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Does "Positively fruitloopy" refer to "lovingly crazy/insane"?

 
 
Reply Fri 21 Aug, 2015 10:50 pm

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VETERAN TV presenter Noel Edmonds is sleeping soundly at night after spending £2000 on a computerised yoga mat that recalibrates his electromagnetic fields. Edmonds shared the good news on Celebrity Radio, where he explained that phones and Wi-Fi are covering us all in the wrong sorts of electromagnetism, assuring host Alex Belfield “the biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it’s not AIDS, it’s electrosmog”.

That miracle mat is the EMPpad, which promises a suite of “profound” health benefits such as better sleep, reduced stress, and, alarmingly, a 500 per cent increase in cellular energy.

To achieve this, the manufacturers claim that the EMPpad “produces an electromagnetic pulse at an intensity and frequency which mimics the Earth’s magnetic field”. Handy for astronauts, we presume, but rather ...

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Reply Sat 22 Aug, 2015 08:58 am
@oristarA,
No, it means plainly crazy, as in ignoring evidence-based science for positively insane theories.
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Reply Sat 22 Aug, 2015 09:06 am
@Paaskynen,
Thanks.
Any mythology tends to misleading.
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Tes yeux noirs
 
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Reply Sat 22 Aug, 2015 09:07 am
"Loopy" is a slang word for "eccentric" or "insane" and Fruit Loops are a type of breakfast cereal made by Kellogg. Thus a "fruitloop" is American slang for an eccentric or crazy person, and "fruitloopy" is by extension an adjective describing such a person.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/viertel_frootloops_post.jpg

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