Quote of the week!

[Neelix]

- Neelix

[Cody]

Greetings Cody, you and half the Oolite forums seem to have preceded my presence here, I knew I felt a disturbance in the Farce somewhere! (not that any will remember me from Oolite boards but they were the only Coriolis station to be found for years in a total void of space games)

[Pleb]

Wildeblood's tact-gland was surgically removed many years ago..

[Wildeblood]

Wildeblood's tact-gland was surgically removed many years ago..

Oi !!!!!!!

[Pleb]

Haha, I'm not being nasty but that has made me chuckle today!

[Cody]

... people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.

Yes, it's the Ig Nobel awards!

[Tricky]

... people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.

Yes, it's the Ig Nobel awards!

And yet earily accurate.

[Diziet Sma]

... people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.

Yes, it's the Ig Nobel awards!

And yet earily accurate.

Except when it's me they're talking about, of course..

[Wildeblood]

Why not encode the likelihood of individual variation from the factional norm as a cultural meta-trait?

[Ranthe]

Why not encode the likelihood of individual variation from the factional norm as a cultural meta-trait?

Because to do so would counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor?

[UK_Eliter]

Because to do so would counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor?

Very likely! Although there is always the possibility that - if you will allow me such an obvious point - the real intention is to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other.

(Link for the uninitiated. There's also this.)

[Diziet Sma]

Because to do so would counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor?

Very likely! Although there is always the possibility that - if you will allow me such an obvious point - the real intention is to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other.

(Link for the uninitiated. There's also this.)

This must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays..

[UK_Eliter]

This must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays..

Sundays have their problems too:

'In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long, dark teatime of the soul.'

[Redspear]

This must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays..

That's a good quote in itself

[Ranthe]

I see no reason to trade our elegant reactionless drives for dull squirtings, in the interests of a spurious "realism" that wears Newton on its tee-shirt whilst giving him serial wedgies round the back, and kneeing Einstein in the cobblers as it does so. Or to see our multifarious races and regimes buried beneath a heap of drab humanity, either. The future is unwritten - so let's write it!