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You could have a metric system in base 8. It would be different to our current one, but entirely possible. But why would base 8 be easier for division?
Also, metric system is awesome.
Pointless random thoughts...
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Posted 29 December 2006 - 04:29 AM
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JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
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Gobbler
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Posted 29 December 2006 - 05:16 AM
Did I mention that Mr. Sublime's actually god? 
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Posted 01 January 2007 - 12:18 PM
QUOTE (Gobbler @ Dec 29 2006, 03:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Did I mention that Mr. Sublime's actually god?
No you didn't.
Happy New Year, Y'all.
I am the Fisher King.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.
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Posted 01 January 2007 - 11:21 PM
metric > imperial
that is all
that is all
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....We'd be lying though.
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Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
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If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
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Posted 02 January 2007 - 12:31 PM
A friend of mine emailed me an online quiz on dating. After answering around forty questions, it decided I should look for a practical, intellectual, and funny woman. Well, duh. Who doesn't?
Tolerance is another word for Apathy
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Posted 02 January 2007 - 02:16 PM
QUOTE (Cyzyk @ Jan 2 2007, 12:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A friend of mine emailed me an online quiz on dating. After answering around forty questions, it decided I should look for a practical, intellectual, and funny woman. Well, duh. Who doesn't?
Well, don't be surprised while in your search of this "ideal" woman, you end up with a total dinnerwhore*.
Those quizes only make you desire more what you already desire, and sadly, it's what we will not attain that makes it so precious to achieve.
Ahh well, back to eating large amounts of dark chocolate and training.
Edit: Dinnerwhore - any of particular women that engage in dating only for the excuisite meals and fine gifts.
This post has been edited by Vesuvius: 02 January 2007 - 02:27 PM
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Posted 02 January 2007 - 04:47 PM
My "search" takes up about fifteen minutes a week while I'm attending Uni, no time at all when I'm not. So no danger there. I'd be hard pressed to name a girl I've met with one of those qualities, let alone two or even three.
Tolerance is another word for Apathy
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Posted 05 January 2007 - 03:47 AM
I haven't read the other comments
(because theres like 290 pages)
so if this has already been mentioned sorry...
But how do we know we are as old as our parents say we are?
We could be older ....
we could be younger....
How do we know that our birth date isn't
just some day someone picked out 'cuz they liked it?
Parents can give their child any name
the want (except in Quebec) even last names.
My name could not even be MY NAME!!!!
I mean if they can do it to a Build-a-Bear
what stops it from happening to people?
And do not say the government
i want Real answers
(because theres like 290 pages)
so if this has already been mentioned sorry...
But how do we know we are as old as our parents say we are?
We could be older ....
we could be younger....
How do we know that our birth date isn't
just some day someone picked out 'cuz they liked it?
Parents can give their child any name
the want (except in Quebec) even last names.
My name could not even be MY NAME!!!!
I mean if they can do it to a Build-a-Bear
what stops it from happening to people?
And do not say the government
i want Real answers
Duct tape is like the force....
There's a lightside, a darkside
and it holds everything together
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Posted 05 January 2007 - 04:22 AM
Birth certificates and common sense, mostly. But if your parents really wanted to decieve you about your age THAT badly, those two could easily be overcome, yes. But the question is, why would they want to?
When you lose your calm, you feed your anger.
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Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
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Posted 05 January 2007 - 04:55 AM
And would it change anything important, apart from some numbers and letters?
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Posted 05 January 2007 - 11:54 AM
In fact, name means nothing in this context, since who chooses your name in the first place? Your parents? Exactly.
although the age thing might be an interesting one, I'll give it a running over in Chyld's Philosophy Hour.
although the age thing might be an interesting one, I'll give it a running over in Chyld's Philosophy Hour.
When you lose your calm, you feed your anger.
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
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Posted 05 January 2007 - 01:29 PM
hey, if my parents picked my birthday, good on them - it falls in the middle of a four-day weekend this year!
Head Gunner for the Royal Sloop Crimson Steel, Queen of the Dead, Instigator of Chaos and Confusion, Knight of the Grand Recursive Order of the Lambda Calculus, and also The Non.
Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
-Laughlyn
If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
-Mirithorn
- Do Not Use the Elevators - deviantART - Infinite Monkeys -
Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
-Laughlyn
If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
-Mirithorn
- Do Not Use the Elevators - deviantART - Infinite Monkeys -
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Posted 05 January 2007 - 04:23 PM
QUOTE (Chyld @ Jan 5 2007, 10:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Birth certificates and common sense, mostly. But if your parents really wanted to decieve you about your age THAT badly, those two could easily be overcome, yes. But the question is, why would they want to?
Everyone's in this, I'm telling ya!
Even the mailman, which means the government's involved, as well! 