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Slizz said:
How do I duplicate the pressure I feel when a paper is due the day its due or day before, and take that pressure and do my paper like a week early instead?
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I really need to know this as well.
 
Slizz said:
How do I duplicate the pressure I feel when a paper is due the day its due or day before, and take that pressure and do my paper like a week early instead?
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This answer could solve my life, literally i can leave something for ever. I have like a superpower at it. I know I have to do it in the end, but just put it off.
 
Slizz said:
How do I duplicate the pressure I feel when a paper is due the day its due or day before, and take that pressure and do my paper like a week early instead?
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Change the date on your PC to one week in the future. Do the same with your phone and any other device that displays the date. Don't watch TV or look at a newspaper.

Yea those are all stupid suggestions. Maybe just think about how much you want your life to be different in the future. Those thoughts are helping me manage my workload for pre-law classes.
 
samus4ever said:
Stupid question. I might move to england for a year or so next jan. I have started looking for places to stay but the only flats I can find are for weekly rentals only. There has to be a place online where I can find a place to rent on a yearly bases, right?
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Prices are usually listed in per week/per month but you usually have to sign a contract for 6 months to a year(I have heard of rolling contracts with a months notice but I don't know how common these are)
 
Stupid, but serious question:


You know when you buy a bag of oranges, or clementines, every single piece can taste different? Sometimes a little bit, sometimes a lot (to the point when you think "there's something wrong" just because the one you ate just before it tasted so differently :)).

Well, how is it possible for fruit juice makers (like Coca Cola's Minute Maid) to make their fruit juice taste the same with every box, in every season, of every year? Especially when it explicitly says on the box "100% juice", which makes it impossible for all sorts of other ingredients to adjust flavor.
 
cmonmanreally said:
I need help looking for a shirt. I type out a description of it online and have had no luck so far. I've seen two people wear it, at two different locations, so I'm guessing its widely available. Anyway, on the front (or the back, I forget this minor detail) it has an old-ish looking man smoking out of an old fashioned pipe, and out of the pipe comes purple smoke that forms a picture of a galaxy.
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Sounds like you are talking about a Church of the Subgenius shirt.

The man is probably Bob.
 
Souldriver said:
Stupid, but serious question:


You know when you buy a bag of oranges, or clementines, every single piece can taste different? Sometimes a little bit, sometimes a lot (to the point when you think "there's something wrong" just because the one you ate just before it tasted so differently :)).

Well, how is it possible for fruit juice makers (like Coca Cola's Minute Maid) to make their fruit juice taste the same with every box, in every season, of every year? Especially when it explicitly says on the box "100% juice", which makes it impossible for all sorts of other ingredients to adjust flavor.
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Because they use thousands or oranges in a giant vat. I've tasted stark differences throughout my years of orange drinking though.
tHa_vIlLaMaN said:
Anyways, on a serious note -- why is tap-water cold? I've always been curious.
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Pipes in the ground man.
 
What's the physical reason for crying? I understand that it's a coping mechanism for extreme bouts of emotions, but why the release of tears? And on that note, what's the reason for yawning?
 
Ri'Orius said:
If we ignoring air resistance and friction against the sides of the hole, as well as the intense gravity (and possibly air pressure?) that would probably crush you as you neared the center, you would pass through the hole and come to a stop on the other side of the earth at the same height (relative to the earth's center of mass) as you started. If you had something to grab on to, you could stop, but if not you'd fall back through, again and again like a pendulum.
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Actually, the gravitational pull on you would weaken as you get closer to the center of the earth. That's because if you look at the mass lying farther from the center of the earth than you, it's net pull on you is zero - the only pull comes the mass lying closer to the center than you. Consequently the force behaves like r^3/r^2 = r i.e. it's a linear restoring force, which goes to zero at the center. You end up just executing simple harmonic motion - as you said, like a pendulum.
 
weepy said:
What's the physical reason for crying? I understand that it's a coping mechanism for extreme bouts of emotions, but why the release of tears? And on that note, what's the reason for yawning?
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Yawning is just a really big breath. Your body hasn't had enough oxygen recently, so it makes you take a big gulp of air.


Crying obviously cleans out your eyes and keeps them moist. As far as a reaction to emotion though... no idea. I've heard that elephants also cry when sad, but that still doesn't solve the question. :lol
 
weepy said:
What's the physical reason for crying? I understand that it's a coping mechanism for extreme bouts of emotions, but why the release of tears? And on that note, what's the reason for yawning?
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I'm not sure there is a steady scientific reason for the purpose of tears due to crying. I know that there was a study that proved tears caused by emotions contain much more hormones than tears created in normal process. I think it's theorized that crying releases hormones and chemicals that directly produce stress - therefore crying reduces stress. It's also theorized that it's an evolutionary mechanism so humans may better show their outward emotions - like a defense mechanism that let's other humans know we're in pain.

As for yawning, it's a way for us to stay awake, pulling excessive amounts of oxygen into our bodies to keep our brain going full speed.
 
Slizz said:
How do I duplicate the pressure I feel when a paper is due the day its due or day before, and take that pressure and do my paper like a week early instead?
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Give your best friend a crisp $100 bill and tell them to only give it back to you if your paper is done a week early.

