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something seems fishy here. that's almost 25 pounds a day. and i'm sure he wasn't getting nutritional content from his plane, so he probably had to add some legitimate food in that diet somewhere. can a human even fit that much into their digestive system?

 

The same result!!!

 

Suck it, Erdy!

 

YES! Breaking bread together can cure humanity of its troubles

 

Damn fool

 

Collective nouns, such as the word band, are generally singular in the United States; but for band names, most people go by the rule that if the band name sounds plural (like the Beatles or Black Eyed Peas), they treat the name as plural, and if the band name sounds singular (like Fall Out Boy or Coldplay), they treat the name as singular.

So in the US, you’d see sentences such as “The Black Eyed Peas were amazing at the Rose Bowl” (treating Black Eyed Peas as plural because it sounds plural), and “Coldplay is hitting the road this summer,” (treating Coldplay as singular because it sounds singular).

British writers are more likely than American writers to treat all band names as plural. For example, it’s easy to find British publications writing about the recent Coldplay tour with lines such as “Coldplay are the headliners,” and “Coldplay are asking their fans to submit requests for European tour dates.”

If you’re in the US, treat band names like they sound—singular if they sound singular and plural if they sound plural—but if you’re writing with British English, treat all band names as plural.

Sources

”Plural Noun Forms.” The Guide to Grammar and Writing website. Hartford, CT: Capital Community College Foundation. Plural Noun Forms (accessed June 3, 2016).

O’Connor, P.T. and Kellerman, S. “Group Therapy.” Grammarphobia. Group therapy (accessed June 3, 2016).

“Collective Nouns.” AP Stylebook. Associated Press Stylebook (accessed June 3, 2016, subscription required).

 

It’s a start

 

That the Olmec were the first civilisation in Mesoamerica but what I found more satisfying is that researchers and archaeologists find indefinitely more common traits with the Olmec and African civilisations than anything Mesoamerican.

 

Vitamin A deficiency is still the leading cause of blindness, and vitamin A was discovered by great white hunters in Alaska, who ignored the warning of the local natives and ate the liver of a polar bear, only to all turn bright orange and die.

 

Oh wow

 

I've just tried a few in my head... and I think I may tend to be the opposite and treat them all as singular...
but I'm going to have to pay attention to real life conversation and see what I do.

 

I applaud your effort! Excellent

 

Accessed June 2016?

So you've been holding onto that for 3 years, just waiting for the right moment to drop a knowledge bomb?

 

A good truthbomb is like an egg. It needs brooding

 

Copy-pasted it like that

 

"breaking bread" is a phrase that really needs to be updated. if you're breaking your bread these days, i think you probably need better bread.

 

There's over 130 references to slavery in the bible. It would appear that we as humans have the same traits in our DNA as he we call God. Not only this, but slavery appears to be one of the earliest things humans ever learned or adapted to using for personal and commercial gains. The two most common traits I can trace back to ancient times is man's indulgence of gold and slavery and in most circumstances the two coincide with one another at almost every opportunity.

 

Isn't that because gold was currency and slavery the labour force that costs the least? For humans at least. Don't think the gods needed gold for currency

 

No, gold only became currency much later in civilisation. Gold was a status of wealth and power before trade. The more bracelets of rings or trinkets you had made of gold, the higher you were in the eyes of others. Keep in mind that before humans ever started to work out iron ore and bronze, they knew how to mine for gold. Metal urging hadn't yet become a thing in civilisation, but they knew where the gold was and tunnelled into the earth through mineshafts in Africa that have been dated to hundreds of thousands of years old to get to that gold.

I don't think man really knew what they were mining for, I mean they knew the gold meant a lot to their owners, they'd been mining the earth for an insane amount of time but I don't think they understood what they were doing with that gold. So humans melted it down to make little trinkets and things that would inevitably rank an individual higher than others in status and then they realised they could market it and now we have that same theory I think they call that capitalism in todays world. Wealth, power and status no real different to today. The ancients knew gold was important, didn't understand why, so they placed their own kind of doctrine behind it.. Power.

I find it interesting in countries and places where no industrial scale mining for gold occurs that the inhabitants of those areas placed lesser importance on the gold, such as in the ancient days, the Australian Aboriginals knew about the existence of gold yet its not particularly prevelent in their culture. I suggest this was because there was no need for mass mining in their region of the world, so no mass slave trade to mine for the gold, hence power, wealth and status bound to gold held little to no importance.

The major civilisations that concerned themselves with gold the most also drove the slave trades too, coincidence that much of this takes place in biblical lands? Not to me, after all, the references to slaves and gold are echoed in the bible as well even to the point where God asked man to bring him gold. Why would God need gold? Why would God allow or need this slavery for the continuation of the production of gold? It goes hand in hand I feel. Somebody higher wanted the gold and drove slavery to get it..

Let this sink in.. If those ancient gold mining shafts found in south Africa are only 50% accurate in terms of their estimated age, then man... Or something.. Knew how to how to mine for gold well before the wheel was even invented... They knew how to refine this special metal found deep in the earth and seemingly didn't even condsider doing the same to other ore until, and I'll be polite with downplaying the estimated time frame by up to 75%, until 50,000 years later.

That doesn't make sense to me. Something is extremely amiss in our teachings and understandings of human history based on that little nugget. Pun. It literally does not make any sense.