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I love the internet. I love it too much. Here are the numerous reasons I love it, and why that also makes it suck. I'm an information junkie, so the interet gives me exactly what I want: tons of information at my fingertips. Why does that suck? I then end up reading and searching the...

"Your right to swing your fist stops at the other fellow's nose." -- US Supreme Court Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Smoking in public deserves to be illegal. Your right to waft smoke in all directions ends when the smoke goes up my nose. Then my girlfriend and I have to move all the way...

Welcome to the forum. I hope you find something worth getting into here! Since your from Wales, I may need some advice from you. I'll be in Newport (outside Cardiff) sometime in the next month or so on business and will need some advice on what's worth doing there. I'm hoping to catch...

I joined after I got out of college, got settled into my job, and started reading again. I wanted to see what other people were reading. I was hoping to find some new authors or new genres, but so far I'm finding I just like my nonfiction books about human history. My second reason for...

I loved the uterus too! I had the same thought Ell! Wow, Wabbit, that's a pretty elaborate burial! I'll settle for a burlap bag and a hole under a shade tree. After I'm done with my body, I don't really care what's done with it. I think burial ceremonies are more for the people that...

Need a laugh? Need a unique burial box? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4215923.stm

Pulp Fiction: Just pick a scene. Office Space: Just pick a scene Pumping Iron: Arnold and Franco training and posing down at the end. The Matrix: The Battle in the Lobby before saving Morpheus. Braveheart: Just pick a scene. I always get sucked into this one. Kill Bill Vol. II: The...

I agree with honeydevil. A child's maturity is to be considered when introducing them to certain things. I mean, you don't want your kid going to daycare and telling the teacher to "**** off", much less telling you to. Don't kids need to learn how to deal with disappointment in another way...

I couldn't find it on CNN, but I did find this quote: "...They especially liked the improvements in students' math and science test scores, said Richard Dowdy, assistant principal at the school. "We monitored students in the single-gender classrooms and compared them not only against...

Ashlea, that's the thing; this wasn't just a theory or some calculation. The study I saw on CNN was just information (scores, etc.) gathered from real classrooms where students were split up by gender. They didn't go to separate schools (that I remember), but they were just in separate...

My psychology prof in college said that even though there are negative effects in exposing children to sex, the effects of violence are much worse. However, if your children are exposed to violence or sex, it always helps to have a parent that's not too ashamed to explain to the child what he...

I agree with Ell that a lot of our problems today are brought on by rampant consumerism coupled with the expectations of incredibly high standards of living. From someone who's had to go to stress management therapy, I will go so far as to say that some of the world's mental "disease" can also...

Warning! Graphic! Dissection is essential. My girlfriend is in med school currently, and they learn a lot from those labs. Don't read the next paragraph if you can't handle gore. For the rest, it's pretty funny. Aside from the important things they learn, they also learn things that...

I don't have time to weigh in right now, but my hat's off to you, novella and motokid, for not letting a great disussion become a nasty argument.

I wish I would've seen this forum earlier. I agree with a lot of what's being said here. For me, high school was a waste of time. It was just regurgitation; read this and spit it back out. However, college was an actual learning experience. I learned how to learn, but not until I started...

Loved both. Own both. Loved Pai Mai's character the best. Would've dressed up as him for Halloween but didn't think about it in time. Had to settle for being a Hooter's Girl.

My g/f read it, and she says it's about finding your own path to enlightenment. "Do you concur?" :)

I got it in yesterday (from Amazon :) ). I've just started on it. I even plugged it on my fledgling blog. We'll have to start a Jared Diamond thread. :)

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. It was a very good read. Diamond makes his books informative and writes with purpose. In this book, he relates human social patterns and characteristics to those of other animals in order to point out that use of advanced tools is our only real...

I heard a bluegrass rendition of "500 Miles" earlier today. :D