Later in life it leads to abnormal masturbation, reduced sexual pleasure, and reduced pleasure of your female partner.
Which studies say are also untrue. I don't remember the exact figures, but way over half (65% iirc) of non-virgin adults who have had circumcisions because of medical problems report increased sexual pleasure. I haven't seen any studies about your other allegations, do you have citations?
I knew a man when I was in the USAF in Thailand who got jungle rot on, of all places, his dick. It required amputation of the foreskin. It took a month to heal, and he had to carry amyl nitrate "poppers" in case he got an erection. He later told me that it was painful as hell, sex was better after he healed than before surgery, and wished that his parents would have had him circumsized when he was an infant; an infant doesn't feel pain like an adult (a doctor once told me you can do surgery on an infant with just aspirin as an anestetic; this was before Rye's Syndrome was discovered), it heals in days instead of weeks, and babies seldom get erections.
And circumcision doesn't help the child at all until after puberty.
I fear you may be right, and I blame the internet. Before the internet, the only things a person couldf read were books, magazines, and newspapers, all of which were written and edited by professionals, and private snail mail. Now instead of one person reading mail from an aliterate*, hundreds read the aliterate's blogs and messageboard postings.
What's particularly galling about that is there is simply no reason whatever for putting an apostrophe for a plural, except that people who don't read books have seen it all over the internet.
I also blame our incredibly poor education system. People should have learned this in the third grade, and nobody should be able to pass 8th grade this ignorant.
* U'm using the word "aliterate" in a slightly expanded sense here. Rather than someone who can read but doesn't, I'nm using it to refer to someone who only reads if it's on the internet, where all the other aliterates are.
But it doesn't discount the fact that TFS (I didn't RTFA, because the premise seems stupid) is just wrong. Apple didn't kill Linux on the desktop. If anything, Linux took a small slice of market share away from Apple by being a second alternative to Windows. Without Linux, anyone who gets disgusted with Windows has no other choice but Apple.
Secondly, Linux on the desktop is far from dead. Linux is thriving. Nobody killed it.
Linux was never destined to be the dominant OS desktop no matter how badly many of us wish it were. It's actually cheaper for an OEM tio use Windows instead of Linux because of all the added crapware the OEM is paid to install (AV trials, toolbars, and the other gunk a computer buyer has to clean off). Windows is mostly useable, and has millions in advertising, while few non-nerds have ever heard of Linux. Nobody is going to install Linux until they're just fed up with Windows' behavior or are building a system from scratch.
Considering that, it's a testament to Linux developers competence and Windows designers and programmers incompetence that Linux has any traction at all. If Linux weren't more stable, hardware fault tolerant, less buggy, has more features and better useability, nobody would bother switching.
Now, If Apple brought their PC prices down to what a Windows PC cost, that could possibly kill Linux on the desktop, but they haven't and aren't going to.
I'm no fan of Sony but I hope this guy is banged up for a long time for stealing all that private data.
I thank the guy for hacking Sony. Nobody from Sony went to jail when Sony vandalized my and thousands of others' PCs with their XCP trojan rootkit, why should this guy go to jail?
Obama, and many will but even though he is probably the worst president we have had since Lincoln
Worst since Lincoln? You're out of your mind, son. Obama's only fault is that he's not FDR. His predecessor went into office with a balanced budget, peace, and prosperity (in fact an economic boom better than I'd seen in my life, and I'm 60). When he left office we had been attacked (he was warned but ignored the warnings), the stock market had crashed and we were in the worst recession since the Great Depression, we were in two wars at once, had the highest defecit in history, and Bush was the only President in history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he went in.
I never thought I'd ever see a worse president than Carter, but Bush proved me wrong. He is arguably the worst President in history (and I've seen articles by historians who agree).
There are more jobs now than there were when Obama was elected (although unemployment is still too high), the stock market is back where it was, the Iraq war is over, Afghan war winding down, and Bin Laden is dead.
