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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #675 on: November 15, 2008, 08:22:01 PM »
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #676 on: November 16, 2008, 07:32:54 AM »
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.
My mother and father knew people like that my older sister was of the generation that they just stopped doing that too on a regular basis
It was commonplace back then. No wonder some people wrote like MDs.
I'm right handed and I write like that now :P   It was so bad in school they tried to teach me to type in 3rd grade
I always smudge my writing and get ink on the edge of my hand. I am quicker at writing than typing. GA is the other way around and he is left-handed as well.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #677 on: November 16, 2008, 01:24:53 PM »
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What's up. Are you freaky about bilaterally sequenced digit placements in numbers as well?




.....     or are you just amazed that Odeon would allow such a total waste of bandwidth to occur on his watch?



I made it past that number, though!

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #678 on: November 16, 2008, 01:28:24 PM »
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.

My father and my brother as well.

Useless fact:

Every second child in the history of my family is left-handed.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #679 on: November 16, 2008, 03:53:52 PM »
.....     or are you just amazed that Odeon would allow such a total waste of bandwidth to occur on his watch?

I am. :P
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #680 on: November 16, 2008, 03:55:07 PM »
My father was left-handed, but was forced to use his right hand for writing in school. Left-handedness was too freaky back then.

My father and my brother as well.

Useless fact:

Every second child in the history of my family is left-handed.

Useless fact: most of my family on my father's side is (or was) left-handed. And my daugher is probably mostly ambidextrous.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #681 on: November 16, 2008, 05:14:04 PM »
I count in multiples of 2.

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #682 on: November 16, 2008, 08:06:07 PM »
Our household goes though more than a gallon of milk a day
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #683 on: November 17, 2008, 10:36:57 AM »
I hate polo shirts with a passion and do not own any. If I get any as gifts, they go into either a re-gifting box or are thrown away. Nobody listens.

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #684 on: November 17, 2008, 11:09:54 AM »
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What's up. Are you freaky about bilaterally sequenced digit placements in numbers as well?

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #685 on: November 17, 2008, 03:19:21 PM »
DirtDawg had 17070 posts at some point today

What's up. Are you freaky about bilaterally sequenced digit placements in numbers as well?

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i like numbers and patterns.
Yes, i enjoy them at times.
I use them, I find wisdom within them, I play with them, I defend myself with them, I like them, often they serve me, but I will not be chased by them.

Some of them, especially the ones with multiple meanings, haunt my mental spaces, spaces often supplied in short of other considerations. I hate them for this.
There is much guilt I feel in numbers and even more in patterns.
I tend to use them as more than tools and there is some masturbatory shame associated with the pleasure.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #686 on: November 17, 2008, 08:47:30 PM »
I'm only comfortable with the volume level on my Surround Sound Receiver if it ends in a 0, 2, 5, or an 8.

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #687 on: November 17, 2008, 10:42:52 PM »
I'm only comfortable with the volume level on my Surround Sound Receiver if it ends in a 0, 2, 5, or an 8.

That would be difficult to do with my Denon receiver. The volume display is (not arbitrarily, but it might as well be) divided into thirds of a whole number. The whole numbers each represent an increment of three decibels, but the graduations are, for example, 10.0, 10.3, 10.6 11.0, etc. Unless decimals don't affect your comfort, you would have to be satisfied with increasing or decreasing the volume by three decibels at a time. (BTW, That's just the way the display works. The actual volume level setting is completely and smoothly vernier)

That's really quite a difference to my ears.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #688 on: November 17, 2008, 11:56:46 PM »
very soon (today) there will be 437777 posts.

i like 7s

my father is ambidexterous but writes with his left hand
i am ambidexterous and write with my right hand slightly less than 4/5 of the time.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #689 on: November 18, 2008, 02:27:56 AM »
Dolby processors have decimal volume adjustment increments. Volume 7.0 is usually calibrated at 85 dBA.
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