travelhun

Earlier today I got a headache, some dizziness and then suddenly, for a minute or two, I perceived everything as green. What could that be? All symproms more or less cleared after an hour, the vision returned to normal after 2 minutes. Could this be dehydration? I'm not sure I drank enough this morning.

When a hot car engine is turned off after a long drive, you can hear this distinctive 'tic...tic...tic' from the engine compartment. I thought it may be the engine block's metal shrinking that causes the noise but it is far too regular for that isn't it? What causes the noise, exactly?

Inhowfar do marketing and advertising execs take into account that in order to stand out, some ads/commercials have become so penetrant, and often so groan-inducingly dumb, that they may actively put people OFF a given product instead of attracting them? Is the industry even aware of the problem?

Whilst reading a book about belief and non-belief, I again came across the notion that many Americans show a strong response towards people who claim to be atheists, or the concept of atheism.

So I want to ask: What do you personally associate with this term, what do you think it means?

I'm from Europe and can't understand why somebody in America would do this. I saw it in a TV series where a woman was expecting to be laid off and this prompted her to seek expensive diagnostic attention, even though she was perfectly healthy. The doc even agreed and awrded her a totally unecessary full body scan. Why would she do this?