Scott of the Antares
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Congratulations Lord Antares. The better team won. I wish you luck in the Final:)
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44 minutes ago, koti said:
Sure, we Poles are equally compassionate and reserved just like the British are. There are some especially „compassionate” team fans like the British ‚Millwall’ or Polish ‚Arka Gdynia’
But seriously, it all depends and youre right that stereotyping is not a good thing.
I also screwed up the quotation marks again, oh well.
English thugs are/were such a blight but a small group. I am hopeful this shameful habit is now truly in the past!
1 hour ago, Lord Antares said:Good luck to England. See you soon.
Indeed! Let’s hope for good match sir!
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2 hours ago, koti said:
I can tell you that it might not have worked if it was the other way around. If you had an Italian flag on your truck and wore an Italian jersey in an English pub you’d most probably not make it home that night.
Hmmm I think that’s a little too much of a stereotype. The English are largely compassionate and reserved. 99% of pubs would have no issue with foreign supporters.
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Yikes! Best chance either nation is going to get so let’s see what happens!
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17 minutes ago, Sensei said:
...there is also "the art of fighting without fighting"...
...my favorite one..
This story is a classic for sure:) Having the awareness to avoid dangerous situations is better than having to fight and risk injury.
A long time ago I knew a retired boxer who used to be a bouncer for a country pub that seemed to attract the wrong sort. Once some troublemakers inisited on fighting, he agreed but asked that they fought outside. As they walked to the door, he smashed the pair of them over their heads with a barstool. A similar form of deception, but without a boat on hand to offer a peaceful outcome. This became his ‘go to’ routine to effectively and safely end a fight. Ahh, the good ‘old days lol.
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3 minutes ago, dimreepr said:
You could wear a suit of armour and lean against a brick wall.
I suppose you could! I have more of an affinity for the less armoured but more mobile oriental styles, which rely more on skill. I suppose that is all fine unless one has little skill. When it comes to defence, this is seen in whether the practioner performs a block (lower skill), a parry (higher skill), or a ward off (highest skill).
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55 minutes ago, Lord Antares said:
Are there Scots and Welsh on this forum? I thought it was just English tea drinkers with monocles.
Yeah, I know. That's my point.
Sorry, where are you from Lord Antares?
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32 minutes ago, John Cuthber said:
It's not my field but I think Wednesday's game is England Vs Croatia, in which case the Scots and Welsh will be on Croatia's side.
LOL not all of them, just the petty under-developed ones with chips in their shoulders!
46 minutes ago, Lord Antares said:So the match on wednesday is pretty much going to be the science forum vs me?
Nope! There are plenty of sturdy Englishmen on these forums!
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10 hours ago, zapatos said:
Bruce Lee had the same idea, which is a part of Jeet Kune Do. If your opponent moves toward you with his fist, you strike his fist. If he moves toward you with a kick, you strike his foot.
Good call! This is true, however the philosophy behind Bruce Lee’s training goes much deeper; check out the last minute of this video where a trained martial artist is kicking a practioner of Taoist arts. When asked what is going on, the kicker replies that the force of the kick is reflecting back to himself.
20:50 onwards for less than a minute.
s://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XuW4UfaC
Enjoy!
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4 hours ago, Phi for All said:
Ruh roh, Raggy!
That’s worth a +1 of anyone’s money!
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I think it is obvious that automation is reducing some employment. Big global companies driven by huge profits aren’t that concerned with employing as many people as they can. To them profit >>>> welfare.
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14 minutes ago, ALine said:
What eternal battle?
A personified observation of the implicit dual nature of our human position within the universe.
We experience things as opposites of a whole. For example we have a quality of temperature which can be cold or hot (all relative positions). It is this perceived hot or cold that makes up the ‘battle’ between ‘light’ & ‘dark’. Many ancient systems noted this and it is easily observed in the Chinese philosophy of Yin & Yang.