If you fail, next time make it $200.
 
Who the hell is that girl in everybody's avatar? You know who I'm talking about, she's got brown hair.
 
Her?
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Count Dookkake said:
Sounds like you are talking about a Church of the Subgenius shirt.

The man is probably Bob.
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not it either, thanks though.

the shirt im looking for is black with the exception of the purple galaxy coming out of the man's pipe. if it helps, the man is in black and white, and looks like its taken from a photo of an old astronomer, i mean to say its not cartoonish.
 
cmonmanreally said:
not it either, thanks though.

the shirt im looking for is black with the exception of the purple galaxy coming out of the man's pipe. if it helps, the man is in black and white, and looks like its taken from a photo of an old astronomer, i mean to say its not cartoonish.
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dude that's exactly the link I gave you hah! jk
 
Trip Warhawkins said:
dude that's exactly the link I gave you hah! jk
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haha oops. okay just to clarify, now that im thinking into this a little bit more, its likely that the man on the shirt in edwin hubble, because he almost always is photographed smoking from a pipe, and is a famous astronomer. so far though, no luck finding it on google.
 
I need help. I can't find a video that I saw a while ago

It was something like this:
I think it was on AdultSwim (or madtv or comedycentral) and it was made using stop-motion, I'm not sure. It was about a cat that worked in an office and all he would say is "meow meow meow meow meow ", but everybody understood him. There where some killings/assassinations and the guy that worked with the cat was a reporter o a detective. I remember the guy being mad at the cat and suspected the killer was the cat.
Something like that.

Anybody know where it is?
 
Come on guys, help a brother out.

For those of you who maintain their eyebrows, do you find that it gets bushier and bushier and harder to maintain over time? I'm worried about going down that path.
 
Lion Heart said:
Come on guys, help a brother out.

For those of you who maintain their eyebrows, do you find that it gets bushier and bushier and harder to maintain over time? I'm worried about going down that path.
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Just pick a shape and pluck. Otherwise I'd imagine if you're shaving bits off, it's no different than shaving any other body hair.

Or, you could go chola and just shave them off entirely and get a sharpie.
 
bjork said:
Just pick a shape and pluck. Otherwise I'd imagine if you're shaving bits off, it's no different than shaving any other body hair.

Or, you could go chola and just shave them off entirely and get a sharpie.
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I dont really need to pluck them (cept for the middle) but I want to trim them with small scissors. Im worried they will eventually turn Scorcese like.
 
Lion Heart said:
Come on guys, help a brother out.

For those of you who maintain their eyebrows, do you find that it gets bushier and bushier and harder to maintain over time? I'm worried about going down that path.
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I'm a girl so it may be slightly different, but I've been doing my eyebrows for years and during the times of extreme laziness where I don't shape them up for a few weeks, they don't seem to be any worse than they were before I ever started maintaining them.


Lion Heart said:
I dont really need to pluck them (cept for the middle) but I want to trim them with small scissors.
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Trimming them especially won't cause any issues. You aren't actually doing anything to the follicle so it's unlikely they'd get any harder to maintain than they would have if you weren't trimming them.
 
What are those cables for that the department of transportation (i'm assuming) will drape across the road. There's usually two of them, a couple feet apart.

I'm assuming its some sort of traffic counter, but I was curious of the details.
 
Neverfade said:
What are those cables for that the department of transportation (i'm assuming) will drape across the road. There's usually two of them, a couple feet apart.

I'm assuming its some sort of traffic counter, but I was curious of the details.
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I always figured they recorded average traffic speed somehow, but I don't know for sure.

theJwac said:
Why do GAF users often suffix their thread tittles with "AGE"?
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because this used to be the "gaming-age" forums, so that gave people the idea to do poop-age, girl-age, etc.
 
Neverfade said:
What are those cables for that the department of transportation (i'm assuming) will drape across the road. There's usually two of them, a couple feet apart.

I'm assuming its some sort of traffic counter, but I was curious of the details.
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I think you're right, it's probably for determing traffic volume. I'll see if I can find anything.
 
TimesEunuch said:
Nah, he's trolling. Can be pretty creative sometimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkeeK0Npi2g
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Oh he’s clearly trolling, but you’d have to be Daniel Day-Lewis to pull off that kind of insecurity, rage and fear. I mean seriously, if he didn’t mean what he said and was just doing it for the lols, he should be working in Hollywood. Besides, look at the breadth of his work. Who would go to those lengths? Only by the insanity of a raging douche fan boy could such a thing be possible.
 
Insecurity, rage and fear? Huh? Not picking up on any of that myself. Think he just gets off on the ridiculous feedback he gets from 360 fans. Find it hard to believe he takes any of it seriously. I'll agree the number of videos is a tad obsessive, though.
 
Is there an easy way to separate my Amazon order into two shipments from one? One of the items isn't in stock (it must've sold out right before I bought it) and I'd rather have the other item get here if the out of stock one might take a long time.

Also, how accurate are their restocking estimations? It says it usually takes 9-11 days but I don't know whether I should trust those numbers or not. I'm really hoping these get here before Christmas.
 
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