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We need a group name for people who post on The Carrier.

In the old days we were Millarworlders – what are we now?

Carriers?

Carrierers?

Carrierists?

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It’s clearly a conspiracy by Google and Apple to sell more chromebooks/Macbooks.

garjones wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In Indonesia and Malaysia, Suparman is a not so uncommon last name.

I wouldn’t quite say that, it is pretty uncommon. Enough that locals would also giggle at it. It exists though and there was also an international footballer in Malaysia with the name but that’s the only time I’ve seen it outside the famous Batman bin Suparman in Indonesia.

Mohd Rusdi Bin Mohd Suparman (born 27 January 1973) is a retired Malaysian footballer. He was known as Superman by his teammates and his fans. He is also a former member of the Malaysian pre-Olympic team and also the Malaysian national team.

I was looking at a book about learning Bahasa Indonesia, for understanding about the language, and one of the first people mentioned was Pak Suparman. Normally in books like that, they use common last names, especially in the beginning.

It could be more common in Indonesia, I don’t live there, but it seems pretty rare in Malaysia.

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Quick Google fu makes me think it’s mainly a Javanese name.

I will not repost it here for obvious reasons but my friend quite seriously just sent me art of a naked thanos with the caption “thanos fuuuuuucks”.

Evidently you people aren’t even the weirdest of my compatriots.

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

for obvious reasons

Show, don’t tell.

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Todd

You have a pretty good imagination

How do I un-imagine it?

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Todd

Well, for me, it’s too disgusting for my mind to try to force me to imagine it. And I’m the one who’s mind got me to imagine Voldemort sex because of the cursed child.

Look, I’m not in charge of your brains.

No, but naked Thanos is.

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

No, but naked Thanos is.

Careful with those thoughts. You might snap!

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Todd

Ummm… Anders, I don’t think that’s his finger.

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Todd

I sure hope it isn’t, I paid full price!

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Todd

On the plus side, naked Thanos has proven to be a muse for such inspirational poetry.

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

Look, I’m not in charge of your brains.

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and the twist was i was in charge of their brains all along

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Christian

Tim… If you’re ever barred from working as a legal counsel or whatever it is that you do, I think you’d make an excellent Scooby-Doo villain.

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Todd

But I like dogs

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But I don’t want anyone to pull off Tim’s head.

Uhh…

You weren’t there when I was replying to Anders.

Phrasing?

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

Phrasing?

I may have done that on purpose. Technically it’s their faces. But I thought Todd would say phrasing one last time.

I’m sorry.

 

Anonymous wrote:

I like dogs

But what are your thoughts on “meddling kids”?

Well, generally, and without commenting on any specific set sof meddling kids, I (generally, mind you) find many meddling kids to be an imposition to the advancement of haunted theme parks, haunted mines, and other haunted locations of similar size and function, which in turn significantly limits the furtherance of business plans (or business-related revenge plans) of many mask-loving American taxpayers.

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I think you’d make a terrible villain. Stick to poetry instead.

In other words, may I have another poem please?

It is more or less a spur-of-the-moment thing.  Most days I just draft various legal documents.  Although a friend of mine is talking to me about a novel he is writing which is some fun bit of stuff.

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You should capture more spur-moments when you have in between documents time. Your friend is lucky to have you to talk to. Perhaps you can help me with something.

I would if you would ever tell me what this something is

Okay.

You remembered.

Anyone for:

Pick one leave one thread…

Word association thread…

?

Check out the poetry thread I made in the Creative forums. It’s kind of like that but with class.

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Dave, Todd, garjones

Did you hear about the mathematician who had a fear of negative numbers?

He would stop at nothing to avoid them.

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I have a fear of speed bumps, but I’m slowly getting over it.

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Alcoholic carpenters tend to get hammered.

I used to be addicted to the Hokey Pokey, but I turned myself around.

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njerry wrote:

I used to be addicted to the Hokey Pokey, but I turned myself around.

That’s what it’s all about.

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DavidM, njerry

These 15 Animals Without Hair Are Barely Recognizable

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Christian, Todd

No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum

FYI: You have to go to Terrell, TX to visit it.

[Christian]

JRCarter wrote:

These 15 Animals Without Hair Are Barely Recognizable

Well that was fucking weird.

I have never seen anyone look as sad as a featherless penguin.

