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No, you have the North Pole tilted sunwards during the winter, and away from the sun during winter, which is the opposite of how it should be.
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:smack: :smack: for some reason I took the line to be the equator, not the axis :smack: :smack:
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Yeah, it’s amazing how much female anatomy we gay guys don’t get. I didn’t understand this till I was in my ***forties!!! ***And a few years later, I was shocked to learn that a lot of women still think they pee out of their vaginas. I know it’s hard to see down there, but don’t they wonder how they can still pee when wearing a tampon?
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I had a friend who changed her tampon every time she peed. I guess she did think that somehow it filled up with urine.
I also had a friend who didn’t quite understand what a blow job was about so the first time she tried to perform one she literally blew on the guy’s penis. Honest mistake.
So, I still don’t get the Buffalo Bill one. Is it that the team is named after Buffalo Bill?
And “me too” on the why wouldn’t shocking a stopped heart do any good?
“Shocking” a heart stops the heart. A heart that is in an irregular rhythm, such as ventricular fibrillation, doesn’t beat effectively and doesn’t get blood to the brain. Eventually the person will die. You shock a person to break the abnormal rhythm and hopefully a normal rhythm will then start. A hear that is not beating can’t be restarted by shocking it. This is why shocking a heart (or defibrillation) should be used ASAP; after 4 minutes or so, it’s not going to work. Think of it like a short circuit. You need to break the short circuit for the electricity to travel normally.
[QUOTE=gigi]
I had a friend who changed her tampon every time she peed. I guess she did think that somehow it filled up with urine.
I also had a friend who didn’t quite understand what a blow job was about so the first time she tried to perform one she literally blew on the guy’s penis. Honest mistake.
So, I still don’t get the Buffalo Bill one. Is it that the team is named after Buffalo Bill?
And “me too” on the why wouldn’t shocking a stopped heart do any good?
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She might just not like peeing on the string. Some women hate the idea.
[QUOTE=psychobunny]
“Shocking” a heart stops the heart. A heart that is in an irregular rhythm, such as ventricular fibrillation, doesn’t beat effectively and doesn’t get blood to the brain. Eventually the person will die. You shock a person to break the abnormal rhythm and hopefully a normal rhythm will then start. A hear that is not beating can’t be restarted by shocking it. This is why shocking a heart (or defibrillation) should be used ASAP; after 4 minutes or so, it’s not going to work. Think of it like a short circuit. You need to break the short circuit for the electricity to travel normally.
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Then why does the AED check to make sure there is no pulse before it will work?
After my childhood experiences in the DC area–which I’ve described here briefly–of getting beaten up a couple times a week for all of elementary school because of my race, religion and eyewear (ostensibly), I moved to San Diego. When I started middle school here, I was genuinely shocked to find out that there were a lot of people in the world other than me who weren’t racists and didn’t enjoy beating the shit out of their peers. I was equally shocked to find out that there was a place in the world where most people would disapprove of racial violence among their peers.
I was also shocked to find out in driver’s ed (at age 15) that pretty much all drivers do the best they can not to hit people in their way. I mean, I would’ve done the best I could, but I just figured most people didn’t value the life and health of others that much.
Althoug they have no delusions about the geography, my parents are both still convinced that “Spanish” is the proper noun for all Hispanic people. My mom was a history major and my dad has been to Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico and a couple of South American countries to boot.
Yup, me too! Same for awry.
The first sound is typically not “J” as in “John”, but more like the “s” in “vision” or “Asia” or the “G” in “garage” (granted, not everyone pronounces that last one the same way). More info.
That said, I don’t think anyone will really have beef with you for pronouncing it the way you do.
As has been noted, that’s a correct pronunciation.
I’ve never heard of that. I was a chemistry major until this last semester; my community college’s chemistry department (and, as noted, physics and [I think] nursing) still use mercury thermometers. I guess nursing students learn to shake their thermometers before using them, so in the “chemistry for non-chem-majors” class I took a couple years ago the lab teacher warned the prospective nurses not to shake the thermometers there as they would break. One nursing student did shake the thermometer, and of course it did break. No haz-mat, no evacuation–the teacher just asked everyone to keep a safe distance (more worried about the glass) while he cleaned it up.
Yup.
I shudder to admit that until I wrote my first primer (basic instruction guide), I thought it was pronounced PRY-mer, like the stuff in a shotgun shell. It was embarrassing to have someone correct my pronunciation of my own book title!
(It’s PRIM-mer, for anyone else who doesn’t know)
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]
I’ve heard of cases where somebody spilled a few cc of mercury in a school lab, and then the whole building being evacuated while haz-mat clean-up specialists go in and remove the deadly substance.
