Well, I decided that, while I understand mattresses that make you sore when you wake up, actively trying to stab me is not acceptable behaviour in a mattress. So I bought a new one
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I thought that the origins of human kind, as we know, started in the fertile crescent (modern day Iraq (ironic?)). Before that we weren't homo sapiens sapiens. Therefore Iraq is the first world. By your logic North America should be the last world. What would that make it? 7th?
I like your mattress idea, I haven't thought about it enough but I've been wanting to ditch my bed for years. I think if defrocked is okay with the idea I will look into getting something with a springless mattress. My Dad forced the bed we currently have on me 6 & 1/2 years ago and I'm still bitter about it.
It depends who you talk to, but I learned in school that Mesopotamia was the beginning of "civilisation." In other words, they wrote stuff down, and had politics and stuff, we know enough about them, and they're similar enough to us that we respect them as a civilisation. Before that, we don't really know much, and most people don't want to know ("What, you mean white people weren't always on top? I must erase this heresy from my memory
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"Who named this, anyway? Historically speaking, shouldn't the African continent be called the first world? I thought that the general consensus these days was that humans came from Africa first, and spread to the rest of the world? I assume that the "first" in this phrase, as we use it today, really means "most important to us, the all-time greatest rulers of the planet, even if we do say so ourselves."
As a curiosity killer... this actually happened during the "discoveries/empires' times", this includes the Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Dutch. When Spain and Portugal decided to go ask the Pope (you know... as a representative of God he should know) how they should divide the world they established that what they considered at the time part of their empires should be called "1st world" and what they "discovered", those wildernesses where the uncivilized creatures roamed (hehehe) was to be called "3rd world".
I think the 2nd world would have been the powerless European nations of the time, i.e. Germany, Russia, Balkans, Norway, Sweden, Prussia, etc, etc... Funny to think that 1000 years ago Portugal and Holland were vastly more powerful than Russia and Germany...
A quick possibility regarding cleanliness and bugs. When I was younger, I had a few friends who had parents who were so obsessed with cleanliness, you had to clean your hands to enter the house, after you played, if you were switching from upstairs to downstairs, etc. It seems when we keep ourselves this clean we become more prone to common, natural bacteria causing problems. This could be one of the reasons people are getting more sick (I don't remember hype about flu's and viruses in the 80s, except for the obvious killer ones) and also a possibility why it seems more people have asthma than before (this is all speculative of course
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It is easier to handle the cold if you get used to it. I'll have to think about this soon... I seem to remember the weather up north (north of North Bay) getting colder more gradually than down here, but that could just be the last few years. I liked winter lots better up there.
The other thing about the Inuit life seems to be that the winter months are spent hibernating, staying warm in a small place with lots of friends and family, eating the stuff you caught in the fall, and maybe going out now and then and getting animals that live in the water under the ice (I admit, I don't know an awful lot about the details). It's a different way of life than our [completely illogical] year-round office work. I think it's much better to live with nature, rather than trying to do the same thing all year 'round. Winter's good for staying home and cozy in front of the fire!
I like your layer of fat, it makes you nice and squishy. Yum, and good for snuggling.
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I like your mattress idea, I haven't thought about it enough but I've been wanting to ditch my bed for years. I think if defrocked is okay with the idea I will look into getting something with a springless mattress. My Dad forced the bed we currently have on me 6 & 1/2 years ago and I'm still bitter about it.
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As a curiosity killer... this actually happened during the "discoveries/empires' times", this includes the Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Dutch. When Spain and Portugal decided to go ask the Pope (you know... as a representative of God he should know) how they should divide the world they established that what they considered at the time part of their empires should be called "1st world" and what they "discovered", those wildernesses where the uncivilized creatures roamed (hehehe) was to be called "3rd world".
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b) better you than me! ;-D
Thank you, O brave and honourable one.
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I'm not sure about the start of civilization, but I've always found that non-spring matresses more comfortable.
They're easier to have sex on too.
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The other thing about the Inuit life seems to be that the winter months are spent hibernating, staying warm in a small place with lots of friends and family, eating the stuff you caught in the fall, and maybe going out now and then and getting animals that live in the water under the ice (I admit, I don't know an awful lot about the details). It's a different way of life than our [completely illogical] year-round office work. I think it's much better to live with nature, rather than trying to do the same thing all year 'round. Winter's good for staying home and cozy in front of the fire!
I like your layer of fat, it makes you nice and squishy. Yum, and good for snuggling.
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Yayyyyyy!!
and True.
everything is not in that order.
*LOL*
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