Posts by Xander

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QUIZ -- Are You a Nerd?

by MrMoe in

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are you a nerd?.

http://www.armory.com/tests/nerd.html.

you answered "yes" to 37 of 100 questions - you have 37.0% nerd in you.. your weirdness factor is 30%, based on a comparison of your test results with 109450 other submissions for this test.

Xander

Basically you are 35.0% nerd
I am 37.0% nerd

Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying - NO WAY..heheh

Things like 'programming for fun' should count, like, double 'programming for work'. Besides, I probably skipped a few near the end. Once they got into the whole 'wear a calculator' kind of thing, it was obvious it was a survey written for a different generation and I got all bored.

Throw in a few like, 'Do you have a link to calc.exe on your desktop or start menu?' or 'Do you own more PC games than all other forms of media combined' or somesuch and I'm in trouble again...

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QUIZ -- Are You a Nerd?

by MrMoe in

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are you a nerd?.

http://www.armory.com/tests/nerd.html.

you answered "yes" to 37 of 100 questions - you have 37.0% nerd in you.. your weirdness factor is 30%, based on a comparison of your test results with 109450 other submissions for this test.

Xander

You answered "yes" to 35 of 100 questions, making you 65.0% nerd pure (35.0% nerd corrupt); that is, you are 65.0% pure in the nerd domain (you have 35.0% nerd in you).
Your Weirdness Factor (AKA Uniqueness Factor) is 31%, based on a comparison of your test results with 109450 other submissions for this test.
The average purity for this test is 71.8%.

Wha?

I answered 'yes' to two FEWER questions than Moe, and my nerd purity is double hers?

(EDIT, scratch that, I was reading the wrong part - I only have 35% nerd in me. HAH! Shows how much they know. They add a bunch more questions RE: computer games, and I'd be in trouble....)

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Fainting, seizures, vomiting - help!

by Mimilly in

my oldest daughter, beth, had her second episode yesterday and i'm now officially worried and am looking for someone in the medical community or someone who recognizes these symptoms.. her very first seizure was a febrile seizure, due to a high temp when she was a year old.

i doubt this has anything to do with the present stuff.. a few months ago, she fainted at work and seizured on the stairs, was taken by ambulance to the er.

she came home looking beat up from banging her head on the stairs, with a mild concussion.. yesterday, when she went to get on the bus, she felt it coming on again, and while she was able to somehow ward of the 'seizure', she blacked out before she could pay her fare.

Xander

Jewel and Scully seem to be on track with what I was thinking.

Seizures accompanied by vomitting is suspicious. But, the numbness and clammy sweat? Sounds REALLY, REALLY like something in the nervous system.

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Fainting, seizures, vomiting - help!

by Mimilly in

my oldest daughter, beth, had her second episode yesterday and i'm now officially worried and am looking for someone in the medical community or someone who recognizes these symptoms.. her very first seizure was a febrile seizure, due to a high temp when she was a year old.

i doubt this has anything to do with the present stuff.. a few months ago, she fainted at work and seizured on the stairs, was taken by ambulance to the er.

she came home looking beat up from banging her head on the stairs, with a mild concussion.. yesterday, when she went to get on the bus, she felt it coming on again, and while she was able to somehow ward of the 'seizure', she blacked out before she could pay her fare.

Xander

she was a natural fainter

!! And what, pray tell, is that exact medical term for this condition?

I have epilepsy....I too have seizures.
She needs to see a neurologist

That's exactly what I thought. Have her see a neuroligist.

That she has chest pains, breaks into a clammy sweat, and vomits

Hmmm...maybe...

The symptoms also seem similar to what various poisons cause. Kinda weird, but...?? Is the house being worked on, such that there would be unusual new chemicals laying around? Eat any seafood lately?

Anything that would be classified as a neurotoxin would have pretty much those exact symptoms.

