A funny event today at the pharmacy, they were offering free hearing tests. I guessed these would be less than professional but shrugged and accepted. I have had the full hearing tested twice in recent years, know that it is gradually decreasing, and that the tinnitus is worse and worse. So, in the noisy pharmacy she gave me a simple test, but I could see what both her right and left hand were doing on the buzzers, so I could scarcely stop myself from laughing - I told her she should at least shield her hands from view, and tried to avert my eyes, but still hard not to giggle. Of course they were touting for business by offering free tests in a pharmacy... In the high frequencies my hearing is distinctly sub-optimal, but I still speak with headphones online 5 hours a day.
@jac do you know of Evelyn Glennie - a famous percussionist? She is profoundly deaf but feels sound through her feet and the hairs on her arms - listen to a youtube of hers ... here is her TED talk.
Rolling back 60 plus years of progress; in with intelligent design and creationism and out with evolution next perhaps, and why stop there, segregation too perhaps. Out with euthanasia in those few states where it is permitted? The 'wowser' republic seems rampant.
@f4e just look at some of the human words here, can you honestly tell me they provide evidence of superior intelligence? AI ML DL have made giant strides in the last two decades.
I've seen the recording plus the quoted text, which does show 'aluminium' spelt the American way. Note how the top horizontal bars bend flexibly, and to my eyes the vertical bars do not look more than about 1cm but still an incredible sight and a wonderful video op. Note how the head entry is made as high as the alligator can stretch. One hears what one's ears and mind lead us to hear and recall. Most quotes of the event as far as I see say 'metal'. Along the same lines ...
It seems strangely appropriate that the two of you should be conducting this 'conversaton' but how come the topic of 'Hepatotoxicity' has not arisen thus far? Surely that will raise the entertainment level!
@robp ah, and I see the British used the Japanese soldiers, still armed, in fighting against the Viet Minh towards the end of 1945. The Japanese were used in quite a few of the battles, The things you learn! Finally there were 3-4 British brigades.
@robp there was also a six month period Sep-45 to Mar-46 when a British Brigade of Indian soldiers under Gracey occupied Saigon to disarm the Japanese, and fought with the Viet Minh to reinstall the French
@cc China - 91% Japan - 87% Sweden - 78% Czech Republic - 76% United Kingdom - 73% Belgium - 72% Estonia - 72% Norway - 70% Australia - 69% Denmark - 68% One and only one country? Silly man, don't you now agree?
Hard to know what message to take out of this - no weapon but 120kg is itself a weapon. End of school and future for this maniac.
As an aside I noticed how many obese and grossly overweight people there are in the video - police/security/teachers included. Same goes here in Australia.
Well surely that coup, supported by the West as it was, was the immediate cause of the retaking of Crimea, and the harbinger of the current war. It was a strange thing for Kruschev to do, freely giving Crimea to the Ukraine way back then.
@chesney what absolute nonsense. I for example am vastly superior to you technologically scientifically and linguistically speaking yet you think you can condemn my generation to the rubbish heap on the basis of age and era - you deserve and receive my contempt, ignorant twit.
@cc what on earth did that mean? Do you ever think before you unleash your word torrent. I cannot in all honesty say I ever read anything you have written and thought 'oh that makes sense' - au contraire it all goes in the agentbob ignore box.
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oh @jac well that does indeed put a new perspective on things we write here. So often squabbling, but rarely, ever so rarely useful.