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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM
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Wow.
But I'm still gonna complain about having the third-highest tuition fees in the world. 
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And so you should.
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Formerly G.G.
What is the name of term where you push someone to do their best by taking their stuff and baiting them to go after it? What is term where you pushing someone to go harder like when you training for some sport?
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edited 19th Feb '14 1:20:22 AM by thekikoperson
Is there a reason my title won't save quotation marks?
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Title for what?
edited 20th Feb '14 12:53:20 PM by CrystalGlacia
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
I think he means his Custom Title - the tagline under one's avatar.
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So no one knows?
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
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It must be a problem on your end. I just checked it with me, and it works.
edited 20th Feb '14 1:46:39 PM by ramuf
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You should PM or e-mail Eddie.
edited 20th Feb '14 5:01:33 PM by BestOf
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So I shouldn't PM him?
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
You can PM or e-mail him.
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Thanks.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
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What is the average volume of the human head?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
1400 cm cubed without counting the brain being there, I think.
edited 21st Feb '14 2:33:42 PM by ScorpioRat
Uniocular
Does a duet describe any song with two main vocalists, or just when they sing at once?
edited 21st Feb '14 3:45:14 PM by Mukora
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
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I did not specify that it was "head without brain" — that would be the opposite of what I want, in fact.
It is the same.
Volume and weight are not the same thing, so I don't know why he added "without the brain".
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Well if the brain is there, some of the volume would be taken up by it, and I assumed you wanted empty space. Sorry about that. I got volume mixed up with empty space, so yeah, that's still a correct number.
edited 21st Feb '14 4:04:50 PM by ScorpioRat
Well, if you took a brain out of a head, the space would still count as volume.
Like the air in an inflated balloon counts toward the volume of the balloon or the empty space in a vase counts toward the volume of the vase.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Yes, but volume includes the empty space and filled up space of a non-flat shape, correct? So you're right, volume would not change whether the shape is filled or not.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
OK, but just out of curiosity's sake, where did you get that number?
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Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Killed a hobo, scooped his brain out with a spork and measured it
Oh really when?
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So, the easy way, then.
EDIT: I looked up "human head" on Wikipedia, and they have a chart of some study done in the US. Let's see some stats - I'll give what is listed as the 50th percentile.
The average man's head's breadth is about 15.2cm. For women it's 14.4. The average of that is a bit under 15 cm - so I'll round it up to 15.
There are various measures I could use for the length of the head - from the tip of the nose, from the bit of the nose between the eyes (called the "sellion", apparently), or from the lips - but I'll go with from the tip of the jaw, as that's snugly between the extreme points in the available comparisons. With this, the results for men are 18.2cm and for women, 17.3cm. The average of that is 17.75cm - which I'll round up to 18cm.
Finally, from the top of the head to the tip of the jaw for height of the head, we have 23.2cm for men and 21.8cm for women. That averages to 22.5cm ~ 23cm.
15cm*18cm*23cm = 6210cm3. That's six litres - which seems wrong, to be honest. I suppose it's because I calculated it as the volume of a box that would fit an average human head (except a bit of the nose), when I should've been thinking in terms of spheres to get a closer approximation of the human head. My bad.
edited 21st Feb '14 5:09:08 PM by BestOf
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Depends on the university. A lot.
The most expensive colleges charge tuitions of over $50 000 a year. (At least some of these include "room/board", which seems to mean student housing and food.) The cheapest, though, can be as low as $1 000. The most significant factor is whether the college is public or private. An average public college will charge you about $3 000, while a private college will on average ask for something like $30 000.
EDIT: Ninja'd. Also, it seems that my source had higher figures for the most expensive colleges.
edited 17th Feb '14 4:18:21 PM by BestOf
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