The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXII

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Oh, Good: Face-Sized Spiders Discovered in Sri Lanka

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"And in case you were thinking they probably look far worse than they are, this one’s actually quite venomous. Oh, and fast — because of course it is. So now imagine being chased by a poisonous, sprinting, face-sized spider.":faint:

The size of a face you say?

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Is Firefox crashing like crazy for anyone else? Whenever I have 5-6 tabs open its inevitable for a crash. I'm going to switch to Chrome if this doesn't get fixed soon.

I have often had better than 20 tabs open with no problems. Many times as much as 50.
 
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What makes you say this? What is the thing(s) that justiefies the fact that over 300 million people make up a seperate nation from England, when they share the same language? And what of Canada, which is about 0 cm away from USA? What makes that distinct from USA, and yet a unity on it's own?
I'd say in the end we're all (Chinese, Inuit, Bantu, etc, etc) human beings with much more in common than we have differences.

But there are certainly differences between cultures, nonetheless.

What crucially distinguishes the Americans from the British I wouldn't be confident to say. Perhaps it's something to do with the "American Dream" or the hide-bound British "class consciousness"? Or maybe just the relative geographical sizes of the two. Or the sheer military might of the US. Or simply the differing histories.



That's an interesting thing to say. I suppose that languages have different words and structures that could make certain thoughts and thought processes other don't (the thing about the inuits not having a word for "war" is a commonly used example). Yet I am a bit curious as to what you mean, and I would be glad if you shared (this last sentence seems a bit artificial, but).
It's a fairly old hypothesis that people who use different languages think differently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
The principle of linguistic relativity holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize their world, i.e. their world view, or otherwise influences their cognitive processes. Popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, the principle is often defined as having two versions: (i) the strong version that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories and (ii) the weak version that linguistic categories and usage influence thought and certain kinds of non-linguistic behaviour. The term "Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis" is a misnomer, as Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf never co-authored anything, and never stated their ideas in terms of a hypothesis. The distinction between a weak and a strong version of the hypothesis is also a later invention, as Sapir and Whorf never set up such a dichotomy, although often in their writings their views of this relativity principle are phrased in stronger or weaker terms.
I'm really not qualified to have a firm view one way or another on it.

edit: Oh, and there was some stunning youtube clip illustrating this very point convincingly. Something to do with that African bunch of people who only see reds and browns, iirc. I can't remember where it is now.
 
Here's a question not worth its own thread. Why hasn't traitorfish started "The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIII - Does the pope go poopie in the woods?" thread yet?
 
Just wait until 7 pm EST and start the thread yourself if that bothers you.
 
I have no desire to start it. These have never been formatted properly, with ALL previous thread links in the OP. They always just use the last one. Me being who I am, I'd feel obligated to go get all the other bloody links for consolidation purposes. Not worth the effort. But it is also bugging me that this one is rolling past 1,000. IT'S BREAKING THE RULES.
 
edit: Oh, and there was some stunning youtube clip illustrating this very point convincingly. Something to do with that African bunch of people who only see reds and browns, iirc. I can't remember where it is now.

This sounds interesting, please share if you find it again.

Why is there a rule against more than 1000 posts per thread?
 
I don't question the rules. I just follow them. Or don't follow them and let Camikaze whack me with the mod hammer :)
 
So I was driving by a mall the other day and saw this advertisement for a store called Build-A-Bear. Apparently you would go in and they would custom make you your own teddy bear or other stuffed animal.


Then I talked to my friend:

"Man, there's this new custom teddy bear shop and it's probably gonna fail hard. Who can afford custom children's toys anyway?"

"Dude, that store has been there 10 years!"

"Really? Must be holding on by the skin of their teeth then."

"Are you kidding? There's people in there all the time. It's even a franchise now. They've got stores all over."

"What?! Let me go check the internet. :mad:"



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build-A-Bear_Workshop
Build-A-Bear Workshop was founded by Maxine Clark in 1997, with its first store in the Saint Louis Galleria. By 2007, the store had sold over 50 million bears and had over 400 stores in operation worldwide...


Industry
Retail

Founded
1997

Headquarters
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Key people
Maxine Clark (founder)
Victoria Justice (spokesperson)

Products
Stuffed toys

Revenue
USD474.4 million (2007)

Employees
~7,200 (2007)


So what's the deal? 2 for 1 my little pony specials?
 
Spiders are easy. What to do, right, is when you see a big hairy bastard spider, imagine that it's this guy:
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And they will not be a problem.

Somehow, I've never seen this before. :lol:

Ever notice how the longer people go without peer pressure, the stranger they get?
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motora...-given-pink-bat-makeover-april-181823425.html



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Where is your God now?!​
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That dude is fierce. FIERCE.



EDIT: Oh, and I have some much younger cousins. Little kids love the idea of having their own special teddy bear that nobody else in the world has. Whether helping to make them or receiving them.
 
Is Firefox crashing like crazy for anyone else? Whenever I have 5-6 tabs open its inevitable for a crash. I'm going to switch to Chrome if this doesn't get fixed soon.

Problem on your end.

At any given time, I probably dozens of tabs open in each of Chromium, Opera, Firefox and IE/Safari (depending on platform), and experience crashes in any of them basically never.
 
If I close this one,will another pop up?
 
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