Crocodiles can live even 150 years?

Elisabeths can live longer than the earth?

Sex of a baby crocodile is not genetically determined, but is determined by the temperature at which the egg is incubating, with males produced at around 31.6 degrees celsius, and females produced at slightly lower and higher temperatures.

Bonobo is one of two species making the chimpanzee genus, Pan. Along with the Common Chimpanzee, the Bonobo is the closest relative to Humans. The species is distinguished by relatively long legs, parted hair on their head, a matriarchal culture, and the prominent role of sexual activity in its society. The Bonobo walks upright about 25% of the time during ground locomotion. These characteristics, and its posture, gives the Bonobo a more human-like appearance than that of the Common Chimpanzee. Moreover, the Bonobo has highly individuated facial features, as humans do, so that one individual can look significantly different from another, adapted for visual recognition in social interaction.

Sexual intercourse plays a major role in Bonobo society, being used as a greeting, a means of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconciliation, and as favors traded by the females in exchange for food. With the exception of a pair of Congoese gorillas caught in the act, Bonobos were thought to be the only non-human apes to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: face-to-face genital sex (most frequently female-female, then male-female and male-male), tongue kissing, and oral sex. In scientific literature, the female-female sex is often referred to as GG rubbing or genital-genital rubbing.

Sexual activity happens within the immediate family as well as outside it, and often involves adults and children, even infants. Bonobos do not form permanent relationships with individual partners. They also do not seem to discriminate in their sexual behavior by gender or age, with the possible exception of sexual intercourse between mothers and their adult sons; some observers believe these pairings are taboo. When Bonobos come upon a new food source or feeding ground, the increased excitement will usually lead to communal sexual activity, presumably decreasing tension and allowing for peaceful feeding.

Bonobo males frequently engage in various forms of male-male genital sex (frot). One form has two males hang from a tree limb face-to-face while "penis fencing". Frot may also occur where two males rub their penises together while in missionary position. A special form of frot called "rump rubbing" occurs to express reconciliation between two males after a conflict, where they stand back-to-back and rub their scrotal sacs together.

Females are somewhat smaller than males but can be considered to have a higher social status. Strong female bonding allows groups of female Bonobos to dominate the community. Aggressive encounters between males and females are rare, and males are tolerant of infants and juveniles. The male's status reflects the status of his mother, and the son-mother bond often stays strong and continues throughout life. While social hierarchies do exist, rank does not play as prominent a role as it does in other primate societies.

Frans de Waal, one of the world's leading primatologists, states that the Bonobo is often capable of altruism, compassion, empathy, kindness, patience and sensitivity.

source: Wikipedia

Ok I won't make a comment about Elisabeth here now

Hitler and Napolean both had only one testicle

Contemporary humans, exhibit considerable variability in cranial capacity (1150 cc to 1600 cc), none of which is related to intelligence, because the organization of neural circuitry is more significant than overall cranial capacity in establishing mental capabilities.

... the circle shape of wedding rings represented eternity for the Egyptian. Wearing a wedding ring symbolize the marriage agreement. They placed the wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand believing the left hand was directly connected to the heart. The Greeks also believed in this wedding ring tradition thus perpetuating the practice.

However, Elizabethans wore wedding rings on their thumbs. During the Eighteenth century Roman Catholics wore wedding rings on their right hands. Many European women still follow the Roman Catholic wedding ring tradition. The circle shape of the wedding ring represents eternity whether it is worn on the right or left hand.

wedding rings

What language is the hardest and easiest to learn?

There are several criteria:
1.- Strangeness: it depends on what you already know
2.- Grammar difficulties: Polish (it has 7 genders, 3 number, 6 declension cases, and very irregular verbs)
3.- writing system: Japanese (every character can have up to 7 readings, Mandarin instead one character 1 reading)
4.- speaking difficulties: Korean (it has over 7 honorific levels, every one with different verbs endings)


From the point of view of an English speaker, world languages can be separated into three categories, depending on how many hours it would take to study it for minimal proficiency:
Category 1. The “easiest” languages for speakers of English, requiring 600 hours of classwork for minimal proficiency: the Latin and Germanic languages. However, German itself requires a bit more time, 750 hours, because of its complex grammar.
Category 2. Medium, requiring 1100 hours of classwork: Slavic languages, Turkic languages, other Indo-Europeans such as Persian and Hindi, and some non-Indo-Europeans such as Georgian, Hebrew and many African languages. Swahili is ranked easier than the rest, at 900 hours.
Category 3. Difficult, requiring 2200 hours of study: Arabic, Japanese, Korean and the Chinese languages.


