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Is this the right question?

No. It's a rather boring and irritating question that leaves me with fuck all room to work with.
Okay, sorry man.

What about this? Is this the right question?

No. It's more irritating now because I backtracked on the first statement and didn't want to offend after realizing that I might have. Then I got to your second part.

Let's not take that road.
What road?

The one that involves asking questions that have the substance of a sack of potatoes. Surely you've got something to ask of me with more merit than that.

Assuming I can remember all the bits and pieces, I have things to say. And I feel like saying them for once.

But I don't like exclaiming things out into the open on my own spontaneously because it's jarring for everybody involved.
Can birds get epilepsy?

I believe so. Cats and dogs can. I don't see why birds couldn't.

However, birds have drastically shorter lifespans than cats or dogs so their chances of developing a condition like it is minimal.
Why do birds have shorter lifespans?

Faster heart rate, more energy expendature in their actions. A body of that size spending so much energy needed to keep itself alive is going to burn out faster than something that lives an easier going lifestyle.
Do you think we should genetically engineer birds that live longer?

No. You try to modify the natural system as it functions and you create a domino effect. The stronger the modification, the stronger the domino effect.

Longer living birds with no slowed reproduction abilities would lead to a population explosion, over consumption, and then collapse, which then put more strain on other species that revolve around the consumption of those birds in some form.
Do you think that with longer lifespans a significant number of birds could develop epilepsy, thus preventing the population explosion?

No. Epilepsy is a slow development. Not only that, but it takes time to kill. You don't just have a seizure and a fall over dead. It takes time for it to completely break down your system.

Let's say it takes 20 years for a bird to pick up epilepsy once it reaches old age with it's new altered lifespan. In that time, it could have had multiple batches of eggs and reproduced a few hundred more of itself. And that's just one bird.
What lifespan would you suggest for birds, in order to have them live longer, but not so long that epilepsy won't stop them from reproducing? Keep in mind that we're talking about an avian form of epilepsy that comes on stronger and quicker and is coupled with a mild form of tourettes.

I wouldn't. Not my field of specialty, and not our network to tamper with for no reason. I don't mind birds. I like a few of them.

But they're birds. I ain't gonna put too much thought into that one. No more birds pls.
Do you think that future generations looking back on this conversation while researching extended lifespans in birds would feel a sense of closure at the end of the exchange about birds, or would they feel that questions had been left unanswered?

Again, I'm not going to bother thinking too hard on that one. And I'm not going to care either. I asked you for no more bird posting. Don't put me to sleep here. I'm trying to stay awake.
Do you think that I would be justified in saying that my previous question wasn't about birds?

I'm only slightly considering murdering you. It's a very soft murder. Maybe strangulation but not enough to kill.

No, you wouldn't be justified because the question at hand routed back to birds in an abstract form.


 
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1) If your given the option to go 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past where would you go?

2) Your given the option to go back and meet your 10 year old self for a 5 minute conversation what would you say to him?

3) Your trapped in the elevator with 3 people of your choosing


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Confirm Op a Hologram

1) If your given the option to go 50 years in the future or 50 years in the past where would you go?

2) Your given the option to go back and meet your 10 year old self for a 5 minute conversation what would you say to him?

3) Your trapped in the elevator with 3 people of your choosing

1. 50 years in the past. Most likely, somewhere in Quebec.

2. Somebody made a thread like that on Bungle.net once, except that it involved writing a letter to yourself. Basically, same premise. I'd tell myself that there's a shit load of bad days coming. But that there's a light at the end of the tunnel no matter how dark it looks.

3. The calmest people from this site. Honestly I don't know how calm most of the people are here. The only name I can pull out of a hat is Verb.

Being trapped in a box with three other people who will freak out would end in murder for me.


 
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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.


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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.
But also black people...


 
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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.
But also black people...

Honestly, I've never encountered that many black people in my life.

Much less, stared at their stomachs to know that.


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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.
But also black people...

Honestly, I've never encountered that many black people in my life.

Much less, stared at their stomachs to know that.
In my experience most black people have outties. I have no idea why though.


 
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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.
But also black people...

Honestly, I've never encountered that many black people in my life.

Much less, stared at their stomachs to know that.
In my experience most black people have outties. I have no idea why though.

Some here might relate it to them being a sub-species of human.


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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.
But also black people...

Honestly, I've never encountered that many black people in my life.

Much less, stared at their stomachs to know that.
In my experience most black people have outties. I have no idea why though.

Some here might relate it to them being a sub-species of human.
But what if they're the next evolution?

After all the half and half ones are the best.


 
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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.
But also black people...

Honestly, I've never encountered that many black people in my life.

Much less, stared at their stomachs to know that.
In my experience most black people have outties. I have no idea why though.

Some here might relate it to them being a sub-species of human.
But what if they're the next evolution?

After all the half and half ones are the best.

Evolution supposedly goes with "the strong survive."

Judging by the amount of police shootings these days I'd hardly use the term "next evolution."

Next evolution of advanced welfare drains, maybe.


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Are you going to die, and if so, how long do you think you have left?


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Which are better, innies or outties?

There are so many "innies" and "outies" in context here that I'm going to pick the obvious choice of bellybuttons.

Probably innie because usually, fat people have outties.
But also black people...

Honestly, I've never encountered that many black people in my life.

Much less, stared at their stomachs to know that.
In my experience most black people have outties. I have no idea why though.

Some here might relate it to them being a sub-species of human.
But what if they're the next evolution?

After all the half and half ones are the best.

Evolution supposedly goes with "the strong survive."

Judging by the amount of police shootings these days I'd hardly use the term "next evolution."

Next evolution of advanced welfare drains, maybe.
Or maybe that's just uptight white people afraid of the master race.


