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Yup, and lions can too, even though they're mamals. Crocs are more extreme though; they can survive over a year and a half without food, but then they really do really need a tasty zebrachop :) What you said is pretty normal for a croc, just like it ain't a big deal if we skip a day of eating.

I went to wikipedia before posting the original thread to read a little about it and was surprised that not only was the article pretty unbiased, but it was unbiased without it having to be locked due to vandalism. :P Yeah, I guess most people who know quite a lot about him aren't idiotic fans that think of him as a demi-god. To be honest, most people I know that know a lot about ideologies like Communism are very intelligent and critical people who are not afraid of pointing out its flaws either. edit: That's what I meant. I saw the movie again a week ago and I don't suffer from amnesia ;)

@rick: it only takes 3-4 days for the avg human to die without water, or any liquids. Pretty scary, isn't it? Woah..that's pretty cool. Links to any stories about it? That's fascinating... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3236118.stm - fakir story: don't know if it's 100% true though. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... i_n9695373 - a man who survived without water for a week, which is twice as long as a normal human being. http://www.equipped.com/primer.htm - how to survive. Scroll all the way down to 'food a lower priority'. And there are ample examples of ship accidents in the wide ocean or plane crashes in mountainous territory where several people managed to survive without food for a long time. Google a bit and you'll get a ton :)

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Yep. Tests on cats have resulted in peculiar results. The cats were woken up every 5 minutes when they fell asleep and due to a lack of sleep (and dreaming) they first became insane, then died. btw, you can suffer starvation for over a hundred days if you have sufficient liquids to drink. There are people who were stuck in the ocean on a raft and survived over half a year with only purified water, no food whatsoever.

10,000 days - Tool. I increasingly seem to prefer 10,000 days above the fantastic Aenima. They're both so damn good but 10,000 days seems to be one piece rather than a collection of different songs like Aenima. And that pretty much appeals to me.

Thx Lateralus. Not too hard. I hope my follower will not make it one of those rare covers either; it's supposed to be a game, not a contest where you prove how alternative you are.

Got it. I spent 40 minutes doing it with the wrong schedule; I switched 'g' and 'f' to start with :x Oh, and unless you add the word 'hurt' you have at least 2 possible solutions. I PMed you both of em :)

Hey, this is kinda a Sudoku, only a little more complicated. Gonna start working on it now :)

I can't believe some people even try to jusitify this holocaust copy. What's next? Killing them because they don't admit? Stopping the mentally and physically weak from getting meds because that's not the way 'God wanted it to be'?

Excellent choice!

First of all, thanks for showing intrest in my avatar and in Cḫ̩̉̉ himself Ghost :) According to many of the tip.it Americans it'll soon be 'Cḫ̩̉̉, The Communist Pig That Has The Privilege To Be In Oy's Avatar' instead of 'Cḫ̩̉̉, The Liberator Of The Poor Who Failed Due To Human Flaws And Died By Bolivio-American Bullets'. If you want to know some objective facts about Cḫ̩̉̉ apart from that portrait of a Communist "sociopathic thug" that Americans get or the fantastic freedom fighter many Europeans think he was, pay a visit to wikkipedia, where (IMHO) a pretty accurate description of him is given. Some good movies that made me want to know more about this fascinating figure are Fidel and The Motorcycle Diaries. Especially the latter describes Cḫ̩̉̉ from the beginning until the end. It looks like many of you guys need a little background before judging him. I've read things like 'he was a Cuban who hid in America [ ]' or a 'terrorist'. Perhaps you could call him a terrorist because of his guerilla tactics, who he and his compadres developped, but that's it. As far as I know, a terrorist is someone who causes terror (they do not grasp power, like Cḫ̩̉̉, Fidel & co did) in the name of 'a better good'. Cḫ̩̉̉ was a general, who fought a battle for what he thought of as 'a better good', not somebody that randomly kills to derail a state or to fill its inhabitants with fear. Having clarified that, I'd also like to add that he was not a hero. I hate that typical American description, because it's so very subjected to everyone's personal opinion. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, might think of Osama as a hero while the president of the USA despises him for obvious reasons. Every single figure that meant something in history has its fans and its opponents. I myself am not exactely a fan of Cḫ̩̉̉, but I have him in my sig because I have boundless respect for people who give everything that have to help others. No one in the world, not even Cḫ̩̉̉'s biggest opponent, can say he did it for the power or for a reason that does not deserve respect. He left Cuba to free other nations in Africa and eventually in South America, where he never arrived. He left when he was the right hand of Fidel, so when he had significant power. Though he claimed (and I completely agree with Jak here) an unrealistic (but beautiful) ideology as Communism was what we had to strive for in the entire world, even by waging war and eliminating everyone who opposed them, I still believe that he meant well. I can't believe any living person can sacrifice its life with the thought of doing bad. Suicide bombers most likely think they're actually doing something good, they're probably more convinced of doing the right thing than an American soldier thinks he is. But I can't argue with the fact that he's probably responsible for the death of thousands of convicts in Cuba, more specifically in the Cabả̮̱̉a prison. He did that not because he was a bloodthristy terrorist, but because he was convinced no revolution could succeed with people in it that opposed it. All previous revolutions had failed because of that, he said. So my respect for Cḫ̩̉̉, and all people who aren't egocentric and want to improve this world, is based on what he thought he was doing and not on what he actually was doing. I could hang around with an avatar of Lenin, Caesar August or Napoleon, but they just so happen to be a lot less cool than good ol' Cḫ̩̉̉ :wink:

:x No respect for music. --- I've got their album 'hot fuss' and yeah, it's one good album. I wonder when Sam's Town will come out here. That song 'when you were young' sounds really OK, I hope the other songs are just as good.

