Misogyny even exists in animal testing
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The Idiot Fox would say that it is OK, as long as it is for a good cause.
Straw man.
Also, can someone jeff all this shit into the official thread for it? I can't reply as linked topic from mobile.
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It wouldn't surprise me if I manage to waltz into high clearance areas of FBI building through sheer obliviousness.
I've managed to get a coke through an airport that way.
'Where should I put this down?'
sets on top of the scanner.... walks through scanner....
'oh, my coke...'
grabs coke and walks offI've done it at the mayor's office before too.
I was in a meeting room long enough to offer advice, without realizing I was in a meeting.
Found out that a particular road that everyone hated was owned by the state and not the city, for some unknowable reason.
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You missed a chance to type "filling strawmen" which would have been much funnier.
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You missed a chance to type "filling strawmen" which would have been much funnier.
TRIGGGEREING!!!11!1
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I honestly thought about it, but wasn't sure if that would make it harder to understand.
I'm quite aware of how bad my communication is.... which oddly enough leads to it being worse. Doubt is a bitch.
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@aliceif said:
Not you too
Hey, I was complaining about political correctness on this forum before it was cool!
So, not only a troll but also a hipster.
Can someone think of a worse human character?
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That might just do it, yes.
Maybe you would also consider stealing candy from toddlers?
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Maybe you would also consider stealing candy from toddlers?
Nah, you gotta balance it, so that in each discussion on any given topic you have some people supporting you, but in the end everybody universally hates you.
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I already answered someone that I wasn't offended.
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I think they should use some pregnant female mice. Because all medication is scary during pregnancy for the total lack of testing.
In all seriousness, I agree. There's a lot to be learned about drug interactions with fetuses.
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I think labs should also start using diseased or deformed mice too, just to make sure there's a bigger sample.Also, it's a good idea to use mice previously used (they do allow the mice to roam free after testing, right?).
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This looks like the most sensible article I've ever read in my whole life about gender discrimination.
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Sex discrimination. If mice have gender, it is not something researchers pay attention to or even notice.*
* to the best of my knowledge, anyway.
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sets on top of the scanner.... walks through scanner....
How tall are you?! I'm not too short, but there's no way I'm casually placing a coke can on top of a scanner that I can walk through, and then subsequently retrieve from the other side....
Filed under: My poor GIS skills need work, those units are OLD
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it is not something researchers pay attention to or even notice
Ah, answering your own query, eh? ;)
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Sex discrimination. If mice have gender, it is not something researchers pay attention to or even notice.*
Wow, you're so knowledgeable about the topic of sex. You should totally register at ExpertSexchange.
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Sorry, forgot to specify. Two separate scanners.
I set my coke on top of the belt driven scanner for objects. And walked through the people scanner.
Which kind of makes it worse, since the coke was at eye level with the guy watching things go through his scanner.
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If mice have gender, it is not something researchers pay attention to or even notice
End. of. the. fucking. world.
We must do something....
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English is a bastard language. We tend to adopt and commandeer anything we find amusing.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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Almost unfair.
Other languages do it too....
They just make the word fit into their pronunciation patterns, we don't.
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I set my coke on top of the belt driven scanner for objects
WTH? wouldn't that be flagged for the too-much-liquid rule by the machine?
I'm assuming aluminum doesn't reflect x-rays as much as my iPod Video did, they spent fifteen minutes rooting through my backpack before asking me what I had (that they couldn't "see" into) without letting me have my backpack to figure it out.Which kind of makes it worse
It really is a joke, all things considered, but I've beenbrainwashededucated well enough that it's not that big a deal anymore....
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WTH? wouldn't that be flagged for the too-much-liquid rule by the machine?
On TOP on top.
Not on the belt.
Literally on top of the box that the things go inside of....
Right in front of the face of the guy scanning the stuffs.
COKE __v_ ___BELT___| |_____ | |
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wouldn't that be flagged for the too-much-liquid rule by the machine?
On top of the scanner is not on the belt. He put it up on top of the section where the scanner is.
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is not on the belt.
Literally on top of the box
Apologies, my scenario visualization apparently didn't have enough resources allocated to it to properly recreate the entire station in proper detail.That actually does make it worserer, I just don't have words...
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I'm half convinced this entire week is an experimentation on fragmentation, to see if we can shatter the forums or something.
One can hope I wake up and find it was just a nightmare....
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This thread was going along perfectly nicely until @Fox had to tell off @Gaska for saying "gender discrimination" instead of "sex discrimination".
Someone relatively new here has to make sure nobody ever says anything that the most trembling hothouse flower might think of as triggering to a certain category of people.
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English is a bastard language. We tend to adopt and commandeer anything we find amusing.
English is cool enough that people use english words to make something sound more legit or better when we have a perfect word for it. A simple refrigerator's freezer is called a "congelador", but a freezer in a better, "duplex" refrigerator is called a "freezer".
