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@Mitch I don't think so...

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@MattЭллен Sorry, I was too late. I hope you are sound asleep.

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@Mitch Mark Twain:

> Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Doesn't variation determine natural selection?

@Mitch An example. Whenever I am outside, I see buildings of about equal beauty 90% of the time. And yet I still admire their beauty every day.

I don't find buildings beautiful at all.

Have you looked at the right buildings?

Ok, those are two exceptions :-)

But, in general, they're not that good.

Haha there you go.

@Mitch If everyone were beautiful, only philosophers would know beauty existed.

@skullpatrol I suppose staircases were easy enough to include in that W building. How do lifts work in shafts which change angle?

It's true it's not easy to recognise something which suffuses everything.

@AndrewLeach dunno

hi

@skullpatrol

hi

can i ask you a question?

can you read hamlet

nah

thanks anyway

I don't read Hamlet, but I know what a helmet is, lol.

if it's like this over there, I don't wanna go.

what is this "it"?

It's the "dummy it".

so can I say

"Where it is like that, this law may be applied."?

This "It" is like a general situation?

if the situation is like the previous example,

?

This "It" is like a general situation?

@Andrew Leach

...typing...

Depends on context. If it can't be determined to be anything in particular, then it's the dummy it. In your example you also have a that, which means that this quote is a part of a conversation and the conversation may define how it is interpreted.

It's like this

Let's say a girl was raped by a 18 year old boy. Where it is so, this rape law may be applied.

That it needs to be that because you are referring to a particular situation.

"Where that is so..."

What is this "where tis so

what is this "it"

[Doing day job. Will return.]

@matt Do you prefer Oxford or Collins dictionaries?

Oxford

Each of them has a big single volume dictionary for English, English-French, and English-German.

> Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Harry Kroto argues that British-designed Meccano, which involves putting nuts and bolts together, is of greater educational value because it mimics real-life engineering. "There is no comparison," he says. "Children should start with Lego, which is basically a toy, and its basic units are bricks. We do not build cars and other machines out of bricks." He adds that children should "graduate" to Meccano.

bbc.com/news/uk-politics-29992974

@AndrewLeach Wow, people get way too obsessed with Lego. "An abomination"? Seriously? If you don't like the new, fancier sets, just don't use them!

they are an affront! to... something... people who didn't have it so easy when they were younger?

Pfffft

:)

People really do get worked up over the silliest things.

indeed

@terdon but... but... Wrongness!!!

@Mitch Breathe in... breathe out...

:P

That guy doesn't get it. Or maybe he's an investor.

Lego is the spawn of Satan.

So I've been a member for four years this past Sunday.

If everyone were Beauty, who would be the Beast?

@Robusto congrats! I guess SE owes you a fruit bowl or bouquet of flowers :D

@MattЭллен Pie. I like pie.

@Robusto maybe you'd prefer an appliance. apparently that's the modern "fruit or flowers"

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Maybe it's easier just to get a divorce. But who keeps the washer/dryer in that case?

Perhaps it's a surgical appliance.

Or braces for your teeth.

What do you call braces (the orthodontics sort, not the hold-up-your-pants sort) in the UK?

braces

So hilarity ensues in some of the lowbrow TV comedies when someone confuses those with what we in America call suspenders?

I've not seen that joke :D

Maybe it's too easy.

Hi pal

I agree it does take self-discipline.

I find the argumentative ones the most difficult.

Rudeness is easy for me to ignore.

It's best just not to respond.

@skullpatrol That's a lot of shit! And you know it!

-_-

^classic non responses.

They are not! They're modern non-responses! And you know it, jerk-face!

Let me rephrase: THEY ARE NOT!!!! THEY'RE MODERN NON-RESPONSES!!! AND YOU KNOW IT, JERK-FACE!!!!

Do I detect a note of passive-aggressiveness in your insipid Snoopy reply?

raider nation is ACTIVE aggressive

@Arrowfar Yo yo.

froyo

@MattЭллен I've actually never eaten that.

@Cerberus I haven't. is it good?

facefoot

@Arrowfar We are not fighting. It is a simulacrum of fighting. There is a difference.

@Cerberus oops! I misread you :D

@Robusto Ah, I didn't know you were so Epicurean.

@MattЭллен I hoped so.

It was fairly funny.

A good start of my day.

Glad I could help

@Cerberus A much-misunderstood philosophy.

epic urea n

@Cerberus Not bad, but you might prefer "A good start to my day." Or the rest of us native speakers might, anyway.

sounds smelly

@Robusto Exactly.

@Robusto Yes, I see it now. I was going to say something else, then edited it...

Which is how things always go wrong. Like Hitler.

Your typos created Hitler? You monster!

It's complicated.

Think Eva Braun.

By the way, I went to see From Caligari to Hitler last week.

A documentary about Weimar cinema.

Eva Braun was uncomplicated, I think.

Should we consider her a traitor? A brainwashed victim? An ordinary person?

I think we shouldn't consider her at all.

S'posed to snow today. Should I go out and ride now, and risk getting snowed on, or let it pass?

But if she was very attractive, and you read consider as "sit on"...

I seldom sit on attractive women. There are other ways to deal with them.

Hmm can't you ride in a wide circle around your house, so that you will be able to return home relatively quickly, should it begin to snow?

Hey, at least it's body contact.

Meh, precipitation has started. I'll have to use the spin cycle today, and for the foreseeable future.

add some progressive resistance

Hmm.

Too bad.

you can get a really good work out if you do it right

@skullpatrol That is how one uses a spin cycle, yes.

@Robusto +1, I think.

Hi Everyone

Nice pic @Arrowfar

35 more days to the new year.

@Arrowfar For me, it is an important day. It is the day I start studying math again.

@Arrowfar How is your love life now?

Have you thought of moving to another country to live?

My love life is still non-existent.

My country is small. I can take a train from one end to the other end in 2 hours.

I hope I get completely well by the end of next year.

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@Arrowfar Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

@Arrowfar Hi again, lol.

Hi @Arrowfar hi @JasperLoy

@Cerberus He edited based on my comment, apparently.

@Robusto How appropriate.

Hello?

I'd like to have help on a 4 second audio transcription please...

It ends in ape, ate, ait or something like that

Thanks in advance

@TimTimmy terrible quality recording. without more context, i couldn't say.

@Jez Thanks for trying

I would have to agree with Jez

Someone else found the answer - "rent"

:O

That works.

Thanks everyone! A pleasure as always to chat with you

Is it a British accent?

@skullpatrol I think so - he's a posh teacher who used to work at Eton

Must be.

It doesn't get any posher than Eton.

Bye

Later pal