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02-10-2018 , 11:07 AM

#11926

Wetdog

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,389

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Do the major breweries form that much of an oligopoly?

Welcome to the 21st century.

Sent from my HTCD200LVW using Tapatalk

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02-10-2018 , 09:49 PM

#11927

spanktehbadwookie

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 19,374

https://youtu.be/Tn-WeNvuGCE

Punk's back.

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02-11-2018 , 04:03 AM

#11928

yukoncpa

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 3,127

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Originally Posted by Zeno

Hay is for horses. But we all knew that already.

Sure, but hey as an English salutation or greeting likely came before hi ( which was possibly a Dutch mispronunciation) and way before hello which was popularized by Bell the telephone man.

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02-11-2018 , 01:50 PM

#11929

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,370

Speaking of the Dutch, I just read in Ascent of Money, that they created the first stock exchange. Bully for them. They also created the hot, tall Blonde. Two things that are essential to make the world go around.

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02-11-2018 , 02:20 PM

#11930

lastcardcharlie

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Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,435

What is the point of greeting, again? Is it to demonstrate that we're not about to kill each other with swords or something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting

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02-11-2018 , 02:48 PM

#11931

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,370

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

What is the point of greeting, again? Is it to demonstrate that we're not about to kill each other with swords or something? ..........snip..................

That is exactly its main function. The smile and friendly gestures and facial expressions evolved partially for the same reason. That is also why in almost every cultural when you invite someone into your abode or place of encamped etc, that you offer them some form of drink and/or food. The gesture being that you incur the persons goodwill and that you and household will less likely be killed, raped, robbed, enslaved or otherwise be abused by a "stranger" if you feed them or give some form of hospitality. Overall it pays dividends and is a useful survival mechanism.

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02-11-2018 , 03:15 PM

#11932

lastcardcharlie

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"Tea or coffee?"
"Tea, please."
"How do you take it?"
"Milk, no sugar."

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02-11-2018 , 04:08 PM

#11933

yukoncpa

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Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 3,127

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeno

Thanks, I'd be interested in reading this. I'm currently reading a fictionalized version of Amsterdam's early stock market, called the Coffee Trader, by David Liss. I like almost all of Liss's books especially, "The Whiskey Rebels."

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02-11-2018 , 05:03 PM

#11934

PairTheBoard

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 10,039

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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie

https://youtu.be/Tn-WeNvuGCE

Punk's back.

I was hoping CM was wrestling again.

PairTheBoard

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02-11-2018 , 05:06 PM

#11935

PairTheBoard

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 10,039

Watching the winter Olympics I've become convinced that what the world needs is more curling and less thermonuclear annihilation.

dibs on "MCLTNA" for bumper stickers.

PairTheBoard

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02-11-2018 , 05:08 PM

#11936

MacOneDouble

old hand

Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 1,694

Quote:

Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

"Tea or coffee?"
"Tea, please."
"How do you take it?"
"Milk, no sugar."

https://youtu.be/cEVTQHiAQRA

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02-11-2018 , 06:01 PM

#11937

MacOneDouble

old hand

Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 1,694

I quit challenges right at the point where the challenge was overcome, which tends to leave me without an end product. My work portfolio is filled with projects that are nearly done.

I quit playing the guitar after learning to play ten songs. If I can play ten, I suspect I could learn to play eleven.

Life is too short and full of challenges not to be a quitter.

Physical challenges are a different story.

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02-12-2018 , 02:07 AM

#11938

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 19,410

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Originally Posted by Zeno

The mechanism is interesting.

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02-12-2018 , 06:33 AM

#11939

lastcardcharlie

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So this is what "social skills" are, then? Some atavistic survival strategy?

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02-12-2018 , 10:24 AM

#11940

PairTheBoard

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Hospitality in the Old West

PairTheBoard

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02-12-2018 , 10:40 AM

#11941

spanktehbadwookie

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While driving country roads in my local area, it is not only a social custom and a neighborly embrace from distance to wave at bystanders, it also signals to them that they are seen for sake of concern for their sense of security on a narrow shoulder near fast driving traffic. A multi-purpose reflex or habit.

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02-12-2018 , 10:48 AM

#11942

spanktehbadwookie

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The school made it on the early cut, which is great but some other schools did not, which is concerning in many details.

However if you like hearing an integrated community school in ruralish Alabama made it, please feel free to join in the celebration.

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02-12-2018 , 10:59 AM

#11943

lastcardcharlie

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Golf tournament?

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02-12-2018 , 11:34 AM

#11944

spanktehbadwookie

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"If you are already ruining a nice walk, may as well say hello to your accomplices"

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02-12-2018 , 11:46 AM

#11945

lastcardcharlie

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"If you gave me one birdie, four pars and a bogey wherever I could put them, I'd have five majors." -- Doug Sanders

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02-13-2018 , 12:40 AM

#11946

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 19,410

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

So this is what "social skills" are, then? Some atavistic survival strategy?

They are a plural thing, so they are more than one thing. Skills in getting on in a world filled with nervous and blood-thirsty social animals probably has some sort of relationship to survival.

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02-13-2018 , 04:18 AM

#11947

lastcardcharlie

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Both those sentences are tautologies.

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02-13-2018 , 07:44 AM

#11948

lastcardcharlie

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atavistic

adjective

Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.

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02-13-2018 , 10:36 AM

#11949

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 19,410

All of evolutionary theory is tautology.

I also can't think of a thing that isn't somehow related to ancestry.

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02-13-2018 , 12:33 PM

#11950

lastcardcharlie

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

I also can't think of a thing that isn't somehow related to ancestry.

The welfare state? A judiciary? A penal system? Comprehensive education?

And how come family members greet each other?

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