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[bombzero]

"This chemical is widely referred to as "adrenaline" outside the United States"
blame the wiki when the Foreigner gets it wrong and the movie.

*sigh*

gotta love how nobody knows anything about any other countries, but one or two are still considered the "most ignorant" you know?

I mean, if you were to write out a list of every incorrect assumption/stereotype about other countries, you would have one hell of a long list.
Thankfully this just means even more content for this thread!

[Urist_McDrowner]

"Did anyone notice that the only people who ever win at Olympic sprinting are all... darker than us?"

-A friend of mine, totally not a racist. Yeah...

most I belive are african from a mountains part, they have genetically bigger lungs or slightly more efficent blood than us short fat whies who could not run to save our life.
They (official types) go after drugs in athletes, what about genetic superority for running strenght etc.  could you claim the extra adrenaline (Epinephrine to USA) or testosterone was natural or unfair advantage.
Popular claiim running abourt here was the chinese girl who beat the swimming by so much was result of chinese communist breeding profgram from the past finaly bearing results. Mind you russians were also at that and they are not blowing away records. Maybe they just did military stuff.

The whole point of the Olympics is that if you have a natural advantage, you should use it. They don't make tall basketball players play on their knees. They don't make short weightlifters wear 12 inch platform shoes.

[Frumple]

Both events would be entirely improved by those adjustments, though. So, uh. Sure, let's do silly things to even stuff out.

[The Mechanical Man]

I believe it is scientifically proven that Africans have, on average, a center of gravity higher than Caucasians. This means that they are better sprinters by nature. On the flip side however, the higher center of gravity means that Africans are not as naturally good at swimming. This is why you see Africans dominating the track, but you don't see them at all in Olympic swimming events. 

[Hanslanda]

I believe it is scientifically proven that Africans have, on average, a center of gravity higher than Caucasians. This means that they are better sprinters by nature. On the flip side however, the higher center of gravity means that Africans are not as naturally good at swimming. This is why you see Africans dominating the track, but you don't see them at all in Olympic swimming events. 

the swimming thing is from bone density. It's actually been scientifically proven that Africans or those of African descent are better at running, but for the life of me, I can't remember why.

... Environment? Caucasians in the past seemed to live in mostly mountainous or hilly terrain eg Europe. Africans lived in... Africa, which has a surplus of flat savannas, flat plains, and other places that are pretty flat. Not saying there are no mountains there, which there are, but it seems the majority of the terrain is mostly flat.

[TheBronzePickle]

I was taught that adrenaline is the name for the actual chemical and epinephrine is used for the artificial form, similar to how hydrocortisone is the name for the artificial form of cortisol.

[Hanslanda]

I was taught that adrenaline is the name for the actual chemical and epinephrine is used for the artificial form, similar to how hydrocortisone is the name for the artificial form of cortisol.

Yes, that is also what I've heard. Epinephrine is what they give me for bee stings (I'm allergic, like probably a third of you) and it is just artifical adrenaline. But you can't inject it into your veins or you'll die. Trippy shit, yo.

[TheBronzePickle]

If you injected it into the vein, it would go straight to the heart. Imagine several times the amount of adrenaline your entire body usually handles right inside the most hard-worked organ.

[Hanslanda]

Yeah. That's why they say to stab it into the outside of your thigh. No veins/arteries to hit accidentally right there.

[Mephisto]

Cross-posted from the vanilla Minecraft thread:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1414560-herocraft-plugin-development-ddosd-by-brazilian-craftlandia-server/

"You haven't released a plugin update in the eleven days since the new Minecraft version has been released. We're now going to DDoS you until your development team quits and people stop playing on your servers." Not an exact quote, but close enough. The stupidity of this person hurts.

[Bdthemag]

Cross-posted from the vanilla Minecraft thread:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1414560-herocraft-plugin-development-ddosd-by-brazilian-craftlandia-server/

"You haven't released a plugin update in the eleven days since the new Minecraft version has been released. We're now going to DDoS you until your development team quits and people stop playing on your servers." Not an exact quote, but close enough. The stupidity of this person hurts.

The stupidity of the minecraft community continues to reach increasing levels every week. Seriously, they're really fucking stupid.

[Xantalos]

Both events would be entirely improved by those adjustments, though. So, uh. Sure, let's do silly things to even stuff out.

NOOO! No goddammit don't do Harrison Bergeron!!!

[bombzero]

The stupidity of the minecraft community continues to reach increasing levels every week. Seriously, they're really fucking stupid.

I honestly wish this crap surprised me though, but its quite clear that the craftlandia fucks are really really shitty human beings.

[Kedly]

Isn't stupidity common of any fandom that reaches a certain population though? I mean there ARE a lot of stupid people in this world, if you attract enough people, some of them are BOUND to be stupid.

[Reelya]

Reading that thread about the Minecraft thing, and some of the emails from the DDoS guy, i get the feeling the attacker feels threatened. He keeps going on (paraphrasing) "your RPG mod is a pathetic, stupid idea, MineCraft is perfect right out of the box, our server will always be #1".

So, the attackers are admins, not developers, and see themselves as big-wigs in the server rankings. They're DDoSing some guys who are getting popular by developing a modded version of the game with a unique flavor.

Yeah, they talk big about how "pathetic" the mod is, but why DDoS if it's so pathetic? They definitely feel threatened because they have 1% of the talent/brains of their targets, and know they can't compete if really cool modded servers kick off.