However, the most important factor of all is personal motivation. This is up to you. The easiest language to learn is the one that you are most motivated to learn, the one you enjoy speaking, the one with the culture that inspires you and the history that touches you spiritually. It is useless to try to learn a language if you are not interested in the people who speak it, since learning a language involves participating in its behaviors and identifying with its people.

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If you stretch out your arms, the distance from fingertips of one hand to the other is the same as your height.

Also, the distance from your wrist to your inner elbow is the same as your foot.

There is a rumour that for men, the distance between the thumb and the first finger of his hand is the same as.....ermm... but I am not sure if that one is true

I see nobody checked the arms/height or wrist/foot facts. You are all too busy with hands (and other things) on desk with a ruler eh?

lets forget about sizes it makes me sad

Did you know why a hotdog is called a hotdog???
In 1987, Frankfurt, Germany celebrated the 500th birthday of the frankfurter, the hot dog sausage. Although, the people of Vienna (Wien), Austria will point out that their wiener sausages are proof of origin for the hot dog. (By the way, ham, being pork meat, is found in hotdogs.) According to Douglas B. Smith in his book "Every wonder why?" the hotdog was given its name by a cartoonist.

A butcher from Frankfurt who owned a dachshund named the long frankfurter sausage a "dachshund sausage," the dachshund being a slim dog with a long body. ("Dachshund" is German for "badger dog." They were originally bred for hunting badgers.) German immigrants introduced the dachshund sausage (and Hamburg meat) to the United States. In 1871, German butcher Charles Feltman opened the first "hotdog" stand in Coney Island in 1871, selling 3,684 dachshund sausages, most wrapped in a milk bread roll, during his first year in business.

In the meantime, frankfurters - and wieners - were sold as hot food by sausage sellers. In 1901, New York Times cartoonist T.A. Dargan noticed that one sausage seller used bread buns to handle the hot sausages after he burnt his fingers and decided to illustrate the incident. He wasn´t sure of the spelling of dachshund and simply called it "hot dog."


ohh these Germans!!

did you know that, first ferries came to Istanbul in 1853?

The Bosphorous Steam Navigation Co or its Turkish name Sirketi Hayriye was established in 1851 and construction of the ferries was given to a Greek banker called Baltaci Manolki.

He had a son living in London and through him, he brought 6 ferries named as 

No 1 Rumeli,

No 2 Tarabya,

No 3 Göksu,

No 4 Beylerbeyi,

No 5 Tophane

No 6 Besiktas.

They were all built in Isle of Wight!

that is the link http://www.bartiesworld.co.uk/postcards/ship_list_commercial.htm 

I can not find pictures of them but it must be something like that: 

http://bp3.blogger.com/..fbbo/s400/sahilbent_jpg.jpg

ps I thought, IOW is a such a small place with a population around 500 people..I never knew they had ship construction there..you always learn something new..

WOW!!! That is soooooo interesting!  I lived in Cowes until early this year and know Samuel Whites very well. That is amazing!!!

Yes, theH, Cowes (and it´s annual regatta) on the Isle of Wight is known all over the world as one of the yachting capitals, and YES we also build ships....we are also the home of the hovercraft

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A471412

PS. 500 people?  The last census recorded our population as 132,731!!!

ha ha

You seemed quite proud of your hovercrafts...

..

The folks who live in Cowes and 
Gurnard tremble by the thousand, 
And the peace of Ryde is shattered everyday. 
So if you want a place that´s silent, 
You´d better leave the Island, 
You can hear the bloody thing at Totland Bay.

is this IOW national anthem?  

 Yes!!!! Where the hell did you find that song?

EDIT:  Ahh ok it was at the bottom of the link

did you know that British victory during Battle of Waterloo was the result of some lost leeches?

On the day, Napoleon was  suffering  an acute  attack of haemorrhoids that stopped him riding his horse and ultimately lost the ability the supervise his troops movement..

And two days earlier his doctor had lost the leeches which were used to relieve him from the pain of his piles and overdosed him with laudanum..

He was still under the effects of the drug at that morning and his assult which was planned at 6 am, was delayed till midday..

That is why he was defeated..

