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How is it, that scam after scam of these silly bracelets keep getting debunked and people keep falling for it?

The company evenadmittedthat they are a fraud with no scientific support.
http://gizmodo.com/5723577/powerbalance-admits-their-wristbands-are-a-scam

How many gullible people do you know who have boughten one?

 

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I don't know anyone that has "bought" one.

p.s. - boughten is not a word.

 

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*Co-worker's




Crack an Engrish book once in a while. rolling_eyes


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-Kruugar- posted:
How is it, that scam after scam of these silly bracelets keep getting debunked and people keep falling for it?

The company evenadmittedthat they are a fraud with no scientific support.
http://gizmodo.com/5723577/powerbalance-admits-their-wristbands-are-a-scam

How many gullible people do you know who have boughten one?


I had an old man once try and tell me my cellphone is corrupting my aura and then proceeded to use the tricks those bracelet guys use to demonstrate it's "effects" on my "aura".

Old Man: "Put your phone on the counter and place your hand on it."
Me: *does it*
Old Man: "Now extend your other arm straight out, and try and prevent me from pushing down."
Me: "Okay."
Old Man: *Leans on arm, obviously pushing it down, nobody can resist that."
Old Man: "See? Now, take your index finger and make circles around the battery for thirty seconds or so, this neutralizes the effects on your aura"
Me, thinking to my self: "Oh jesus christ kill me now"
Old Man: "Ok that's been about thirty seconds, put your arm out again and watch"
Old Man: *proceeds to squeeze my arm with his hands and act about as good as a pre-schooler like hes pushing hard, clenching his jaw and squinting -- the whole works"
Old Man: "See?"
Me: "I know what your just did, it's a scam."
Old Man: "It's not a scam, son. I'm a doctor, you can trust me"
Me: "What kind of doctor?"
Old Man: "I'm a chiropractor, a nutritionist."
Me: "Neither of those are doctorates."

This is when he gets mad and walks away mumbling about how he was just trying to help me.

 

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*Co-worker's




Crack an Engrish book once in a while. rolling_eyes


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Um, you do know it's spelled English?

Don't mock someone if you can't spell as well...

 

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regulator_cracka posted:
*Co-worker's




Crack an Engrish book once in a while. rolling_eyes


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Um, you do know it's spelled English?

Don't mock someone if you can't spell as well...


Wow... Just... wow... really?... I mean, REALLY?!?

 

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Fairly_Gimp posted:
Shazami posted:
regulator_cracka posted:
*Co-worker's




Crack an Engrish book once in a while. rolling_eyes


tongue





Um, you do know it's spelled English?

Don't mock someone if you can't spell as well...


Wow... Just... wow... really?... I mean, REALLY?!?


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Fairly_Gimp posted:
Shazami posted:
regulator_cracka posted:
*Co-worker's




Crack an Engrish book once in a while. rolling_eyes


tongue





Um, you do know it's spelled English?

Don't mock someone if you can't spell as well...


Wow... Just... wow... really?... I mean, REALLY?!?


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My stepmom bought the necklace and the bracelet for my dad.

He knows it's profanity, but after 26 years of marriage, he's given up arguing with her over all the dumb new-age profanity she falls for.

 

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Our brains are very powerful.

Simply thinking that a bracelet is giving you better balance, or putting you in a better mood, may actually accomplish those things through increased confidence.

And to the comment above... Chiropractic has been accepted by the AMA to be legitimate therapy for over 30 years.
Some Chiropractors make ignorant claims, but a vast majority of them are legitimate practitioners.

 

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and just think, there are ppl on this forum that take cats to a chiropractor!

wait...no, THEY do chiropractic services to animals!!! hahaha

 

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tsingtao2 posted:
and just think, there are ppl on this forum that take cats to a chiropractor!

wait...no, THEY do chiropractic services to animals!!! hahaha


I thought we found out quite awhile ago that AynRand was just a trolling alt...

 

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our resident expert on everything posted:
My Power Balance bracelet led me to the truth about Tower 7!

 

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ITT, Foxy kinda failed whistling

 

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placebo affect is a very powerful treatment for many.

 

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Chogram posted:
Our brains are very powerful.

Simply thinking that a bracelet is giving you better balance, or putting you in a better mood, may actually accomplish those things through increased confidence.

And to the comment above... Chiropractic has been accepted by the AMA to be legitimate therapy for over 30 years.
Some Chiropractors make ignorant claims, but a vast majority of them are legitimate practitioners.


obviously their brains aren't very powerful in the first place if they believe in ridiculous things.

 

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Chogram posted:
Our brains are very powerful.

Simply thinking that a bracelet is giving you better balance, or putting you in a better mood, may actually accomplish those things through increased confidence.

And to the comment above... Chiropractic has been accepted by the AMA to be legitimate therapy for over 30 years.
Some Chiropractors make ignorant claims, but a vast majority of them are legitimate practitioners.


obviously their brains aren't very powerful in the first place if they believe in ridiculous things.



