Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[Lizabella]

What is Russia?

 

[Psinter]

...Sighing...I realize how difficult English language actually is when I can recognize how people handle their arguments just soo well in response to others'. As always I really like it. :)

And the most amazing thing is how natural it comes to them.
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*shuffling* If you can, try making 50 crunches on each side with 50 lbs. resistance applied on the muscles. It works wonders. And you feel nice.

 

[nuuskur]

What is Russia?

Baby, don't invade me, don't invade me..no more

 

[zoki85]

What is Russia?

Mother

 

[zoobyshoe]

Last night I was having a more or less neutral dream that suddenly surged into a nightmare when a character in the dream banged the palm of his hand onto my desk, making what seemed like an impossibly loud sound. I was so startled I woke up. Then it occurred to me the sound might have been real. I lay there wondering what could have fallen onto my desk that would explain it, but couldn't visualize anything on or near it that would have produced such a noise even if it had somehow fallen. I replayed the noise over and over again in my mind and kept returning to the conclusion it involved my desk top. Eventually I got up and looked over the whole place, but no clues were apparent.

This morning, however, I noticed a new element in the clutter that adorns my desktop: a largish black spring. I had no recollection of putting it there or where I got it. But it made perfect sense in accounting for the noise; if that spring had been extended and shot at my desktop, it would certainly make a sound like the one that woke me up. But where did it come from?

In a bit, I figured it out. As Poe observed, when something is right in front of our eyes all the time it can become invisible. The spring flew off my desklamp, which is something like this one:

http://www.lampsplus.com/products/architect-style-clamp-on-base-desk-lamp__72867.html

One of the posts to which it was hooked suffered some kind of catastrophic failure in the middle of the night.

Search crews are on scene now scouring the premises for the remains of the post. In the meantime, I need volunteers from among the engineers and physicists here to serve on a committee to investigate the cause of this failure.

 

[WWGD]

i wonder how to interpret the general statement :" If I can do it anyone can"

Does it mean the person who says that is implying that:
i) I am so inept that if I can do it anyone can, or

ii) My circumstances are so extreme that if I can do it anyone can.

iii) Something else?

 

[nuuskur]

due to my slight sleepiness I read as follows..

i) I am so inept that if I can do anyone...

I just burst out laughing and couldn't read further :D

 

[Borg]

Blue Screen of Death this morning followed by the computer not starting back up. Had to replace a RAM chip that went bad.

 

[Evo]

i wonder how to interpret the general statement :" If I can do it anyone can"

Does it mean the person who says that is implying that:
i) I am so inept that if I can do it anyone can, or

ii) My circumstances are so extreme that if I can do it anyone can.

iii) Something else?

It would normally mean this "i) I am so inept that if I can do it anyone can, "

 

[Borg]

1000. :w It only took 5 1/2 years.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It would normally mean this "i) I am so inept that if I can do it anyone can, "

Yeah. "So easy, even a caveman could do it."

 

[lisab]

1000. :w It only took 5 1/2 years.

Yay!

 

[lisab]

 

[Psinter]

Yeah. "So easy, even a caveman could do it."

Well there is another expression which I never quite understood and that is: "You are pretty good for an idiot if I do say so myself." I don't know if it's a compliment or a soft insult.

http://www.instructables.com/id/10-Smartphone-to-digital-microscope-conversion/

Now this is super awesome! I don't know if it works, but I want to build it like right now. (Funny, he says $10 USD, but at my country those materials costs about $30 USD)

 

[Evo]

Well there is another expression which I never quite understood and that is: "You are pretty good for an idiot if I do say so myself." I don't know if it's a compliment or a soft insult.

I've never heard that expression, but it would be an insult.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

...
http://www.instructables.com/id/10-Smartphone-to-digital-microscope-conversion/

Now this is super awesome! I don't know if it works, but I want to build it like right now. (Funny, he says $10 USD, but at my country those materials costs about $30 USD)

You are not from the States ? :D

 

[Psinter]

You are not from the States ? :D

Nope. I'm not from The Great Nation of The 50 Stars. Which by the way reminds me that my friend just left for the US Navy. I wonder how will he come back. Stronger, bigger, more disciplined? Last time we ran together he tired out at what I would consider not good enough yet, but he was too stubborn to show it to me and pretended like he could still keep up with me. How can 8 years in the military transform a person I wonder. Hmmmmmmm. How I imagine he will come back: And of course, with better physical condition than me. Then it will be me the one who won't be able to keep up with him. :D

 

[Lizabella]

You are not from the States ? :D

Don't seek the differences, there are many Psinter's :D . Enjoy the same Psinter who is willing to talk to you. That's the point. :D

 

[zoobyshoe]

I've never heard that expression, but it would be an insult.

It's a misquote of Moe from the Three Stooges. According to this site, the actual line is: "You're pretty smart for an imbecile!"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheThreeStooges

 

[Bystander]

1000. :w It only took 5 1/2 years.

And now you'll spend the next 5 1/2 admiring it?

 

[Medicol]

Well there is another expression which I never quite understood and that is: "You are pretty good for an idiot if I do say so myself." I don't know if it's a compliment or a soft insult.

Exactly as Evo says, it is an insult.
Similar cases can be observed as one states that the other is marrying his ex-wife who he might consider as a dumped trade. I have used a product for really loooooooonnnngggggggg but it never gets updated or polished; I don't want to dump it into the trash-bin because I also have a heart for "homeless" products :D. But if I "give" it to a "friend" without informing him carefully about the product's state then I actually insult that friend of mine. Don't you find it strange why the product never polished or gets polished itself after MANY years of use in MY own home ? I definitely can upgrade it myself but that I ask my friend to do that is something we need to think twice.

http://www.instructables.com/id/10-Smartphone-to-digital-microscope-conversion/
Now this is super awesome! I don't know if it works, but I want to build it like right now. (Funny, he says $10 USD, but at my country those materials costs about $30 USD)

Cool! Exactly, it is a three fold in the US (to reach the mean value)

 

[Borg]

And now you'll spend the next 5 1/2 admiring it?

I think that if I'm really ambitious, I can reach 2000 by 2020.

 

[drizzle]

It is not easy :(

 

[Borg]

It is not easy :(

That's for sure. I've probably deleted two posts for every post that I've made.

 

[Enigman]

The four quadrants of my brain are playing tug o' war.
I need caffeine.

 

[lisab]

The four quadrants of my brain are playing tug o' war.
I need caffeine.

Caffeine will make each quadrant pull harder.

 

[nuuskur]

There is more work involved in trying to comprehend the posts in Calculus homework when not written in TeX than actually working with the problem itself :<

 

[OmCheeto]

It's a misquote of Moe from the Three Stooges. According to this site, the actual line is: "You're pretty smart for an imbecile!"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheThreeStooges

It reminded me of Orodruin's signature:

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. -- Groucho Marx​

Which, in my mind, implies self deprecating humour.

 

[nuuskur]

A child of five..

Is this is even...possible? :D

 

[OmCheeto]

A child of five..

Is this is even...possible? :D