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  1. Oldies but goodies...

     

    What did the accountant do when he was constipated ?

     

    He worked it out with a pencil.

     

    Why did Nivea Cream ?

     

    Cause Max Factor.

     

    What's the difference between a dead prostitute and a ferrari ?

     

    I havn't got a ferrari in my garage.

  2. We say' date=' "I'm stuffed" after we've eaten too much - I gather in England and Australia it means to be pregnant.

     

    I also understand that you "knock someone up", if you visit someone and knock on their door - here it means to get someone pregnant.

     

    I can't vouch for Oz, but 'I'm stuffed' in the UK means either eating too much, or something has gone wrong...'you've really stuffed that one up'. It doesn't mean being pregnant...'one in the oven', 'up the duff ' are popular and for 'that time of the month'...'on the blob', 'got the painters in' are phrases used for a woman on her period. Please exscuse the crudeness of these sayings.

     

    I find it funny when people say the english language is so refined...I think it's going the other way for the majority of the population.

  3. It is interesting where you get penguins' date=' they are a remarkable species, but i would not hold them up as an example of how great being bipedal is. Their advantages are associated with great swimming skills and the ability to weather very cold climates. The bipedal movement on land is a case of making do, not an advantage and doesn't seem to confer any extra options for survival.

     

    BTW, what are these Amazon penguins? Penguins need cold waters, unless a new species with unusual characteristics has just been discovered i think you are mistaken.[/quote']

     

    I agree on retrospect...Penguins are really quite clumsy creatures on two legs.

     

    I'm trying to find a link to the Penguins found in the Amazon...I saw it in a programme just a few days ago, I'll let you know when I remember the name of the programme.

  4. If you really want to get over a girl, the best thing to do is find another girl or few. Feelings tend to linger for ex's when you don't have someone else to take their place. Take a page from Miss Haversham and throw away the cake.

     

    There's a lot of truth in that...I've had offers, but due to the emotional baggage I've been carrying around I wasn't interested. I can safely say that's changed now.

  5. I won't comment on whether this is ethical or not but I think the research is suppose to give us insight into how sentience and human intelligence developed and how it is created in the human brain.

     

    I guess the transition from apes to humans has plagued scientists so much for so long, that they feel it's justified to run such experiments...maybe, I'm just guessing.

  6. I know it's possible to do product testing...pharmaceuticals / cosmetics et.c I heard a few people participated at my friends uni when they were broke. I think you get paid a hell of a lot for necking a pill and lying in bed for a few days while they see if there are any immediate side effects.

     

    I guess if it's a matter of choice then it seems more ethical...however the monkey's concerned certainly have no choice with the tests they'll be subjected to...albeit whether they're harmful or not.

  7. Lots of creatures have had the opportunity to evolve erect-backed bipedality' date=' but only a few have (the others being cormorants, auks, and penguins) and only one (us) uses that posture as the primary one and during any serious locomotion where performance matters. Speaking strickly biomechanically, the human form is vastly inferior to most other animals. I would say that it's not an pure adaptation itself, but a result of our past history constraining our adaptive possibilities so that this was the best of a limited set of options.

     

    Mokele[/quote']

     

    I've heard the current argument is, that due to climate change there was a depletion in forests. As the forests became scattered, our ancestors adapted so they could travel across scrub-land to the pockets of forest that were available. Of course less forest meant less need for tree climbing skills...and so these pyhsical traits were diminished over time.

     

    A freakish change in our evolution is the lowering of the larynx...as far as I know this was just a fluke, yet it's shaped the way we communicate...apes have a higher larynx to our own, and have limited nuances to their vocal communication compared to ours.

     

    It's interesting that you get penguins nesting in the patagonian desert / the falkland islands and the Galapogas Islands (right near the equator), as well as the Antarctic. They're even found in the Amazon rain forest !! I guess being a bi-ped increases the options for survival.

  8. any urban area in the US:

     

    tight=good

    playa= guy or girl with a lot of women or men

    hood= neighbhorhood you grew up in; in some more rual regions it means bad part of the city

     

    bling=shiny jewelry

    fo shizzle= for sure

    getting crump= feelin good or enjoyin yourself

     

    Dope=phat=really good

     

    tight= tight fisted also know as stingy, not willing to part with money

    playa= the same thing in the UK

    hood= erm hood, but we're well aware of the U.S meaning

    bling= generally means the same thing...if someone is bling they are usually wealthy but in an urban sense...lots of jewellery, car souped up with spoilers and a noisy exhaust...and a 'phat' sound system.

