the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Rome]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG_wfMK7dko

Greatest friends ever.

[Geowhizzer]

8.Standard Oil. The Luftwaffe needed tetraethyl lead gas in order to get their planes off the ground. Standard Oil was one of only three companies that could manufacture that type of fuel. So they did.

Without them, the German air force never could've even gotten their planes off the ground.

When Standard Oil was dissolved as a monopoly, it led to ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, all of which are still around today. (But fortunately, their parent company's past decision to make incredible profits off of war have not carried on.) (Source: MIT's Thistle)

I can debunk this one without any research.  Standard Oil was dissolved in 1911, long before Hitler took power and before the first World War.

[SunMo]

take it up with MIT

[Geowhizzer]

My guess would be that if the actual info is made up, so is the source.

[Diomedes]

Sorry, critical thinking not welcome here.

STANDARD OIL LOVED HITLER!

[Rome]

It could be the companies that were created out of the dissolution of Std. Oil were in bed with Hitler.   

What about Monsanto & Dow Chemical?  They created & manufactured Agent Orange and up to a million people were adversely affected or outright killed because of that crap.

[Geowhizzer]

It could be the companies that were created out of the dissolution of Std. Oil were in bed with Hitler.   

What about Monsanto & Dow Chemical?  They created & manufactured Agent Orange and up to a million people were adversely affected or outright killed because of that crap.

Possible, and also possible that it was a German affiliate of the old Standard Oil empire, but that entry isn't written that way.  Take the last line:

When Standard Oil was dissolved as a monopoly, it led to ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, all of which are still around today. (But fortunately, their parent company's past decision to make incredible profits off of war have not carried on.)

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/features/flight-from-dallas-1013-4

[ice grillin you]

i have a towel that i keep on the floor to the side of my porch door to put my shoes on when i come inside from out back....well i just picked it up and unfolded it to put in front of the door cause its pouring out and coming inside a little bit....as i did this 12 stink bugs dropped out of the towel all over onto my arms

sickening

[Rome]

Toughen up kid.

[PhillyPhreak54]

One good thing about Texas....no stink bugs down here

[Rome]

Other than the women

[PhillyPhreak54]

Oh no sir...the women down here are nice.

[Yeti]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hStcyDj830Q

[Sgt PSN]

I like how the guy's (standing closest to the camera) first instinct is to start messing with his cell phone.  Go ahead buddy, tweet that shtein.