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Post by onlymark on Mar 24, 2011 6:00:18 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2011 2:38:34 GMT
Did you make that webpage? (she asked suspiciously)
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Post by onlymark on Mar 28, 2011 5:04:03 GMT
No, but I wish I had done.
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Post by mockchoc on Mar 31, 2011 11:50:30 GMT
That was incredibly hard for me to do.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 31, 2011 13:36:06 GMT
Yeah well, you're female aren't you.
Us males have very little problem doing nothing sitting and staring at something - especially if you are English and watch cricket.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 31, 2011 13:37:08 GMT
I bet you're the type to shout at the microwave "C'MON C'MON FINISH ALREADY!"
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Post by lola on Mar 31, 2011 15:02:34 GMT
I wouldn't have any problem with sitting still for two minutes and listening to the actual ocean, or watching real life cricket, either. I made it to 1:27 before I felt too sheepish to continue.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 31, 2011 16:31:59 GMT
Just click on the website then get up and go to the toilet or something. That's the way to beat it.
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Post by foreverman on Apr 1, 2011 2:17:56 GMT
My OH walked in while I was looking and asked me what I was doing..............I just sheepishly said "nothing"............
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2011 2:31:57 GMT
A Real Woman would have found a chore for you to do, Foreverman! ;D
Mark, if you get up and go to the toilet, that's cheating.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 1, 2011 7:00:28 GMT
Cheating is fine. Getting caught isn't.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2011 19:47:55 GMT
Words to live by?
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Post by onlymark on Apr 1, 2011 20:36:02 GMT
Anything worth having is worth cheating for. - W.C. Fields
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Post by foreverman on Apr 2, 2011 2:52:33 GMT
Talking about cheating I read this with interest
Chat Rooms and Infidelity
The newfound popularity of internet chat rooms has contributed largely to infidelity. Never before has it been so easy to engage in the dating scene and meet people while maintaining the stability of marriage. Chat rooms provide a dilemma because some view them as a forum for fantasies and illusions that are simply just communication rather than physical acts. In a sense, they are a place where married individuals can engage in guilt-free excitement. However, everyone feels differently, leading to extreme gray areas.
A study by Beatriz Lia Avila Mileham in 2004 examined the phenomenon of online infidelity in chat rooms, a process whereby individuals involved in a long-term committed relationship seek computer synchronous, interactive contact with opposite-sex members. The following factors were investigated: (a) what elements and dynamics online infidelity involves and how it happens; (b) what leads individuals specifically to the computer to search for a relationship ‘‘on the side’’; (c) whether individuals consider online contacts as infidelity and why or why not; and (e) what dynamics chat room users experience in their marriages. The results lead to three constructs that symbolize chat room dynamics and serve as a foundation for internet infidelity. They include:
1. Anonymous Sexual Interactionism 2. Behavioral Rationalization 3. Effortless Avoidance.
Anonymous Sexual Interactionism refers to these individuals’ predilection for anonymous interactions of a sexual nature in chat rooms. The allure of anonymity gains extra importance for married individuals, who can enjoy relative safety to express fantasies and desires without being known or exposed.
Behavioral Rationalization denotes the reasoning that chat room users present for conceiving their online behaviors’ as innocent and harmless (despite the secrecy and highly sexual nature).
Effortless Avoidance involves chat room users’ avoidance of psychological discomfort by exchanging sexual messages with strangers. Happily married individuals also join such rooms.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 31, 2020 13:51:47 GMT
We all know (I think) that once upon a time all the land mass of the earth was clustered together (there have been four(?) times the land came to together and then split apart) and the following website will pinpoint a city you name on the earth during the time from 750 million years ago in steps until now. For example, London spent a lot of time in the sea until eventually the land masses drifted apart whereby that point on the globe became land - dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#0
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 31, 2020 14:31:18 GMT
I imagine there is a certain amount of speculation in the imagery unless they have a secret time machine.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 31, 2020 18:46:57 GMT
Or archaeological evidence.
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Post by mossie on Sept 1, 2020 6:55:22 GMT
Can't believe London was in the sea, why aren't there nice sandy beaches and stranded ships? Old Mark is having a laugh.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 1, 2020 9:39:24 GMT
Cant understand why bother with such a site when earth is 2000 years old.
Plus we all know earth is flat (unless younare a sheep and digest yhe fake news you are fed) so if the earth expanded it would fall off the table... Rubbish 😆
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 1, 2020 11:28:37 GMT
I love all the speculation, like wondering what colours dinosaurs were, which is supposed to be achievable if fossilised skin is found by looking at menalocytes. There is a lot of geological evidence out there...my boy wanted to be a paleontologist when he was a youngster (what boy doesn't?) and Leicestershire has some quite rich fossil beds...especially around Charnwood. One of the national trust sites, beacon hill park, is on the slopes of an (admittedly small) extinct volcano...son was always finding shell fossils...nothing spectacular...but there is the 'Rutland Dinosaur'...a cetiosaurus....so exciting
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2020 23:23:38 GMT
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