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If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.
Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM
DUMB
If I get annoyed by whatever's playing in my head I just switch to something silly like Go DA DA. Problem solved!
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I wonder if stem cell debates can get as stupid as abortion debates...?
*has to write a report on the stem cell debate*
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Yes. They can.
the future we had hoped for
DUMB
What do you mean it's over?
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
DUMB
Last I heard they found some other way to get pluripotent cells.
edited 13th Dec '10 1:58:34 PM by Tzetze
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@Norn: I'm sure that if I remembered what The Fountainhead was like at all I'd find that hilarious.
Weren't they looking for pluripotent cells, and not whatever those are?
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Tzetze: I heard the same thing.
the future we had hoped for
Pluripotent = can become many kinds of cells.
Totipotent = can become any kind of cell.
survival of the tight-lipped
Arguments for embryonic stem cell transplants:
- Can cure most currently incurable diseases
Arguments against embryonic stem cell transplants:
- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL
edited 13th Dec '10 2:05:03 PM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
DUMB
I know. 
Laugh it off, everybody
Inkle Binkle.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
As best I can tell, the argument against infantile stem cell research is half that it's seen to provide an incentive (or avoid a disincentive) for abortion, and half the Generalized Bioethics Argument, i.e. "this makes me feel icky and is therefore evil".
I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.
Laugh it off, everybody
While I don't agree with stem cell research naysayers, I can certainly see why they think the way they do. In their mind I imagine it essentially chalks up to the selling of people (by what I imagine their definition of the word to be, anyway) for the sake of science.
edited 13th Dec '10 2:11:15 PM by SpainSun
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
The Ant King
Please tell me this is a sockpuppet.
Steps around stem cell discussion
I'm not quite sure what I'd do with a manual typewriter. I just found it oddly charming * that Olivetti or some company was still making them. But now they may have stopped.
Speaking of machines for typing, did anyone else use the AlphaSmart back in elementary school? I know I did for a few years...
DUMB
Myrmidon: Nope.
frog: I've used typewriters before. Mostly they're clackity. Clackity clackity clackity DING
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We used the Alphasmart when we were passing stuff around, seein' as we didn't have actual laptops. And there was a kid who used them exclusively, I think because he had a neural disorder that messed with his fine motor control.
survival of the tight-lipped
@Frog: I did. I'm in college and I considered using one for this semester as I felt it would be less distracting than a laptop.
Went with the laptop, though. It was far from my only distraction this semester. Grrrrr.
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Part of the what makes 'em great is the sound, I'll admit. Several departments at my university still have clerical workers/secretaries who use IBM Selectrics of some sort...I remember being in the hall once and hearing this great frenzy of clacking and being quite surprised. We've gotten used to the quiet of computers...
Hmm, yes, the Alphasmart is less distracting. Not sure how well that would work for me though, in the long run. I like having more options and a taller field of view...
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.
Literally A Princess
@Norn: Wow. The awkward prose of those quotes is a spot-on imitation of Ayn Rand's writing.
edited 13th Dec '10 1:49:19 PM by Cliche