You expect Obama to clean up a mess that took Bush eight years to make, in only three? You're out of your tiny little mind.
The legal cutoff of 18 doesn't really match biological development.
It did in this study. Those over 18 didn't have the effect. However, everyone matures and ages at different rates. Some 17 year olds may be fine smoking pot, while some twenty year olds may not be.
everything is based on self-reports
This study was done by studying IQs, not surveys or questionaires.
For the cost of that laser printer's replacement ink cartridge alone
Laser printers don't use ink. The way one works is the text/pictures are "printed" on the paper with a laser, making where the laser hit electrostatic. The paper then passes over the toner, which is really a fine powder made of plastic, and the plastic sticks to the paper where there is the elestrostatic charge. It then goes through a heater about 3000 degrees F or so, and the plastic dust is melted on to the paper.
Laser printed paper won't run when you get it wet. Ink will. And that toner cartrige is going to last forever, compared to an ink cartrige, without the problems of the nozzles clogging if you don't use it, because there are no nozzles.
I agree that in most homes (mine included), a scanner is more necessary than a printer, but I'd personally not have them both in the same device. If the scanner part quits, you're stuck with only a printer.
Damn you, AC, I was going to post something similar and you had to go flaming. He's no idiot, but "creationists" are not necessarily anti-evolutionists. Every Christian believes that God created the universe, but all but a few morons accept that evolution is how he went about making different species. Even the Pope says so.
Teaching your children about God is not the problem, stupidly denying science is the problem. And I suspect that the antievolutionists are wolves in sheeps' clothing, not unlike that evil preacher from Florida who demonstrates at military funerals with "god hates fags" placards. That goes against every single thing Jesus taught; God loves gays, he just doesn't like what they do -- but he doesn't like my or your sins, either. Gays are forgiven like any other Christian, we all sin. How can that Florida asshat consider himself a Christian?
I suspect that many of these creationists are simply trying to make unbelievers out of believers. I'm convinced that Pat Robertson has converted far more Christians to atheism than Richard Dawkins ever dreamed of converting.
Pushing a vehicle at 80MPH down the highway is going to be hard to do and get 54.5 MPG
They test at 65 mph, and your mileage isn't that much worse at 65 than at 50. According to my car's built-in mileage calculator, I get 27-30 mpg at 65 and 30-36 at 50. The way you beat wind resistance is in the design of the car's body, its aerodynamics.
I thought so too, for the same reasons you give, but right now Romney and Obama are neck and neck in the polls, even in the "battleground states". I fear you may be wrong. God help our country! We have the choice between being stabbed with an ice pick, or buttraped with a hot soldering iron.
They get defensive because results like this can be used as a reason for keeping pot illegal.
This study can be used as evidence that it should be legal. If you have teenagers, ask them if it's easy to get pot in school, then ask them if it's easy to get a beer in school. I asked my kids that when they were in high school, and they said "of course you can buy pot in school." When I asked about beer, they laughed and said "don't be silly, of course not."
See, it's easier for a teenager to buy pot than it is an adult. A dealer will be paranoid of an adult, because he could be the secret police, but there are no teenaged police officers.
If you want to keep pot out of teenaged hands (and I certainly don't want kids smoking anything at all), legalize it and sell it like alcohol.
The machine maxed out at 2GB, so getting the user to buy Win7 was a non-starter.
My notebook only has a gig and W7 runs fine on it. However, you did the right thing, having him spend over a hundred bucks for an OS would have been stupid, especially considering that Linux has many advantages over Windows and features Windows lacks, and Windows' has no technical advantages over Linux, nor has any features Linux lacks. The only people who need Windows are photo professionals and gamers.
he wanted to be "upgraded" to Ubuntu
No quotes needed, Ubuntu is indeed an upgrade from Windows. I've always liked KDE, so I'm running kubuntu on my tower.
BTW, that same situation has happened with me as well. Lack of install disks and not wanting to spend more on an OS than the computer is worth has converted many of my friends to Linux.
