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Rosemary Roberts

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Done it on Rosemary's behalf :p

Thanks, Dinos.

Rosemary Roberts

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...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Kieran Child wrote:You don't know whether or not God exists.
Yes, I do.

IAWTP

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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...

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James Robinson wrote:We all wanted some OESTROGEN!!!

P.S. That's the correct spelling!

Am I right in thinking that the American spelling wouldn't be allowed?

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Peter Mabey wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great ... hedron.png

You're a fan of interpenetration?

I prefer the spiky one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Small ... hedron.png. Used to have one on my desk.

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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...

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Kieran Child wrote:That's wrong, so it's the other way around"

Most of the mnemonics I carefully memorised at school turned out - years later - to be wrong and the other way around.

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Derek Hazell wrote:The woman who sends out the official Channel 4 surveys is called Rosemary Roberts . . . is there something we should know??

I don't think so. I must ask around.

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Watch Noel Edmonds?

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je sais quoi

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proved to be

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ordered lox on

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other bogie men

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sadly misleading misnomer

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notebook and outsize

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planet sized brain

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can't remember it

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user name and

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not take the

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But no sooner

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causing the turtles

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turtle colony in

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exercising his famous

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one with everything

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attempt to become

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have been taken

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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...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote: Charlie is not the first to believe that translation is easy.
Where did you get this from?

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.

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divine noodly appendage

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yet somehow distinctly

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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...

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ambidextrous brain surgery

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote: I am not paid to guess.
Or to think, apparently.

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.

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Derek Hazell wrote:Confused the only one am I that is getting?

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.
Pity, but it did give my eloquence much more scope.

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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...

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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...

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David Wadsworth wrote:all bugs have now been eradicated

Um... Do you by any chance work for Microsoft?

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Charlie Reams wrote:Your post was completely ambiguous.

How is it possible to be completely ambiguous? How would you set about being slightly ambiguous?

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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James Robinson wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Thank god Barry's team won!
SPOILER ALERT !!
How is that a spoiler! It was on yesterday!

I haven't watched it yet. But my enjoyment is probably not really spoiled.

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James Robinson wrote:Thank god Barry's team won!

SPOILER ALERT !!

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Derek Hazell wrote:Oh! Whatever kind of job would make you do that?

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".

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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...

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Derek Hazell wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote:Tuesday through Friday . . . Enough already.
You obviously prefer American shows.

No, not usually. But at work I am constrained to ape American style and it does tend to rub off.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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Michael Wallace wrote:Virgin Cola always left a horrible film on my teeth - was that just me, then?

Transformers? Or more horrible than that?

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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...

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