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I've spent too long on the internet, or I perhaps I just have a naturally steely disposition. Pictures like that no longer have any effect on me. Slightly off-topic. I challenge you all to find a picture or a fact or something that actually disturbs me (nothing illegal of course)

I'm not entirely sure either. I do like the sound of surprise midnight road trips though

My entire family is introverts actually, but I've never really thought too much about what types my parents are, I know them too well to try labelling them. They are definitely introverts though. My sister is an introvert, and I think all of my grandparents were probably introverts too. I...

They still didn't reach the same widespread acceptance that alcohol has. And after being made illegal, the mainstream public perception has been altered to thinking these things are bad. Legalising drugs would require gaining the support of the public, but just providing evidence in support of...

My response to a lot of this thread:

Alcohol has been part of human life for millennia. It is simply so entrenched in our culture that it would take several lifetimes to eradicate its use. Cannabis on the other hand has only been involved in our culture for several decades

*Takes notes* sushi Erm... and does "somewhere over there" count as a direction? *attaches breasticles* *with pins* :phear:

It's a case of there being little reason for it to be illegal, but not a good enough argument for it to be legal. The real obstacle would be finding a single high ranking politician who would commit to supporting it. In the same way there's a good argument for making tobacco or alcohol illegal...

When looking for university places, I went for an interview at the Imperial College London, and apparently a significant proportion of the engineering graduates get jobs as traders. In fact half of the other applicants I spoke to that day said they didn't want to become engineers, they were just...

Actually, in the British English version at least, the third line isn't "ashes, ashes" it's atishoo, atishoo (pronounced a-tish-yoo)

This picture is relevant

Hipsters aren't really hipsters any more. It's just another fashion now. It's just a poor attempt at counter culture that got hijacked by the sheeple. Wearing clothes to make yourself look different is a bit pointless when shops like Tesco sell the same clothes by the dozen.

Adymus, you should be a politician, you are a master of talking your way around questions and criticism. You are just repeating the same dogma again and again, you tell us why pod'lair is correct yet won't help us to decide for ourselves. Your whole defence towards all of our criticisms is...

I generally have an internal dialogue, but in recent years I sometimes have a bit of a monologue in the background. I also think in pictures sometimes Something of interest is that the INTJs seem to be going over things in their heads and changing details, whereas mine is usually mostly about...

Short answer: yes and no long answer: I need more detail about what your internal monologue is like

I'm exaggerating slightly, but I'm referring to advertising

Currently I'm being made to feel depressed by having valentines day shoved in my face everywhere I go.

An interesting read I thought I'd share: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12368624

They'd be useful if you have a cut somewhere experiences a lot of friction, like on your feet or on your waist. Superglue is awesome though. Apparently a friend of a friend carries a tube of superglue around with him all the time. I heard several funny stories about it actually. Once he cut his...

Even so, water that's actually drank would still only be a small fraction of the urine you take in, because in an hour of swimming, even a couple of litres of pool water would be a lot to drink and urine would only be a tiny fraction of that. One would have to assume that urine is absorbed...

I don't usually drink water in swimming pools. Is the calculation referring to urea absorbed through skin?

I've read before that the average mobile (cell) phone has not only more bacteria than any other household item, it also has a much wider range of bacteria. Since reading it I've been wondering if any doctors have linked it to the recent rise in hospital acquired infections. All hospitals have...

I knew a Wistful Cucumber once, do you think they're related?

Yes, there will be a shed of porn.

Because I'm in the UK. Although the BBC has started showing the superbowl for some reason

This, exactly. Except I have too much stuff to completely tidy my room in a single day, so it never gets entirely tidied. I have too much stuff.

I never use them. I wear my ouchies like a man. Although at the moment I have some old corn plasters on my desk, but that's just because I haven't got around to throwing them away yet

Architecture isn't highly technical. It requires low-level engineering knowledge, but nothing in depth. Physics is highly mathematical and theoretical. Choose it if you are happy working all day with a sheet of numbers and no physcial objects. Engineering is more like applied physics. Rather...

We only do it accidentally or for fun sometimes.

Also, there is a massive amount of heat generated by the collision which helps the process. And also that we have both the continental crust and oceanic crust, whereas the other planets have generally homogeneous crusts

Logical deductions, I assume.

I'm just suggesting we shouldn't be limiting our perspective to what we already understand. When we come across something we don't understand, comparing it to something we do understand isn't always the right thing to do. Sometimes to understand new things we have to start again from first...

Why should tentacle monsters make sense. They're not necessarily attempting to reproduce, they might be harvesting life force. Their ejaculate might not be ejaculate, it might be a chemical which alters their victims DNA for example. Tentacle monster are completely alien things and to make...

And I'm Barry Scott

I read non-fiction to learn about stuff. currently I'm reading "steels: microstructure and properties" by KHDH Bhadeshia

There's always female cthulhu too Which reminds me, I bought a beautiful leatheroleum-bound copy of the Necronomicon months ago and still haven't read it yet.

I second that. I also need videos and some fully-functional scale models.

I like the theory behind pod'lair, but the presentation, well I would go as far as to describe it as painful. I understand the intention of making it attractive to popular culture, but I think it's just gone way to far. I think the average person will look at that website and instantly begin...

It wouldn't really be a tentacle monster though, it would be more like an orifice monster. You could perhaps have a monster that has tentacles with orifices on them.

I use facebook, but mainly just because of a few people I know posting news stories, and a few people I know who post interesting or funny comments

Actually I'm referring to how people misuse numbers. It seems to me that anyone nowadays can say "99.9" or "99.99" without having to back it up with any evidence because it has became a colloquial term. Many products claim to kill 99.99% of bacteria, though in truth they only say that because...

I'm very much like that when not fully awake. Usually if I ever need to wake up a few hours earlier than usual, I do things just like those for a while until I become fully alert. I also get like it if I'm generally exhausted for any reason.

Maths in engineering is very very different to maths in school. In engineering you are never expected to memorise formulae, except of course for certain basic ones. And more importantly you are not taught to simply use formulae without knowing how it works.

Did you know that it is a scientific fact that 99.9% of statements including the term "99.9%" have absolutely no factual basis? :phear:

I've got very mild visual snow. Perhaps around the density of 5 on that simulator. I get starbusts, but I'm always wearing either glasses or contact lenses which are probably the cause. I also get annoying floaters like you described too. I also have tinnitus, but fairly mild so I usually only...

Does this count? I used to have it recorded on an old C90 cassette.

In this thread: Subjective metaphors.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/27/repost-indias-most-e.html Basically what the Terminator would have been like if there were hundreds of him. I've mainly just posted this because of the ludicrous scale of the scene in the link above. :D (Go Go Gadget Death Sphere)

Reflective - 11 Intuitive - 7 Visual - 7 Global - 7 Quite accurate I suppose. I've done various tests before which go over the same sorts of things