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General Radio Discussion / Evolution is Laughing at You

« on: August 17, 2011, 2158 UTC »

Human beings are a patchwork of new and freshly evolved organs and body parts that are coupled with a lot of old “vestigial” throwbacks. The process of natural selection has caused human beings to evolve in an odd way that forces our “old parts” to take on new jobs without getting rid of them. Because of this, there are several parts of your body that don’t make sense for any of several reasons, most notably; structurally, environmentally, and physiologically. But since when has being human had anything to do with sense? Our body’s cells routinely do radically bad things to themselves for no good reason other than to just do it. So that’s as good a place to start this list of Stupid Human Parts as any other place I can figure…

1. Cells

Cells themselves are ridiculous in the fact that sometimes they actually fight each other. This leads to any number of diseases that are detrimental to the rest of the body. Unfortunately for us, cells are the building blocks of our whole body, so we aren’t going to be replacing them anytime soon…unless somebody buys me the cyborg on my wish-list.

2. Backs

Our backs were created to sustain weight and were given a curve to support that weigh much like a bridge will bend in the middle. Stupidly, humans decided to stand and walk upright, destroying any help having a curved back might give us. Not only did we trade in strength and stability for the ability to stand up and see predators, we also opened the door for thousands of years of old people complaining.
body1

We might get bad backs, but we can do cool stuff too.

3. Hair

Humans used to have tons of hair all over our bodies. Then, for some reason we decided to move south and lost it all because you don’t need fur when you live along the equator. A few millennia later, we decided that moving to the equator was a bad idea and moved north again…without our protective hair. Part of our wishy-washy legacy is the fact that while we don’t have hair anymore, we have hair muscles that reside just under our skin. These muscles are the cause of goose bumps. Now, not only do we get cold when the furnace shuts off, we also give off physiological signals when we are frightened. This alerts predators as to who needs to be eaten.
body2

Ladies, please. One at a time!

4. Ears

A long time ago, our ancestors could swivel their ears around to direction where sound might be coming from. In this day and age, since we’ve evolved to have fixed ears, we don’t need to swivel because we can turn our heads. Even though about 10 percent of the population can still move their ears, it serves little purpose other than as a party trick. Further, a large portion of the population is born with what is called “Darwin’s point,” which is a vestigial ear feature that makes you look like a monkey.
body3

A good example of doing it wrong.

5. Guts

A long time ago, before we stood on hide legs and walked around, our guts would hang down below our bodies, perfectly supported by our suspension bridge spine. Humans today go around with their guts being nestled in a cocoon of stomach muscles and are not supported as they should be. Because of this, every so often, a bit of our intestine can sneak through holes in that stomach muscle wall and cause a hernia. In men, it’s even worse because the testicles are also supported by those muscles and when the testicles descend during infancy, they actually come from cavities in that muscle wall. It’s like having a pre-built hernia just waiting to happen.

6. Brains

Yes, our brains are a marvel of evolution. Humans can split the atom and create Facebook and do millions of other notable and incredible things, but at what price? When our braincases decided to become larger they did so at the expense of our jaw bone. The gene that told us to get brains that could create fire and the wheel also told us that we didn’t need wisdom teeth anymore. It seems that thinking up modern dentistry was more important evolutionarily speaking than chewing on hard grains and fruit.
body4

Yanking them out didn't make him any wiser.

7. Coccyx

Besides sounding funny, this vestigial tail is no longer needed by the human body except for the very important task of being the anchor point for the anus. This is a case where an old outdated body part was reassigned a new task. But what a shitty job.
body5

The coccyx also makes a great place to put a really cool tramp stamp.

8. Throats

Our throats are set up completely wrong. In most animals, the throat is made so that there is literally no chance of something “going down the wrong hole” because the esophagus is located under the trachea. This is a case of evolution working in complete harmony with gravity. Since food falls down, it has no chance to become lodged in the upper tracheal tube. Now, in a case of evolution screwing with humans, we evolved a voice box that pushed the esophagus further down the throat, giving you a fifty-fifty chance of choking every time you put something in your mouth.
body6

Another really famous "Choke"

9. Fat

Because our bodies evolved in a time when we didn’t know when we would be catching our next meal, we became very efficient when it came to storing our food energy in the form of fat. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world anymore, so we tend to store calories we don’t need. Couple this with the fact that our tongues have evolved to seek out sweet, salty, and fatty foods and you get a case of the human body doing things that will eventually kill it.
body7

The good news is now you can blame it on evolution.

10. Male Nipples

I’m not even gonna touch this one.

http://blog.ohinternet.com/947/evolution-is-laughing-at-us/

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Engineers here will appreciate this

« on: August 14, 2011, 1938 UTC »

INDEED - locked in motionlessness -   

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General Radio Discussion / Honor Your Loved One’s Memory By Firing Away

« on: August 14, 2011, 0442 UTC »

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/honor-your-loved-ones-memory-by-firing-away/

    If you’d like to go out with a bang, Holy Smoke LLC offers to pack your cremated ashes (or those of your loved ones) into ammunition cartridges. You tell them the caliber or gauge, ship the remains to them, and they’ll load the cartridges:

    Once the caliber, gauge and other ammunition parameters have been selected, we will ask you (by way of your funeral service provider) to send approximately one pound of the decadent’s ash to us. Upon receiving the ashes our professional and reverent staff will place a measured portion of ash into each shot-shell or cartridge.[...]

