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  1. just buy a horsehair brush and brush them up once a week or so. then when they are scuffed up a bit buy some leather balm.

    the soles are meant to be worn like that. you could add a sole if you want but you'd have to talk to the cobbler

  2. i found the point about athletes to be very interesting. and essentially he is right, we are selecting the best of our species to compete so of course they are 'mutants' because they have evolved in a way that makes them better than us in a certain way. but on the other hand these people are still normal in the sense that they can function as a regular human being no?

    his last points about the influence seem like a bit of a cheap shot to me imo. fast food and chemicals? come on man, there obviously needs to be more research on that part but just speculating and throwing out those points just isn't properly thought through. fast food/highly processed food has been a staple in the US since the 60's (?) so having that kind of impact now seems highly unlikely imo

    another point is the rate of increase in autism, he talked about the percentage increase and neglected to argue the point that many parents simply want to blame their kids weird behaviour on a condition or simply the fact that it is now easily diagnosed and more readily treated.

    apart from that of course we are evolving, a good example are our molars that require removal because our lover and upper jaws are simply too small because the food we eat doesn't require large forces to chew (thus smaller bones and simpler construction of the jaw). also the arm has evolved too, in a study at the beginning of the 20th century in south africa a doctor found a statistical significant increas in the arteria mediana which is an artery that exists at the embryo state but usually vanishes. an explanation is the labor that humans perform now is primarily done with the arms and thus the arms and hands need a better supply of blood. also this artery can be found with people who have the carpal tunnel syndrome, because the additional artery requires a lot of space in an area that is already cramped with other muscles, nerves and arterys/veins...

  3. yo it's not your fault that you are really short. there are enough people on sufu who suffer under the same thing. you just really overdid it with your fit up there where each piece of clothing and the angle/perspective of the picture made you look about as bad as you could possibly look.

  4. I bought two of those pizza stones recently, put them on my dad's bbq. The first one just cracked like a brittle shell with the tap of a spatula, and then the second one did the same thing. :( They work nice but you should just buy unglazed terra cotta quarry tiles from a home center for like $1 each. That way if they break, and they probably will, you can pitch them.

    did you put the stones on the hot grill, or did you rinse them off with water beforehand? if so then yes the stone is very prone to breaking. i just use mine in the oven and put it in when i turn on the oven. otherwise the temperature gradient in the stone will cause it to break.

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