The first link obviously is, that's like asking Newt Gingrich if Obama's a good president. You might as well cite High Times for an equally biased view of pot. However, you didn't read the wikipedia link, did you?
A study of the development of 59 Jamaican children was conducted with the children being monitored from childbirth to age 5 years... The results over the entire research period showed no significant differences in development testing outcomes between using and non-using mothers. At 30 days of age, however, the children of marijuana-using mothers had higher scores on autonomic stability and reflexes . . . Research has shown a substantial percentage of cannabis users develop cannabis-related problems, including dependency.
If you do anything whatever every single day for a year, you're going to miss it if you no longer have it. Dependancy != addiction. Addiction has physical withdrawal symptoms; tobacco, alcohol, heroin, coffee are addictive. Orange juice and marijuana can introduce dependancies. Hell, there's a woman in my office who almost freaked out because the vending machine was out of little chocolate donuts and she'd been eating them every day for years. Yes, smoke pot every day for a year and you'll miss it when you can't find it... but you won't freak out or steal for it.
Cannabis use has been assessed by several studies[23] to be correlated with the development of anxiety, psychosis, and depression
You know about correlation and causation, of course. Marijuana eases symptoms of depression and anxiety, and probably psychosis as well. They're putting the cart before the horse here. Smoking pot doesn't make you crazy, being crazy makes you smoke pot. From your link: "A recent study has shown that cannabidiol (a major constituent of cannabis) may be as effective as atypical antipsychotics in treating schizophrenia."
Gateway drug hypothesis
You'll find many pot smoker to deny a link, but there is a clear link: the same people who sell pot also sell other drugs. In short, the drug laws themselves cause it to be a gateway drug.
A 2002 longitudinal study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal concluded that "marijuana does not have a long-term negative impact on global intelligence [in adults] . . . Cannabis smoke contains thousands of organic and inorganic chemicals in the tar. This includes many of the same carcinogens as tobacco smoke.
Odd that a two year old study wasn't mentioned here. Researchers thought that because of the facts cited above, that marijuana would cause cancer, so they did a test on very long term (>30 years) users. They had four groups: nonsmokers, pot smokers, cigarette smokers, and users of both tobacco and marijuana. They expected the users of pot to have as many or more cancers than cigarette smokers and users of both to have far more, but their research showed the opposite: those who smoked both pot and cigarettes had half the cancers of those who only smoked cigarettes, and those who smoked only pot amazingly had fewer cancers than nonsmokers, although the difference was statistically insignifigant.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it. Gees... drugabuse.org, why not cite the partnership for a drug-free america as well? Sheesh!
Your friend is neither intelligent nor dextrous. Lacking dexterity all he would have to do to open it "right handed" would be to turn it upside down. He also is probably aliterate or illiterate, since CDs open the same way books do.
...Lexmark inkjet's is coming... Apart from Lexmarks soon to be redundant employee's
I'm curious, is English a second language? If not, how did you manage to get through high school without learning what apostrophes are for? Either way I hope you appreciate a little education.
An apostrophe has two and only two uses: for contractions like don't and can't, and possessives, like "Lexmark's printers, Bob's dog, Phil's book. That is the only two uses. You do not use one for a plural, unless it's a plural possessive ("Lexmark's are bad printers" is wrong wrong wrong). With a plural posessive the apostrophe goes outside: "Dogs' noses are sensitive." If the posessor ends in "s" it also goes outside ("Linus' work has helped the world")
Hope I was of help.
PS: It's inkjets are coming, not is coming. BTW, read some books!!!!
Of course. There was no such thing as a pair of scissors before 1500 BC (yes, it's very old technology) and pens before the Indians invented them in 500 BC. John Mitchell of Birmingham started to mass produce pens with metal nibs in 1822, the fountain pen in 1827 and the ball point wasn't manufactured until 1943. Erasable pens have only been around since 1979; I was an adult when that was first marketed.
