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Offline Bar Wench

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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #45 on: September 10, 2008, 10:42:28 AM »
YES! Although I would prefer dead goat leg for the whacking if possible.  eveilgrin:
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #46 on: September 10, 2008, 10:46:11 AM »
You should have asked BM for one before he turfed it over the side of the cliff yesterday.  whistle:
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #47 on: September 10, 2008, 11:05:53 AM »
Why does our hair keep growing, unlike, say, cats whose hair gets to the right length(i.e. one which suits them) and then stops?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #48 on: September 10, 2008, 11:14:30 AM »
It doesn't. Cats moult. Their "under fur" is growing all the time but at a certain length it falls out. Human hair, on the other hand, does not moult and replace itself. We go bald.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #49 on: September 10, 2008, 11:15:41 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 11:14:30 AM
Human hair, on the other hand, does not moult and replace itself. We go bald.

Not everyone. . .
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #50 on: September 10, 2008, 11:17:30 AM »
Everyone to a greater or lesser degree. I am fortunately one of the lesser degree types but it is thinning.  whistle:
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #51 on: September 10, 2008, 11:37:27 AM »
Why do slugs do that when you put salt on them?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #52 on: September 10, 2008, 11:44:50 AM »
Because the salt draws the moisture out of the slug and like all living things the slugs need moisture to survive.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #53 on: September 10, 2008, 11:45:10 AM »
So why doesn't it work on people?
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #54 on: September 10, 2008, 11:48:00 AM »
Feed a person enough salt and it will.


See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/4297345.stm

And many other cases

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http://www.preciouslife.net/show-procedure.asp?Procedure=5

Those who do not have a strong stomach should not click this second link.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #55 on: September 10, 2008, 11:50:56 AM »
Useful to know  eveilgrin:

Flying. WHy don't they anaesthetise people before flights? You could get more on a plane, no nasty food to eat, fewer cabin staff and no panic in the event of a crash
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #56 on: September 10, 2008, 11:59:58 AM »
anaesthetisia is an exact science Nick you have to make sure that you dose the person enough to knock them out without doing them any permanent harm. Simply rolling a cannister of knock out gas may look good in the movies but it isnt accurate as the amount needed to knock out a lard arse could cause serious complications to someone who has been on the size zero diet.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #57 on: September 10, 2008, 12:00:37 PM »
But you agree the idea is sound in principle.
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #58 on: September 10, 2008, 12:02:20 PM »
knock out plane loads of easyjet chavs? could have possibilities, especially if the flight crew bail out over the atlantic...  whistle:
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Re: Professor Wench's all new scientific advice thread
« Reply #59 on: September 10, 2008, 12:03:15 PM »
Let's press on then.

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