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[Solse]

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[Gnomvid]

Random useless fact: Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins

[Asta Kask]

I think both had mental disease strike their children too. Maybe marrying first cousins is not such a great idea.

[Gnomvid]

As long as there's no offspring and he/she is real hot why not? other then legal issues that is...

Edit: not that I condone it in any way

[Qwertystop]

Hm. Half-alliteration?

[Solse]

I presume so! Same sound, different letters.

As for the Einstein stuff, the moral of the story is "Don't have kids with family, lest you want to create an offspring who has serious mental issues". Homozygosity anybody?

[Asta Kask]

As long as there's no offspring and he/she is real hot why not? other then legal issues that is...

Edit: not that I condone it in any way

That stuff leads to blue people. Remember that.

[Solse]

When I first saw your post, I thought "Cool! Real life Avatar!"
I read about the disease and don't think it's as cool now.

[LaZodiac]

When I first saw your post, I thought "Cool! Real life Avatar!"
I read about the disease and don't think it's as cool now.

James Cameron's Avatar was also awful, so it wouldn't really be that cool in the first place

[Solse]

True, true. The other Avatar is much better. Now I'd like to see that in real life! (Without all of the villains trying to kill everybody, of course).

[Amidus Drexel]

That stuff leads to blue people. Remember that.

He did say "assuming no offspring", though, so presumably that wouldn't be an issue.

[Asta Kask]

Oh, I missed that. Well, in that case it's in the "not-for-me-but-if-it-works-for-you"-category.

You can get blue people without offspring, though. Just ingest enough colloidal silver (see picture):



Alternative medicine. It won't cure your illness but it may just turn you blue. (Yes, that's an overgeneralization for humerus purposes).

[EmeraldRose]

Yay! It's a new thread!

*boogies*

So, I'm feeling a bit overworked. Full time job, internship (unpaid) 14 hours a week, 3 kids, and husband. All I can say is, at least the internship is temporary. And interesting. If it was something I'd done before I think the boredom might actually kill me...

[Asta Kask]

Oh you could always play office politics. It's a strange game, reminiscent of Vampire: the Masquerade only with fewer silly postures.

[Solse]

Yay! It's a new thread!

*boogies*

So, I'm feeling a bit overworked. Full time job, internship (unpaid) 14 hours a week, 3 kids, and husband. All I can say is, at least the internship is temporary. And interesting. If it was something I'd done before I think the boredom might actually kill me...

That's a lot to have on your plate. Either way, I'm glad that the internship is interesting. It's a lot better than doing nothing at your job.

ION: I'm sick! Yay! At the very least, it means I can stay home from school to watch Smash 4 streams.

IOON: Korra book 4 announced for October 3 (IN AMERICA)! Get hype!

[Cuthalion]

Doip. New thread, new gif.

[Razanir]

Oh you could always play office politics. It's a strange game, reminiscent of Vampire: the Masquerade only with fewer silly postures.

Just find a Dwight Schrute you can incessantly prank.

[Anarion]

I had a random question that I want data points for. How did everyone first learn about Google (if you say it was omnipresent your whole life, you will make me feel deeply old)? Mine was from a 9th grade biology teacher who gave us a project where we had to identify a scorpion species from a story and description he gave us. He recommended this "Google" search engine because he thought it was better at the time than Ask Jeeves and would make our work easier. Turns out, he was right.

[Asta Kask]

It must have been 10-15 years ago... osmosis. People with whom I spent time told me it was better. I don't remember, but I don't think it was anything more than that.

[SiuiS]

I was using yahoo. I heard about google trough osmosis; a slightly more tech-savvy friend (read: hipster, bleeding edge, too good for you, blablabla) who began to use google and Wikipedia a lot.

Fun fact, until I looked it up myself, I thought Wikipedia was the stupidest possible thing: a pretentious encyclopedia for wiccans because they knew better than everyone else what was real. That probably says a lot about the people I knew at the time.

[enderlord99]

I think it's the default search engine for the version of Explorer that came with Windows ME. And since that was the first browser I used...

IRN: I remember dial-up, but only vaguely.

[Qwertystop]

I had a random question that I want data points for. How did everyone first learn about Google (if you say it was omnipresent your whole life, you will make me feel deeply old)? Mine was from a 9th grade biology teacher who gave us a project where we had to identify a scorpion species from a story and description he gave us. He recommended this "Google" search engine because he thought it was better at the time than Ask Jeeves and would make our work easier. Turns out, he was right.

I don't remember. It wasn't omnipresent, because I remember Ask Jeeves (later just Ask) and Yahoo used to be things, but my early interactions with computers were all based on word-of-mouth - classmates and teachers telling me sites.

[Amidus Drexel]

I don't remember. It wasn't omnipresent, because I remember Ask Jeeves (later just Ask) and Yahoo used to be things, but my early interactions with computers were all based on word-of-mouth - classmates and teachers telling me sites.

This. I remember Ask Jeeves before google, but google popped up somewhere... probably around 10 years ago, I'd guess.

I remember a lot of people referring to wikipedia as wildly inaccurate most of the time, and now I tend to trust it implicitly unless it contradicts something I remember as fact (at which point I cross-reference the information elsewhere). Interesting how that's happened.

[Rawhide]

I never used Ask Jeeves, before Google it was HotBot.

[Asta Kask]

*sigh*

Remember AltaVista?

[Razanir]

I don't remember. It wasn't omnipresent, because I remember Ask Jeeves (later just Ask) and Yahoo used to be things, but my early interactions with computers were all based on word-of-mouth - classmates and teachers telling me sites.

Ask Jeeves became Ask?! But yeah. I was in the same bubble of Google not being omnipresent, but still not a novel idea. I remember Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, and whatever the dog-themed one was.

[AtlanteanTroll]

James Cameron's Avatar was also awful, so it wouldn't really be that cool in the first place

Pshaw. A little ham-fisted, sure, but it was visually stunning.

IOON: Korra book 4 announced for October 3 (IN AMERICA)! Get hype!

For bad television? Why?

[Solse]

For bad television? Why?

That's cold, AT. Very cold.

[Asta Kask]

Are there any Aussie stereotypes they missed?

[Coidzor]

^: Honestly, I can't remember that many Australian stereotypes off the top of my head.

I mean, they like vegemite for some reason, presumably cultural or climate, and prefer it to marmite while sometimes thinking marmite is edible if you mix it with something first if there's no vegemite, maybe? They drink beer instead of water because there's not enough water? They're all WASPs leaning towards the blond(e) despite a fairly significant immigration from Asia?

They somehow survive through pure dumb luck despite everything on the continent wanting to kill them or at least being capable of doing so?

They came up with "Technicolor Yawn" as a euphemism for vomiting? They're credited with the combination of putting a fried egg, grilled spam, and grilled pineapple on a hamburger all together?

They like "barbecuing" spam? And by that I mean, grilling spam outdoors, maybe?

*watches video*

...I don't want to go all the way through this...

Ask Jeeves became Ask?! But yeah. I was in the same bubble of Google not being omnipresent, but still not a novel idea. I remember Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, and whatever the dog-themed one was.

Dogpile. IIRC.