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things you just dont understand

Blackberry Polecat

Blackberry Polecat

Dook dook
I don't understand why learning about dinosaurs or pretty much any animal is generally seen as something only children would be interested in.
You hear an advert for a zoo or museum and it's always "hey kids...DINOSAURS!".

I visited an aquarium with a friend, and we were probably the only people over 10 who weren't parents. 'S kinda sad.

I know a lot of adults just don't have time to be going to zoos and what not, but I also feel that learning about the natural world is something people are expected to grow out of.
 
Misomie

Misomie

Lazy Artist
Blackberry Polecat said:
I don't understand why learning about dinosaurs or pretty much any animal is generally seen as something only children would be interested in.
You hear an advert for a zoo or museum and it's always "hey kids...DINOSAURS!".

I visited an aquarium with a friend, and we were probably the only people over 10 who weren't parents. 'S kinda sad.

I know a lot of adults just don't have time to be going to zoos and what not, but I also feel that learning about the natural world is something people are expected to grow out of.
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I didn't even realize this was a thing. Who doesn't like zoos and whatnot? I love them and want to go more often! Such cool animals and fish! D:<
 
Mr. Sparta

Mr. Sparta

Scale Face
Blackberry Polecat said:
I don't understand why learning about dinosaurs is generally seen as something only children would be interested in.
You hear an advert for a zoo or museum and it's always "hey kids...DINOSAURS!".
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Dinosaurs are the coolest animals to ever live. Of course a ten year old kid will be obsessed. There's no wonder why most dinosaur stuff is kid oriented, it's their ideal audience.
 
R

RedDagger

Member
Battlechili1 said:
I don't understand whether or not this website is serious or not.
http://ihatecilantro.com/

What is cilantro, anyways?
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What Sniperfreak said - it's called cilantro in America (from spanish) and Coriander elsewhere.
They may be on about how to some people, due to a faulty gene, coriander tastes like soap.
Interestingly, the gene doesn't seem to do anything else. It just makes coriander taste like soap if it fails.
 
sniperfreak223

sniperfreak223

More Metal Than You !!!
RedDagger said:
What Sniperfreak said - it's called cilantro in America (from spanish) and Coriander elsewhere.
They may be on about how to some people, due to a faulty gene, coriander tastes like soap.
Interestingly, the gene doesn't seem to do anything else. It just makes coriander taste like soap if it fails.
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evolution at its finest right there...
 
jynx

jynx

Hop skotch-er
-Math
-People who order coffee with .01% coffee and 99.99% sugar/cream.
-Decaf
-Teachers that think the best way to get a kid to get over being shy is to make them present their project in front of the entire class
 
Fallowfox

Fallowfox

Are we moomin, or are we dancer?
The various race campaigns going on at my university at the moment.

A group of students ran a campaign pointing out racism that they'd experienced whilst studying. As you would expect newspapers got a hold of this and then concluded 'the entire university is racist, misogynistic, elitist,' and so on.

Some other students then ran another campaign pointing out 'most of us minority students never experience racism here, so the newspapers are reporting this too simply,'

Now a whole bunch of people are accusing those students of being racist, misogynistic and various other words ending in 'ist' for undermining the message.

I doubt any of these people actually care about the individual hate crimes and casual racism the first students pointed out.
It feels like everyone is trying to be 'holier than thou' by taking offense and the slightest possible thing, but that none of them are genuine enough to actually focus any effort on finding and eliminating actual racism.

Racism exists in some small amounts here. Insisting that 'the entire university is racist', but then telling Romanian students who disagree that they're not 'real minorities' anyway because they aren't brown, isn't the way to solve it. :\
 
Copycat

Copycat

INFP
Well, I had a hard time understanding what irony was. It took me two years, from 7th-9th grade, heheheh.

Although I am SO into astronomy and space stuff, there's a lot of concepts my mind just has a hard time grasping. Take lightyears for example. Hardly understand it but, now that I've aged a lil I should try reading up on in again. May make more sense now.
 
Fiab

Fiab

Crazy enough
Larkspur said:
Well, I had a hard time understanding what irony was. It took me two years, from 7th-9th grade, heheheh.
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See now talk to me about irony, 22 years of experience with the dude. Anyways...

Gonna have to say Decaf as well. People who drink coffee regularly don't seem to have any use for it, and people who drink it every once in a while still don't touch the stuff. Where does it fit in?
 
funky3000

funky3000

Galactic Overlord
This Toshiba laptop.

I just got wireless networking back up and running, and I've got a strange problem right away, but it isn't too major.

The audio plug in front sounds a little staticy when not playing any sound, and the sound that does come through sounds like I'm in a marble cathedral.

Hahahaaaa dafuq
 
DrDingo

DrDingo

Moved to phoenix.corvidae.org with the others
DarrylWolf said:
The idea of a "free speech zone" on college campuses. Isn't anywhere the US flag flies a free speech zone?
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Not within a school or organisation; freedom of speech is more of a political concept. It's probably just a psychological thing: go here to let your problems out.
 
KyryK

KyryK

Well...you tried
Banned
I don't understand why, at exactly 2.21 in the morning as i type, i want to spend the next hour or so practicing drawing eyeballs instead of going to sleep.
 
Icky

Icky

is the prettiest pony~
DrDingo said:
Not within a school or organisation; freedom of speech is more of a political concept.
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Tinker v. Des Moines says otherwise. "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate".

That being said, the free speech zone he was talking about in no way implies that other areas restrict speech. So yeah, it's just a little sign encouraging you to be free with your problems.
 
sniperfreak223

sniperfreak223

More Metal Than You !!!
I don't understand how a package that shipped from a town that's only an hour and a half away from me takes four days to get here but one that shipped from the other side of the country only takes two...and before you ask, SAME shipping method!!!
 
Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

bitch where
I ask to not be involved in someone else's drama. I say all of this in whisper, to keep it private. tell them that they should keep the problem private instead of fucking slandering the person they are against in public, and not drag me into when I have nothing to do with it. they say they are sorry and they don't want to lose me as a friend.
wait, what do they do?


block me from FB.
like seriously
what kind of backwards logic is that???
butthurt that I pointed out their foul behavior???
what the shit.
 
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