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Unfortunately, a lot of people have a sort of "cognitive dissonance" leading to complete rejection of any idea that the foreskin serves any purpose or is in any way beneficial, along with absolute certainty that it is actually incredibly dangerous and disgusting, due to not being intact themselves. You'll notice that some people who are "pro-mutilation" absolutely hate intact penises and will say they're gross, women don't like them, they're full of disease, etc., and get quite angry about it. I suppose there are a lot of people who cannot accept the facts, so they just keep on perpetuating the cycle.

It absolutely does. You don't want to believe it because you don't have yours and facing what you have lost is too difficult.

It's literally part of your sex organ. It protects and moisturises the tip of the penis and has many nerve endings that give sexual pleasure. It protects the tip of your penis from your clothes. This avoids a double dose of desensitisation. There is no reason for removing it and it only decreases sexual pleasure by a considerable amount. It's unnecessary and barbaric.

Sure. The same way that removing your teeth is a good way to avoid cavities. Awesome logic. ????

I wonder if she will get a "nickname". And what did she do with all the money? Crazy!

Probably couldn't see due to vehicles stopped in front of the crossing. Just pull round them at full speed. ????

I think it was more about the killing than the robbery. He shot people that he had absolutely no need to shoot. The robbery seemed more like a cover for the killings.

I don't know much about mitochondrial damage, but if you exercise too much you can "overtrain" and see less "gains", or pick up an injury. You're probably training too much and that is why you feel stronger when you go back to it. It think there's a name for when you take a break and come back stronger, but it escapes me now. But it doesn't mean that you can train something like one week on and two weeks off. It might be better to think carefully about how long you want to rest each muscle group rather than what you want to exercise each day. I think a lot of weight lifters hit each muscle group less than twice a week, with some opting for once a week, organising the days they do things based on what days they want to do other things, and factoring in rest days. Try one day a week for each muscle group. Often people do something like chest and arms, shoulders and back, legs and core. But you can look a little more into how to split your weight training up. It's definitely worth reading up on how to weight train, even if you aren't looking to body-build and simply want to gain some strength. There's a definite science to it, at whatever level. The main difference is number of reps and maybe the speed. (Although you should always aim to maintain control and safety.) When it comes to cardio, you can be a bit more regular, but you still need to rest a little. It also has an effect on how much muscle you can pack on. If you want to body build, then cardio will attack your gains. One thing you can do, if you love to go every day, is a thing called active rest, where you go to the gym, take it easy on the bike or walk for a while on the treadmill, very low effort but still nice, then have a stretch. It's similar to resting, as you are really exerting yourself, but you are still being active. One important thing is to really listen to your body. If it tells you not to work out because something hurts, rest until it doesn't hurt anymore. But also remember that sometimes you can get rid of a pain by exercising. But it's a different kind of pain. Muscle tightness vs muscle strain. Always warm up and warm down on the cross trainer, then do full body stretches at the end of your workout.

How can people repeat the speech impediment thing with a clear conscience? It baffles me. They're claiming to be the good guys and to have the moral high ground, then telling very obvious lies to support their candidate. We all know what a speech impediment looks like, and it isn't someone trailing off mid sentence, looking completely blank, forgetting what they were talking about, and then talking nonsense or completely changing the subject.

His son's laptop? I guess since it's being addressed now, Biden is no longer the candidate of choice (or they just can't sit on it any longer).

Duffed him up, threw him in a cell half conscious, he suffocated in some way, hanging to cover it up. Seems perfectly plausible.

I think it must be: suicide, he died due to drunkenness and police want to cover it up, or police killed him fighting with him and want to cover it up. I guess the family could spring for an independent autopsy. That could clear things up.

It's entertaining as well. I think we (possible men more than women) like to study things and know some facts. Like how watching a game of sport can be more interesting if you know all the rules of the game, how they train, and the history of the two teams.

I guess you cannot have the knowledge that might come in handy but make you sad, and at the same time enjoy ignorance that might make you happy but also vulnerable. I think that's why many non-Western countries are a lot happier, but tend to have less political agency. They're kind of "innocent" in a lot of ways. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.

I think that because human nature is kind of universal, and things tend to repeat themselves, we can learn lessons from things that have happened in history that help us to understand what is happening now and what might happen in the future. This is particularly relevant when it comes to politics and other things that affect society. As an example, the writing of George Orwell is incredibly useful in identifying patterns of fascism, the use of propaganda, how communism/ideology is used to control people and how easy it is to slip into authoritarianism from a movement that starts out claiming to be about setting people free and liberating them from oppressors. People often comment on Orwell and say that he "predicted" this and that, but in reality, a lot of Orwell's writing was based on what had happened in the past and what was going on at the time of writing. For example, 1984 is cited as predicting what we see happening in some places now, but it is actually based on Stalinist Russia set in England in a WW2 time period. Along with learning lessons from the past, the study of history is going to increase higher order thinking skills, like critical thinking and creativity. I know a lot of people don't see the point of studying anything where it isn't going to be directly applied, but generally, studying for the sake of studying will have benefits in every part of someone's life. I think it also helps us to understand who we are as people, learning how people lived in the past. I'm not suggesting that someone who knows about some historical time period or another is in any way superior (there are a lot of educated people who do not understand much outside of what they are educated in). And I know that for many people it's a luxury to have the time, or to have been raised to read, to study and to have an inquisitive mind, but I think there are clear benefits to it.

I've never seen such large font on a wreath before. Is that just so the names are easily visible on a photograph, or is there some other reason?

Not necessarily. Now that everyone knows she borrows money from people then kills them, they might be less likely to help her out financially.

We need Thailand's answer to Miss Marple on the case! Khun Ma-Ple?

Funnily enough I have no memory of it from the time it was released. I've only ever heard of it in Asia. Apparently it only reached 26 in the UK, so that might be why.

I think in Thailand people aren't really worried about random crime. It seems that most crime, in terms of people coming to someone's house, comes from someone they know. Thailand is very safe, generally. You can wander pretty much anywhere you want at any time of day and be safe. The thing you have to be careful about is how you act, also anywhere and at any time of day.

Have you considered getting together with @GammaGlobulin and making a podcast? You could talk about all the random stuff you think of questions about. The theme tune could be Lemon Tree by Fools Garden.

Seems to be available here: https://www.whitelotusbooks.com/books/hello-my-big-big-honey Not expensive.

Go to the linked article and the name of each gallery is a link to their location on Google Maps.

The Chinese are a lot more collectivist thinking than Europeans. Any types of crackdowns are going to have a much bigger effect on the tourism numbers from China. I'm not sure whose idea the "We have fewer tourists so we should make it harder for tourists to come here" policy was, but they must have known this is what would happen.

I don't even have a problem with people having water fights with other people who are willing participants. I like seeing people having fun and being happy, even if I don't personally enjoy it. I'm in no way miserable about it. I just don't think people who don't want to get wet should get a bucket of water over them. Doesn't seem that controversial to me.