What be on yer noggin?

Delora Filth

Do you want to run this ship?

Marquis

Old Guard

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,821

It's actually a pretty unique Norwegian thing. But yeah, that tradition is weird even to us.

 

rebelknight

Duke

Old Guard

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,822

Our end of school tradition is copied straight from the American one.
Except the fact that some students end up banging their teachers.

 

Ambalon

Marquis

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,823

RabbleKnight said:

Except the fact that some students end up banging their teachers.

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Yeah, I have a former classmate who, somehow, managed to date two teachers of ours after graduating.

 

rebelknight

Duke

Old Guard

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,824

#Justlatinbasedlanguagesthings

 

crodio

Marquis

Old Guard

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,825

My uncle went to prom with a girl and came back with a teacher. Also he was fuggin a PE class teacher and when he left her she started being a ***** with one of her students, my mom
Me, on the other hand, almost kissed a girl once

 

Ambalon

Marquis

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,826

crodio said:

Me, on the other hand, almost kissed a girl once

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Bluehawk

Baron

Old Guard

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,827

Apparently this is a thing:

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Ambalon

Marquis

• Sep 14, 2015

• #11,828

That must be great music for when you're feeling horny. 

 

Mad Vader

Duhpressed

Duke

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,829

Seems inefficient and invented merely to show off your wealth by having large number of... man-notes.

 

Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James

BioAfrikaner

Archduke

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,830

Funy how all these super expesive brass instruments go back to sounding like 8-bit.

 

Bluehawk

Baron

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,831

Some performances are better than others. That rendition of the Semyonovskiy Regiment's march was terrible, but I think this William Tell Overture is pretty keen:

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Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James

BioAfrikaner

Archduke

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,832

Sounded quite lifeless in my opinion even when compared to the most amateur brass/woodwind bands performing the same song. The way they're playing looks and sounds like they require more breath than the normal wraparound brass instruments.

 

Dryvus

Sufficiently Suffonsified

Archduke

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,833

I'm not sure I get it. It's like a bell chorus where a bunch of people have 2 bells each?

Edit:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-bill-calls-animals-sentient-beings-and-includes-jail-time-for-cruelty-1.3102399

sentient beings

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Didn't know there were so many dolphins and chimpanzees in Quebec. Well, maybe not the chimpanzees...

 

Areze

Count

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,834

Don't they mean sapient? I know people confuse those two constantly.

 

Mage246

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,835

Sapient would be referring to humans.

 

Areze

Count

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,836

Mage246 said:

Sapient would be referring to humans.

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I know that, but I heard that certain animals (such as dolphins and octopi) do come very close to sapience. Sentience is anything with a fully-working brain IIRC. That is, considering that I'm kinda-but-not-really sure that intelligence is not a binary sapient-or-not thing like a light switch.

All this is referring to Dryvus' source, obviously.

 

Patchouli Knowledge

Archduke

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,837

Sapient just means 'wise', though I suppose humans are the only animals capable of being wise.

 

Areze

Count

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,838

I'd have to wonder about that.

 

Dryvus

Sufficiently Suffonsified

Archduke

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,839

Areze said:

Sentience is anything with a fully-working brain IIRC.

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I thought self-awareness was the criteria. Maybe that's outdated.

 

Areze

Count

Old Guard

• Sep 15, 2015

• #11,840

Dryvus said:

I thought self-awareness was the criteria. Maybe that's outdated.

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From what I know:

Sentience is anything with complex brain functions, ranging from humans to dogs and cats to crocodiles. Excludes plants and bacteria, which are alive, but not sentient as they have no brain or self-awareness.

Sapience is full self-awareness, capable of stuff like calculus and philosophy. Typically humans are regarded as the only sapient race on Earth, although from what I've been led to believe that's mainly because of our capacity for complex communication and language.

I could be totally wrong though, I only half-remember my biology classes.