Smashing the Vegetarian Vaccination Binary! #BecauseScienceIsStillAThing
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the evil idea thread is.... how does one point at right angles to reality when one is not a politician?
Journalists and liberal arts professors are also good at that sort of thing.
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I know, I just CBA to remember how to write accented characters. This is 'Murica, we don't have those silly foreign things here.
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Filed Under: From a fellow 'Murican
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Much appreciated, but that bit of knowledge will be gone this evening after my 2nd Jack and Coke. ;)
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@Intercourse said:
I know, I just CBA to remember how to write accented characters. This is 'Murica, we don't have those silly foreign things here.
FYI: Alt-130 also creates é.
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It did not when I first started here in Discoland. Apparently that has been fixed?
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However, you are correct that there are some illnesses that are communicable before being symptomatic. As far as I understand, those are mostly respiratory illnesses though.
Quite a few STIs can be transmitted when the carrier is symptomless.
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Quite a few STIs can be transmitted when the carrier is symptomless.
Ah, yes. Forgot about them.
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i'm stone cold sober and i've already forgotten...
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It's STI now?
Another PC term?
Maybe not, STI is a broader term that refers to ST stuff that doesn't necessarily have symptoms???Um.... it's the symptoms we care about. If an STI doesn't have any symptoms, then it doesn't cause problems.
Then I found this.
Certain health professionals and health organizations are beginning to use the term Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) over the term Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) because
· the term STI is a broader one (see the definition below)
· certain infections may be curable so they want to make a distinction between an STI and STD
· the term “infection” carries less of a stigma than the word “disease”
However, the term STD is not an outdated one and is still used.They make the contention that if someone has an STD, there is an underlying cause, an infection, that needs to be treated.
OMG
Ok, I give up. People must really be dumb as a brick.
Symptoms or not, if it can cause a symptom, it's a disease in my book.
I mean, it wasn't rocket science for me. Unprotected sex means shit happens. Don't let shit happen.
But, it's the stigma thing that takes the cake.
You don't think that in 10 years, people will have the same unreasonable scorn for people with STIs. Then what do you do? We can't have a more technically correct term?
So worried about protecting people's feelings.
We're that cushy now?
I think this is why I like watching Walking Dead. Has that refreshing, shit happens, grow balls that I miss so much. But no one can grow balls when they are thrown under the bus as kids with the parent's being so concerned with "deserving happiness".
The world's fucked.
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@Intercourse said:
share bodily fluids with strangers on an airplane
Are you channeling @algorythmics?
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aren't we all?
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I am not that sexy.
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Screw that--fire up MSN Messenger and type ctrl-shift-' and then an e. Works with many common latin-1-type accented letters.
Some other apps do it as well but I don't have an exhaustive list. It's too bad that's not built into the standard Windows text box.
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@Intercourse said:
write accented characters
Like ç ? I also have this strange one I hardly use: $. Any ideas on when that ugly s would be appropriate.
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It's quite common in some programming languages, as well as sometimes being part of a masked swear word.
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$. Any ideas on when that ugly s would be appropriate.
When abbreviating Microsoft. As in M$. Duh.
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It's quite common in some programming languages, as well as sometimes being part of a masked swear word.
are you aiming for a woosh badge?
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Pfff, nowadays App£e is where it's at.
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Are you qualified to identify the effects of heavy metal poisoning?
I can assure you that it's no laughing matter. Nowadays, I find it impossible to enjoy any other music genre.
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The world's fucked.
And here, my friends, is TRWTF that trumps all WTFs, concisely summed up.
/bows to xaade/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1zCN0YhW1s
Just a little hit to help with the withdrawals.
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I also have this strange one I hardly use: $. Any ideas on when that ugly s would be appropriate.
It's a mystery. But if you come across any extra, I'd be willing to take them off your hands.
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€ is all I have but think more in the lines of € 0,xx
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Ah, that takes me back. Good track.
I went out to a club last night and a horror-punk band was playing. I think that's where all the metal-heads of my generation ended up: in the punk scene.
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I think that's where all the metal-heads of my generation ended up: in the punk scene.
