Moontanman

Nice, I always liked the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band version too. 

19 hours ago, MigL said:

Maybe you can cite a study that shows old cnservatives are more "pissy" than old liberals.

They may be more mean, but most old conservatives are rich, with no reason to be miserable or 'pissy'.

They are just pissy about different things. 

19 hours ago, MigL said:

Well they made movies about 'grumpy old men', so it must be true.

No, purely anecdotal on my part also.
And possibly more lonely/depressed than grumpy.

Hey I'm lonely as well, send nudes. 

15 hours ago, Sensei said:

@John Cuthber

..you truly deserve to be called an "ape" and not "homo sapiens".. this video wasn't about "apes and black people".. it was about "giving guns to the wrong hands that can turn against you".. If you were a "homo sapiens", and not a "ape", you would have figured it out, but your hatred blinds you and prevents you from seeing the real content.. V.P. is giving weapons to the wrong hands, i.e. criminals from prisons and ordinary Russians who don't share his madness, and might turn against V.P. and his mafia..

The ancient Romans did this twenty centuries ago, and it began and ended their downfall..

Wow! I never imagined it would turn into some kind of racist thread branch.. You need to flush that shit out of your head..

 

Well technically he is an ape and so are you and me and all other humans. 

1 hour ago, MigL said:

There is plenty of humor in this discussion.

It's funny how people are so set in their ways ( ideologies ) that they refuse to even see alternative viewpoints.
Monntanman mentioning the 'taking' of land by the Israeli Jews, when it was actually established in the colonially ( British ) mandated lands of Palestine.
He mentions the bulldozing and herding into small compounds without mentioning that Arabs and Palestinians are free to live in Israel and can even be members of government.
He fails to mention how some of these 'compounds' can elect governments whose sole purpose is the eradication of Israel and how these compounds, having no food or medicine for their people, manage to get their hands on thousands of home-made rockets that are indiscriminately launched into Israeli population centers.

TheVat is so concerned about he association of apes with blacks in American racist culture, for which he blasts JohnCuthber that he fails to see the problems Europe has with racism.  It's not an American thing when bananas are thrown onto the pitch at most major soccer/football games with black team members.

Or Zapatos having a problem using the 'c' word ( TBH so do I ), when it is very common in the UK, and thrown about with careless abandon.

Doesn't anyone else see the humor in how easily offended everyone has become ?
Why do we, individually, want the whole world to recognze/respect our own individual sensitivities ?
Why can a word/idea used by one individual 'hurt', but be perfectly acceptable if used by another ?

I may not like MisterMack's political views, but, if he tells me a statement is a joke, I'll consider it as such and try to find the humor in it; there always is.

And you fail to mention how the Israelis drove out the majority of the Palestinians, bulldozed their homes, killed them outright to make them leave and confined most of them to tiny areas they now occupy. As for where their missiles come from. I would imagine that they come from other countries who have a stake in harassing the Israelis. This is not a complex issue, yes the British tried to make an Israeli homeland but like lots of effort the British put into partitioning other peoples lands this effort resulted in lots of violence because the people who already lived there were not given the same rights the Israelis enjoyed. Just because god or the british told the jews they could have this land didn't justify the methods they used to eliminate the people who already lived there.  

I guess if Israel has a God given right to the land they occupy and they have the right to round up the previous inhabitants and push them into what amounts to a concentration camp then by extension Native Americans, by the authority of the Great Spirit, should have the right to take back all our lands the Europeans took and round them up into concentration camps (reservations) and starve them out. Maybe Native Americans can get the support of Russia and China to help us enforce our claims? 

Israel is the bad guy in this and their claims are based on nothing but religion, the Palestinians have just as much right to exist on that land, I see no way to get around this logically.  

I can honestly say I have nothing against the Jewish people individually or as a people but they get no magical pass either. And the whataboutism of saying other countries have no room to talk is a very sad excuse.       

So planet of the apes is coming?!

If the Israeli government is exempt for humor then this entire thread should be closed. I see no reason to exempt The Israeli government from political humor, they are no more exempt from humor than anyone else. 

Wait! Boobs were flashed? 

I thought mistermack's joke was quite spot on my funny bone. I don't have anything against jews but israeli policy has long been lampooned for being somewhat less than gentle to those who dare to disabree with them. I don't hate israel as many who simply criticize them are accused of doing but I see no reason to kiss their ass either.  

16 hours ago, mistermack said:

I said no such thing. You're inventing your own facts. Which doesn't argue well for the general quality of your arguments. So it's not surprising that the AAH is for you. Jim Moore's writing generally makes sense. Elaine Morgan's writing is pretty worthless, full of special pleading. 

I enjoyed her books of fiction... but the AAT has been shown to be false.

I can see a house being made up of living trees, I've seen trees grown into various shapes, some resembling houses and even partially functional, but moving objects? Maybe with a lot of genetic engineering. 

Sexual selection? 

1 minute ago, iNow said:

I thought perhaps this topic might generate cool tangents like "what does it mean to dance?" or "what is a fish?" or "is there music in the ocean?" but that flopped

What is a fish in the most interesting of those questions. Depending on how you define "taxon" we either are fish or fish is not a meaningful label for vertebrates.

https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Taxon_types.htm

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 A taxon (pl. taxa) is any group of organisms that is given a formal taxonomic name. Loosely, a monophyletic taxon is one that includes a group of organisms descended from a single ancestor , whereas a polyphyletic taxon is composed of unrelated organisms descended from more than one ancestor. 

https://johnhawks.net/weblog/why-anthropologists-dont-accept-the-aquatic-ape-theory/

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Anthropology and archaeology were transformed in the 1970s and 1980s with spectacular fossil discoveries in Ethiopia and Kenya. A new generation of researchers turned away from many 1960s-era ideas. Even so, they found little of value in the aquatic ape theory. The more evidence anthropologists found of early human relatives, the less any speculations about aquatic ancestors seemed to make sense. It wasn't the lakeshore; it was the woodlands where our ancestors took their first bipedal steps.

Yes fish dance, watching their mating dances is one of the rewards of fish keeping! 

1 hour ago, StringJunky said:

Pi'd.

I hadn't thought of that answer, i was going for Pithyon. 

What do you call a snake that is 3.14 meters long? 

At the time of those writings the sun and moon were considered planets, but the earth was not and some even counted venus and mercury twice as evening and morning stars. We know now that the sun and moon are not planets and that mercury and venus are only one planet not four. I'm not seeing anything profound in the poetry than can be interpreted as accurate discriptions of the heavens. What was the definition of planets at the time is also important, if I understand correctly only objects that moved against the background of stars counted but now days we only count 8 planets. I'm not sure if there is a definition of planet that would suggest only 9 objects are planets. 

The purpose of life is obvious, to reproduce and create more life. 

1 hour ago, Genady said:

Sure. Another thread I had in mind was not on dinosaurs, but on numeral systems: 

 

I see, I misunderstood. 

2 hours ago, Genady said:

Inspired by another ongoing thread, I imagine that if these dinosaurs were really as smart as primates but escaped the extinction, their descendants would have a heximal numerical system.

I didn't see another thread on this, I'll look again. I can't seem to find the other thread, can you give me a link to it? 

A new study suggest dinosaurs might have been much smarter than originally thought! 

https://www.labroots.com/trending/neuroscience/24431/t-rex-smart-baboon