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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Anyone Here Like Older Music Better Than Modern Music? |
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Posted: 02 May 2025, 10:54 am
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Replies: 61
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| My early exposure to music was mostly singing in chapel, and whatever the BBC saw fit to put on the home service, and of course, Radio Luxembourg, when when atmospheric conditions allowed. Then came Radio Caroline, the North Sea based pirate radio. The first record they played was the Stone's coveri... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you HAPPY today. |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2025, 10:52 am
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Replies: 35,440
Views: 1,556,154
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| When leaving a flat in Antwerp, I was legally obliged to find a new tenant, Is there no end to the oppression of tenants? If you don't get any takers are you stuck there for life? [/quote] It's not that bad; I belatedly found I only needed to find one candidate (turned down being dusky skinned) but... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Physically weaker |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2025, 10:39 am
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Replies: 36
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| Every time I have lowered the volume and increased the intensity I have put on more muscle mass and got stronger. Maybe one day I will be able to stick to one intensive workout a week. Well done; you've got ahead of more than 99% of those I've encountered who do weight training, who seem incapable ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Physically weaker |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2025, 9:56 am
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Replies: 36
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| You should do strenght training if you don't want to get weaker. There's no way around that. True, but happily, having studied the subject for around 35 years, I can tell you it's actually a lot easier than most people imagine! A bit of history first. ask most "experienced" weight trainer... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2025, 8:57 am
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babybird wrote: Monkeys don't have to sit up to the table to eat so why should I
Oooh, I can think of so many reasons... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you HAPPY today. |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2025, 8:55 am
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| Yes, might leave the sofa and carpet behind. The council will probably charge me for it but sod it. If there was any justice in Manchester they'd be paying you. Unless it's a really undesirable sofa and carpet. The ones I've got in my living room in Leicester are. When leaving a flat in Antwerp, I ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The autism social rule book. |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2025, 8:46 am
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Replies: 881
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| I realized this a while ago, but confidence is everything in social interaction. It's especially true among the status seekers. I attended one management meeting where concern was expressed about how to meet the specification for testing some high pressure equipment, so not just the usual business ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Shock Horror! Errors found in Harry Potter book! |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2025, 10:53 am
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Replies: 1
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| I’m referring to The Philosopher’s Stone, where Hagrid goes into the Forbidden Forest carrying a crossbow and a quiver of arrows, which seemed odd, and lo, a few pages later he loads the crossbow with an arrow, when eny fule noze that crossbows fire bolts, not arrows! This got me wondering; a quiver... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Not Autistic Not ADHD But Not Normal |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2025, 10:38 am
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Replies: 17
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| If I'm not adhd or autistic and clearly rather geeky and not normal than what exactly am I. I know too little about ADHD to venture an opinion on that, but you do come across as Autistic in the historic sense, as described by such as Aaron Rosannoff, and Humm and Wadsworth, whose personality scale ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What did you cook today? |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2025, 10:50 am
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Replies: 659
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| A pot noodle, on special offer; not good for one, but tasty and good value. I tried to up its nutritional content by adding a couple of spoons of red lentils, which are a favourite of mine as they usually cook up in no time. This particular brand didn't, though, so I've had to let it soak till this ... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: For anything Star Trek |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2025, 10:38 am
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Replies: 127
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| neat idea because like a fingerprint each retina is unique which makes it hard to try to bypass. I'm sorry to hear about your "lazy eye". Both of mine have an astigmatism to them and my left eye has deteriorated from what it used to be. That's a long time to deal with it. They have always... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Rants |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2025, 10:53 am
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| So what do we do about it? We're not a major voting bloc, so we can't really exercise political power. Honestly, to bring attention to our persecution, we may have no choice but to resort to illegal methods, even violence, because I don't know how else we're going to persuade neurotypicals to stop ... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: For anything Star Trek |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 10:13 am
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| I always thought this scene was cool in "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan". I always thought the retinal scan they do for security was cool! Maybe this is something they will have in the future. I think some laptops can kind of do this now. I don't know about lap tops as the eye has to be posi... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: High Needs Autistic Advocates. |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 10:43 am
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Replies: 62
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| The diagnostic manuals (such as the DSM and the ICD) have evolved a lot. Sure so many people all over the autistic spectrum were missed until quite recently, I’d say, until the mid-2000s. But diagnostic labels change all the time. So I don’t think we have to stick to Kanner’s first descriptions of ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Self-Esteem and clothing |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 10:19 am
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Replies: 34
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| I think the old expression "It's what's inside that counts" fits best. oF COURSE? AS WHAT4S INSIDE DETERMINES WHAT ONE WEARS§ bruddycapslock... With hindsight, it should have been obvious which of my peers wanted to be a manager; they were the one's in the suits, with big hair, and always... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Self-Esteem and clothing |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2025, 10:49 am
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Replies: 34
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| I don't have self esteem problem, but not liking to wear a suit to work (hardly practical for an engineer) certainly didn't do my career prospects any good! That people think that "clothes maketh the man" is ridiculous, as any con man can put on a smart suit, but pointing this out will not... |
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