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And i don't mean this. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-3747632.html Sorry, excuse me for lowering the tone. It's the silly season after all.

What's the gayest physics experiment ever conducted?

3) the rhythm is totally skewiff for a mainstream rock song. 7/8 or something..? I think one of Radiohead's singles might have been in 7 time. Pyramid Song? I'm not going to go and listen to it because they annoy me. Not that 7/8 is inherenty wtf at all but it's nice when it's done well and can...

No fair enough. I bite my fingernails sometimes but it's usually functional to trim them when they get a bit long and I can't locate the clipping thing. It works out fine, best when they are a bit soft after being in water I find. Technique is important.

Because you have no will power and you are a pathetic excuse for a human being. Have you tried sticking your fingers in your ears or up your arse regularly? I'm told ear wax and poop tastes quite bad. According to wikipedia anyway.

Also if you watch DVDs with stereo audio, depending on your decoder you are only getting 2 channels out of the 5 or 6 encoded so it can sometimes seem a bit quiet. You'll notice this especially with bad DivX rips btw. But yeah it's probably mostly to do with having a good dynamic range straight...

Well the point is that 'culture' in humans can override and supersede the imperatives of biology, of instinct. That's a big part of what distinguishes us as human and how our evolution has largely moved away from genetics and into the cultural realm. That's the crucial bit - what people in...

Assumed there was one what? I had an understanding that it was thought there might partly be a biological basis for the incest taboo and we have been talking about that. Proof and evidence, sure, I'm not trying to prove a point I thought it was a discussion. I'm sure there's some stuff out...

Before this goes too much further into the realms of repetition can I just say that little brief googling suggests that there are various conflicting ideas about this and it is still a developing area. Seems there's probably both a biological factor and cultural factors involved. I don't see...

Gosh, I'd never noticed that ;) There are instinctual repulsions to some types of things that are bad to eat. Things that smell a certain way, like rotting things and poop. But anyway. You said I wasn't recognising that sex is not just about reproduction. That's ridiculous, of course I...

Yeah you know, gradual. Evolution can result in amazing things due to the tiniest of mutations and the most marginal of pressures, over time. So what, eating food isn't just about getting nutrients but we still instinctively avoid eating things that repulse us. Sex is involved with reproduction...

Tied to means....you fuck someone without contraception you more likely get baby. In evolutionary terms for most of our history we no have da contraceptions. Yes of course this started occurring. Obviously it's harder for males to be sure about the parentage of their offspring, so this is a...

Sexuality that is based on an attachment to what is forbidden by 'the father', or the super-ego, or whatever is basically infantile. The structure of our society is pretty infantilising on many levels though so this is totally understandable. And of course it reproduces itself.

No it doesn't mean that it's necessarily inborn. I just say that I can see a process whereby it might have been selected for. I say that sexuality was more closely tied to reproduction before effective contraception in the very straightforward sense that it would have been more closely tied to...

So you think the incest taboo is entirely culturally determined? Those small groups are not representative of the broader population in any way and are subject to powerful extra-genetic pressures. Also they could just be getting off on the taboo. ;)

Isn't indicative of a basically immature sexuality to only get turned on by what is forbidden? I mean clearly that could be where much of our society is at... All those fetishes / restrictions are more or less culturally determined, arbitrary to an extent. Obviously there are different customs...

Yes. This is hardly any kind of representative sample though. We know there are strong extraordinary factors involved there. And even though the gene pool is small there is still usually at least the notional taboo against doing it with close relatives. Right. Um, so? In times before effective...

I know, other factors as I say. I mean in the long run though, in evolutionary terms. In fact in evolutionary selection processes that would have largely taken place before we were modern humans or had societies as such. For what reasons do some societies promote inbreeding as you say...

Yeah, small gene pools, I know that, is obvious. Of course there are other factors but I understood, and no doubt there are conflicting ideas about this which is why I ask, that it was not generally advantageous from a genetic point of view to breed with very close family members so the...

Yeah you're right, but at least they're not doing more harm. So the overall cost is less. Someone needs to retrain them.