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Keep us posted.nuuskur said:So I scraped together what courage I had lying around and asked her out. We're going out next week. Oh dread and worry..
Keep us posted.nuuskur said:So I scraped together what courage I had lying around and asked her out. We're going out next week. Oh dread and worry..
WWGD said:Isnt this what the gambler's fallacy is about?
You weren't first!WWGD said:Still prepping my insights post on the difference between Cosmology and Cosmetology. I will never mixed them up again!
Ah, you're a better man now than I,... er,... was,... long ago.nuuskur said:So I scraped together what courage I had lying around and asked her out. [...]
Don't fret too much. She'll probably be quite nervous too.Oh dread and worry..
https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/careers-jobs/teachers/2005-03-22WWGD said:Cosmology and Cosmetology
Keith_McClary said:
Keith_McClary said:
Tweet your wisdom! As if we hadn't already enough people who think they must tweet their wisdom! Is there already something like polluting the internet?WWGD said:I just have to give this link posted by @Bandersnatch in another forum : www.wisdomofchopra.com . I laugh every time.
Confucius is not as funny as Chopra.fresh_42 said:Tweet your wisdom! As if we hadn't already enough people who think they must tweet their wisdom! Is there already something like polluting the internet?
"Knowing what you know and knowing what you are doing is knowledge." (Confucius) way cheaper
Not "polluted" anymore, the Internet provided an ideal home for thousands of mutant sewer worms.fresh_42 said:Is there already something like polluting the internet?
Probably because that's where the hot chili peppers grow well. Hard to get good peppers in a cold climate with short summers - they take too long to mature.WWGD said:Wonder why temperate countries like Thailand, Vietnam have these power soups . It seems they would knock you out if you had them on a hot or even mildly cold day.
Good point.But its not just hot spice-wise but also temperature-wise, and overall rich.gmax137 said:Probably because that's where the hot chili peppers grow well. Hard to get good peppers in a cold climate with short summers - they take too long to mature.
I heard an epic conversation in this line the other week, between a ranty bloke and his innocent victim at the next table. It was in French, which I stopped studying when I was 13 but I remember bits. And ranty bloke sounded to have an accent like Officer Crabtree, which makes life easier for an English listener. Any conversation containing "evolution", "supernatural", "world war 3" (not a typo, the poor guy on the receiving end of the rant checked twice) and "I am a victim" has to be bad, even if you can't pick out much more than that.WWGD said:A telling phrase when you first meet someone "That's what they want you to think". Will do my best to avoid them.
Edit: Yet somehow many of those seem to excel at compartmentalizing. They hold full-time jobs, have families despite their unquestioned, hardly-supportable belief system. "World is only 5k y.o" but I am enjoying, using, all sorts of gadgets designed through mainstream science.Ibix said:I heard an epic conversation in this line the other week, between a ranty bloke and his innocent victim at the next table. It was in French, which I stopped studying when I was 13 but I remember bits. And ranty bloke sounded to have an accent like Officer Crabtree, which makes life easier for an English listener. Any conversation containing "evolution", "supernatural", "world war 3" (not a typo, the poor guy on the receiving end of the rant checked twice) and "I am a victim" has to be bad, even if you can't pick out much more than that.
Indeed. I'm sure I hold a few contradictory beliefs, but I have changed beliefs when challenged on it. Probably not as often as I should, but I have done it.WWGD said:Yet somehow many of those seem to excel at compartmentalizing.
I plead guilty to not being perfectly consistent myself. Most likely true for the majority.Ibix said:Indeed. I'm sure I hold a few contradictory beliefs, but I have changed beliefs when challenged on it. Probably not as often as I should, but I have done it.
Actually, I think the guy was just a xenophobic nutcase. He'd been demanding to know the nationality of everyone who stopped near him (not me though - if I had three lions and a cross of St George on my shirt I couldn't look more English than I do naturally) and getting shut down by everyone except the French guy. Any fluency at all in a foreign language was rather surprising to me.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. [Emerson]WWGD said:I plead guilty to not being perfectly consistent myself. Most likely true for the majority.
Are you related to Mark44?jbriggs444 said:A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. [Emerson]
True, consistency for its sake is not always desirable.jbriggs444 said:A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. [Emerson]
The former sounds like a nutcase and works only in the US, since there seems to be an overall assumption, that "they" - usually the government or its institutions like NASA - hide something, and the latter sounds like a very insecure male (?) person and I'm not sure where it works. LA?WWGD said:How would " That's what they want you to think" compare with: " My Life Coach said that..."?
My life coach says...it works anywhere ;_. You just need to believe it! (Exclamation point necessary!).fresh_42 said:The former sounds like a nutcase and works only in the US, since there seems to be an overall assumption, that "they" - usually the government or its institutions like NASA - hide something, and the latter sounds like a very insecure male (?) person and I'm not sure where it works. LA?
You've heard of forefathers? He seems to be my fourbrother.WWGD said:Are you related to Mark44?