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    DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Nuzak wrote: »
    none of you can be bothered to look up the slang term 'boffin'

    LET'S SEE YOUR PRECIOUS SCIENCE SOLVE THAT

    see, this is what I was trying to get at

    at least the brits and aussies will get it

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    look we just had our independence day

    we've still got unexploded ordinance itchin' to be dropped

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    NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    A comment on Phil Plait's blog about Texas appointing a religious extremist to run their state board of education:
    If the Texan people - or the American majority for that matter - decide they are in favour of democracy and teaching God’s Word then in a democracy it is surely right that they get their way.

    If most people are religious and they are -

    If most people are Christian - and they are -

    Then why on Earth shouldn’t we teach Christianity rather than banning God, Jesus and the Holy Bible from our classrooms?

    Its called democracy people - & if you don’t like it you are free to emigrate.

    China, I believe is atheist, or Cuba or North Korea - atheists you are quite free to emigate there if you want to enjoy unmitigated worship of Godlessness and its “prophet” Richard Dawkins.

    If you aren’t going to emigrate to North Korea or Cuba or China; if you wish to remain American then you need to accept and respect the people’s will - and the will of the American people is in favour of God and, yes, specifically the God of the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    If you think you are smarter than God you are wrong.

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    HAIRS ON A BOBBIN OLDE BINT, HAIRS ON A BOBBIN I DO SAY!

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    NotACrook wrote: »
    A comment on Phil Plait's blog about Texas appointing a religious extremist to run their state board of education:
    If the Texan people - or the American majority for that matter - decide they are in favour of democracy and teaching God’s Word then in a democracy it is surely right that they get their way.

    If most people are religious and they are -

    If most people are Christian - and they are -

    Then why on Earth shouldn’t we teach Christianity rather than banning God, Jesus and the Holy Bible from our classrooms?

    Its called democracy people - & if you don’t like it you are free to emigrate.

    China, I believe is atheist, or Cuba or North Korea - atheists you are quite free to emigate there if you want to enjoy unmitigated worship of Godlessness and its “prophet” Richard Dawkins.

    If you aren’t going to emigrate to North Korea or Cuba or China; if you wish to remain American then you need to accept and respect the people’s will - and the will of the American people is in favour of God and, yes, specifically the God of the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    If you think you are smarter than God you are wrong.
    well, I wasn't going to burn down the capitol building on my way home from work but I suppose I could detour

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    NotACrook wrote: »
    A comment on Phil Plait's blog about Texas appointing a religious extremist to run their state board of education:
    If the Texan people - or the American majority for that matter - decide they are in favour of democracy and teaching God’s Word then in a democracy it is surely right that they get their way.

    If most people are religious and they are -

    If most people are Christian - and they are -

    Then why on Earth shouldn’t we teach Christianity rather than banning God, Jesus and the Holy Bible from our classrooms?

    Its called democracy people - & if you don’t like it you are free to emigrate.

    China, I believe is atheist, or Cuba or North Korea - atheists you are quite free to emigate there if you want to enjoy unmitigated worship of Godlessness and its “prophet” Richard Dawkins.

    If you aren’t going to emigrate to North Korea or Cuba or China; if you wish to remain American then you need to accept and respect the people’s will - and the will of the American people is in favour of God and, yes, specifically the God of the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    If you think you are smarter than God you are wrong.

    The best thing about these types of arguments is they always end up biting people in the ass. If the Democracy says they don't want religion taught in schools would this guy shut up and go away?

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    DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    NotACrook wrote: »
    A comment on Phil Plait's blog about Texas appointing a religious extremist to run their state board of education:
    If the Texan people - or the American majority for that matter - decide they are in favour of democracy and teaching God’s Word then in a democracy it is surely right that they get their way.

    If most people are religious and they are -

    If most people are Christian - and they are -

    Then why on Earth shouldn’t we teach Christianity rather than banning God, Jesus and the Holy Bible from our classrooms?

    Its called democracy people - & if you don’t like it you are free to emigrate.

    China, I believe is atheist, or Cuba or North Korea - atheists you are quite free to emigate there if you want to enjoy unmitigated worship of Godlessness and its “prophet” Richard Dawkins.

    If you aren’t going to emigrate to North Korea or Cuba or China; if you wish to remain American then you need to accept and respect the people’s will - and the will of the American people is in favour of God and, yes, specifically the God of the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    If you think you are smarter than God you are wrong.

    hahaha, man what an asshole.

    I love when people all talk about America-this, America-that, and they fucking FORGET ABOUT THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    Hunter wrote: »
    Dislexic wrote: »
    Thank you hunter, that was the joke.





