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[AestheticDeath]

Whats my mothers maiden name?

I am still curious/scared as to how easy it is to find out someone elses personal information. And this is a VERY common sequrity question for most places and things.

PS, If you figure it out, please dont post it. Just PM me with it, and I'll post to say it was figured out.

[Stanley Burrell]

A) Yo?

B) Is it really okay for people of the North Americas to use the letter "S" to replace a "Z" in words like: "Realize (realise)" and "utilize (utilise)" and what have you?

C) Can one man really eat 50 eggs?

D) Yo?

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Whats my mothers maiden name?

No idea but putting “Tehas” in your profile narrows it down to some degree.

Ironically, my surname passes through there.

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A) Yo?

Yo yo yo, yo.


B) Is it really okay for people of the North Americas to use the letter "S" to replace a "Z" in words like: "Realize (realise)" and "utilize (utilise)" and what have you?

No. Leave that to the Brits. We changed it up to be different. Like driving on the wrong side of the road.


C) Can one man really eat 50 eggs?

Apparently one man can: (http://freepressed.com/eggs.htm)


Not one to be outdone, President Bush claimed that he, too, has a hog belly.

"I can eat 50 eggs," he blurted out without thinking--as usual. "Fifty eggs in one hour."


D) Yo?

Yo.

[ElanthianSiren]

If you were to redesign the human race, but we could only experience 3 emotions, which three would you choose and why? Keep in mind survival, procreation etc.

[AestheticDeath]

Love, fear, and pain kinda sums up a huge percentage of emotions I think.

Though I would like to leave out fear and pain, it would probably be detrimental to our survival.

PS When you get right down to it, how many emotions are there? Arent alot of them just a degree of another emotion?

EDIT 2 - apparantly pain is not an emotion but a feeling, and I am stupid for not realizing it sooner. And after a bit of reading I am not sure love is an emotion. But happiness and desire are.. I would say desire is about the same as love, but desire covers more ground I think. So I guess my new list is

Fear - survival
Happiness - doesnt everyone want a happy life?
Desire - making mini-mes!

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If you were to redesign the human race, but we could only experience 3 emotions, which three would you choose and why? Keep in mind survival, procreation etc.

Existential.

I don’t think emotion has anything to do with survival myself. Others may have different views... but if I were to narrow it down to three emotions?

Humility, self-esteem and love.

[Celephais]

Is it physically possible to eat an entire bucket of cheeze balls in one hour? bucket, not bag... like this:
http://www.501st.ca/events/dcon2k3/misc/t_dsc04061.jpg

[Amber]

A) Yo?

B) Is it really okay for people of the North Americas to use the letter "S" to replace a "Z" in words like: "Realize (realise)" and "utilize (utilise)" and what have you?

C) Can one man really eat 50 eggs?

D) Yo?

A) ?
B) No, in North America, we tend to use the "ize" while GB tends to use "ise" more. Ize derives from the ancient greek suffix izein which evolved into izare in post-classical Latin and then iser in French.

While it's true that ise is often defined as a "British" preference, ize is actually a better choice most of the time, according to Britain's leading authority on language: the Oxford English Dictionary. (OED)

Since the suffixes of verbs that end with ise and ize are usually based on either Greek or Latin, editors at Oxford have insisted that ize is the more logical choice. They've also argued that many modern words, such as bastardize, Anglicize, and Americanize should be spelled this way for consistency.


C) What kinda eggs? What time frame? In 2005, the average per capita egg consumption rate was 255.1 eggs, much more than fifty. If you're talking pickled quail eggs, the world record is 42 at one sitting. If you're talking ostrich eggs, which in size are the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs, I can't imagine anyone eating even one at one sitting though someone did in six minutes 40 seconds. If you're talking roe, I suppose 50 eggs would be just a snack.

D) momma?

[Celephais]

Existential.

I don’t think emotion has anything to do with survival myself. Others may have different views... but if I were to narrow it down to three emotions?

Humility, self-esteem and love.

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind. Fear of the unknown, is the oldest and strongest type of fear.

[ElanthianSiren]

Possibly. I may have been thinking too specifically. In a broad sense, those do summarize humans very well.

I would choose:

Loyalty (which you might say is love because it is a major part of the bond that holds families/communities together)
Fear (without fear, we wouldn't last long at all)
The last one is a toss up for me. I can't decide between trust and aggression. Without aggression, there is no will to improve various stations. Without trust, there is no combined effort or spiritualism.

-M

[Bobmuhthol]

<<except pain which I'd think would be a sensation.>>

In a physical sense maybe, but would you consider the synonyms sorrow or anguish to be sensations rather than emotions?

Context, lol!

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Is it physically possible to eat an entire bucket of cheeze balls in one hour? bucket, not bag... like this:
http://www.501st.ca/events/dcon2k3/misc/t_dsc04061.jpg

When you take into account how much air cheese balls (puffs, chips) contain, if you were to actually able to get it all down to a solid mass... that bucket might match the size of the head of the person holding that bucket and everyone knows you can’t eat anything the size of your own head in one sitting.

[ElanthianSiren]

You could try though. Rawwwwwr!

[Satira]

C) Can one man really eat 50 eggs?

Get mad at them eggs!!

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Get mad at them eggs!!

I have no idea what this is in reference to, but it made me laugh.

[Celephais]

When you take into account how much air cheese balls (puffs, chips) contain, if you were to actually able to get it all down to a solid mass... that bucket might match the size of the head of the person holding that bucket and everyone knows you can’t eat anything the size of your own head in one sitting.

A friend of mine( and coworkers) offered to pay $100 to an intern if he could eat a whole bucket in an hour. The kid got about 20 minutes in and gave up (he didnt' get very far, about 1/6th). But I have a feeling it's possible, the intern was just a pussy. It works out to about 18-19 cheese balls a minute. That sounds doable.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

What is the longest living large dog (large being 40 or great lbs)

Why do men have nipples? (good book btw)

[Amber]

What is the longest living large dog (large being 40 or great lbs))
Mixed breeds tend to live longer than purebred dogs and spayed females live longer than males or intact females. The oldest known dog was an australian shepherd who lived to be 29. I'd pick a female australian shepherd cross and get her spayed if I were in the market for a long-lived dog.



Why do men have nipples? (good book btw)
'Cause they're fun to play with.

How can I get rid of insomnia?

[Umpyr]

How can I get rid of insomnia?

get drunk before bed

[Tisket]

get drunk before bed

Wrong. Good sex makes for sound sleep. And you don't wake up hungover.

[Artha]

Why do men have nipples? (good book btw)
I've thought about this - the only reasonable explanation is that the develop in the womb before or as sex is determined.

[Satira]

How can I get rid of insomnia?

Take some melatonin at night, an hour before you go to bed. ...if you haven't tried it already.

[Skeeter]

1. did adam and eve have belly buttons?

2. does life on other planets exist?

3. what triggered land evolution? why leave the water?

4. what's the point of dinosaurs being so impossibly big?

[Sean of the Thread]

5. Is Al gore stealing your megahurtz?

[The Ponzzz]

1. did adam and eve have belly buttons? No, because they didn't exist.

2. does life on other planets exist? Yes, you aren't that special.

3. what triggered land evolution? why leave the water? Non-water breathing lungs, mutants.

4. what's the point of dinosaurs being so impossibly big? Gravity difference when earth was old.

All the above answers are my opinions and are not to be taken as 100% truths!

[TheEschaton]

I've thought about this - the only reasonable explanation is that the develop in the womb before or as sex is determined.

I think men have nipples because all life starts female, and requires a y chromosome to convert the ovaries into testes, expand the urethra into a penis, and fuse the scrotum. Men will notice they have a line which halves their scrotum, like the skin is folded over - this is where your vagina fused....

yup, you have a fused vagina, men.

-TheE-

[TheEschaton]

1. did adam and eve have belly buttons?

2. does life on other planets exist?

3. what triggered land evolution? why leave the water?

4. what's the point of dinosaurs being so impossibly big?

1. Depends on whether you think biological necessity came before image-of-Godness or not. Adam and Eve were supposedly created in God's image, you have to ask whether God would give them belly buttons to make them like their descendents, or not since they weren't actually birthed. Who knows?

2. Chances are, yes. Even in the case of intelligent life, I believe there's a higher amount of habitable planets in the universe than the randomness of evolution into a higher being. Furthermore, we have no idea if something which would be inhabitable to our kind of life could instead evolve some other kind of "life".

3. Overcrowding. It was an evolutionary advantage to leave the water - no competition, no predators, a lot of fucking food. As to why the first few left the water, it was probably literally to escape predators. Those could crawl back into the water when the predator left survived better.

4. Huh. No idea. But many dinosaurs were small, some the size of chickens. I guess I would say that most things were bigger in those days, including vegetation, due to a more tropical setting. So bigness in prey could be due to an adaptive attempt to reach more vegetation, and then predators likewise evolve.

-TheE-

[Tisket]

Why is it always white that goes first in chess?

What did Homer have for breakfast the morning he wrote the first line of the Iliad?

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What did Homer have for breakfast the morning he wrote the first line of the Iliad?

Mmm, donuts...

[FinallyDomesticated]

I have a friend who is severely disabled and on oxygen due to falling off a skyscraper. He is required to pay for a full service hair cut but they refuse to wash his hair.

Feeling bad about the situation, I purchased a special smock type thing which is designed for their sinks so they could use that for him. They claim it is unsanitary for them to do that. I offered to let them keep it to use, new in the box, and they declined.

This has happened at every place he's been.

Is it that unreasonable to ask a salon to find a way to accomodate him? Are salons not in some way encouraged to be handicap friendly?

And to clarify, he's in a wheelchair, oxygen tank attached, with slightly limited range of motion in his neck.

[Sean of the Thread]

Seriously I want to know who is stealing my megahurtz.

[HarmNone]

What reason are they giving for refusing to wash his hair? The oxygen should have no bearing on washing someone's hair! :thinking:

[FinallyDomesticated]

There is really no reason given. He's a clean looking guy. His body is limited but his neck would be fine to allow a shampoo with a slight modification or two (not leaning back so far, etc.)

When I have gone with him, the response is generally a sort of pitying look in his direction followed by a shake of the head. Then they mumble, I'm not sure we can do that. I've asked why not and they've said everything from we're busy (no one was there) to let's not make a scene, our equipment is just not set up for that.

[AestheticDeath]

Uh well just guessing here, but from the sound of it, him being in a wheel chair, and having limited mobility in his neck, they dont want to be liable for anything that might happen to him if they wash too hard. Heck I mean it sounds like he cant lean back into the sink which is what your suppose to do.

I would have some serious reservations myself trying to do any kind of work on someones body(part) which has been broken/whatever.

If someone came into a clothing store you worked at, and had a big freaking splint/cast thing on their leg or foot, would you help dress them?

But also, you say that he has to pay for a full haircut, are you meaning to say they require him to pay for hairwashing, yet dont give that part of the service? Thats pretty stupid, and I dont see how they could, but the more I think on it, it seems to be a set up to make you leave - not wanting to pay for something he isnt getting.

Also, couldnt you help wash his hair before you go to the hairdresser people?

And what kinda hair cut is he wanting? Is he wanting like longer hair style, more something that a professional would be needed? Or could he get by with like just having it all cut one length, or cut all off.. I dont know too many guys right now that like to have hair over a couple inchs long.

Seems to me itd be easier to forget the hairstylists and just go with something easy and simple - get one of them haircut devices you stick to a vacuum, cut it all one length, shave the neck etc.. Or just cut it all off. I mean if he himself has limited ability to mess with his hair, it would make sense to have less to take care of.

[HarmNone]

That's just weird. They should have some justification for their decision. Have you spoken with the managers/owners of the salons he's tried? I know there are stylists that come to peoples' homes, or go to nursing homes to assist people there with hair care. I can't understand why they'd be refusing this man.

Come to think of it, you might try calling nursing homes in your area to see if he could go there for hair care services. Even though he's not a resident, if you explain the problem you might just find an answer for him. :)

[El Burro]

How do people fall off skyscrapers?

[Umpyr]

How do people fall off skyscrapers?

gravity

[FinallyDomesticated]

The nursing home idea was great. They have a book of almost any service provider imaginable - even salons who will cater to the somehow challenged. Thank you soo much. Although I am kicking myself wishing I had thought of that.

And in response to how to fall off a skyscraper - He was an engineer walking on scaffolding as they were working on the building. Whoever put the scaffolding together didn't do it right or something like that. So it gave and he fell a few stories. It had broken something in his back and crushed his ribs/one lung, so he was unable to grasp anything to stay put. He slid and fell another few floors before finally crashing to the ground.

[HarmNone]

That sounds like a horrible accident. I'm so sorry, but I'm glad you were able to find some resources for him through the nursing homes. They're usually very willing to help with things like this, so if he ever needs any other hard-to-find services, they'll be a great resource. :)

[TheEschaton]

Why is it always white that goes first in chess?

What did Homer have for breakfast the morning he wrote the first line of the Iliad?

1. Racism.

2. Beer. Doh!

-TheE-

[Artha]

All their sinks might have their own seats.

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1. Racism.

Hey, now, white relates to light which archetypically means knowledge or good. Black is darkness, the unknown, or evil. Whoever made the game probably sided with the good against the evil, because the good always has the upper hand.