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Got concussed during an intra-mural high school game. Can't remember exactly how it happened but I'm sure I had my head on the side side of the leg when making a tackle as I was still pretty new to the game. Anyway, I "woke up" later in the match while on my feet and running around and otherwise app...

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Can't believe the thread has got this far without the 'lose' vs. 'loose' or 'loser' vs. 'looser' misuses we've all seen over the years. Drives me f**king nuts to see people who can't get even a simple 4-letter word correct, and yet English is supposed to be their native language.

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I liked this film a lot. Great concept and execution. I watched it purely because of some recommendations on this bored, actually! :lol: I'm not really a fan of horror films but Filipinas are, so guess what we always end up watching when I have a cute visitor? 8) Dog Soldiers is another horror film ...

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A great trip except for the accident obviously. Thanks for the reporting.

I'm more of a beach/scuba/snorkeling guy than a mountaineer, so it's probably unlikely I'll go to Nepal.

But at least now I know who to travel with when there's a suspect beach access that needs a guinea pig to lead the way.

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There is another benefit to legalization which hasn't been mentioned here yet. We could finally get some well-designed scientific studies on drug addiction to determine exactly what makes certain individuals addicts while other people are casual users and never feel compelled to continue. Part of it...

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Great stuff, I was expecting a weakened squad but this is much better.

I expect they will get at least 2 wins with that squad, hopefully 3.

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He's a f#cked up sadist. I've always thought if he plays for England I won't watch the game, and I still feel that way. And if bomber selects him because they're old mates then that's really crap. Makes me like bomber a lot less. My thoughts exactly. As a neutral, I won't be supporting England if t...

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Yep, that's what Internet access looks like here in the good old Philippines

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No not yet, they may have 10 years or more left. But my prediction of the future is 2 or 3 manufacturers of very simple low performance low cost electric powered robo taxis. The ratio of cars to people will be (wild guess) 1/5 th of today's level. If this happens the total market for new cars (simp...

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Hilarious video. I hate working legs but I do it every week. Not just for looks/strength, but also as as form of preventative medicine: as a middle-aged guy, I know I'm a whole lot less likely to get a strain/tear anywhere in my legs or lower back if I do my leg workouts regularly. I don't want to b...

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Vanilla Sky Yeah me too. And cruise's war of the worlds. And Troy I like Troy as well. The battle between Hector and Achilles was brilliant. Yes, I thought it was one of the most realistic (for Hollywood, anyway) and iconic hand-to-hand combat scenes I've ever seen. The fact the movie didn't adhere...

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What an exciting match. Both teams wanted to run it and kept running all game despite the dodgy turf which must have killed off more than half-a-dozen promising attacks. The final score is a bit harsh on the Wallabies who played very well until the Boks unleashed hell on them with some impressive of...

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Some truly amazing and humbling stories on this thread. Kudos to all who contributed. I have yet to meet a single bored member in person (I don't even post that much) but certainly there are a fine -- and very resilient -- bunch of people here despite the shitfights that happen periodically. Online ...

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I questioned the selections for these two matches. we were frankly lucky that NZ had a bad game in Sydney, although part of that was the Wobs getting in their faces and putting them off their game. but only part. but, I gotta aks....is Mackenzie as bad as Deans at selecting? White and Beale? :blush...

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I questioned the selections for these two matches. we were frankly lucky that NZ had a bad game in Sydney, although part of that was the Wobs getting in their faces and putting them off their game. but only part. but, I gotta aks....is Mackenzie as bad as Deans at selecting? White and Beale? :blush...

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FWIW, I recently bought Bioshock (and 2 and Infinite) during that Humble Bumble sale that was on a few weeks back. Just finished Bioshock last night and enjoyed the hell out of it even though I'm not really into first-person shooters at all. The story and especially the atmosphere of the game was se...

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'Could sell sand to the arabs' and other such sayings are really not useful in B2B. The most important thing is to earn trust so they will tell you exactly what they see as their ideal solution to enable you to offer the best possible proposal you can. In any involvement like this you will be deali...

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OK, but where would they have gotten the hydrogen from? Again, it takes more energy to extract a certain quantity of hydrogen from any source you want than you get from using that hydrogen for energy. Also, the age of the car started about 150 years after the start of the industrial revolution. Wat...

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What if oil and coal didn't exist or were much more difficult to extract? We would have not been able to have the industrial revolution and we would have still been stuck at the early 18th century level of technology. Yes, that's the big problem if we experience some kind of global collapse in the ...

