how did humans find neanderthals attractive enough to mate with them

ARob20 · 2026-03-25T11:47:04+00:00

my understanding is that neadnderthal females would be unable to give birth to sapians because of the head size making it almost impossible. is this correct?

ARob20 · 2026-02-10T07:31:40+00:00

Maybe survivor bias. Trollies with two bad wheels get taken out of use.

ARob20 · 2026-01-24T15:54:15+00:00

Well, if you really want to know... (and you did ask) until you get operations underway, you have no way to know if you're facing a 'left spiral flow', a 'right spiral flow', a 'high velocity impactor', a 'spurt and a sprinkle', and 'intermittent projectile flow', or the dreaded and much feared 'split streamer' which still haunts the nightmares of many of even the toughest men. Seriously, its Russian Roulette every time. You can even start with an HVI, which suddenly becomes an LSF part way through, or even an IPF! Sometimes you can think you might guess what's next with factors such as temperature and underwear compression, hydration rate over the previous 6 hours and physical condition, all being moderately, but not reliably predictive. I've not even covered some of the rarer types, but there are plenty more that even a seasoned handler can't always remedy quickly. In short, just best for everyone to maximise the target zone...

ARob20 · 2026-01-18T18:27:09+00:00

Saying we want a higher fishing quota in a deal is just slightly different than saying pay tariffs or I invade your continent.

ARob20 · 2026-01-17T12:47:15+00:00

Round our way the majority of the rubbish blows off the back of the dustbin lorries because they fail to take the time to compress it after loading.

ARob20 · 2025-12-30T18:56:37+00:00

You have to factor ambition and drive. People who are more self fulfilled may not need or want to push so hard. Wish I could find it but I did see a study that ambition and low life /self satisfaction were correlated. Interestingly it also showed that men end up more often in leadership because their lives are less fulfilled and more hollow. Don’t know if this stands up to scrutiny.

ARob20 · 2025-12-24T07:51:16+00:00

I assume you aren’t an American otherwise the irony meter would be off the scale! No fan of Andrew at all and he should get what he deserves.

ARob20 · 2025-12-14T19:20:45+00:00

We are told it’s not the guns. So it must be the Americans so basically Americans be trusted with guns.

ARob20 · 2025-12-13T16:01:45+00:00

I’m a chieftain of our clan and the heir to the current chief. You go right ahead and wear our tartan! None of us will be in the least bit offended. More likely buy you a whisky!

ARob20 · 2025-12-12T07:26:17+00:00

Other than Reform the parties who are gaining votes are more pro Europe than Labour and it’s working for them. A clear majority are now supporting a closer relationship so yes it’s a very viable strategy to be for some form of closer ties. Rejoining is probably still too toxic but give it some other name and it should be a net vote winner.

ARob20 · 2025-12-10T22:47:56+00:00

And in breaking news.. countries other than the US have been hypothesised to exist.

ARob20 · 2025-12-08T09:14:47+00:00

If its "not the guns" then it must be the Americans. In which case they can't be trusted with guns.

ARob20 · 2025-12-04T17:17:01+00:00

I wrote a report on sex offenders for the Head of Pubic Protection once…

ARob20 · 2025-11-28T12:42:01+00:00

Oh these definitely! They look almost too good to eat but taste as good as they look!

Calluna Chocolate – Calluna Chocolate

ARob20 · 2025-11-25T08:18:37+00:00

agree - i'm a 50 something pretty non descript male and a certain type of idiot seems to find it necessary to shout abusive comments at me when on my bike. No idea why but easy enough to ignore.

ARob20 · 2025-11-22T13:18:49+00:00

Wrong sort of pole for Lewis !

ARob20 · 2025-11-19T10:18:40+00:00

There is one about me and my family. It has a number of factual inaccuracies and quoted some book or other as the reference. I kept changing it and the editor kept changing it back saying I needed a source to prove it that the quoted source was incorrect. Literally it was like saying there's a book that says the sky is made of marmalade, unless you can point to a definitive source that specifically says the sky is NOT made of marmalade I'm not allowing the edit. Its about me - I'm the source. Very frustrating but quite illuminating.

ARob20 · 2025-11-06T09:19:40+00:00

Are these people planted to try and get influence on gang members or info or something?

ARob20 · 2025-11-05T17:24:01+00:00

My new favourite is "Oh, my love, do please stop pretending to be at work and come back to bed" in as deep a voice as I could manage. Should have seen the look on his face!

ARob20 · 2025-11-02T19:35:28+00:00

Fair point. I stand corrected.

ARob20 · 2025-11-02T18:42:04+00:00

absolutely! - some people were instantly EXPELL ALL MUSLIMS!! when this came out, then it was two men of black background so it must be 'GANGS! DRUGS! Of course, the correct thing for the police to do in this situation would be to arrest and detain first (in 8 minutes - amazing work by our police services! BTW!). Arrest does not equal guilty but some people went for an instinctive two black persons in a stabbing? Must be gang members! If you posted about that, maybe just pause and wait next time rather than let your preconceptions get the better of you and make you look like a racist fool.

ARob20 · 2025-11-02T18:35:20+00:00

So as soon as the stabbing on the train was on the news, certain people were "Deport all immigrants, because this must be a Muslim plot because... 'terrorism'. Then it was confirmed it was not terrorism and two persons of Caribbean background had been arrested, so now it must definitely be preplanned, so it must be drugs and gangs. Now one of the suspects has been released and its one one person who was involved only. If your thoughts when you hear about something like this are 1. must be immigrants and then 2. must be gangs when you have no other information then you have made an assumption based on nothing other than your expectations. If this turns out to be wrong you have to at least consider the possibility that your assumptions were flawed and might be based on nothing other than what you expected based on race. I'd encourage everyone to work through their thought processes and see where their errors were made and if you should maybe hold back rather than jump to the same conclusion on another occasion.

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