I'm not a leftie, but I agree, I don't see how a two handed thing like a keyboard can be a detriment, or a mouse, which one can use with either hand.
I suspect that whoever invented the Hebrew alphabet was a southpaw, since they write right to left; I can see how a left handed person can find writing longhand left to right difficult.
More time as a cantankerous old man opining about how great life used to be before all the young 'uns started playing on my lawn?
Are you annoyed by young children? Can you stand the sight and singing of Barney the Dinasaur or Spongebob Squarepants? That's how the geezer sees you -- an inexperienced child who has yet to understand the world. It doesn't matter how you age, that simply comes with the territory. All one can do is be tolerant of the arrogant ignorance of young people, knowing you were like that once.
The thing I fear is what I've seen in my maternal grandfather and my dad. Grandpa was against an indoor bathroom, when my uncle installed one in Grandpa's house, he still used the outhouse. Likewise, my dad refuses to use a computer or cell phone (even if given to him) because "I lived eighty years without one and I don't need one now" and expects snail mail with printed photographs. If I get like that I hope a bus runs over me.
You sound like a philosophy major I worked with long, long ago. He was of the opinion (similar to yours) that if he turned his back on me, I didn't exist. He proved it by turning his back on me, I didproved it by hitting him in the head with a box of popcorn.
The way I'm going right now, and all the damage I've done to myself in my life already, if I don't die early, I'll be an old man confined to a bed going "It hurts to live!"
Don't be too sure. I never took much care of myself even though I always did enjoy walking, and my favorite foods are all healthy. I took drugs as a young man, rode my motorcycle in what are now Superfund hazardous waste sites, and I smoked cigarettes for thirty years. I didn't expect to make it past 40, but here I am.
Gimme a strong, healthy body that gets a boner easily and come back and ask again in 500 years.
Well, my plumbing is good, I wake up with a boner every day, but how easy would it be for you to get a boner for an eighty year old woman? I think that's why folks get farsighted in middle age, so their spouses don't look so ugly up close.
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Later in life it leads to abnormal masturbation, reduced sexual pleasure, and reduced pleasure of your female partner.
Which studies say are also untrue. I don't remember the exact figures, but way over half (65% iirc) of non-virgin adults who have had circumcisions because of medical problems report increased sexual pleasure. I haven't seen any studies about your other allegations, do you have citations?
I knew a man when I was in the USAF in Thailand who got jungle rot on, of all places, his dick. It required amputation of the foreskin. It took a month to heal, and he had to carry amyl nitrate "poppers" in case he got an erection. He later told me that it was painful as hell, sex was better after he healed than before surgery, and wished that his parents would have had him circumsized when he was an infant; an infant doesn't feel pain like an adult (a doctor once told me you can do surgery on an infant with just aspirin as an anestetic; this was before Rye's Syndrome was discovered), it heals in days instead of weeks, and babies seldom get erections.
And circumcision doesn't help the child at all until after puberty.
I fear you may be right, and I blame the internet. Before the internet, the only things a person couldf read were books, magazines, and newspapers, all of which were written and edited by professionals, and private snail mail. Now instead of one person reading mail from an aliterate*, hundreds read the aliterate's blogs and messageboard postings.
What's particularly galling about that is there is simply no reason whatever for putting an apostrophe for a plural, except that people who don't read books have seen it all over the internet.
I also blame our incredibly poor education system. People should have learned this in the third grade, and nobody should be able to pass 8th grade this ignorant.
* U'm using the word "aliterate" in a slightly expanded sense here. Rather than someone who can read but doesn't, I'nm using it to refer to someone who only reads if it's on the internet, where all the other aliterates are.
But it doesn't discount the fact that TFS (I didn't RTFA, because the premise seems stupid) is just wrong. Apple didn't kill Linux on the desktop. If anything, Linux took a small slice of market share away from Apple by being a second alternative to Windows. Without Linux, anyone who gets disgusted with Windows has no other choice but Apple.
