Thread: Points to ponder

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Symphysy.

Twyndyllyngs, but is archaic.
(Yes, I googled symphysys and came across it )

Only a sick society is filled with people who would never steal from their neighbour, but demand that the government do it for them. - William Comer

Originally Posted by jabir

but demand that the government do it for them.

I believe the contestants for the gravy chain offer the voters the bribe in advance. No "asking" is needed.

^Think he f*cked that up. Schooling IS fairly synonymous with education, but not with intelligence.

he should have said "Don't confuse schooling with intelligence......"

He's fucked up quite a lot lately, but the quote is fine.

Disassembled DSLR, that's why they're so expensive.

If Saturn replaced the moon.

Imagine living in Alberta, Canada, and seeing this every day.

Each dot is an entire galaxy containing billions of stars.

And it's just space junk, yet we're conned into paying tons for something that's practically worthless.

Originally Posted by jabir

Don't be quotin' militant Serbs now

Originally Posted by jabir

Light travels 91m miles from the sun, and your shadow deprives it from reaching the ground in the last few feet!

Not strictly true, even a shadow contains sunlight, otherwise you wouldn't be able to see it.

We're stuck in 2018, and this guy's moved on a hundred years.

What a great thread

Originally Posted by foobar

Not strictly true, even a shadow contains sunlight, otherwise you wouldn't be able to see it.

Well, technically, yes there is some light there, but your rationale is totally wrong. Absolute darkness or blackness is the absence of light. We can see the shadow because we can't see what's actually there.