BlueLancer

Contests are always a nice addition to forums, but this is too similar to an already existing topic: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=754989

18 :lol: Not even nearly... But no matter how non-conventional you are, always factor in health risks. It's not empty B.S. talk... Researchers don't benefit from warning about the dangers of excessive salt consumption in any way. The info is there purely to help normal people. You can always find food if you're hungry. You can always earn more cash by working. Lose your health and there's no longer an "automatical" solution if your life gets stuck because of organ failures etc. (No, you wont lose your health over a few bags of chips or a tasty meatball sub... As long as you don't eat them every day as a part of your diet)

1500+mg of sodium per meal in the long run is asking to get clogged arteries or heart failure. Not that it doesn't most likely taste good (never had it yet), but it's CRAZY to eat so much salt with one meal. I did some nutrition programs earlier and I'd go nuts if a guy/girl said they've been taking in so much salt for years. Nutritional recommendations for sodium intake regardless of body mass index is about 200 to 600mg per day. Over that and you risk getting serious health problems.

Everything gets rewarded in the olympics; Even target shooting 3rd places pay up to tens of thousands of dollars. It's probably a much bigger sum for the 3 best olympic soccer teams due to the sports' popularity. But it's true you don't get anything for "just being there". If your team doesn't play well or win anything, you get paid squat. Free experience though.

Where do these people come from!? :lol:

It is - Look closer :Annankatu [Annasgatan] But not even nearly as widespread as in the States.

I don't know why, but badminton and table tennis attract huge amounts of asian players/fans. I watched some Table Tennis contests earlier on EuroSport via satellite and can't remember a single one where the final wasn't battled between some chinese/japanese men & women or the occassional singaporean/filipino. It's an extremely fast paced sport (don't think the olympics cover it though, not 100% sure)

What isn't good at Subways/most sandwich chains? IMO, turkey+tomato+lettuce+cheese with the bread baked warm/accompanied with cold water makes a good lunch. Not to make a blind sales pitch; But the food these companies offer is healthy and tastes good. You can even get it in most european countries these days, even the remote corners like Sweden and Finland. If more people ate there instead of Hungry Jacks or Burger King, USA could really deal away with some health issues regarding weight..

those sports matter as much as water polo lol Maybe some of those are "insignificant" even while being major sports.. But weightlifting and shooting are very traditional olympic sports. Probably much more people follow those 2 sports than the forementioned basketball. They do matter. (I'd personally much rather watch basketball for the increased entertainment value though and agree with the water polo remark in general)

You pretty much forgot the worst belief that still sadly exists in poor African countries (as a part of a tribal spiritual belief): To cure AIDS, which is a "curse", you need to have sex with a virgin. Really, what kind of sick person thought that up, even as a joke? And people actually believe it. Ignorance is pitless. Maybe it's time to wake up and see some cultures/beliefs are not o.k. in the modern world. Beliefs like the one above just serve to destroy even more lives thanks to clueless people following them blindly. Or is there actually even a single valid reason why those people should be entitled to this belief? I find it equally disturbing as Adolf Hitler claiming killing jews would 'cleanse' his country of unemployment and inequality. Following either belief just causes further deaths of innocent people without solving the problem.

I'd find it pretentious to change your personality based on the gender of the person you talk with. Not that cursing is necessarily positive; Only if it's used tastefully and in the correct usage. In the modern teen usage, it just sounds weak and watered-down due to being overused. Really, it's hard to even start comprehending how lame of an insult "fa­ggot"/"r­etard" is. The kind of stuff you hear on a CounterStrike channel.

You can still have plenty of meaningful things in your life even if you don't blindly believe in some ridiculous fabricated story. Going by rational analysis, saying "there wont be more than 3.5 goals in this match" regarding football would be a depressing way of following sports to a hopeful person/fan. But if it's the most likely scenario, why not just accept it? Some people make a living by choosing the most probable outcome, not just in sports, but stock markets, oil futures, etc.. If it applies to those scenarios, why not also apply it to death? The most likely, and assumed scenario is that your body decomposes, and the electrical current in your brain dies, thus you'll no longer feel or sense anything. There's no actual, reproducable proof to the contrary (which isn't even possible to obtain, at least yet)

Dig up a grave or work at a morgue to find out. Metaphysically? ... Think before you were born. It's nothing. Pitch black. Because if you're not alive to percieve something with your brains, you don't have a consciousness. Your individual consciousness somehow escaping your brain into another universe filled with clouds and perfect serenity sounds absurdly unrealistic to me, but maybe some people want comfort before dying.

