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Johnny Byrne's Boots wrote: Sat Nov 05, 2022 3:19 pm I'd say we evolved alongside apes and that apes are still here because there's no reason for them not to be.

I'd ask why homo sapiens is so much more intelligent than any other creature......

......The next most intelligent creatures poke twigs in a hole to eat ants. Why such a gulf?
Is it possible it wasn’t always thus?

Homo sapiens being the most dominant, aggressive species most likely killed off any other species of similar intelligence due to competition for food and shelter.

There’s a theory that Neanderthal man was highly intelligent but extremely passive, loving and non violent. So basically never stould a chance when it encountered Homo Sapien.

*Think Mao Zedong & the Chinese Communist Party versus The Dalai Lama & Tibetan Buddhist monks.*
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Jennings wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:58 pm There’s a theory that Neanderthal man was highly intelligent but extremely passive, loving and non violent. So basically never stould a chance when it encountered Homo Sapien.
Reading this the other day when discussing why no-one in my family seem to knowingly have caught Covid when almost every one else I know has or has in their immediate family - there was some cross-breeding between Homo Sapiens when they crossed from Africa and Neanderthals from Europe/Asia. Modern day humans who show signs of possessing a very specific bit of Neanderthal DNA seem to have a higher resistance to severe covid symptoms or infection

https://www.genomicseducation.hee.nhs.u ... explained/
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Whitters wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:51 pm Reading this the other day when discussing why no-one in my family seem to knowingly have caught Covid when almost every one else I know has or has in their immediate family - there was some cross-breeding between Homo Sapiens when they crossed from Africa and Neanderthals from Europe/Asia. Modern day humans who show signs of possessing a very specific bit of Neanderthal DNA seem to have a higher resistance to severe covid symptoms or infection

https://www.genomicseducation.hee.nhs.u ... explained/
Fascinating. Thank you very much.
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Who were the two dudes that scuppered the first attempts at a protest after meeting with Sullivan?

Can't think their names and it's driving me mad.
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westham,eggyandchips wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:21 pm Who were the two dudes that scuppered the first attempts at a protest after meeting with Sullivan?

Can't think their names and it's driving me mad.
Andy Swallow was one of them.

Can't remember his mate, though I think he got put away for dealing the old Bolivian marching powder if I remember correctly.
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Eggs'n'nuts wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:27 pm Andy Swallow was one of them.

Can't remember his mate, though I think he got put away for dealing the old Bolivian marching powder if I remember correctly.
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Thanks Chaps.👍
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Colours has definitely had ribs removed, hasn't he?
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They were thugs who profited from the misery of genuine fans.
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Eggs'n'nuts wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:55 am So where does leave the contributors to The Fighting Cock?
Ah, you've heard of 'The Missing Link'?...
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Samba wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:10 am Ah, you've heard of 'The Missing Link'?...
Missing?

It's f**king non-existent!
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RaddyKovac wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:16 am They were thugs who profited from the misery of genuine fans.
Did "our" money ever go to The Isla fund?
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I still don't fully understand... Hundreds, (thousands? ) of people had arranged to march in protest against GSB until that guy - Andy Swallow - told them not to?
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If you punched a sleeping person hard enough to knock them out, would they wake up at the moment of impact? If (presumably) not, would they know they'd been punched at all when they woke up?
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If you had a really vivid and lucid dream that you'd been asleep in your dream, but in your dream-sleep you weren't dreaming, would you remember it?
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The Death Star in the original Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) was so new, so recently constructed that an experienced smuggler like Han Solo had never heard of it, and the Empire had only just tested the Death Star's destructive capability for the first and only time (blowing up Alderaan). Right? Right. So if it was that shiny and new, who put a hideous tentacled monster in the trash compactor below the detention block? How did they get it in there? Why did they fling it down there? And why was it all swampy in that trash compactor? Wouldn't it just have been dry rubbish from the construction? Bit of plasterboard, some excess coving, couple of tins of Autoglym, et cetera?

And why were there trash compactors on the Death Star anyway? Makes sense for us to compact our trash before recycling it or sticking it in a landfill, but the Death Star's just going to eject its trash into the eternal void of space, isn't it? Responsible waste management doesn't square too well with a space station designed solely to blow entire planets to pieces, does it? :chin:
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I Elsie high?
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last.caress wrote: Sun Nov 13, 2022 2:24 pm
Responsible waste management doesn't square too well with a space station designed solely to blow entire planets to pieces, does it? :chin:
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S-H wrote: Sun Nov 13, 2022 2:28 pmIs Elsie high?
I wish. I've just been sat here watching Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (primary school age kids show, from the makers of Peppa Pig) with my daughter for two hours straight and I think something's blown up inside my brain.
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