Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

American courts are weird. You can sue retarded large sums for burning yourself with coffee which now leads to companies throwing all sorts of warnings to cover their asses because God forbid you not explicitly warn some retard not to put silverware in the microwave.

McDonalds deserved that high of a punishment. They used water that was way too hot for coffee and when the woman asked them to only pay for her surgery to unfuse her labia McDonalds told her to fuck off.

 

[AnOminous]

American courts are weird. You can sue retarded large sums for burning yourself with coffee which now leads to companies throwing all sorts of warnings to cover their asses because God forbid you not explicitly warn some retard not to put silverware in the microwave.

As much as I agree in general principle with that statement, if you're referring to the Stella Liebeck case in particular against McDonald's, that was not an injustice at all. McDonald's seriously fucked up in that particular case, and they deliberately chose to serve coffee at a dangerous temperature. With most coffee, out of ordinary coffee machines, if you accidentally spilled it on yourself, you'd probably have a bit of an ouchie, but you wouldn't be seriously injured.

McDonald's chose to serve it at literally boiling temperatures, and on top of that, at a drive through, where it is completely predictable there will be some spill accidents. It caused massive third degree burns, resulting in the necessity of multiple surgeries, debridements, and incredible decrease in quality of life. This was after McDonald's was well aware of multiple injuries thanks to their choice to do this.

Liebeck wasn't money grubbing. All she asked for at the outset was being reimbursed the cost of her medical expenses. For some reason, McDonald's didn't do what they had usually previously done and just paid them, but chose to be titanic dicks instead. Their lawyers came across as arrogant and insulting, and the resulting verdict was largely because of the jury being incredibly pissed at how they acted.

So when you think about that case and the only thing you really know about it is "someone got millions for spilling coffee on themselves," it looks really bad. But the jury actually got to see the incredibly graphic pictures of horrifying burns and got to watch the repulsive McDonald's lawyers make idiotic arguments as to why it was okay for McDonald's to continue serving boiling hot coffee at their drive throughs, even though they knew this led to dozens of injuries every year, some of them severe.

There are definitely cases where people get ridiculous verdicts in their favor for dumb shit they did to themselves, but Liebeck v. McDonald's is not one of them.

She deserved every penny she got. IMO, YMMV, OMGWTFBBQ, etc.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Oh yeah that's the first thing I should see about p&g.

 

[Cheollima]

i found this pretty funny

 

[Corpun]

Rhodesian Front - Wikipedia

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The Rhodesian Front was a far-right, conservative political party in Southern Rhodesia,[11][12][13] subsequently known as Rhodesia. It was the last ruling party of Southern Rhodesia prior to that country's unilateral declaration of independence, and the ruling party of Rhodesia from 1965 until 1979.

How much are you willing to be going far back enough, far right isn't tacked onto there?

Out of curiosity I checked out the NP which led Apartheid South Africa expecting the same thing but I guess since they switchd to civic nationalism before they killed themselves they don't count.

Also a lot of Zimbabwe articles relating to their economy read like some high schooler's essay they pasted into Wikipedia. Here is an excerpt from Racism in Zimbabwe as an example.

The government led by Robert Mugabe during the 1980s was benevolent to white settlers while violently repressing illegal incursions on white land by African peasants who were frustrated with the government's broken promises of land reform. Mugabe's government would change policies in 2000 and encourage violence against the white population, with many fleeing the country by 2005. Zimbabwe's society continues to face significant divisions along racial lines.

EDIT:

This was on the Knights of Columbus article. I'm betting this was a relatively recent edit as well.

During the nadir of American race relations, the Ku Klux Klan promoted a conspiracy theory which claimed that Fourth Degree Knights swore an oath to exterminate Freemasons and Protestants.[30][31][32][33] The Knights began suing distributors for libel in an effort to stop this, and the KKK ended its publication of the false oath.[34]

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

I am a bit offtop, but - if this (in sumo) actually happens, why cannot I find any proof aside from that article?

And yes, I know shit fuck about dumo, this was good ole wikisurf.

 

[Cheollima]

they just mention he disappeared and leave it at that lol

 

[Corpun]

Remember 'Public Universal Friend' a million pages past? Seems troons may be rewriting another age, this one of a female writer in the 1800s who used a male pseudonym. Despite that not being her legal name and her not using it besides her writings some troon decided to make it the header.. I might edit it just to see how long the edit lasts out of curiosity.

George Eliot - Wikipedia

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Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as a translator, editor, and critic. Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.[2]

 

[Piss!]

Oh yeah that's the first thing I should see about p&g.
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There's a well-documented problem where google will just pull random shit out of websites to show at the top of search results. For example, type in "when did george washington land on the moon", or "which election did abraham lincoln beat hillary" and it will show you a wikipedia article (for MONTHS it would show you an actual year as an "answer" but I guess they finally fixed that).

They do this so they can get clicks and traffic, and retards will get mad at other websites and not them if it's wrong.

 

[NynchLiggers]

Rhodesian Front - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

How much are you willing to be going far back enough, far right isn't tacked onto there?

