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Well, if we believed every health scare there was I don't think anyone would ever eat. When I was pregnant with my first child I was told to eat plenty of liver as it has lots of iron, by the second child I was told to make sure I didn't eat any liver as it was too high in vitamin A. Some of...

It's more a case of all the sex offenders are kept in a seperate wing, so they get treated the same way as other prisoners but only mix with other rapists & paedophiles. Prior to this, sex offenders would get attacked by other in-mates & even prison guards sometimes.

Sorry to double post, didn't see this beofre. The whole peanuts thing is another medical one, there hasn't been sufficient research to prove one way or another so they just strongly recommend against eating peanuts whilst pregnant just in case.

A pig's trotter ... for some unknown reason (probably because it's the mad welsh side of the family) picking your nose means you hand gets replaced by a pig's foot. The amount of times I had to test that theory as a child, merely in the name of research of course ;)

The really weird ones regarding the sex of a child are when you dangle a wedding ring on a piece of string above the bump & the direction the string moves in alledgedly tells you which sex the child is. My mum's side of the family have all sorts of weird old wives tales including if you look in...

I'm not sure about the american system (I have been assuming it is the same), but I know here in England people imprisoned due to sex crimes are kept seperate from other prisoners as they know paedophiles & rapists get horrendously abused otherwise. If it is the same in the US, then the...

I enjoy both of them, but do agree in some ways with Stewart that they aren't easily comparable. I find the Harry Potter books alot more accessible, easier to get into & lighter reading, LOTR has a much better formed world in it & the characters are given far more depth, but does take some...

From a personal perspective, I would say this person should be allowed to live so he can spend the rest of his days in fear of fellow prioners retaliating. That way, it would go some tiny way towards letting him know what it was like for his victims. From a more objective standpoint, the media...

In the first dream I was just walking along when I had this strange sensation that everything was not right, I could sense that something was wrong. I then just was aware in the dream that all my system was slowly shutting down & just felt my breathing & pulse slowly stop. Was really peaceful...

I can tell by the questions you ask & some of the points you raise, I really enjoy reading your threads as they do challenge people's ways of thinking without being insulting or inflamatory(sp?).

Whilst you cannot find out the statistics for how many people the death sentence did deter, you can compare statistics for crimes between states selecting some which do & some which don't use capital punishment. You can also carry out research on those who have been caught as to why they still...

That was really interesting (even if it was mainly to advertise their software) I only managed 223 wpm, but got 100% accuracy. I'm now off to chec out the links lies mentioned

It has been proven many times that capital punishment does not act as a deterrant. Many criminals tend to be of the belief they will not be caught & therefore they don't have to worry about the punishment. Another point is it costs more to keep a defendant on death row then just have them in...

Apologies if this has previously been posted here, but I thought it may be of interest to some. Basically, the link takes you to the Gender Genie which uses algorthims to identify if the text seems written by a male or female, useful if you are attempting to write as the opposite sex & want to...

roflmao Acolyte studying hard.. OMG that's a funny one .... I thought Acolyte was mainly studying "the socializing habits of american uni students" & all that chemistry stuff just came naturally cos he's so intelligent. *shrugs shoulders* at least now I know ;)

I used to be a grat believer in that old wives tale, right up until the first dream I had in which I died. I've had a couple now, plus they always seem to be surprisingly peaceful, even got to see my funera (vey weird). I could see how for someone who is already very weakened physically it...

Trailers often make me doubt the quality of a film I might otherwise have watched. The way I see it is, they've spent alot of time & money ensuring they choose some of the best clips of the entire film to entice a viewer, now if even the best clips do nothing for me, then what does that say for...

Whilst as civilized people we should not encourage something which could potentially be so barbaric, speaking as a parent, that's exactly what I think should be done.

I like Stewart's suggestion, as it will really make your site stand out from the crowd. The things which is most important with new websites is the quality of them & how well they are publicised. Even the most carefully crafted, best named website ever will fail if no one knows about it. Good...

lol I think it's only malpractice if you pretend you are medically trained to perform such duties ... either that or hypnotize them & then steal all their money/clothes.