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[WWGD]

I am not always 100% in agreement with market fundamentalists. Same service ---shredding docs --- for $4 a pound in 1 place
and for $.99 a pound right across the street. And both places have been in business for more than 10 years.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[skyshrimp]

Why have sub-atomic particles arranged themselves into lifeforms?

Yeah, I'm drunk posting. Do I get a cookie?

 

[Ibix]

Why have sub-atomic particles arranged themselves into lifeforms?

There's a lot of alcohol in nebulae. Somebody has to do something about it. We're the universe's liver, basically[1].

https://m.phys.org/news/2014-09-alcohol-clouds-space.html

Yeah, I'm drunk posting. Do I get a cookie?

No. You're just fulfilling your duty to the universe.

[1] Credit to... someone. Iain M Banks, maybe?

 

[WWGD]

I can't stand the recent trend of blasting sound from all sorts of devices in public...without using #$%^ headphones.

 

[fresh_42]

I can't stand the recent trend of blasting sound from all sorts of devices in public...without using #$%^ headphones.

Practice this:

 

[Stephenk53]

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Maybe it was a large order? I’m kind of grasping at straws to explain that one

 

[Stephenk53]

Which letter is silent in the word scent the s or the c

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe it was a large order? I’m kind of grasping at straws to explain that one

My suspicions is a typo. Maybe the 7 is a leftover from a former "Oct. 17".

 

[fresh_42]

Which letter is silent in the word scent the s or the c

I don't know which, but I know how to find out!

 

[Ibix]

Which letter is silent in the word scent the s or the c

The opposite to the one in "science".

 

[Ibix]

I don't know which, but I know how to find out!

I'm curious - how do you find out?

If postage rates were lower I could say I sent a scent for a cent. I don't know if that helps.

 

[fresh_42]

I'm curious - how do you find out?

If postage rates were lower I could say I sent a scent for a cent. I don't know if that helps.

It helps a lot: tape all three, overlap them electronically, one positive the other one negative, and then look what's left. However, I have a suspicion, that it will only display another flaw in the English language

 

[WWGD]

Haribo sugarless gummies anyone:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/R2M3RSLRNQ/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[WWGD]

Continued:

 

[WWGD]

..And I thought a Monte Carlo simulation was just a place pretending to be Monte Carlo...

 

[WWGD]

Still trying to understand eigenfaces .

 

[fresh_42]

Still trying to understand eigenfaces .

They are called self-portrait.

 

[WWGD]

Danke. I get that. I am trying to see how/why the Ortho projection on to eigenfacess becomes itselfc face

 

[Evo]

For @collinsmark here is my dog Chopin knowing that something terrible is about to happen, I was going to clip a few of his claws. That is my bony hand on him.

 

[Evo]

He survived the clipping

 

[WWGD]

"Advertise Here".
I don't think here needs advertising. Where else are you going to be if not here?

 

[fresh_42]

A propos advertisement. My mother used to get rid of unpleasant advertisers by the phrase: "I'll first have to ask my husband, who is currently not here." I think I'll test this.

 

[WWGD]

No, he is just in a different here.

 

[fresh_42]

No, he is just in a different here.

I don't think it will work, if I answer: "... he is currently out of this universe's phase." How are the odds such an advertisers will be a nerd?

 

[collinsmark]

For @collinsmark here is my dog Chopin knowing that something terrible is about to happen, I was going to clip a few of his claws. That is my bony hand on him.

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Oh, such an adorable puppy!

Still, though, ...

("The possessed boy Charlie Holvey in The Calusari," Source: http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Possession)

 

[collinsmark]

He survived the clipping View attachment 234470

I'm glad that worked out. Trimming nails can work out fine so long as the person clipping knows the proper way to clip. He does look pretty happy with the final results.

Well, sort of happy, I think.

(Source: http://www.3demonic.com/Exorcist_Tongue_08.htm)

 

[CWatters]

Here in the UK its hard to get a mortgage on a leasehold property if the remaining lease has less than 70 years to run.

In 70 years some costal towns could be under water due to rising sea levels. In effect freehold properties in these towns are really leasehold, with Poseidon holding the lease.

So any day now banks might wake up to this inconsistency in their lending policies and stop lending on at risk properties.

 

[fresh_42]

Here in the UK its hard to get a mortgage on a leasehold property if the remaining lease has less than 70 years to run.

In 70 years some costal towns could be under water due to rising sea levels. In effect freehold properties in these towns are really leasehold, with Poseidon holding the lease.

So any day now banks might wake up to this inconsistency in their lending policies and stop lending on at risk properties.

You mean it's time to get some futures?

 

[WWGD]

You mean it's time to get some futures?

Yes, the ones with the pictures of the polar bears surfing on top of melting glaciers.