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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Why are there more guitar players than piano players? |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2014, 12:16 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 12,162
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| There are two main reasons that guitars are more popular. The first is pretty simple: guitars are cheaper. Lower costs mean more people can get started. The second is a little more circuitous: guitars are more popular because they are more popular. Lots of people pick up an instrument because they w... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Non-LGBT aspie hoping to learn more about the T |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2014, 3:49 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,869
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| If someone I knew started the sex change process as it currently exists and asked me to use the other gendered pronouns I would do it to be polite and kind, but I wouldn't really believe it. Why not? Would you not believe that this person is the gender[note: gender i.e. brain sex, not gender i.e. '... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Non-LGBT aspie hoping to learn more about the T |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2014, 12:09 am
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Replies: 21
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| As of now, there is not a way to truly be the other gender. Technology just has gotten decent enough to mimic genitalia, but that's not enough for some people like me. It has to be all the way as if you'd been born the other gender. There is much evidence in the world that supports the possibility ... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Non-LGBT aspie hoping to learn more about the T |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 11:06 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,869
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| Moving back to your post, you don't seem to understand that transgender people don't change gender, they change their presentation and bodies to reflect the gender that they already have. As far as reinforcing the concept of gender goes, don't you do that all the time when you let people call you b... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Non-LGBT aspie hoping to learn more about the T |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Or is it that a trans* person wants to be referred to as the "other" gender, and that makes you feel uncomfortable? If so, why? Doesn't that mean you're still supporting a line between the two, and saying "girl stuff here, boy stuff here, and never the quote shall be paraphrased"? What I'm trying t... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Non-LGBT aspie hoping to learn more about the T |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 10:01 am
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Replies: 21
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| I'm going to try and explain the bits I get mentally stuck on. There's been a great weakening of gender roles in recent decades, mainly through feminism, and people of either sex are much less restricted than they were in previous generations. It's common now to see male nurses, female construction ... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: Non-LGBT aspie hoping to learn more about the T |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2014, 9:44 pm
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Replies: 21
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| I consider myself an open minded person with a live-and-let-live attitude, and I fully support gay rights in all it's forms. However I don't at all understand and am completely ignorant about transgender issues. I have never really met anyone that was openly transgender and so have never really had ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: I'm new here. Are there many other Australian's here? |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 7:53 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 798
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I'm from Sydney as well.
Sound engineering/setting up for bands sounds like fun. I make acoustic guitars and have yet to make any with pickups/electronics, but it's definitely on my to-do list. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Want to hear people's thoughts about this |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2013, 11:12 pm
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Replies: 20
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| What the quoted comedian is disingenuosuly skipping over is that the terms dumb, lame, imbecile etc. have long been retired from clinical use and don't appear in the medical records of currently living people. He acknowledges this at the beginning but then pretends it has no significance. However, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Want to hear people's thoughts about this |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2013, 2:38 am
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Replies: 20
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| The thing I like about this is that I probably would get uncomfortable if people used the word aspergers or autism imprecisely, but I myself use words like lame, dumb, moron and ret*d in everyday speech all the time, which as the image points out is pretty hypocritical. I also would like to point ou... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Want to hear people's thoughts about this |
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Posted: 07 Aug 2013, 12:52 am
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| I found this image this morning, and I want to hear what people think http://i.imgur.com/JvucnR2.jpg It's quite rare to hear autism/aspergers used in the way that OCD is used (as described in the picture), but I have seen it done occasionally on the internet. How would people feel if it became more ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Put down guitar for a while? Try this. |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 05 Aug 2013, 8:55 pm
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Replies: 3
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| I make my own acoustic guitars; playing them is way more satisfying than any store-bought one I've ever had. |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Music Music Music Music Music |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 02 Aug 2013, 7:13 am
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Replies: 2
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| I collect Jazz and very early Blues CDs, then import them onto my computer (in lossless format) and listen to them off that. I'm not sure which poll option to choose as I do get all my music from CDs, but after I import them I file them away and never really use them again. I would consider myself a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Two Fatal Technical Flaws In The DSM5 Definition of Au |
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Posted: 30 May 2013, 12:20 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,081
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| The proposed criteria certainly made it clear that all three points in criteria A must be met, but perhaps the final version left this part out, probably an oversight/typo. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: FL teen "sex criminal" for consensual relationship |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 20 May 2013, 8:46 pm
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Replies: 88
Views: 9,021
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| Surely people are more free now to engage in homosexual relations than ever before? |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Excellent Math Riddle |
| Ellingtonia |
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Posted: 17 May 2013, 7:38 am
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,817
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| I don't like the idea of ''voice acting'', it has nothing to do with a mathematical solution and all available options should be stated in the problem. Adding extra boundary conditions to the problem after the statement of the problem is kind of cheating. The solution of the problem should be robus... |
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