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Mr Flibble
Nov 16, 2019, 8:54:30 PM11/16/19
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Hi!
Possibly related to the Ballmer Peak but I have had a whole bottle of Cava
whilst coding and I haven't felt drunk at all. Does the body/brain
metabolize alcohol faster if you aren't just thinking about if Brazil is a
good film or not?
/Flibble
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“I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who
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"Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are
confronted by God," Byrne asked on his show The Meaning of Life. "What
will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?"
"I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about?" Fry replied.
"How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery
that is not our fault. It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil."
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a
world that is so full of injustice and pain. That's what I would say."
Possibly related to the Ballmer Peak but I have had a whole bottle of Cava
whilst coding and I haven't felt drunk at all. Does the body/brain
metabolize alcohol faster if you aren't just thinking about if Brazil is a
good film or not?
/Flibble
--
"Snakes didn't evolve, instead talking snakes with legs changed into
snakes." - Rick C. Hodgin
“You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.” – Ricky Gervais
“I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who
doesn’t believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.” –
Ricky Gervais
"Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are
confronted by God," Byrne asked on his show The Meaning of Life. "What
will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?"
"I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about?" Fry replied.
"How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery
that is not our fault. It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil."
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a
world that is so full of injustice and pain. That's what I would say."
Alf P. Steinbach
Nov 17, 2019, 6:28:25 AM11/17/19
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On 17.11.2019 02:54, Mr Flibble wrote:
> Hi!
> [snip] if Brazil is a good film or not?
It's a classic, but to enjoy it one must have at least some residual
freedom urge and residual ability to think about things.
One person in my family, with an amazing almost photographic memory, but
old now and throughout her life a strict flock follower, i.e. she has a
very strong herd instinct, disliked it intensely. I think her instincts
made her blind to many aspects of the story in the movie, so much that
it became meaningless to her. That phenomenon has also happened in this
group, then about other things: herd instinct makes blind, so that the
responses are not even wrong, just technically completely baffling.
Btw. this is not the elderly lady that Francis Glassborow used to
test-read his introductory C++ text book. I've never met Francis. That's
a different family (if his reader was family, which I suspect).
- Alf
> Hi!
> [snip] if Brazil is a good film or not?
It's a classic, but to enjoy it one must have at least some residual
freedom urge and residual ability to think about things.
One person in my family, with an amazing almost photographic memory, but
old now and throughout her life a strict flock follower, i.e. she has a
very strong herd instinct, disliked it intensely. I think her instincts
made her blind to many aspects of the story in the movie, so much that
it became meaningless to her. That phenomenon has also happened in this
group, then about other things: herd instinct makes blind, so that the
responses are not even wrong, just technically completely baffling.
Btw. this is not the elderly lady that Francis Glassborow used to
test-read his introductory C++ text book. I've never met Francis. That's
a different family (if his reader was family, which I suspect).
- Alf
Mr Flibble
Nov 17, 2019, 10:21:59 AM11/17/19
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my part on deciding if it is a good film or not. :D
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