     

    Not sure about the other two.

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    Defining chavs is difficult. They tend to wear Reebok or various other brands of sports-bottoms (sweat-pants? I'm sorry' date=' I couldnt translate here), although (fake) Burberry is also fairly common. The defining drink is probably White Lightning (or various other white ciders). The attitude is also essential. Crotch-grabbing, impregnating young girlfriends, and skipping school are popular pass-times. Music of choice would be 50 and the Crazy Frog (though I could be wrong on the 50 part, he's probably chav-parent material by now). As far as I'm aware, the wigger is probably the closest comparison that can be made, as honour doesnt seem to play as large a role in chav gangs as in gang-gangs.[/quote']

     

    That's a much more concise description of a chav...I forgot about the teenage pregnancy problem..they have been reffered to as English white trash before...with a hint of wigger. (or whatever the less ignorant term is!)

  10. are chavs just characterized by the way they dress or is the aggression towards people passing by part of it too? if so' date=' thugs or gang bangers is probably the closest in america.[/quote']

     

    I'm not sure the gang bangers in US would like to have a party with the gang bangers in the UK.

     

    Chav's are characterized by their dress...white caps / or burberry caps, hoodies (usually up with peak of the cap sticking out) cheap tracksuit bottoms tucked into their socks ??? They hang out in massive groups and yes during a survey they found people are more scared of chav's than a terroist attack in the UK - so they are notorious for attacking people (I'm sure most of them are just mislead and ignorant). They usually fall in the 12 to 18 years age group.

     

    They recently had a ban in shopping centres for anyone wearing a hoodie in the UK !

  11. "Bumming" in the UK is often a gay thing' date=' in the US it means to "ask for/scrounge"

    a "Fag" in the uk is a cigarette, in the US it`s a Gay male.

    the US says "Elevator" we in the UK say "Lift".

     

    so basicly if you`re Trans-Atlantic, and get caught bumming a fag in a lift, you`ll inevitably get strange looks from those in the lobby![/quote']

     

    LOL...You can also 'ponce' a fag in the UK...you can also call someone a 'ponce'. A man who spends a lot of time on his appearance.

     

    No wonder tourists have a hard time grasping the english language.

  12. I'm not sure "wigger" is a good synonym for "chav". In the US (where I believe that term was coined), the word means "white n*gger". Which really means a white (usually male) person who dresses like a ghetto-type rapper.

     

    Guess I should of worked that one out...there's a famous BBC radio DJ who fits that description...Tim Westwood... I have several words for him, unfortunately there are minors on this forum.

  13. How many names for a hick? redneck

    What are the equivalent of chav's called in your town / city? I'm still not quite sure what a chav is' date=' but I can assume we call them 'wiggers'[/b']

     

    Redneck and hick being the obvious...I was wondering if there were anymore contempary names for the inbred.

     

    So how do 'wiggers' dress ? Are they generally considered as the lower class ? Incidentally there is a website called chavskum.com which was started as a joke, and the binners have taken to it like ducks to water...or like chavs to a can of cheap cider.

     

    The questions I gave are just a general guideline, any slang for any place / social group / object, anything will do.

  14. so what does this sensation feel like?

    is it like anger?

    or has it a more subtle mix of other sensations thrown in there?

     

    do you feel you have a unspoken agreement with the person who triggers these jealous feelings within you.

    what is the nature of that agreement' date=' when was it made and are you sure you both agreed to the same thing?[/quote']

     

    I realise now that the reason I felt this way was due to her nagging and belittling. She picked up on the fact I still had feelings for her at the time, and she used it as a power trip. I was also still very attracted to her physically at the time and so I tried to ignore the way she was towards me, it was only in retrospect that I realised how badly she was treating me.

     

    I built her up as something she wasn't and subsequently made myself feel small, and not worthy. I felt good because she was still in my life, but it was tainted with the envy that she could go off with someone else and there was nothing I could do about it, so more frustration than anger.

     

    We did agree that it was best for her to go home and make her own life, but her words when she left was 'if you find someone else that you're thinking about marrying for christ sake I need to know' which is unfair. I was slightly hanging on the whim that we would eventually get married...she mentioned marriage only a month into the relationship. The last time we saw each other she avoided questions about our lives crossing and collaborating (we both write music) and that's when I realised she had no such plans at all.

