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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you understand poetry as a person on the spectrum? |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 53
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old_comedywriter wrote: Conventional poetry is fine - haiku is crap.
Haiku has no meter or rhythm or rhyme, just a format.
Haiku is fine ...in Japanese. But not in any other language including English. The format fits the structure of the Japanese language. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Tanks,German ones, American ones, British ones 2 Ukraine |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 4:06 pm
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Replies: 52
Views: 965
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You cant live by infantry alone.
You need speed, armor, and firepower, in a symmetrical war even in this age of stinger missiles. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tech's 'Little Havana' Thread |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 11:31 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 306
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tech's 'Little Havana' Thread |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 9:36 am
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Replies: 15
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| I'm in a position where really I only want to do a couple per week and sitting outside with one is almost like an hour long meditative practice of sorts. There's also a sense of history with it as well as the various flavors that can come through the tobacco. One of the things I had to give up in d... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tech's 'Little Havana' Thread |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2023, 9:57 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 306
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Am more into music than I am into nicotine.
Though at 1:25 there is footage of local lady smoking a cigar ...as big as a human child!
https://youtu.be/tGbRZ73NvlY |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Saudi Arabia’s very rapid social change |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2023, 5:51 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Yes. Most of these Arab nations are jury-rigged bundles of random content. loosely tied, and left by the Demster Dumpster by the powers of Europe after World War One. Tiny little Lebanon fell apart in the Seventies. Iraq was held together by the brute force of Saddam Hussien. And its a miracle that ... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Animals A to Z |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2023, 4:22 am
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Replies: 950
Views: 20,592
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Classified documents found in Pence’s home |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2023, 4:12 am
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Replies: 32
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| "You get classified documents! You get classified documents! Everyone gets classified documents!"\\ Well...I packed a bunch of glassware, and china, in boxes when I moved. Packed in wads of paper to cushion them as packing material...lemme unfold some of the wads... OMG! The President's s... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Coin-operated television, electric, gas meters in the UK |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 12:28 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 238
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| In the US we had coin operated TVs in the back booths in porno shops. But thats it. And now porno shops have been supplanted by the Net. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Fusion: Really just around the corner? |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 9:39 am
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Replies: 10
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| I seen this on the news. More often than not, if the media airs it, it happens. For some reason I think if the above debaters compare this new type of energy production to say when we discovered nuclear power and how long that took. So, yeah, maybe 20 years.. My Sherlockian cross referencing is jus... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: everythings always been old school alan turing |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 3:37 am
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,577
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| I don't care to change the world for the better anymore because now I realize changing the world for the better will never happen or it's impossible when everything's always been old school obviously. Again when everything's always been old school people have free will in life to do negative or evi... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Chimpanzees doing simple math task better than humans |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 3:00 am
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Replies: 2
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| Have seen that before. Its quite interesting. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Birds |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2023, 3:28 am
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Replies: 97
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| What kind of bird, has a long tail of feathers, is all black, and has a sweet static song? Slightly smaller than a raven. We had a bunch where we used to live, they'd fly by the canal. One time I through a whole bag of seed on the neighbors roof from our apartment.. The next day, they were ALL perc... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Socially unacceptable" special interests |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2023, 1:35 am
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Replies: 71
Views: 3,231
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| Bigfoot: Ever listen to "Coast to Coast" on the radio? On occasion they've had Bigfoot experts on and took calls. That one really famous video ("Patterson video") is a hoax: A zoom-in of the trunk shows what appears to be a belt buckle. Another tip-off it's fake: A lower primate... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Socially unacceptable" special interests |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2023, 12:35 am
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Replies: 71
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| I am prone to being 'taken over' by 'special interests'. In this internet age you can be a "victim" of your own obsessions more easily than in the 20th century thanks to Utube and its algorithms. I studied anthropology so I know something about both early hominids and about primates. So I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Socially unacceptable" special interests |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2023, 11:53 pm
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Replies: 71
Views: 3,231
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| I am prone to being 'taken over' by 'special interests'. In this internet age you can be a "victim" of your own obsessions more easily than in the 20th century thanks to Utube and its algorithms. I studied anthropology so I know something about both early hominids and about primates. So I ... |
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