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Last week, I heard the song "Toxic" over the radio, and it got stuck in my mind since then. I try getting rid of it, by singing it out (suggested by friends) and trying to think of something else, but it got no better. A few days later, during my maths test, the song just kept playing in my mind, and I felt frustrated. Can anyone suggest some way to get rid of this brain parasite?!

I know its a way off yet but wouldnt it be nice to meet up on SFns 5th aniversary? what do you think?

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Why does car insurance for men cost more than it does for women? I mean, most of the men I know are very good drivers whereas most of the women I know are completely nuts! "I can't go the speed limit, people will pass me!" ~A girl I work with who's had her licence taken away more than once. Is it just the people around me are different from the rest of the world or is there a logical way to explain this?

I'm getting multiple connection failures quite often lately only to this site, the actual loading of the site isn't that bad ,just too many bad connections, like NCBI's front page. OMG I just had to press the submit button 3 times to post this.

Hi, I am a student in some crazy place on earth, and life is really hectic here. The teachers are just crazy! We have two tests (Maths and English) this week and another two (Chemistry Practical and Theory tests) next week! We never have the time to revise properly, and now I think I really suck in Chemistry and I have to resort to COPYING answers. (What a relief this only happens when I am doing Chemistry worksheets. If I am doing this for every subject, then I am really disappointed with myself. PHEW! ) i just cannot remember how to identify substances during chemistry practicals like what happens to sodium hydroxide if it detects a cation such as Ca+ because there is j…

If anyone has read some of my posts in the Computer Sciences section, you will know that I don't like Windows ME. Anyway, I found a funny site that shows what Windows ME is like... http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/WinRG.htm

according to Mythbusters, driving drunk is safer than driving while talking on a cell phone.

Do you guys know that thee are many girls who love to pretend who are inexperienced in love matter? This is a trend: girls nowadays love to have sex in very early age. But I don't understand why there are some girls loving to deceive some men's innocent felings that they never had boyfriend. Do you think taking psychology can help you read those women's minds which whether they are telling trues or lies? Because I never had girlfriend and I want my first lover to be inexperienced. I decide that I take some psychological terms before making romance with girls.

I think we already have a movie about using a single unit of DNA to duplicate a tons of same identity. What is a movie about using the outcome of cryogenic to revive a already-frozen girl, and she begins her venture as an young girl, won't that be wonderful?

http://www.venganza.org/ You know, this actually makes *more* sense than the Christian version. I also propose we immediately act to test the correlate between global warming and # of pirates. ::Puts on an eyepatch and a lizard on his shoulder:: Cap'n Atomic Lizard. Yarrr.

Dis is 1337 yo! http://www.monzy.com/intro/drama_lyrics.html

http://www.deathtocreationism.com everyone should read this...especially those like herme3 and other creationists.

i merely asked because it seems very limiting when you try to figure things out, but have to constantly go back to all these rules and laws of physics. I am wondering, if their are any physicists out their who can answer my question? How can you really try and sovle anything if you can't violate the laws of physics and create new ones? I mean has anyone just sat down and said, "maybe you can go faster than light and i'm going to prove how?" sometihng like that.

Me and dave on irc got together and decide to try and start holding LIVE debates on irc. Today we held our first. It wasnt the greatest, it happned on the spot, and didnt really have strong points/counterpoints. But bear with us, it is very exciting as their can be feedback, and audience questions! *Please not that the debate is Herme3 VS schrodngr's_cat (schrodngr's_cat used the alias "reverened fagel" The topic was : Windows better than *nix O/S'es Debaters: herme3 VS Here is the first one: <herme3> Ok, well I've used Microsoft Windows for many years. I've watched it improve over the years, and I can't think of anything bad to say about W…

My friend has invited me to watch the movie called "War of the Worlds" However, unfortunately, it is in French. My French isn't capable enough. ANy way, Do you people know why all the tripod machines are defeated? I mean, Tom Cruise only blew up only one tripod machine, and simultaneously, all the others were either weakened or froze, vulnerable by human attacks. For example, there was a scene that the US air force bombers and helicopters were inefective to the shell of the machine. But once one was blown up by Tom, even the infantry could blow up the machine with a bezooka. Btw, what were those birds doing on the machine?? ps, I would like to borrow this …

<Gilded> The ghey field mediating particle is called Swedon, which has a spin of 1/5, which is bloody odd <Gilded> Klaynos, it would have a integer spin, but the sheer fact that it's so gh3y takes 4/5 spin away <Gilded> Summary: Ghey-particle is just like a photon with the 4/5 spin taken away, and mediates the ghey force which must be studied further <Gilded> The overall energy of the Ghey-particle is E = frequency * current popularity of Village People so, what else is known about this field?

Would you spend extra money like the British to have unarmed police walking around your town?

Now its against human rights to give kids a bed time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4580305.stm

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I've "inherited" a ruby ring, and it's over seventy years old. Does anyone know how to determine if the stone is real or not? Or what stones may have been used to fake it during that era? I'd never dream of hocking it, but I'm curious.

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just, wow. This is just...I have no words http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/rubberjohnny.html EDIT: I am guessing that I should put a warning here. This video is very psychologically un-nerving. If you don't like things like blair witch project, this is about 10000000x times worse. This has no gruesome pictures, no scary pop-ups, it's a video some very talented and twisted guys made. If you think it will be like the faces of death videos, it's not. It couldn't be farther from that. It is scary in the same way the X-Files was scary. This WILL give you a nightmare or two... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Johnny

Hi everyone! How come most people don't call each other by their first names on the Internet? I guess people have to worry about privacy and everything, but I don't think it could hurt anything to know our first names. There are probably hundreds or thousands of other people with the same first name as you. I think it sounds kinda weird calling people by their usernames. I would never let anyone know my real identity, but nobody would know if they only knew my first name. My first name is Clara, but you probably already knew that somehow...