Interesting Links for 02-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Responding To The Lib Dem Policy Consultation on Immigration

(tags: libdem immigration OhForFucksSake )

On discovering that you're not a failure - you're a penguin

(tags: penguins autism diversity )

New favourite theory about Mad Max

(tags: movies funny australia )

Check out this amazing hyper realistic painting of a cat!

(tags: cats art )

America is a dystopia

(tags: usa dystopia OhForFucksSake school )

Frodo Laid a Geas (I really ought to re-read LOTR)

(tags: lotr magic )

Cuttlefish does an amazing impression of a hermit crab

(tags: animals impressive ocean )

Heavy metal imagery to help with depression

(tags: depression HeavyMetal )

Men's ideal Hugh Jackman vs Women's ideal Hugh Jackman

(tags: gender society )

Why Do Cracking Knuckles Make That Noise?

I really wish mine didn't need to do it intermittently
(tags: bodies sound )

Vince Cable on internet regulation

(tags: regulation internet libdem )

How Amsterdam is reducing child obesity

Annoying that the article leads with the exercise, rather than the advice on healthy eating, the dieticians, and the banning of junk food advertising on the subway/sporting events.
(tags: obesity children netherlands )

The flags of most countries are really new

(tags: flags history )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I do try not to do it in that kind of situation. I figure I can manage a little bit of discomfort to avoid disturbing others.

[darkoshi]

I'd like to know what makes some knuckles crack (and feel stiff/uncomfortable until they are cracked), and others not. (Also why some people have cracking joints, and some don't.) My finger knuckles rarely if ever crack. My spine has cracked as long as I can remember. My neck started cracking one and a half years ago, and I still don't know what triggered it.

[channelpenguin]

Me too! My fingers and toes do not crack. Almost everything else does. Especially my right hip - which is loud enough to draw startled glances and comments from other people. That hip has an unusually shallow socket - I wonder if it is relevant. The left hip does not crack.