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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby DoglovingJim » Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:34 am

cmsellers wrote:
Revolving Royal wrote:Dragonflies are the attack helicopters of the insect world and getting people to hold a live insect while a muderfly swoops down to eat it with their xenomorph jaws would only appeal to a niche audience.

I don't understand normal people. I just don't.

Clearly we need to breed giant attack dragonflies and purge the world of them.

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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby iMURDAu » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:50 pm

What's more powerful? Money or water?
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby mancityfooty » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:44 am

money now, water in about 25-30 years
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Twistappel » Sat Oct 08, 2016 10:41 pm

Is the government lying to us about pumpkin spice lattes?
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby cmsellers » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:25 am

Given the improvement in diet and hygiene compared to our farming ancestors and in medical care compared to all our ancestors, are the people of today on average better-looking than the people of the past, assuming you control for obesity? Would Helen of Troy be pretty unremarkable looking by today's standards?
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby ghijkmnop » Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:39 pm

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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby cmsellers » Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:59 pm

ghijkmnop wrote:Depends on how you feel about teeth, smell, and hair.

Bad teeth only became a huge issue with a switch to agriculture, but since the women I find most attractive are in their twenties, they would have had most of their teeth even in agricultural societies.

Hair will look naturally shiny but otherwise fine if you don't shampoo it--most of the oiliness goes away after a couple days.

Body odor can be dealt with by washing.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Anglerphobe » Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:39 pm

I really don't buy this idea that people never or rarely washed until a few generations ago. Bathing and grooming are clearly shown to have been important to people in most civilisations we know enough about to say, with artefacts, common terms, and in some cases days of the week having names to do with baths and bathing across much of the history of civilisation. Obviously things like artificial fragrances are not so consistent but people prefer being clean and, it would seem, always have.
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Thou, teaching thrift, thyselfe couldst never thrive.
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To sharpen others, when themselves are blunt."

Anyone who has any kind of opinion fucking disgusts me.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby ghijkmnop » Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:21 pm

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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Krashlia » Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:18 am

iMURDAu wrote:What's more powerful? Money or water?


Neither, Blood.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby cmsellers » Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:36 am

So the OP had 69 replies and I'm ruining it.

In other news, TIW:

Is it ageist to say that old people are much more likely to be racist?

If not, is it ageist to say that old people are racist because dementia means they've forgotten that racism is bad?
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby cmsellers » Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:41 pm

In Massachusetts, where raspberries and blueberries are grown, raspberries cost roughly twice by volume by blueberries do (and blueberries are denser than raspberries, it's probably something like 2.5x by weight). Raspberries also ship poorly and spoil more quickly than blueberries.

Yet in Texas, which doesn't grow raspberries AFAIK (they should grow here since we get a lot of them from Florida, but nobody seems to bother), raspberries are exactly the same price per pound they are in Massachusetts, while blueberries cost about 1.5x by weight (and likely twice by volume) what raspberries do.

Why are blueberries so expensive in Texas? I cannot think of any reason this should be.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Piter Lauchy » Tue Nov 01, 2016 9:43 pm

cmsellers wrote:Is it ageist to say that old people are much more likely to be racist?

Have you seen Master of None? They very briefly deal with this, meaning they don't go into much depth, but it's a lovely scene. Also, it's an excellent show, so you and everyone else should check it out regardless.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Twistappel » Mon Nov 14, 2016 5:21 pm

When I was in high school, one of my friends discovered this neat, rhyming recap of Macbeth, handwritten in the back of the copy of the play she'd been issued by the school. It went something like this:

Double, double toil and trouble
Macbeth doth plot, ambitions bubble
Egged on by Lady M, who's bolder
He kills the king, ere he's much older
Black deeds follow, fast and furious
Banquo buys it, 'cause he's curious
The Scots lords thing they'll call a halt
Before Mac does another bolt
[I forget the next bit. It has been 20 years] to meet his doom
And Malcolm reigns in Macbeth's room
The moral's clear: If your head you'd keep
'Tis best to look before you leap


I've often wondered who wrote it. I've never been able to find it online, which leads me to speculate that the author may have been a teacher or student at my school. I've toyed with the idea that my friend may have written it and was too embarrassed to tell me, but (not to be nasty) she didn't have much literary talent, and I think the vocabulary was a bit beyond her.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby octoberpumpkin » Thu Nov 17, 2016 11:21 pm

How do they not know that octodad is an octopus?

What are armadillos up to lately?
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