Wow, man! That was a fun party! 
Iâd almost forgotten about it. Oh, and the look on your face when I farted while you were using the grinder to cut part of the pole from my ass! Priceless! 
Good thing you were wearing a face shield. That fireball was impressive.
What was impressive was the way you shot across the room and imbeded your head in the TV. We thought for sure that all those sparks were going to fuse the dang thing to your head. It was lucky for us that your head is removable. We didnât need to pull the TV back over the top of your head. We just unscrewed your head from your neck and lifted the TV out of the way. That was lucky for everyone. The hard part was getting your head back on your neck. We werenât actually sure of which parts belonged to you and which parts were part of the TV. Since you havenât been complaining over the past few years, we just assume we got it right. On the other hand, if you happen to hear the theme from the Brady Bunch every time you take a shit⌠well⌠there might be a reason for that.
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This is the most interesting post that I seen for today
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Welcome to Atheist republic Jornweick. Yea, when they throw a party âŚ
Complain? Why would I complain? Ever since then Iâve had TV-On-Demand. I watch whatever I want, whenever I want. Have not had to pay for cable at all since then. Press my right temple for âOnâ. Left temple for âOffâ. Turn head quickly left or right to change channels. Jerk head up to increase volume. Tilt down quickly to decrease volume. About the only âcomplaintâ I have is about how I have to fast-forward and rewind, because itâs pretty damn inconvenient when I watch porn.
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This conversation? Aw, hell, dude, this is just normal shit around here. Wait until we actually start getting strange. THAT is when things start getting impressive. You ainât seen nuthinâ yet. Welcome to the AR. Hope youâve had your shots.
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One never knows here, @Jornweick .
Learning highly valuable life skills and information is a solid given, though.
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Well, clearly you were not the beneficiary of the prerequisite knowledge of what the results of the finger pulling would be. Much like me, you are innocent of everything, all of the timeâŚprobably
Well, god moves in mysterious ways. ⌠Hmmm⌠perhaps he rammed his head into a TV as well?
Thatâs because âIâ wrote it.
I recall I was worse than Dennis the Menace. But I took it up to eleven. Dennis had a slingshot, I had a sling that offered more range and hitting power.
LOL. I remember home made cracer balls and a sling shot. We would wrap green stick on caps around a BB. Cover it with single ply tissue and twist it so the cap was in the front and the tissue formed a small tail in the back.
From a second floor window of an apartment, looking across Balboa Blvd., a man was walking with a briefcase. I took aim, with my best friend Randy looking over my shoulder and let fly.
The crackerball struck the manâs suitcase. âCRACKâ He stopped mid stride and began looking around. Too late, we had ducked under the window sill. Oh what fun it is to be young and a fucking asshole capable of putting out the eye of a complete stranger and not giving a damn.
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Ah, the old tgeistâs trick of explaining something by appealing to mystery. Itâs amusing they donât see the contradiction.
Well. We believe the dinosaurs died off when the asteroid landed in the now named Gulf of Mexico. So, assuming that was the case - the question after is why did mammals emerging from the ground have an advantage over smaller reptiles who survived the impact.
One theory says it was fungi. The cold blooded reptiles who survived the impact were susceptible to internal fungal infection.
The warm blooded mammals (predecessors to mammalian life after the dinosaurs) regulated a 98 degree body temp internally. Researchers found this temp in particular was inhospitable to fungal life.
So, as far as Iâm concerned, as the temp. of the world rises, weâll see more and more viral outbreaks. I personally believe SARS CO-V 2 wouldnât have been possible if not for the rises in temp world wide (assuming the Wuhan Market theory is the right one).
But it will be the fungus which gets us. Weâll all turn into a mycelial network of fungal infections. I call this stage of life the ârise of the mushroomsâ.
Then the Rats all died because humans stepped on them all. What dipwad bullshit do you have for us this time ratty? Crystal magic, Pyramid power, chakras, bloodletting, magnatism, hypnotherapy, astrology, ancient aliens?
Fungal virulence, vertebrate endothermy, and dinosaur extinction: is there a connection?
Arturo Casadevall. Fungal Genet Biol. 2005 Feb.
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Fungi are relatively rare causes of life-threatening systemic disease in immunologically intact mammals despite being frequent pathogens in insects, amphibians, and plants. Given that virulence is a complex trait, the capacity of certain soil fungi to infect, persist, and cause disease in animals despite no apparent requirement for animal hosts in replication or survival presents a paradox. In recent years studies with amoeba, slime molds, and worms have led to the proposal that interactions between fungi and other environmental microbes, including predators, select for characteristics that are also suitable for survival in animal hosts. Given that most fungal species grow best at ambient temperatures, the high body temperature of endothermic animals must provide a thermal barrier for protection against infection with a large number of fungi. Fungal disease is relatively common in birds but most are caused by only a few thermotolerant species. The relative resistance of endothermic vertebrates to fungal diseases is likely a result of higher body temperatures combined with immune defenses. Protection against fungal diseases could have been a powerful selective mechanism for endothermy in certain vertebrates. Deforestation and proliferation of fungal spores at cretaceous-tertiary boundary suggests that fungal diseases could have contributed to the demise of dinosaurs and the flourishing of mammalian species.
Thank you for sharing.
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No worries.
My hypothesis is that as temperatures rise, fungi will evolve to survive above our so called âthermal barrierâ and weâll be goners in a few generations.
Global warming? The world-wide average temperatures went from 14.18C in 1980 to 14.51C in 2000. So an increase of 0.33C is responsible? Pleas explain how this gives and advantage for fungi.
Claims will be fact-checked and challenged.
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We have a defence mechanism against internal fungal infections based on being warm blooded. That is evidenced in the cited article. If fungi are able to adapt to rising temperatures then they will be able to survive in the relatively warm confines of mammalian bodies (and Iâm not saying they will. Iâm saying âifâ they do adapt, our bodies natural ability to warm itself will no longer protect us.) In the same way that plants and cold blooded animals are prone to fungal attacks, we too âmightâ be if temperatures continue to rise âandâ a certain strain of fungus becomes very happy in anything above 89 degrees Fahrenheit. Is it likely? Iâm neither a mycologist nor an evolutionary biologist. I donât know the likelihood of it. The topic is âhow do think it will endâ. My hypothesis is an attack by mushrooms.