Everyday is a matter of balancing opposites for human beings. Religions just added a rancid story telling layer, erroneously in my opinion.
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29 minutes ago, Ten oz said:
It has never been established how intelligent Neanderthals and Denisovans were.
True. And some researchers now believe that Neanderthals are responsible for some ancient cave paintings, showing they had a reasonable level of development.
There is also a ~47,000 year old cave that was recently discovered that had signs of use of fire, ritual mounds and rings on the floor, and reworking of the cave walls all ascribed to Neanderthals. In another similarly dated cave, bones were arranged on an alter, again, with the work identified as Neanderthals. They certainly seemed to have started developing abstract lines of thought and gained an identity of the self.
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9 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:
Why do you feel that is a mistake
I thought this was how it worked but Strange mentioned evaporation only. I now see that both are involved; today is a good day as I have corroborated what I thought to be true and Strange has taught me something new as well:) thanks guys.
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Adding a second ball is the best idea I have heard. It would be mayhem lol
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44 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:
penalty shots are a horrible way to decide World Cups.
Agreed, but if these professionals can’t sort it out within 2 hours of play then they can’t complain really. As an Englishman, I know all too well the horrors of a penalty shootout:(
13 hours ago, koti said:Frankly, I don’t find football interesting, never did...
Like most things, taking part is far more engaging than being a spectator:)
However, I can understand why you don’t find watching it interesting; your national team has been a bit of a wash-out this tournament;)!
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I mistakenly thought it was because if the ambient temp is cooler, passing more of it over something with higher than ambient temp would allow for more air-object heat transfer interaction. Therefore more air movement means higher capacity for cooling.
How does this work then if the ambient temp is above body temp for example? Would a fan not work as intended in this situation?
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Andromeda Fried (quasi) Chicken... yum:)
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Cold drinks certainly feel better, but room temperature (or ideally body temperature) fluids are absorbed quicker, and are therefore better for rehydration.
However I am as the OP suggests; right now I am lying in 30 degrees Celsius’s with a refrigerated water:)!
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I was reading an article on the same Oumuamua topic myself tonight. I love these types of discoveries, and one day we might get a mind bending confirmation. It’s all good learning, whatever the outcome:)
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1 hour ago, Moontanman said:
I have suggested at least one possible way to detect such space craft and there are others, others that have detected anomalies like radar contact with unknown objects. Sources actually say these objects have been detected both entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere. military hearsay really but who really cares enough to investigate?
Sometimes i really wonder if some of the old researchers were right and the military knows and is in cahoots with the aliens... not really but it is weird how it fits into the narrative so easily...
Well I believe there are enough reasonable claims and sightings to make me think that there is something going on. Whether that is of unknown human activity, alien activity or an unknown natural phenomenon is unverifiable by us atm. I think a natural phenomenon would be the least likely, but that is just a personal hunch.
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In terms of the question ‘can the study of UFOs be scientific’, surely the answer would be the same as every other definition of science on these boards; repeatable and observable experiments. To my mind that means having actual possession of an alien craft, otherwise no observation or experiment can be repeatable!
I agree with BeeCee and would love to see proof before I die. I am sure that there is life elsewhere in the universe as others here have stated.
PS I saw a pair of ufo’s Last Friday at my nephews sports day. My sister in law saw one of them before they both disappeared behind a cloud. We watched the cloud to see if they re-emerged, but instead the cloud itself disappeared over the next 60-90 seconds! Could have been drones but I highly doubt it.
nice topic though Moontanman:)
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Is there a rational reason for religion?
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The problem with the example of knowing how a computer or an airplane works is that they are nearly closed systems where we know the extents of pretty much every factor involved. While it is noble to use then as an analogy, I think they fall way short of comparing them to a universe of which we know very little. We cannot possible know every facet of the universe so assert that there is (or that there is not) a God is a matter of personal preference and nothing more. It cannot be known either way, period.