    Our return shipment to the sender will be the finished ammunition, boxed in available labeled ammunition boxes. We also offer mantle-worthy wooden carriers with engraved name plates. Your return shipment will also include any unused ash in a separate, labeled container.


WTF !!

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General Radio Discussion / Look up in the Sky it's

« on: August 12, 2011, 2016 UTC »

                                           not Pigs on the Wing it's

                                         Perseid Meteor Shower


                      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44118201?GT1=43001

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General Radio Discussion / Reclusive Amazon tribe missing after attack

« on: August 10, 2011, 0430 UTC »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44066285/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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General Radio Discussion / The Biggest Rat That Ever Lived

« on: August 10, 2011, 0426 UTC »

http://www.livescience.com/6750-discovered-biggest-rat-lived.html

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General Radio Discussion / SPY VS. SPY – 20th CENTURY STYLE

« on: July 30, 2011, 2214 UTC »

remember the old “Spy Vs. Spy” comic in Mad Magazine. Well here’s something that reads like its right out of that genre.



According to published news reports, British spies successfully hacked into an al-Qaida website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with – ready for this? Recipes for making cupcakes.

Nope, we are not kidding. The cyber offensive reportedly took place last year when the English language magazine aimed at Muslims in the West called Inspire was launched by supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

British intelligence officers based at the Government Communications Headquarters which is the state eavesdropping service, attacked the 67-page magazine, leaving most of it garbled. Instead of being able to read how to "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," readers were greeted with computer code which actually contained recipes from The Best Cupcakes in America, published by U.S. talk show hostess Ellen DeGeneres.

The Washington Post reported that the British action followed a dispute between the CIA and the newly formed U.S. Cyber Command. The cyber unit had wanted to block the al Qaeda magazine but the CIA, which had countered such an attack, would expose sources and intelligence methods, won the debate and declined to allow an attack on Inspire. So the U-K did it for them and reports say that it took almost two weeks for magazine to post a corrected version after it had been sabotaged.

An unnamed British security source said the Washington Post report was accurate but could not confirm details of the reported cupcake operation.

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General Radio Discussion / Pirate Map

« on: July 25, 2011, 0258 UTC »

http://www.icc-ccs.org/piracy-reporting-centre/imb-live-piracy-map 

Not what you think  But interesting !

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Have a Ball

« on: July 22, 2011, 0011 UTC »

Roadkill (An Epic Poem)

By Fish

From out of the night came a roaring blast

A chopped up Shovel, goin’ way too fast

One hand twistin’ hard on the throttle

The other holdin’ on to the neck of a bottle

 

He finished his whiskey, tossed the bottle of glass

Just missin’ the Troopers, hot on his ass

There were three, maybe four Crown Vics in pursuit

All cockin’ their weapons, gettin’ ready to shoot

 

The long stretch of straight-a-way was nearing it’s end

And the road up ahead took a wicked sharp bend

When he got to the curve, he laid it right down

His wheels hit the curb, and that brought him around

 

He popped up and gunned it, like a bat out of Hell

The Troopers didn’t have it nearly so well

All four of them slammed on their anti-lock brakes

And secretly wondered: Who’d go to their wakes?

 

The man on the bike with backward smile

Saw all the cars land in a crumpled up pile

He eased off on the gas and cruised towards the West

There were miles to go before he could rest

 

As the dawn broke behind him, he saw a sign up ahead

“Good Eats” “Bikers Welcome” was all that it said

Pulled into the parking lot in front of the place

Passed two dozen nice scoots till he found him a space

 

He stopped for a minute to look all around

Then he suddenly noticed, there wasn’t a sound

All those bikes would have meant a sizable crowd

And bikers are one bunch that tend to be loud

 

Another odd thing, (his eyes were still keen)

Was the level of dust there on every machine

Like they’d been there for months, or maybe a year

Not like the owners had just stopped for beer

 

With this puzzle still rattlin’ around in his brain

He walked into the diner as it started to rain

There were plenty of bikers (a real biker venue)

So he found a free table and looked for a menu




A waitress named “Ginny” came over to say

Would he like to see the Specials on the menu today?

He said, “Your pretty special, from where I’m sittin’”

Then she blushed like a schoolgirl, and purred like a kitten,

 

“We don’t get many smooth talkin’ gentlemen here

While you look at the menu, can I get you a beer?”

The man nodded and winked and said: “A beer….in a glass”

Then he watched her walk off, admirin’ her ass

 

While she was gone the man looked all around

Despite all the people, there still wasn’t a sound

Nursin’ their drinks were hard men in black leather,

And the chicks that were with them, lookin’ dark as the weather

 

‘Cause the weather outside went from just heavy rain

To blowin’ and howlin’ like a hurricane

“Well, I won’t have to wash my bike again soon,”

Chuckled the man as he watched the monsoon

 

He turned to a biker nearby and he said,

“That’s a hellavuh storm, that’ll sure wake the dead!”

