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reflex768 1 year 39 days ago, made popular 1 year 39 days ago

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PATSCRU, on 10/10/2007, -20/+66I for one welcome our half-assed-image-submission overlords.
- Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Haven't heard that meme in a while.
- reflex768, on 10/10/2007, -24/+11Sigh. Don't you love it when the guy with two submissions wants to police the joint?
- bobcrotch, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22Clearly he doesn't have enough eCred to dislike your submission.
  - lordthor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7"Clearly he doesn't have enough eCred to dislike your submission."
    (best thing i've heard all day)
  - reflex768, on 10/10/2007, -16/+3Nah, he has enough eCred for that. He doesn't have enough eCred to bash image submissions as illegitimate. There is no picture section. Hardly anyone's fault too.
    - TheAkolyte, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13You lost, get over it.
    - reflex768, on 10/10/2007, -13/+2In his point, I'll lose when image submissions stop. That ain't happening anytime soon son. Best case outcome, is we end up with an image section however and then everyone's happy and isolated.
    - bobcrotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I think he was describing how much your description sucked.
    - reflex768, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2In that case he's right, it does suck. But his comment is plural for image-submission-overlords, so it comes off to me as the general anti-image whining. Which is just tired by now.
- PATSCRU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i've tried submitting before, but when you find a story that was just publish, go to submit it, and then find it has been submitted times in the last 2 minutes, it kind of discourages any attempt to submit anything else.
  - reflex768, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1S'kay Patscru. I was kind of being of jerk yesterday anyway. As my chat above reveals, I get tired of the anti-image complaints when there's no picture section.
MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -5/+43I actually like the way the submitter wrote the description.
Dugg.
- outhouseinput, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9All the words are spelled right, capitalized, and spaced out properly. Basically, it doesn't look like crap. Dugg.
TheAcidQueen, on 10/10/2007, -35/+4Meth > Math
- Bloc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14On digg, NO-ONE insults math(s). NO-ONE.
- simpleid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2ohshi that's foreal Bloc. >:-(
  say anything bad about math again and i'll burn down your house!
- miggaaaplease, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1oh hey fergie
yargthepirate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19So whenever your kids complain about their math homework, just show them a picture of a meth addict's teeth and ask them which one they'd prefer.
- reflex768, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8It's a good plan. Trouble is, I know a few kids who'd pick the teeth.
- outhouseinput, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The guys arm from Requiem for a Dream? Show kids that and they will wish they were in school all day.
canthraxp, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0Degg it.
IADTatami, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34Meanwhile, we give our children stimulants to help them pay attention in school.
- BenCoJones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Nothing gets kids to do their homework like a bottle full of amphetamines...
  - TheAkolyte, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9So the real message is... meth AND math!
- nakani, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2haha I know tons of kids in college who blow adderall to cram for their math finals
jdc760, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2"Don't do drugs" "Stay in School"

OMG anti-drug slogans, must digg!
- spyd3rweb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1take these legal ADD drugs and stay in school
flashboy131, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14is Meth really such a big widespread problem that we need a slogan?
- ninsei, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yes.
- Peebert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7No, but neglect of math is. :)
- betterth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6In many states, especially in the US South, meth is nothing less than a drug "epidemic". It's cheap to acquire, easy to make, about as good as heroin and ***** you up a lot more.
  - brstilson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8It's popular in the south because you can't distinguish wrinkly teeth-falling-out meth heads from the general population.
    - Kyouto, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1hooray for stereotypes!!
      
      ...bastard.
- adml_shake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's a HUGE problem in Souther Indiana where I grew up. I know a lot of people who are sitting in jail now after getting busted cooking that stuff up. When your job options are either contruction crews, factory work, farming, or meth maker/dealer and you make more money faster doing the last one it's not hard to see why so many kids and adults choose it.
  - dragon76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Now you know why so many urban black men get into illegal activities. You can either be big pimpin or flipping burgers.
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Meth is nothing more than a scapegoat for all of society's woes.
g3buz, on 10/10/2007, -14/+4Welcome to Digg. I notice people are complaining about your submission, here are a few pointers to make your submission work better here:

1) BREAKING. Nobody notices digg links if they're not breaking, this helps assure people that what they are seeing is new.
2) CAPITAL letters, but only in some words, to provide emphasis
3) exclamation points: again for emphasis

Now let's try again:

BREAKING: math, NOT METH!!!!!!!!
- fleischner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I think it also has to contain something like this: "Best. Graffiti. EVER."
mydigga, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Damn, I wish this message eas out when I was in school... would have saved much $$!!
SEmmert, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3If you replace the 'a' in Math with an 'e' it spells "fun"!
Calculon, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1I enjoyed it, thanks.
dancantone, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0Had a truly wicked experience with that drug...Amen to the poigniancy, and dugg!

I still don't know all of my times table by heart.
vammirato, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9Sigh, this made it out mere days in front of my "Crank Ain't Dank" campaign.
weizbox, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4perhaps... Math ON Meth?
- ripple123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7If i recall correctly, Erdos, one of the most published and famous mathematicians of our time, drank a lot of coffee, and later switched to prescription amphetamines. He pretty much invented the field of discrete math. One of his colleagues bet him he couldn't go a month without his pills, which he promptly did, and at the end of the month he told his colleague that he had set back the advancement of math by a month.
blurplevtx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6I looked at this Flickr image and the message just doesn't add up..
HCJfilms, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13They lost the "Without Pi, we'd die" stencil
CraigJ, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5I was always better at math when on meth...
pbaehr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Just wait until the DEA starts cracking down on all those Math Labs.
- moxley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It wouldn't surprise me one bit:
  
  "Yes, see - these chemists who manufacture Methamphetamine use MATH to figure out the formulas for the drug. This is why from here on out Math beyond addition will require a federal license - those who study Math without a license will risk fines, incarceration, or both. We cannot allow criminal mathmeticians to reign free with their drug manufacturing ways.."
  