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I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
How do you feel about mosquitoes?


 
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Are you going to die, and if so, how long do you think you have left?

Yep. If not from old age, the doctors I consulted numerous times gave me an estimate taking into account all my various conditions. Roughly 20 years or so. 30-40 if I'm extremely lucky. Me personally? I dunno. It all depends on what might get me. You want a consistent number with no basis out of my head?

15 years.



 
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I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
How do you feel about mosquitoes?

Of all the things that had to exist, it had to be them.


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I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
How do you feel about mosquitoes?

Of all the things that had to exist, it had to be them.
I know right.

What's your favorite sport/sport team?


 
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I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
How do you feel about mosquitoes?

Of all the things that had to exist, it had to be them.
I know right.

What's your favorite sport/sport team?

I couldn't say. I really don't care to invest myself in those areas at all.


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?


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*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?

I don't even know who you are. I think you changed your name a while back which is why I don't recognize you.

But no, you're not my friend. I know nothing of you personally, I have no personal interaction with you in any way, and as far as I know, you've never given me anything of any kind.

But look on the bright side. I'm talking to you. You're an acquaintence to me which means that I don't dislike you and I'll always generally be an open book towards you.


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?

I don't even know who you are. I think you changed your name a while back which is why I don't recognize you.

But no, you're not my friend. I know nothing of you personally, I have no personal interaction with you in any way, and as far as I know, you've never given me anything of any kind.

But look on the bright side. I'm talking to you. You're an acquaintence to me which means that I don't dislike you and I'll always generally be an open book towards you.

Ok....


 
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If you could punch one person I the face without any repercussions who would it be and why?

If there weren't any repurcussions I wouldn't do it.  A repercusstion to punching somebody is that you hurt them. Take that away and you don't technically hurt them either. If I was going to hurt somebody I'd make it my damndest to.

Plus, it's the repurcussion that seals the deal. It's like a statement. "I'm not technically supposed to do this, but because you're such an asshole, the rules don't protect you from me."

If I really, really, was forced to pick somebody though. Probably the Prime Minister of Canada, Steven Harper.


 
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*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?

I don't even know who you are. I think you changed your name a while back which is why I don't recognize you.

But no, you're not my friend. I know nothing of you personally, I have no personal interaction with you in any way, and as far as I know, you've never given me anything of any kind.

But look on the bright side. I'm talking to you. You're an acquaintence to me which means that I don't dislike you and I'll always generally be an open book towards you.

Ok....

Remember. I think you changed your name. So I don't recognize you or know who you are right now. If I have an older name in memory that belonged to you, then, that might be a different case.


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?

I don't even know who you are. I think you changed your name a while back which is why I don't recognize you.

But no, you're not my friend. I know nothing of you personally, I have no personal interaction with you in any way, and as far as I know, you've never given me anything of any kind.

But look on the bright side. I'm talking to you. You're an acquaintence to me which means that I don't dislike you and I'll always generally be an open book towards you.

Ok....

Remember. I think you changed your name. So I don't recognize you or know who you are right now. If I have an older name in memory that belonged to you, then, that might be a different case.

Well that's fine.


 
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*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?

I don't even know who you are. I think you changed your name a while back which is why I don't recognize you.

But no, you're not my friend. I know nothing of you personally, I have no personal interaction with you in any way, and as far as I know, you've never given me anything of any kind.

But look on the bright side. I'm talking to you. You're an acquaintence to me which means that I don't dislike you and I'll always generally be an open book towards you.

Ok....

Remember. I think you changed your name. So I don't recognize you or know who you are right now. If I have an older name in memory that belonged to you, then, that might be a different case.

Well that's fine.

Don't care to know if I had inclination towards you previously? I seriously don't know who the hell I'm talking to right now.


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?

I don't even know who you are. I think you changed your name a while back which is why I don't recognize you.

But no, you're not my friend. I know nothing of you personally, I have no personal interaction with you in any way, and as far as I know, you've never given me anything of any kind.

But look on the bright side. I'm talking to you. You're an acquaintence to me which means that I don't dislike you and I'll always generally be an open book towards you.

Ok....

Remember. I think you changed your name. So I don't recognize you or know who you are right now. If I have an older name in memory that belonged to you, then, that might be a different case.

Well that's fine.

Don't care to know if I had inclination towards you previously? I seriously don't know who the hell I'm talking to right now.

My original username back on Bnet was smiths01 (it was linked to my gamertag).

But I made this thread on there saying if I should change my username, and SecondClass just told me put something with "Class" in it, and you will earn 10+ popularity points. I knew he was lying and I laughed. I went with it and came up with RadicalClass32.


 
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*Asks in a sad and lonely way*

Am I your friend?

I don't even know who you are. I think you changed your name a while back which is why I don't recognize you.

But no, you're not my friend. I know nothing of you personally, I have no personal interaction with you in any way, and as far as I know, you've never given me anything of any kind.

But look on the bright side. I'm talking to you. You're an acquaintence to me which means that I don't dislike you and I'll always generally be an open book towards you.

Ok....

Remember. I think you changed your name. So I don't recognize you or know who you are right now. If I have an older name in memory that belonged to you, then, that might be a different case.

Well that's fine.

Don't care to know if I had inclination towards you previously? I seriously don't know who the hell I'm talking to right now.

My original username back on Bnet was smiths01 (it was linked to my gamertag).

But I made this thread on there saying if I should change my username, and SecondClass just told me put something with "Class" in it, and you will earn 10+ popularity points. I knew he was lying and I laughed. I went with it and came up with RadicalClass32.

I might actually remember the smith's name. It rings a bell. But I know I never got to know you well in any capacity. I take it you're a relatively new arrival here then?