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Seil
02-10-2010, 01:03 PM
I was listening to a Ricky Gervais radio show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIXm_ZdAVFY), and they started talking about kissing - and I was wondering, the same as them, why we kiss? With Valentine's Day just 'round the corner, I think it a prudent question.
Token
02-10-2010, 01:07 PM
Because lips are sensitive? The same reasons we put any erogenous zones into contact.
krogothwolf
02-10-2010, 01:11 PM
Because it makes us all hot and bothered!
Funka Genocide
02-10-2010, 01:25 PM
You've got to warm the engine before you cruise down the highway.
DFM
02-10-2010, 01:51 PM
For Science.
Marc v4.0
02-10-2010, 01:53 PM
Feels Good, Man
Professor Smarmiarty
02-10-2010, 01:57 PM
It's ver much a cultural thing. Fair chunks of the world just don't kiss (until got westernised anway). It was ver much a greek (and to some extent Roman) thin though romantic kissing is not reall mentioned in their works- more respect kiss used in both greetings and religious ceremonies- still seen in places like Ital and Greece today.
When it developed into the personal romantic gesture we have today is unclear, it was fairly late- in last few hundred years or so.
Marc v4.0
02-10-2010, 01:59 PM
It's ver much a cultural thing. Fair chunks of the world just don't kiss (until got westernised anway). It was ver much a greek (and to some extent Roman) thin though romantic kissing is not reall mentioned in their works- more respect kiss used in both greetings and religious ceremonies- still seen in places like Ital and Greece today.
When it developed into the personal romantic gesture we have today is unclear, it was fairly late- in last few hundred years or so.

Like, source?

Cause I've never heard that
Amake
02-10-2010, 02:47 PM
Good people taste good.
Professor Smarmiarty
02-10-2010, 02:53 PM
Like, source?

Cause I've never heard that

Which part? There's nothing particularly controversial in there.
krogothwolf
02-10-2010, 02:53 PM
Good people taste good.

What do evil people taste like then?
synkr0nized
02-10-2010, 02:58 PM
Because tongues are fun?
DFM
02-10-2010, 03:00 PM
Tongues are fun is probably the best answer so far.
Lost in Time
02-10-2010, 03:01 PM
Because fucking outside would be a little too uncomfortable for others, so we needed a modest alternative?
Funka Genocide
02-10-2010, 03:06 PM
I was going to say that women are delicious, but I guess that's been mentioned.
Meister
02-10-2010, 03:11 PM
Because fucking outside would be a little too uncomfortable for others
It's February.
Funka Genocide
02-10-2010, 03:12 PM
It's February.


Not in Vegas it ain't!

(well I guess technically it is but I mean, its like 65 out there. Fahrenheit, of course.)
Archbio
02-10-2010, 03:13 PM
We kiss because ants do! Or so Bernard Werber says. Of course, he says we do everything we do because the ants did it first, so...

Which part? There's nothing particularly controversial in there.

You'd say Caligula is dead and we'd need a source.
Meister
02-10-2010, 03:14 PM
Look it's not that I'm bitter or anything but there's snow and ice outside and it's the same snow and ice that was there at New Year's Eve.
Seil
02-10-2010, 03:18 PM
From what I hear, it was an evolutionary thing - where mothers used to pass food off to their young with a "kiss."
Premmy
02-10-2010, 03:29 PM
What do evil people taste like then?
Good people taste good, Evil people tase Delicious
Magic_Marker
02-10-2010, 03:34 PM
Because it's fun to do

NEXT QUESTION!
Professor Smarmiarty
02-10-2010, 03:34 PM
You'd say Caligula is dead and we'd need a source.

My stuff is all sourced from years of drunken conversations with hobokings and disgruntled student magazine editors. Take that as you will.
Archbio
02-10-2010, 03:36 PM
hobokings

At first I thought you said Hobgoblins or Goblin Kings and then I was disappointed.
Premmy
02-10-2010, 03:37 PM
Hobokings are awesome, fuck you.
Archbio
02-10-2010, 03:38 PM
Puck is awesomer.
Premmy
02-10-2010, 03:43 PM
"Fuck You" still applies.
katiuska
02-10-2010, 03:54 PM
Look it's not that I'm bitter or anything but there's snow and ice outside and it's the same snow and ice that was there at New Year's Eve.

Yeah, I remember something like that. When it finally melted, it had accumulated three full months worth of road muck + whatever else.
Amake
02-11-2010, 05:28 AM
What do evil people taste like then? The obvious answer would be the animated GIF of Harry Osborn in Spider-man 3 going "SO GOOD". But I absolutely can't find it. >_>

I guess it's a different kind of good, like salt and sugar. Not that I kiss bad people a lot.

Edit: Oh there we go.
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POS Industries
02-11-2010, 05:51 AM
The obvious answer would be the animated GIF of Harry Osborn in Spider-man 3 going "SO GOOD". But I absolutely can't find it. >_>
http://i36.tinypic.com/2lk5vdu.jpg