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http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC...es-online-porn :bored:Quote:
LONDON - The parents of a five-year-old girl who was raped by a teenage babysitter have attacked a judge who let the boy walk free after claiming online pornography and society was to blame...
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/5/313...-everyone-else
I find myself tempted to a surprising extent
Why is the Middle Eastern bloc nominating Syria? :confused:
One of my old coworkers, a FB friend now, who I once considered pretty smart has completely baffled me. She started out with the whole "organic-only" and no processed foods route, which didn't tip me off because that's a fairly popular movement and it has some positives to it. Then today she talks about doing "detox" using some liquid product and pills as a meal replacement. WHAT THE HELL! People really fall for this shit, it seems. I thought her a better person that; clearly she is going off the deep end. :(
I've learned that many women aren't very good at using their brain when it comes to anything relating to their weight, regardless of how smart they are on other issues.
Those are the most likely victims.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catgrrl
40% of teenaged British girls want cosmetic surgery? :bulb:
British girls have a reputation for being ugly :o
It's weird, because I also noticed this even before I heard there was a reputation. You live there, right Timbuk2? Are most of them really that ugly? o_O
Ack! I visit the page today and it's reset to classic blue!
It's what I always use. What do you use? :)
That's OK, the Africans are nominating Sudan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
http://allafrica.com/stories/201207130113.html
I didn't mean it from that point of view. I meant that most of the Middle Eastern states have terrible relations with Syria at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
I suspect it's just because it works like a rotation in most of the regional groupings, and the Middle East group in the UN that decides on the nominations does not consider the HRC to be particularly high on their priority list? It's also possible it was decided on before this whole mess started, I don't know.
Past decisions can be changed. I can't imagine this looks good on the street for the Arab regimes who are publicly against Syria.
Never underestimate the desire to be culturally relevant. Whether it's based on dress size or BMI, women are especially vulnerable to anything that hints to connections between health and beauty. Take a look at how stores have laid out their aisles. Beauty (cosmetic) items are positioned close to entrances, vitamins and weight loss products are placed close to them, and often "lead" to items for babies and children. It's all about capturing the consumer, and knowing that millions of moms are going to 24 hour "pharmacies" to buy diapers, pediatric meds, or a gallon of milk, and can be persuaded into buying certain products that promise better health, better life, better parenting, better anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catgrrl
I'm a big sucker for that kind of shit. Marketing techniques have gotten very sophisticated that way. Running in to buy bandaids or poison ivy treatments for my kids, leaves me buying some herbal bubble bath or hair clip on my way out. That's why end-aisle products in the cashier line are filled with impulse purchase items---candy bars, chocolates, gum, batteries, super glue. ;)
Says the guy who's claimed to needing so many calories to maintain a healthy weight. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us...agewanted=1&hp
How did anyone think this was a good idea? :bored:
Bunch of goddam puerile schoolboys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
I like the part where they said that the woman intentionally wore a skirt so they wouldn't listen to her. :bored: If I wouldn't know better, I'd say this was happening in Pakistan or Egypt.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/...cument&src=hp8
Germany currently has no voting law, isn't that funny?
On the BBC's website for the Olympics, they have little country profiles and news for each team. What's amusing (or weird) is that every country has a little 'fact sheet' about it - capital, population, etc. - except for the US. I mean, they assume you don't know that London is the capital of Great Britain, but they figure you don't need any info on the US. Odd.
A revamp of the voting law (and it will have to be a simple solution, due to the time constraints - they simply won't have the time to pull the usual shenanigans) will most probably spell the death for the FDP on the federal level, as the Überhangsmandate (those extra seats) were usually the only thing which kept them in the Bundestag.Quote:
Originally Posted by earthJoker
But doesn't have the CDU the most Überhangsmandate? What do you expect as a solution? I assume Germany won't get rid of the dual vote per person system.
You got a link? Couldn't find it by browsing BBC.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
The BBC localises its pages by where you're viewing from. So I suspect that it's simply the BBC US site, so won't give factoids about the country you're in.
I wondered if that was the case, but it seemed far-fetched.
For example, US is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/.../united-states
UK is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/.../great-britain
Do let me know if it's just cleverly localized. Otherwise, weird.
Yep, I get key facts on the US link:
Key Facts
Top medal sports
(pre-2012)
Athletics
Swimming
Capital
Washington DC
Population
317,600,000
Size
9,800,000km²
Languages
English
~
And none on the UK site for me.
So cleverly localised.
Okay, so
In about two weeks, I'll be presenting my lab and some fancy-looking results to...a teenage kid from Southern Europe, courtesy of the Make a Wish foundation.
Does anyone know if they have to be terminal to be accepted into the charity program? Cuz that's gonna be one depressing demonstration
They do not have to be terminal. And if you're worried about appearances, they usually try to get the wishes that involve other people to happen before there are obvious signs of death knocking on the door. Some wishes are even granted after the kid is cured.
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Originally Posted by Nessus
I can't imagine how you're going to do the presentation though.
I've done it for Finnish high school kids many times, same thing here I guess. Except it'll apparently be through a translator as the kid's English isn't very good :/
Do it in Finnish!
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Originally Posted by Beeb
Okay, so there's this friend of mine from school. Kept contact with him through Facebook and he always seemed like an ok guy. Until he began liking and linking stuff from Vegan sites. And with that I don't mean "Eat less meat and more plants" or harmless stuff like that.
No, it had to be "The Milk Lie", a (sadly enough) documentary by the German public channels (that they broadcasted this rubbish is bad enough) where they mixed actually valid complaints (like how cattle are treated) with stuff like "Dairy causes cancer!"
Basis for this pseudo-scientific stuff? The China Study, where some guy arrives at the conclusion that some ingredient of dairy milk causes cancer and meat (be that beef, pork, chicken or fish!) is generally bad for your health (I quote: "Every bit of cholesterol above 0 (zero) milligrams is bad for you!")
Too bad that the data he presented in his book can also be interpreted way differently (it's statistics, after all!), up to the point where his data shows that hand-rolled cigarettes have a cancer-preventative effect...
I got into a bit of an argument with the Vegan guys on Facebook. And decided to pull out after they accused one of the links I posted as trying to make fun of Veganism which shouldn't be allowed due to the "Freedom of religion and beliefs"!
Right. And here I was thinking we were talking about scientific studies.
I've learned lately, Khen, that people posting on Facebook are nutters. You can't trust anyone to have a real discussion anymore; if you challenge it they become unstable.
Heh? Aren't the people you got on Facebook, the usual ones you talk with in real life too? :p