Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
presta
Legendary Member
That's a bit more readable than the one I found on a university website.
In a similar bit different vein: according to this, if you screen a population for a disease, the screening reduces the mortality rate for that disease, but not the all-cause mortality. The reduced risk of dying from one thing is offset by an increased risk of dying from something else.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
Don;t tell the religious extremists
it makes it sound like God - or some God anyway - has decided you will die of something and thwarting Him (or Her - or It or whatever) is pointless as you just die of something else
which is rather screwed up by the vacines stats but they ignore that sort of thing
Punkawallah
Veteran
Yes. But also no. When we talk about ‘immunity’, it means that our immune system has been ‘primed’ to recognise a disease early, and has a better chance of defeating it. It does not mean we are protected from infection. Diseases recognised by our immune system produce different strains over time that may be less (or more) ‘visible’ to our immune system, and this will affect it’s ability to defeat them. See the common cold.
The measles virus can oblige our immune system to start again on its ‘library’ of diseases, it does not mean we would have no immune system at all.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
There is a colony of feral cats living on my road. Several toms had gathered around a female, only one of them had clean fur.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
"SpongeBob SquarePants" in German is "SpongeBob Schwammkopf"
This translates as "Spongebob SpongeHead".
I can only imagine they decided the literal translation of "Spongebob Eckighosen" sounded even worse.
This translates as "Spongebob SpongeHead".
I can only imagine they decided the literal translation of "Spongebob Eckighosen" sounded even worse.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
In Finnish he's Paavo Pesusieni, which is just Paavo Sponge or, more literally, Paavo washing-fungus.
They chose not to go with Neliöhousut (Square trousers)
But back to Mt Rushmore ... (Edit: no, this isn't the Mt Rushmore thread. Its perfectly ok to discuss translations of SpongeBob here)
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Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
At least they didn't call him 'Spongebob Square Head'.
Ive Just found out the origin of the saying......bury him/her 6 feet deep.
It goes back to the 1600s and that depth was decided on for 2 reasons.
1. To prevent the smell of death coming up through the soil and
2. To deter grave robbers from stealing either the body or any valuables buried with the body.
It goes back to the 1600s and that depth was decided on for 2 reasons.
1. To prevent the smell of death coming up through the soil and
2. To deter grave robbers from stealing either the body or any valuables buried with the body.
