All the strings below come from genuine searches
made by people we share a planet with, I haven't made them up, truth is often
much stranger than fiction...
“My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect
disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September
11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer,'
when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin
Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually
incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage
to the very force that caused the problem in the first
place.”
Richard Dawkins,
The Devil's Chaplain (2004)
stoned
that's how i came across your site and very good
and interesting it is
Fruit. They are the ovaries with the seeds inside.
do computers fear death
Good question! I'd say no. Computers are designed,
not evolved. Our fear of death
is a survival strategy, a universal behaviour rule that maximizes
our survival chances in unforeseeable situations. Computers can
be instructed to avoid self damage but they cannot easily be made
to fear. It is very easy to program a machine to destroy itself,
just think about a guided missile. Come to think of it is is easy
to program a person to become a guided missile too. See Martyrs
Fear of death is not inevitable with functional intelligence,
it is probably inevitable in evolved intelligence.
I do. Many do. Taste can be changed by exposure
and social conditioning. Men can be trained to find a particular
race repulsive or fascinating. But without pressure most men will
find most young women attractive although unfamiliar beauty will
be less attractive. Bring up a pygmy in Sweden and he will find
tall blondes attractive, leave him in the jungle and he will find
them a curiosity, but given a reasonable risk-free opportunity
he'd still shag one either way. The same goes the other way.
As I have got older I have become more and more attracted to
black women, that is because I have been more exposed to them.
Now I think it would be fair to say that I am attracted to almost
the same proportion of the black population as to the white although
when I was younger it would have only been the most attractive
black women that caught my eye.
We tolerate too much from religions. It is time
we gave them no more protection than any other voluntary organization,
they don't need or deserve special status. Freedom of religion
is merely a subset of freedom of expression and can be totally
contained within laws to allow free expression, freedom of assembly
and freedom of thought.
Virtually all mammals have nipples to suckle their
young, the tissues are not sex-dependent, they form in both sexes,
but are only of rudimentary proportions in the males. Why is our
species so dumb that millions of us think men's nipples are are
some kind of great mystery? Not all male animals develop nipples,
whether they do depends on the timing of the sex differentiating
drench of testosterone. In man this occurs after the nipples have
formed although in some species it happens before this point and
in such animals males do not develop nipples. As possession of
non-functional nipples in the male is utterly trivial evolution
doesn't care a damn about them. Male nipples still have many of
the same nerve connections as in the female and so they can be
erogenous for some men, but not me. For me nipple stimulation is
no more erotic than a tickle, it is just annoying.
Oh, an easy one. Religion. If you want good people
to do evil things you need religion, faith, pigheaded dogmatic
belief, nothing else is remotely as effective.
No, stomachs are for digesting food. Girls should
have hairy abdomens, but only the finest hair, so you can make
them shiver by moving your hand across just avoiding touching their
skin. (Umm, for some reason I feel like going for a shower now...)
OK children,
there is no Santa Claus. No Father Christmas, no Easter Bunny or
Baby Jesus either. They are all made-up stories. They serve to
obscure and disguise the inherent unfairness of the universe and
especially a capitalist economy. They are myths adults cling to
to help explain the inexplicable and uncomfortable realities of
life. Life isn't fair. Some children get virtually everything they
want and yet miss out on what they need, others miss out on material
wealth and love as well. The idea that Santa
Claus and Baby Jesus are watching over things is a myth.
The presents that children get come from their parents and other
people who love them and/or feel guilty or responsible for them.
As long as people know it is a myth no harm is done. That is
where the difference between benign myths like Santa Claus and evil
myths like Jesus, God and lottery
wins come in.
As for evidence it is very difficult to prove a negative. As
always the burden of proof should lie with those making the outlandish
claims. Santa Claus visiting every child in the world on Christmas
Eve? Flying reindeer? Prove it!
Santa Claus is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary
proof, as does God.
Religion and Morality do
not go together as naturally as the religious would have you believe.
Morality is a built in capacity, we all have the ability to readily
develop it if given an appropriate environment, just like language
and social skills. It is possible to grow up without morality just
as it is possible to grow up without language, but only if you
have a severely denuded childhood experience.
