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Water eases thirst even before it reaches your bloodstream It cleans your kidneys and helps it to function properly Water ensures your cognitive performance and being deprived of water can cause a serious short-term memory damage Water keeps you happy as mild dehydration causes significant dips in the mood Water reduces joint pain as it maintains the right amount of cushioning in your joints Water protects your spinal cord as it is an essential part of one of the nervous system’s most powerful protective mechanisms: Cerebrospinal Fluid. |
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12-22-2017, 11:03 PM | #482 | |
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12-22-2017, 11:30 PM | #483 |
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Wow, ancient thread Batman!
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12-23-2017, 02:31 AM | #484 |
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12-23-2017, 12:04 PM | #485 |
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12-23-2017, 01:23 PM | #486 |
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Ants don't like walking on talcum powder coated surfaces 'coz its slippery
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09-07-2018, 08:06 AM | #487 |
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According to Scoopify.org/fun-trivia-questions, 25% of Americans believe that this imaginary character is a real person. Who is he?
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09-15-2018, 01:47 PM | #488 | ||
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Words at Play Prat Although Merriam-Webster is a dictionary of American English, it contains a range of words rarely heard outside Britain. Here are some of our favourites. Definition - a stupid or foolish person Prat has been British slang for the sort of person with whom you’d rather not share a long train journey since the middle of the 20th century. Prior to this the word served a number of other useful functions, with such meanings as “the buttocks” and “to nudge or push (as a person) with the buttocks.” A pratfall, now commonly used to mean “a humiliating mishap or blunder,” originally meant “a fall on the buttocks.” Quote:
Whinge Definition - to complain fretfully: whine Whinge and whine may look like simple variants, but the two words are fairly distinct, with meanings and histories that are independent. Whinge comes from an Old English word, hwinsian, meaning “to wait or moan discontentedly,” whereas whine comes from the Old English hwinan (“to make a humming or whirring sound”). Whinge, in use since the 12th century, has always had a meaning related to complaining; whine, on the other hand, did not begin to have its now-familiar meaning until the 16th century. Quote:
Source: Words at Play: Please Don't Whinge About Being Knackered, You Prat Last edited by trichobezoar; 09-15-2018 at 02:58 PM. |
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09-15-2018, 03:39 PM | #489 |
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Phil Collins auditioned for a part on the Sid & Marty Krofft show The Bugaloos. He wasn't selected.
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09-15-2018, 06:50 PM | #490 |
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I'm a Londoner and I'd never heard "whinge' until I came to Australia, where it was/is mainly used to refer to "Whingeing Poms".
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09-15-2018, 07:10 PM | #491 |
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That's interesting. I wonder if the originator of the article is British. Probably not. And he/she's probably generalizing if it's used in a particular region of Britain.
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09-15-2018, 09:41 PM | #492 | |
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The term 'borrowed/loan word' is silly, no one ever returns them to the people from whom they borrowed them BR |
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09-16-2018, 03:47 AM | #493 | |
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Having said that, I come from Norwich, Norfolk, and whinge is certainly a native word as far as I'm concerned. |
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09-18-2018, 06:33 AM | #494 |
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09-29-2018, 12:05 PM | #495 |
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They say that English is the hardest language to learn because we have borrowed so many words from other languages.
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