There's a number of classical pieces that make me thrilled with euphoria or sad as if there's no hope at all. Clint Mansell's Lux Aeterna is one of those fantastic exhilarating masterpieces that sends shivers down my spine and makes me feel the blood run through my veines. Same goes for the Bolero of Ravel or the Peer Gynt suite of Grieg. Perfect music. Songs that make me feel sad often are songs that remind me of my brother. The song Under the Sea from dEUS was played at his funeral and it always brings tears into my eyes. The rare moment I cry is always when I think of him. You feel very... empty when a person that's always been very close and that you don't expect to just vanish actually does leave you.

Aw come on man! A Tool fan spamming his arse out? Pry open that third eye of yours and see what good topics are all about. Content. And if you really didn't just want to be the centre of attention for a minute, but if you care about people's musical taste, go to last.fm. It's probably one of the best sites I've discovered after google. http://www.last.fm/user/Oy_/ -haven't been on for weeks though, if I have the time for music, it's my own music now or a CD.

The African ones would be a little more difficult, but I could probably piece it together from thier accents. Telling ethnicities is simple, it's mostly facial features. The way the eyes, nose, and eyebrows come together can tell you a lot about a person. I seriously doubt you can tell the difference between a group of Belgian men and French ones. Even I can't, and I am Belgian.

.html]When you said that, you mean except for this guy, right? :roll: Ironically, you were probably thinking of him when you said it. That smiley makes me look so much like a complete idiot that doesn't know a thing about music. Ouch. Now to reply to your retorical questions without sarcasm: no.

Tool - Aenima

They usually more or less have. You're rated just like in school, on how well you've performed on each problem presented to you. Those tests you take are very easy to rate; for example you see a hundred words for 10 minutes and then you get 5 minutes to reproduce as many as possible. The amount of correct answers (usually scaringly little) can easily be rated. If you'reable to reproduce 20% (if this is proven to be the most common result, the average) of them, your rating will be 100. If it's proven that reproducing 50% of them is very rare, say, in 0.05% of the cases, your rating on that particular question will be around 150. So if you'd take the max of all questions, that's pretty much the highest a human being can score. And it's impossible, since no one in the world can both reproduce everything he sees, be a math genius and be a lingoking.

75 and under is qualifications for mental [developmentally delayed]ation, so I hope your test was wrong. :P I was being cynical. Either this forum is stuffed with geniusses or you all took a test that has a median of 150. A real IQ test takes up 6-8 hours and costs a small fortune. I doubt any of you know that.

I haven't got any fascinating or funny stories, just sad ones. When I was 15 this girl from my class kept calling me and I didn't realise she was interested in being more than just good friends. I just found it great that a girl was one of my friends. So when she asked me if I wanted to date her, I was pretty shocked, my poor male heart just didn't understand. One year later, another friend of me, commonly praised by all the boys for being the cutest girl in our school, asked me to be her boyfriend, but I just told my friends the same week I wouldn't want a girlfriend so that I could maintain my freedom and determine my own rules. So there I was: dilemma: date the most stunning girl who was pretty witty and smart too (a rare combination), or hold on to my vow. At the time I was pretty fond of my independance, so I politely said no. Afterwards I realised it was a bit of a dumb (why not give it a shot? no harm done..) decision, but I did enjoy my free teen years. Here in uni, no girl has just promptly asked me to be her boyfriend, obviously, since adults aren't as straight forward anymore. I know I found it incredibly hard as well to ask a girl out, just because I thought it might ruin our friendship.

I got 65. What a merry result that was.

Yeah, IMLO they're not as bad as many other bands out there in the hitlists. But still, there are hundreds of bands that deserve to swap places with BEP anytime.

Could you give us a new cover Merc?

Exactely Bubs; I can't stand horrible grammar that's mutilated on purpose, but you can't blame foreigners that they make a slight mistake. I find it laughable that the people who are irritated by these errors are most often the people that confuse "their, there and they're" all the time. Often American or Brittish people even. I noticed squirrel pointed out a mistake Ben made earlier, brag with double G. That's most likely a typo, so if you would just look over it and continue, your life would become a lot less complicated. This is another thing I posted in the 'French' fries thread that sums it all up. He was complaining about an error as meaningless as fries not being frites but fries in English. I'll let it go this time, but start paying more attention at school. Dude, you blame a foreigner, whose native language is Dutch, his second language French, his thrid language German and his *fourth* language English for misspelling something?? How about you go to school and learn that not everyone is perfect. Unless you didn't notice him being Belgian, like myself, you have no right of saying that. How many languages do you fluently write then hm?