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::loud laughing coming from the other room, as i sit here giggling myself::
"hey what are you laughing at?"
"bloke that looks like a thumb!"
"yeah me too!"
hehehe.. between that, this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKOw4EN-Ho&feature=PlayList&p=5A9C50B207ADC1E0&index=7&playnext=5&playnext_from=PL
, and this www.cornify.com, it has been a funny day here.My mate has some rather flash Toyota Sports car, we were listening to that with the windows down, while cruising along Bournemouth beach. We must have looked like a right pair of idiots.
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Forget those costly PAUL derailleurs - this is affordable retro MTB.
Colnago Master Ibex.
$350 no bids, 2 days left... sitting in Italy.Not worth the money, Old Mountain bikes are generally wank to ride in all departments (Unless it a specialized Stumpjumper, or something amazing like a Foes/Pace/Intense/Santa-cruz).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rsfz5MQacQ&feature=related
no windows.
What is up with the MGS 3 music.
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I think an early human would struggle with the WAIS-III IQ test, which is the gold standard in psychology, but so do a lot of people from non-anglo-saxon cultures, and a debate rages about whether that test - and other tests - measure 'real' intelligence.
Neanderthals were our closest relatives, rather than our ancestors, which sort of underlines the point. Our closest living relative is probably the gorilla, and whilst we might know a clever gorilla when we see one, their intelligence is different from ours, but we can recognize it as intelligence nonetheless.
When I talk about Humans/People I am talking exclusively about our species.
I think the point the palaeontologist was trying to make was that if you took someone from 1000s of year ago while they were young/newborn, educated them etc. They wouldn't be any different from you or me as long as they were a homo sapian, and not a earlier species of human.
Then again, I study computing so what do I know....
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I am not so sure (although, of course, could be wrong).
The brain is an organ like any other, it has evolved over the decades, centuries, millennia. If we go back much much further than 'cavemen' we inevitably reach a stage where IQ is reduced (keep going and it is removed athogether and 'we' are the subject of unconscious response).
If we are to draw a line between us and our most distant ancestors I can see no reason to suddenly suggest a quantized jump in intelligence (rather than a gradual creep forward) around the time of the cavemen (Neanderthals?) - and especially to the extent where this jump put them on a plateau that we now share with them (having the "same IQ as an everyday person now")
They may have had the the same potential for intelligence (brain structure) but that might not be enough to qualify them as actually being as intelligent - but again here without defining what we mean by intelligence the question is a little vague.
^ I see what you are getting at.
I certainly don't believe anyone in recorded history would be thicker than anyone alive today.
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I'm in Bournemouth, ride s/s probably 80% of the time, have a couple of geared bikes when I go to the big hills in the country (and when it's nice weather, a pootle on my 3-speed Pashley).....have tried fixed, not sure I liked it though!
A meet up/pub ride sounds good to me.
A route I've done a few times in the past is a pretty flat ride out to Bransgore, via the Airport, Avon Causeway and Ripley....
.....starting at the Three Tuns, then (any/all optional!) The Crown, Fishermans Haunt, Carpenters Arms (full of old dears!), The Lamb at Winkton, Woolpack at Sopley, Avon Causeway (not my favourite though!), then The Curlew. As I say it's pretty flat, I've been out there with some non-s/s and non-cycling mates and they've enjoyed it. Best of all, none of those pubs serve Badger ale!
Another variation is turn left after the Avon Causeway, out to Ringwood/New Forest - did a 'tea shop' route there a few weeks back.....some of the long hills are tough on a s/s though!
But that's just asuggestion, I'm really happy to go anywhere......
Around about Hurn, everything is a bit of a black-hole for me. But I know where Hurn is.
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She still came away with 15k that she didn't have a few hours earlier, how is that being owned?