A few points:
1. It's not that I don't want it, it's just that I think it would end poorly.
2. I didn't join here for those kinds of relationships.
3. Relatives? Not all Americans are into our family! That's just Tennessee.
What is the most unbelievable fact you know of?
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A few points:
1. It's not that I don't want it, it's just that I think it would end poorly.
2. I didn't join here for those kinds of relationships.
3. Relatives? Not all Americans are into our family! That's just Tennessee.
girlsmiley
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1.
2. What the douche.
"surely you can find other people to interact with" does not equal "surely you can find other people to fuck"
3. Oh. Like Tasmania!
2. What the douche.
"surely you can find other people to interact with" does not equal "surely you can find other people to fuck"
3. Oh. Like Tasmania!
No shit I can find people to interact with! Fucking John Merrick found people to interact with. I could go out onto the street and find people to interact with. I could also find people to fuck. I am not particularly interested in either of those things.
girlsmiley
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Yeah, Europeans and pseudo-Europeans don't like me.
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The speed of the 78 rpm record, from which 45s and 33s developed, was set at 78 rpm for no particular reason.
Wiki on the gramophone record
Some of my collection of ancient records were recorded at 80 rpm, and 85 rpm. I can adjust the speed on my wind-up gramophone but not my modern turntable...
Wiki on the gramophone record
Some of my collection of ancient records were recorded at 80 rpm, and 85 rpm. I can adjust the speed on my wind-up gramophone but not my modern turntable...
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You stole mine.
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Can you submit a picture of your gramophone?
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Cool!
Thanks!
Was wondering if it had a crank but I guess not.
Of course it does. You can see the hole above the handle, and the crank handle is stowed just below the tone arm. It is clockwork. No electricity needed.
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There are more units of Planck time in one second than all the seconds since the Big Bang.
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Part Plant Zombie Ants:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...s-infection-spores-bite-noon-animals-science/
Nature is fucked up.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...s-infection-spores-bite-noon-animals-science/
Nature is fucked up.
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I don't now. But if I die and I end up faced with some God...it's on.
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i'll be shivering and looking over my shoulder for days. thanks for this.
Sorry. If it helps, I didn't do it. Life cycle of toxoplasmosis...also deeply creepy and brings new meaning to 'cat lady.'
I won't link to anything if you're already nightmare prone...but if you get brave...
I don't think mankind is a corrupt form of nature. I don't even think we're a crowning achievement. THIS crap is just...*shudder*
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Every country attending the London Olympics had at least one woman in their team. That is the first time ever.
Women competitors were 44% of the total.
It Only Took a Century
There were victories for women even before the Games commenced. London distinguished itself as the first Olympics in which all countries sent teams of both genders. (O.K., Nauru sent men only, but then again, it sent only two; in 2008 it sent a lone female.) The longest holdouts—Qatar, Brunei and Saudi Arabia—counted seven female athletes among them, competing in sports from swimming to table tennis to judo. At the opening ceremony, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge noted with satisfaction that “for the first time in Olympic history, all the participating teams will have female athletes. This is a major boost for gender equality.”
That only took a century or so. Consider that in 1996, 26 nations declined to send women. Forty years after Title IX changed sports for girls in the U.S. by banning discrimination in federally assisted education programs, the rest of the world, it seems, is still catching up. Now, with the introduction of women’s boxing—hey, knock yourself out, girls—competitors of both sexes can pit themselves against the best in the world in nearly every sport. Synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics alone remain women-only. (Perhaps it’s time that the IOC consider extending those sports to men, in the name of equality.) When women were invited to the Olympics in 1900, they could compete in just three sports: lawn tennis, croquet and golf. The list now includes 34 sports in which both men and women compete. As if to underscore that point, in winning the women’s 400-m individual medley in world-record time, Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen swam her last 50-m freestyle leg faster than Lochte did in his freestyle leg (a feat so stunning that some accused Ye of doping).
Read more: http://olympics.time.com/2012/08/09/olympic-wonder-women/?iid=op-article-mostpop1#ixzz23BTA98s7
Women competitors were 44% of the total.
It Only Took a Century
There were victories for women even before the Games commenced. London distinguished itself as the first Olympics in which all countries sent teams of both genders. (O.K., Nauru sent men only, but then again, it sent only two; in 2008 it sent a lone female.) The longest holdouts—Qatar, Brunei and Saudi Arabia—counted seven female athletes among them, competing in sports from swimming to table tennis to judo. At the opening ceremony, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge noted with satisfaction that “for the first time in Olympic history, all the participating teams will have female athletes. This is a major boost for gender equality.”
That only took a century or so. Consider that in 1996, 26 nations declined to send women. Forty years after Title IX changed sports for girls in the U.S. by banning discrimination in federally assisted education programs, the rest of the world, it seems, is still catching up. Now, with the introduction of women’s boxing—hey, knock yourself out, girls—competitors of both sexes can pit themselves against the best in the world in nearly every sport. Synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics alone remain women-only. (Perhaps it’s time that the IOC consider extending those sports to men, in the name of equality.) When women were invited to the Olympics in 1900, they could compete in just three sports: lawn tennis, croquet and golf. The list now includes 34 sports in which both men and women compete. As if to underscore that point, in winning the women’s 400-m individual medley in world-record time, Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen swam her last 50-m freestyle leg faster than Lochte did in his freestyle leg (a feat so stunning that some accused Ye of doping).
Read more: http://olympics.time.com/2012/08/09/olympic-wonder-women/?iid=op-article-mostpop1#ixzz23BTA98s7
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That's really cool! I hope that some of those countries can get over the dogmatic sexism that pervades their societies.
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