Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

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The discussion centers on the splitting of larger threads to alleviate server load, with a focus on the continuation of a previous thread. Participants engage in light-hearted banter, celebrating a trivia quiz and discussing various topics, including creativity, humor, and personal anecdotes. One member shares a humorous proposal joke involving a "trivial ring," leading to a deeper conversation about mathematical concepts and the nature of "nothing." The conversation shifts to personal experiences, including frustrations with the medical system following a wisdom tooth extraction, highlighting issues with prescription management and insurance complications. Members express their opinions on dental practices, particularly the necessity of wisdom tooth removal, with some viewing it as a financial racket unless there are complications. Overall, the thread reflects a mix of humor, personal stories, and commentary on broader societal issues, maintaining a casual and engaging tone throughout.
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Chandler Swink, an Oakland University sophomore and aspiring nursing student, was taken off life support on Wednesday night after spending more than a week in a coma. Swink had visited a friend’s apartment where peanut butter cookies had been baked and the young man either came into contact with the cookies or the residue on someone else’s hands. When he started having a reaction, Chandler injected himself with an EpiPen and drove himself to a nearby hospital, where he was found unconscious in the parking lot after simultaneously going into anaphylactic shock and experiencing an asthma attack and cardiac arrest.
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/peanut-allergy-kills-19-year-old-college-student-104100973777.html

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Chandler had had a level-six nut allergy — the most severe — since the age of two, which had led to ridicule and bullying by his peers, according to Nancy. The school district made itself “peanut free” just for him, but that made other parents resentful. “They would say, ‘It can’t be that bad,’” Nancy recalled. But despite the stigma of Chandler’s allergies, his mom said, “he never complained to us. He held that in for 18 years. When he went to college, he was the happiest kid because he was no longer labeled.”

Chandler’s death occurred just after a survey of 250 kids found that those with food allergies often suffer socially. “A third indicated they had been bullied,” . . . .
 
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Borek said:
You do understand that for those of use with 30+ years of driving that sounds just funny?
Hmmm... I didn't even think to do the math:

Psinter: 5 * 20 = 100 trips
OmCheeto: 40 * 250 = 10,000 trips

Then you have to figure in Dangers factor: 9/10 people out there have been trying to kill me.
 
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OmCheeto said:
I stay the hell away from trucks.
Same here. Being in front of them can be equally Dangerous. :oldeyes: I used to know someone who was in trucking and the two big complaints that he had were people in blind spots and people who would get in front of him and brake hard. They can't stop as fast as a car but many people forget that the truck even exists once they get in front of one. There was an accident in the DC area about 10 years ago where a woman got in front of a semi and stopped in the fast lane of the freeway because of some minor road debris. The trucker couldn't stop in time and she was killed. Like Om says, stay the hell away from them.
 
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My mom once told me not to be so open in front of strangers or they'd fall in love with me.
 
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OmCheeto said:
9/10 people out there have been trying to kill me.
Oh, don't be silly! Only the ones on the same road with you...
 
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Danger said:
Oh, don't be silly! Only the ones on the same road with you...
Exactly! :D
 
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Tennis courts scare people away. Cheers!
 
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Medicol said:
Tennis courts scare people away. Cheers!
Only when I'm flying...

(See signature...)
 
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Danger said:
Only when I'm flying...

(See signature...)
I think that you're talking to a bot.
 
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Borg said:
I think that you're talking to a bot.
I think I might be a bot. How can I tell?
 
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How could people force students of social sciences and humanity to take statistics courses very week ? Unbearable!
 
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Jonathan Scott said:
I think I might be a bot. How can I tell?
Have you ever tried talking to yourself?

 
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Good bye everyone, it's bedtime or I'll be whipped by mom otherwise.
 
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Borg said:
I think that you're talking to a bot.
Until watching that clip, I had no idea what you were talking about. That would explain why he keeps "liking" me when I say something weird.
 
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Jonathan Scott said:
I think I might be a bot. How can I tell?
Bots be able of sarcasm?
 
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nuuskur said:
Bots be able of sarcasm?
No, but they misuse words suspiciously sometimes... :olduhh:
 
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Danger said:
Until watching that clip, I had no idea what you were talking about. That would explain why he keeps "liking" me when I say something weird.
I'm not a bot and I'm afraid to find out how many of your weird comments I have liked:D .
Looking at the post of Medicol, you can see a pattern I think o_O "today I learned about bots" :rolleyes::eek::oops:
 
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But... how would it register to be a member?
 
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I wonder if there could be a thread that could serve as a BOT TRAP ? they would all start talking to each other and couldn't get out o0):w:D
 
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:oldlaugh:
I love it!
 
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Captain Kirk talks a bot to death.

 
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edward said:
Captain Kirk talks a bot to death.
Of course, he could do that to anyone, not just bots.
 
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Danger said:
Of course, he could do that to anyone, not just bots.

Hmm so could my wife come to think of it. We had a tiz over whether she said two pots, or tooth paste, this morning. I could have sworn she said tooth paste but then she was in the kitchen sooo I was possibly wrong.
 
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Here we go, the latest science has proven that bots can't see rabbits. If anyone can see a rabbit in the video they are not a bot.



If you see a rabbit punch a quail you may have a problem.

Edit: If you see a second rabbit appear call your doctor immediately.
 
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edward said:
If you see a rabbit punch a quail you may have a problem.
Ooops... :olduhh:

I see a disconnection from reality there, though. First there was one rabbit, then two, then one again. In actual life, there would be one, then two, then fourteen.
 
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edward said:
Here we go, the latest science has proven that bots can't see rabbits. If anyone can see a rabbit in the video they are not a bot.



