Thanks, Dinos.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Done it on Rosemary's behalf :p
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Re: Religion
Well, everyone thinks dinosaurs are awesome. God was no different. So he made his planet and filled it with dinosaurs. But after a while he got bored, because they just lumbered round eating stuff and each other. He wanted a bit more variety. So he thought he'd fill it with more intelligent beings ...
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to shut out that possibility, however small, becomes an act of faith. The only "faith" that I employ when forming opinions is faith in my own intellect. I agree with Phil that the OT god is an illogical and implausible entity that could not conceivably be intellectually interesting. It is...
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It is sort of important, but then you can get a bit silly. Do you "know" that all your toys don't come to life when nobody's watching a la Toy Story? No, you can't "know" because it would only happen when there's no witnesses. But you don't really entertain the possibility do yo...
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So both of you rule out any possibility of their being a god? :shock: If so, your position is definitely not one of science, which is what I was expecting. This may be because you do not properly understand what is meant by science. Like any other scientific question, in considering the existence o...
Re: Religion
IAWTPPhil Reynolds wrote:Yes, I do.Kieran Child wrote:You don't know whether or not God exists.
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:05 pm
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- Topic: Favourite Platonic Solid
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Re: Favourite Platonic Solid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_dodecahedron.png You're a fan of interpenetration? My favourite for interpenetration is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Compound_of_five_tetrahedra.png I have made a model, but it's now lost. :( Agreed! I had one of those as well but it got crushed in a mov...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Bank Holiday Monday August 31st 2009
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3703
Re: Spoilers For Bank Holiday Monday August 31st 2
Am I right in thinking that the American spelling wouldn't be allowed?James Robinson wrote:We all wanted some OESTROGEN!!!
P.S. That's the correct spelling!
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:32 am
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- Topic: Favourite Platonic Solid
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Re: Favourite Platonic Solid
You're a fan of interpenetration?Peter Mabey wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great ... hedron.png
I prefer the spiky one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Small ... hedron.png. Used to have one on my desk.
Re: Religion
Do you believe in other universes? They come in very handy in fiction, and I understand the idea is useful in some arcane regions of maths and/or physics, but I don't see any evidence of their existence in either case, nor can I imagine what kind of evidence might be forthcoming for anything outsid...
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However unlikely our universe is, if it is the only one we could have evolved in then - seen from the inside - it is in no way remarkable. Well that made almost no sense. If this universe is the only one we could have evolved in, and it is the only one that exists, then it is NOT remarkable? It's t...
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The fact that the universe's constants are so perfect for so many things to happen is a tad fishy, and a problem that we've never really been able to solve. This argument has never made sense to me. What makes the constants 'perfect'? It's like saying that Jackson Pollock's swishing movements were ...
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you kinda have to include the caveat that "if I can be proved wrong, I'll accept that and change my views according to the evidence [as with everything else in life]. But until then...". Absolutely. But not until. And since no evidence has ever been offered I'm not holding my breath. It i...
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Rosemary, it seems you have your mind made up and lack any desire to engage in a debate, so why bother posting? Junaid, I expect I posted for the same reason you did - because I believe I'm right. And also because fanatical believers are responsible for a lot of the world's ills so that making them...
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Since I can't quote all the people who've gone before I won't quote any of them. I get the impression that I am more extreme than any of you. I do not accept that there is any evidence whatsoever for any supernatural being. Visions and voices reported by other people - however ancient, however worth...
Re: Dilemmas
Most of the mnemonics I carefully memorised at school turned out - years later - to be wrong and the other way around.Kieran Child wrote:That's wrong, so it's the other way around"
- Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown break - the alternatives
- Replies: 10
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Re: Countdown break - the alternatives
I don't think so. I must ask around.Derek Hazell wrote:The woman who sends out the official Channel 4 surveys is called Rosemary Roberts . . . is there something we should know??
- Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 3-Word Story
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Re: 3-Word Story
Watch Noel Edmonds?
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:17 pm
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je sais quoi
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:48 am
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proved to be
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:06 am
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ordered lox on
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:39 pm
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other bogie men
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:20 pm
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sadly misleading misnomer
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:43 pm
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notebook and outsize
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:15 pm
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planet sized brain
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:50 pm
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can't remember it
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:10 am
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user name and
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:45 am
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not take the
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:42 pm
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But no sooner
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:25 pm
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causing the turtles
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:31 pm
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turtle colony in
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:43 am
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exercising his famous
- Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:47 pm
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- Topic: 3-Word Story
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one with everything
- Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:24 pm
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attempt to become
- Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:05 pm
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- Topic: 3-Word Story
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have been taken
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
I got the impression that you were trying to tell me how to do my job, which sort of implies that you think it's a skill anybody can pick up in an afternoon. Umm, no. You were saying that it's impossible to have different degrees of ambiguity. Well, I still think that. I agree that an ambiguity may...
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
I got the impression that you were trying to tell me how to do my job, which sort of implies that you think it's a skill anybody can pick up in an afternoon.Charlie Reams wrote:Where did you get this from?Rosemary Roberts wrote: Charlie is not the first to believe that translation is easy.
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:46 pm
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- Topic: 3-Word Story
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divine noodly appendage
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:06 pm
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yet somehow distinctly
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
I think Charlie's being a bit harsh here - I have to defend you Rosemary as I feel like you've not done anything wrong lol. Maybe Charlie should be a translator? Charlie is not the first to believe that translation is easy. I often encounter customers who absolutely loathe being asked for clarifica...
