What I Learned Today

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Hank Scorpio, May 27, 2015.

  1. DirtBall

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    My niece is Australian and she is not a cuntwat or whatever, so I don’t believe it to be a nationalistic birthright.
     
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  2. a.tramp

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    Fyp
     
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  3. bertwing

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    We’ve had plenty of autists that have been able to post on this web sight (albeit terribly) through the years such as Shawn Hunter blind dog devine and Taques
     
  4. JVP

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    With the way how Australians are treated on this forum, I think I now know what it feels like to be an African American in police custody.
     
  5. bertwing

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    Shut the fuck up with your victim complex
     
  6. JVP

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    No need for the abuse knackers.
     
  7. bertwing

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    Your pussy ass has no idea what abuse is
     
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  8. JVP

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    Ok big guy.
     
  9. bertwing

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    America remains dominant :smug:
     
  10. UCFkc123

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    Hey guys I’m not learning shit in this thread just fyi
     
  11. Prospector

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    Kindly fuck off and post somewhere else.
     
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  12. JVP

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    Why?
     
  13. Nug

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    maybe because you're comparing ppl being mean on a message board to police brutality against people of color in an attempt to justify your little mini-outburst?
     
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  14. JVP

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    Harden up cobber.
     
  15. Lip

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    get fucked, loser. Go play on your forum with three people where you belong
     
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  16. Lip

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    I hope you get kicked in the balls by a kangaroo
     
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  17. JVP

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    Why so much hate? It’s weird how triggered people are getting in here.
     
  18. blind dog

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    absolutely incredible character arcs, and aussiefooty going from worst to best Australian poster
     
  19. blind dog

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    100% real tho you all fucking suck so there's that
     
  20. DirtBall

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    I onced punched a kangaroo irl. You’re welcome America.
     
  21. JVP

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    You can get 5 years in prison for that.
     
  22. Taffy

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    Once again, original South Wales remains #1
     
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  23. JVP

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    I cant. Have been banned.
     
  24. aussie footy

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    thank you
     
  25. Gizmoandsooz

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    The dickhead never did.
    But instead he showed a pm that i sent him.
    What a dumb piece of shit bertwing is
    That's what i learnt
     
  26. Nug

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    if it took ya this long there's no hope, bloke
     
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  27. Truman

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    TIL Aussiefooty is an excellent poet.
     
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  28. bertwing

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    I’d give you some shit, but you’ve already received plenty lately
     
  29. Nug

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    [​IMG]
     
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  30. Daniel Ocean

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  31. Gizmoandsooz

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    I learned that there are some people in here that don't realise that they are fucking around a bit too much.
     
  32. VaxRule

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    Wait until the finding out happens though.
     
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  33. Gizmoandsooz

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    Why would you want that to happen?
     
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  35. JVP

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  36. aussie footy

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    I did, but then created this new username with a space.
     
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  37. Lip

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    you answered your own question
     
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  38. Truman

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    Other than Humans - Bears and Baboons are the only other species to experience tooth decay. Because they eat human's trash/discarded food.
     
  39. Nug

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    What about dogs? I had to deal with that with mine a bit.
     
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  40. Truman

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    I thought about that too when it was mentioned. And rats
     
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  41. VaxRule

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    Raccoons eat trash
     
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  42. Gizmoandsooz

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    I learned that the British people over in England are the biggist bunch of cry babies when they lose games of cricket.
    Currently the Aussies are playing England over there in the Ashes test series and all we're hearing is every british person known to cricket whinging about the game.

     
  43. VaxRule

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    Bairstow was completely in the wrong.
     
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  44. The Banks

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    This isn’t true unless you have some obscure definition of tooth decay. Woolly mammoths, and all elephants have 6 sets of teeth (like we have two, our baby teeth and adult teeth) and they need 6 sets because their teeth wear out (decay) from eating 300-500 lbs of grass a day and grinding the grass up with their teeth so they could digest it.
     
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  45. Gizmoandsooz

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    I learned that i've had a bit of a break from here and have kind of settled down a bit.
     
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  46. skiedfrillet

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    is that wear and tear or decay? bc i always equated tooth decay with bacteria and sugary/processed foods breaking down enamel and causing rot - not just wear and tear from grinding stuff
     
  47. jrmy

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    Did Gubbs ever go on a vacation to Australia and procreate?
     
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  48. Gizmoandsooz

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    I learned that i had to goal umpire in the most freezing conditions yesterday.
     
  49. blind dog

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    That’s something you did yesterday, not learned today
     
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  50. Prospector

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    TIL about the 1st diagnosed case of Autism
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    In 1933, Donald Triplett was born into a well-off family in the small town of Forest, Mississippi. His parents quickly noticed something was different about him.
    He seemed to function in a separate world, Donald’s parents said. He’d repeat actions or words and displayed intense interest in things like number patterns and music notes. He showed no interest in playing with other children, and if anyone interrupted his rituals, he’d have a meltdown.

    He’d also display acts of intelligence that were unusual for his age. At age one, his father recalled, "He could hum and sing many tunes accurately.” By two, he could recite Biblical texts from memory. He could answer advanced multiplication questions without hesitation.

    The behavior baffled his parents.

    In 1937, just before Donald turned four, his parents sent him to a state-run children’s institution, only to pull him out after a year. They then took him to see one of the country’s most renowned child psychiatrists, Leo Kanner.

    Kanner was born in Austria in 1894. He dreamed of becoming a poet, but when no one would publish his poetry, he pursued a medical degree instead. That decision eventually led him to the US in 1924, where he found work at a mental hospital in South Dakota – and likely avoided death as a Jew in World War II Europe.

    Kanner focused on children’s mental health. His research soon caught the eye of Johns Hopkins Medical School, one of the world’s top medical institutes, where he transferred and established the US’ first child psychiatry clinic.

    At Johns Hopkins, Kanner’s research turned into social activism. He said he was concerned that people treated mentally ill children as objects rather than human beings. He called for changing a society that ''causes the intellectual haves to look down on the intellectual have-nots.”

    In 1937, Donald’s parents brought him to Kanner. When Kanner first met Donald, he didn’t know how to describe his condition but found it similar to behaviors he had seen in 10 other patients.

    In 1943, Kanner wrote a paper based on those children with a new diagnosis: Autism. The very first diagnosis went to “Case 1” – Donald Triplett.

    Dr. Kanner noted the children all exhibited obsessive repetitive habits, “excellent rote memory,” and an inability to relate “in the ordinary way” to other people. This condition, he noted, differed “markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far.”

    He took an empathetic approach to care: ''With these extremely detached children,'' he wrote, ''you must give them the chance to relate to a limited number of people and to come into the world - to thaw out.”

    That paper built the foundation of what is known today as “autism spectrum disorder” and how to care for those affected by it.

    After the diagnosis, Donald returned to life in Forest and appeared to live remarkably better.

    While he continued to exhibit his obsessive, repetitive behaviors, he built a life not too dissimilar from others around him, graduating from high school and college.

    Triplett later worked as a bookkeeper in Forest and became a beloved member of his community. Donald passed away last month, on June 15, from cancer at age 89.

    Donald’s life and diagnosis has helped define autism research and care ever since. Donald “left an indelible mark on our understanding of autism” as “something to be included, not ‘othered,’” the president of the US non-profit Autism Speaks recently said.

    Today around one in 36 children in the US are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. While many questions about it remain, much of the care the children receive traces back to the work of Dr. Kanner and his very first patient, Donald Triplett.
     
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