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How to piss off three fanbases all at once:

https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/design/omg+its+r2d2+i+loved+him+in+womens+t-shirt-D5cd6908f20517616940e88ef?sellable=R4RR4gDa18FZdaAo7Dpx-347-8&view=D1

@kalmanl, here’s a TED Talk that might interest you:

Lindsay Morcom – A history of Indigenous languages — and how to revitalize them

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Todd wrote:

@kalmanl, here’s a TED Talk that might interest you:

Lindsay Morcom – A history of Indigenous languages — and how to revitalize them

How ironic that she’s Canadian, and it’s politically incorrect there to criticize language inequality in one case. I know that involves a major, the major language, but if all languages are equal, that means all languages. I can’t take her seriously. I mean, as a test case, say (and I know this won’t happen, but it’s a comparison) if during reopening, synagogues were allowed to open before the churches of a major denomination of Christianity were, would I not be a hypocrite if I just accepted blindly that I can go to services and they couldn’t?

How is anything you said there connected to that TED talk? I have no idea what you’re going on about, really.

Anyway, cheers, Todd, the start of this is a neat example that I can use when I’m going into Shapir-Whorf the next time.

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I love the really obvious subtext in this debate. One for @bruce

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My wife has been making Dandelion honey with the children today and she just finished reducing all the liquid down in a saucepan on the hob.

As she went out into the garden to tell them it was ready I was therefore able to suggest that she tell them “Kids, I Shrunk The Honey”.

Life doesn’t get any better.

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Watch that language, guys. It could turn unintelligible real fast.

Today is Karl Marx’s 202nd birthday. Celebrate by starting a union, light your favourite beard-scented candle and most importantly:

EAT THE BOURGEOISIE!

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But don’t overeat

 

 

 

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

Watch that language, guys. It could turn unintelligible real fast.

Today is Karl Marx’s 202nd birthday. Celebrate by starting a union, light your favourite beard-scented candle and most importantly:

EAT THE BOURGEOISIE!

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Todd

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle

garjones wrote:

I love the really obvious subtext in this debate. One for @bruce

There’s a guy at my work keeps banging on about all the years experience he has as though its the only thing that counts. I might send this to him.

I’m actually a bit down in the dumps as one of my favourite maths educators died this week. Never met the guy but I visited his website pretty much on a daily basis and use his resources on a weekly basis with my classes. Sad that his website will never be updated again. My head of departemnt once commented “You’d leave your wife for that guy if you had the chance.” and i have to admit i didnt challenge him on that!

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Christian wrote:

How is anything you said there connected to that TED talk? I have no idea what you’re going on about, really.

Anyway, cheers, Todd, the start of this is a neat example that I can use when I’m going into Shapir-Whorf the next time.

My point is that Canada isn’t a democracy, it’s the PRC disguised as a democracy. Does a parliament meeting to castigate a private citizen for expressing a view that most of the political thinkers and leaders of the country’s allies would agree with, or at least find it harmless, sound like a democracy to you? And that opinion is linguistic, so it’s relevant. When Covid is over, I would love to unmask Canada for the totalitarian country it is.

 

Oh yeah I forgot about despotic Canada.

That place is a totalitarian nightmare.

 

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Todd

I tried to warn you before. Canadians eat Timbits.

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Todd

I think Kalman might be taking the advice of that South Park song too literally.

(They’re not even a real country, anyway.)

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Todd

Dave wrote:

I think Kalman might be taking the advice of that South Park song too literally.

(They’re not even a real country, anyway.)

Per Homer Simpson, they’re America Junior.

Canada isn’t a real country anyway.

I know that for a fact because I haven’t been there.

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Todd

Now we need Christian to show up and make that German joke about Canada. (I’d try, but I’d mess it up.)

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Todd

[Christian]

Dave wrote:

Now we need Christian to show up and make that German joke about Canada. (I’d try, but I’d mess it up.)

Warum heißt Kanada Kanada?

Weil keiner da ist!

Um, you’d kind of need the phonetic transcription to get the pun, I suppose…

Anonymous wrote:

My point is that Canada isn’t a democracy, it’s the PRC disguised as a democracy. Does a parliament meeting to castigate a private citizen for expressing a view that most of the political thinkers and leaders of the country’s allies would agree with, or at least find it harmless, sound like a democracy to you? And that opinion is linguistic, so it’s relevant. When Covid is over, I would love to unmask Canada for the totalitarian country it is.

So, yeah, I still don’t know what you’re talking about, but even if I did, how does that relate to the speaker’s point that the Canadian government deliberately tried to eradicate the native languages and that they can and should be reintroduced?

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Probably some very long bow to be drawn in relation to French and English.

I stumbled across this today in Terrence Howard’s Wikipedia entry.

I thought it was a joke by a rogue Wikipedia editor but it appears to be legitimate.

This is the proof to the World of Science and Mathematics that 1×1=2.#mathematics #worldofscience @rollingstone #proof pic.twitter.com/7uOMrNshia

— Terrence D Howard (@terrencehoward) November 1, 2017

Bizarre.