Or we just grew up and started looking all respectable and shit. ;)
Funny story, my in-laws are as straight-laced as it gets. Like, they are like the "Leave it to Beaver" family. When we started dating I would hear them say things about people with tattoos, etc. I just ignored it and nodded. Our first "family vacation" they saw me in the pool with no shirt. I never heard them say anything about "people with tattoos" again. ;)
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My husband has been likened to a teddy bear; he's very likeable, friendly, and outgoing. People are therefore always shocked to find out he loves metal XD
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I listen to everything except poppy bullshit. My heart has always been in metal though. In ~1997 I got to see Sevendust in a small venue in Louisville, KY. That was an amazing show. Especially so as I was going through a rough breakup at the time so I nearly gave myself whiplash when they played "Bitch".
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@Intercourse said:
I listen to everything except poppy bullshit.
I like just about any genre of music :) I've even heard a few dubstep tracks I liked, though I feel like I don't get most of it.
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The really odd thing is, next to metal/heavy alternative, my favorite genre of music is old outlaw country. Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, David Allan Coe, etc.
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Another one for @Yamikuronue. I got to see Tool in ~1999, damned if I remember the venue. But here is a cover of "46 and 2" done by some high school and junior high kids. If talent like this is still developing, and they actually want to play songs like this, the music world might be alright. ;)
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Nice! I didn't mean to imply that the music of the future would be crap or anything, just that the metal influences on the horrorpunk genre were quite clear, at least from what I've heard.
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I didn't mean to imply that the music of the future would be crap or anything
I did. Most of today's music is utter crap, IMHO. ;)
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The only problem I have with my local top 40 station is that they seem to be racist in their choices of which top 40 songs they play. I mean, Iggy Azelea gets play, but Beyonce does not? Really? So to balance things out I put on a hip-hop/r&b station while I'm working on things, when I'm not listening to musical soundtracks or acapella music.
Though today I've got that Tool cover on repeat, that's awesome :D
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I did the same thing. I listened to it several times in a row when I first found it. I cannot believe a 12 year old girl can sing "46 and 2" that well. I think the best part is 3:15-3:30. You can hear her singing through a smirk and I think MJK would approve.
Edit: The drummer also absolutely thrashes. I love seeing him really get into it. The kid has a hell of a future if he keeps playing.
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Here is another one for you by the same music school. They are in Cincinnati.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXkkS4HBJ6o
Edit: At 2:10 the little boy playing the drums in this one drops a drumstick and recovers without missing a beat.
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I'm so jelly of those kids. I had to beg for singing lessons and only got them for about a year when I was actively doing musical theatre. My stepsiblings and half-brother get piano lessons as a matter of course, but I had to make do with what I could get through school electives.
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@Intercourse said:
Most of today's music is utter crap
Most music from any era is crap. It's only the good stuff that's remembered 30 years later, so that's what people think all music was like back then.
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Touché.
(Cue the people to come in and fix my lack of silly accent character because I CBA to do it myself)
[edit: fixed - b]
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@Intercourse said:
(Cue the people to come in and fix my lack of silly accent character because I CBA to do it myself)
Well, since you asked:
@Intercourse said:
Touché.
FTFY
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Thank you sir.
Edit: I thought about substituting "queue" for "cue" just to give you guys more to do, but better sense prevailed.
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@boomzilla, I would have expected a "I have edited your post, pray I do not edit it further".
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I try to keep a light touch. And that's the sort of message that @dhromed would have left. It's how I remember him.
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@Intercourse said:
Touché.
(Cue the people to come in and fix my lack of silly accent character because I CBA to do it myself)
[edit: fixed - b]
Edits like that take the fun out of spelmar pendantry.
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Edits like that take the fun out of spelmar pendantry.
I don't make them a habit (in part for the reason you state) but he was actually asking for it. A code page cry for help. How could I not step in and stop the misery of making frivolous marks above his letters when it is so easy for me? I, too, must be able to live with myself.
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You truly are a martyr for the cause.
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Now that I know they fixed the
shittyeditor so that I can use Alt-130 to do it, I suppose I can start.