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Post by kizolk on Oct 18, 2024 12:14:55 GMT
In my experience, the best are the ones that don't try to hard to resemble known dairy cheese. My worst memory is of one that was sold as vegan "blue cheese". One or two tastings were enough for me to decide to store it in the thrash can.
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Post by kizolk on Oct 18, 2024 22:13:01 GMT
I've just played a very boring chess game, where the guy kept playing random moves. I lost on time, and wanted to signal my annoyance to the other player. Usually, people say "good game" or simply "gg" at the end of a game, whether it was good or not, so I figured I'd tell him "bad game", because I'm me. I made a silly typo, "baf game", which made my childish attack even more pathetic.
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Post by kizolk on Oct 18, 2024 22:14:40 GMT
One or two tastings were enough for me to decide to store it in the thrash can. Speaking of typos: of course I meant "trash".
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Oct 20, 2024 22:48:19 GMT
What exactly goes in on the heads of people who live in Somerset? Nempnett Thrubwell. Compton Pauncefoot. Norton Malreward.
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Post by kizolk on Oct 21, 2024 10:07:20 GMT
I didn't know England was capable of coming up with such great names to be honest.
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Post by kizolk on Oct 22, 2024 4:15:08 GMT
"Bliss is ignorance" sounds quite a bit more cynical and pessimistic than "ignorance is bliss".
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Oct 22, 2024 12:52:41 GMT
There is a horse called Sonny Liston. There is also a horse called Sonnyboyliston. There is no obvious reason for this: the horses are in different ownership with different sires and dams. I can't offhand think of another boxer with a horse named after them, although it wouldn't surprise me, as naming a horse after a prominent sportsperson in a completely human sport isn't unknown. There was one called Lance Armstrong; good thing his running days ended before the runner confessed he'd been cheating.
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Post by kizolk on Oct 24, 2024 15:48:52 GMT
If you look close enough, you'll find white/grey hairs on my head. But white beard hairs? You don't even have to look for them. The process has begun.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Oct 25, 2024 0:39:18 GMT
Why does beard hair tend to go grey faster than head hair? Hair goes grey and eventually white as pigment is lost, but facial hair appears later than head hair, so it should lose its pigment later as well. This seems to apply to pubic and armpit hair, which appears around the same time.
(This is just a general impression; I haven't done a detailed study.)
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Post by kizolk on Oct 25, 2024 9:53:12 GMT
It seems to be an open question. In fact, from the little bit of research I've just done, it appears that there are not only contradictory theories trying to explain the same set of facts, but also some disagreement as to the facts themselves. For instance about the order in which the different types of hair usually turn grey/white. It is also my impression that facial hair usually turns grey before head hair, and a few of the things I've read support that idea, but Wikipedia says: "The order in which greying happens is usually: nose hair, hair on the head, beard, body hair, eyebrows." Bizarrely, the source of this claim is a Japanese article that doesn't even say that. It only says nose hair is usually the first to turn grey. At one point it lists the different types of hair and says they can all go grey, but it's in no particular order (nose hair appears third on the list).
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Oct 29, 2024 20:00:28 GMT
It's never occurred to me to think about nose hair going grey. I have a limited imagination.
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Post by kizolk on Oct 29, 2024 20:13:25 GMT
It didn't to me either I think. Ear hair on the other hand I've probably thought about.
You really like skeletons/skulls it seems.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Oct 29, 2024 20:22:32 GMT
I hadn't thought about ear hair going grey until now. I have idly wondered why at least some men have so much more of it than women, and what evolutionary purpose is served by it increasing with age, but not for a long time.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Oct 29, 2024 20:23:40 GMT
Or does it increase? Maybe I'm mixing it up with the fact that ears can grow in old age, and this is at least more noticeable with men. Another apparently pointless feature of the human race.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Oct 29, 2024 20:25:48 GMT
And I've just googled, and as I should have known, ears don't grow past the age of 20 or so any more than anything else, apart from nails and hair, which don't count. It's just that cartilage wears down, and ears sag.
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