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#1 May 08 2013 at 9:54 AM Rating: Excellent
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Poorly thought out title leads to semi-interesting article about the blood pressure benefits from sunlight. Headlines that make you facepalm; share if you got them.
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#2 May 08 2013 at 10:00 AM Rating: Good
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Dunno about facepalm, but high school humor is always appreciated, whether intentional or not.
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#3 May 08 2013 at 11:59 AM Rating: Good
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lolgaxe wrote:
Dunno about facepalm, but high school humor is always appreciated, whether intentional or not.
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How do they know it has an 85% accuracy rate?
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#4 May 08 2013 at 12:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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cynyck wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
Dunno about facepalm, but high school humor is always appreciated, whether intentional or not.
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How do they know it has an 85% accuracy rate?

Because they reckon it can.
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#5 May 08 2013 at 5:06 PM Rating: Good
cynyck wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
Dunno about facepalm, but high school humor is always appreciated, whether intentional or not.
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How do they know it has an 85% accuracy rate?


Try to decode ones they already know.

Pretty easy answer.
#6 May 08 2013 at 8:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well it was 85% accurate. they tried it out on some of my more creative misspellings, and the damned thing exploded. They're still finding pieces of it.
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#7 May 09 2013 at 10:21 AM Rating: Excellent
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Kavekk wrote:
Try to decode ones they already know.
Aren't you assuming something? Or, more to the point, aren't they assuming something?

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