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Talking to the dead

by Kep in

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as the borg hammered us into thinking that anyone who had contact with the dead were in fact speaking to the demons, however, now we know that a lot of their teachings are full of sh*t.. i lost my dad at the start of this year.

a couple of months later i bump into a close friend who has known dad for many years.. this guy was stoked that he was getting married and mentioned how it was a shame dad wasn't around for the wedding.. yesterday i called in to see him and he told me something that had happened to him.. he was talking to his sister, who lives in another town, and she is active in some spiritual group.

she said she had never met jack, my dad, but that she has been talking to him and that he had a message he wanted given to this friend, her brother.. dad wanted him to get out of this relationship fast.. he never took it seriously and carried on as usual.. not long after that, this fiancee of his smashed up his 4x4, was on a restricted drivers licence and spent the money he gave her for his hire purchases.. so, his truck is wrecked, he can't claim insurance to get it repaired, he still has to pay it off, a lot of his possessions have been repo-ed and that basically he is in sh*t street without a shovel.. do you think it was a message from my dad ??.

Xander

Dunno what to say, Ashi. I've certainly never asked for or sought out any of the experiences I've had. And, as a JW at the time, they did terify me. Goose bumps and everything. The image of this giant, venemous, drooling (surely drooling, right?) invisible demon ready to torment us in our sleep because we brought a book in the house was...shall we say...a little unnerving?

And silly, now. 'Babes as to badness', indeed - the WTBTS wants to keep its members' reasoning in every matter infantile at best.

started to whinge a bit

British, ehh? How do you pronounce that word, anyway? I've only started seeing it in use a year or so now.

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Palindromes anyone?

by Cassiline in

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words or sentences welcome.

racecar.

kayak.

Xander

Another clever one:

Do geese see god?

Or, in light of some other thread on the board:

Egad! No bondage!

And, just neat:
Evil I did dwell, lewd did I live.

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Palindromes anyone?

by Cassiline in

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words or sentences welcome.

racecar.

kayak.

Xander

OH, a good one, there:

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
(I like it because it is natural English - most palindromes require significant screwing with grammer to 'make')

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Palindromes anyone?

by Cassiline in

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words or sentences welcome.

racecar.

kayak.

Xander

Try here, just found it:

http://www.palindromes.org/

(the palindromes I posted above I got from field service - we tried to think up palindromes....[8>] Yeah, that exciting)

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Palindromes anyone?

by Cassiline in

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words or sentences welcome.

racecar.

kayak.

Xander

Adam to Eve:
Madam, I'm Adam

Napoleon:
Able was I, ere I saw Elba
(This one is particularly clever because you don't have to re-space the words reading it backwards)

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The Bible Does Not Condemn Witchcraft

by Sirona in

the jws are against anything remotely pagan and they're certainly against witchcraft.

they say the bible condemns it.

scriptures such as exodus 22:v18 "you must not preserve a sorceress alive" (nwt) or as the king james version says "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live".

Xander

And, while I'm there, new quiz!!

1. Which of the following is apparently not a sin?
A. Showing disrespect to your parents.
B. Cursing your parents.
C. Hitting your parents.
D. None of the above. All three are sins.

2. Which of the following professionals does God despise?
A. Musician.
B. Craftsman.
C. Seamstress.
D. All of the above.

3. Which of the following acts of violence is a sin?
A. Driving a nail through the head of a guest you don’t like.
B. Killing handicapped people you don’t like.
C. Torturing and killing animals to punish people you don’t like.
D. Trick question. These acts are praiseworthy, not sinful.

4. Being intimate with which of the following women is a sin?
A. Your wife’s handmaiden.
B. A menstruating woman.
C. A harlot.
D. All of the above.

5. Which of the following marital practices is a sin?
A. Buying a wife.
B. Abandoning your family.
C. Marrying a divorced woman.
D. A and B only.

6. Which of the following grooming practices is a sin?
A. Not bathing.
B. Not dressing properly for a wedding.
C. Wearing God’s favorite perfume.
D. All of the above.

7. Which of the following levels of disrobing by a man of God is NOT a sin?
A. Wearing no hat.
B. Wearing torn clothing.
C. Walking stark naked throughout the land to impress people.
D. A and B.

Answers:

1. a
2. d
3. d
4. b
5. c
6. d
7. c

( http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0602/answers.html for an explanation)