People develop various tastes in their sexual development and it’s beyond their control. You could just as easily ask the question: “Why do some people like people of the same gender?” The short answer is that ‘it’s just how they’re wired.’
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What Is The Biggest No-No When Being Arrested?
Criminal defense attorney here. Allow me to share with you my personal top ten “don’t do these when being arrested” moments, all of which I have personally had to deal with from clients.
- Don’t resist arrest. When the handcuffs come out, you cannot talk your way out of the situation any more; cooperate, and things will be much better for you.
- Resist the temptation to “explain yourself” to the officer on your drive to the station. They are recording you — and this can be used against you. Just be quiet.
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What Happens To The Human Body When Exposed To Overwhelming Amounts Of Radiation?
Overwhelming amounts of radiation will destroy your body on the cellular level. The thing that kills you first is central nervous system failure. You will not be able to breathe eventually and die.
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What Was Life Like For a Jester In The Medieval Era?
(art: Stańczyk by Jan Matejko)
Being a true Jester was very hard work. You had to be a one-man entertainment machine.
One had to be able to memorize long-form poetry, tailor jokes to fit the crowd, tactfully tease your patron without committing offense, and zing guests that your patron wasn’t fond of.
You had to play instruments, sing, dance, perform acrobatics, and design and maintain your own motley.
They would learn puppetry, ventriloquism, juggling, balancing, and slight of hand.
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What Made The Beatles So Revolutionary For The Music Industry?
Listen to some popular music of the late 1950s and early 1960s. You can get a sense of the landscape from Tom Breihan’s wonderful column The Number Ones, which reviews every number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1958 to the present:
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How Do Dividends Work If I Buy Stock?
Dividends are actually quite simple, they’re just a cash payment to the stockholders.
For the most part public company’s that are making a healthy profit will keep that profit and reinvest it either in R&D or in acquisitions, but sometimes they give a portion of that profit directly to the shareholders – thats a dividend.
Typically if a company decides to pay a dividend it will be either annual or bi-annual, and the payout will be X% of the share price. So if you own 100 shares at a value of $10/share and the dividend is 1% you’ll receive a payment of $10.
What Kind Of Protection Does The Presidential Limo Have?
(photo by WisGuard Pics)
The presidential state car – also called The Beast and Cadillac One – is the President’s go-to vehicle for safe traveling.
It has five-inch thick bulletproof glass and polycarbonate windows that don’t roll down, except the driver’s window which rolls down just a few inches. It makes sense that if you are going through such measures to add a window that can stop armor-piercing bullets that you wouldn’t want to ruin the protection by having the windows rolled down.
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Why Do Lawyers Tend To Be Unhappy People?
1. Most professions reward an optimistic outlook. Everyone works toward positive outcomes, you want good things to happen, right? Law rewards a pessimistic outlook. Our job is literally worrying about everything that could possibly go wrong and planning for it. So it both attracts pessimists, and reinforces pessimism.
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How Do You Know If You’re In Love?
Photo by Anastasia Sklyar
“You’ll just know.” This was my mother’s vague response when I asked her how to know if you’re in love with someone, and needless to say, I was less than enthused by her response. To be honest, it seemed like a cop-out. Why, I wondered, can’t anyone seem to accurately describe what being in love feels like? We’ve all heard rom-com movie characters talk about fireworks and pop stars sing about the all-consuming obsession that comes with a new romance, but is that really love? Or is it just infatuation? How can you tell whether you’re just experiencing fiery passion or you’ve truly fallen for someone?