Secondly, Linux on the desktop is far from dead. Linux is thriving. Nobody killed it.
Linux was never destined to be the dominant OS desktop no matter how badly many of us wish it were. It's actually cheaper for an OEM tio use Windows instead of Linux because of all the added crapware the OEM is paid to install (AV trials, toolbars, and the other gunk a computer buyer has to clean off). Windows is mostly useable, and has millions in advertising, while few non-nerds have ever heard of Linux. Nobody is going to install Linux until they're just fed up with Windows' behavior or are building a system from scratch.
Considering that, it's a testament to Linux developers competence and Windows designers and programmers incompetence that Linux has any traction at all. If Linux weren't more stable, hardware fault tolerant, less buggy, has more features and better useability, nobody would bother switching.
Now, If Apple brought their PC prices down to what a Windows PC cost, that could possibly kill Linux on the desktop, but they haven't and aren't going to.
I'm no fan of Sony but I hope this guy is banged up for a long time for stealing all that private data.
I thank the guy for hacking Sony. Nobody from Sony went to jail when Sony vandalized my and thousands of others' PCs with their XCP trojan rootkit, why should this guy go to jail?
Where's the justice?
Obama, and many will but even though he is probably the worst president we have had since Lincoln
Worst since Lincoln? You're out of your mind, son. Obama's only fault is that he's not FDR. His predecessor went into office with a balanced budget, peace, and prosperity (in fact an economic boom better than I'd seen in my life, and I'm 60). When he left office we had been attacked (he was warned but ignored the warnings), the stock market had crashed and we were in the worst recession since the Great Depression, we were in two wars at once, had the highest defecit in history, and Bush was the only President in history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he went in.
I never thought I'd ever see a worse president than Carter, but Bush proved me wrong. He is arguably the worst President in history (and I've seen articles by historians who agree).
There are more jobs now than there were when Obama was elected (although unemployment is still too high), the stock market is back where it was, the Iraq war is over, Afghan war winding down, and Bin Laden is dead.
You expect Obama to clean up a mess that took Bush eight years to make, in only three? You're out of your tiny little mind.
The legal cutoff of 18 doesn't really match biological development.
It did in this study. Those over 18 didn't have the effect. However, everyone matures and ages at different rates. Some 17 year olds may be fine smoking pot, while some twenty year olds may not be.
everything is based on self-reports
This study was done by studying IQs, not surveys or questionaires.
For the cost of that laser printer's replacement ink cartridge alone
Laser printers don't use ink. The way one works is the text/pictures are "printed" on the paper with a laser, making where the laser hit electrostatic. The paper then passes over the toner, which is really a fine powder made of plastic, and the plastic sticks to the paper where there is the elestrostatic charge. It then goes through a heater about 3000 degrees F or so, and the plastic dust is melted on to the paper.
Laser printed paper won't run when you get it wet. Ink will. And that toner cartrige is going to last forever, compared to an ink cartrige, without the problems of the nozzles clogging if you don't use it, because there are no nozzles.
I agree that in most homes (mine included), a scanner is more necessary than a printer, but I'd personally not have them both in the same device. If the scanner part quits, you're stuck with only a printer.
Damn you, AC, I was going to post something similar and you had to go flaming. He's no idiot, but "creationists" are not necessarily anti-evolutionists. Every Christian believes that God created the universe, but all but a few morons accept that evolution is how he went about making different species. Even the Pope says so.
Teaching your children about God is not the problem, stupidly denying science is the problem. And I suspect that the antievolutionists are wolves in sheeps' clothing, not unlike that evil preacher from Florida who demonstrates at military funerals with "god hates fags" placards. That goes against every single thing Jesus taught; God loves gays, he just doesn't like what they do -- but he doesn't like my or your sins, either. Gays are forgiven like any other Christian, we all sin. How can that Florida asshat consider himself a Christian?
