Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:09 pm
It is so much refreshing and fills me with optimism to see that there is always someone in this community to lend a helping hand to a fellow Commander in despair!
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Quote of the week!
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Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 7:39 am
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:47 am
(Comedian) Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do X
(Straight Man, playing a Doctor) Then don't do X! Next!
Sorry. I spent too long at uni with medical students who found it hard when they killed first patients on the wards. Most of them got past it.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:31 pm
kakistocracy
NOUN
1. Government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
1.1 A state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Greek kakistos ‘worst’ + -cracy.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:05 pm
That just about sums it up! Such a fine word deserves music!
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:54 pm
Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it would taste vaguely of raspberries.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:17 pm
Never forget that we, as a species, made our glorious debut onto the galactic stage by sending unsolicited nudes, a mix tape, and directions back to our place.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:05 pm
I was at HMP Pentonville last week. They've now got patrol dogs who are barking, which helps deter drones.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 6:35 pm
Come on, name the guilty one!Disembodied wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:05 pmI was at HMP Pentonville last week. They've now got patrol dogs who are barking, which helps deter drones.
OK, I googled it. It wasn't any old idiot, but it was the Secretary of Justice at the time. Step up to the stocks, Liz Truss, and take the rotten tomato of ridicule and the limp lettuce of laughter. Clearly an idiot of the highest order.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 7:01 pm
Yes, it just makes you brim with confidence that this really is a government who could totally use technology to solve the Irish border.RockDoctor wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 6:35 pmCome on, name the guilty one!
OK, I googled it. It wasn't any old idiot, but it was the Secretary of Justice at the time. Step up to the stocks, Liz Truss, and take the rotten tomato of ridicule and the limp lettuce of laughter. Clearly an idiot of the highest order.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:29 pm
Re FRBs...
Hmm... what was it Pratchett said about million-to-one chances?"It just seems completely inconceivable that there could be that many different alien civilisations all deciding to produce the same kind of signal in the same way - that just seems highly improbable."
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:32 pm
Please elucidate?
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:46 pm
I think it was something about the 1% chance having a probability of 99% to occur or similar?
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:03 pm
One of the DiscWorld novels had a recurring theme that million-to-one chances happen all the time, by the force of Narrative Plausibility, so if you can adjust your odds from, say, 99 : 1 to 1,000,000 : 1, then success will naturally follow.
On the Disc, this seems perfectly plausible.
It was a "Guards" thread novel, but I forget which one.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:50 am
The Duke's a hazard