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I hated that at the time, iirc. Nice slimy, strawman pivot from "higher moral plain (sic)" to "lies about jobs". It's the whole "I'm going to grope and disrespect you and then I'm going to claim I'm only human after all" attitude that makes this kind of male behavior sustainable. I'm not asking for perfection (another strawman from the perspective). I'm asking that our male leaders don't get a pass on toxic, gender-based behavior. I'm fairly sick of the crappy point of view that boys will be boys. It's men who can't handle the power of the office and are abusing much more than that.

Larrikin, man's man, rogue, scoundrel, all terms that enable the "boys will be boys" outlook that has led to so much inequality and looking the other way when male politicians abuse their power. I don't think all Aussies identify the same way about larrikins. It clearly hampers female politicians.

All Aussies, or just the real men? He sounds like he enabled a whole lot of ignorant and toxic male behavior that kept women in the shadows for an extra generation. What a peach. I think Australian men deserve a better role model.

Simple? There are around 250 species in Britain and Ireland alone. Pick one and you might get meaningful references.

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I think this is a populist approach to the subject, and so it's flawed from the start. Bernie Sanders had it right; elect the leader that stands for what YOU stand for, one who is more interested in maintaining a movement towards the goals we share rather than doing what's popular to stay in office.

Here's one relevant paper, Spatial and temporal dynamics of the endothelium, from the Journal of Thrombosis and Hemostasis. There's a breakdown of their findings that includes the measurements. The paper itself is more about how the phases of hemostasis are far more integrated than previously thought, but the research quotes the relevant studies they're based on. There's 154 references, and I'll bet one of them is the actual measurement parameters.

Iirc, half of that is the capillaries, which are incredibly thin-walled (normally a single cell in width). Hair is roughly five times thicker, but you only have about 100,000 of them, so if they were a foot long you'd have about 19 miles of hair. Remember that blood goes to every cell in your body, so the circulatory system is incredibly elaborate and dense.

Titles "retained" from the old version of the software?

Just like tax evasion finally took Al Capone off the streets. His posts were the real crime though, imo. I understand you think his style of controversy was entertaining and lively, but having several posts in a thread over a short time is meaningless if people argue past each other or purposely obfuscate what could have been enlightening. For me, it was like trying to seriously explain something to a person, and their reply is to throw popcorn in my face.

I don't remember that at all, and I was there. I remember more interest in space and science fiction than ever before. I remember Firefly best of all, just before that time, and the excitement it generated for the next decade. I have no idea what you're talking about. I didn't look at any of your links or videos. Your premise isn't sound, imo, and it's too generalized to have any real meaning. Really, the whole beginning of the decade was vapid and anti-intellectual? There's been an anti-intellectual movement in the US ever since the Scopes Trial. And since WWII we've had the working class mad at the young college-educated managers that start at higher salaries than workers with decades of experience.

The language barrier may be too difficult to overcome. We acknowledge you've been speaking English a bit longer that we have, and that some pronunciations are actually favorable. Checking my "shed-jill" is far more posh than my "sked-jool" or "sked-joo-ul". "Boot" is mildly more fun to say than "trunk", and you win big with "lift" over the cumbersome "elevator" (I guess the four syllables gives us something to pass the time while waiting for our floor). You're going to have to change the way you say "vitamin" though. It's vital, right, so it should be "vyte-a-min". Same with "privacy". With a long I, it sounds like you're serious about being left alone to do something important, maybe clandestine. With a short I, it sounds like you don't want anyone to watch you tinkle. Definitely a deal-breaker.

I don't think the OP was ex pectin such a fruity bunch.

People looking for change are a target for populists. It's a shame all that energy isn't being better focused. What are they thinking of? If the government was taking control, would vaccination be voluntary? Do they not have vaccs for rubella and hepatitis and tetanus, that claim far fewer lives each year? We all want to know what's going on. We all want less corruption from those we trust to lead us. We all want more control of the events happening right around us. It's natural for us to want these things and we're not getting them, so we look for what's jamming the system up. And everyone has a different idea of what's causing the problems, but nowadays they seem to be more adamant that they're right and others are wrong. Poorly informed people can't focus their energy enough to affect anything.