I suspect that many of these creationists are simply trying to make unbelievers out of believers. I'm convinced that Pat Robertson has converted far more Christians to atheism than Richard Dawkins ever dreamed of converting.
Pushing a vehicle at 80MPH down the highway is going to be hard to do and get 54.5 MPG
They test at 65 mph, and your mileage isn't that much worse at 65 than at 50. According to my car's built-in mileage calculator, I get 27-30 mpg at 65 and 30-36 at 50. The way you beat wind resistance is in the design of the car's body, its aerodynamics.
Romney has already lost this election.
I thought so too, for the same reasons you give, but right now Romney and Obama are neck and neck in the polls, even in the "battleground states". I fear you may be wrong. God help our country! We have the choice between being stabbed with an ice pick, or buttraped with a hot soldering iron.
Great! Just what the wife needed, something that can weight her at molecular level
Weight for it...
If the practiced Sodomy in Sodom, did they practice Gomorrahy in Gomorrah?
Isn't that how you get gomorrea?
They get defensive because results like this can be used as a reason for keeping pot illegal.
This study can be used as evidence that it should be legal. If you have teenagers, ask them if it's easy to get pot in school, then ask them if it's easy to get a beer in school. I asked my kids that when they were in high school, and they said "of course you can buy pot in school." When I asked about beer, they laughed and said "don't be silly, of course not."
See, it's easier for a teenager to buy pot than it is an adult. A dealer will be paranoid of an adult, because he could be the secret police, but there are no teenaged police officers.
If you want to keep pot out of teenaged hands (and I certainly don't want kids smoking anything at all), legalize it and sell it like alcohol.
The machine maxed out at 2GB, so getting the user to buy Win7 was a non-starter.
My notebook only has a gig and W7 runs fine on it. However, you did the right thing, having him spend over a hundred bucks for an OS would have been stupid, especially considering that Linux has many advantages over Windows and features Windows lacks, and Windows' has no technical advantages over Linux, nor has any features Linux lacks. The only people who need Windows are photo professionals and gamers.
he wanted to be "upgraded" to Ubuntu
No quotes needed, Ubuntu is indeed an upgrade from Windows. I've always liked KDE, so I'm running kubuntu on my tower.
BTW, that same situation has happened with me as well. Lack of install disks and not wanting to spend more on an OS than the computer is worth has converted many of my friends to Linux.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis
But of course, that's all lies and false propaganda right?
The first link obviously is, that's like asking Newt Gingrich if Obama's a good president. You might as well cite High Times for an equally biased view of pot. However, you didn't read the wikipedia link, did you?
If you do anything whatever every single day for a year, you're going to miss it if you no longer have it. Dependancy != addiction. Addiction has physical withdrawal symptoms; tobacco, alcohol, heroin, coffee are addictive. Orange juice and marijuana can introduce dependancies. Hell, there's a woman in my office who almost freaked out because the vending machine was out of little chocolate donuts and she'd been eating them every day for years. Yes, smoke pot every day for a year and you'll miss it when you can't find it... but you won't freak out or steal for it.
You know about correlation and causation, of course. Marijuana eases symptoms of depression and anxiety, and probably psychosis as well. They're putting the cart before the horse here. Smoking pot doesn't make you crazy, being crazy makes you smoke pot. From your link: "A recent study has shown that cannabidiol (a major constituent of cannabis) may be as effective as atypical antipsychotics in treating schizophrenia."
Gateway drug hypothesis
You'll find many pot smoker to deny a link, but there is a clear link: the same people who sell pot also sell other drugs. In short, the drug laws themselves cause it to be a gateway drug.
Odd that a two year old study wasn't mentioned here. Researchers thought that because of the facts cited above, that marijuana would cause cancer, so they did a test on very long term (>30 years) users. They had four groups: nonsmokers, pot smokers, cigarette smokers, and users of both tobacco and marijuana. They expected the users of pot to have as many or more cancers than cigarette smokers and users of both to have far more, but their research showed the opposite: those who smoked both pot and cigarettes had half the cancers of those who only smoked cigarettes, and those who smoked only pot amazingly had fewer cancers than nonsmokers, although the difference was statistically insignifigant.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it. Gees... drugabuse.org, why not cite the partnership for a drug-free america as well? Sheesh!
