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Quote from: Blue-ninja on November 22, 2007, 07:13:10 pmHas anyone ever tried this?They found him naked in the alley behind the bar, playing spin the pink warlock.haha
Has anyone ever tried this?
Ditch the baby feck green.
Shut the door! I'm releasing the platoon
I attend grammar school, last grade, and ignorance is all around me. Well, good for them. Ignorance is bliss.
Bunny suicides
Quote from: Blue-ninja on December 21, 2007, 03:59:29 amBunny suicidesDon't be a cheap fecktard buy the book.
I would like to take a moment of your time to discuss a popular rule of logic. You may have heard of it. It's called Occam's Razor. Most people think of this as 'the simplest solution is most probably the correct one'. That's a sort of watered-down version for the use of the lower classes and people who think they're clever. The actual rule is more like: 'don't introduce hypothetical third parties to explain a situation when it can be just as easily explained without'. For instance, if a small boy is standing next to a half-eaten cake with chocolate stains around his mouth, and he claims that a third party in the form of a dog burst in, ate the cake and then licked the boy's face, Occam would call that boy a liar. Especially if there is no dog in the household.Now, this is a fairly sensible rule of logic which I tend to ignore completely for comic effect (see Tuesday's update), but surely that's my point. It's such an obvious rule, why does it need a special name? Why can't this Occam guy just get over himself? Hell, anyone can put a special name to some obvious rule and become a household name overnight. Don't attach clothes pegs to your nipples. There, I've done it. That's Yahtzee's Razor, that is. Yahtzee's First Rule of Nipple Survival. Now I come to think about it, I could write a whole book. Don't get your nipples too close to a whirling blade. Don't smear your nipples in fish paste and dance around in front of hungry cats. There's your Yahtzee's Second and Third Rules of Nipple Survival right there.Are you seriously telling me that until Occam came along and sorted everything out people were just believing in whatever hypothetical third parties they could think of? Allow me to dramatise this situation to make my point slightly more immediate. DRAMATIS PERSONAEA, a fool.B, a clever-clogs.SCENE 1: A's house, one week before Occam's new book, Me and My Razor, is released.A: Hey, when I got back from my holidays I found that my cat was missing and my dog was licking his chops and patting his tummy in satisfaction! I therefore think that aliens kidnapped my cat and fed my dog!B: But surely a simpler explanation would be more plausible.A: Oh yeah, who says?B: Well ... no-one, it's just one of those things everyone knows.A: Well, until someone says that theory officially and gives it an official name, I'm believing whatever the hell I like, thank you.SCENE 2: A's house, one week after Occam's book is released.A: Hey, the cat I bought to replace the old one has disappeared too! And my dog has been fed while I was out again! I suspect those wily aliens again.B: (brandishing a signed copy of Occam's book) But wait! Occam's Razor tells us not to come up with complicated answers when a simple one will do! The simple answer is that the dog ate your cat, therefore that must be the correct one!A: Damn you, Occam! Damn you to HELL! It must have been fun back in the dawn of scientific evolution, before we knew everything. Any new theory or rule you came up with or identified got your name slapped on the front. Nowadays everything you can think of some egotistical tosser has already claimed. It's kind of childish when you think about it, like putting name labels on your PE kit. To get one of those fancy names nowadays you have to come up with something seriously outlandish, then write a book about it for people with long beards to read and mock in highbrow scientific journals. The only recent one I can think of is Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and that doesn't even officially have his name on it. I suppose I could say "buttered toast always falls buttered side down" and call that Yahtzee's First Law of Toast Dropping, but some git would no doubt point out that someone else thought of that first.Back in Ancient Greek times, though, you couldn't move for smarty men calling dibs on new thoughts. Pythagorus' Theorem, Euclid's Theorem, Xeno's one about tortoises and arrows ... the last one of those is total poo-poo on a pointed stick, but he still got to stick his name on it. It seemed no-one really cared what you said, if you gave it a proper name, suddenly you're hot property and getting an interview on Parkinson.Why did he call it a 'Razor', anyway? Any normal big-bearded weirdo would have called it a rule, or a law. Not our Occam! He was the true visionary. I think he was trying to re-invent the word or start a new trend or something. Or maybe he was a bit dim, and didn't know what to call his new law, so he resorted to the dictionary. There weren't as many words back then so 'Razor' was right above 'Rule' and he just misread it. But that idea is blown right out of the fecking water because the dictionary wasn't written until Dr. Samuel Johnson pulled his finger out in the 18th century.Somehow, having ranted about this for a whole update, I've suddenly lost all interest I had in the subject.I'm going back to bed.
this is why i hate the internet sometimes
Now that what I call a sniper!! (the best starts from 1:40)http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOpNFK14490
