O Answers Quiz #2

I guess the picture is zoomed in on the belt?

Not sure how we were supposed to know it was a palindrome from the clue. That's not one of the usual ones I've heard. I assumed it was a song lyric or line from a movie. Know nothing about skateboarding, either, so learned something new today.

Yeah, I'm with Ander217, that's VERY obscure. If you haven't heard or seen it before you have very little chance of getting it.

I was one of those lucky few. :P I got it accidentally when trying to get the Garfield dog.

I think you’re probably unlikely to get most questions if you’ve never seen them before.

I got it since I had taken The Potato Quiz where it was also mentioned, but I had never heard of it before that.

@roleybob: It's from the dead parrot sketch.

In Canada they’re usually called Mostly River and Lake and Sometimes Land Otters. Any that live in saltwater we usually just call furry-handed dolphins.

Fantastic. :)

QM, I know from the aggregate of comments you have posted over the past 10 years that you primarily get your news from anti-government center-right sources with perhaps a strong libertarian or even quasi-anarcho-capitalist bent, and while I also know that you see yourself as a realist, perhaps a centrist, and maybe a rational skeptic (and recognize and admire those qualities in you when they present themselves; which is most of the time apart from political issues which you seem to prefer to neither comment on nor know much about)... I humbly suggest that you'd do well to consider the fact that sources like described above - ever since Trump politicized the CDC, the virus, and common sense measures to combat it - have sadly taken on at least a subtle (sometimes overt) pro anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, anti-"lockdown" bias. Whenever you see something from such a source that seems to confirm such a bias, think about it twice, and then six more times before repeating it.

As far as the fact, not fallacy, that if every single person able to in the world was vaccinated, got tested when it made sense to, stayed at home when they got sick, and wore masks in crowded spaces, would COVID "magically go away" (as only stupid people would ever suggest it could)? No. But would it have been relegated to a problem as serious as influenza and the common cold by now? In the 1st world, yes. Would there have been significantly less spread and fewer variants? Absolutely. If we did these things with anything approaching universality, would some areas and even entire countries be COVID-free? Almost certainly. And if we had simply proactively worked to contain and combat the virus, and disseminate accurate and helpful information instead of spreading conspiracy theories, miracle cure nonsense, science denialism, and anti-vaxxer anti-masker etc BS, would we have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and helped the economy get going much stronger and sooner?

Multiple peer-reviewed studies have concluded that yes, indeed, we would have. I know that some will dismiss these studies as biased, because they conflict with their own biases, but data trumps feelings. Reality trumps strawmen arguments. And facts trump your fallacies, either endorsed or insinuated.

Nobody who knew what they were talking about, and certainly not me, *ever* said or even implied that COVID would magically and totally disappear, with or without anti-vaxxers, regardless of what a drain on humanity those people are and the very real damage that they have done and continue to do.

It's a complex problem, but by far the biggest obstacle to combating COVID is the fact that the virus was politicized, in service of some person's ego. That has done incalculable, irreversible damage that will last for at least a generation. We've had anti-vaxxers for as long as we've had vaccines, but until recently in the civilized world they were a tiny, much-disparaged (mostly liberal, ironically enough) minority. And the calls to, for example, abolish the CDC or prosecute Dr. Fauci are completely unprecedented. Those who don't see this have their heads in the sand about how different this is and how bad it has gotten. God help us when a more deadly virus comes along. I'd appeal to scientists and doctors instead of God, but for some odd reason a lot of people don't trust them anymore.

but anyway yes, my main point was that the clue (which identified Omicron as the last or most recent COVID variant) was going to become inaccurate very soon. New variants emerging all the time. Would be odd for someone who thinks the virus could just be eliminated through vaccination to make that point.

(and also that both Dr.s Phil and Oz should probably be in prison or at least have their doctorates revoked for reckless malpractice and fraud)