Your friend is neither intelligent nor dextrous. Lacking dexterity all he would have to do to open it "right handed" would be to turn it upside down. He also is probably aliterate or illiterate, since CDs open the same way books do.
Photos, unfortunately, have been used as re-infection vectors.
Interesting, do you have a link?
...Lexmark inkjet's is coming... Apart from Lexmarks soon to be redundant employee's
I'm curious, is English a second language? If not, how did you manage to get through high school without learning what apostrophes are for? Either way I hope you appreciate a little education.
An apostrophe has two and only two uses: for contractions like don't and can't, and possessives, like "Lexmark's printers, Bob's dog, Phil's book. That is the only two uses. You do not use one for a plural, unless it's a plural possessive ("Lexmark's are bad printers" is wrong wrong wrong). With a plural posessive the apostrophe goes outside: "Dogs' noses are sensitive." If the posessor ends in "s" it also goes outside ("Linus' work has helped the world")
Hope I was of help.
PS: It's inkjets are coming, not is coming. BTW, read some books!!!!
You're a fan of Aleister Crowley? Have you read his hagiography? The man was batshit insane, but the book was fascinating.
Heavy drinking will reduce anyone's IQ, but according to the FA I read earlier this morning, that's not the case with heavy pot users over 18.
Do you count scissors or pens as technology?
Of course. There was no such thing as a pair of scissors before 1500 BC (yes, it's very old technology) and pens before the Indians invented them in 500 BC. John Mitchell of Birmingham started to mass produce pens with metal nibs in 1822, the fountain pen in 1827 and the ball point wasn't manufactured until 1943. Erasable pens have only been around since 1979; I was an adult when that was first marketed.
I'm not a leftie, but I agree, I don't see how a two handed thing like a keyboard can be a detriment, or a mouse, which one can use with either hand.
I suspect that whoever invented the Hebrew alphabet was a southpaw, since they write right to left; I can see how a left handed person can find writing longhand left to right difficult.
More time as a cantankerous old man opining about how great life used to be before all the young 'uns started playing on my lawn?
Are you annoyed by young children? Can you stand the sight and singing of Barney the Dinasaur or Spongebob Squarepants? That's how the geezer sees you -- an inexperienced child who has yet to understand the world. It doesn't matter how you age, that simply comes with the territory. All one can do is be tolerant of the arrogant ignorance of young people, knowing you were like that once.
The thing I fear is what I've seen in my maternal grandfather and my dad. Grandpa was against an indoor bathroom, when my uncle installed one in Grandpa's house, he still used the outhouse. Likewise, my dad refuses to use a computer or cell phone (even if given to him) because "I lived eighty years without one and I don't need one now" and expects snail mail with printed photographs. If I get like that I hope a bus runs over me.
You sound like a philosophy major I worked with long, long ago. He was of the opinion (similar to yours) that if he turned his back on me, I didn't exist. He proved it by turning his back on me, I didproved it by hitting him in the head with a box of popcorn.
The way I'm going right now, and all the damage I've done to myself in my life already, if I don't die early, I'll be an old man confined to a bed going "It hurts to live!"
Don't be too sure. I never took much care of myself even though I always did enjoy walking, and my favorite foods are all healthy. I took drugs as a young man, rode my motorcycle in what are now Superfund hazardous waste sites, and I smoked cigarettes for thirty years. I didn't expect to make it past 40, but here I am.
Gimme a strong, healthy body that gets a boner easily and come back and ask again in 500 years.
Well, my plumbing is good, I wake up with a boner every day, but how easy would it be for you to get a boner for an eighty year old woman? I think that's why folks get farsighted in middle age, so their spouses don't look so ugly up close.