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The "lead" researcher has a PhD in politics and he is commenting on Molecular Biology? WTF is this detritus?
I'm pretty sure at some point this morning during the train ride home, I had a stroke. Which totally explains why I'm misreading this. But, what the fuck?
You know this is goint to be the top news story for like a week because some journalist is going to pick it up and pee themself with excitement!
Can I sponsor my own research-related press release?
*****NEWS FLASH "When I stick my dick into a gallon of ice, cream it feels cold! This pivotal research finding will have earth-shattering bombastic effects in the field of dairy penile thermoregulation"*****
I think that 40 years from now, you'll get the Nobel Prize for your paradigm shifting discovery, GRM!
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of GWAS studies like this where they find THE gene for something. It's never just one... Although, I do like how they say that environment plays a role ;)
GR, I think you have to test this on different mediums. What about sorbets and frozen yogurt? And conventional refrigeration vs liquid nitrogen?
That's a really good point, Jay. I would also submit Slushees for consideration.
Hmm, if you throw Slushees into the mix you could then start to consider what colour it turns as well, a whole new area of research just opened up, possibilities for your second grant perhaps?
Well you have to find a way to account for the slushee dye though. It could skew the results.
I use only the finest 1908 Vanilla Bean ice cream for my experiments bitches! However TCBY chocolate frozen yogurt with sprinkles does work nicely.
Sprinkles? Isn't that a bit uncomfortable? Kind of like sand in your pants after the beach I'd imagine!
I have a methods question ...
Do you let the ice cream soften a bit or are we talking straight out of the freezer?
But...but...if you don't expand your testing this could have serious ramifications! Imagine if some Tea Party type happens to have reservations to WD-50 in NYC or Alinea in Chicago, and they serve him a liquid nitrogen prepared whiskey gelato, tableside! He'll fling the ice cream down because your research didn't include all the alternatives, saying it's all liberal malarky! Then the Tea Party will form a coalition with Monsanto and Tyson and weird English chefs who boil meat! First they'll organize violent, angry protests outside of Blue Hill and Chez Panisse and St. John. Then they'll progress to ALF-esque bombings of The French Laundry and Per Se and Altelier. Soon, they'll take over the government, and sanction CIA hits against Thomas Keller and Elizabeth Falkner and Joel Robuchon!
Pretty soon, our only restaurant option will be Taco Bell and if you try to buy meat products that weren't first put through a grinder and then glued back together by transglutaminase, the Secret Service will drag you away in the night. Those of us who ever worked a line or own a copy of any book by Julia Child or Jaques Pepin will be sent to labor camps where we'll have to shove whole chickens through a grinder to make strawberry soft serve looking goop! http://early-onset-of-night.tumblr.com/post/1206666159/say-hello-to-mechanically-separated-chicken-its
Is this what you want GR?
Wow this really is bad! Why would they even want to make these statements public. THey are just embarrassing.
Wow this really is bad! Why would they even want to make these statements public. THey are just embarrassing.
Are you talking about the comments or the press release? :p
Haha! Nice one Brian! I was refering to the shocking work done. GR's first post sums it up, the lead researcher is politics PhD!
I tried to rate the article negative infinity, but the system wouldn't let me. I think there should be a turd icon that we can use when a really crappy release is posted.
I think we should be able to rate the relative turdiness, it could either be steaming or not!
Funny. You could change the number of steam lines coming out of it. More lines, more stinky!
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