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Todd

This is just like that day I had at primary school where I forgot how to count properly (we were using number lines and I was moving one step further on all the additions for some reason). Except I was 5 and Terence Howard is an idiot.

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[Rocket]

Hey I love Timbits. In case anyone is confused, Timbits come from Horton version rather than the Masters version of Tims. I live less than 2 hours from Canada and whenever I hear Doofus Trump speak, I rue the fact that the border is closed and I cannot go there. I think all of you need to apologize to SeanRobinson. Kalman, you are a nice kid but you should start examining what you hear a little more closely. Use Google and do your own research to find out the truth.

btw, square root of 2 is 1.414 and This guy who isnt the one who quit Iron Man is a solid reason why you dont believe everything you hear.

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Sean Robinson

Howard is also known for domestic violence, so I doubt this is a huge loss for Marvel.

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njerry

Christian wrote:

Weil keiner da is

That’s one of the few German puns I heard that would not work in Yiddish- r is pronounced at the end of words (though it ranges from a French syllable-final r, to a Spanish single r, to a Spanish Doble Erre/Scottish trill), and da is pronounced like doh or doo (the latter would be transcribed as du). And grammatically, Vayl kayner nisht is du sounds more natural.

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Christian

Have you seen the pics of Adele lately? She looks like a different person after the weight loss…

Speaking of which, I am tempted to restart the Health thread again not just on shedding weight but on overall health.
How is everyone doing under the quarantine?

Dave wrote:

I stumbled across this today in Terrence Howard’s Wikipedia entry.

I thought it was a joke by a rogue Wikipedia editor but it appears to be legitimate.

This is the proof to the World of Science and Mathematics that 1×1=2.#mathematics #worldofscience @rollingstone #proof pic.twitter.com/7uOMrNshia

— Terrence D Howard (@terrencehoward) November 1, 2017

Bizarre.

Man. Its a weird day when it’s not Kalman winning the daily award for posting the craziest shit in this thread.

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[Rocket]

Rocket wrote:

Hey I love Timbits. In case anyone is confused, Timbits come from Horton version rather than the Masters version of Tims. I live less than 2 hours from Canada and whenever I hear Doofus Trump speak, I rue the fact that the border is closed and I cannot go there. I think all of you need to apologize to SeanRobinson. Kalman, you are a nice kid but you should start examining what you hear a little more closely. Use Google and do your own research to find out the truth.

btw, square root of 2 is 1.414 and This guy who isnt the one who quit Iron Man is a solid reason why you dont believe everything you hear.

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How do you know there aren’t Master versions of Timbits.

I could be a donut shop if i wanted.

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Rocket

Wait is Terrence Howards argument really 1×1 = 2  because if 2×2 =4 and you deduct 1 away from each of the 2s (and those 2s from the 4) you get 1×1=2?  I mean, in that case 7×7 =62

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Todd

Anonymous wrote:

I could be a donut shop if i wanted.

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, Tim: no, you can’t be a donut shop. There are zoning regulations and construction standards with which donut shops must comply, and you just…don’t. 

I know a Master lawyer who could ensure Tim complies with all the standards and regulations. He can be a donut shop if he wants. He’s already halfway there.

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njerry wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I could be a donut shop if i wanted.

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, Tim: no, you can’t be a donut shop. There are zoning regulations and construction standards with which donut shops must comply, and you just…don’t. 

Says you. I happen to also be a tricksy lawyer.

Martin Smith wrote:

Except I was 5 and Terence Howard is an idiot.

Just looking at some of the stuff he says and at his biography, it looks like he has mental health troubles.

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Dave

Christian wrote:

Martin Smith wrote:

Except I was 5 and Terence Howard is an idiot.

Just looking at some of the stuff he says and at his biography, it looks like he has mental health troubles.

Mental health issues – while terrible – don’t preclude you from also being an idiot (in the colloquial sense).

Martin Smith wrote:

Mental health issues – while terrible – don’t preclude you from also being an idiot

It’s arguably worse when you multiply one by the other.

Because you get 2.

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Herr Starr would be… displeased with Terrys improper use of commas, inverted or no.

Anonymous wrote:

Says you. I happen to also be a tricksy lawyer.

Knock yourself out:

https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/hospitality-tourism-sport/food/food-beverage/regulations

njerry wrote:

Knock yourself out

I have a feeling lawyers get this request a lot.

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Christian

njerry wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Says you. I happen to also be a tricksy lawyer.

Knock yourself out:

https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/hospitality-tourism-sport/food/food-beverage/regulations

Believe it or not Jerry, one of my clients rhymes with the bestaurant and statering association of blastralia so I’m pretty up on the various regulations and licences needed to operate a business within that industry.   I even wrote an article on it which was published in an industry magazine (the ones you posted are for Queensland.  They vary state to state, but I’m located in NSW).

