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It seems like everyone is able to find a girlfriend and get sex except me. I'm becoming 50 and I am still a virgin and never had a girlfriend either. Girls won't talk to me let alone want to touch me. I'm seriously considered suicide if I become 60 and I'm still a virgin and never had a girlfriend. How many people are still virgins after 60 years of age? Am I the only guy in the world who can't get sex and a girlfriend despite being already 50 or are there many others like me in the world?

My wife is a tea drinker, I myself am a coffee drinker. I have been making tea for her for 25 years. We are from the States so as young people we were raised on crappy tea, and coffee for that matter. Anyway the point is my wife discovered loose leaf Yorkshire Gold tea, which she fondly refers to as cocaine tea because she is addicted to it. I have talked to a couple of 'blokes' from England and they agree that it is a fine tea. Finally to my question - do the tea aficionados here agree or are we just deluded 'mericans thinking this is excellent tea? What are your recommendations for a really good tea?

What are your favourite sports? Mine are Swimming, Rugby League and Cricket. But when the Olympic games come around and the total coverage on TV given it in my country, there are other sports that I get a deep appreciation for...cycling, for one...weightlifting is another. Sailing also has my interest, as well as rowing. I also in my own mind like comparing similar sports, for example, cricket and baseball. At the risk of getting some Americans offside [which I'm always prepared to take ] I see cricket as analogous to a game of chess, while baseball is more akin to a game of draughts. I'm speaking of 5 day test cricket of course, as opposed to the "Mickey mouse" styl…

I'm starting to feel a relationship of entanglement because I think of a question and by the bing, by the bang there is a video. Okay maybe it isn't always so instant, but the video I'm watching now is about fields I was asking questions about fields, not too long ago and he seems to be answering every question I had then some I didn't ask, so maybe they use SFN to come up with ideas of what they are going to talk about, and since I'm writing this while listening I'm going to have to watch it again. Sometimes, I watch a video first then, confused ask questions. Half listening I'm fairly certain that this explanations is so good that when I actually start to pay …

I ponder the thought of the reasoning of why us humans once puberty hits are able to produce offspring. In our society having a child at this young age is not ideal for many reasons. I can't help but think the reason is because one's DNA hasn't copied itself as many times as the DNA in anyone older in age, less copying thus less mutations, errors as well as epigenetic altered DNA.

The Kora, a fabulous plucked string instrument, isn't common where I live, but here are opportunities to hear one - or even two, as Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté play together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLAwAOi-hA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8nyjsDj-Is (music begins at 0:25) Enjoy!

What are your favorite popular science books?

Just did not want to let this pass without a party (Dutch treat...). You are all invited at the lakeside! (Just Click on the picture to see it full size.) Thank you to all from who I learned a lot, and also thank you all who understand less than I do about certain subjects, but force me me to rethink, or make my viewpoint clearer, or force me to read some book or article (again). I noticed that much of what I read is influenced by topics here in these fora. And thanks to those who make this forum possible, moderators, administrators, sponsors, etc. Up for the next 1000!

Am I allowed to close my account or do I just avoid the site?

My progress is underwhelming.

I just read an article where this woman says she is allergic to H20 in her bloodstream and literally everywhere inside her body and that a sip of water sent her into anaphylactic shock (she says IV saline does too because of the H20 component). She also says this immunologist diagnosed her as being allergic to the H20 molecule. She is 32 years old, appeared on Montrel, and a series of other shows since she was little. She gets into the news a lot, including this time when it was her 21st birthday. But is this feasible? She literally claims that immunologists have said she is allergic to the H2O molecule by itself, not to any contaminants in water. I have seen p…

https://www.google.com/search?q=george+pell+sentence&oq=george+pell+sentence&aqs=chrome..69i57.7079j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 George Pell sentencing LIVE: Cardinal receives six years in prison: George Pell has been sentenced to six years' jail, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.

I got encouraged, I think, to open a new thread on a topic that was sub-sub-topic in an already closed thread. I was just very curious about the historical facts and how people think about questions like this. It is well-known that a publication surfaced in 1931, in Germany, supposedly containing the writings of 100 people slash scientists(?) each of which attempted to criticize Einstein slash RT slash GR. Einstein replied, sensibly, that if anything is actually wrong with relativity, then a single opponent with a valid objection should be quite sufficient. This seems to not have swayed the Einstein cranks one bit, as they do actually still have a penchant to re…

At about first grade, I learned to write the lower case alphabet as Then, the books I had to read had these different : a, f, r, s, z When did fonts became such ? I thought it was with the invention of printing; but looking at manuscripts from before, they are there, as handwritten. Is there two kinds ? Manuscript and printing manuscript lower case ? Look at 'proper' r, a, s, f, here : For s, interestingly, "colonies solemnly" differ. But the r from Morris differs... It was mixed then. For a, seems in the 19th century someone decided to make it different: And the r here : and this…

What achievements are you proud of in your life?

I'm less confrontational in real life.

Should I talk to girls I like about quantum mechanics?

Today I must overcome a very real fear and dread of mine, by attending a dental appointment, the first in around 10 years. Please pray for me.

As a brass contrabass, orchestras generally use a tuba. It's a long-wide-flared saxhorn with soft deep sound. In wind and brass bands, it blends in the saxhorn group, but not with the short-narrow-flared trumpets and trombones with brilliant sound. In symphonic orchestras, until they have a saxhorn group, the tuba is precious but it blends with nothing. Wagnertuben, already mentioned elsewhere, will be the contrabass and bass of the horn group when more composers eventually use them. At Berlioz' time existed low trombones with a longer slide and a handle to prolong the musician's arm, or with two slides side-by-side used simultaneously. Record: xM5s0l3sUwo 5:34-…

Sayo has returned

yay or nay?

There are really strong winds where I am from and they tend to destroy basically every umbrella I have bought including some from amazon that were supposedly rated for 60mph winds. All the big supermarket umbrellas Tesco/Dunnes etc don't last me a day. Is there anywhere I can buy an exceptionally windproof umbrella?

I'm very self-conscious about communicating clearly, concisely and properly. I would like a thread where we point out other users' grammatical errors or inconcise, jumbled, unclear phrasing. Either quote or copy/paste the user's text, and add how you would have phrased it.

I'm 25 and still living at home.

How do I go from a negative reputation to a positive reputation?