    Jackass

    You said Boffins though.

    What the fuck is a Boffin? Sounds like some strange English candy that tastes like roasted meats and honey marmalade boiled in blood pudding eels spotted dick mash chips and fish.
    I would probably eat that

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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Man, how do you not know what a boffin is?

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Never heard the word in my life. Bobbin maybe. Can't remember what that was though.

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    God can be North Korea's President for Eternity too

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    NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052DosGtJLs

    Click on it and go to HD because it's worth it.

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    scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    sweet as hell but one minute was all i needed I guess

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    Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Can't believe you guys didn't know boffin. Dislexic's joke was decent.

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    DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Thank you. I wasn't looking for much, I was just assuming people weren't going to be stupid douchenozzles.








    Boy I was way off.

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    yes
    how dare we not know a term that's only used outside the U.S., and that I've never even heard a brit or aussie use before

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    Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Yes Dru, how dare you. But really, I didn't realise it wasn't a known term in the US. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, EH?

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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    It wasn't that you didn't know it, it was that you jumped all over him for it.

    Dude makes a damned fine pun using a fairly common term that probably appears in Monty Python skits, and all he gets is 'boo, get off the stage'.

    Hang your heads, ignorants.
    This is where I would post Monty Python's Banter sketch, but you tube is blocked at work
    .

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    "Boffin" was used in an Achewood storyline pretty heavily

    Did you guys all just laugh without understanding the joke

    is that what happened here

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    I don't recall that storyline
    haven't been keeping up to date on achewood

    also I never jumped on the dude
    I just didn't understand boffin in that context

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    To be fair, that is exactly what I did

    well, I guess I just laughed at other stuff and didn't really invest too much time in figuring out the definition of "boffin"

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    tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Weird science

    Robot invented to crawl through veins

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    SCIENTISTS FROM Israel's Technion University have unveiled a tiny robot, made using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, purportedly able to crawl through a person's veins in order to diagnose and potentially treat artery blockage and cancer.

    The little robot - with a diameter of just one millimeter - has neither engine nor onboard controls, instead being propelled forward by a magnetic field wielded on it from outside the patient's body.

    Controlling the tiny bot externally means boffins have been able to shrink it to a previously impossibly tiny scale, allowing it to crawl its way through the typical human body's veins and arteries using miniscule outstretched arms which grip the vessel walls. Yes, that made us shudder too.

    way old but related and interesting

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    tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    and boffin sounds like a word you just made up right now

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    DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    I don't recall that storyline
    haven't been keeping up to date on achewood

    also I never jumped on the dude
    I just didn't understand boffin in that context

    oh that wasn't to you dude, that was to Hunter, primarily

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    DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    tugga wrote: »
    and boffin sounds like a word you just made up right now

    except that it was in the text that JoeUser posted.

    and yet nobody asked "what the hell is a boffin" when he posted it. Just breezed by.

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    tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    cause we like him

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    DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    tugga wrote: »
    cause we like him

    Touché

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    first artificially generated human sperm

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    Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    what's worse

    artificial human sperm

    or

    artificial butter

    ?

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    UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    that's certainly a step up from test tube babies

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    DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I am studying the dynamics of game theory. It is pretty interesting.

    Does anyone else here like it?

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Dead Legend wrote: »
    what's worse

    artificial human sperm

    or

    artificial butter

    ?
    look I'm not going to do the taste test, alright?

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    I can't believe it's not semen!

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    UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    I can't believe it's not semen!

    is Fabio doing the commercials for that too?

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Usagi wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I can't believe it's not semen!

    is Fabio doing the commercials for that too?
    yes, but this time it's not a goose hitting him in the face

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Mysst wrote: »
    Usagi wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I can't believe it's not semen!

    is Fabio doing the commercials for that too?
    yes, but this time it's not a goose hitting him in the face

    It also helps him style his hair.

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    first artificially generated human sperm

    I feel like making "artificial" semen out of embryos is kind of a "one step forward, two steps back" kind of accomplishment

    but those losers complaining about ethics, fuck

    growing humans in petri dishes is exactly what we should be doing with this

    :x

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    this is really cool
    I can't do it justice with a brief catchphrase
    just read the whole article

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    SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    this is really cool
    I can't do it justice with a brief catchphrase
    just read the whole article
    Oh wow. This is the most interesting thing I've read in a while.

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    autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    you don't need dozens of transistors to store a single bit of information, but just two

    the imitation of neurons is a very interesting thing though
    although I think I've read that some time ago already?

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