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Forget about your wheat fields Tore, prepare to ingest the godly diet of sheep like the rest of us in the real world. The Chinese are forcing you to become a west lander or at least live under the same weather conditions as us. Cretaceous - here we come.
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What do you call a westerner with a sheep under each arm?Originally Posted by Sigurd
Forget about your wheat fields Tore, prepare to ingest the godly diet of sheep like the rest of us in the real world. The Chinese are forcing you to become a west lander or at least live under the same weather conditions as us. Cretaceous - here we come.
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BAAAAAhd joke. Loved it.
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One of those Welsh and New Zealand jokes apply to Norway as well?
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New Zealand ranks up there, but the winner is....The Falklands (Las Malvinas) with the highest number of sheep per capita of any bit of land in the world.
I do NOT know if there was a connection between this and the invasion. Far be it from me to comment on Argentines.
Of course, the newest Holy Father is an Argentine....
Hmmm. Is there a conspiracy theory lurking in here somewhere? If so, how can we exploit the gullible and fund the org? As I recall, the Senior Member porn stash was looking a bit....long in the tooth. Might just have been photos of Andres in drag that were misplaced though.
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Sheep-shagging jokes are pretty much universal.
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Fixed it for ya.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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A friend of mine is a bio-chemical researcher and she told me they have to play with the results every time; scrapping the (outcomes of) experiments they do not like, limiting results to the ones that fit,... It's institutionalised really.
I also had a friend (he already held a degree in engineering) who when writing his phd (in psychology) always had to correct his professor's mathematical suggestions, ideas and all. It was clear the man didn't really understand the program he was working with, not the basic principles of the maths involved with that kind of research. He called it embarrassing. When offered a spot to work with research team of the professor afterwards, he obviously politely declined.
Fragony already mentioned the two cases of clear fraud used in Dutch research? Well, it doesn't paint a pretty picture does it? To me it's clear that the sciences who rely to much on statistics, especially as those fields aren't rich in people who are actually strong at maths. That and the mere fact that the first rule of statistics is, correlation doesn't imply causality. When people find a correlation they end up using their creativity to explain it. When people want to explain something they'll find a correlation. And even worse but apparently common practice, people will even manipulate results to achieve correlation or a different form of mathematical backing.
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As an Aussie-Kiwi with a Welsh mum and Scandinavian surname I've heard a lot of sheep jokes.
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