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Mr.Gumby wrote:I am not sure this is still entertaining for anyone but myself but I'll add a few more batches of images.

I for one enjoy the images you post. You live in a lovely spot, and I appreciate your sharing it. Thanks.

Solar cuan system? As a non speaker am I missing something here?

Phill

Add my best wishes Ben. Hoping you have a full recovery.

My wife occasionally keels over with low blood pressure and no-one can find out why. Over the years she has got better at spotting it coming.

busterbill wrote:Good to hear you are better! Hopefully it was a fluke.

Lets hope not?

Fascinating.

Thanks for the post and discussion.

I particularly like the bit where they calmly discuss the speed and rate at which 'water flows uphill'.

Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic. (Asimov, I think)

Freedom is not an absolute. Or if it is then it is unattainable (you are subject to gravity are you not?). Freedom is really a relative. Freedom from this, freedom to do that. If someone is trying to sell you freedom as an absolute then you are being misled - it is usually about their freedom to do ...

Katharine wrote:....... I will neither confirm nor deny that you might then find me in the store plunk-ing all of them to also find the one with the most pleasing sound...)

But have you got one in D...?

We're not all braying idiots, if it's any consolation. We're just not the ones running things, if "running things" is even the right word for it. I have absolutely no doubt that the majority are as sane as the majority anywhere. I am all too aware of how it could feel to live in a country...

Make America Grate Again

On another forum someone has posted a picture of a commercial product described on the box as Disposable Women's Razors Does this mean that they are only for 'disposable women'? Are there such creatures? I would post a link to the image but it is huge, and the size attributes of the BBCode IMG tag d...

That is very good. I take my head clothes off to you.

an seanduine wrote:I managed ´far speak listen box´.

**well done that is the shortest yet**

(I am using ** as shorthand for it passed the test)

EDIT: **'far speaking and listening box' seems a little cleaner**

To me 'thing' sounds like a one off but 'something' sounds like a class of things.

(That is allowed too)
(thing that uses its self)

benhall.1 wrote:"thing you can use to speak to me from far away and also allows me to speak to you"

Way better than mine..... though we are allowed 'something' instead of 'thing'. Would that be an improvement?

That's what I love about plain English: Although simple, it's reliable for much better poetic force than ornate loanwords can ever lend. Try this for simple english: https://www.splasho.com/upgoer5/ . I tried to describe a mobile phone: "small box that lets you speak to me with from a long way...

As I see it, 'fairness' is an instinctive judgement based on keeping everyone happy. This 'fairness' helps to maintain stability and will confer an evolutionary advantage on the group. There will of course be exceptions (for example, alpha gets first pick, but should not abuse the privilege). When t...

fairness + force = justice