The Saturday 6-Pack

~~jwb~~ · 05-15-2022, 10:34 PM

You sound like you need a drink.

**Marie Monday** · 05-16-2022, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

i don't know what you mean by it's a matter of definition instead of realism. What does that mean?

The way i see it, the term benevolent dictator was right in the premise of the question so yes i do think you either grant that premise in order to answer the question or else the question is disingenuously worded and frankly not worth answering.

I mean immortality just doesn't exist, while I think benevolent dictators can't exist by definition. But I agree with your point

Trollheart · 05-16-2022, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

If you read what I wrote, you would see that I wasn't being a contrarian,
but stating that the literal is all I had to go on ("self-evident": I have no
other start date for "drinking").

Nah, you're just being smart. There isn't a person here who wasn't entirely clear on what I meant. Do I need to use puppets and diagrams in future? Come on man, I get the joke, but admit it was a joke, or at least a piece of sarcasm. Nobody could be that pedantic.

For instance, if a cop pulled you over and said "Excuse me sir have you been drinking?" are you going to be looking guiltily at that bottle of orange soda? I understand it's a joke, but you really should admit it.

SGR · 05-16-2022, 06:07 AM

Why yes officer, in fact I have been drinking tonight:

rubber soul · 05-16-2022, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Nah, you're just being smart. There isn't a person here who wasn't entirely clear on what I meant. Do I need to use puppets and diagrams in future? Come on man, I get the joke, but admit it was a joke, or at least a piece of sarcasm. Nobody could be that pedantic.

For instance, if a cop pulled you over and said "Excuse me sir have you been drinking?" are you going to be looking guiltily at that bottle of orange soda? I understand it's a joke, but you really should admit it.

rostasi · 05-16-2022, 07:06 AM

Wow. Ok, you’re gonna take what I said personally. NEVER did I say that you weren’t clear in your meaning. All I said was … oh fuck it. I can’t do anything when it comes to someone else’s reading comprehension. You’ve basically taken a self-referentially answered statement and turned it into a personal butthurt. The “joke” (your interpretation, not mine) was that I don’t have the experience of alcohol drinking, so I was going for “drinking” in the general form. Take a stress pill dude.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Nah, you're just being smart. There isn't a person here who wasn't entirely clear on what I meant. Do I need to use puppets and diagrams in future? Come on man, I get the joke, but admit it was a joke, or at least a piece of sarcasm. Nobody could be that pedantic.

For instance, if a cop pulled you over and said "Excuse me sir have you been drinking?" are you going to be looking guiltily at that bottle of orange soda? I understand it's a joke, but you really should admit it.

Lisnaholic · 05-16-2022, 07:24 AM

Difficult though it is to tear my attention away from this examination of the word "drinking", I am drawn back to Marie's answer:

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

6. What mystery would you like to see solved?
Any of the big physics mysteries. The incompatibility of quantum physics and general relativity, dark matter/energy etc.

Dark Matter is a particularly worrisome mystery to me:

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Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe......
no one has directly observed dark matter yet – assuming it exists....

Dark matter has only made it to scientific orthodoxy since about the 1980s: so for centuries, science, incl astonomy, has been looking at just 15% of the universe? How parochial, how myopic.

Other mysteries that I would like answers to* are: What is outside the observable universe? Why was there a Big Bang at all? If there are other Big Bangs, are they unreachably far away in time, or in space, or both?

* I'd like answers, but preferably in one-line sentences please, on account of attention-span issues.

rubber soul · 05-16-2022, 07:34 AM

You've never drank alcohol, rostasi? That had to take a lot of willpower given the peer pressure we all go through as teens. I'm impressed.

The Batlord · 05-16-2022, 08:21 AM

And he's not at all insufferable about it thankfully.

rostasi · 05-16-2022, 08:25 AM

Well, it’s not some kind of moral thing, it’s just that I don’t like the taste. I’ve had people insist that something they’re drinking is different and good and that I’d surely like it and when I give in to taking a sip, it just tastes revolting. I guess that might be considered a light form of peer/beer pressure, but they’re in a distant past and once you’ve established a preference, then there’s usually no reason to continually remind yourself of them later. That’s about as close to “peer pressure” as I’ve come, I think. It usually the people who do the drinking who are the most vocal about it tho. I generally keep quiet about it cause it’s not a big deal.

Someone once said to me, “well, you just haven’t had good wine” and then offer something expensive and “exquisite” while I, in return, twist my throat muscles in order to let it slip past my taste buds as quick as possible showing that name, background, and price have no effect. I even toured the Guinness Storehouse. It was one of those things you do when in Dublin.

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~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	You sound like you need a drink.

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SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,327	Why yes officer, in fact I have been drinking tonight:

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rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,023	Well, it’s not some kind of moral thing, it’s just that I don’t like the taste. I’ve had people insist that something they’re drinking is different and good and that I’d surely like it and when I give in to taking a sip, it just tastes revolting. I guess that might be considered a light form of peer/beer pressure, but they’re in a distant past and once you’ve established a preference, then there’s usually no reason to continually remind yourself of them later. That’s about as close to “peer pressure” as I’ve come, I think. It usually the people who do the drinking who are the most vocal about it tho. I generally keep quiet about it cause it’s not a big deal. Someone once said to me, “well, you just haven’t had good wine” and then offer something expensive and “exquisite” while I, in return, twist my throat muscles in order to let it slip past my taste buds as quick as possible showing that name, background, and price have no effect. I even toured the Guinness Storehouse. It was one of those things you do when in Dublin.