bean said:
I, for one, don't have a problem with it, as long as it, like any other thread in here, isn't so vague that only people who already know about the story in question understand the post.

Fair enough, I'll try to keep my insane futbol ramblings to a minimum, because I don't feel like providing background for each and every post I may make after watching soccer and imbibing too much brew.

I would like, however, to posit a philosophical CE question: to what extent is background necessary? If I want to post on Estonian politics do I need to provide a history of Estonian political parties first? It's a question of perspective and education. Is the answer that we're working with a primarily American audience here? What do we use to measure how much we may have to educate/provide background for? Or perhaps we can just leave it to those who know/care can respond and those that don't can just move on to something else that they feel is more important.

Dude. Just link to a fucking story. It's not that hard.

Watch:

Lessons learned from Estonian cyberattacks: an interview with Estonia's undersecretary of Defense!

Edited for clarity and a better story.

emotedcreations

Germany

July 2006

JUN 16, 2008 11:18 PM

bean said:
Dude. Just link to a fucking story. It's not that hard.

Will you hate me if I don't?

LostLucy

USA

December 2006

JUN 16, 2008 11:29 PM

Tiwaz said:

Will you hate me if I don't?

This is generally not appreciated. Could be trolling, could just be annoying. Announce, explain in brief, and link.

I could give a fuck about all sports except soccer, but anyway, wining tournaments/cups/series/la la la always makes the major news.

The CE boards are so damn irritable!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone who is so irritable and tired of what is here has to go find the CE in the world that matters most to them. Then write no more than a three paragraph summary of what and why, and provide a link.

LostLucy said:
Hey everyone-

I posted this in the LBGQT group, but want to know what people here think too. ANd where do our brains fall???

Swedish Brain researchers say:

Study shows brain similarities among homosexuals, opposite sex

Swedish scientists have found that some physical attributes of the homosexual brain resemble those found in the opposite sex.

Ivanka Savic and Per Lindstrom of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm report that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women are slightly asymmetric -- the right hemisphere is larger than the left -- and that the brains of gay men and straight women are not.

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans taken by the researchers also showed that in connectivity of the amygdala, which is important for emotional learning, lesbians resemble straight men, and gay men resemble straight women.

Very cool. And the Scandanavians don't profit much as researchers so they tend not to fabricate their research.

As a reasonable person, I always have hope that biological support of our differences can increase tolerance, rights, understanding...

Of course, why would the same insane creationists who can't listen to evolution understand the impact of brain reseach...?