Or you've just done no research on placebo and how they affect our bodies. happy

 

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Malrothien posted:
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Chogram posted:
Our brains are very powerful.

Simply thinking that a bracelet is giving you better balance, or putting you in a better mood, may actually accomplish those things through increased confidence.

And to the comment above... Chiropractic has been accepted by the AMA to be legitimate therapy for over 30 years.
Some Chiropractors make ignorant claims, but a vast majority of them are legitimate practitioners.


obviously their brains aren't very powerful in the first place if they believe in ridiculous things.



Or you've just done no research on placebo and how they affect our bodies. happy


hey great thanks for coming out and bringing a strawman to the table. it's not like I could be referring to the theory of how it works or anything, right?

do you have a college education? is it too late to get a refund?

 

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ITT, Foxy kinda failed whistling
Shhhh.

 

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Malrothien posted:
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Our brains are very powerful.

Simply thinking that a bracelet is giving you better balance, or putting you in a better mood, may actually accomplish those things through increased confidence.

And to the comment above... Chiropractic has been accepted by the AMA to be legitimate therapy for over 30 years.
Some Chiropractors make ignorant claims, but a vast majority of them are legitimate practitioners.


obviously their brains aren't very powerful in the first place if they believe in ridiculous things.



Or you've just done no research on placebo and how they affect our bodies. happy


You can generate your own placebo by believing that you are better at something because you switched from regular milk to Soy.

Dark Coffee to Mild.

No need to spend $30 on a piece of plastic that costs pennies to make.

 

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I don't know anyone that has "bought" one.

p.s. - boughten is not a word.


Lol. You failed hard. happy

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/boughten

 

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Sacramento has the Power Balance Arena and so far they are keeping the name, even after the hoohaa of fakery. silly

 

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ITT, Foxy kinda failed whistling



Haha. Yes she did.

 

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I don't know anyone that has "bought" one.

p.s. - boughten is not a word.


Lol. You failed hard. happy

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/boughten


There is no failing hard. If someone ever said to me, "Do you know anyone that has boughten something?" I would mock them soundly, because it's not a real word.

thefreedictionary.com may argue that it is a dialect word, but dialect words do not often find their way into M-W or OED.

Therefore, no, no failing. It's not a word.

Edit - and when they do, in checking M-W.com, they're listed as dialect words, only used in local circumstances.

 

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Hawkson posted:
-Kruugar- posted:
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I don't know anyone that has "bought" one.

p.s. - boughten is not a word.


Lol. You failed hard. happy

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/boughten


There is no failing hard. If someone ever said to me, "Do you know anyone that has boughten something?" I would mock them soundly, because it's not a real word.

thefreedictionary.com may argue that it is a dialect word, but dialect words do not often find their way into M-W or OED.

Therefore, no, no failing. It's not a word.

Edit - and when they do, in checking M-W.com, they're listed as dialect words, only used in local circumstances.


So because I grew up with the word in my local circumstances, you still fail hard at your ignorant correction. lulz.

 

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I bet that 50+% of people near you would not say boughten because it would make them sound unbelievably stupid. Still no failing. It is not a real word.


Additionally, any school that teaches children it is a real word, is doing them a disservice, because once they hit the real world they will be thought of as stupid.

 

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I bet that 50+% of people near you would not say boughten because it would make them sound unbelievably stupid. Still no failing. It is not a real word.


Additionally, any school that teaches children it is a real word, is doing them a disservice, because once they hit the real world they will be thought of as stupid.


U mad bro?

Go back to raging at internet spelling. It's how you feed your family and is serious business. Eh brah? (There there, it'll be ok.)

You need a target that gives a damn to bring home the bacon.

 

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Not mad, not raging.

Mocking stupidity where I find it.

 

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Not mad, not raging.

Mocking stupidity where I find it.



You are a sad, sad being.

Cheers, hope your day is better wink

Chin up!

 

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*Co-worker's




Crack an Engrish book once in a while. rolling_eyes


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Um, you do know it's spelled English?

Don't mock someone if you can't spell as well...



Troll got trolled.
Wow... Just... wow... really?... I mean, REALLY?!?

 

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Sgian_Dubh posted:
My stepmom bought the necklace and the bracelet for my dad.

He knows it's profanity, but after 26 years of marriage, he's given up arguing with her over all the dumb new-age profanity she falls for.



Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

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ITT, Foxy kinda failed whistling
Shhhh.

 

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LOL i did ;P

 

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[quote=regulator_cracka]*Co-worker's




Crack an Engrish book once in a while. rolling_eyes


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Um, you do know it's spelled English?

Don't mock someone if you can't spell as well...



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Wow... Just... wow... really?... I mean, REALLY?!?
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Tis sad a silly fish bit that bait.

 

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Our brains are very powerful.

Simply thinking that a bracelet is giving you better balance, or putting you in a better mood, may actually accomplish those things through increased confidence.

 

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