[quote who="KrdaxDrkrun" reply="39236" id="3041208"]Banned because being civilized is all about getting over our animal natures... It seems that our society has been moving away from civilization for a long time...[/quote] Banned because that depends entirely on your notion of civilization. To me, perhaps the single greatest flaw in the historical project has been the tendency our species has to try to set itself fundamentally apart from all the other life forms and
[quote who="gmc2" reply="609" id="3041206"]why is it that some people seem to forget that god didn't write the bible.[/quote] Some of us didn't forget, we just don't believe in a single omnipotent, omniscient deity. That crowd includes the quasi-religious atheists, plus various neo-pagans, animists, Buddhists, polytheists, Zoroastrians, and so forth.
Banned because I'm no hardcore reductionist. Reluctance to confront our animal natures entails far more than cultural baggage about sex. Fear of our meat-based nature is even more annoying when you try to deal with things like health care for people who are nearly finished living.
Banned for fear of being meat-based. Except that admitting you want to slap sibs seems like a step towards being civilized. Banned again because your semi-prudish response counts just as much as a "tirade about sex" as any attempted cock or tit jokes you might find on these gods-awful intertubes.
[quote who="KrdaxDrkrun" reply="39221" id="3041131"]@Swicord would you talk about such with your parents in such casual and lewd manner? I most certainly wouldn't do such with mine...[/quote] Banned because my mother taught me to understand that sex is a wholesome and important part of life, as long as you don't get too obsessive about it. She'd have wanted to object to me japing like that, but would have to admit that the attitude was archaic and unhealthy.
[quote who="Ryat" reply="24" id="3040906"]As if there was any.[/quote] Indeed. Kirk was a slut, even before the fan fringes started writing and drawing about him having sex with Spock.
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="39216" id="3041114"]Banned for implying that I am heterosexual. I for one did not immediately get "phallic" from the long/wide thing, specifically because it was characterized as "empty"[/quote] Banned because I lumped your asexual attitude together with the breeders, which might be ban-worthy, but also might not be ban-worthy. Banned again because there's an underlying flaccidity jape in that empty long/wide thing. [quote who=
Banned sideways. And banned again because all you breeder boys ran in fear from the long/wide thing. Titty references get all kinds of instant traction around here, but type to a fellow about his own special bits and the crickets start singing...
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="2" id="3041026"]Let's all be models for our lawmakers and keep this discussion on a higher plane than political parties.[/quote] I'll half-agree with you there, except that our dysfunctional party system is a root cause of both the campaign finance problems you noted and the relative ease with which the MPAA/RIAA crowd have captured overwhelming support from both parties in Congress and from presidents of both parties. When you talk about wan
I'd just like to note how fascinatingly ironic it is that this conversation has drawn in Member No. 2,448,424, who is Nameless. I would never have guessed that the forum code would allow such a thing.
[quote who="starkers" reply="39169" id="3040430"]Banned for knowing too many quitters[/quote] Banned because I'm not quitting, I'm just emulating the majority of my students and putting off some work until the last minute.
[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="39166" id="3040396"]banned for I've known people to quit because of those calls. Just crushed their souls, it did.[/quote] Banned for unclear pronoun references. Not that I'm avoiding grading papers or anything...
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="52" id="3040400"]Female code crap.[/quote] Please explain how the females own the multitasking trope. I'm a testicle owner, but it seem to me that multitasking is more about serving a given master than it is about expressing a given gender identity.
I'm trying to quote Doc's reply 48, but the forum code is listing RiddleKing as the user in updated versions of both Opera and IE 8. Re the nurse-doc thing, what can I say but that sometimes I have more respect for testicle owners who've both nursed and doctored than I do for medical womenfolk in general. It's a post-feminist thing, I guess. Re "old man," that was not meant as an ageist remark; one of the other things my mom passed on to me was a bi
Banned for assuming the customer was male. And my impression was that the built-in optical disc drive was just a complete mystery to the nice lady who called our company. She didn't say anything about having problems using the tray as a cup holder, just that she'd never connected the shape of the CD we'd mailed her with the shape of the CD drive tray.
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="43" id="3040338"]Indeed. "Distracted Doctoring" is also caused by hospital loudspeakers, nurses and endless hours without sleep. Some digital devices can help in decision making, however. They can also have apps which link the hospital to the office making critical labs and imaging availableto the M.D. very quickly.[/quote] Careful, there, old man. I'm the son of an alpha nurse who helped bring hospice to my local community and spent much of her professi
Banned because most folks still don't believe me when I tell them I actually once took a tech support call from someone who thought the CD tray was a cupholder. That was back when CD burners were balky peripherals that cost more than a cheap PC, but still...
I wish the inter-tubes weren't so corrosive of meatware memory skills. I managed to find an old PBS News Hour story about some statistical research indicating that mobile phone conversations are more distracting than conversations with a passenger. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/july-dec09/driving_07-28.html What I can't find quickly is some other neurological researc
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="11" id="3040089"]It's always "the other guy", isn't it? "I can do it because I'm good, or do it rarely." Sort of like "I only drive under the influence rarely."[/quote] The fascinating thing in the research is that it isn't an "other guy" problem, it's individuals' ability to hold conflicting ideas. Most folks know that driving and talking or texting is dangerous, but many of those same folks do it anyway. Exactly li
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