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An appropriate video for this thread:

The Known Universe

It's rather lacking in dinosaurs (even stupid ones) which might disappoint a few contributors here, though.

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It's massively disappointing that with 100,000 potential civilisations in our solar system (according the link Gort posted) that SETI has heard fudge all. That many in the solar system!!! I think you need to learn a bit more astronomy :D. Seti might be listening to the wrong bit of the galaxy, at t...

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Having read loads of dinosaur books with my son, this is something I find really fascinating. The smartest dinosaur found so far is troodon which is estimated to have a similar level of intelligence as an ostrich. But it was still smarter than any mammals that were scurrying around at the time. On ...

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Here's why http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html I've no idea how well sourced that piece was but it was fascinating to read anyway :thumbup: Yes, it was a good interesting read. I agree with Raggs that they were a bit loose with the 1% assumptions but it probably all comes out in the wa...

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why do some of you think aliens would not find iy worthwhile to interact with us if they could? They might have learned from hard experience that interacting with primitives (i.e. non-starfaring civilizations) does more harm than good. Considering that it's pretty much politically impossible for us...

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I've always loved dinosaurs, but one question I always have is there needed to be a certain set of conditions for a fossil to form and that would lend itself to some landscapes more than others. Is it possible that large numbers of dinosaur species, and quite possibly very different types from the ...

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It's a pretty powerful counter-argument, which hinges on the fact that even at sub-light speeds, you could conceivably colonise an entire galaxy within 10's of millions of years...which given the age of the earth means that we should have seen 'artifacts' for several generations of aliens as they d...

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why do some of you think aliens would not find iy worthwhile to interact with us if they could? They might have learned from hard experience that interacting with primitives (i.e. non-starfaring civilizations) does more harm than good. Considering that it's pretty much politically impossible for us...

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It's a pretty powerful counter-argument, which hinges on the fact that even at sub-light speeds, you could conceivably colonise an entire galaxy within 10's of millions of years...which given the age of the earth means that we should have seen 'artifacts' for several generations of aliens as they d...

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As others have mentioned, there simply has to be other life out there due to the sheer, staggering number of other stars and planets (and presumably other bodies) out there. Look at all the exoplanets we're starting to discover, and those are only the biggest ones our technology can find so far. Lik...

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What sort of wit kant just sits there watching some getting beaten up by five people and films it? What I find oddest is no one intervened when it was 5 on 1 but multiple people intervene when it's 1 on 5. :? Exactly my thought. The moment the guy went in there and started kicking ass, everyone was...

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Look at what you can do online that appeals to your interests. Start up a forestry-based blog/website and monetize it somehow. Or hone your writing/copywriting skills and do B2B or B2C copywriting for the many forestry-related companies that surely need a professional sales writer to help them stand...

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Excellent story but I am buggered if I can see anything in it to suggest that the Buenos Aires club deserves to called "the worst team" Apparently they promised all the kids chocolate puddings after the workout, only to snatch them away at the last moment while cackling maniacally and crying 'Not y...

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Brumbieman wrote:I've gotta say, the attrition rate of everyone's beloved animals in this thread appears to be slightly higher than Omaha Beach.

It's a little depressing browsing through

I was thinking exactly the same thing. "PR Posters' Homes: Where Loving Dogs Go To Die ... By The Truckload"

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Wasting time on here
Losing money $1 at a time on forex trading
Lifting weights/cardio to lose that last couple pounds (almost there) and put some muscle on (soon)
Reading (SF or non-fiction)
Computer gaming
Snorkeling/scuba (although I haven't done proper scuba for over a year now)
Cute Filipinas

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Warren Gatland wrote: Mike Phillips is a bit rubbish now and has been for years. I shan't select him again short of a dire injury crisis at 9.

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B2C financial copywriter.

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Never thought I'd see Folau so thoroughly embarrassed under a high ball like that! Incredible ...

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Canes #2 (Shields, I think?) is going to punch Perenara in the locker room for f**king up that easy catch off the offload. Super run, nice chip and chase, nice re-take, decent offload ...

... and Perenara drops the f**king thing!

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-Yarde Good going forward, bad (but not Ashton) in defence Yarde was abysmal on defence. He didn't just give up on the basic concept of making tackles though, so still outplayed Ashton in that area. Genuinely couldn't believe the number of times Ash just didn't even bother to make a tackle. Ashton ...

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Congrats to the ABs ... best team on the planet at finishing chances.

That's the #1 weak point for England right now. Hope they learned plenty and are a better team for it.

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