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... about those surveys that say Americans don't know where various
countries are on a globe.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/15/body.knowledge.survey/index.html
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Darren New wrote:
> ... about those surveys that say Americans don't know where various
> countries are on a globe.
In fairness, I would suggest it's fairly common knowledge that your
heart is located in your ribcage, but *precisely* where? I wouldn't
know. And exactly how lage? Nope, not really sure.
Most doctors, presumably, would know this though. :-P
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> > ... about those surveys that say Americans don't know where various
> > countries are on a globe.
>
> In fairness, I would suggest it's fairly common knowledge that your
> heart is located in your ribcage,
Ouch!
Stephen
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Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> ... about those surveys that say Americans don't know where various
>> countries are on a globe.
>
> In fairness, I would suggest it's fairly common knowledge that your
> heart is located in your ribcage, but *precisely* where? I wouldn't
> know. And exactly how lage? Nope, not really sure.
http://www.hobbytron.com/human-body-model-visible-man.html
It's also common knowledge that Switzerland is in western Europe somewhere.
Exactly where? I wouldn't know. Precisely how large? Not really sure.
Same thing, really. :-)
In my defense, anything more than 1000 miles away is all in the same place,
namely, the airport. ;-)
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Darren New wrote:
> http://www.hobbytron.com/human-body-model-visible-man.html
Now I'm wondering what the hell the difference between "visible man" and
"visible woman" is... o_O
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> Now I'm wondering what the hell the difference between "visible man" and
> "visible woman" is... o_O
>
I would imagine there would be significant difference in the
reproductive tract.
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>> Now I'm wondering what the hell the difference between "visible man"
>> and "visible woman" is... o_O
>
> I would imagine there would be significant difference in the
> reproductive tract.
Have you seen the size of the models? Would such a difference actually
be noticable? :-P
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On 16-6-2009 2:17, Darren New wrote:
> ... about those surveys that say Americans don't know where various
> countries are on a globe.
Another thing in defence of Americans: Europeans have just as much
trouble locating US states and Canadian provinces. If there is news of,
say, a school shooting many Europeans will not know much better than
that something happened in the US. About as informative as knowing that
Vaduz is in Europe.
It would only get a little embarrassing if a European head of state
would suggest that e.g. Atlanta is the capital of San Francisco. That
sort of magnitude of confusion is more typical USA.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
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>> http://www.hobbytron.com/human-body-model-visible-man.html
>
> Now I'm wondering what the hell the difference between "visible man" and
> "visible woman" is... o_O
>
Chin, ribcase, waist and hip at least. And yeah, hands and shoulders also.
-Aero
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.hobbytron.com/human-body-model-visible-man.html
>> Now I'm wondering what the hell the difference between "visible man" and
>> "visible woman" is... o_O
>>
>
> Chin, ribcase, waist and hip at least. And yeah, hands and shoulders also.
Well, there's lots of differences all over between men and women. Not really
in the models, tho. It's not like they have the adam's apple or the brow
ridge molded in, at least not big enough to be obvious.
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