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Prof. said:
  1. The average person breathes wrong.
  2. The human body is not designed to poop while sitting on a toilet. It is best to poop while squatting. Same goes with giving birth.
  3. 1 in 2 US Americans are now in poverty or low-income.
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So what's the proper way of breathing?
 
yg17 said:
So what's the proper way of breathing?
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Breath throught your gills or throught the hole in your neck.


Actually probably in the nose, out the mouth? or in the nose, out the nose?

I would like to point out if the average person breathes wrong, what's wrong about it? Sounds like it's normal or average.
 
yg17 said:
So what's the proper way of breathing?
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A lot of people only expand their chest when breathing, this is the wrong way of doing it. To breathe properly and to effectively fill your lungs, you must breathe through your diaphragm - your abdomen should be the thing rising and falling with each breath, not just your chest.
 
Prof. said:
A lot of people only expand their chest when breathing, this is the wrong way of doing it. To breathe properly and to effectively fill your lungs, you must breathe through your diaphragm - your abdomen should be the thing rising and falling with each breath, not just your chest.
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I was just reading your signature. You could use that as a "fun fact" too.
 
It takes 40-something muscles to frown and zero to S.T.F.U.


(hey, I felt I needed to include a fun fact along with the following reply)


Prof. said:
A lot of people only expand their chest when breathing, this is the wrong way of doing it. To breathe properly and to effectively fill your lungs, you must breathe through your diaphragm - your abdomen should be the thing rising and falling with each breath, not just your chest.
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DON'T JUDGE MY BREATHING!

BTW, that is a mighty fine signature!
 
Mind your "P's and Q's" come from Mind your Pints and Quarts when drinking in a pub across the pond.

In some bars in Georgia if you are served a beer and you think the head on the beer is over an inch you can call the bartender out on it. They should have a ruler on them or something equivelant to an inch and if it is over the inch you get the beer for free. Yes this works, at least in the bar I was at in Savannah! 🙂
 
lol me too...and I was scared to go in my pants I wasn't sure if I should take them off or left them at the ankles. I was in Korea for almost 2 years and managed to avoid those. All good things come to an end though, and it was scary using it.

Now I am married to a Japanese woman, and in my home I was forced to buy a coco bidet.

I am a proud owner of this.

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Abstract said:
I love those now.

I remember squatting over one of those for the first time, wondering to myself, "Soooo......which direction do I face?"
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CaptMurdock said:
Hmm...I was going to say that Pepi II of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty would have taken the record at 94 years, but of late there does seem to be some dispute about this.

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The Beatles (originally the Silver Beatles) were named in honor of The Crickets, Buddy Holly's band.

The Rolling Stones did not take their name from the old saying about what does not gather moss, but from a song by blues artist Muddy Waters.

There are only three words in English language beginning with 'dw': dwell, dwindle and dwarf.

The first American rock 'n roll band to tour the Soviet Union: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
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Well sorry to misinformed you, I must change my post to current longest reigning monarchs!

😛
 
Fun Fact: The cool music used as theme tune for 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy' wasn't specifically written for the show...

It's actually a segment of a prog-rock piece by The Eagles; the 19 minute 'Journey of the Sorcerer'.

Linky
 
Razzerman II said:
The word 'cleave' is the only English word which, although spelt the same, has opposing meanings. Namely, 'to split apart' and also to 'adhere strongly to'.
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Sanction

Oversight

Model

Left

Enjoin

Cite

Bolt

Seed

There are scores of these "homographic contronyms" – use a search engine to find more.
 
Razzerman II said:
The word 'cleave' is the only English word which, although spelt the same, has opposing meanings. Namely, 'to split apart' and also to 'adhere strongly to'.
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What about inflammable? People use it to mean "easily enflamed" and also to mean "not easily enflamed". The correct word for the latter is "nonflammable" but lots of people say "inflammable" instead.
 
Doctor Q said:
What about inflammable? People use it to mean "easily enflamed" and also to mean "not easily enflamed". The correct word for the latter is "nonflammable" but lots of people say "inflammable" instead.
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Really? Strange people you encounter (including some who like Yoda talk). Who are these people that use "inflammable" in that way, I have not heard that.
 
Sydde said:
Really? Strange people you encounter (including some who like Yoda talk). Who are these people that use "inflammable" in that way, I have not heard that.
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See this page for an explanation of how many of us are confused by the word. I've found sources that use the word non-inflammable too, so we have four words to distinguish: flammable, inflammable, nonflammable, and noninflammable.
 
Prof. said:
A lot of people only expand their chest when breathing, this is the wrong way of doing it. To breathe properly and to effectively fill your lungs, you must breathe through your diaphragm - your abdomen should be the thing rising and falling with each breath, not just your chest.
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My music teacher told me this. While it might be wrong to not breathe with your diaphragm when singing or playing a wind instrument, the rest of the population won't have any problems if they breathe "incorrectly".
 
ericrwalker said:
I remember my first time using one of these. I wasn't a happy camper.

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GROSS! I wonder how many (drunken) accidents have happened teetering over those.

iJohnHenry said:
Piker. 😛

Try doing your business in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Two "foot-prints" and a hole in the floor.

And good luck with that.
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It's just occurred to me that the toilets I used in Paris were a pretty "normal" variety, thank goodness. Lucky too because a city so keen on stairs everywhere had my thighs plenty fatigued. (see above)
 
iBlue said:
It's just occurred to me that the toilets I used in Paris were a pretty "normal" variety, thank goodness. Lucky too because a city so keen on stairs everywhere had my thighs plenty fatigued. (see above)
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Reminds me of Las Vegas and its 20 billion escalators. Ugh!! I have a phobia of stairs and escalators, so needless to say, I was miserable and opted for the elevators every time, which drove my friends crazy. I'm glad to know this about Paris now.
 
ericrwalker said:
lol me too...and I was scared to go in my pants I wasn't sure if I should take them off or left them at the ankles. I was in Korea for almost 2 years and managed to avoid those. All good things come to an end though, and it was scary using it.
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The answer is:

Pants off completely so that you don't pee on your own pants while squatting and pooing. Face that arch/hood hing so that you don't pee all over the floor.

There are upsides to facing away from that arch thing, but I decided to face it instead.

The whole "pants off" thing is a bit weird, but whatever.
 
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