Things that make you go "hmmmmmm..."
 

I wonder if there's a burgeoning but untapped market for Faraday headwear.

Wow I have never heard of electrosensitivity before.

This one made me go hmmmm...

Yea, me too.

It's usually called "hypochondria" or "psychosomatic".

I use to wonder, when I was a kid, how come a radio can work inside the house. Discovering the electromagnetic waves go everywhere was a little unsettling considering we operate (or not) on electrochemical impulses.

Of course the amount of waves zipping through the air is increasing exponentially. At work, everything coming in has RFID tags and you can't walk 100 feet without passing through a scanning field. At DuPont, the door would unlock as I approached with a RFID in my wallet.... in my back pocket. That means the waves had to go through me.

Calling it "hypochondria" or "psychosomatic" doesn't make it so. There are plenty of people suffering from things the majority don't. They are written off as crackpots until someone discovers the cause/effect is valid, even if it only applies to a handful of people.

If she was trying to make a buck off it, I'd be immediately suspicious but I doesn't cost me anything to give her the benefit of the doubt.

The failure of the double-blind test makes it hypochondria or psychosomatic. If she were trying to make a buck off of it, it would be neither- it would be fraud, or a scam.

For while when I was young Florsent lights used to mess with me , they would fiicker and I could feel it in my teeth , just a slight buzzing , fillings ????

I can hear some scales working , Electro-magnetic compinsation load cells speficaly , they buzz when they are powered up , a few years ago I took a class and I asked the instructer about this , he said that the coil does vibrate , but most folks can't hear it .
I guess that I am just special !!!!

What double blind test? I didn't see any reference to one in the article, did I miss something?

You're lucky you don't wear hearing aids, that would ready scare you.

Almost at the very end:

Oh ok, I thought he mean she was double blind tested.
I agree there have been tests of different electronics gizmos and nobody has been able to prove a link to any health problems, yet. That said, I can believe that some people are bothered by them, even if it's only a handful. It'll be 50 years or more before they really know.

Health effects are one thing- an increased incidence of cancer is possible. But if she can accurately detect whether a cell phone is on in a room she's in, she could probably get $1,000,000 from James Randi.

So you agree there may be long term health effects but disagree anyone could have virtually immediate effects?

Paranormal has nothing to do with it.

I can hear lotsa electronics. If a TV's on anywhere in the house, even if its on mute, I can hear it. It buzzes and grates on my nerves so bad. Sets my teeth on edge.

I can hear all kinds of little electronics noises. I dunno why or how or anything -- all i can say is it gets fairly annoying.

Those things like they have in store doorways to scan you as you leave are the worst.

Yes. When you get an X-ray done, it could give you cancer. But you can't feel it happening. And that is much stronger than a school bus full of text-messaging teens.

I can hear some electronics, too. That's a different thing- they are emitting high-pitched sound waves. The "secret teen cell phone ring" is based on the inability of most adults to hear that high of a register. That has nothing to do with her claim. She is claiming that she can feel radio waves.

:tinfoil:

She as FOIL LINING HER WALLS!!

I can hear electrical buzzing, too, but wearing a bee keeper net doesn't help it!

It works.

It Never acured to me that this could happen :eek: :eyebrow:

I was right- Randi's up for it.

I wonder why this seems to have been posted in a women's-interest section of the paper. I don't really see what her being a woman has to do with the story.

Like a hijacking, only not, I'm bringing this thread back to it's title "Things That Make You Go Hmm":

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Hmm...

Also this:

The planet Mars is populated entirely by robots.

as far as you know....

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Hmm...

If the President smokes weed...

...Does the guy who sells the weed that the President smokes know he's selling weed to the President? Or is there an official Presidential Dope Picker Upper?

If the President does something illegal,

and the Secret Service is part of the Executive Branch that administers law,

but is charged with protecting the President at all times,

...do they arrest the President... for his own safety?

If not, then protecting the President regardless of the law is their job, and the Secret Service should be buying the President's weed anonymously, and testing it for purity and potency.

You don't have to do a drug test to be president, or a congressman, etc.

But you have to do a drug test to work at Kroger. Kroger: keeping people sober since 1883.

Hahahaha. Manicotti that's hilarious.

Google news, on my phone, *insists* on giving me local news for Tempe, Arizona.

I've never been to Tempe, nor has my phone, to my knowledge. I've cleared all the temp files, caches, cookies, browsing history, restarted the browser, etc.

Apparently, there's something in there still. Tempe. Hmmmmmmmmm.

See, that's how I'm thinking...purity at the least.

Remember the old bowling alley in the White House, in the cellar, no windows, good ventilation, secure... ?

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Richard M. Nixon

Or would they have their own grow op? Securing purity, potency, and, secrecy.

Does the White House have a Green Room?

I like the way you all think.

Well then I think we mayhave identified its true purpose.

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Hmm...

Try it after you charge your iPhone in the microwave. :haha:

eBay>History>Early years -

I'm sure this is just a coincidence... just ask Time-Warner, you'll see. :headshake

Things that make me go hmmm ... I had to contact Mr. Wonderful Surgeon today because I'm working with a committee to start a huge program that I am the main driver for ... Mr. WS might be of help, but isn't necessary. He's competent but not indispensable, definitely not essential. I happen to know that he's wanted something like I can offer him for some time.

He returned my message via text, asked who this is (after saying in the grocery store that he still has my cell), and when informed, sent me two texts of cherries. TWO cherry emojis.

I'm thinking we'll be looking elsewhere for the equivalent of his skillz. They were never so mad, after all. Sometimes karma can be a real bitch, you know?

I am hoping that the gentlemen of Teh Cellar will respond with their takes on what TWO cherry emojis might mean. Just in case I have misinterpreted.

I don't even know WTF a cherry emoji is. Sorry. Clueless over here.

All of this indicates that he is not up to speed on wireless technology.

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Maybe? I have nfc, either.

I'm also clueless, although I found this by accident today.

It means you didn't hit the jackpot with him (3 cherries on a slot machine) and it will cost you more to continue to play.

That's the one, grav. It's in with the fruits in the emoji categories. I was embarrassed, thinking I was sadly out of touch, and then I googled it and some people think it means bisexuality and others think it just generally refers to sex.

No jackpot for him.

Who responds to a business message in that way? I bet this guy is just a sweetheart on Tinder.

No Cherries were harmed in this bizarre episode.
Except my eyeballs, seeing that.

OMG he's bisexual??

Oh I misinterpreted this sentence the first time.

~ or did i ~

Thank you, sweet Bruce. :)

Haha he'd have a heart attack at being thought to be bisexual, but a couple years ago he was looking for a woman who'd be happy to take part in a threesome. I had the impression it was a bucket list thing. I wasn't interested.

What I have to offer him now is a strictly professional (medically speaking) opportunity he's wanted.

It makes me feel better that the cherry emoji thing really is meaningless, as in: he's clueless, not me.

I'm still clueless. Someone please explain WTF happened in like really REALLY basic English.

She's been assigned to hand out sandwiches.
He wants a particular one of them really badly.
He offered her sex if she gives him the sandwich he wants.
He's a silly rabbit, no tricks for him. :headshake

Either that or he couldn't use his phone and managed to type something vague and google-able while trying to text "OK".

That's a possibility, UT - a twice-sent typo. But I did ask for clarification, and have received nothing further.