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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2021 16:38:37 GMT
Let's not be so quick to laugh at that headline or at the poor boy who says he saw the mantis. As soon as I saw it I thought, "ergot". Looking it up, it seems entirely possible that he could have contracted that at the dog food factory: Ergot poisoning in humans and domestic animals is known as ergotism. This disease may cause strange hallucinations ...source
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 2, 2021 14:30:36 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2021 17:24:22 GMT
A novel twist on "talk to your plants"!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 2, 2021 18:06:02 GMT
I am angry with spinach because they use one of those "donotreply" email addresses.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 8, 2021 16:11:50 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2021 15:10:34 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 24, 2021 15:25:28 GMT
I don't think that's the tool you're supposed to use to circumcise people.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 24, 2021 18:43:43 GMT
That is excellent.
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Post by questa on Mar 24, 2021 23:00:32 GMT
Do these 'journalists' (and I use the term loosely) sit around in their lunch-break making up stories to match their absurd headlines?
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Post by bjd on Mar 25, 2021 6:39:34 GMT
It's the contrary, Questa. They hear of a silly story and then make up a headline to attract readers/buyers.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 25, 2021 12:22:12 GMT
It also seems as if the circumcision officiant has extremely poor aim.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 25, 2021 14:29:32 GMT
He wasn't a professional anyway. He was only doing it for the tips.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 25, 2021 17:22:17 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2021 17:53:34 GMT
Who won?
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 25, 2021 18:09:04 GMT
Where was Whoopi Goldberg when this happened?
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 27, 2021 11:06:03 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 7, 2021 11:37:48 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2021 13:22:08 GMT
I'm not supposed to tell, but ~ that is Mick's bird.
Along with a "headline I don't understand", that article contains this sentence I don't understand: I called him Chris the Rhea for obvious reasons. And that reason would be ~?~
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 7, 2021 13:28:31 GMT
There is a British rock and blues singer whose name is Chris Rea.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2021 13:36:24 GMT
Ahhh ~ light dawns!
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 7, 2021 13:47:45 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2021 14:30:41 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 11, 2021 12:38:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2021 16:22:53 GMT
English may not be the first language of the person who wrote that headline.
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Post by questa on Apr 12, 2021 1:53:04 GMT
If not...we are all doomed, I say...doomed!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 21, 2021 15:21:02 GMT
Not exactly a headline, but irresistable clickbait (at least for me) -- 11 Ways Sex In Europe Is Different Than Sex In The United StatesI remember an episode of Friends that astonished me. I think it was Chandler who was taking a shower and one of the women (Monica or Rachel, I think) accidently walked in and saw him naked. The entire episode was based on his attempts at revenge to catch the other person naked as though it was humiliating to be seen naked. I found this incomprehensible. Okay, it was comedy rather than real life but it was so childish -- which isn't even the correct term because children have fewer problems about this than adults.
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Post by questa on Apr 21, 2021 23:50:22 GMT
US prudishness is the worst, specially on screen. I blame the ridiculous censorship of the past by the various official Boards and "stir up trouble " groups. So you get to see a bit of breast as a mother feeds a baby...How lovely! but someone will say it is porn. Gone, thankfully, are the days when married couples on screen had to have twin beds, then one could have a double bed but one actor had to have a foot on the floor! Fully dressed lovers, in any scene where kissing occurred were not to touch lips, they got around this by having the actor whose arm was behind the clinch placing his/her thumb between those sinful lips. As for Rhett saying "Damn"...
Today's censorship has eased up a bit but the graphic scenes of wars, thugs, goodies and baddies showing scenes of unbelievable horror and terror do not seem to be taking the place of the prudes' anxiety over a quick glimpse of skin. Seems violence is more acceptable.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2021 5:05:43 GMT
On the news they are saying more often "we warn you that there are some disturbing images in this report" but for series it is almost the opposite. "Hey don't miss this! It is full of disturbing images!"
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Post by fumobici on Apr 22, 2021 15:04:07 GMT
US prudishness is the worst, specially on screen. I blame the ridiculous censorship of the past by the various official Boards and "stir up trouble " groups. So you get to see a bit of breast as a mother feeds a baby...How lovely! but someone will say it is porn. Gone, thankfully, are the days when married couples on screen had to have twin beds, then one could have a double bed but one actor had to have a foot on the floor! Fully dressed lovers, in any scene where kissing occurred were not to touch lips, they got around this by having the actor whose arm was behind the clinch placing his/her thumb between those sinful lips. As for Rhett saying "Damn"... Today's censorship has eased up a bit but the graphic scenes of wars, thugs, goodies and baddies showing scenes of unbelievable horror and terror do not seem to be taking the place of the prudes' anxiety over a quick glimpse of skin. Seems violence is more acceptable. Quite. I'll never understand the reasoning that showing people naked is deemed obscene, but gory depictions of violence aren't. I'd rather live in a world where depicting people having sex is considered far more wholesome than showing people shooting and killing each other.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2021 15:20:30 GMT
It appears that the major monotheist religions are against this at varying degrees. Christians, Jews, Muslims... It's hard to understand why. I may be mistaken but Hindus and Buddhists do not seem to have the same problem, as well as most or all of the animist religions. Has anybody ever written a book explaining this? This would imply that sex (and even just nudity) is contrary to godliness.
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