Shadow Wolf
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Taking inventory at a Bath and Body Works is not good when you have bad allergies and forget to take an allergy pill.
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Shadow Wolf
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Megadeth puts on one helluva show. A better show than what even Metallica puts on.
Cynic
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Anthropological studies of the Mentawai off the coast of Indonesian Sumatra suggest that teeth filing may enhance a couple’s love lives. Having serrated teeth appears to be conducive to rough, feisty love-making. As Dr. Strangelove says, “It gives new meaning to the phrase, ‘Don't worry, I won’t bite.’”
methylatedghosts
Can't brain. Has dumb.
The saying "tugging on my heart strings" actually refers to the Chordae Tendinae in the heart, which are strings that prevent heart valves inverting and sending blood in the wrong direction!
Azakel
Liebe ist für alle da
Cats wag their tails when it is in a stage of conflict. The cat wants to do two things at once, but each impulse blocks the other. For example: If your cat is in the doorway wanting to go outside, and you open the door to find it raining, the cat's tail will wag because of internal conflict. The cat wants to go outside, but doesn't want to go into the rain. Once the cat makes a decision and either returns to the house or leaves into the rain, the tail will immediately stop wagging.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
What about the other 20%?
PureX
Veteran Member
How is it eastern most?
PureX
Veteran Member
But why is "rough, feisty love-making" considered an enhancement?Anthropological studies of the Mentawai off the coast of Indonesian Sumatra suggest that teeth filing may enhance a couples love lives. Having serrated teeth appears to be conducive to rough, feisty love-making. As Dr. Strangelove says, It gives new meaning to the phrase, Don't worry, I wont bite.
Buttercup
Veteran Member
Dave, Dave, Dave....do we need to have a birds and the bees talk? PM me, I'll fill you in sweetheart.
methylatedghosts
Can't brain. Has dumb.
If you go the other direction around the world?
lilithu
The Devil's Advocate
Alaska's Aleutian Islands extend so far west that they reach into the "Eastern hemisphere."
Buttercup
Veteran Member
That's not boring....sounds lovely!
Cynic
Well-Known Member
Despite what you have been told in high school, we have more than five senses. Proprioception and kinesthesis is a "hidden" sense that we take for granted. It is the sense of body position and movement, which emerges from the somatosensory cortex of the parietal lobes. Vision and the vestibular system contribute to a sense of body as well.
In Oliver Sach's book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," (1985) he describes one of his patients who suffered from an infection in her spinal fluid. The result was a loss of proprioception, which created a dreadful sense of disembodiment.
Now consider vision and the representation of the visual field in the brain. Your entire field of vision is mapped out in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus and the visual cortex. We have a "theater" in the mind. The neurons in these cortical and subcortical regions fire to represent everything we see.
Analogically, the somatosensory cortex maps out the entire body, creating a body-image. These neurons fire to represent every part of your body, and is responsible for not only skin sensation, but proprioception and kinesthesis as well. So, if the rest of your body is somehow disconnected from these neurons (via spinal cord), it would be in a sense similar to ablating the optic nerve that travels to the visual cortex --resulting in blindness. However in this case, there is no active neural representation of the body. This is hard to imagine, as in the case of the "disembodied woman." It is better explained in her own words: "This 'proprioception' is like the eyes of the body, the way the body sees itself. And if it goes, as it's gone with me, it's like the body's blind."
I should note the phenomenon of Phantom Limb Syndrome. Phantom limb occurs in many amputees. Although the physical limb is no longer there, the sense of proprioception and kinesthesis remain intact. Even people who are born without arms can sense the pointing of a phantom finger.
Finally, another point of interest: transsexualism. It appears that while gender is determined by DNA, specifically the Y chromosome in male sperm, the sex of the brain appears to be determined by hormones that the embryo is exposed to in the womb. A man can have a female brain, and a women can have a male brain. A man with a female brain will feel disconnected to his penis, as if it should not be there. One can assume that male genitalia is not represented in his somatosensory cortex. Also, a women with a male brain will have a phantom penis along with phantom erections. Suddenly the words, "a man in a women's body" or "a woman in a man's body" is not so far-fetched.
In Oliver Sach's book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," (1985) he describes one of his patients who suffered from an infection in her spinal fluid. The result was a loss of proprioception, which created a dreadful sense of disembodiment.
Now consider vision and the representation of the visual field in the brain. Your entire field of vision is mapped out in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus and the visual cortex. We have a "theater" in the mind. The neurons in these cortical and subcortical regions fire to represent everything we see.
Analogically, the somatosensory cortex maps out the entire body, creating a body-image. These neurons fire to represent every part of your body, and is responsible for not only skin sensation, but proprioception and kinesthesis as well. So, if the rest of your body is somehow disconnected from these neurons (via spinal cord), it would be in a sense similar to ablating the optic nerve that travels to the visual cortex --resulting in blindness. However in this case, there is no active neural representation of the body. This is hard to imagine, as in the case of the "disembodied woman." It is better explained in her own words: "This 'proprioception' is like the eyes of the body, the way the body sees itself. And if it goes, as it's gone with me, it's like the body's blind."
I should note the phenomenon of Phantom Limb Syndrome. Phantom limb occurs in many amputees. Although the physical limb is no longer there, the sense of proprioception and kinesthesis remain intact. Even people who are born without arms can sense the pointing of a phantom finger.
Finally, another point of interest: transsexualism. It appears that while gender is determined by DNA, specifically the Y chromosome in male sperm, the sex of the brain appears to be determined by hormones that the embryo is exposed to in the womb. A man can have a female brain, and a women can have a male brain. A man with a female brain will feel disconnected to his penis, as if it should not be there. One can assume that male genitalia is not represented in his somatosensory cortex. Also, a women with a male brain will have a phantom penis along with phantom erections. Suddenly the words, "a man in a women's body" or "a woman in a man's body" is not so far-fetched.
Interesting fact: Them's fightin' words!
:fight:
methylatedghosts
Can't brain. Has dumb.
hey, hey, take it to the one-on-one room Mr Emu...