5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
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Yeah, such is life. Better to accept it and figure out how to live with it than rail against it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Great_Britain
I know we Brits like a good scrap now and again, but fuck me...
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I know we Brits like a good scrap now and again, but fuck me...
if you insist...
top or bottom?
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What about sideways?
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if we have time and energy, sure.
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Is that this generation's equivalent of 'if you have the time, I got the motion?'
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There are 4 distinct countries, they are on maps they have been there for a long time now. Watch the video that was linked it explains everything.
Not really. There is one country, known in full as The Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In 1536 or so, by legislative fiat, "England and Wales" became a euphemism for "England and part of England", although you'd be hard put to find a Welshman these days who'd agree. In 1701, England, part of England, and Scotland (inhabited by descendants of the Irish(1)) became the Kingdom of Great Britain, again by legislative fiat. Finally, in the 1920s, the KoGB and the region often called Northern Ireland, and sometimes called, inaccurately, Ulster(2), became the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.(1) Yes, indeed. Somewhere prior to 1000AD, the area now known as Scotland was the home of the Picts. The people known at the time as Scots (in Latin manuscripts, Soandso Scoti) lived in Ireland, and were ruled at some times by the Vikings in Dublin.
(2) The island known as Ireland was traditionally divided into 26 counties, but also four larger divisions, of which Ulster was one. The region now known as Ulster is just six of the nine counties that made up the traditional Ulster.
Scottish people are called Scottish because they live in Scotland, Welsh people are called Welsh because they live in Wales, Northern Irish people are called Northern Irish because they live in Northern Ireland and English people are called English because they live in England.
No, the Welsh people are called Welsh because they are foreign, i.e. not Angles and Saxons (the name derives from Waelsc, the Anglo-Saxon word for "foreigner"). In the Welsh language, the word for a Welshman is "Cymro", which by a tortured derivation(3) could be rendered in English as "compatriot." Wales is then so-named because the Waelsc live there.(3) "Cymro" is a compound of "Cym", a prefix suggesting meanings involving "same", and "bro", something like "region", and therefore indicates someone from the same bro (region), that is, a compatriot. Adding "cym" + "bro" as a single word will, by a uniquely Celtic linguistic process, morph the "b" into an "m", which then merges with the "m" of "cym", giving the modern "Cymro". The Welsh-language name of Wales itself, "Cymru", is back-formed from "Cymro".
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It puts the lotion in the basket?
*looks around*I don't have a basket. But I do have some cupboards. Will one of them do?
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(2) The island known as Ireland was traditionally divided into 26 counties, but also four larger divisions, of which Ulster was one. The region now known as Ulster is just six of the nine counties that made up the traditional Ulster.
Minor corrections:The entire island of Ireland is divided into 32 counties. 26 are in the Republic, 6 in the North. You are correct about the 6 out of 9 part: they took the 3 Protestant and 3 mixed counties of Ulster to make Northern Ireland, and left the 3 Catholic counties in the Republic. However, Ulster still refers to the 9 counties. It just happens to be spread between two nations now (The Republic of Ireland has 3, the United Kingdom has 6)
Also those 32 counties historically were actually divided into 5 provinces. The current 4 (Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught) while the 5th (Meath, consisting of the counties of Meath and West Meath) was absorbed into Leinster and Ulster. Not that it really matters, since they aren't used for any real reason anymore except sports teams!
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*looks around*
I don't have a basket. But I do have some cupboards. Will one of them do?
Fairly sure that's a whoosh right there. Silence of the Lambs.
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Fairly sure that's a whoosh right there. Silence of the Lambs.
Oh, I know the reference; just chose to go somewhere else :P
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still flagged for woosh.
:-P
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The Daily Mail also claim that pretty much everything causes cancer.
Source: California
Probably been talking to the State of California.
oh hai
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Related: A complete list of things caused by global warming<sup>1</sup>
1: Not actually complete, list was last updated May 2012. But a big ass list.
Reminds me of the recent starfish epidemic. They found that a virus is killing them off, and a bunch of articles say that's caused by global warming, but none of them explain the link.
I hate this debate, because neither side uses science. The climate change deniers refute science, but then the climate change liberals spout off that everything is caused by global warming, without real science behind it.
It feels like two religions going at it.
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The climate change deniers refute science, but then the climate change liberals spout off that everything is caused by global warming, without real science behind it.
