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Forum: Science 14 June 2012, 12:41 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 11,297
Posted By Jaime Vargas
It's easy. You put the tip of the spoon under one...

It's easy. You put the tip of the spoon under one of the "teeth" in the jar lid and pull until you hear a small pop. Then you can open it; usually it's not friction but air pressure differences...
Forum: Science 14 June 2012, 11:27 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 11,297
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Now that you mentioned it, I didn't do it until...

Now that you mentioned it, I didn't do it until someone showed it to me, but I assumed I was an idiot for not knowing. After all, once you notice it, it makes a lot of sense. To the point that I...
Forum: Science 14 June 2012, 10:45 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 11,297
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Who does not do that?

Who does not do that?
Forum: Fauxtography 12 June 2012, 12:30 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,099
Posted By Jaime Vargas
These are words of wisdom that I will try to...

These are words of wisdom that I will try to carve into my skull.
Forum: Fauxtography 06 June 2012, 12:24 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,099
Posted By Jaime Vargas
So if I go to an elevator and there's a woman...

So if I go to an elevator and there's a woman inside the polite thing for me to do would be to stand back and let the woman ride alone? Wouldn't she be thinking "do I smell funny or what"? I know...
Forum: Computers 29 March 2012, 07:30 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 13,283
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Not to mention the implied notion that when...

Not to mention the implied notion that when somebody sets their Facebook to private it just has to mean they are concealing something nefarious or inappropriate there.

In real life most people who...
Forum: Entertainment 29 March 2012, 07:19 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 15,128
Posted By Jaime Vargas
I *did* read the thread. It became only a topic...

I *did* read the thread. It became only a topic of discussion after several people basically said "I haven't seen it, does it make me weird?"
Forum: Science 28 March 2012, 03:02 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 7,446
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Wow. And people still want to live in places...

Wow. And people still want to live in places where these things happen? (Yeah, allow me: :fish:)
Forum: Entertainment 28 March 2012, 02:58 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 15,128
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Me neither. Although I saw the first minutes but...

Me neither. Although I saw the first minutes but didn't have time to stay (it was on TV and I had school the next day).

But I question the urge to butt into a thread about something you have not...
Forum: Old Wives' Tales 15 February 2012, 02:52 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 20,464
Posted By Jaime Vargas
I never heard anything of the sort. Besides in...

I never heard anything of the sort. Besides in Spanish the word for "mulberry" is the same as for "blackberry" (mora), so they're regarded as similarly edible. I had a mulberry tree near my block...
Forum: Fauxtography 09 February 2012, 08:21 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 8,910
Posted By Jaime Vargas
New findings about the Barcelona one: see this...

New findings about the Barcelona one: see this blog post:

http://lepisma.liblit.com/2007/09/09/george-orwell-y-1984/

In the third picture one can see the sign (which is defaced with "Big...
Forum: Fauxtography 09 February 2012, 07:46 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 8,910
Posted By Jaime Vargas
I don't know if the Barcelona photo is 'shopped...

I don't know if the Barcelona photo is 'shopped (I haven't been there in years and I don't even remember where the George Orwell square is), but if it isn't it's possible that someone saw it and...
Forum: Computers 08 February 2012, 12:20 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 70,083
Posted By Jaime Vargas
That would be *if* all the original subscribers...

That would be *if* all the original subscribers have not signed out and ID numbers are not reused.
Forum: Old Wives' Tales 31 January 2012, 12:40 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 21,829
Posted By Jaime Vargas
And yet I have never noticed, and I had never...

And yet I have never noticed, and I had never heard of this belief. Could it be that we're to an extent seeing what we expect to see?
Forum: Urban Legends Contest 24 January 2012, 10:41 AM
Replies: 764
Views: 104,249
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Precisely. Wasn't 1914 WWI?

Precisely. Wasn't 1914 WWI?
Forum: Glurge Gallery 02 November 2011, 08:26 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 6,439
Posted By Jaime Vargas
More stuff and sons. Daughters he just gave them...

More stuff and sons. Daughters he just gave them the same number he had previously. Yeah, d-bag all the way.
Forum: Inboxer Rebellion 01 November 2011, 02:27 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 21,439
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Here it was charged by something called "steps"....

Here it was charged by something called "steps". Basically they charged you for discrete amounts of time. Kind of like private parking sites did until recently (they charged you by the hour and if...
Forum: Inboxer Rebellion 31 October 2011, 11:41 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 21,439
Posted By Jaime Vargas
That was the standard here until the late 90s....

That was the standard here until the late 90s. And they only changed it when the market was liberalized (until 1998 telephony in Spain was a monopoly and Telefónica was a public company) and Internet...
Forum: Inboxer Rebellion 31 October 2011, 04:56 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 21,439
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Yep, rental homes here usually didn't have phones...

Yep, rental homes here usually didn't have phones either. And it probably was much more expensive back then.

I suppose the UK had the same model Spain had, in which you could not buy your own...
Forum: Inboxer Rebellion 31 October 2011, 03:20 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 21,439
Posted By Jaime Vargas
I never knew the UK was so backwards. I was born...

I never knew the UK was so backwards. I was born in the early 70s and all my school friends' homes had a landline, and while I didn't live in the hills, I didn't live in Madrid either.
Forum: Crime 30 October 2011, 09:36 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,310
Posted By Jaime Vargas
I'd make a quip about how most journalists picked...

I'd make a quip about how most journalists picked the humanities branch in secondary school and "all numbers look the same" to them, but then I remembered that, precisely, statistics is the only part...
Forum: Snopes Spotting 04 October 2011, 06:18 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 4,002
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Forgot to add: And even if it didn't seem a...

Forgot to add: And even if it didn't seem a snopes-initiated site, just imagine that some non-idiot (there are those outside snopes, you know) discovers that the original "spreaders" of the lie...
Forum: Snopes Spotting 04 October 2011, 05:15 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 4,002
Posted By Jaime Vargas
For starters, it would very MUCH look like...

For starters, it would very MUCH look like snopes.com is spamming Facebook.
Forum: Religion 22 August 2011, 09:55 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 21,025
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Notice that all your examples are from the...

Notice that all your examples are from the infancy of Jesus.

The teachings and preaching of Jesus is consistent thoughout all gospels, but the stories about his birth and childhood (which appear...
Forum: Religion 22 August 2011, 08:43 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 21,025
Posted By Jaime Vargas
Ah, but remember that Matthew's Gospel was...

Ah, but remember that Matthew's Gospel was directed as Christians from a Jewish background. The Gospel writers had their own agendas; Luke wrote for Christians of Gentile background and he would have...
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