Dopamine is not a gland, it's a neurotransmitter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DopamineDevogue wrote:I hate atheists.FrigidSymphony wrote:Anything you "like" is because of dopamine. Or other such glands.
I bet you hate pedants too.
a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
I bet you hate pedants too.
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
Where the fuck's Even Adam? I hate tossers who abandon forums.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Dopamine is not a gland, it's a neurotransmitter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DopamineDevogue wrote:I hate atheists.FrigidSymphony wrote:Anything you "like" is because of dopamine. Or other such glands.
I bet you hate pedants too.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
Biggest wankers there is, if you ask me.Devogue wrote:Where the fuck's Even Adam? I hate tossers who abandon forums.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Dopamine is not a gland, it's a neurotransmitter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DopamineDevogue wrote:I hate atheists.FrigidSymphony wrote:Anything you "like" is because of dopamine. Or other such glands.
I bet you hate pedants too.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
Yeah yeah, whatever.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Dopamine is not a gland, it's a neurotransmitter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DopamineDevogue wrote:I hate atheists.FrigidSymphony wrote:Anything you "like" is because of dopamine. Or other such glands.
I bet you hate pedants too.
fuck you, you filthy pedant!
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That hangs his heid and a' that
The coward slave, we pass him by
We dare be puir for a' that.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
Making something that others are impressed with: food, a handmade card, my scrapbooks. It makes you feel great when you know that someone is in awe of something you have made.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
Feeling creative, useful and helpful, preferably at the same time. Otherwise I feel stuck with lil' ol' me and my boundaries.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
a) Sinking my teeth into a really fiddly bit of programming that includes a number of complex and elaborate sql statement, regular expressions or just creative uses of the language. Things like data mining for fun, screen scraping, merging of disparate web service results for a useful purpose, etc.
b) Because it's like a fantastic series of problem solving tasks that give me a wonderful sense of satisfaction and achievement when that "Hello World!" moment comes.
b) Because it's like a fantastic series of problem solving tasks that give me a wonderful sense of satisfaction and achievement when that "Hello World!" moment comes.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
a) Creating music
b) Because I can express myself in any way I want to far more eloquently than I ever could with words
b) Because I can express myself in any way I want to far more eloquently than I ever could with words
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
a) Spending the last 5 hours getting hot and sweaty with the woman I love. 
b) You need to ask?
b) You need to ask?
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
DP wrote:a) Spending the last 5 hours getting hot and sweaty with the woman I love.
b) You need to ask?
That was covered in the OP... 
Unless you're talking about mowing the yard, or something...
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
I was only just home when I wrote it, didn't have the energy to think of anything else.FBM wrote:DP wrote:a) Spending the last 5 hours getting hot and sweaty with the woman I love.
b) You need to ask?
Unless you're talking about mowing the yard, or something...
Gawd wrote:»
And those Zumwalts are already useless, they can be taken out with an ICBM.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
If I'd just spent 5 hours shagging, I don't think I'd have much else on the forefront of my thoughts, either. Like the OP says: no points deducted!DP wrote:I was only just home when I wrote it, didn't have the energy to think of anything else.FBM wrote:DP wrote:a) Spending the last 5 hours getting hot and sweaty with the woman I love.
b) You need to ask?
Unless you're talking about mowing the yard, or something...
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"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
5 hours shagging?
5 hours shitting with 4-4-2 magazine, a bucket of popcorn and pure grade warfarin to stop the bog-seat induced pins and needles beats that.
5 hours shitting with 4-4-2 magazine, a bucket of popcorn and pure grade warfarin to stop the bog-seat induced pins and needles beats that.
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
I'm dead serious about this: a really good, deep-cleansing, blood-pressure-dropping, spirit-uplifting, day-brightening shit is sometimes...hmmm...well...an acceptable substitute for 5 hours of sex, anyway.Devogue wrote:5 hours shagging?
5 hours shitting with 4-4-2 magazine, a bucket of popcorn and pure grade warfarin to stop the bog-seat induced pins and needles beats that.
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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Re: a) What makes you happy? b) And why does it?
1A) Creating art
1B) Because it allows me to change and/or reject this reality and create my own
2A) Doing things to make loved ones happy, laugh, etc
2B) Because my loved one's happiness and well being directly affects my own
3A) Performing random acts of kindness, especially if it is done anonymously
3B) Because… I dunno. It just feels good to do right for the sake of doing right
1B) Because it allows me to change and/or reject this reality and create my own
2A) Doing things to make loved ones happy, laugh, etc
2B) Because my loved one's happiness and well being directly affects my own
3A) Performing random acts of kindness, especially if it is done anonymously
3B) Because… I dunno. It just feels good to do right for the sake of doing right
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