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Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Very pleased to hear it!Now that is an amazingly good spot. In fact I'm more than ok - as evidenced by having the drive/energy to search out a slightly sleeker looking tin of beans.That's actually very interesting. It appears that people start off liking dinosaurs and then go off them as they get older. I'm at a loss to explain why that might be. Perhaps the novelty just wears off?On an unrelated note, I'm sure your avatar used to be a 415g can of beans. It's now a 200g can of beans. Is everything ok?
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Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Contract through, and I've officially resigned today, so this is the sort of evening I'm having tonight.
And, yes, I will be sticking on Casino Royale in all its glory, shortly.
And, yes, I will be sticking on Casino Royale in all its glory, shortly.
Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Back? That would be a leap forward of about five millennia for the RSF.Off topic, but relevant given discussion on immigration earlier today. I can understand a fear of net migration figures in the hundreds of thousands, but what I find worthy of contempt is when this discussion is divorced from any real understanding of why people are migrating. Today's 'The Take's from Al Jazeera discusses the experiences of women in Sudan: https://pca.st/episode/7874d751-b1e2-4a45-888b-7d8f3f60f9fb.Time to bomb them back to 2nd century
To summarise, with apologies for the language: women are being raped at such scale by the RSF that suicide statistics are on the rise as women choose to take their own lives rather than fall into the hands of RSF
fighters. Is it any surprise that people want to migrate away from this?
Of course a reasonable response is that sexual violence is such an incredibly common historical fact that it is the modern western world that is unusual for its relative safety for women. That may be true, but I find it grossly unjustifiable to argue that this relative safety should be open only to those who happen to be born in the right part of the world.
This isn't really an argument for migration - I think it is a really poor solution for everyone concerned - but those who simultaneously argue against migration and against development support for places like Sudan are criminals, in my view.
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Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Shrinkflation has clearly hit the avatar market...Now that is an amazingly good spot. In fact I'm more than ok - as evidenced by having the drive/energy to search out a slightly sleeker looking tin of beans.That's actually very interesting. It appears that people start off liking dinosaurs and then go off them as they get older. I'm at a loss to explain why that might be. Perhaps the novelty just wears off?On an unrelated note, I'm sure your avatar used to be a 415g can of beans. It's now a 200g can of beans. Is everything ok?
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Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Younger people would be able to outrun older people, should a Jurassic Park-style dinosaur chase ensue, so the old take a less favourable view of dinosaurs.
You don't have to run faster than the monster; you just have to run faster than the other person being chased.
On the same basis, I expect older people also have a less favourable view of Jason Vorhees, Leatherface and Xenomorphs.
You don't have to run faster than the monster; you just have to run faster than the other person being chased.
On the same basis, I expect older people also have a less favourable view of Jason Vorhees, Leatherface and Xenomorphs.
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Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
It’s a large loft.You keep dinosaurs in your loft ?Mine are in the loft and I check them regularly.Dinosaur, terrible lizard.So did I!
When I was young I collected the Brooke Bond set of tea cards ‘Prehistoric Monsters’ Fascinated me.
Love a Tanystropheus or an Eryops or a Glyptodon
Wish I knew where my book was now.
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Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Perhaps everything becomes a bit meh when you reach 60. Weird though.
Have been fossil hunting in the Flatlands with Dean Lomax, dinosaur man (before he was famous). Was good fun.
Our local museum had a dusty specimen in a drawer that everyone had assumed was a cast but he took a closer look and it turned out to be a new species of ichthyosaur...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31521719
Have been fossil hunting in the Flatlands with Dean Lomax, dinosaur man (before he was famous). Was good fun.
Our local museum had a dusty specimen in a drawer that everyone had assumed was a cast but he took a closer look and it turned out to be a new species of ichthyosaur...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31521719
Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Paul's going to beat Tyson isn't he? Anyone disagree?I don't know, has he ever fought a real boxer before?
Even with the handicap of Tyson being retired nearly 2 decades (and past his prime by the time he retired) I'd still expect him to be the better of the two.
I'd respect a retired Tyson more than Paul.
Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
Jeez. Yet another survey on Trump's cabinet.
Re: Why don’t old people like dinosaurs? – politicalbetting.com
That's actually very interesting. It appears that people start off liking dinosaurs and then go off them as they get older. I'm at a loss to explain why that might be. Perhaps the novelty just wears off?On an unrelated note, I'm sure your avatar used to be a 415g can of beans. It's now a 200g can of beans. Is everything ok?
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