the random thought thread

[Hooahguy]

why are laptops called laptops when if putting it on your lap (if ur a guy) is harmful to your health?

[Jolt]

Why do you frown, little owl?

[Hax]

if people from Poland are called Poles, why arent people from Holland called Holes?

Because it's the Netherlands.

[Reverend Joe]

Can't you smell that smell?

[Vuk]

Because it's the Netherlands.

Then how does Noles sound?

[Hooahguy]

why are people such 's sometimes?

[Vuk]

why are people such 's sometimes?

Such daisys? That is a funny thing to ask...

[seireikhaan]

Why do people insist on opposition and differences than on cooperation and similarities?

[Aemilius Paulus]

why are laptops called laptops when if putting it on your lap (if ur a guy) is harmful to your health?

Not so much harmful as it is an impediment to reproduction. The heat lowers your sperm count. Since most of us are not planning to conceive babies any-time soon, I daresay it is a positive thing. Who gave the idea it is harmful?

Be vary of common health knowledge. 90% of it is false. Cough syrup does not work, and neither do most vitamin supplements (depends on the vitamin), calcium supplements, and not to mention, nothing, not even Airborne(tm), can prevent cold (most commonly rhinovirus). Oh, and did I mention that getting cold and wet, sitting on cold cement or metal, or catching a draft is not at all harmful?? It has nothing to do with us getting sick.

[LittleGrizzly]

Whoever decided you need to write lots of crap to prove your smart.. im smart just let me learn something rather than labour away at another damn essay!!

thinking on it this probably works better in the vent thread... ohh well

*post*

[desert]

Oh, and did I mention that getting cold and wet, sitting on cold cement or metal, or catching a draft is not at all harmful?? It has nothing to do with us getting sick.

Being cold weakens the immune system, so getting exposed to a disease while cold can make it more likely for symptoms to arise.

Vitamin supplements are useful, it's just that they don't come in all the hundreds of different forms that one finds in nature.

[Hooahguy]

why are meatballs so... not meat-like...

[Aemilius Paulus]

Being cold weakens the immune system, so getting exposed to a disease while cold can make it more likely for symptoms to arise.

No, you are mistaken. That is what I used to think long time ago, but it is not true. There is absolutely NO link whatsoever between cold temperatures and sickness. If anything, being exposed to cold actually strengthens you, as studies show. How the heck do you think soldiers in WWII and I went wet for days in trenches in freezing temperatures? Especially on the Eastern Front during autumn and spring. it was not resistance, believe me. The soldiers were common conscripts.

Even my biology teacher knows this, and she has a doctorate. It is common knowledge for anyone fairly educated she says, which is quite startling considering the incidence of this misconception. And heck, she is the most intelligent person I have met in my life. She is also my academic team (QuizBowl) coach, and it seems as if there is nothing that she does not know. Her previous academic teams had won at the US nationals twice and placed second thrice (!!). Not bad for such a relatively small town as Pensacola, FL (54,000 people).

Vitamin supplements are useful, it's just that they don't come in all the hundreds of different forms that one finds in nature.

It is not so much about the forms as it is the compounds the vitamins are found alongside in nature. Just as Vitamin D facilitates the absorption of Calcium, same happens with other vitamins and more complex organic compounds that act akin in a manner similar to enzymes (although the way they facilitate the absorption of vitamins could not be more different from enzymes)

[Hooahguy]

guys, take your discussion of vitamins other places. not here.

[Strike For The South]

No, you are mistaken. That is what I used to think long time ago, but it is not true. There is absolutely NO link whatsoever between cold temperatures and sickness. If anything, being exposed to cold actually strengthens you, as studies show. How the heck do you think soldiers in WWII and I went wet for days in trenches in freezing temperatures? Especially on the Eastern Front during autumn and spring. it was not resistance, believe me. The soldiers were common conscripts.

Even my biology teacher knows this, and she has a doctorate. It is common knowledge for anyone fairly educated she says, which is quite startling considering the incidence of this misconception. And heck, she is the most intelligent person I have met in my life. She is also my academic team (QuizBowl) coach, and it seems as if there is nothing that she does not know. Her previous academic teams had won at the US nationals twice and placed second thrice (!!). Not bad for such a relatively small town as Pensacola, FL (54,000 people).


It is not so much about the forms as it is the compounds the vitamins are found alongside in nature. Just as Vitamin D facilitates the absorption of Calcium, same happens with other vitamins and more complex organic compounds that act akin in a manner similar to enzymes (although the way they facilitate the absorption of vitamins could not be more different from enzymes)

Links?

[desert]

Well my mom is a doctor too, so nyaa! :P

And about the trenches quote: it looked like you were saying that you YOURSELF have been in trenches (I get that you mean I as in 1, but it still looks funny; you should have said WWI and II, or the World Wars). Anyway, disease was a pretty huge problem in the trenches, although when you have so many other factors such as lice and rats, contaminated food and water, extreme crowding, and so on, it's probably pointless to talk about cold at all in that context.

[CountArach]

Thought of the moment: Can an April Fool's joke go too far?

Related thought: When should I tell him that she doesn't like him?