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  1. StringJunky
    If the spec required of a person for some particular job or activity is measured by the test, then fine, but its range of applicability is very narrow and doesn't cover most people in terms of what they are capable of. The trouble is that they are held up by people as a benchmark to cover all of human intelligence, As has been said before: a high IQ just means one is good at doing IQ tests.
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    Because.... she's so ugly!
  4. StringJunky
    This is it: everybody has some sort of strong ability towards something which may not be problem-solving that IQ tests are supposed to measure
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    LOL! You get the idea? The OP - although they may not realise it - is a "Mine's bigger than yours question". You never see "My IQ's 100. What's yours?"
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    Mine's 8 inches.
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    Pink Floyd's "Time" Dark Side Of The Moon. The story of our lives.
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    Cool.
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    You need to absorb this, what swansont said here, then you will realise the question whether they are physical is moot:
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    The world's first aircraft carrier was called.....USS Enterprise! A Nimitz class AC has 6000 personnel living on it. Now tell me that's not complex.
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    Would it be much more complex than a modern nuclear powered aircraft carrier; they are floating towns in terms of logistics and self-contained for long periods.
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    Right. Have you medically eliminated any underlying disease? The bacteria that causes ulcers comes to mind, Helicobacter pylori, is one. Unstable body weight can cause it too; it happened to me. I went 10kg up then 10 kg down in a year. Another medical possibility is a faulty sphincter that keeps your stomach contents in at the upper end of your stomach; not closing properly.
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    Perhaps that's the standard protocol you have to follow because with some reagents mass may be lost through evolution of gases when mixed.
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    Fusty A thought: When you fold the clothes you will touch and stroke the backs to flatten them and take creases out, then you put them away. It is usual to fold the fronts inwards, is it not?
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    You are most likely swallowing air. Do you gulp a lot as a matter of habit? Do you have some irritation in your throat that causes you to swallow air/saliva to relieve it? Do you cough as well periodically? One thing you could try is don't drink anything with a meal; leave it out for at least half an hour after it. This avoids diluting the hydrochloric acid and will kill any gas-producing bacteria better and provide a better environment to break the food down properly. The first thing really though is to seek a medical opinion to eliminate anything serious like ulcers.
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    Swansont said they would last a lot longer than free nucleons. As to why, that might be hinted by this snippet:
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    Right.
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    Utimately, from that link, I think they degrade,and disperse as electromagnetic radiation. This is only theory though, based on what they understand now
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    You need to start allotting some me-time to yourself and give yourself some mental space where you can switch off. Nobody is worth killing yourself for...except for young, dependent children maybe. Try and create a separate parallel mental world that you can escape to and give time to. Stress is often caused just by not giving yourself space to detach yourself in order to keep tabs on your normal life. In a sense, it's not being able to see the wood for the trees; you are, perhaps, too busy to see where you are going. "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"
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    To detoxify from what? What needs decontaminating?
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    Right. I'm wondering: if they were stored by hanging them on coat hangers, with air more freely circulating all over the clothes, as a opposed to the compressed confines of being folded and stacked, would that prevent it? Another thing I've thought of is sweat from hands handling them; reacting with the fibres slowly over time in storage.
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    Spoken like a true ex-addict. That was very interesting and candid. I think you've captured everything about smoking and the problems of giving up very eloquently . Thanks.
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    White cotton is processed to a white, it would appear.. I'm wondering, seeing as the natural fibres tend towards yellowish, like the stains, it is somehow reverting from pure white in storage. Some kind of oxidation maybe?
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    My guess is that it is the same forces that stick the plates in air as the they do underwater;you have to overcome a vacuum, water pressure and atmospheric pressure bearing down on the water surface, which bears on the plates..
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    It's hard this healthy eating lark. Everything I eat is killing me. Saturated fat is everywhere.

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      StringJunky

      No. Its just that, having got rid of Hep C, I'm using the very positive emotional momentum gained from that to rid myself of two unhealthy aspects of my life; sugar and smoking. The experience from the treatment, which was pretty horrible, makes giving up those two things less of a challenge; that's my theory! Unfortunately, the treatment has left me with high cholesterol, hence my drive against the wrong fats and other contributory factors.

    3. jimmydasaint

      jimmydasaint

      Thank you for sharing that with me mate. And good luck to you, of course. I am pretty much in the same cholesterol boat. However, I don't study my diet with too much scrutiny. Surely exercise and lots of it provide a way out. Eat well and vary it. Take everything you enjoy in small doses. I don't always follow my own advice but I am eating more salad as you suggested.

    4. StringJunky

      StringJunky

      I think you and I need to tread the same diet path. Eating crap then running it off is a bit like lacing a bullet with penicillin, don't you think?

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