If you see a rabbit punch a quail you may have a problem.

Edit: If you see a second rabbit appear call your doctor immediately.

I called my doctor, what now ?o_O:oldconfused:
 
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Danger said:
No, but they misuse words suspiciously sometimes... :olduhh:
Like statements such as "take statistics courses very week" and putting extra spaces before a question mark ?
As Nikitin noted several pages ago, the user OnOldStudent is also a bot or maybe it really is a 95 year old woman as noted in its profile. :oldeyes:
 
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RonL said:
I called my doctor, what now ?o_O:oldconfused:

If you are on Medicare you are out of luck. They do not cover rabbit double vision. Hey wait a minute, you actually talked to your doctor? I have to leave a message and my doctor's assistant returns the call three days later.)
 
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edward said:
If you are on Medicare you are out of luck. They do not cover rabbit double vision. Hey wait a minute, you actually talked to your doctor? I have to leave a message and my doctor's assistant returns the call three days later.)
Dag-nabbit, I am on medicare:) with a good secondary plan, I'm right on the line of being in excellent health and the PA is a beautiful young woman...summed up, every old man's dream come true (IMO :D )
 
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Wasn't there a drug commercial where one of the side effects was double rabbit vision? I think that it was a drug for the prevention of single rabbit vision.
 
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Borg said:
it was a drug for the prevention of single rabbit vision.
So it was designed to lobotomize you?
 
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wow, that's clever :D
 
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Borg said:
Wasn't there a drug commercial where one of the side effects was double rabbit vision? I think that it was a drug for the prevention of single rabbit vision.

I can't keep up with the side effects in the commercials. After the wonderful happy part they use a fast talker to describe the side effects.

 
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OmCheeto said:
ps. That's good that you've learned not to pace trucks. The next time you see one parked, go up and see if you can see one of these signs affixed somewhere:
I did learn the lesson. Never again.
 
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edward said:
Here we go, the latest science has proven that bots can't see rabbits. If anyone can see a rabbit in the video they are not a bot.



If you see a rabbit punch a quail you may have a problem.

Edit: If you see a second rabbit appear call your doctor immediately.

Oh my god! I love those two little rabbits! They so cute. Please let me love you little bunnies. :L
 
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nuuskur said:
wow, that's clever :D
It takes a community. I couldn't have done it without the setup by my wingman Borg.

Psinter said:
Please let me love you little bunnies
Are you on the SPCA watchlist? :olduhh:
 
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Danger said:
It takes a community. I couldn't have done it without the setup by my wingman Borg.Are you on the SPCA watchlist? :olduhh:
Hehe. Nope, but I cannot have a pet because of my apartment's policies. And at my parent's home I cannot have one either because of my parent's policies. :s

So I want to graduate and then get a job and then get a home and then get a bunny... Among other things I want.

EDIT: A home with no policies about bunnies.
 
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Psinter said:
Hehe. Nope, but I cannot have a pet because of my apartment's policies. And at my parent's home I cannot have one either because of my parent's policies. :s

So I want to graduate and then get a job and then get a home and then get a bunny... Among other things I want.

EDIT: A home with no policies about bunnies.
:DD
 
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Psinter said:
So I want to graduate and then get a job and then get a home and then get a bunny... Among other things I want.

EDIT: A home with no policies about bunnies.
Old Student is laughing, but I almost feel like crying. I've had my Lucy (Lucifer T. Cat) for 14 years, ever since she was 3, and I can't bear to think of living without her. I love her more than just about any human that I know, and honestly would kill anyone who hurt her. She will probably outlive me, and I'm glad for that. She's accommodated in my will. Her predecessor Dingbat McBeth died almost exactly on his 20th birthday, and I loved him just as much. I've had only one rabbit, a baby bush-bunny that I found in my hedgerow a little over 40 years ago. His nest had been ploughed up, and his parents were nowhere to be found. It's the only pet that I've ever had who committed suicide. Since it was wild, I couldn't just let it run free in the house, so I placed it in a toque, set on a thick towel inside the washing machine, and left some cat kibble with it. (That was the old upright wringer-type.) The next morning, I found him dead on the floor. Despite his diminutive size, he had managed to leap the 60cm or so straight up to escape the washer drum and then fell on his head on top of a Coke bottle in a case on the floor. :oldcry:
 
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WTH is wrong with my laptop! it keeps giving me bad gatway window for anything I look up that's related to school.

URGHHHHHHHHHH. *grumpy*
 
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Enigman said:
Its probably a problem with the servers and not your laptop.
I agree, because I sometimes get that same message and I'm on a MacBook Pro running Safari through Mavericks OS. A server is probably the only thing we have in common.
 
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This explanation is shorter and easier to understand
http://support.maxcdn.com/502-bad-gateway/
 
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I was thinking about it today and it occurred to me they never showed the psychiatrist's face.
 
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zoki85 said:
Yeah ! :approve:
Agreed! She's a mere child by my standards, and nearly enough to make me watch another Bond movie. I did watch the first 2 Craig ones after they came on TV, but the last that I'd seen before that was "Licence To Kill". I just don't care about them any more.
 
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I like GNOME desktop of CentOS, its animation looks cool.
 
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Maths is beautiful
Google this :

exp(-((x-4)^2+(y-4)^2)^2/1000) + exp(-((x+4)^2+(y+4)^2)^2/1000) + 0.1exp(-((x+4)^2+(y+4)^2)^2)+0.1exp(-((x -4)^2+(y- 4)^2)^2)
 
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Why? I tried and got this:
3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL.
unpluggedbot.png
 
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