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| Why in some moments players aren't allowed to cross the 3rd meter line and the point goes to the opponent team?--] (]) 18:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | Why in some moments players aren't allowed to cross the 3rd meter line and the point goes to the opponent team?--] (]) 18:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
| :Misplaced Pages has an article titled ] which does cover the rules. The restrictions as to which players may cross the 3-meter line are covered in that article; near as I can tell, it depends on which players start in the back-court before the serve; there's also a player called the "libero" that has restrictions on how and when they can hit the ball. --]''''']''''' 19:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | :Misplaced Pages has an article titled ] which does cover the rules. The restrictions as to which players may cross the 3-meter line are covered in that article; near as I can tell, it depends on which players start in the back-court before the serve; there's also a player called the "libero" that has restrictions on how and when they can hit the ball. --]''''']''''' 19:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
| ::We played volleyball long before meters even existed. Is tis some sort of europeanism? ] (]) 19:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | |||
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August 29
Everyone is infected with worms?
I just read from an unverified source claiming that everyone has worms in their body if they haven't been wormed in the past 4-6 weeks. And symptoms are unlikely to be present.
Can anyone point me in the right direction shedding some light on the veracity of these claims. It isn't clear if these worms are the intestinal kind or other types. Nematodes on the skin aren't likely to be too gross. But wrigglers squirming around in your bowel is. Any clarification would be useful.
Perhaps there is a Wiki-tician out there with anatomy experience who might have a had experience handling autopsies and can say for sure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.12.252.148 (talk) 21:02, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- According to our article Helminths, "over a quarter of the world’s population is infected with an intestinal worm of some sort", citing this paper, for which only the abstract is publically available. Tevildo (talk) 21:12, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- But note that those hosts are not at all evenly distributed among the world's population. In places without sewage treatment and water treatment, intestinal worms are far more common. StuRat (talk) 23:08, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- For an example, go to about 1:35 of this video clip: ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 23:35, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- But note that those hosts are not at all evenly distributed among the world's population. In places without sewage treatment and water treatment, intestinal worms are far more common. StuRat (talk) 23:08, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- What I'm seeing, the idea that everyone is "infected" seems to be a bunk claim made to sell medically spurious "colon cleansing" products. Plus, if a given species of worms was capable of infecting all of humanity (barring those of us whose diets contain enough capsaicin, citric acid, acetic acid, and dietary fiber that nothing short of gut flora can survive), they'd have to be symbiotic (or at least benign). Ian.thomson (talk) 23:47, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- If all else fails, there's always "Ex-Lax: Cleans Like a White Tornado!" ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 23:50, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- I'll stick to putting Sriracha on all my Mexican, Indian, and Chinese food, thanks. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:53, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- It does not seem to be true that everybody has worms. This source is one of many citing the figure that roughly one quarter of the world's population has parasitical worms. This problem is largely confined to developing countries with poor sanitation, particularly places where large numbers of people lack indoor toilets and proper waste disposal systems. When large numbers of people relieve themselves outdoors and drink untreated water, intestinal parasites spread easily. Marco polo (talk) 00:10, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- I'll stick to putting Sriracha on all my Mexican, Indian, and Chinese food, thanks. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:53, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- If all else fails, there's always "Ex-Lax: Cleans Like a White Tornado!" ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 23:50, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- I heard from a reliable source, W.C. Fields, that alcohol kills worms. I shall commence treatment. 24.14.34.144 (talk) 02:48, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, yes. Attributed to other drunkards as well. I think the punch line to the story is, "If I keep drinking corn, I won't get worms." ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 05:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- I heard from a reliable source, W.C. Fields, that alcohol kills worms. I shall commence treatment. 24.14.34.144 (talk) 02:48, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- If you think that's disgusting, ubiquitous and invasive, check out these large biological molecules. You get them from handling dead animals, and if a cute little baby ingests them for long enough, they'll literally take over, transforming it into a gangly, hairless chimp-like creature, driven by the unending obsession to eat corpses and feed the parasite. Even worms fall victim. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:36, August 30, 2014 (UTC)
- For further info, see "The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out." ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 05:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- Exactly. They're not our bodies in the first place. Just a temporary configuration. We say we maintain them, but there are hundreds of other jobs going on it every day that we don't even notice. Our brain self basically just rents the penthouse and does what it can to not topple the building. If mitochondria, bacteria, worms and viruses want to live here, it's not our call. All we can do if we're fed up is leave, and the building finds something else to do. Like grow fruit, or a tail or a trunk. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:52, August 30, 2014 (UTC)
- Vaguely related, the old expression, "You don't buy beer, you only rent it." ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 03:02, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Karen Blixen had a view on that: What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine. -- Jack of Oz 04:16, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Vaguely related, the old expression, "You don't buy beer, you only rent it." ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 03:02, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Exactly. They're not our bodies in the first place. Just a temporary configuration. We say we maintain them, but there are hundreds of other jobs going on it every day that we don't even notice. Our brain self basically just rents the penthouse and does what it can to not topple the building. If mitochondria, bacteria, worms and viruses want to live here, it's not our call. All we can do if we're fed up is leave, and the building finds something else to do. Like grow fruit, or a tail or a trunk. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:52, August 30, 2014 (UTC)
