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I have had friends relay a phenomenon to me, and I would say I've experienced it myself, where they feel that their deoderant loses effectiveness after they have stuck with it for a long time. That is to say, they would argue that if you introduced a new person to them on day 1 and then had them meet again on day 90, the new person would agree that the deoderant was less effective on day 90 than on day 1, even if the grooming routine was equivalent on both days.

Is this accurate? Is it a perception problem? Olfactory fatigue? Is your body actually trying to be stinky? Does anyone even know what I'm talking about?

Any insight is appreciated. Thanks!

I always hear people say things like "whiskey makes me mean, but I'm happy on vodka", but I've never seen any evidence to support such a claim. I have to be honest, I'm pretty (very) skeptical that this is true, but I thought someone in here might have some insight.

I wonder if anyone here can identify this song. I think I recognize it from a cartoon, I feel like it is used when characters are tiptoeing, and I think it speeds up. I couldn't think of how to describe it any more accurately than that, so I had a buddy plink it out.

http://soundcloud.com/the-funny-demon/cartoon-song

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

This is what I am guessing is an urban legend brought to me by a Puerto Rican friend of mine. Obviously she has never seen it, and doesn't know anyone who has seen it, but it is (to hear her tell it) widely regarded as the truth in that region.

I found this article from abc that offers a nice but awfully far-fetched story

Followed the dr. Wade Davis in that article to Wikipedia, which told me tetrodotoxin was the drug in question. Following tetrodotoxin, I found this reference that says it has not been substantiated, and largely has been dismissed. But, I can't

Basically, a group of teenagers go to the woods, and they find these two guys in a cabin. They think the guys are evil murderers, and go to investigate. By coincidence, the people who go to investigate end up dying in some rather bloody way. This happens, I assume, repeatedly, until both groups think the other is straight out of a horror movie.

For some reason I feel like Steve Zahn is in this. But, his IMDB page has been no help. I feel like the movie title had the word "weekend" in it, or something.. but I could just be making that up. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a particularly popular release. It did not come out more than 5 years ago, and it was probably actually within the last 2.

Any

I feel like they made such a big deal out of it being "the end", and left such a huge time gap between what we thought was the beginning and the actual beginning, there is just no way they won't capitalize on that.

Thoughts?

I wrote the guitar for the end times puppet show a few years ago, got a drummer friend to write a part, and then the two of us played it until we could play it. Recorded it one successful time, and never did it again. From the description on the page:

Odin, during his time as principle god on this pathetic planet, set a doomsday trap. Valhalla was not the heaven so often hoped for, but instead a battery training ground for the most capable soldiers. Awaiting the 'Song Of The End Times', the vikings train and eat, their hatred for their captors on earth growing daily. Waiting with anticipation, they listen for the Son

Somewhere on here I saw someone talking about what a silly question the whole "chicken or the egg" ordeal actually is. I've sort of taken it up as a cause. Nothing too serious, but I thought it would be a fun topic for a bit, and it was.

I posed the question to the table: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Several people who ordinarily wouldn't have been interested in talking about nerdy shit were engaging in a conversation about a real question with a real answer. They all answered like the question was "heads or tails", but then I asked them to explain why.

After they all remembered that dinosaurs laid eggs for centuries before there were birds, they were trying to stump me about

I am curious if anyone here is knowledgeable about the workings of the human soul. I am also seeking any information on the evolutionary origin of such a thing. I am trying to understand the soul, along side the rest of the anatomy, but I'm finding the practical information on the topic to be a bit sparse. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I don't even understand where the idea comes from. I don't know what it is supposed to be, or do, or where it is supposedly located (the head, right? Your soul is in your head?)... but it is so pervasive that it's a gamble bringing it up with anyone.

Even otherwise totally rational people will shock me with this. Of course they agree that evolution is the best available explanation for the diversity of life on our planet. Of course humanity is just one branch on a large tree of life. They'll agree that there is no evidence for a soul or proto-soul in any animal, including humans. But, it doesn't matter, they'll invariably say. There is... something. Something. No evidence for it, no defi