn't happen). (or even at Farmer's Market.) Price? Time, yield? Nope. Taste (yes!!! with home grown or farmer's market varieties). Healthier? Maybe? Do you know what fill they put in your yard? Your water out of your hose? Run-off from your asphalt shingle roof rainwater? Even when you live in the "country" what did the other people do with your land, is your pump taken water from deep-enough, run-off from other operations, Idk....it is not simple. Having said that: have a garden or farm or ranch because it good thing to do and gets you outside and, maybe some, good stuff to eat.
=GNS

[Beelzebubbelah]

Is she the type you would want to see practicing her nudism?

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'Allo,Bull_Gabbers!
Still with you,still working up for he 'Norryclypse' slash 'Norrygeddon'.
Technical issues i won't go in to here or now.
Not very amused by the hostilities to the natureist theme of the posts.
i wanted as an child to emulate the so-called 'green children'found in spain,i think.
They claimed to have gotten transposed from an paradiceical state in an land within gaia.
When they were forced to eat human food,their color changed gradually to pink.
Both wasted away on malneurishing food,ie with an low mineral content,this was in the 1600's i think.
According to an book i read on line many moons ago,the modern agricultureists and their intenseified methods have exausted the mineral content left by glacial ground granite in the last twenty-thousand years of interegnum before the Horbiger theseis slash ragnarok is upon the hemisphere.
"They say the world will end in fire or ice.
Ice is nice,and shall suffice..."
"T.S.Elliot"?i think...
Und,the adamic state of monkey dress,ie,nudity,is still valid for the adamites and radical xtan heretics of the protestant ilk,as evinced by the history books,such as they are/were after the many autos-da-fe.
Yet the complaint that old natureists are aestheticly offensive is the penultimate hypocracy,methinks.
"B_B"
PS:Never mind the spellings,etc.

[NoMoreNoory]

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"They say the world will end in fire or ice.
Ice is nice,and shall suffice..."
"T.S.Elliot"?i think...

Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

[paladin1991]

okay, tonight sucks.  Again.  I'm done.

[NoMoreNoory]

There's a perfect example of the sophistry that permeates C2C these days. Ancient Aliens is littered with it. "could it be....some people think.....and if that is true, might it  not be...." leading to some assertion of a 'fact' based on a series of unproven hypotheses.

Seth says the radio waves recently heard came from several different points in the sky and adds, jokingly, 'So it isn't Klingons'.
Jorch pounces. 'But Kilingons is exactly what you've been listening for, isn't it?'
Seth reluctantly agrees, and Jorch follows up...
'So it's not impossible, is it?'
Again reluctantly, Seth agrees that he can't completely rule it out. Clearly, Seth does not think it might be aliens at all, but Joorch manages to leave the impression dangling that it probably is.

[NoMoreNoory]

Why does Joorch keep referring to 'liquid water'? Is it in case Thumper's listening, so he can distinguish it from 'stiff water'?

[michio]

Georgie should request questions for his guests from fifth graders around the planet, as I think they'd more more interesting and intellectual questions than Georgie's outdated mental processor is able to come up with. The "primordial soup" is everywhere, and Georgie's questions and remarks are the same every time.  Hello, again, 'Groundhog Day.'

The Nooron comes into the studio and predictable, repetitive garbage comes out of the speaker on the radio. You don't need to explain that.

[UFQuack]

Not SETI but Sethy

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

I came in late, but Seth sounds a little pissed off with all the stupid questions tonight.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Dolphins and thumbs. Noory stuff at 11:25pm PST or so.

What a stupid exchange of banter with Seth and that question.

Can anyone photoshop a soldering iron on to the head of a dolphin please?
Good ol Jonesy.

[Humilia Lepus Foramen]

Idk, it's much easier to tell when RCH is mad than when Seth is. 

Only started listening somewhat regularly again a few weeks ago, but wasn't there a female guest several months ago who was getting angry and confrontational about the questions she was being asked? 

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Why does Joorch keep referring to 'liquid water'? Is it in case Thumper's listening, so he can distinguish it from 'stiff water'?

I don't know, I didn't hear, but the first place to look for life is where a planet can sustain water as a liquid between zero and 100 degrees Celcius, as opposed to a planet with perpetual water ice or water vapour where life presumably can't exist.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Idk, it's much easier to tell when RCH is mad than when Seth is. 

Only started listening somewhat regularly again a few weeks ago, but wasn't there a female guest several months ago who was getting angry and confrontational about the questions she was being asked?

Possibly, I don't remember (but I wish I did ).

[zeebo]

I came in late, but Seth sounds a little pissed off with all the stupid questions tonight.

I think he gets exhasperated with the same questions he gets every time both from Noory and the Noorified Audience. 

[zeebo]

Seth: "It's a strange concept."
GN: "Ithshuhrizz."

[NoMoreNoory]

Noory tells a caller 'We may be on the bottom of that one.' It seems to be another of those 'well known sayings' known only to Joorch, presumably a confluence of 'being on top of it' and getting to the bottom of it', a pretty impressive feat if achieved simultaneously.

-GNS

[Humilia Lepus Foramen]

Hrmmm when a caller asked about Art's return, apparently Noory & Art recently exchanged e-mails and Noory doesn't know what Art will be doing next.

[NoMoreNoory]

Hmmmm. In response to as caller asking about Art's rumored return to the airwaves, Joorch says Art emailed him several days ago and they exchanged 'about five emails', the content of which he wants to keep private....

[NoMoreNoory]

Hrmmm when a caller asked about Art's return, apparently Noory & Art recently exchanged e-mails and Noory doesn't know what Art will be doing next.

I put more ems in my 'Hmmmm', but otherwise.....Snap! ;)0

[136 or 142]

Good points.

6. Ethnic and even religious conflicts and disparities
7. Conflict between urban and rural populations and limited ability to travel/move freely (one why China is trying to move things, people, factories, etc to other areas of the country; both to help dissuade the disparity and also as costs rise, pollution, etc in more developed areas)
8. Sexual disparity (too many males.)
In addition to still having an autocratic system that often is corrupt (though there has been some progress here and there are some, at least short-term benefits, to being able to dictate national policy at will, basically. So very fast building of things (dams, roads, buildings, factories, etc), forced migrations, and lax labor laws to try to still say cheap.)

One of the "good things", at least partially, about China is looking longer-term, for the most part, and not simply on this quarter's stock price and being able to coordinate many aspects of the economy/society based on that plan.
-GNS

6.Other than the Uyghurs in the North and the Buddhists in Tibet I'm not familiar with any major religious/ethnic problems in China, and neither of those are in major economic areas.  Wouldn't be the first time I was just uninformed though.

7.I'm not familiar with any problems with travel in China as rural areas have been depopulating for a long time.  They are likely trying to industrialize new areas because the populations in the major areas are already so large.

8.Sexual disparity gets back to the problem of keeping the one child policy too long.

Paper*Boy's point on the lack of resources gets to why China is so active in Africa.

China is a fascinating country with the longest history in the world.  They probably had about 7 opportunities to take control of practically the entire planet.  I took a couple courses on modern and then ancient Chinese History with the same instructor, who was a China Scholar and a former Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.  His most frequently used phrase was "China did it first."

Famous scholar Joseph Needham started to write a short book on Chinese inventions and he ended up taking years writing a multi volume encyclopedia.

China should probably be around eight different countries.  Unlike in California, there are no legal attempts to split up the country. I wonder if Lucien Bouchard is behind what's going on in California.

Writing this at midnight and Rush is playing on the bumper music.  As a Canadian, I apologize profusely for Rush.