Today I learned that I have a test on Thursday, and another test on Monday. I also learned that not only do people with sickle cell anemia have immunity to malaria, but people with cystic fibrosis have immunity to cholera. Japan has a .02% AIDS incidence rate, the US has a .6% rate, and places in Central and South Africa have at least a 30% rate. Violence did not kill 90% of the indigenous people of the Americas. European diseases did. The indigenous people had a population of anywhere between 20 and 50 million people before the Europeans came over, but in less than 150 years after the Europeans, that number was wiped down to a mere 1 or 2 million. The longer a culture lives with domesticated flora and fauna, the more immune they become to a wider variety of diseases. There are strains of Tuberculosis that are resistant to ALL antibiotics available today. There are also more and more bacteria that are becoming more and more resistant to more and more of the antibiotics available. The overuse of antibiotics in modern medicine has most likely screwed us over in the long run against diseases.
These past few weeks I've learned that American girls are much more complicated than I thought. Today I learned that 80% of the cacao comes from Western Africa. ALA
EDIT: I also learned that I'm more popular than I think I was, which btw makes me feel better! And that maybe it was time for me to findout how to use the damn credit card system to become a contributing member and be able to use the edit bouton! ALA (also learn how to write in english!)
This morning I learned that Nike's sports shirts designed for runners cannot hide bloody nipples and the blood streaks they leave down a shirt.
Great thread!!! I learned that my sister let's my min-pin loose when I'm not home. I learned that a cortizone shot to the front of the shoulder hurts more than a shot to the back of the shoulder. I learned that a yu-gi-oh chompy checker can defeat a yu-gi-oh spinning checker.(My son loves checkers and Yu Gi Oh, so he made a new game yesterday morning and I'm still learning the rules)
Bandaids don't work for bloody nipples. You gotta bandage them up real good with gauze and med tape. Not that I've ever had trouble with bloody nipples.
After running, my bloody nipples were so sore that I had to put a band-aid on them after taking a shower. This flimsy-ass band-aid keeps falling off though and I feel the soreness as my t-shirt touches the sensitive areas. I think I'll start wearing a sports bra.
D.B.A. stands for......ready? . . . . . . . . Doing Business As...!!! In other words the name of a business might not be who the check is made out to if its owned by one person or another. They prefer the check to be made out to them in their name! COOL! I never knew that!
The only problem is that it is hit and miss. I experience the bloodbath once every two weeks. I don't want to wear band-aids everyday! But given the excruciating pain I'm in today (more than I've experienced in all my years of running combined), I may have to resort to that. I learned the rule against cotton t-shirts over ten years ago! But Nike's special shirts AREN'T supposed to cause chaffing!!!!
i finally realized that i should be allowed to shoot other drivers. people who pull in front of me from another lane into the fast lane and then proceed not to go as fast as i was going. people in the fast lane who for some reason don't feel the need to do anything over the speed limit and then won't move over when someone wants to pass them, as if they are either too stupid to recognize someone wants to pass, are too absent-minded to pay attention to other drives or are just incredible assholes. either way, i should be allowed to shoot them, or at them, or something. maybe a warning shot first, or a shot to a tire. but nonetheless, firearms need to be discharged. this brings up another point. after going to UT for 4 years, i seriously still don't understand the difference between houston and austin drivers. in houston anything less than 10 over in the fast lane will get you run off the road and yet it is commonplace (at least for me) to get behind people doing the speed limit or under in the fast lane in austin in perfectly open driving conditions. this is amazing. how can one group of people be so different from another like this. it's like austinites have no where to go or something. if you wanna drive the speed limit, fine, but get the hell out of the left lane, or pay damn close attention to when people are coming up from behind and wanna pass. infuriates me to no end. people who get in the right lane and won't turn right, as others have mentioned. and perhaps the biggest offenders of all. people on a two lane road who get in each lane and then proceed to go the exact same slow speed and not let anyone pass even though cars are piling up in the fast lane. honestly, i think these people should get a ticket or something. at least the person in the fast lane. this is such disregard for everyone else that it should be punished. anyway, i guess i also learned i am one damn impatient driver.
This is the precise reason i'm an ass on the roads and never let anyone pull-in in front of me. I'm the punk who speeds up when you're trying to get in my lane. Why? because 99.99999% of you drive slower than me. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but why should my graciousness be punished? It can't be! It won't be!
If you think that's bad, try driving here (in a small town I'll call Podunk, Texas). Everyone has nowhere to go and all day to get there. They hardly ever go over the speed limit (maybe because the cops are pretty strict) but they take forever to accelerate up to it as well. They always do that thing where you have a slow driver in each lane so you can't get around them. Do they get together and plan that? And, worst of all, people look at me weird just because I walk fast and drive fast. I'm just walking around on campus and get strange comments from people about being in a hurry. Why does everyone have a problem with that?
