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Post by Aizar on Jan 9, 2010 14:43:38 GMT -5
Why are toothpicks supposedly bad for your teeth?
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Post by KitClairvoyance on Jan 10, 2010 6:06:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2010 16:25:56 GMT -5
Where did the "x!insertnamehere" meme come from? 0_o Things like frog!Naveen, fem!Shinji, that sort.
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Post by Aizar on Jan 13, 2010 17:14:12 GMT -5
You mean names with ! before them?
I think in...Africa?...the natives there write some of their names that way as part of their language. The book City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams (Otherland series) has a character named !Xabbu--the ! stands for a clicking sound in that character's home language (which is a real language, I think Xhosa or something) Now how that spread to the internet I don't know...and that may not be the real reason, either. *shrug*
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2010 17:27:48 GMT -5
No, no, not that. ^^; I mean: "adjective/noun + ! + name". "Frog!Naveen", "fem!Shinji", etc.
Although I was wondering what the "!" meant in African words, too. ^_^ Thanks for clearing that up.
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Post by Komori on Jan 18, 2010 23:50:12 GMT -5
When they say people should eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, does that mean 5 servings of fruit and 5 servings of vegetables, or is it 5 of all of them together? Because, I'm not entirely sure I eat 10 servings of food a day, let alone just fruits and vegetables.  |
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Post by icon on Jan 19, 2010 0:02:29 GMT -5
I think that's three of fruit, two of vegetables. From what I've heard.
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Post by M is for Morphine on Jan 19, 2010 8:07:14 GMT -5
I think that's three of fruit, two of vegetables. From what I've heard. I think you have that backwards. 5 is the bare minimum, though. If you are young and/or active you should be eating closer to 10. The thing is, a serving can be a lot smaller than people realize. If you put a 1/4 cup of raisins in your oatmeal (1 serving) and drink a glass of orange juice, you've already knocked out 3 (Maybe even 4, if it was a big glass. I drink my juice out of a beer pint which is about 2 cups). Guideline for fruit servings (It varies a bit from fruit to fruit but generally): Dried fruit: 1/4 cup Fresh fruit: 1/2 cup Juice: 3/4 cup For vegetables, a serving is 1/2 cup (unless it's a raw leafy green, in which case it's a whole cup). Make the amount you normally eat, then measure it out, and you'll probably find that you've beat the pants off of one serving ( I know I do. At least with steamed spinach, om nom nom). On the flip side, a lot of people get waaay more grains and meat than they realize, plus not enough of their grains are whole. |
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Post by Komori on Jan 19, 2010 11:27:13 GMT -5
3/4 a cup of juice is a serving? I don't think any glasses in my house are that small! Well then, I guess I'm good and covered for the 5 servings! XDDD I always imagined that servings sizes were bigger than that, because all those big juice bottles that tout their "two servings of fruit per bottle!" in their commercials and such. |
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Post by Sock on Jan 20, 2010 11:18:40 GMT -5
Where did the "x!insertnamehere" meme come from? 0_o Things like frog!Naveen, fem!Shinji, that sort. I was wondering that too! |
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Post by Aizar on Jan 20, 2010 14:09:09 GMT -5
No, no, not that. ^^; I mean: "adjective/noun + ! + name". "Frog!Naveen", "fem!Shinji", etc. Although I was wondering what the "!" meant in African words, too. ^_^ Thanks for clearing that up. Oh..hmm..is this for screen names and stuff? Because I can see where people wanted a screen name that was two separate words, but because of the way screen names work they needed to have a character between the words (couldn't just have a space), and maybe the ! is just the easiest or coolest looking. The _ seems to be popular, too. Just speculation. I really don't know. |
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Post by Tam on Jan 20, 2010 14:32:53 GMT -5
No idea where it originated from, but my understanding of its usage has always been that if you have one character/object/noun that comes in more than one distinct variety, you put the variety first, followed by the exclamation point, followed by the character/object/noun.
So when you have Naveen in his frog form, frog!Naveen is like saying "Naveen Version Frog". Or you're talking about someone like Ikkin's roleplay persona, so you can differentiate knight!Ikkin from mage!Ikkin. Or you can draw Sloth as chibi!Sloth. xD It's just a viral Internet convention for describing things, really.
I know this doesn't really answer your question, Nat, and you probably already knew this, but I just wanted to clear it up anyway, since a lot of people probably aren't familiar with it at all. ^^;
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Post by PFA on Jan 20, 2010 23:28:00 GMT -5
So, um... who holds the copyrights to a television show, anyway? XD; Like... the writers, the producers, the channel the show airs on, or what? I've found myself wondering this every time I tried to give copyright credit to a TV show character, and I always had to take a stab in the dark 'cause I really had no idea.
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Post by insanepurpleone on Jan 21, 2010 2:44:07 GMT -5
So, um... who holds the copyrights to a television show, anyway? XD; Like... the writers, the producers, the channel the show airs on, or what? I've found myself wondering this every time I tried to give copyright credit to a TV show character, and I always had to take a stab in the dark 'cause I really had no idea. On IMDB.com you can look up a particular show, and scroll down to where it says "box office/business" on the left-hand sidebar and click that. It's not available for every show, but for many of them, the copyright holder information is there. Otherwise, you can check the show's official website, which will probably have the copyright information down at the bottom of the page. It looks to me like it's generally the company producing the show, though I don't know if that holds true for everything. |
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Post by Aizar on Jan 23, 2010 16:06:59 GMT -5
So most people's body temperatures read higher when they're starting to get sick, but mine consistently always reads lower (by about 2-3 degrees under average) when I'm starting to feel ill. Do colds really do that to some people? Or is there some other medical condition that could explain this? It happens often enough that it's not something dangerous or life-threatening, but still...kinda odd.
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