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21 Jul 2008, 12:16 pm

In a larger context, these "pointless phrases" are important as well. THey are part of the art-forom that is conversation.



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21 Jul 2008, 12:18 pm

I know that. I have learned a little bit over the years but I still see them as largely symbolic gestures. I like conversation just not about the weather.



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21 Jul 2008, 12:21 pm

Think of it like appetizers (small talk) and entree (main topic of conversation).



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21 Jul 2008, 12:32 pm

At our local zoo they have a beautiful Ocelot Cat and every time I've been to that zoo I have heard nearly every single the mother say to their children LOOK AT THE TIGER LOOK :roll: Good god the thing is tiny has spots not stripes is the wrong colour comes from a different continent and couldn't bring down a water buffalo if it's life depended on it!


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21 Jul 2008, 12:38 pm

Bring down a buffalo? Since it lives in captivity the ocelot doesn't need to hunt.



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21 Jul 2008, 12:38 pm

People think an animal has to fly for it to be a bird. Since penguins don't fly and aren't really shaped like birds that fly, they think they are mammals.

Another example:

Bats are mammals even though they fly like birds.



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21 Jul 2008, 12:42 pm

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Bring down a buffalo? Since it lives in captivity the ocelot doesn't need to hunt.

Well not all Ocelot's live in captivity do they :D The wild population hasn't been entirely wiped out....YET :(


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21 Jul 2008, 1:03 pm

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Last week, I was having a lunch with 5 coworkers who are programmers btw. The discussions led to a discussion about wild bird.

I don't remember why we started to talk about Penguins but the largest dude said:"Penguins are not birds"

I was like 8O and others 2 dudes were convinced by him, the third was 'not sure' by saying: "but it looks like a bird"

The other dude said: "Birds have specific characteristics , Penguins don't have them, penguins have fins ..not wings."

The largest dude said:" Penguins also don't lay eggs,they are mammals and and they have leather skin and not feathers'

Me: ".... guys I think you are confused between Penguins and seals?!"

The large dude:"WHat?? no we are talking about Penguins?"

Me:"You mean the animal of white and black? the one that looks like nuns?"

the two dudes:"Yes!"


I was eating chicken, I pointed the chicken with my fork and said sarcastly: "Well guys.... if Penguin are mammal then Chicken are mammal too!!"

I enjoyed when I showed them on wikipedia: Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere.


how far stupid people can be???


Not so much different than that woman at my work who said fish weren't animals. Humans are doomed to "stoopidity".



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21 Jul 2008, 1:09 pm

I think that they like to look smart and apply there own rules of what they think is the definition of something so others will think they are inteligent. Many people just want to be put above the rest of there pack, or I once saw a documentury that said all humans want acceptance.


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21 Jul 2008, 1:16 pm

skahthic wrote:
LePetitPrince wrote:
Last week, I was having a lunch with 5 coworkers who are programmers btw. The discussions led to a discussion about wild bird.

I don't remember why we started to talk about Penguins but the largest dude said:"Penguins are not birds"

I was like 8O and others 2 dudes were convinced by him, the third was 'not sure' by saying: "but it looks like a bird"

The other dude said: "Birds have specific characteristics , Penguins don't have them, penguins have fins ..not wings."

The largest dude said:" Penguins also don't lay eggs,they are mammals and and they have leather skin and not feathers'

Me: ".... guys I think you are confused between Penguins and seals?!"

The large dude:"WHat?? no we are talking about Penguins?"

Me:"You mean the animal of white and black? the one that looks like nuns?"

the two dudes:"Yes!"


I was eating chicken, I pointed the chicken with my fork and said sarcastly: "Well guys.... if Penguin are mammal then Chicken are mammal too!!"

I enjoyed when I showed them on wikipedia: Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere.


how far stupid people can be???


Not so much different than that woman at my work who said fish weren't animals. Humans are doomed to "stoopidity".


Fish are marine animals. There are "vegetarians" who eat fish claiming that "fish aren't animals".



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21 Jul 2008, 1:17 pm

Krex, I managed to cure myself from the need to air the correct info. How? Nowadays I relish in their love of stupidity for the sake of the order of the herd. If I was able to cure myself, anyone can. Because I was obsessive about it too.

And regarding ignorance of other species...well, what can you expect when humans separate themselves in races and invent all kinds of stupid "traits" about each other? I'm saying this because LePetitPrince and I are apparently neighbours.


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21 Jul 2008, 1:59 pm

Greentea wrote:
Krex, I managed to cure myself from the need to air the correct info. How? Nowadays I relish in their love of stupidity for the sake of the order of the herd. If I was able to cure myself, anyone can. Because I was obsessive about it too.

And regarding ignorance of other species...well, what can you expect when humans separate themselves in races and invent all kinds of stupid "traits" about each other? I'm saying this because LePetitPrince and I are apparently neighbours.


The mind works this way... verbal minds at least...
But if you are thinking in pictures this doesn't make so much sense. NT people always loose themselves in their words, they usually forget about "real" things. "Human races" are exactly a good example of people puzzled by words. They just can't stand between categories, they need to classify everything to be able to think about it.
(Maybe this is part of the problem about "Do AS exist?")
BTW, I'm sorry if my text isn't clear... I had a very long journey on this topic...


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21 Jul 2008, 2:06 pm

It's indeed not clear...


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21 Jul 2008, 2:28 pm

skahthic wrote:
LePetitPrince wrote:
Last week, I was having a lunch with 5 coworkers who are programmers btw. The discussions led to a discussion about wild bird.

I don't remember why we started to talk about Penguins but the largest dude said:"Penguins are not birds"

I was like 8O and others 2 dudes were convinced by him, the third was 'not sure' by saying: "but it looks like a bird"

The other dude said: "Birds have specific characteristics , Penguins don't have them, penguins have fins ..not wings."

The largest dude said:" Penguins also don't lay eggs,they are mammals and and they have leather skin and not feathers'

Me: ".... guys I think you are confused between Penguins and seals?!"

The large dude:"WHat?? no we are talking about Penguins?"

Me:"You mean the animal of white and black? the one that looks like nuns?"

the two dudes:"Yes!"


I was eating chicken, I pointed the chicken with my fork and said sarcastly: "Well guys.... if Penguin are mammal then Chicken are mammal too!!"

I enjoyed when I showed them on wikipedia: Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere.


how far stupid people can be???


Not so much different than that woman at my work who said fish weren't animals. Humans are doomed to "stoopidity".


Einstein said "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."



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21 Jul 2008, 2:55 pm

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/htmw/


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21 Jul 2008, 3:06 pm

One person I knew insisted on that camels carries water in their humps. I told him they don't really store water in those things. He asked me, speaking to me like I was the idiot, just how did I think they could possibly be able to survive in the desert without water in their humps.

He also insisted on that homosexuality does not exist among species other than humans because of evolution or something.

And when someone said he was wrong he said he can't be, because has an IQ of over 120 :roll

Some people are just stupid…