Posted on 12/02/2005 12:29:36 AM PST by neverdem
"Any time you can see the sun, you can figure out where North is. Also the big dipper."
But knowing that doesn't help much in deciding which way to turn at an intersection when the roads tend not to go straight in any one direction for very long.
Somehow I always seem to be the "magnet" for strangers asking the "locals" for directions. Seems to happen to me at least once a month. Maybe I give off some sort of "compass" magnetism? :-)
In regards to the directions syntax thing-ie ;-), I give directions like so:
Take a right at such-and-such street, going south. Take a left going east at blankety-blank corner. Usually I throw in a couple of landmark building or business names along the way too :-).
I think you have to observe the sun moving, don't you?
In any event, the compass positions don't always correspond to the road direction in more than a general way in my area, so even this is not a lot of help. And if you have a lot of cloudy days, this doesn't help.
SD
It's no fun giving directions to strangers unless you can reference a few landmarks that "used to be" there. ;-)
SD
Gay, Straight Men's Brain Responses Differ
Gay Men Respond Differently to Pheromones
That's just the first few. I typed in "gay men's brains" to my Google toolbar and there sure are a lot of articles! :)
You can also through in a few references to something like:
"After a couple of miles turn right at Uncle Eb's old barn."
Seriously, I was leading a night convoy my first year in the guard. We had just moved into where we thought we would spend the night when we got a frag order moving us back to main post. The unexpected order was bad enough but my march order were something like:
"HHC turn right on the dirt road, make a left at the old fire tower, turn left at the gibson's cemetary, make a right down there where Tubby had the wreck a couple of years ago, and then bring 'em on back to post."
This made absolutely no sense to me but would have been very clear to any one who'd been training at that post for 20 years as had most guard commanders.
About that time another convoy came past going in the right direction and I ordered my driver to follow them. Good decision, we made it back to post.
"I think you have to observe the sun moving, don't you?"
Not really. As long as you know the general time and can remember that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, you can figure out about where North is.
"In any event, the compass positions don't always correspond to the road direction in more than a general way in my area, so even this is not a lot of help."
The directions don't have to be that specific. You don't have to give directions like turn SSE, turn South is usually good enough.
"And if you have a lot of cloudy days, this doesn't help."
Unless it's pretty heavy overcast you can figure out where the sun is.
If there were a conclusive study that *proved* without a doubt that gay men had female-working brains, I would completely flip my position on the subject. But I don't think that this will be the case.
There may be a very small percentage of men who do have this problem, as all humans begin "female" and chemical signals essentially transform the baby boy fetus into a male. But if it turns out that we have a large population of males with female brains, something is *very* wrong with our water supply.
My "guess" is that a true study would reveal that normal heterosexual men may have similar brain patterns as women without exhiting any symptoms of homosexuality. If it's a thought pattern, many men also have chromosome patterns that might be indicative of feminine traights (at that level.) Yet they are perfectly normal, healthy males. Perhaps with an inclination to pick up once and a while and ask for directions, but otherwise normal... ; )
It all makes sense now...
Fredrick: Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Fredrick: I will *not* be angry!
Igor: Abby Someone.
Fredrick: Abby Someone. Abby Who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Fredrick: Abby Normal.
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Study: Older drugs may put elderly at risk
The Claim: Green Tea Helps Prevent Cancer
Risk Reduction: Breast-Feeding May Help Keep Diabetes at Bay
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list. Anyone can post any unrelated link as they see fit.
I've often wondered if my paternal grandmother lived healthily to the age of 88 because of the fact she bore and breast-fed 17 children. Or if it was all the hard work. Or all the home-grown, home-fixed, non-preservative food. Or all of the above. Her children, of which my dad is the youngest at 68, have lived until way up into their 80's.
The liberal, extremist, homosexual zealots (er, activists ) are desperate to fund ANY research (however flawed or self-serving) to "prove" their 2% of the male population are the "norm" and therest of us are "flawed" (by being conservative, or Christian, or straights, or capitalists, or white, or in the energy/military business. G. Bush, of course,, is all six.)
ANY research, no matter how it is done, is used to "prove" homosexuals are controlled by their jeans to the MSM, who immediately suck it up and print it. (Er, genes.)
Congressman Billybob
When I was about 13, 42 years ago, I found a magazine alongside the road that proved to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a difference between men and women.......
Thanks for the link!
And I was going to ping you guys, I should have known you'd already be here! ;)
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