     

    I did get quite angry that I've always been there for her, and I've always been understanding to her problems, but as soon as I had a problem she didn't want to know (this was after the split),Probably because I felt more for her than she did for me, but that's really beside the point, she wasn't even being a friend.

     

    Unfortunately I've told her exactly how I feel about her now, and it's ended on a low note...but damn it felt good at the time. I see and hear so many people not sticking up for themselves in relationships as they're scared of the consequences and blinded by physical attraction, and all it does is beat you down. It's been a good learning experience.

  15. "Blaggers" sounds like it stems from the British term "blackguard" (pronounced blag-ard), a name given to the lower menials of a nobleman's court and came to mean someone who was morally reprehensible.

     

    Spot on...the term is generally used today as someone who takes, more often than not in a deceptive or relentless manner e.g

     

    they've blagged another day off work again or

    you're always blagging cigarettes !

     

    That reminds me of another...Gannet (after the sea bird) someone who constantly takes, similar to greedy pig.

     

    Which also reminds of the wealth of alternative names for the police...

     

    Pigs, The Filth, The Sniffs, The Fuzz, Rozzers, Bobby on the beat, Boys in Blue, The Heat, five o...can anyone think of anymore

  16. I'm interested in hearing peoples slang / dialect for their region and if possible where and why the phrase was coined...

     

    Where I grew up, getting a ride on the back of someones bike was called a backy...in a neighbouring town it was called a buggy...and in the midlands it was referred to as a croggy ???

     

    Huge groups of kids that hang out in shopping centres wearing hoodies and cheap tracksuits are referred to as chav's / townies and locally to myself binners. Whilst growing up we referred to them as 'bus stop blaggers' as strangely enough they hung around bus stops being generally abusive to passers by.

     

    Krustys for right-on new age traveller types and pikeys for new age travellers that aren't really right-on and just go around thieving and being abusive.

     

    I thought about it when reminiscing on my travels where a Canadian girl reffered to clean cut types that dance to Latino House Music as ...... I can't remember the phrase she used (if anyone knows the answer to this, it'd be great...it was a few years back.)

     

    How many names for a hick ?

    What are the equivalent of chav's called in your town / city?

    What do you ask for when getting a ride on the back of someones bike ?

    What are the different classes referred to e.g toffs for the upper class...toffee nosed...stuck up.

    If anyone can provide any quirky or fitting phrases / names, it would be really appreciated.

  17. Please take a look at the following link...

     

    http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C10117%2C15891104-13762%2C00.html

     

    Why do they want to know if human brain cells will make a monkey self aware ?

     

    I can't really see the advantages in the experiment other than to make PG Tips rethink their ad campaign.

     

    What do you think, is this immoral, or can anyone see the benefits of this type of experiment outweighing the ethical implications ?

  18. Are the exact chemicals, that cause jealousy, known?

     

    I guess adrenaline is released, which causes that gut feeling, what other chemicals come into play...I'm not sure.

     

    I also found out that what I was experiencing was actually envy, as jealousy is only attributed to something you already have. As she was my ex girlfriend I was envious of whoever was going to be the next man in her life.

     

    Just for the record we havn't spoken for a couple of months now and I'm a firm believer now of 'out of sight, out of mind'. I guess clean splits are best unless the break-up is very much mutual.

  19. Check this link out...

     

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4607053.stm

     

    It shows satelite pics of the development of cities over the past few decades. The spread of urban developments to cope with population rises is perfectly illustrated in a stark but undiscountable way.

     

    I'm not convinced that this problem will have devastating effects globally, due to a mottled economy, which means the effects will be more localized.

     

    A good example in history is Angkor Watt in Cambodia which grew to the size of New York, and the surrounding forest and it's resources could not keep up with the demand of the growing population. This gave no leeway for any enviromental changes and soon conflicts ensued over ownership of these resources.

  20. We see and hear in dreams. Might they not be originating

    in visual and auditory centers?

     

    I know there are 13 visuals!!!

    Maybe dreams are asociated with one or more of these. :D

     

    I need to know this to continue a thread on extracting images from the brain, but I can't find anything specific to this when I google it.

     

    The link below takes you to the site explaining this research, and there's an opportunity to ask him questions. He claims the technology could record dreams in the future, maybe you should ask him ?

     

    http://www.mindpixel.com/chris/2005/06/extracting-video-from-cat-brains.html

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