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Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs
Scientists plan to test whether sharks enjoy listening to Christmas pop songs, after US research showed fish could recognize melody. Chris Brown, senior marine biologist at the Loch Lomond aquarium, said seasonal music would be played through walkthrough underwater tunnels where they can be heard by dozens of nurse sharks, black-tip reef sharks, and ray species. Experts will then monitor the sharks' reactions to different songs. We'll play everything from Kim Wilde and Mel Smith's Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade to Wham's Last Christmas. We may find they prefer something softer like White Christmas by Bing Crosby," Brown said. Thank you for answering this question science.
Sitting on this barstool talking like a damn fool
Got the twelve o'clock news blues
And I've given up hope on the afternoon soaps
And a bottle of cold brew
Is it any wonder I'm not crazy? Is it any wonder I'm sane at all
Well I'm so tired of losing- I got nothing to do and all day to do it
I go out cruisin' but I've no place to go and all night to get there
Is it any wonder I'm not a criminal?
Is it any wonder I'm not in jail?
Is it any wonder I've got
Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away with my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands
Well, I'm a jet fuel genius - I can solve the world's problems
Without even trying
I have dozens of friends and the fun never ends
That is, as long as I'm buying
Is it any wonder I'm not the president
(He's not the president)
Is it any wonder I'm null and void?
Is it any wonder I've got
Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away with my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands
Mod me up because I have a vagina and I advertise it through my username!
What's wrong with vagina? You got something against vagina? Vagina is good!
Yeah, I don't know what I'd do without mine.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
Become celibate?
If you had one, maybe you wouldn't feel the need to be an asshole to a woman on an internet forum for no reason.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
Well, if you want to point out the obvious....
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
At this point, I think it's worth mentioning the following:
If men went around saying: "I don't know what I'd do without mine" when someone mentioned the word "penis," it seems likely to me that some woman somewhere would find something insulting to say in retort.
Therefore, this all sounds like fair play to me.
*shrug*
Kid-proof tablet..
IDLE.
If you had one, maybe you wouldn't feel the need to be an asshole to a woman on an internet forum for no reason.
I was referring to the observation that generally, even women who are wealthy want to date men who make more money than they do. Look up the stats yourself if you do not believe me. This is legal prostitution in my opinion. It's not like rich men are ever lonely, even when they're obvious scumbags. Also, men don't generally have the option of being a "homemaker" -- men either have a job or they're a bum, there's a definite shortage of third options for men. So, someone saying that without a vagina you might need to get a job (as opposed to want to get a job) isn't totally without basis in reality.
Another thing. Apparently you're a woman and you read Slashdot. I like that. I wish more women had interests like this. If you've read much of Slashdot at all then you know that people say all sorts of shit here. It's the sort of place where people can take a joke or at least understand that plenty of people are going to say things they don't like. I think that makes Slashdot fucking great, myself. Please understand that the moment you talk about your vagina and how indispensable it is, you might not like the responses you get. I'm really quite surprised that there were so few responses, to tell you the truth. That does not make someone an asshole. You're offended about the response to what you said and don't seem to have given a second thought to whether someone was offended by your own remark (hell, some people are prudes like that). If they were, you'd tell them to get over it, right? What should I say to you now that you don't like my joke? I am trying to treat you like an equal, and part of that means applying the same standard to you that I would apply to me. Part of that also means giving and hoping to receive a certain amount of benefit of doubt. Does that fit your definition of being an "asshole to a woman on an internet forum"? If it does, why? Because I assumed that someone who makes a comment like that can take a joke? I wasn't actually trying to make you angry, you know.
To tell you the truth, I'm betting that you're probably one hell of a lot more sophisticated and humorous than our silly little argument would make either one of us appear to be. I really would like to see your reply to this, even if it's a negative one.
There is no reason that wifi over power lines should be federally banned as there is no proof that air guide signals impede the phase of electrical power signals, even 4 phase lines. It is known that wifi works on a QAM-8 orthaginal spacing while 4 phase always exhibits a rhomboid sine distribution. The twisted pair cross-current vs. serial overload buffer magnetisism is most overcome by employing a larger multi-linear, nor capacitance resistor in parallel with a Ombudsman-type ohm logger. It is true the fidelity of the upper octaves of any oboe solo is overcome by refractive copper tunings in the brass section, but this can be damped by wet rag dolls and the use of Criso oil as the valve lubricant. Further, songs in the key of G fail to pass the "spectrum de art" test since they are not composed in blue or aqua crayon. At the rate these researchers are going, dolphins will become the pray of off-tune, but well-meaning, carolers who believe in a "flat earth" with no harmonic resonances in the upper foundations of granite sub-articulates.
Everyone understand, now?
Nope, me neither.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
If you had one, maybe you wouldn't feel the need to be an asshole to a woman on an internet forum for no reason.
You must be new here.
If he had one, he'd contact the woman on the internet forum and become 'best friends' with her while also talking to everyone else behind her back about how much of a whore she is.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
[theos.com] on his That *BSD 0wned. words, don't get it racist for a mod points and is the worst oof conglomerate in the the channel to sign
EIGHT fucking digits, no wonder such comment...
At this point, I think it's worth mentioning the following:
If men went around saying: "I don't know what I'd do without mine" when someone mentioned the word "penis," it seems likely to me that some woman somewhere would find something insulting to say in retort.
Therefore, this all sounds like fair play to me.
*shrug*
To many women, "fair play" means "treat women better or with more deference than men". To illustrate, I don't see any women's rights groups getting all upset over the fact that courts overwhelmingly favor women (even when all else is equal) when it comes to divorce, both financially and in terms of child custody. I don't see them trying to stamp out affirmative action policies that favor women. When women commit domestic violence (and it happens a lot more than you think), they almost never get prosecuted for it even when there is ample evidence - I don't see anyone upset about that. Look at sitcoms. The average USA sitcom is a whiny, possibly effeminate male who lets his wife/girlfriend walk all over him because he's afraid to displease her and he's afraid to stand up to her ("Everybody Loves Raymond" is a good example). I could go on and on but I think you get my idea. I think that much of this relies on a willingness to call things what they are, so either you have noticed this yourself or else nothing I say is going to convince you.
Anyway, the point is that women often expect to be exempt from standards that would apply to men. Any man who makes a comment about his genitals in this fashion would expect snide remarks in response, just as you mention. It doesn't occur to women that such a reasonable expectation applies to them as well, and you can see this in the way that Mistshadow2k4 got upset instead of saying "eh what else did I expect?". This is because they don't believe that what's good for the gander is good for the goose. I don't really know why they are this way, but it's the same thing as believing that they are better than men. Maybe some of them realize that they're pretty (to someone) and that they can use that to get what they want without having to develop character or skills or talents. I personally think that if you could compare an equally attractive male to an equally attractive female, the female can much more quickly find a mate. Because of that, maybe women see us as "disposable" (I think around 80% of all relationships that break up are ended by women) and maybe that's where their contempt comes from. One way or another, they (as a large group with many exceptions) currently enjoy the very same sort of sexism that would cause them to cry bloody murder if it were applied to them today.
I have a vagina and I advertise it through my username!
how much is it for one hour? and can i take it for a test drive?