| Straight razors are unfriendly to new users and stupid teenagers (log) | by museman | | Shiny. Smooth. Sharp. Nice.
This is going to be so awesome, way better than all those other pansies with their safety razors. I'm going to shave dangerously. That's right, I could die while shaving. How cool is that? That's how a real man should shave. Plus, if someone tries to start some shit with me while I'm shaving, I'll be ready. Watch out everybody, I'm shaving with a ...
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| Roulade of Herbed Lamb with Stewed Garlic (recipe) | by Adaptive Child |
This is a fancy one I picked up from a friend of the family. The herbs rolled up in the loin of lamb, rosemary, thyme, lavender and whatnot, are a fresh combination of herbes de Provence, a mix of herbs from the southern part of France. Definitely a meal to impress.
Roulade of Herbed Lamb with Stewed Garlic
Serves 6.
Ingredients
- 3 boned racks or loins of lamb, fat removed.
- ½ cup chopped fresh...
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| afterimage (thing) | by Simulacron3 |
Afterimages are a class of visual phenomena in which some aspect of an image persists after the visual stimulus for the image ceases. In simpler words, we continue to see something that is not there anymore. There are two types of afterimage, negative and positive.
The positive afterimage is like a positive photograph; it has the same coloration as the original image. The familiar example is when you happen to be staring at a flashbulb when it goes off and...
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| Endogamy (idea) | by fallensparks | It's like Webster says.
The practice of marriage within a social group. Examples of such a group
include occupation, family, colour, caste, nationality and religion. Religion is
probably the most relevant grouping worldwide. The Amish community and Orthodox
Jews may be the most famous practitioners but endogamy, to varying
degrees, is extremely common.
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| May 6, 2008 (person) | by Lucy-S | I want to tell you all something, but I can't, not yet, and so I'll tell you something else.
I'm almost there. The things I've been working toward the past decade are finally coming together. I'm close to starting a new life as the person I've wanted to be my whole life.
It took me longer than I thought it would. I guess ...
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| Good faith in contracting (idea) | by Scaevola | The Romans distinguished very clearly between citizens, and non-citizens, being persons who were not allowed to access the institutions of Roman law. Only citizens were entitled to use the various legal institutions of the strict ius civile, the law of Rome, which was...
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