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Wow. When I was in junior high school in the 1970s, I did a science experiment to determine the effect of mercury on fish. I set up a bunch of fish bowls, put a couple of goldfish in each bowl, and added various amounts of mercury to each bowl to see what would happen. The teacher gave me a small jar of mercury, and my friends and I played with it on the desk before adding it to the fish water.
Of course, we had asbestos pads at each Bunsen burner, too.
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My dad used to watch hockey a lot and as they went to commercial, they always said the coverage was “brought to you by” whoever the sponsors were. “Broughtiyoo” always sounded like one word. I’m not sure how I imagined it being spelled or defined.
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Until I actually bought a car, I had always heard the phrase in car comercials “Only 999 Due at signing” as “Only 999, Do it signing”, was always too embarrased to ask, so I spent years debating in my head what that phrase could possibly mean
With all of the various shows on PBS who were sponsored by various companies, I always thought “Viewers Like You” was some sort of consumer charity group or something, not…you know…the literal meaning.
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So, I still don’t get the Buffalo Bill one. Is it that the team is named after Buffalo Bill?
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No. It’s because New York City is not actually the capital city of New York State, Buffalo is, and that’s where all the Bills (as in legislation) come from. It forms a double pun in football-related terms like having Bills “pass”, and sometimes the QB getting sacked is referred to as a “veto”.
OK, none of this is true except that NYC is not the capital of New York (it’s Albany), but maybe I can get a new piece of misinformation to circulate.
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]
No, you have the North Pole tilted sunwards during the winter, and away from the sun during winter, which is the opposite of how it should be.
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Right, sorry – since we were talking about axial tilt, I meant the slash through the O to represent the Earth’s axis, not the equator. So the slash (axis) is tilted towards the sun in summer and away in winter.
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But you do know that the reindeer can’t really fly, don’t you…? 
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As God is my witness, I thought reindeer could fly… :eek:
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat]
I shudder to admit that until I wrote my first primer (basic instruction guide), I thought it was pronounced PRY-mer, like the stuff in a shotgun shell. It was embarrassing to have someone correct my pronunciation of my own book title!
(It’s PRIM-mer, for anyone else who doesn’t know)
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WHAT?? :eek:
…FWIW, Webster’s says “PRY-mer” is an alternate pronunciation, but “Chiefly Brit.”. So pip pip and Cheerio my lad, Bob’s your uncle!
I was in my mid-20s before I found out that women don’t leave the plastic part of the tampon applicator inside them during menstruation.
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My geography teacher in sixth grade told us that Central America was a country. I was, like, hell no, and showed him the dotted lines in it - he said those were states. I brought him the encyclopedia article on Panama. No dice. It reduced me to tears of frustration.
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Maybe your teacher was a time traveler from the era (1823 to 1840) when the Federal Republic of Central America was in existence. Of course, he’d then have told you that Panama was part of (Gran) Colombia.…
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No. It’s because New York City is not actually the capital city of New York State, Buffalo is, and that’s where all the Bills (as in legislation) come from. It forms a double pun in football-related terms like having Bills “pass”, and sometimes the QB getting sacked is referred to as a “veto”.
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Excellent, thanks. I’ve forwarded this knowledge to all my friends.
Don’t worry, I only have like one friend, two max.
[QUOTE=gigi]
Then why does the AED check to make sure there is no pulse before it will work?
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IIRC, the AED checks to make sure the heart is in defib, it is beating in such an erratic way, that the blood does not circulate, but is splashing back and forth around the heart. Therefore, the pulse will be not existent in the distal areas. I do know, from experience, that the AED will not work for a normal sinus rhythm, and have been told it will not work for a stopped heart.
Sgt Schwartz
[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
Maybe your teacher was a time traveler from the era (1823 to 1840) when the Federal Republic of Central America was in existence. Of course, he’d then have told you that Panama was part of (Gran) Colombia.…
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I think I might have had a few teachers that were old enough to have gone to school then. Or at least they seemed that way to me at the time.
It took me a while to figure out that, for all intents and purposes, the phrase “for all intensive purposes” didn’t really mean what I thought it did.
…I, too, was blindsided by pineapples. Stupid pineapples.
Speaking of pronunciation, I learned some years back from a woman training to be in the field that “midwifery” is not pronounced as it looks, i.e. “mid-wife-er-ee,” but instead is “mid-wiff-er-ee.” It still sounds wrong to me, but that truly is correct. At least “midwife” is still pronounced like it looks.