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watt price tully 
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| think positive wrote: | Yup!
Mostly now certain posters, if it's longer than a couple of paragraphs, I glance over, cos I don't have trouble sleeping |
That's the problem with you teenagers, concentration span of a soundbite.
Many folk use different things to get to sleep but that's another matter.  
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watt price tully
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| stui magpie wrote: | | watt price tully wrote: | | think positive wrote: | OMFG!
what a load of claptrap
what the hell has made you so bitter? |
You sure it's not you being bitter about PTID & trying to shame him by asking that loaded question?
Why not point out where you disagree with what he has said? |
Nah, pretty sure TP thinks he posts claptrap.
FWIW I agree which is why i generally no longer read them. |
As I said earlier, that's the problem with you teenagers, you've been conditioned by the current obsession with soundbites. I could tell your age through your "choice" avatar  Now I know why you like the Mad Misogynist Monk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLK9ug6MB4
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watt price tully
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| stui magpie wrote: | | watt price tully wrote: | | think positive wrote: | OMFG!
what a load of claptrap
what the hell has made you so bitter? |
You sure it's not you being bitter about PTID & trying to shame him by asking that loaded question?
Why not point out where you disagree with what he has said? |
Nah, pretty sure TP thinks he posts claptrap.
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If that was the case it would have ended with that sentence. My concern lay with TP's next sentence.
FWIW I like reading PTID's contributions to discussion & debate. It's challenging & I don't always agree with it.
I do love his signature though. Gotta love it.
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
Location: In flagrante delicto
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| watt price tully wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | watt price tully wrote: | | think positive wrote: | OMFG!
what a load of claptrap
what the hell has made you so bitter? |
You sure it's not you being bitter about PTID & trying to shame him by asking that loaded question?
Why not point out where you disagree with what he has said? |
Nah, pretty sure TP thinks he posts claptrap.
FWIW I agree which is why i generally no longer read them. |
As I said earlier, that's the problem with you teenagers, you've been conditioned by the current obsession with soundbites. I could tell your age through your "choice" avatar Now I know why you like the Mad Misogynist Monk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLK9ug6MB4 |
So you buy the Herald Sun every day? |
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Morrigu 
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Why waking up in a morgue isnt quite as unusual as youd think
In Poland, a 91-year-old woman has shocked her family and the public at large by waking up in a morgue after being refrigerated having been declared dead. Despite 11 hours of cold storage, Janina Kolkiewicz was discovered to be alive and well after mortuary staff detected movements in her body bag.
the unfortunate Polish woman was able to wake up after 11 hours in this hibernation state with no severe physical damage and nothing but a craving for hot tea and pancakes.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/waking-morgue-death-janina-kolkiewicz
I'd be wanting something more than hot tea me thinks 
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London Dave 
Jete jedna pivo prosm
Joined: 16 Dec 1998
Location: Iceland on Thames
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| Good tea is hard to get in Eastern Europe... they prefer the herbal stuff! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Bruce Gonsalves
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Lead free too, that's fantastic, wouldn't want lead poisoning. |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Perverted Penguins.
| Quote: | It was the sight of a young male Adlie penguin attempting to have sex with a dead female that particularly unnerved George Murray Levick, a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. No such observation had ever been recorded before, as far as he knew, and Levick, a typical Edwardian Englishman, was horrified. Blizzards and freezing cold were one thing. Penguin perversion was another.
Worse was to come, however. Levick spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12 observing the colony of Adlies at Cape Adare, making him the only scientist to this day to have studied an entire breeding cycle there. During that time, he witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them. |
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic
Basically, seems like these guys date selection criteria is "you have an aperture that isn't made of ice"
However, pay back is a bitch.
Fur seals have been known to kill and eat penguins. Apparently sometimes they decide to root them first.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141117-why-seals-have-sex-with-penguins?ocid=fbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0evs5MRtD8 |
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David 
I dare you to try
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Wokko 
Come and take it.
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If homosexuality is 'natural' because animals do it, then rape is 'natural' too. That's why people don't like it, because uncomfortable ideas aren't critiqued, discussed etc anymore, they're shouted down and shamed.
To think that the sexual behaviour of non sentient species should have any bearing on humans is ridiculous (in either the positive or negative sense). Why can't these idiots just study something dispassionately without projecting their own political bullshit on it. A male giraffe that courts and mates with another one is no more or less important than a seal raping a penguin. 
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Posted without checking your link, thought you were referring to another contempary article I saw about rape in nature.
In regards to rape as evolutionary biology then I am even more astounded that people can't see that in humans, as in many species, that forced sexual intercourse leading to procreation was a successful mating strategy at various times in history and those who are predisposed to this mating strategy would pass those genetics on to their offspring.
Argue the science, not the 'feelings'. Rape is not born from a culture of misogyny, in fact the rapist (even the accused rapist) is one of the most reviled figures in society and the criminal most likely to be punished by vigilantes or violently attacked in custody.
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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yeah well humans are supposed to be a little more evolved
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Wokko
Come and take it.
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| think positive wrote: | | yeah well humans are supposed to be a little more evolved |
That's the point. Homo Sapiens evolved rape as an effective breeding strategy in times and places that were lacking any kind of 'civilization' or during periods of war and invasions. Even the West had this happen in Germany 1945 when Russian soldiers raped their way across Eastern Germany.
Evolution is a strange beast, traits are selected based on the effectiveness of those traits in allowing a creature to pass on its genes to the next generation, not traits that are necessarily the 'best' available. This conclusion isn't the issue though, humans have also 'evolved' into effective killers of each other, again because the killer would live to breed and the passive 'victim' would die and not pass on his passive genes. We however, as a sentient species have the ability to resist these genetic evolutionary urges and live in a peaceful society. The problem is when people can't or wont resist their base natures and when this happens we lock those people away. |
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