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birdlady
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response 49 of 100:
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Jan 28 02:31 UTC 1998 |
I think that sums it up, perfectly, Garima. =)
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clees
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response 50 of 100:
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Jan 30 14:56 UTC 1998 |
With some men too, Garima.
But that kind of men seem to be out of date in some manner I noticed.
Being a men's men kinda rules these days.
Where does that leave us sensitive men?
If I would reincarnate I'd like to choose from being a cat or a woman (put
in random order that is)
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garima
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response 51 of 100:
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Jan 31 04:26 UTC 1998 |
Well, actually, I work with a 42 yr old man who is very expressive
about feelings...sensitive may be the word.
He's surprising, and it IS a pretty rare trait in men.
It's utterly disarming, charming, likeable and all the women at work
seem to want him bad (he's married).
I guess I feel the equivalent of the feeling I get when I read Desiderata
when I try to place my feelings about being a woman... i.e.
there are the pluses, the minuses, but things are just as they are
and they're good.
I was looking at a National Geographic map of all the sea routes of
all the famous explorers through time, and it struck me that they were
all men....as in many other fields (science, warfare,art etc.)
But then they all couldn't have lived or born without women...
(been born)
So, I do wish women could have been explorers like Columbus too,
but all in all, "whether they know it or not, they have their place
in the universe" (or something close to that) - and they are just as
indispensable as the men who got to be in the foreground.
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aruba
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response 52 of 100:
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Jan 31 20:16 UTC 1998 |
"And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding
as it should."
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garima
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response 53 of 100:
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Feb 1 00:59 UTC 1998 |
That's it . :)
Thank you.
And also the part about you belong here...
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aruba
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response 54 of 100:
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Feb 1 22:12 UTC 1998 |
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you
have a right to be here."
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clees
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response 55 of 100:
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Feb 2 15:29 UTC 1998 |
Nobody's going to denie that.
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mta
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response 56 of 100:
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Feb 4 22:35 UTC 1998 |
I wish that were true, Clees. There are a few people who deny other people's
right to exist.
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birdlady
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response 57 of 100:
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Feb 5 00:25 UTC 1998 |
How perfect! We reviewed a poem by Stephen Crane in Lit class today. <ahem>
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
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remmers
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response 58 of 100:
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Feb 5 12:22 UTC 1998 |
(So the universe is a guy, eh? Never knew that...)
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keesan
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response 59 of 100:
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Feb 5 23:11 UTC 1998 |
From an interesting book called The Secret Family by David Bodanis:
Women have more visual receptors for peripheral vision and can see better in
low light. And can hear high-frequency sounds better, and detect more dilute
tastes. Women have better control of tongue muscles and can finish chewing
in fewer bites.
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valerie
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response 60 of 100:
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Feb 6 05:03 UTC 1998 |
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clees
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response 61 of 100:
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Feb 6 12:01 UTC 1998 |
the pitch frequency of a tv (or a terminal?) is 17500 Hz, which is very high.
It0s estimated that most teenagers at the age of 17 can hear this tone.
As the years go by, the ability to hear it drops considerably.
Nowadays I have to concentrate to hear that tone, but when a terminal is
wearing off there seems to a shift in the frequency or the volume, but old
tv's and old terminals every now and then give me a headache because of that
pitch.
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keesan
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response 62 of 100:
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Feb 6 22:14 UTC 1998 |
Do men salt their food more? Or just older people?
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orinoco
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response 63 of 100:
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Feb 7 04:56 UTC 1998 |
Well, I can sometimes hear the whistle from monitors, if it's especially loud
or I'm listening for it.
(I'd suggest that more grexers can hear it becuase we tend to be people who
spend a lot of time with computers, and so we've noticed it at some point and
can now recognize it)
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scg
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response 64 of 100:
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Feb 7 06:23 UTC 1998 |
I wonder how much it has to do with whether Grexers listen to less in the way
of loud noises that lead to high frequency hearing loss than the average
person or average male does.
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garima
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response 65 of 100:
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Feb 7 07:15 UTC 1998 |
No, no, no, no. Women , all women , hear the high-pitched sounds more
because (apparently it's an evolutionary thing) that way they can pick
up the sound of a baby crying easier. It een wakes them up faster when
they are sleeping. At least, that's what I read somewhere.
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scott
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response 66 of 100:
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Feb 7 13:22 UTC 1998 |
I used to be a rock&roll sound tech, but I can hear monitor whine easily.
I especially hate the high-freq. whine from certain fast hard disks.
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valerie
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response 67 of 100:
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Feb 7 13:33 UTC 1998 |
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scg
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response 68 of 100:
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Feb 7 18:56 UTC 1998 |
There are a bunch of different sorts of high pitched sounds that come from
monitors. The more common one happens when the monitor is on but not getting
a video signal. I also had a monitor at some point in the past that made
annoying high pitched noise for a while even with a video signal, before dying
completely. In that case it had a dead flyback transformer, whatever that
is, which had been making the noise while it was damaged but hadn't died yet.
I don't know if the noise monitors used to make when they didn't have a video
signal also indicated that something was broken or not. The obvious test
would be to see whether fairly new monitors make that noise when they don't
have a video signal, except that fairly new monitors tend to turn themselves
off when they don't have a video signal.
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keesan
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response 69 of 100:
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Feb 8 03:47 UTC 1998 |
Females live longer, on average. Two reasons, the first being that they are
less likely to self-destruct as teenagers and young adults. Second, smaller
people live longer on average. According to a book I read, the difference
in average life expectancy for age 30 M or F is due solely to differences in
average size. My 5'4" grandfather lived to be about 95, but then again, my
5'5" father died at 61. Supposedly in shorter people the heart does not wear
out as fast since the blood does not get pumped as far. So women who don't
want to be widows should marry someone shorter than themselves, or younger,
or both. I don't know if average blood pressure is higher in taller people.
Mine is 107/68 (I think, omni's mother measured it to test her equipment),
but so is my roommates, and we are 6" apart in height. Are there couples
whose blood pressures are proportional to their heights? Maybe the difference
would be greater in cases of high cholesterol (my roommates is 125), where
there is more resistance in the arteries?
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orinoco
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response 70 of 100:
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Feb 8 04:15 UTC 1998 |
Well, never having been female, I wouldn't know how it sounds to hear monitor
whine through a woman's ears. I can _hear_ it all the time, but usually just
as a faint high hiss, not really a whine.
Then again, I'm also young, and such things decline with age. Who knows.
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aruba
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response 71 of 100:
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Feb 8 08:22 UTC 1998 |
I used to always hear a high-pitched whine when I was standing between sets of
double doors at large department stores. I haven't noticed it lately, though.
Maybe my ears are getting worse.
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scott
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response 72 of 100:
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Feb 8 13:24 UTC 1998 |
("the heart wears out"??? Well, maybe your grand worked on a farm and kept
his heart exercized, while youir father had a desk job and didn't? Not to
be a total skeptic, but I've never heard that the heart muscles just wear out)
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valerie
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response 73 of 100:
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Feb 8 15:14 UTC 1998 |
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