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On February 19 2014 07:28 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Do the British eat Pizza, I have never actually seen anyone from England eat a piece of Pjzza. Not in TV, Movies, etc.

On February 19 2014 22:30 Velr wrote:
On my Keyboard the Numpad is:
789
456
123

On Phones it is:
123
456
789

WHY?!

On February 19 2014 23:17 greenelve wrote:
Why do pokemon needs to be told what to do in battles?

"Hey, my pokemon, there is a big giant dragon-dinosaur-like monster running at your position, with the intention of ramming his rock-hard horn in your body.....dodge him by doing a side step to the left with the feet of yours"

On February 19 2014 14:40 Dogfoodboy16 wrote:
Why does Pokemon Red have more twitch viewers than LoL and DOTA?

On February 20 2014 10:54 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Why is there such a huge disparity between Pokemon fans and My Little Pony fans when both forms of entertainment are targeted primarily at little kids?

On February 20 2014 11:13 Najda wrote:


Because most people who play pokemon got into it while they were younger so a lot of it is the nostalgia, whereas MLP is targeted towards little girls specifically, and the 'bronies' who are getting into it now probably wouldn't have touched it when they were younger or now if it were not for the hype surrounding it.

On February 20 2014 11:11 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
So about five years ago I had an ingrown toenail removed on my right big toe, and I remember the first part of the surgery was the anesthesia, consisting of three needles completely piercing my big toe (i.e. poking out through the skin on the other side).

I don't know if it's related, but now I occasionally have this itch on my right big toe for about a year now. There's no signs of a fungal infection (no bumps or discoloration, redness/cracked skin only from over-itching), and it's restricted to the right side of my big toe. Really the only thing wrong is the itching, and all other things are side effects of me trying to scratch it. It's on-and-off as well. Right now I don't feel it, but I did two hours ago, and I might at some point tomorrow.

Would this likely be a nerve issue?

And unless it's a threat to my health somehow, I'm going to let it be. When I resist the urge to scratch the healing blister (by rubbing my two toes against one another or the floor) and let it heal completely uninterrupted, the relief from scratching becomes so great that I can actually orgasm by rubbing my toes. It's like the world's shittiest superpower

On February 20 2014 11:16 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:


I mean, I watched Powerpuff Girls as a really little kid and Foster's Home as a slightly larger kid. Same person created all three shows, and there's a lot of elements (animation, type of humor, stories) that carry over between them. I'd say MLP has its fair share of nostalgia as well.

On February 20 2014 12:05 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Last question: I'm looking for an old flash game, it's been out for over 5 years, definitely dated before 2009. You have to escape from the bathroom because you've been locked in there by some thieves, and there's a girl bound up in the airduct. Eventually you escape out the window and realize that you have amnesia and you're the master thief who orchestrated everything in the building.

It's not one of the Afro-Ninja escape games, and I can't remember anything about the name.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

On February 20 2014 11:11 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
So about five years ago I had an ingrown toenail removed on my right big toe, and I remember the first part of the surgery was the anesthesia, consisting of three needles completely piercing my big toe (i.e. poking out through the skin on the other side).

I don't know if it's related, but now I occasionally have this itch on my right big toe for about a year now. There's no signs of a fungal infection (no bumps or discoloration, redness/cracked skin only from over-itching), and it's restricted to the right side of my big toe. Really the only thing wrong is the itching, and all other things are side effects of me trying to scratch it. It's on-and-off as well. Right now I don't feel it, but I did two hours ago, and I might at some point tomorrow.

Would this likely be a nerve issue?

And unless it's a threat to my health somehow, I'm going to let it be. When I resist the urge to scratch the healing blister (by rubbing my two toes against one another or the floor) and let it heal completely uninterrupted, the relief from scratching becomes so great that I can actually orgasm by rubbing my toes. It's like the world's shittiest superpower

On February 20 2014 14:30 Roswell wrote:
Wouldn't inbreeding hurt the progress made from evolution? If you had the one "special" offspring who developed a good trait to survive, or have advantage over the others, and he/she reproduced there would have to be a lot of inbreeding for that trait to actually have lasting appeal? Sorry if this is an easy answer I couldn't find anything on google. or even similar articles.

On February 20 2014 14:49 Najda wrote:


Short answer: No, it just happens very slowly over very many generations.

Longer answer: I'm not an evolutionary scientist so I can't give a complete answer, but imagine a species of animals living in an environment, with a set of traits that gives the species a 25% chance of surviving long enough to reproduce, and then there is an adaptation that allows a new subspecies to have a 100% survival rate. The first of this subspecies survives and has 4 babies, and for simplicity it was a dominant trait so all 4 babies have the trait. Then those 4 will have 4 more each producing 16 babies with the gene etc so you have exponential growth of this subspecies, which will eventually eclipse the previous species in numbers, since eventually all of the original species will mate with the subspecies and take on the new dominant trait.

Now obviously there are some holes in my example, such as it doesn't account for when a new species is defined, and that realistically a new trait wouldn't have that big of a difference in the survival rates, but that just mean the evolution takes longer over more generations. Also if it's a recessive trait it gets a bit messy and there would have to be semi inbreeding, but it could be between what we call cousins, or multiple individuals could develop the trait at the same time.

There could also be some catastrophy like a plague that wipes out 95% of the population sparing only those with a specific trait, but again that wouldn't be a new species of people, I'm not sure what to call that.