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Chujkurwa said:
Related fact: for the 99% of their time on Earth, humans barely survived to their 30s or produced children past that age,
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While it's true that humans didn't generally reproduce into old age, the average lifespan of 30 to 40 doesn't mean that most humans barely survived into their 30s, and both archeology and written records in literate places support that this isn't accurate. yes, average lifespan was 30 to 40, but that's because of high infant mortality rates. As with many large mammals, if we survived past early childhood (and if women didn't die in childbirth or men in warfare or accidents) we probably lived a reasonably long time. If you have people who live to be 1, 2, 1, 60, 60, and 60, the average lifespan is still less than 40.

Another exception to this is cities up to the invention of modern sanitation. Cities were population sinks until then, with the lifespan of poor people moving into London being, I think, about 18 months.

None of which alters the fact that yes, once we are no longer able to bear or raise children, nature stops caring so much about how our joints feel, and how quickly we recover from injury.
 
Chujkurwa said:
Makes even less sense the second time I see this. There was a 500+ word rant here about evolution with Dawkins' disembodied head screaming in the background, but then I realized what I was doing. I'm just going to say that historically, very early marriages & pregnancies were common only in nobility as means for producing heirs and political alliances ASAP.
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The entirety of the civilization stage of human existence is a fart in the evolutionary scale. Even if it were true that for the last, say, 4000 to 10000 years at the absolute most, only nobility or their equivalents had young pregnancies, that's weighed against hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in pre-society, primitive humanity where as soon as a female was fertile, she got fucked and impregnated. And that's just the range of time for what we consider humans. Take into account earlier hominids all the way back to the point a branch of primates split into our line, and it's the same story: females get pregnant as soon as they can, because the males won't wait.

Millions of years of evolution priming both males and females to pass on their genes as soon as they possibly can (because what matters in evolution isn't surviving; it's surviving long enough to have offspring), and you're thinking of the practices of few hundred years ago. For what it's worth, the guy you quoted is making the same mistake.
 
Mr. ShadowCreek said:
No one is quite sure what the Confederate rebel yell sound like. There were almost no recording devices back then and what did exist were really primitive. Some say it sound like an Indian yell why others said it sound like a cougar or a screaming rabbit. Even some of the tough Unions soldiers were scared of the yell and described it as hellish. Some audio clips of veterans years later yelling it exist but some question how accurate they are. How is started is also unknown.
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While we absolutely don't have recordings of it actually happening, many survivors actually did produce their recollections of what it sounded like.
It almost sounds comical. But then, imagine several hundred men doing it at once and a dozen of them have a bayonet at your throat. Sounds less comical then, doesn't it?
 
Nick Obre said:
The entirety of the civilization stage of human existence is a fart in the evolutionary scale. Even if it were true that for the last, say, 4000 to 10000 years at the absolute most, only nobility or their equivalents had young pregnancies, that's weighed against hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in pre-society, primitive humanity where as soon as a female was fertile, she got fucked and impregnated. And that's just the range of time for what we consider humans. Take into account earlier hominids all the way back to the point a branch of primates split into our line, and it's the same story: females get pregnant as soon as they can, because the males won't wait.

Millions of years of evolution priming both males and females to pass on their genes as soon as they possibly can (because what matters in evolution isn't surviving; it's surviving long enough to have offspring), and you're thinking of the practices of few hundred years ago. For what it's worth, the guy you quoted is making the same mistake.
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Look at physical development I'd say. We had some arab girls placed in our grade and parallel grades in the 80's and jesus christ at 10-11 they did not physically resemble any local girls of the same age. Mohammed says nine is alright and my country still turns the blind eye if a 13 year old shows up with a baby and her cousin-husband. It's all part of the breeding I think.
 
The main reason we never got a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel?
Bob Iger hates Jessica Rabbit. Seriously, that's the main reason. He refuses to let her be used for anything outside of just re-releasing the film on bluray and digital.
 
the opening day of disneyland in 1955 known as black sunday was plagued with countless problems. The tar for the walkways was still wet and turned into glue that could snap the heels off women's shoes, the water fountains refused to work, despite being only open to a select few guests numerous people hopped the fences and snuck in, security was ill equipped to handle large crowds, and very few attractions were ready to operate.
 
There's so much vitamin A in polarbear liver you can die from vitamin A induced hepatoxicity from eating just a medium amount.
 
horrorfan89 said:
the opening day of disneyland in 1955 known as black sunday was plagued with countless problems. The tar for the walkways was still wet and turned into glue that could snap the heels off women's shoes, the water fountains refused to work, despite being only open to a select few guests numerous people hopped the fences and snuck in, security was ill equipped to handle large crowds, and very few attractions were ready to operate.
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The passes to get in were also counterfeited as well.
 
During the Vietnam War, the US Army conducted Operation Wandering Soul where they would play certain songs and sounds in order to scare the Vietcong to come out from hiding.
 
The prototype for Fraggle Rock was called the Woozle World. It had many interesting differences from the final product.

Fraggles were called Woozles. Unlike the Fraggles, the Woozles main cast was a family that consisted of a father, mother, kids, many babies, and grandparents. Instead of a hole in the wall, the Woozles would visit the human world through a small door in the wall inside a cabinet. There was no Woozle equivalent to Uncle Traveling Matt.

Gorgs were called Giant Wozles. They were still full-body puppets and consisted of a father, mother, and son. They were friendly but stupid instead of arrogant bullies.

Doozers were called Wizzles. Unlike the peaceful relationship between Fraggles and Doozers, the Woozles hated Wizzles and considered them pests.

One idea in Woozle World that never made it to Fraggle Rock was that Woozles would appear as full-body puppets when they interacted with Wizzles. It was supposed to emphasize how Wizzles and Woozles had a similar difference in scale like Wizzles and Wozles.

Finally, other small details included the Trash Heap being a male who was paid with cans, there were characters called "the fearsome creatures in the woods," and Woozles would wander out into the human world to bring back a random object to analyze it.
 
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The director of the Jeeper Creepers movies (Victor Salvia) is a convicted child molester, his one and only confirmed victim was a the child star of his 1989 directorial debut film Clownhouse (Nathan Forest Winters) Due to thee controversy surrounding the film to this very day there are no plans to release clownhouse on blu ray.
 
A bezoar is the technical term for a collection of indigestible material. Most people's exposure to bezoars come from cat hairballs. A common form of human bezoar is caused by compulsive pulling and eating of one's own hair.
 
The Khoisan people are the most genetically divergent humans. In other words, they have the oldest genetic lineage and are the closest genetically to the first anatomically modern humans.
 
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