Post something just for the heck of it

[belamyi]

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Why did you post that picture of the Barcelona beach on a normal day?

 

[belamyi]

^ For the reason that would elude you if you cut it off from the whole post of which it was a part

 

[belamyi]

Cuando el personal (y podéis leerlo en esta misma casa, haciendo la búsqueda correspondiente) duda de las velocidades de las interpretaciones que se conservan grabadas de obras de Elgar o Rachmaninov dirigidas por ellos mismos, y por otras razones que la capacidad de los discos de su época (básicamente, lo que llevan metido en sus propios oños);
cuando, hasta la aparición de las denominadas "interpretaciones históricamente informadas", el personal se cargaba la repetición del tema de minueto en los minueto y trío de las sinfonías de Mozart porque, con el tempo que le echaban, ni los mismos directores hubieran aguantado su propia interpretación;
... o cuando a un profe universitario le disgustan las indicaciones de medida en la prosa ritmada que tú le has presentado, porque considera que le correspondía a él decidir cómo leer tu obra...
sabes que el laputianismo goza de una buena salud.

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

What people usually misunderstand as "conservatism", the first ones being the most rabid self-proclaimed conservatives ('fake' conservatives) is not accepting whatever has not been taught to you as a child, and ultimately unwillingly accepting whatever change comes along during the course of your life only when it is so well-established that you fear being singled out as a social outcast: in other words, they understand conservatism as being comfortably mentally lazy. Considering everything was created perfect at your birth in your entourage, and any change is not enlightenment, or growth, or discovery, or development but... 'destruction'.
Actually, both the marching along with the herd and believing there is some natural, given reality that simply comes as given to you is something that goes far deeper and far wider than the political colours, but that is a different question: that explains why some apparently enlightened or even "liberal" people end up being revealed as narrow-minded and dogmatic when you push their intelligence to a field in which they have never applied the logic that seems to them so natural in other topics.

 

[belamyi]

That sort of "conservatives" may have a very clear acceptance towards a small kid who can't, not just read or write, but even barely talk yet, learning something as fundamental as self-defence, but not with the fists, the thinking, no... with a gun: that is not throwing a kid directly in the adult world, nor endangering rather than protecting his life, oh no: that is part of properly raising a child.
But put them in the same position of daring awareness and learning when it comes to sexuality, to one's true self, not what one is told or supposed to be, or take as a given thing out of the shelf of birth: then they would use one of the three magic excuses to defend themselves from their own fears and weaknesess, under the pretence of thinking about the well-being of someone else: "protect the children".

On the other position, that of the supposedly enlightened field, try to make fervent anticreationists become aware of the fact that, from the moment they not practising but upholding science as something in which to believe, they are engaging themselves in a religious debate, that you will never win, not because religious believers do not need reasons, let alone good ones, to believe, but because you are undermining your own supposedly more reasonable position by building on the foundation that there are obvious facts that anyone, everyone can acknowledge as evidently, undisputably true: you are then preaching a revelation, and that debases science, which only exists as practice, to a mere dogma. It's like pretending to enlighten people about the fact that Classical Viennese or Ancient Greek poetry are reasonably more preferable than aesthetically dumbed-down efforts like pop music or any sort of novel.

 

[belamyi]

 

[Vannie]

On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese. I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed

 

[Charon]

 

[belamyi]

You might want to know that you are living a form of programmed obsolescence prosperity, and you are merely being taxed under the guise of heavy consumer spending and debt.
You have been duped into believing that, if you can not afford all that 'American lifestyle', you are "poor"... just like old 1700 French or 1900 British aristocracy would rather be dead than renounce a lifestyle that put them above the level of a commoner... to Americans today, the level of "a communist".
Ok, so is the rest of the world... but, in a few years time, they won't be crying so loud for the lack of AC, plastic beef and Queen Monster McMansions & McSUVs LOL.

 

[Alistair]

 

[belamyi]

Oh, yes, "over the lack"... and all that

 

[Peloso]

On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese. I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed

I never understood this. Why so much concern for a lost meatball and none for the mucous-covered pasta?

 

[Kulindahr]

I never understood this. Why so much concern for a lost meatball and none for the mucous-covered pasta?

It rolled off the table and onto the floor.

 

[Peloso]

It rolled off the table and onto the floor.

..and then it rolled out the door, right?

I'm having trouble with this as well. Most meatballs are constructed somewhat hastily (although many cooks would lay claim to them all being made "with love", which is nonsense where this query is concerned since love is incompatible with science). It is highly unlikely that your average meatball would be axially symmetric enough to "roll out the door".

Additionally, meatballs are frequently covered with bits of sauce, onions and/or other vegetables and seasonings would add to the improbability that they would be able to move across a room and through a passageway on their own volition.

So in essence, your post is bullshit, Vannie.

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

Thank Al Gore? No, I'll pass on that
by Candace C. Crandall
letter to The Washington Times May 6, 1993

Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund asks us to "congratulate" Vice President Al Gore for pressing the case for protection of the ozone layer (Letters, May 3). Apparently Mr. Oppenheimer's appointment to the Clinton administration has not yet come through.

Mr. Gore has been a major promoter of the blind sheep, blind rabbits, blind trout, plankton death and other scary (and, as The Washington Post pointed out, completely false) stories related to the ozone-depletion issue.

There was never an "ozone hole over Kennebunkport" as Mr. Gore contended last spring in the course of ramming through an ac- celerated phaseout of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The infamous Feb. 3, 1992, NASA press briefing that spawned such stories was rife with misinformation and selective data. In fact, the NASA research team, headed by Robert Watson (who has secured his Clinton administration appointment) knew within two weeks of that briefing that stratospheric chlorine levels had dropped by 75 percent, and there would be no Arctic ozone hole. Yet the team withheld that information from a frightened public while the NASA budget was before Congress.

As a result of Mr. Gore's Senate histrionics, the country now faces a precipitous forced changeover to CFC substitutes that are known at the outset to be corrosive, less efficient, more expensive and, in some cases, known to pose health and safety hazards.

Thank Al Gore? Well, DuPont should, but I think I'll pass.

CANDACE C. CRANDALL
The Science & Environmental Policy Project

 

[Kulindahr]

..and then it rolled out the door, right?

I'm having trouble with this as well. Most meatballs are constructed somewhat hastily (although many cooks would lay claim to them all being made "with love", which is nonsense where this query is concerned since love is incompatible with science). It is highly unlikely that your average meatball would be axially symmetric enough to "roll out the door".

Additionally, meatballs are frequently covered with bits of sauce, onions and/or other vegetables and seasonings would add to the improbability that they would be able to move across a room and through a passageway on their own volition.

So in essence, your post is bullshit, Vannie.

It had to have happened in a motor home parked on a slanted street -- after all, it went down the sidewalk and onto the street, where the poor meatball got tramped on by feet.

 

[Vannie]

It rolled in^ the garden and under a bush.

And now my poor meatball is nothing but mush.

The mush was as tasty as tasty can be.
And early next summer it grew to a tree.

The tree was all covered with beautiful moss and it grew meatballs and tomato sauce