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[Sirus]

Unrelated, but Nicolas Cage would have made a fantastic Voldemort.

...

Okay, if I'm still alive by the time Harry Potter goes into public domain, I'm going to devote my savings to remake the films using a hologram of Nic Cage to play Voldemort. In fact, I'll replace all the characters with Nic Cage holograms.

You mean kinda like this?

[Graknorke]

Bread isn't food

Why would... what?

[Loud Whispers]

Bread isn't food

Why would... what?

Cauterize the fool who foolishly slanders the bread!

[Graknorke]

The same thing has happened in the UK and France which is why companies in the UK don't hire UK youth anymore. They bring them in from Poland, Latvia, Estonia and elsewhere. UK kids don't want to work, wont show up for work and if they do they are drunk for work... Decades of Liberal Policies and voters have caused this.

How can someone with such a poor understanding of the world be a top commenter for a news site? It boggles the mind.

[Flying Dice]

The same thing has happened in the UK and France which is why companies in the UK don't hire UK youth anymore. They bring them in from Poland, Latvia, Estonia and elsewhere. UK kids don't want to work, wont show up for work and if they do they are drunk for work... Decades of Liberal Policies and voters have caused this.

How can someone with such a poor understanding of the world be a top commenter for a news site? It boggles the mind.

I think you answered your own question there. 

[10ebbor10]

In the land of the Blind, One-Eye's King.

[Loud Whispers]

In the land of the Blind, One-Eye's King.

How did we get to a situation where there's a land of blind people with only one guy with an eye?

Eye for an eye makes the world blind until the last guy can escape eye gouging.

[SoHowAreYou]

In the land of the Blind, One-Eye's King.

How did we get to a situation where there's a land of blind people with only one guy with an eye?

Eye for an eye makes the world blind until the last guy can escape eye gouging.

Though without depth perception the gouging must slow

[Graknorke]

In the land of the Blind, One-Eye's King.

How did we get to a situation where there's a land of blind people with only one guy with an eye?

Eye for an eye makes the world blind until the last guy can escape eye gouging.

Though without depth perception the gouging must slow

Well, if there were multiple people working on each gouging then that problem could be worked around.

...how long does it take to gouge out an eye anyway?

[Xantalos]

In the land of the Blind, One-Eye's King.

H.G Wells worte a short story about that.

SPOILER ALERT: _{It doesn't work}

[javierpwn]

After getting excited about dissecting feral cats for a science lab, I was explaining the similarities of the organ structure to humans; I was told by someone with almost no medical knowledge that they are very different in structure. I asked why, and I was told cats have hair glands...
HAIR GLANDS!!!!!
HAIR DOESN'T COME FROM GLANDS! It comes from once living follicle tissues that grow from out the follicle.

[MaximumZero]

After getting excited about dissecting feral cats for a science lab, I was explaining the similarities of the organ structure to humans; I was told by someone with almost no medical knowledge that they are very different in structure. I asked why, and I was told cats have hair glands...
HAIR GLANDS!!!!!
HAIR DOESN'T COME FROM GLANDS! It comes from once living follicle tissues that grow from out the follicle.

lolwut? I have almost no knowledge of advanced biology, and even I know that's horribly wrong.

[Reelya]

Ask that person claiming cats are very different in structure about their views on evolution. They might well be a creationist grasping at straws to say "See? They're different! Humans don't even have hair glands!".

If this is the case, a good counter-example is the gene for vitamin-C: cats can make their own vitamin-C but humans need to get it from fruit. The real clincher though is that humans still have the gene for making vitamin-C, but it's degraded to the point of being non-functional, since our evolutionary food source contained plenty of it (EDIT: hence, there was no selection pressure to stop genetic drift of this gene).

The alternate explanation is that god/intelligent designer deliberately designed humans with a non-functional gene that just happens to closely resemble the vitamin-C gene in other mammals. "Just because".

[MaximumZero]

Ask that person claiming cats are very different in structure about their views on evolution. They might well be a creationist grasping at straws to say "See? They're different! Humans don't even have hair glands!".

If this is the case, a good counter-example is the gene for vitamin-C: cats can make their own vitamin-C but humans need to get it from fruit. The real clincher though is that humans still have the gene for making vitamin-C, but it's degraded to the point of being non-functional, since our evolutionary food source contained plenty of it.

I wonder if there's a way to exercise it? It would be pretty boss if we could make Vitamin C.

[Hanslanda]

Ask that person claiming cats are very different in structure about their views on evolution. They might well be a creationist grasping at straws to say "See? They're different! Humans don't even have hair glands!".

If this is the case, a good counter-example is the gene for vitamin-C: cats can make their own vitamin-C but humans need to get it from fruit. The real clincher though is that humans still have the gene for making vitamin-C, but it's degraded to the point of being non-functional, since our evolutionary food source contained plenty of it.

I wonder if there's a way to exercise it? It would be pretty boss if we could make Vitamin C.

I know this guy that does genetic manipulation for a real good price. Forty bucks and a six pack of Natty light. He's in the van behind 7-11 on Thursdays, his name is Carlito.