Saying it aloud is probably "bad karma" but it's how the truth is and many know it; Just a realistic military threat against Iran would pump crude oil prices up maybe 10-15% in a matter of hours. If you're in the management board of an oil company and have millions of shares, it's a quite perfect scheme to make a few hundred million overnight. All you need is the political connections to make the threat happen.

Heh, nobody has actually even suggested that officially so far. Guess it goes to show tip.it is relatively free of the cancerous tentacles of 4chan memes.

I really kind of fear what people are going to put for the top rank. :P Can't paste all the submissions from staff boards, but Crazy Addict and Carpal Tunnel are some candidates for 10,000+ posts :lol: No joke... (But like said above.. Not that anyone should really pay that close attention to them, it's just a humorous 'gagdet' under your name)

The current ones have been there for like half a decade... If you want to influence them in the future there's a rank contest going on :P

Why would McCain talk like that or joke about war/bombing? It sounded almost edited. Not that I'm a big fan of McCain, but it sounded weird from someone who could potentially be the president of a country.

I'm past 20 and still don't see how the games like Mario are "childish". Mario & Luigi They've been around since 1980's, and guess who played those games first? Adults. Not just young adults. People from 25-45 years old. Not kids. Who played the first arcade games of Nintendo in parlors? Adults. Who still play at game parlors in Japan? Working age adults, not 5 year olds. Plus, those games are relaxing. You're not hardcore by constantly blowing up someone's head with a M16 rifle. You're not hardcore by killing pixel zombies. In other words.. You're not what you play. :lol: (I like FPS games a lot, but it's just one genre) I don't think I've ever experienced stress while playing Nintendo games, and I've had pretty much every major console (due to getting birthday/etc. gifts). Can't say the same about PC or other platforms.

Not just on MySpace.. But almost every "test" I've seen is way too broad and insincere. Really, if the test thinks someone is a cold hearted, manipulative b.... who doesn't care about anyone else than herself, let the person hear it. The test made repeat questions in different forms and got an accurate answer based on the formula; Let her hear it. Instead, it gives you this sugar coated, feel-good half truth that's supposed to brighten everyone's day by telling you & me how unique we are. That's more like entertainment, such as horoscopes, instead of a real scientific study of personality. Like you said, not that it actually matters. I almost laughed at some of the test replies. "LOL, ur so right, that's so typical of us FJ's. i'd hate to wade through TD's and guardians in an office setting just to get to be boss!" Reeks of ignorance. People really identify themselves with anything they percieve to give some 'privilege' or 'status'.

I remember playing F1 due to a friend's recommendation years ago.. In Fable 1, you could buy an expensive item like Diamond from a shop and actually sell it back for more than the buying price :oops: Lame way of earning $$ for equipment to finish the game..

Exactly why I ultimately don't like these online personality tests... It will have ridiculous values for answers like "I am an adventurous spirit in general. [Yes] [No]"... Heck, even an office worker who does nothing except eat fast food and watches TV on weekends will say 'yes' because they think it would be embarrassing or un-characterly to say "no", even on a test. Seems like the test maker insults the intelligence of the tested person on some questions, so it doesn't seem objective. The questions should be maybe fewer than 72, but much more deep. "I like creative solutions". Who the heck is going to say no to that? Who seriously doesn't like creative solutions? What personality trait does that count for in the test? Sorry, getting carried away, but that's a frustrating thing with all these tests. They seem more directed towards being popular (by inflating the ego of the testée with ridiculous questions like that) than accurate. It doesn't even list pros and cons for each personality, only good sides.

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Could probably endure waterboarding torture for some time since you have the psychological advantage of knowing the objective is not to kill you... But the genuine threat of drowing into a freezing cold deep sea with only hundreds of miles of water around you at night... Seems like a pretty horrible way of dying.

Heh, one argument I sometimes heard online.. "If you're so smart, how come you're spending time posting on a stupid forum?" Duh. Plenty of adults make good money doing what they do good, and still have a thing called spare time. Ridiculous argument IMO. So everyone in history before web communication was a worthless time waster by spending so many countless hours on letter correspondence?