  ....the real ***** up part, is that in this day and age in America, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see that....
superfusion, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Al Roker,
not Al Qaeda.
FlagrantDrugUse, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Hugs, not drugs...*sparks bowl*
gavinjny, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0HUH
Peebert, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4If there's someone out there promoting MATH as better than meth, they should probably find a dealer with better meth. I can't imagine this is a very effective anti-drug slogan... I doubt there's some kid reading this going "Gee, they've got a point-- medically induced euphoria and excitement is too easy. It's really nothing compared to the euphoria and excitement of prime factors or euclidian geometry. Yeah, that random stencilled graffiti is right... Drugs are for losers! The REAL glamour and fun is in computational complexity theory!"
- totallyAMAZING, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2If you're considering doing a bunch of meth, I highly doubt that doing math instead was anywhere near the "top 100 things I could also be doing instead of this meth" list. But, hey, whatever you think will help.
  - Peebert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Lawl, exactly. :)
- KillerLettuce, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Are you really trying to imply that meth isn't bad? Or did I misread something?
  - Peebert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, we're saying that the saying is lame because math, to most people, isn't exactly a great substitute for ANYTHING, especially drugs. In fact, for many kids, school pressures are the REASON they turn to drugs, so it's really rather stupid. Weaksauce antidrug messages like this are part of the reason it's so hard to reach people in the first place. I hate drugs and drug users, and have never had so much as a beer, cigarette or cup of coffee, but it's certainly not because of dumb forced anti-drug catchphrases.
mk2cav, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Its "Maths" not "Math", plain simple English
- LoopyChew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not in America, it ain't.
moxley, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Can't have one without the other....

(but for the record, as pretty much everyone knows, meth is a horribly destructive drug when abused- and the stuff sold on the street is full of very nasty stuff).
jhugg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6Should be, "Maths not Meths"
navster15, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Hmm. So this is why my "Geography, Not Cocaine" campaign never took off...
Peebert, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Mary Hart, not Mary Wanna
tucsonsun13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Another link that would really help the undecided teetering on the edge of a drug addiction: DEA: Faces of Meth.

Google it, and you'll never get sucked in.
- onineko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I need to stay off 4chan. I saw "DEA: Feces of Math."
Peebert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Psychoanalysis, not psychotropics

(jump in anytime)
- Nikakoda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Physics not Analgesics..?
Aslander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I was expecting the image to be of a sign for a Math Lab that they misspelled. "July 31st - Free Meth Lab - Greenview Elementary School"
GAMEgurou, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0What a strange...
edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Where I live, the "meth problem" was worst before anyone really cared. Meth basically just moved to the suburbs, so the 'burbanites all freaked and demanded media attention.
Two local alt weeklies agree with me on this:
http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3220/7368/
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=37797&category=34029
jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Spelling Bees, not LSD
Biology, not DMT
History, not Heroin
Gay and Lesbian Studies, not 5-methoxy-alpha-methyltryptamine

(on and on and on)
DiggFight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Guy must have been on meth when he came up with that stupid slogan.
DiggFight, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Guy must have been on meth when he came up with that stupid slogan.
u5bLue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What an uninteresting photo.
yetimonster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1i hope this gets made into a t-shirt soon
SellotapeGuy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Looks like Banksy's work.
mathDoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2DUI = Deriving Under the Influence ??
TonyKay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1mathS. Your magic letter is S
mattdiggsit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0What if you can't do math?
BESTenemy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2- What's your major?
- Methematics!
socokoolaid, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2The meth epidemic, in my area, was created by the Drug Task Force. Being a self funding organization, they used the meth cooks to make sure they never ran out of funding. Many cooks had children which became their bargaining tool. You bust one cook who has children and tell him the truth; That DCFS is going to take his children forever, they are going to auction off his home, car, and everything he owns as their own profit, siting that it was obtained from drug profit (which in most cases there was never any profit, just a self sufficient group of junkies). Avoid all this if only you teach five other people to cook meth and let the Drug Task Force bust them, afterwards, and the dope headed Drug Task Force would even split the dope with you.

Here's your math:
Isolated Problem X Drug Task Force = Meth Epidemic
- moxley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2That is EXACTLY how it works in a lot of places - but most people don't want to know that.
moxley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2SO this is the next stupid law we'll see come out of the harmful scam called the "War on Drugs."

A DEA agent today held a press conference about the latest new tool in the War on Drugs, the "Math = Meth" act:

"Yes, see - these chemists who manufacture Methamphetamine use MATH to figure out the formulas for the drug. This is why from here on out Math beyond addition will require a federal license - those who study Math without a license will risk fines, incarceration, or both. We cannot allow criminal mathmeticians to reign free with their drug manufacturing ways.."

....the real ***** up part, is that in this day and age in America, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see that....
rmeddy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Looking at Mandelbrot set will make thing you're on Acid.
haggie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Our history club's anti-smoking fund raiser was: "Skip the nicotine, study the Byzantine."
ajd344, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Just say know to mathematics.
ClOlD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Can't it be both?
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