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:19 am
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- Topic: 3-Word Story
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ambidextrous brain surgery
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:16 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
Charlie, you are many-skilled and entirely admirable, but you don't have much insight into the translator's task. We have to think of all possible meanings and then choose one, but not by guessing.Charlie Reams wrote:Or to think, apparently.Rosemary Roberts wrote: I am not paid to guess.
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
No, I was confused as well: Charlie's original message had scrolled and I misremembered it as "I took a picture of a man without a camera" and ran with it.Derek Hazell wrote:Confused the only one am I that is getting?
Pity, but it did give my eloquence much more scope.
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
But it isn't slightly ambiguous, it's as ambiguous as anything gets. So you don't think it's possible to guess what was almost certainly meant? I am not paid to guess. You took a photo of an unfortunate guy who didn't have a camera and therefore couldn't take his own, or you used one of these amazi...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
If I said "I took a picture of a man with a camera", that would be slightly ambiguous (does he have a camera or was I just using one?) For a translator you sure do have a problem with nuance... That is indeed the translator's problem. You cannot translate "I took a picture of a man w...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Rileys Reckoner
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3045
Re: Rileys Reckoner
Um... Do you by any chance work for Microsoft?David Wadsworth wrote:all bugs have now been eradicated
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4410
Re: Countdown at the Edinburgh Fringe
How is it possible to be completely ambiguous? How would you set about being slightly ambiguous?Charlie Reams wrote:Your post was completely ambiguous.
- Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Brandreth's Knowitalls
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3167
Re: Brandreth's Knowitalls
Well it's pretty obvious there are people in the background researching things to check facts, so I don't think having more and better experts would stop this sort of thing from happening again. Then they should make it clear how much effort they will put into checking an answer before they discoun...
- Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Brandreth's Knowitalls
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3167
Re: Brandreth's Knowitalls
And in the first program the guy who knew more about SInatra than the Entertainment expert was apparently penalised for his presumption: Brandreth didn't say he was wrong, just that they hadn't been able to confirm it. That is really no way to run a railway! But proving something is wrong is pretty...
- Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Brandreth's Knowitalls
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3167
Re: Brandreth's Knowitalls
So far the so-called experts have not been very convincing, and having them pick out just three "key facts" for extra points is pathetic: when the subject was "the earth", one of the "key facts" was "the equator". What is so significant about that - it's just ...
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:33 am
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- Topic: Brandreth's Knowitalls
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3167
Re: Brandreth's Knowitalls
I haven't watched it yet. But my enjoyment is probably not really spoiled.James Robinson wrote:How is that a spoiler! It was on yesterday!Rosemary Roberts wrote:SPOILER ALERT !!James Robinson wrote:Thank god Barry's team won!
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:07 am
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- Topic: Brandreth's Knowitalls
- Replies: 27
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Re: Brandreth's Knowitalls
SPOILER ALERT !!James Robinson wrote:Thank god Barry's team won!
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:37 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown break - the alternatives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1860
Re: Countdown break - the alternatives
I'm a translator, and my customers get to choose which flavo(u)r of English they prefer. A lot of them believe that American buzzwords and spelling is all they need to make them "global players".Derek Hazell wrote:Oh! Whatever kind of job would make you do that?
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:31 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Brandreth's Knowitalls
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3167
Re: Brandreth's Knowitalls
So, you didn't like it either then Rosemary? Maybe I'm too easily pleased when Countdown is off air. I haven't seen it yet - I haven't had the time! Provided knowledgeable and articulate candidates are permitted to shine and nobody is encouraged to pray for success nor sneered at for their mistakes...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown break - the alternatives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1860
Re: Countdown break - the alternatives
No, not usually. But at work I am constrained to ape American style and it does tend to rub off.Derek Hazell wrote:You obviously prefer American shows.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Tuesday through Friday . . . Enough already.
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown break - the alternatives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1860
Re: Countdown break - the alternatives
I can see (sort of) why they took Countdown off for a few weeks to cover horseracing - it is Goodwood this week - but next week it is replaced by back to back editions of Come Dine with Me which is outrageous. :twisted: Not quite back to back - we also get DOND to give the first two four-course mea...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown break - the alternatives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1860
Re: Countdown break - the alternatives
I can see (sort of) why they took Countdown off for a few weeks to cover horseracing - it is Goodwood this week - but next week it is replaced by back to back editions of Come Dine with Me which is outrageous. :twisted: Not quite back to back - we also get DOND to give the first two four-course mea...
- Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Brandreth's Knowitalls
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3167
Re: Brandreth's Knowitalls
Thanks, Derek. Speaking as someone who enjoys knowledge-based games and can tolerate moderate quantities of Brandreth, that looks to be just the thing to tide me over the next few parched weeks.
Re: Cola
Transformers? Or more horrible than that?Michael Wallace wrote:Virgin Cola always left a horrible film on my teeth - was that just me, then?
- Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:16 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "...and a better one..."
- Replies: 89
- Views: 11321
Re: "...and a better one..."
Also, we haven't had the "Y" joke yet since Jeff's been in charge. If you mean people saying "why not?", I think the opportunity doesn't arise often enough for it to be annoying. But I vividly remember the brilliant John Davies responding entirely deadpan with "I have to st...