Therefore I can be a donut shop if I wanna

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I’m not in the least bit surprised.

Now I wants a donut NOW.

Anonymous wrote:

Wait is Terrence Howards argument really 1×1 = 2  because if 2×2 =4 and you deduct 1 away from each of the 2s (and those 2s from the 4) you get 1×1=2?  I mean, in that case 7×7 =62

No, no. In the case of 7×7 you start with 8×8 = 64, then you take 1 away from each 8 on the left, then 1 away from each 8 on the right (of which there are 8, so you’re taking 8 1s away from the right) and you get 7×7 = 56, which is clearly the correct answer.

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Todd

Terrence Howard… mathematician extroadinaire!!!

Al-x wrote:

Speaking of which, I am tempted to restart the Health thread again not just on shedding weight but on overall health.

We already have one: http://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/health-and-fitness-thread/

Oh

Todd wrote:

Al-x wrote:

Speaking of which, I am tempted to restart the Health thread again not just on shedding weight but on overall health.

We already have one: http://thecarrier.net/forums/topic/health-and-fitness-thread/

It’s possible that’s a hidden thread…

It is, because we sometimes discuss mental health or personal issues in there it was put out of view of being searchable. If Al or anyone else doesn’t have access to the Treehouse then it’s not an exclusive club, any regular poster should be able to use it but I have to set each one up manually and may have missed some.

My mother was 10 years old when VE Day happened in 1945. She was never evacuated and lived in London all through the Blitz. ( I initially found that very weird but with some study I found out that was more common than imagined, around half the kids in cities were not evacuated.)

She wrote this poem about it.

They had real pea-soupers then,
Before the Clean Air Act,
I remember my mother once
Got lost on the way from the station
And found herself mired
Knee-deep on the road to High Beech.

And in winter the snow lay as thick
As the rim of my boots:
Out there on the Plain
It stretched to eternity
Silver and blue in the dusk,
A cypher of cattle trails.

Even the rain
Fell longer, made bobbing ducks
In the lakes by the gutters; the sun
Was so strong that sweat melted like dew,
How young was I then ?

All of them wonders, stories to tell my children.
But the greatest of all, I remember,
Was flame in the darkness, the fire
That ended a war of winter.
And much later, a lacework of lamps in the evening,
The freedom of light
In a world where it did not mean Death.

 

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garjones wrote:

She wrote this poem about it.

Thanks for sharing that, Gar. I seem to recall you mentioning that your mom is a published writer. That’s pretty cool.

She has a Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Roberts_Jones

I second thanking you for sharing!

When did she write that?

Anonymous wrote:

When did she write that?

I don’t know, I’ll ask her next time I speak to her. She posted it on Facebook today but I suspect she wrote it a while back.

 

 

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Russell and Stephanie are both doing well. Neither post much.

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njerry, Todd

I shall simply let a mathematician speak for me.

https://youtu.be/W6OaYPVueW4

 

Miqque wrote:

Russell and Stephanie are both doing well. Neither post much.

Good to know…

I guess once you get out of the habits of social media and focus on
something else, you don’t really go back.

Personally, I am dropping Twitter as it is too depressing with its
obvious social and political injustice. I don’t want to go anywhere
to be depressed.

Healthwise, I am laying off of a lot of bread and other carbs and
feeling lighter. Yay…

1.414? Ok, so there is an answer and a true one (and I now remember that I forgot).
But for a minute there my mind was blow.

The other stuff? Well, I’m not trying to bring it up (totalitarian…), I just don’t think so.
However if can get an awesome uniform then I’m easily swayed.
I’m a whore like that.

But there’s more important things going on.
Like in the background as I type “Superman” has just started.
Yes, just like I typed, without “:The Movie”

I’m offended as all fuck, thinking about making a serious complaint to the cable company that allows any channel to make unilateral changes like this. Bastards.
However John Williams music has made it hard to get angry, then Terence Stamp is a pretty cool cat and I’m getting into this.

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I wish I was on acid too.

edit: I redacted a few words from your post and now it’s poetry.

there is an answer
my mind blown
I’m totalitarian

just think
awesome uniform
I like that

important things
going on
in the background

Yes, I fuck the bastards
John Williams
then Terence Stamp

I’m getting into this

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I like it!

However, I wish you’d kept one image that Sean used: “My mind was blow.”

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Todd

Christian wrote:

My mind was blow

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A priest, a rabbit and a minister walk into a bar.

And the rabbit says, “Hold on, I think I’m a typo.”

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