If anything, I would be prejudiced toward Hispanic people. They show up early, work as late as you need without bitching and once the work is done for the day they usually have a cooler of beer in the back of their truck. What's not to love?
I got the same perception of haitians that came here for a better life. Maybe hard-working is a common attribute of someone that go all the way to move to another country for a better life?
I have a question, I read on the internet americans using the term "9 to 5", but I also read that you do much more than 40h a week on IT with no overtime. What is accepted as a normal workload there? Here the standard is around 8 to 18 (because that is what the law allows for).
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I assume by the "simple refrigerator's freezer" he means a fridge that has a freezer box in the fridge, like this:
A "duplex" refrigerator, I assume, is one that has separate fridge/freezer compartments that each have their own doors (and the freezer compartment isn't inside the fridge compartment).
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I assume by the "simple refrigerator's freezer" he means a fridge that has a freezer box in the fridge, like this
Ah, a dorm fridge. It's funny because I think of that like pony to a regular kitchen fridge's horse.
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I have a question, I read on the internet americans using the term "9 to 5", but I also read that you do much more than 40h a week on IT with no overtime. What is accepted as a normal workload there? Here the standard is around 8 to 18 (because that is what the law allows for).
The term "9 to 5" is a colloquialism that has been in use for a long time as a generic for a work day. It started with standard office drones who only worked a 40-hour work week, but then just became generic. Like Kleenex is for facial tissue.
I don't really hear the term anymore unless it is as a joke by someone who works a lot of overtime.
Your language probably has a lot of similar expressions that have lost all original meaning and are now used in the generic, but you don't think about what you are saying anymore and just use them as a colloquialism without considering their literal meaning.
One of my dear friends recently passed away as part of complications from a motorcycle accident where he suffered a lot of brain trauma. Up until some surgical complications he was recovering really well but one of the side effects was that he had a really hard time understanding non-literal speech. It was a real reminder about how much non-literal speech we use in our day to day conversations. I made a remark about "taking the bull by the horns" and his reply was "We don't have a bull".
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he had a really hard time understanding non-literal speech.
Something I find interesting in the abstract is that with some things like this, the very damage itself tells doctors exactly where it is.
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Something I find interesting in the abstract is that with some things like this, the very damage itself tells doctors exactly where it is.
Yeah, in his case there really wasn't any obvious damage. Immediately after the accident they put him in a medically induced coma, 12 weeks after the accident he and I took a short walk out to his shop, came back inside and he made himself lunch and we talked for 3-4 hours. Pretty much like old times, except he was wearing a helmet and couldn't understand non-literal speech at all. The recovery was nothing short of miraculous. (If I were inclined to believe in a higher power that is. ;))
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That is one of the more interesting topics of neurobiology, yeah. The functions of specific areas of the brain. It's really amazing what some of the specialized regions we've developed are used for. One of the more interesting parts is the FFA (fusiform face area), which, as its name suggests, helps you identify and distinguish faces. What's really interesting is that it is also active for other types of visual expertise; identifying different species of birds, for example.
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How tall are you?! I'm not too short, but there's no way I'm casually placing a coke can on top of a scanner that I can walk through, and then subsequently retrieve from the other side....
I'm 6'4" and I'm pretty sure I could reach the top of those walk-in scanners (extra long arms).
Probably tip the Coke over, though, into the innards; find out if it's Coke-proof. "Oops."
(need a mushroom cloud in this thing)
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Probably tip the Coke over, though, into the innards; find out if it's Coke-proof. spend the rest of my life in Guantanamo "Oops."
FTFY
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What is that supposed to be? Oh....:black_large_square:
Admittedly it's not as strange as , but then what is?
Edit: Got a 500 error while posting. Not sure but I think that's actually my first.
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Admittedly it's not as strange as , but then what is?
As long as it feels 8 pointed, that's all that matters.
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Edit: Got a 500 error while posting. Not sure but I think that's actually my first.
It won't be your last...
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Still funny how they removed the "On the Internet" part some time ago.
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but then just became generic. Like Kleenex is for facial tissue.
Facial Tissue isn't the first thing to come to mind when Kleenex is mentioned.
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FFA (fusiform face area), which, as its name suggests, helps you identify and distinguish faces. What's really interesting is that it is also active for other types of visual expertise; identifying different species of birds, for example.
There's a deficiency in facial recognition that causes a really interesting syndrome where people think everyone around them has been replaced by aliens/robots/something weird. What happens is that the facial recognition is fine but the part of the brain that generates an emotional response to the face isn't working, so you see your mother, say, and know she looks like your mother but she doesn't feel like she is and you feel non of the normal love (or hate if your family relationship is like that). The way to reduce the cognitive dissonance is to conclude that it's not really your mother and she must have been replaced by an imposter.
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That's the one. The brain is a weird and wonderful thing