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I remembered tea time being around 11am. Guess I was drunk by 7 I was drinking Tetley but it was a bitter

So, Sayo, from where in England do you hail?

It always seems that around 1900 GMT all y'all Englishmen disappear for a while. Where do y'all go? Dinner/Supper? Or is it off to the local for a pint? I lived in Merry Ol' England for two years and I must say....(dramatic pause)....I wish I was there right now! I love it! I lived on RAF Chicksands and in St. Neots. Frequented Bedford and Cambridge quite often. I hope to make it back someday soon for a visit. If ever again I am single I may try to move there.

Let me beat everyone to the punch and say that there is much more to EQ than I stated above. I have chosen one aspect of it, for the sake of this discussion, based on an experiment I read of. In this experiment, the EQ of children was tested based on ability to delay immediate gratification.

Just someone having a high IQ doesn't mean anything. It is their virtue that counts. It's not what you have but what you do with it that matters. My understanding of EQ is, with regards to *success, the ability to delay immediate gratification for a bigger reward down the road. If someone with a high IQ is not virtuous enough to work hard at anything he/she will gain nothing from being so intelligent. *Success=obtaining the maximum positive result from an action.

Some postulate that EQ is more important than IQ with regards to success.

I had a Mitsubishi 3000GT SL, which was a V6, and I used to dust Mustang GT's all the time. Only things I did to that car was a Borla exhaust and a K&N filter. If you want to supercharge your car AND put in nitro you will have to rebuild the whole top half of the motor. With a supercharger and nitro your compression ratio will be much too high for the factory parts to handle. All that pressure would destroy your engine. As is, you could put on a supercharger that creates no more than about 6.5lbs of boost. Any more than that and you need to replace most the internals. That alone still won't have you beating Camaros/Firebirds. You will need an intercooler/aftercooler, cold air induction, and some serious tuning. You will also need a new fuel pump. Don't worry, all that will only cost you about $8000 U.S. If you want nitro add about $6000 U.S. Just save your money and go buy a new SVT Cobra! That car is the bomb!

"Kitt" was a Firebird...not a Camaro Just so you know Faf, any V8 Firebird/Camaro will wax you good! Shoot, most the V6's out these days in the ricers and American cars like the Gran Prix will burn you!

Are you talking about a stock Mustang GT? What year? Is it a 4.6L or 5.0L? I just traded in my 01' supercharged Saleen. It was an awesome car but I needed something better. I picked up a Mercedes C32 AMG. It's as fast as the Saleen but handles much better.

I just realized I said the same thing two different ways. What I mean to say is...will our brains remain the way they have always been "wired" or will our thought patterns, etc, possibly change to meet our evolving requirements?

Now that roles of men and women in society have become closer to the same, will primal thinking patterns be supplanted or will we "evolve" so that our brains will be better suited?

I have heard that many think that Yuri Gagarin wasn't actually the first person in space. Some say another Russian was the first to space but that he died on re-entry so the Russians covered it up to avoid embarassment.

Apology accepted and I offer one as well. You make a good point with the "survival of self". It does certainly seem as though we have migrated that way. I wonder if that isn't the evolution of the "survival of species" factor being that population is actually growing dangerously large. Population has actually replaced nuclear weapons as the greatest threat to the planet. Maybe the shift to "survival of self" is a way, in concert with other things, of curtailing population growth. Nature seems to have many ways of righting things that get out of balance.

Let me continue...... There are certainly people who are homosexual because of trauma. They may or may not be the majority but they certainly exist. I guess "choice" would not be the correct term to explain why these people migrate towards this lifestyle as they may not have any more of a conscious "choice" than does someone with a vomeronasal abnormality.

Dudde, read the entire thread before you comment to save yourself from looking like the stupid one indeed! Though I stated that I have known a homosexual who I believe was so due to trauma, I go on to state evidence that homosexuality is more so caused by a congenital abnormality that effects the development of the vomeronasal organ. This means that it is not a choice. If you look back at the my post, the one which you felt you needed to respond to, and take off your "idiot" glasses, you will see that I say, "...vice a "choice""

Context. I can say that homosexuality is unnatural, with regards to procreation, while saying it is a natural behavior for someone who is pre-disposed based on congenital defect. You are correct, procreation is not the be-all end-all of adaptive drives. Survival of species is. Procreation is a major facet of that though. So literal

Cheese in a can

Very good points. There are definately different types of intelligence.

Interesting point. I am ignorant as to whether they are normalized. Are IQ tests generally normalized?

Glider is a wonderful fountain of knowledge; One who always contributes constructively to threads. I appreciate this!

I have also read that Einstein's brain was missing a Longitudinal Fissure. As for IQ tests, I went out last night and took a couple online tests and they seem to be in line with the monitored/administered test I took. Only difference, of course, was a lack of time limit. I think that some aspects of IQ tests actually test intelligence. Other aspects though seem to be too tied to education. For instance, one question I got wrong was one of those "unscramble the letters to form a word" question. Easy enough, right, but I had never heard of the word. I don't remember what the word was but it was nothing that 99.9% of English speaking people have ever heard of. It wasn't such that there is only one way to arrange the letters either, which would make it more a logic thing. Some questions are such that people will do better the more they have been educated. This isn't really a measure of raw intelligence at that point. There are people much less intelligent than I am who are far more educated with the converse also being true. I guess though that maybe these tests are the best we can do in determining one's intelligence without actually making them look for cheese in a maze. Ohhhhhh........cheeeeeeese

What do y'all think of IQ tests? I had never taken one until the other day.

So here it is...homosexuality is not "natural" when speaking of procreation. Men are supposed to be with women. It's as simple as putting the round peg in the round hole. There is no star-shaped peg That people are homosexual is also natural in that it is a congenital defect vice a "choice". It is okay of anyone disagrees with this...they are still wrong

I just saw a documentary on pheromones in humans. They do indeed exist and it has been shown that they play a major factor in attraction. They are released via sweat duct and also in our breath. They actually have colognes and perfumes that contain human pheromones. Problem is that they aren't guaranteed to work any better than your own. Different people respond differently to different pheromones. You could mask your own pheromones, which may have worked better for you, by dousing yourself with someone else's. Moral of the story, just be yourself Keep in mind, pheromones is just one facet of what it takes to get a woman these days. The money, looks, and car are still a necessity

We all know of the effects the moon has on things like tides. I believe this is in reaction to the Moon's gravity, right? With Mars getting so close to us in the next few days, might it's close (relative I know) proximity cause some of the same effects the moon does? I know it is still much farthre off, but it is much larger than the moon.