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Technically the truth.

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  • #102
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    f
    Grinchbot wrote: »
    McGodwins law.

    It is now :)


  • #103
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    Humans are the only mamal that.....
    -cant fly, but do!
    -have to learn how to swim!
    -drink milk when adults!


  • #104
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,489 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Humans are the only animal that can swim a river, climb a tree, and run forty kilometres under the heat of the noon sun while you overheat and when your brain cooks throw stones at you and then beat you to death with a stick.

    Every other animal's nightmare, the persistence hunters that come in packs 150 strong and will slaughter your entire species if they even think you are a threat to their young.


  • #105
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,690 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Correction!

    They are British subjects, not citizens, no Brit is a citizen technically
    "British citizen" is the correct legal term for someone who holds citizenship of the United Kingdom, and has been since 1983, when it replaced the term "Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies".

    "British Subject" used to be the correct term, but that hasn't been the case since 1948.

    British subjects today are a small, and closed, and declining class of people who have an ancestral connection with the UK but don't have citizenship of the UK or of any other Commonwealth country. British subjects don't, as such, have a right of abode in the United Kingdom.

    (Ironically, most British subjects alive today are Irish citizens.)


  • #106
    derfderf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    Kolido wrote: »
    Technically not true.

    I don't know man. Veins seem to work better when kept internal. If you lay the out end to end you'd also be separating them.


  • #107
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,690 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    derfderf wrote: »
    I don't know man. Veins seem to work better when kept internal. If you lay the out end to end you'd also be separating them.
    You might be dead before you'd finished laying them out, though.


  • #108
    derfderf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    You might be dead before you'd finished laying them out, though.

    Technically true. You may need a buddy to assist


  • #109
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,999 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    One I discovered when trying to understand life on an atomic level, is that no two surfaces really ever meet.

    There is always space between them, otherwise the electrons in each thing would hit each other.

    So when I sit on the sofa, I'm not really sitting on the sofa! (is that true, really).


  • #110
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,690 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    NIMAN wrote: »
    One I discovered when trying to understand life on an atomic level, is that no two surfaces really ever meet.

    There is always space between them, otherwise the electrons in each thing would hit each other.

    So when I sit on the sofa, I'm not really sitting on the sofa! (is that true, really).
    Depends on whether you think the sofa consists only of the particles in the atoms, or also includes the forces that operated between and on the particles in the atoms. And ditto for the atoms in your own body, of course.

    Deep, man. I think I feel a Flann O'Brien moment coming on.


  • #111
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Tokyo isn't a city.


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  • #112
    3DataModem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    Prostate cancer screening shortens life expectancy.


  • #113
    3DataModem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    The shortest commercial flight from Dublin that lands outside the EU will not be different after Brexit.


  • #114
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,545 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    3DataModem wrote: »
    Prostate cancer screening shortens life expectancy.

    Huh?


  • #115
    3DataModem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    Martina1991 wrote: »
    Huh?

    Many people with prostate cancer never have any symptoms or impairments as a result of it.

    PSA screening detects the cancer in these people, and puts them on a treatment path, because it is impossible to know if the cancer is one that will impair life or not. However the treatment itself can be life-shortening or altering.

    A recent study in europe estimated that for every 1 life saved by screening, 1000 men are screened, and 50 men are treated.

    This is why doctors are very very slow to screen young and / or unsymptomatic men.


  • #116
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Martina1991 wrote: »
    Huh?

    Expectancy being the key word.


  • #117
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    3DataModem wrote: »
    Many people with prostate cancer never have any symptoms or impairments as a result of it.

    PSA screening detects the cancer in these people, and puts them on a treatment path, because it is impossible to know if the cancer is one that will impair life or not. However the treatment itself can be life-shortening or altering.

    A recent study in europe estimated that for every 1 life saved by screening, 1000 men are screened, and 50 men are treated.

    This is why doctors are very very slow to screen young and / or unsymptomatic men.

    I took it a different way. Person before screening thinks I'll live until I'm 80sih, post screening that expectancy will reduce for some.


  • #118
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    its_steve116 wrote: »
    Tokyo isn't a city.

    I was looking up where Iwo Jima was yesterday, turns out its in Tokyo, even though its an island 1,200 km south of the city


  • #119
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,545 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    I took it a different way. Person before screening thinks I'll live until I'm 80sih, post screening that expectancy will reduce for some.

    If a man with prostate cancer was never screened, his life expectancy would be greatly reduced than if he had early screening and treatment.


  • #120
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I have all the money I would need to live for the rest of my life, provided my life ended on May 28th, this year.


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  • #121
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    3DataModem wrote: »
    The shortest commercial flight from Dublin that lands outside the EU will not be different after Brexit.
    Cos the planes won't be flying after brexit, amirite


  • #122
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    pleas advice wrote: »
    Cos the planes won't be flying after brexit, amirite

    Isle of Mann.


  • #123
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nice loophole from Reddit:

    It's not pre-marital sex if you just never get married


  • #124
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    2 + 2 = 5.


  • #125
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    The first powered aircraft, the Kitty Hawk, flown by the Wright Brothers was simultaneously the best and worst plane to ever fly.


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