Out of curiosity I checked out the NP which led Apartheid South Africa expecting the same thing but I guess since they switchd to civic nationalism before they killed themselves they don't count.

Also a lot of Zimbabwe articles relating to their economy read like some high schooler's essay they pasted into Wikipedia. Here is an excerpt from Racism in Zimbabwe as an example.



EDIT:

This was on the Knights of Columbus article. I'm betting this was a relatively recent edit as well.

>Mugape
Niggerloving knows no limits.

 

[AnOminous]

There's a well-documented problem where google will just pull random shit out of websites to show at the top of search results. For example, type in "when did george washington land on the moon", or "which election did abraham lincoln beat hillary" and it will show you a wikipedia article (for MONTHS it would show you an actual year as an "answer" but I guess they finally fixed that).

They do this so they can get clicks and traffic, and retards will get mad at other websites and not them if it's wrong.

I tried one of those and got a moon landing wikipedia article as well as found out there was actually an obscure poet named George Washington Moon who was, shockingly, actually white.

 

[Large]

When the conspiracy theorists are conspiring to conspire against a conspiracy to conspire against the conspiracy theorists in order to take over the world!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210618185739/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gender_movement

 

[Toolbox]

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When the conspiracy theorists are conspiring to conspire against a conspiracy to conspire against the conspiracy theorists in order to take over the world!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210618185739/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gender_movement

"If we DEBOOOONK it with the same people that everyone on the right are already tired of, then they'll have to believe us this time!"

 

[Corpun]

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When the conspiracy theorists are conspiring to conspire against a conspiracy to conspire against the conspiracy theorists in order to take over the world!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210618185739/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gender_movement

Anytime I hear something deboonked and labeled a conspiracy theory anymore I assume there is at least a kernel of truth to it.

Was 9-11 an inside job to justify mass surveillance? No obviously, but the government jumped on the opportunity.

Was MK Ultra a real thing? No obv- oh wait it was real.

 

[Toolbox]

Anytime I hear something deboonked and labeled a conspiracy theory anymore I assume there is at least a kernel of truth to it.

Was 9-11 an inside job to justify mass surveillance? No obviously, but the government jumped on the opportunity.

Was MK Ultra a real thing? No obv- oh wait it was real.

the CIA both did MK Ultra and before that let actual Nazis into the US to do their bidding, who went right behind their backs and actually exported a lot of Nazi top brass out of Germany never to be seen again. That was decades BEFORE ultra. Who knows what the fuck they've tried since. Whenever someone tells you somethings a "conspiracy theory" just tell them to read what's been declassified of theirs.

 

[Corpun]

the CIA both did MK Ultra and before that let actual Nazis into the US to do their bidding, who went right behind their backs and actually exported a lot of Nazi top brass out of Germany never to be seen again. That was decades BEFORE ultra. Who knows what the fuck they've tried since. Whenever someone tells you somethings a "conspiracy theory" just tell them to read what's been declassified of theirs.

This isn't even getting to the Tuskegee Experiments on blacks, them spying on MLK, etc.

I'd wager even the FBI was aware to some level that someone may haver wanted to off Kennedy and just never acted on it.

 

[Fictional Character]

Remember 'Public Universal Friend' a million pages past? Seems troons may be rewriting another age, this one of a female writer in the 1800s who used a male pseudonym. Despite that not being her legal name and her not using it besides her writings some troon decided to make it the header.. I might edit it just to see how long the edit lasts out of curiosity.

George Eliot - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Eh, Henri Beyle's entry also has Stendhal as a header plus the Library of Congress Authorities Database has George Eliot as the main heading and Mary Ann Evans as one of the variants. There's no problem if the header is the name most people today would recognize instead of legal name.

 

[Corpun]

John Doucette - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This guy appeared in 280 films and this is the best they can get.

 

[EvaPer0n]

Remember 'Public Universal Friend' a million pages past? Seems troons may be rewriting another age, this one of a female writer in the 1800s who used a male pseudonym. Despite that not being her legal name and her not using it besides her writings some troon decided to make it the header.. I might edit it just to see how long the edit lasts out of curiosity.

George Eliot - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Have you never heard of George Eliot before? She's an extremely famous writer and almost always referred to by her pseudonym (at the same time being always referred to as a woman).

George Eliot | British author

George Eliot, English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction. Her major works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Evans was born on an estate of

www.britannica.com

Do you think the article on Mark Twain should be moved to Samuel Clemens or the article on Lewis Carroll to Charles Dodgson?

 

[BootlegPopeye]

John Doucette - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This guy appeared in 280 films and this is the best they can get.

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Wikipedia has a joke of a media policy; on the one hand, the site is hosted in the US, yet the site seems to operate on almost British copyright law, which is much more strict with obvious cases of fair use (there was a big blow up several years ago when a user downloaded a bunch of scans of paintings off of a Brit website and the museum tried to claim the bullshit 'sweat of the brow' doctrine).

It seems to depend on the whim of the article author at the moment; frequently, you will see a fair use screen cap of a movie, show, etc and it will last but a few days.