 And is that why he is said to have uttered the words "Not tonight Josephine" ?

Napoleon . . . reminds me of my school days and the history syllabus we studied . . . 1789-1890.  History was my favourite subject but I hated that syllabus !!!

No!

I know nothing

At least you admit it

I have a feeling, you are talking to yourself Bod..

 +500.....(posts)

Why do you have this feeling???

*CoNFuSeD*

I know AEnigma has suggested that Dogman is one of my pets but I only have one pet and that is FlossDog!

A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex!

Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!

There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time. 

I wonder where Guam is?

*hmmm.....

** Guam is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government.  The island´s capital isHagåtña (formerly Agana). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.

(there you go H - looks like you found the perfect job at last!!!)

I bet once our tc gentlemen read it, TheH will have a lot of competition. I hope they won´t run out of virgins there

I bet they will read it..

(Right now, I am posting the samething into all Irish forums..And I am assuming all Irish men them will be going to Guam and I will be coming to Ireland   

Woohoo..  

 OMG....I sometimes tell my husband that I think his mind is always in the gutter!  Now I KNOW it is!  He has to shave twice a day!!!

Could it just be that Turkish men are hairy....   So what about all these Amish guys...are they thinking about sex all the time too..

Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be turned on by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor’s degree. 

Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy oral sex (giving and receiving) than high school dropouts.

Women who have a positive attitude towards sex tend to be less achievement oriented. 

A housewife with phd degree seems perfect

Did you just make this up???  

 Where do you get these things from?

They are the results from my years and years of researching in this field...

So you did just make it up 

now im AGK thehandsome .....look what you made....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc7T2KDpjGo

the WARII started in Poland?on 1st September 1939,my nation is celebrating 70th anniversary of it,being torn between Germans and Russians that attacked us on 17th from other side..

My land suffered so much ..more than any other...

 yeap....did u see maybe on tvp2--programme about american, british and german history students....what they said about II War???

in one word...only Bristish one answered correct for all questions....its so so sad , that people dont know general facts of world history

yes, we all know that Dobrowskis are good at starting a war and then losing it.

why don´t you learn a little bit about your own country now that you have mastered all the other ones!

Awww, still feeling bitter over losing to Dobrowskis in Vienna? 

ha ha ha

(TC tonight is getting better and better!!!)

still talking about Vienna? it`s traumatic for you, eh?

 As always

Traumatic? Such a glorious victory? I thought you´d be still licking your wounds. Obviously you repressed it from your memory (must have been soooo painful).

 or maybe for you mshn ?

hmmm, it`s only Dobrowskis who always talk about Vienna on tc. It certainly doesn`t have an important place in our lives. obsessed?

Indeed, it seems the Turks like to forget history .

Disclaimer:

The above is a sarcastic response for the sake of playful banter, which is no way reflects the opinions of the author of this post. It does NOT mean that the author if the post considers the Turks to be:

a) ignorant of history of their own country

b) ignorant of history of Europe and the world in general

c) purposefully manipulating historical facts

d) covering up facts and pretending they never happened

e) too pridefull to admit defeat

Also, the author of the post would like to state that the information on the Siege of Vienna was in no part provided and/or manipualted by the Christian Media.

Stop reminding that !!!

PMSL melek - you go girl muehahhahahhahahahha

why are they too many Dobrowskis on tc? Someone should teach them about birth control.

what a racist statement. you are accumulating your racist comments now.. it might be time for you to leave the forum soon.

yeah but definitely not your ma...

We´re looking up to the natural growth in Turkey and try to boost our low index. Till we succeed you´ll have to put up with elderly Poles constantly pinning your ears back

I didn`t know that you have a problem of decreasing marginal population. might it be because of your drunk lazy men? but don`t worry, you can always import some Turkish dudus to give a boost to your population.

ha ha ha ha ha ha

The queen!!!! 

We do, actually...you might get to know the world without Dobrowskis when you reach puberty Thanks for the advice but we´ve already tried importing Turks. It was no good as Dobrowski women were too dominant and not eager to buy them laptops and mobiles

 Since an expert in Dobrowskis issues is speaking and since YOU ALL KNOW..the Dobrowskis truth  will be beyond your ALL ken

 It appears we have one  masochist volunteer here who would resign from material things  and would come in next,possible flow to Dobrowskis land

if only the immigration Dobrowskis law was a bit lenient!!!!