No. The universe is all that exists, how could
all that exists be created by somebody?
is a person who believes in
religion mentally weak
Not necessarily. It depends on why they believe
in religion. If they believe out of ignorance then it says nothing
about them. If they believe out of peer pressure then it says
nothing good about them. If they believe because they fear the
consequences of others not believing then it says a lot about
them, but nothing good.
No. They are an anachronism and an insult to the
British people. The hereditary principle is entirely wrong. The
argument that they bring money into the country is totally bogus,
only sheep would believe that foreigners come to London to see
the queen.
No. If parents have blue eyes they cannot have
brown eyes. Unless they have at least three eyes, one of which
could be blue.
A more interesting question is can
blue eyed parents have brown eyed children.
The answer is that this is unlikely, a far more likely
explanation is adultery. Blue eyes are recessive, to have
blue eyes requires both parents to pass on the blue eyed
gene. I have blue eyes, my father has brown eyes. This
is not an anomaly, as I look so like him that people who
have no idea who I am say I look like my father. A person
with brown eyes can have either two brown eyed genes or
one brown and one blue, I got a blue eyed gene from my
blue eyed mother and the blue eyed gene my father was carrying
but not expressing. My wife has brown eyes, our son has
blue eyes and our daughter has brown eyes. Obviously I
contributed a blue eyed gene to both of my children, and
my wife contributed one blue and one brown.
For a couple both with blue eyes to have a brown eyed child
would require a spontaneous mutation (hey, they must happen
or there would be no evolution) or the women has been playing
away, and if the milkman has got blue eyes he ain't a suspect.
Another possible explanation is that one partner may be carrying
a brown eyed gene (or a green eyed gene, which is also dominant
over blue) but not expressing it for some reason, perhaps a
developmental problem.
If your suspicions have led you this far mate, I'd be looking
for a paternity test if I was you, eye colour is NOT a sufficient
grounds for proof of adultery but it is reasonable grounds
for suspicion. If the woman has a right to choose, a
man has the right to know.
Yes, of course. The nub of the issue is not why
men engage in casual sex, that is quite obvious, because sex makes
babies. We have an appetite to do the things which ensure the survival
of our genes, because otherwise how can you explain our survival
in such a hostile world? The better question is why women are nowhere
near as interested in casual sex as men are. The simple fact is
that if a man has sex with three different women each week for
a year at the end of that year (or when he gets murdered, whichever
happens first) he could have sired several or even dozens of babies.
If a woman did that she could have had ONE baby (and probably no
husband, a rather poor moral reputation and a perhaps a disease
that may render her infertile). Men have far more to gain from
casual sex than women do, therefore they have a bigger appetite
for it. Women's sexual appetite is heavily influenced by quality
rather than quantity, chosing the right man to father her children
and the right man (or government, or charity) to bring them up.
Simple, teenage girls represent the youngest women
that are capable of bearing children and so represent the best
possible investment for a wife, and so are the ideal mate for
a man of any age. They do not need feeding and guarding
before they are fertile and they have a long fertile life ahead
of them. Youth is always a good quality for a wife, no matter
what a man's age. For a woman seeking a man age is less important
than the ability to provide appropriate resources. Just think
about Anna Nicole Smith, marrying a rich millionaire made perfect
sense, each way.
God says things huh? And you believe that?
And you believe you can find God's opinion about the lottery on
the internet by using a searh engine? ...and you have the vote?
Beam me up Scotty.
is there any such thing as a
tooth fairy
What do you think? Why would a fairy want to buy
teeth? And where would she get the money from?
does my bum look big in this
Let's hope so.
if god created us in his image
then why are we each different
I see where your problem comes. Your central dogma, The
Bible is True, doesn't fit with observed reality. Why not
do what a scientist would do? When reality conflicts with theory
a scientist gets a better theory.
Hard work and dedication my dear boy, hard work
and dedication.
why do bacteria live longer than
man
Ahh. This one has often puzzled me, along with that
other great question, why do camels fly south for the winter.
what is in a mcdonalds hamburger
Beef, with a touch of seasoning. So many British
people think that meat will not stick together without something
to bind it, bollocks. Just chop up raw meat and shape it with a
reasonable amount of pressure and it will stay in that shape. With
a suitable mould you can make your own burgers at home with any
raw meat chopped or minced fine enough. There is no need to add
ANYTHING to a burger until you are ready to eat it.
