haha. This is brilliant: "... that ploy didn't work because it was clearly him, which leads me to the inevitable conclusion that there are IMPORTANT FLAWS IN SHAGGY'S LOGIC." I'm at a cafe and I LOL'ed.

10 meters of water depth = 1bar of water pressure increase. So 11 inches is around 30mbar. I did a quick search and human lungs burst (or suffer severe damage) around 100mbar, i.e. 3 feet or so of water depth. There are cases of children breathing from a submerged bucket of air in 2-3 feet of water and then having…

It took me a few seconds to realize the depth rating comes from the water pressure, which increases with depth, the seals can withstand. It's much like on water resistant watches that have a depth rating.

I know I was! Also good for college dorm parties. I've lost 3-4 keyboards in my younger days due to beer spills.

Dude. It's a social network, i.e., a proxy for people to interact and connect with others. If sharing their food pics—-and the say goes for baby pics, travelling pics, interior design pics— is what they want to do, then they have every right.

By apps you mean iOS ones? Care to share the names of the good german ones?

While I agree, putting in the ground work while in one's own country before travelling is not a bad idea. The first few months of immersion, if you completely didn't know the language to begin with, is pretty tough. At the start you can feel pretty damn stupid, lose motivation and give up. I think it's easier if one…

Sorry. Not sure how that is related to the study about girl names....

Yea. That's what I was saying. That releasing the histamines sounds a lot more "legit" than the "thermolabile" of the venom. While the device is certainly useful—-some comments argued for its usefulness for camping, while I think it is useful for a bite on the ass or on other regions hard to place under a tap of hot…

Very good explanation. And sound legit. I am no biologist but something smelled fishy to me when it claimed that "[...]most insect venom is thermolabile (sensitive to heat). Therapik claims to deliver 'heat in the precise temperature range necessary[...]'". I would have thought that if venom is thermolabile and you…

Spot on. There are also magnetic forces and convective forces at the surface. Using a common sense as a guide in science is not *so* bad, given that: (a) you have sufficient knowledge on the subject, and (b) you can easily accept it when it's wrong and not be arrogant about it.

Yea, I guess it does come down to whether we think laws should maximise the "greater good" (rule-based utililitarisam) or whether there is something intrinsically in liberal ideology—that someone should be able to do something if it doesn't harm anyone else. A lot of arguments are due to what we believe fundamentally…

Well... anything that feels good involves chemicals like dopamine or something. In fact, one could argue everything that goes on in our mind and body is just chemicals flowing around. I guess what I mean is that with "psychological" addictions, one craves the chemicals produced by one's own body. With addiction to…

It's not the same. Drugs and cigarrettes have a physical addiction side to it. Gambling is only psychological. Many people are addicted to masturbation, so do you make porn illegal? Many people are addicted to junk food and are overweight, do you ban all fatty/sugary foods?

Yea! Damn cool. I wonder if that is the in-game graphics or just pre-rendered stuff. Even if it is the latter, still awesome.

I remember quite a famous study from 2007. Only did a quick search but here's the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/apr/29/theobserversuknewspages.uknews

Queue the "In Soviet Russia" jokes....

You can't make up "bring your pussy face to my ass". You just CAN'T!

Yea. In germany for a month and it sucks! Luckily there's daily motion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsr7pi_call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-chatroulette-version_fun

Don't know if it's "obvious", but it's certainly implied they either: a) were made to have sex with each other by parents/uncles/foster parents, or b) were sexually abused desperately. This is deduced from the fact that they are both *too* comfortable naked around each other. They both have their own way of sex…