The biker gave him a long, hard, cold leer

And said, “You need to get right the fuck outta here”

 

The man jumped to his feet with a grin

And said, “OK Buddy, bring it on, I’m in!”

But the biker just knocked back a slug from his drink

“Those weren’t fightin’ words. At least, not like you think”

 

The man stood still with his fists in the air

While the rest of the joint, looked away…didn’t care

So he sat back and waited, he stared at the wall

He was startin’ to not like this place, not at all

 

When the waitress finally showed up with his beer

He drank it straight down, left a twenty. Said, “Here

Keep the change, I’m leavin’. This joint is too slow.”

He walked to the door, “I got places to go”

 

But the door wouldn’t open, kinda like it was stuck.

He pulled and he yanked, then he turned and said, “Fuck!”

“Who’s the dead man that that tried to lock me in here?”

As he looked ‘round the room, anger gave way to fear.




As if by a signal, the bikers rose to full height.

One said, “Dead man is the first thing you finally got right.”

Then Ginny came back and took the man by the arm

Said, “Don’t be afraid, they don’t mean you no harm.”

 

“It’s just you don’t know the rules, ‘cause you’re new

I’ll explain it as simple as I know how to do

Remember the cops and that curve from last night?”

“How the hell’d she know that?” He thought, “This just ain’t right”

 

“Well,” she continued, “you didn’t survive

In fact, as of last night, you’re no longer alive

And this is where dead bikers go when the die

So sit back and relax, honey, I wouldn’t lie”

 

So he sat and he ordered himself a fresh brew

And carefully considered the life that he knew

Here he would stay, though he never could tell

Whether he was in Heaven or he was in Hell

 

If you find yourself tired, your eyes turnin’ red

And you see a sign “Bikers Welcome, Good Eats” up ahead

Don’t stop, don’t look, ‘cause as sure as you do

There’ll be dust for all time on your scooter too




For  Weezel    See you on the other side

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Have a Ball

« on: July 21, 2011, 0231 UTC »

This poem, of course, refers to the FRN.

NO Fansome  it doesn't   "I" just thought it was neat !!
 
 but hey thanks   now im 2 cents richer !

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General Radio Discussion / Have a Ball

« on: July 20, 2011, 1920 UTC »

    At midnight in the museum hall,
    The fossils gathered for a ball,
    There were no drums or saxophones,
    But just the clatter of their bones,
    Rolling, rattling carefree circus,
    Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas,
    Pterodactyls and brontosauruses
    Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses,
    Amid the mastodonic wassail
    I caught the eye of one small fossil,
    "Cheer up sad world," he said and winked,
    "It's kind of fun to be extinct."

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Alien encounters 'within twenty years'

« on: June 30, 2011, 0021 UTC »

If he went to any Home Depot around 7 AM ,he wouldn't have to wait 20 years to find them.

HOME DEPOT    NaH   just hang out here 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: and you thought WIKI LEAKS was "BAD"

« on: June 22, 2011, 0405 UTC »

 you already glow in the dark al   that be one of the reasons you is called  SUPER FANSOME by you friends

you buyin that water from pigmeat ?!

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General Radio Discussion / and you thought WIKI LEAKS was "BAD"

« on: June 21, 2011, 1633 UTC »

Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites

Leaks are prolific
Like rust under a car, corrosion has propagated for decades along the hard-to-reach, wet underbellies of the reactors — generally built in a burst of construction during the 1960s and 1970s. As part of an investigation of aging problems at the country's nuclear reactors, the AP uncovered evidence that despite government and industry programs to bring the causes of such leaks under control, breaches have become more frequent and widespread.

There were 38 leaks from underground piping between 2000 and 2009, according to an industry document presented at a tritium conference. Nearly two-thirds of the leaks were reported over the latest five years.

Here are some examples:

•At the three-unit Browns Ferry complex in Alabama, a valve was mistakenly left open in a storage tank during modifications over the years. When the tank was filled in April 2010 about 1,000 gallons of tritium-laden water poured onto the ground at a concentration of 2 million picocuries per liter. In drinking water, that would be 100 times higher than the EPA health standard.
•At the LaSalle site west of Chicago, tritium-laden water was accidentally released from a storage tank in July 2010 at a concentration of 715,000 picocuries per liter — 36 times the EPA standard.
•The year before, 123,000 picocuries per liter were detected in a well near the turbine building at Peach Bottom west of Philadelphia — six times the drinking water standard.
•And in 2008, 7.5 million picocuries per liter leaked from underground piping at Quad Cities in western Illinois — 375 times the EPA limit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43475479/ns/us_news-environment

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General Radio Discussion / WHINE WHINE WHINE

« on: June 21, 2011, 1621 UTC »

 “You’re basically doing less work and doing it worse when you’re listening to the whines,”

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/17/6883577-whining-is-the-worst-sound-in-the-world-study-confirms?GT1=43001