- For further info, see "The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out." ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 05:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- A sensationalist news piece my friend shared acts like Demodex brevis is a species-wide infection on our faces. Instead of, you know, a bunch of critters generally causing no trouble and possibly keeping our faces a little cleaner. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:43, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- If I can sensationalize further, when they do very rarely throw a party, it leads to red mange, the go-to scientific explanation for the reddest Chupacabras. I'm not saying we should eradicate this vital species, but what if it had been your adorable puppy? Or worse, Nixon's? And won't somebody also think of the livestock? InedibleHulk (talk) 04:52, September 1, 2014 (UTC)
August 30
Robbie Ross
who wrote the biography of Robbie Ross-Professional Baseball Player? How can I find it myself? On the bio page somewhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.143.208.239 (talk) 19:33, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- @74.143.208.239: Do you mean who wrote the Misplaced Pages Article titled Robbie Ross (baseball)? If you do, Misplaced Pages articles are written by many authors, who modify and improve each other's work, most of them known either by a pseudonymous user name, and some identified only by the IP address of the computer they used to make the edit. In any event, you can get a full list of every author, along with every change they made, in the order they made it in, by clicking the "view history" tab while looking at the article in question. --Jayron32 20:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- It's sometimes interesting to go the original creation edit, then click the "cur" button on the far left to compare it to the current version, and see what survived. Pretty close, this time. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:16, August 30, 2014 (UTC)
September 1
Disembowelment
Since the bowels aren't terribly well fixed in place or attached to tendons / bone like other organs, is it possible survive if a large section of your bowel fell out of your abdominal cavity. For instance, say due to a knife wound or some other tearing injury and the whole lot simply fell on the floor. 15 or more feet of the spaghetti. Could you just pick the lot back up yourself and try and cram it back in there. Or would you be generally unconscious at this stage. If not, and you picked it all up and pushed it back in would there be any immediate health consequences beyond just stitching the abdomen back up afterwards.
Gross I know but it seems like it's one of those 'questions' outta hollywood that you just wonder about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.199.169.27 (talk) 14:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
- An abdominal hernia matches the situation, except the bowel extrudes past the abdominal musculature, but not the dermis. I suffered that after a previous surgery, and wasn't operated on for a year, even though you could feel a loop of sausage under my skin that gradually grew almost a foot long, and slid in and out of my abdominal wall. Both hernia and disembowelment are eminently survivable so long as the guts themselves are not ruptured, but there is the risk of strangulation (cut off of blood supply) with both and especially infection with the latter. See also Truss (medicine). μηδείς (talk) 15:25, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
- Plucked from the internet at random: Disemboweled biker to make full recovery. I suspect that in a time before antibiotics, peritonitis would get you if shock didn't. Not a medical opinion, just a guess. Alansplodge (talk) 20:25, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
dakimakura question
Do lesbian girls in Japan use yuri-themed dakimakuras or is it just a male phenomenon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.56.17.68 (talk) 16:23, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
September 2
How to use Ebscohost Connection?
In my searches for references, I've occasionally come across articles listed on Ebscohost Connection. I'm not familiar with this website and have been struggling to understand it. I believe that I managed to access an article through the site once, but that was a couple of years ago - I don't remember what I did at the time. My recent attempts to access anything through the site have proved futile. I put a lot of effort into it a couple of months ago and just ended up confused and frustrated. I just tried again today and this is what has happened:
- I clicked on the blue flag-like box that says, "Read the article courtesy of your local library"
- This opens a green box
- I enter my zipcode to search by location
- I select a library in my local area - it isn't the library that I usually go to, but my card should still be valid there
- I enter my library card number
- I get a message saying, "Thank You! You will now be redirected to EBSCOhost to read the full text: The Bros. Runt courtesy of Fairfax County Public Library. If you are not automatically redirected, click here to go to the full text."
- I am then taken to a login page, where it asks for a User ID and Password
I don't think that I actually got this far when I tried a few months ago. But I'm not sure what login information the site is looking for. Do I need to set up an account with EBSCOhost? If so, how do I do that? I don't see an option for creating an account. --Jpcase (talk) 17:27, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm in the UK but I've always found it best to access EBSCOHost via the library website itself as it uses a different logon form. From your example - the Fairfax link is here which takes you to this login page. Nanonic (talk) 19:18, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was able to log in through that link. However, I remember getting to this point before, when I tried a few months ago. I can't figure out how to use the search option from this point. For example, I'm interested in finding articles about the television series Ed, Edd n Eddy and have been able to find many on EBSCOhost through the area of the site that I linked to above. When I go through the login page that you provided though, and search Ed, Edd n Eddy, I only get five results - none of them having to do with the show. Any thoughts? --Jpcase (talk) 19:40, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
3rd meter line violation in volleyball
Why in some moments players aren't allowed to cross the 3rd meter line and the point goes to the opponent team?--93.174.25.12 (talk) 18:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Misplaced Pages has an article titled Volleyball which does cover the rules. The restrictions as to which players may cross the 3-meter line are covered in that article; near as I can tell, it depends on which players start in the back-court before the serve; there's also a player called the "libero" that has restrictions on how and when they can hit the ball. --Jayron32 19:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- We played volleyball long before meters even existed. Is tis some sort of europeanism? μηδείς (talk) 19:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC)