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"Data from the CPSC on the approximately 4700 children who were examined in emergency departments because of falls from windows during 1993 indicate that 90% fall from the first and second stories and that 45% had injuries defined by the CPSC as "serious," such as fractures, internal injuries, concussions, intracranial hematomas, and intracranial hemorrhages."
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/5/1188

4,700 children! Not even counting the adults in 1993. Windowless homes are the way of the future.

Indeed, this defenestrative surge is most unsettling.

Where's the "Windows are double plus good, there are too many children" option?

For those who need further illustration:
http://www.cw.bc.ca/safetystation/images/living/baby%20at%20window.jpg

For those who need further illustration:
http://www.cw.bc.ca/safetystation/images/living/baby%20at%20window.jpg
Don't do it Billy! You have so much to live for!

Where's the "Windows are double plus good, there are too many children" option?
Umm...


Damn...
Didn't think of that one.

Getting rid of windows seems kind of a desperate measure.

Getting rid of windows seems kind of a desperate measure.
Babykiller!:mad:

Getting rid of windows seems kind of a desperate measure.
Oh? Well, how about now?
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/495950/2/Young_girl_in_white_clothes_in_front_of_a_window_6206_.jpg

Sex will sell any point of view...

All of us must do all we can to save this pretty lady.

my neices new house has stickers on all the windows warning that open windows are very dangerous.

my neices new house has stickers on all the windows warning that open windows are very dangerous.

Gravity should come with a warning label.

Gravity should come with a warning label.
And the ground.

Windows are not evil.
This Poll is stupid.

I vote for Iztatepopotlas
"Windows are double, plus good, there are too many children" option!
Well...I would have, if there was that option...

Besides...
any of you ever thought of putting glass in your windows? :rolleyes:

Windows are not evil.
This Poll is stupid.
wanna fight?

I vote for Iztatepopotlas
"Windows are double, plus good, there are too many children" option!
Well...I would have, if there was that option...

Besides...
any of you ever thought of putting glass in your windows? :rolleyes:
Glass is sharp. Skin is soft.

No. There is nothing wrong with having windows.

I don't have windows, I have holes filled with panes of a glass-like transparent substance.

I don't have windows, I have holes filled with panes of a glass-like transparent substance.
What in your Yurt made of Bracken and Mud?

No. There is nothing wrong with having windows.
Au Contraire.

but, children, think of the consequences now.

if we were to remove all windows, we'd have the suicide rate up by several times in no time at all. winter depression and all those good things that come with darkness..like..a hell lot of babies 9 months later..more babies meaning a lot more potential defenestrators..meaning..that you get even more deaths as the number of defenestrated kids will go down percentage-wise but stay the same in absolute because of the highe total number of kids, plus all the extra suicide victims..

good idea.

"Data from the CPSC on the approximately 4700 children who were examined in emergency departments because of falls from windows during 1993 indicate that 90% fall from the first and second stories and that 45% had injuries defined by the CPSC as "serious," such as fractures, internal injuries, concussions, intracranial hematomas, and intracranial hemorrhages."
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/5/1188

4,700 children! Not even counting the adults in 1993. Windowless homes are the way of the future.
This data is quite old. In 1993 we were still stuck with Windows 3.1. This says nothing about how many children fall out of Windows XP.

:p

Windows are not evil.
This Poll is stupid.
Windows is evil. As is Bill Gates. And now, let's see how come...

Windows - Made of glass or plasic
Bill Gates - Wears glasses made of glass or plastic

So either glass or plastic is evil, or maybe both!

Since all of those options are the same thing, I just voted for the Bill Gates thing.

Let's do the fashionable thing and solve this problem with unnecessary technology!

Replace all windows with inward pointing, high definition monitors, connected to closed circuit cameras pointing outside that project the image of whatever's outside to the inside...

Naturally, we'll need editing software that replaces unpleasant images with something appropriate, like if a naked old man with leprosy walks past, the image is scrubbed and replaced with a mailbox or something...

What in your Yurt made of Bracken and Mud?

Not,in my hut made of wattle and daub.

Let's do the fashionable thing and solve this problem with unnecessary technology!

Replace all windows with inward pointing, high definition monitors, connected to closed circuit cameras pointing outside that project the image of whatever's outside to the inside...

Naturally, we'll need editing software that replaces unpleasant images with something appropriate, like if a naked old man with leprosy walks past, the image is scrubbed and replaced with a mailbox or something...

So then a mailbox walks by and doesnt freak the crap out of people. I say take images of people walking by and replace them with images of naked pornstars walking by

So then a mailbox walks by and doesnt freak the crap out of people. I say take images of people walking by and replace them with images of naked pornstars walking by

Wow, thats brilliant...we can even charge for visual libraries of particularly stunning images, like selling ringtones but with nipples

"Data from the CPSC on the approximately 4700 children who were examined in emergency departments because of falls from windows during 1993 indicate that 90% fall from the first and second stories and that 45% had injuries defined by the CPSC as "serious," such as fractures, internal injuries, concussions, intracranial hematomas, and intracranial hemorrhages."
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/5/1188
4,700 children! Not even counting the adults in 1993. Windowless homes are the way of the future.

if you have a tendency of falling out of windows (how is this done, exactly?) .. uhh.. i don't think a windowless home will help much. i think the problem is more mental than physical. i mean what the hell. how do you fall out a window!? :p

"Data from the CPSC on the approximately 4700 children who were examined in emergency departments because of falls from windows during 1993 indicate that 90% fall from the first and second stories and that 45% had injuries defined by the CPSC as "serious," such as fractures, internal injuries, concussions, intracranial hematomas, and intracranial hemorrhages."
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/5/1188
4,700 children! Not even counting the adults in 1993. Windowless homes are the way of the future.

if you have a tendency of falling out of windows (how is this done, exactly?) .. uhh.. i don't think a windowless home will help much. i think the problem is more mental than physical. i mean what the hell. how do you fall out a window!? :p

Wow, thats brilliant...we can even charge for visual libraries of particularly stunning images, like selling ringtones but with nipples

We?

We?

Yeah, we. The screens and cameras were my idea, all you came up with was the idea of adding the succulent, sweating, throbbing, strutting forms of mindblowingly hot women, their taut, firm bodies penetrating one's eyes with brutally intense sexuality, as they pass across the field of vision like sweet, tangy rivers of lust.

Not,in my hut made of wattle and daub.
In your House Boat on the Suck?

Vegetarianistica']if you have a tendency of falling out of windows (how is this done, exactly?) .. uhh.. i don't think a windowless home will help much. i think the problem is more mental than physical. i mean what the hell. how do you fall out a window!? :p
Hogwash! I don't know why or what it means but I'll say it again Sir or Madam, Utter Hogwash!

I say we need MORE windows! With spikes on the ground underneath! That way, parents who are too dumb to keep them shut and locked can't have any of their dumbass gene infected kids grow up to be dumbass adults.

I say we need MORE windows! With spikes on the ground underneath! That way, parents who are too dumb to keep them shut and locked can't have any of their dumbass gene infected kids grow up to be dumbass adults.
You've frightened us all once again. Thanks...

You've frightened us all once again. Thanks...
;) Been a while since ole Sick Nightmares posted! Had to be a good one! :D

;) Been a while since ole Sick Nightmares posted! Had to be a good one! :D
Welcome back.

These are the problems that come to man when he strays from the teachings of Killer Whale Jesus. Children and women should be kept locked in the root cellar at all times. After all, a child locked in the basement is completely unable to fall out windows.
Sure, one or two might be driven mad by spending years without exposure to fresh-air or sunlight, but at least they will be safe from the defenestration that will be the ultimate destiny of all other children.

These are the problems that come to man when he strays from the teachings of Killer Whale Jesus. Children and women should be kept locked in the root cellar at all times. After all, a child locked in the basement is completely unable to fall out windows.
Sure, one or two might be driven mad by spending years without exposure to fresh-air or sunlight, but at least they will be safe from the defenestration that will be the ultimate destiny of all other children.
Ive heard that insane children in cellars sew better shoes! :D

I have nothing to add to this conversation except that I love that you used the word 'Defenestration'.

Welcome back.
Thanks! :D

I have nothing to add to this conversation except that I love that you used the word 'Defenestration'.
If only there were more words like it.

I have nothing to add to this conversation except that I love that you used the word 'Defenestration'.
It's the longest word I know that ever started two different wars. (See Defenestrations of Prague (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague).)

:p

It's the longest word I know that ever started two different wars. (See Defenestrations of Prague (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague).)

:p
OMG this horrible word is Real!!!! The Defenestrated even have Descendants!!!:eek:

"Descendants of those defenestrated include Ferdinand II of Portugal, Sophie Chotek, and Johann Josef I, Prince of Liechtenstein."

I think of defenestration as a way to rid the world of overzealous monarchist Catholics.

Assuming you throw them out from a tall enough building

I think of defenestration as a way to rid the world of overzealous monarchist Catholics.

Assuming you throw them out from a tall enough building
There a was great Defenestration in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Or was it Men in Tights?

Interesting to see defenestration is a word in English. I learnt the French verb se defenestrer (to commit suicide by jumping out of a window) before the English. How odd.

In any case, just keep children in play pens, that would make everything far easier. Or condition them to fear windows... though I suppose that could have negative effects later on in life.

FOOLS! Don't you see the crisis our energy industry is in. Our enemies, rouge nations, have developed some kind of space weapon called "The Sun." With this "Sun" the market is literally flooded with cheap (FREE!) light. We are bathed in economic ruin! And don't think we can go to the WTO and complain about this illegal dumping scheme. Action must be taken now. I call upon the Congress to enact an anti Window law immediately. This is the only way to protect our struggling industries from economic ruin.

This is not the first time the West has had to face such a threat. Read this document by Frederic Bastiat from France in the 1800's!

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html

Interesting to see defenestration is a word in English. I learnt the French verb se defenestrer (to commit suicide by jumping out of a window) before the English. How odd.

In any case, just keep children in play pens, that would make everything far easier. Or condition them to fear windows... though I suppose that could have negative effects later on in life.
Electric shock prods are also a God-send.

I think we should just reintroduce the window tax

FOOLS! Don't you see the crisis our energy industry is in. Our enemies, rouge nations, have developed some kind of space weapon called "The Sun." With this "Sun" the market is literally flooded with cheap (FREE!) light. We are bathed in economic ruin! And don't think we can go to the WTO and complain about this illegal dumping scheme. Action must be taken now. I call upon the Congress to enact an anti Window law immediately. This is the only way to protect our struggling industries from economic ruin.

This is not the first time the West has had to face such a threat. Read this document by Frederic Bastiat from France in the 1800's!

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
That was fucking great....

I think we should just reintroduce the window tax
Window tax?

I don't want my defenestration thread to die...