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Maybe the its aren't coreferential, so it's more like: "You touch it (your penis), you wash it (your hands/self)" Although of course the coreferential interpretation is way more likely for a native english speaker. More importantly though, does anyone (male) wipe after weeing? Perhaps this deserves a thread.

I think people used to change them to stupid things like "anyone posting in this thread is a wanker."

My sister claims girls' toilets also have perfume girls, although I'm pretty sure other girls I've asked have denied ever seeing any.

Nothing much really. I need to format my computer and reinstall windows but am delaying doing it...

People are rubbish at making copycat threads. Pick one and I'll open it.

Add Cambridge to the list of places where toilet guys lurk.

To make a massively sweeping heteronormative generalisation, it seems to me that girls go to clubs because they like to dance, and guys go to clubs to get girls. So this makes this a bit awkward for both sexes really. I imagine clubbing is more fun if you like both dancing and hooking up with randomers, but I'm interested in neither. Also, toilet guys are hilarious. I once saw one do a flying kick into a cubicle when a drunk guy locked himself in and couldn't get out.

It's awesome that there's a new series, but that trailer wasn't all that funny. I was actually watching this with my sister (who went to a girls' school) yesterday: "It's funny, but the amount they take the piss out of each other is obviously exaggerated." "What do you mean, exaggerated?"

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In, etc. &c.

Me and Molly share a non-NE facebook friend. Coincidence? I think so, but a pretty unsurprising one really.

You... you can hear infra-red? That's like an actual superpower.

Like Daft said, this is amazing, never heard of it. I was intrigued enough to have to go and find out why it worked, then I went round testing it on things like the Wii sensor bar.

Belfast English is awesome - if I remember correctly you can say things like "there should the children go to school."

Yum...

Definitely winter - I love rain, I like being cold and then getting warm (and the total lack of sweatiness), and darkness is quite cool.

In all seriousness, it could be some kind of ringworm like Tinea faciei, but I'm no doctor. Go to someone who is!

These things were just wrong.

Well I expect some other linguists have got there first... (awaits Rez's TWSS )

Sadly I don't think I'll be needing business cards... Fail at being a linguist - that's like a biologist saying "many animals in this country haven't got a fucking clue how to stand up straight."

Professional linguist is the current plan, which means trying to find out how language works. I'm always amazed more people don't try to do this. If that fails, I might look into converting to law.

I find boredom is generally a result of a lack of effort on my part, either in something I'm currently doing or something I ought to do. The best enjoyment comes from things you work at.

Oh yeah, thanks, thought there'd be some errors. Yep, it's probably caused by a lot of things - the female baldness I was focusing on was just the type that's caused by the same genes as male pattern baldness.

This isn't strictly true. The genetics surrounding baldness aren't fully understood, but what is known is that it's at least partially linked to the X chromosome, which is why women rarely get it. So let's look at a simple model where baldness is determined only by a single X-linked gene: So in this model, there are two types of X chromosome - those with the "bald" form of the gene and those without. Let's represent the first type as X and the second as X. Y chromosomes, by contrast, don't have a copy of this gene at all, so isn't involved. Now, baldness is what's known as recessive - this basically means that so long as you have at least one X, you won't be bald, presumably because it does something like manufacturing protein necessary to prevent balding. So we have five possible combinations: hairy man: XY bald man: XY hairy woman: XX hairy woman (but carrier of baldness): XX bald woman (rare, note it's also less like male baldness and more like thinning): XX Now when people reproduce, all the genes get shuffled up, so the genetics of your mother are actually more important. For instance, in my case, my dad is bald and so XY, whereas my maternal grandfather, along with other male relatives on my mum's side of the family are all hairy, meaning my mum is probably XX. In this context, you can think of offspring as taking one random chromosome from each parent, giving four equally likely outcomes: XX XX XY XY So given I'm male and so XY, this model actually suggests I have no chance of baldness at all. However, it may be that my determination of my mum as XX is incorrect, and also other genes may be involved, so I still have some chance of baldness. As for the other possibilities, we get the following: bald man (XY) x carrier female (XX): Male offspring have a 50% chance of baldness, female offspring will either be bald or carriers (50% chance for each). hairy man (XY) x non-carrier female (XX): No offspring can be bald or carriers. hairy man (XY) x carrier female (XX): Male offspring have a 50% chance of baldness, all female offspring are carriers (50%) or not carriers (50%). bald man (XY) x bald female (XX): All offspring are bald. hairy man (XY) x bald female (XX): All male offspring are bald, all female offspring are carriers. There might be some slight errors in the above, but the general principle is more important - baldness is a lot more complex than just being inherited from your dad, and if anything your mum's genes are more important.

I know nothing of this film, but it sounds amazing.