(08-26-2021, 11:10 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: I won't absolutely rule it out, but the tone of the discussion and the general cluelessness of the person involved (the same one who insisted women must have have one less rib than men, because "the bible says God created Eve from one of Adam's ribs" even after it was pointed out that people who lose, say, a finger, don't have kids also missing that finger, and being shown male and female X-Ray images with the same number of ribs) I am pretty sure she was serious.
Yeah, that doesn't sound like the sort of person who'd appreciate Gary Larson's humor.
I didn't get a screen cap so I don't think I can adequately replicate the stupid, but I was taking an online business class when this happened. The class using a composting business in India as an example to illustrate a point. Basically, the founders of the business compost sewage and sell it to farmers as fertilizer. One of the other students went off on a rant about how ingesting human waste is dangerous and throwing around words like "autointoxication." (Where's that facepalm emoji? Oh, there isn't one? Well, there should be)
I had to explain how the sewage feeds bacteria which produce food for plants which in turn produce food for people. Seriously, how does anyone not get this?