This is why I consider myself a skeptic. I haven't seen anything very convincing that increased CO2 from our activity is doing much of anything but feeding the plants.
But damn if I couldn't use some global warming right about now. I had to bust out my electric foot warmer mat for under my desk already.
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Yeah, at this point, I know that the climate is changing, I just think that the "science" behind how it is changing is very poor, since emotion is often used to trump data.
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Of course, it's always changing.
Proponents of the models like to tell you that they're just based on simple scientific principles (e.g., thermodynamics) and are you the sort of crank who denies that sort of science‽ They ignore stuff like how we don't even know the sign of the effect that clouds have on temperature.
And that somehow predicting weather over decades smooths out the errors that make the weather forecast worthless a week out. Bah.
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The science makes those studying the theory of gravity feel better about themselves.
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, but none of them explain the link.
best link i can come up with is that warmer ocean temperatures allowed the virus to migrate to places it had never been before (because they had been too cold) and infect species of starfish that didn't have a resistence.
but that's just my personal SWAG
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I was guessing at SWAG
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nah. no googles involved in that one. but that's also a good intialism.
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best link i can come up with is that warmer ocean temperatures allowed the virus to migrate to places it had never been before (because they had been too cold) and infect species of starfish that didn't have a resistence.
Also, your random guess (and what I had figured, too) is better science than what was explained in the articles.
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nah. no googles involved in that one. but that's also a good intialism.
I also read it as an backronym, not an initialism
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the etymology of those words always confused me....
and now i'm not sure which is which....
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Acronym is the one that you can pronounce as a word, like NASA
Initialism is the one that you can, like FBI
Initialism seems to stress each individual letter, so for me, the definition makes sense
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hmm... then bacronym is when you started with the word and constructed it as an acronym?
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Yup.
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Acronym is the one that you can pronounce as a word, like NASA
Wikipedia disagrees with you. (OEM, AAA, 3M, PHP...)
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Wikipedia disagrees with you. (OEM, AAA, 3M, PHP...)
Wikipedia disagrees with itself.
There is also some disagreement as to what to call abbreviations that some speakers pronounce as letters and others pronounce as a word.
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but that's just my personal SWAG
I'd always heard it as "super" instead of "scientific." More honest at the cost of sarcastic, I guess.
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the Punic wars, and I wondered if they were actually as different in the ways they were fought as these were.
And what language(s) the puns were in!
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hmm... then bacronym is when you started with the word and constructed it as an acronym?
Yup. A/The classic examples in computing are KERMIT and SPOOL.
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No.
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Wow, your argument is so well thought out and persuasive. I can't believe anyone disagrees with you.
If you need to read this to get my sarcasm, I feel sorry for you.
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I am not even going to bother arguing a lot of that stuff because a lot of it is going back to out of date definitions that are no longer relevant or things that are easily disprovable by doing a quick search on Google.
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I am not even going to bother arguing a lot of that stuff because a lot of it is going back to out of date definitions that are no longer relevant or things that are easily disprovable by doing a quick search on Google.
So basically you want to make an argument, but are so lazy you want others to do your basic research?
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In 1536 or so, by legislative fiat, "England and Wales" became a euphemism for "England and part of England", although you'd be hard put to find a Welshman these days who'd agree. In 1701, England, part of England, and Scotland (inhabited by descendants of the Irish(1)) became the Kingdom of Great Britain, again by legislative fiat. Finally, in the 1920s, the KoGB and the region often called Northern Ireland, and sometimes called, inaccurately, Ulster(2), became the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
You left out an intermediate step, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and [all of] Ireland, from 1801 - 1922.
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When it is so fucking simple and is quite clearly printed on a map ... Yes it really isn't worth the bother.
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When it is so fucking simple and is quite clearly printed on a map ... Yes it really isn't worth the bother.
Then don't be surprised if no-one believes you, since you can't be bothered to back up your (pathetic excuse for an) argument.
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What do you want me to do next prove that things fall when I drop them or where the sun rises or sets?
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What do you want me to do next prove that things fall when I drop them or where the sun rises or sets?
The fact you have to ask that question says it all.
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Yes.
Then don't be surprised if no-one believes you, since you can't be bothered to back up your (pathetic excuse for an) argument.
It's OK, I refuted him just above where I quoted you. Crisis averted!
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Acronym is the one that you can pronounce as a word
Initialism is the one that you can
Well that's cleared that one up.