Oh sure, you say that now, you gorgeous bastard! Then we let you move in, you force us to clean chicken without bleach, make us give up our cookies for biscuits, and before you know it we're all sleeping together on the wrong side of the road! OTOH, if we get British television series standards, I vote LEAVE. It's the rare US show I like, while it's rare for me to find a British show I don't like. You seem to look for actors who can act rather than actors with no physical flaws, and your writers write the way people talk.

Berry good! I plum forgot about those! Possibly the kiwi all need! That's radicchio.

You'll take a cut in celery for re-using a vegetable, but you've bean a good sprout, so we won't beet your gourd or squash your melon. Dads are rad! Or rad-ish....

Their lawyers claimed they're referring to "the cherries" they use in the "combination of five fruits". The amount of cherries you get is half of one. It's like Flip Wilson's All-You-Can-Drink-For-A-Dime Lemonade Stand. You already had a cup? Well, that's all you can drink for a dime! How corny! I'm sure there's a peas full resolution for those that carrot all. Lettuce stand together in hominy!

To be fair, my mom bought Del Monte fruit cocktail, and they showed you exactly what you were getting: One measly half of a maraschino cherry! And you're right, it was a prize and it NEVER went into the stupid Jello.

Not sure either of my folks would have allowed a meatless meal on their dining table. But mom did have a recipe for beef and barley soup that she must have gotten from the Depression. She'd shred a small part of a cooked roast and then MINCE the beef to slivers. Good soup with lots of veg, one of my favorites, but the beef was practically an illusion.

Dividing countries and making them vulnerable to internal strife and civil war helps those who thrive on chaos and uncertainty. Getting your enemies to decimate themselves before you invade is sound strategy, and it's worked for a long time, so long that it's part the narrative in many of our stories. We've all seen how division among the heroes makes them ineffective against the villains, and it's only when the good folks put aside their differences to work together that they can achieve victory. I truly believe most humans just want more stability and predictability, and the prosperity we sense is possible without so much chaos and misery. Extremism is exhausting and incredibly expensive, and we really don't deserve this kind of treatment from ourselves. Most people are far too awesome to be acting this way.

I normally enjoy pairing bitter and sweet, but I find nothing redeemable about this combo. It sounds absolutely vile. My mom used to put canned fruit cocktail (Depression-era folks LOVE canned food) in jello. Iirc, it had pineapple in it, so they must have done something to it in processing. I don't remember her having any trouble with the Jello setting up properly.

My mother used to make jelly this way and it was tasty as well as having a pleasing texture. But in between her limited canning seasons, she bought a store brand jelly that was so stiff it ripped the bread when you tried to spread it. It tasted of grapes and children's tears. Ah, I forgot about how teeth can break down Jello viscosity! The culprit is one of your school's second grade teachers! I remember my eighth grade English teacher drawing a couple of stick figures holding a circle with a dot in the middle of it between them. She asked me what it was, and when I couldn't guess she said it was "two men walking abreast". Of course, this calls for my only jelly joke. In the midst of the Y2K panic in 1999, the KY Jelly company announced it was Y2K compliant. They called it Y2KY Jelly, and it allowed you to put all four digits in your date....

I can't remember which aunt used to shred cabbage & carrots into an orange Jello mold for reunions, but she's dead now, so it's clearly something to avoid. I'm with you though, a Jello purist. You can get the fruit flavors many other places, but the texture of Jello was unique growing up. Even grapes or berries or pineapple meant you had to chew rather than reduce the gelated solid to a liquid using friction, heat, and pressure from your tongue. Proper Jello isn't eaten, it's sucked until you can drink it.