No. You can measure to a millionth of an inch or
a trillionth of a furlong if you want. Metric is simply better
suited to accurate measurement by the nature of its design. A thousandth
of a yard isn't a meaningful measure, a thousandth of a metre is.
People who want to discredit the metric system often try to
confuse people by translating imperial measures to several decimal
places, giving the impression that people need to understand
these conversion factors and making out that inches or ounces
are somehow a more natural unit. People are quite unable to imagine
or estimate a mile or an ounce to more than two significant figures,
so why do conversions need to be more accurate than that?
Why not test yourself? Hold out your hands one foot apart, then
one metre apart. Get a friend to measure how accurate your guesses
were. Was either guess accurate to four decimal places?
where does the image of santa
claus come from
From advertisements for Coca Cola. Previously there
was no dominant image of his shape, size or clothing.
Interesting question. Rights to do what? I don't
think anybody has the right to do exactly what their ancestors
did just because they were their ancestors. They have the right
to speak their own language, certainly, but what about the right
to camp wherever they want, steal horses and avoid paying tax?
Not all rights are in the blood.
Sometimes war is the only answer, but usually when it is a
bad question.
should disabled people be minority
group
WHAT! You think the majority should be disabled?!
what is primeval soup
A crude form of soup, neither canned nor dried,
just overheated and put in a bag. It is quite common in Poland.
Alternatively it is the hypothetical mixture of chemicals
out of which the first life began.
what did they call the town
queer in the 1700s
Err... Gerald, I think.
i am a male i want to grow
breasts how do i do it
You need female hormones. With a good dose of
female hormones a man can grow breasts as well as his sisters
could, and if they took male hormones they could be as bald and
bearded as their brothers could be.
do atheist believe in satan
No. Atheists do not believe in God or gods, people who “believe
in Satan” must be some kind of theist. However some arseholes
who call themselves Satanists are in fact atheists, they don't
believe in a literal Satan as some kind of fallen angel. Satanists
have a religion, which to my mind is worse than having a belief
in gods.
I suppose the good Catholic answer would be to St Jude, the
patron saint of lost causes. Is there a patron saint of self
centred mindless optimism?
did the renaissance happen thanks to muslims
Yes and no. Muslim countries had kept alive some forms of
scholarship that had died out in Christendom and the re-introduction
of Christendom to the wisdom of Pagan Greece and Rome plus the
new science developed by Muslims set off a new wave of interest
in science and the culture of Greece and Rome. Muslims didn't
introduce this science to Christendom as much as it was looted
from the Moorish civilization by El Cid and his unwashed Christian
barbarians.
They always eat a square meal every lunchtime.
A tissue.
hotblack desiato estate agent
band which came first
Hotblack Desiato was a London estate agent first,
then the name was used by Douglas Adams for the star of Disaster
Area, the loudest rock band in the galaxy (actually the loudest
noise of any kind at all).
Can our brain calculate pi
when we are sleeping
Sometimes I lay awake and think about such stuff.
Last night I stayed up all night trying to figure out where the
sun went, in the morning it dawned on me.
Schoolgirls Kissing
i
so need to masturbate
there is no destiny
there's no meaning of life
there isn't going to be a rapture
there is only us
there is only this
Eddie Izzard explains religion, especially the Church of England.
Because if they were ugly there wouldn't be
any Japanese. Think!
what annoys the armenians
Curry powder under the foreskin, taxes on goats and being confused
with Americans.
why does fighting in vietnam lead people
to do drugs
Fighting is bad karma, man.
what does kebab look like?
Peel a sheep, finely grate it and squash
in an industrial press and you have a doner kebab. For some traditional
reason the shape is a cylinder slightly flared out towards the
top.
After eating a doner kebab traditionally looks like this:
Kebab: after.
Left, doner kebab, right chicken kebab. (The doner seems to
be upside down.)
Jesus drives a Citröen 2CV with a bumper sticker that reads “Of
course I'm Jewish, I lived with my mother until I was thirty, she
thinks I can walk on water and I think she's a virgin.”
I'd guess rather like any other potentially aggressive ground
living mammal, after due courtship, with the male on top, from
behind, but I can't say I've ever watched.
