Oversleep Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 11 minutes ago, Zathoth said: No that's just a modification of Sturgeons law. "90% of everything is crud." Usually that is just the baseline, in general a higher percentage is crud, if you are lucky the remaining percent are amazing. I know that; can't a rephrasing of his law still be internet's golden rule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 4 minutes ago, Oversleep said: I know that; can't a rephrasing of his law still be internet's golden rule? It is the golden rule of the universe in general, why simplify it when it already covers everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 20 minutes ago, Zathoth said: It is the golden rule of the universe in general, why simplify it when it already covers everything? It's not simplified - somethin being crem is not equivalent to being carcinogenic Spoiler I learned a new word! I was sure it's 'cancerogenous'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Just now, Oversleep said: It's not simplified - somethin being crem is not equivalent to being carcinogenic Hide contents I learned a new word! I was sure it's 'cancerogenous'. Fine, fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Internet is the strangest of places where people argue over strangest things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammanas Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 1 hour ago, Oversleep said: Internet is the strangest of places where people argue over strangest things No they don't! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird she/her Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 6 minutes ago, Ammanas said: No they don't! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 @Nightbird That bird should be the mascot of something. I don't know what, but I think it should be the mascot of something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird she/her Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: @Nightbird That bird should be the mascot of something. I don't know what, but I think it should be the mascot of something. There is a basketball team in New Orleans with a pelican mascot. Meet Pierre the pelican: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 (edited) People who behave like elitist snobs toward librarians. First off, I wasn't trying to deny you your lawful right. I was trying to follow our study room policy, which is in place so that groups of three or more, like yours, take precedence over groups of two. You're getting huffy over a room that you are renting for free. Calm down. Second, you had three people in your group. You could have just said that when I asked, instead of making it sound as though you only had two before haughtily pointing me toward the note on your account reminding the whole staff how that you get special treatment. Third, don't assume that because I am here offering you a free service I am somehow beneath you. I have a Master's degree. I worked my chull off to get it. Finally, dude. You're getting a free study room in a public library. You didn't get that note on your account by being an important member of the community or a frequent donator to the library. You got it by bullying the staff. That's not something to take pride in. Additional peeve: Backhanded apologies. "I don't like being rude, but if you had been more observant then I wouldn't have had to have been" is not an apology and you know it. Edited November 26, 2016 by Ookla the Pug-whisperer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 2 hours ago, Ookla the Pug-whisperer said: People who behave like elitist snobs toward librarians. First off, I wasn't trying to deny you your lawful right. I was trying to follow our study room policy, which is in place so that groups of three or more, like yours, take precedence over groups of two. You're getting huffy over a room that you are renting for free. Calm down. Second, you had three people in your group. You could have just said that when I asked, instead of making it sound as though you only had two before haughtily pointing me toward the note on your account reminding the whole staff how that you get special treatment. Third, don't assume that because I am here offering you a free service I am somehow beneath you. I have a Master's degree. I worked my chull off to get it. Finally, dude. You're getting a free study room in a public library. You didn't get that note on your account by being an important member of the community or a frequent donator to the library. You got it by bullying the staff. That's not something to take pride in. Additional peeve: Backhanded apologies. "I don't like being rude, but if you had been more observant then I wouldn't have had to have been" is not an apology and you know it. Wait, he gets priority treatment because he bullied the staff? Something very very wrong there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 7 minutes ago, Ookla the Chibi said: Wait, he gets priority treatment because he bullied the staff? Something very very wrong there. Happens a lot in customer service. A customer will make an unreasonable demand ("Return this item and give me a cash refund even though I bought it five years ago and don't have the receipt!"), staff will refuse, customer will demand to speak with a supervisor, supervisor will hear a completely different story ("They wouldn't return my item even though I had the receipt, and they called me names and made me wait for hours!") and will demand the staff do what the customer wants. Its different at this library--management is generally more inclined to trust the staff--but they probably gave him a room to keep him from going to the director with a fake sob story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 22 minutes ago, Ookla the Pug-whisperer said: Happens a lot in customer service. A customer will make an unreasonable demand ("Return this item and give me a cash refund even though I bought it five years ago and don't have the receipt!"), staff will refuse, customer will demand to speak with a supervisor, supervisor will hear a completely different story ("They wouldn't return my item even though I had the receipt, and they called me names and made me wait for hours!") and will demand the staff do what the customer wants. Its different at this library--management is generally more inclined to trust the staff--but they probably gave him a room to keep him from going to the director with a fake sob story. Thats just obnoxious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird she/her Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 Drivers who think that being in a parking lot gives them license to drive wherever the storms they want. Last night I was attempting to exit a parking lot and another car turned onto the aisle I was in so that he was directly facing me, on the left (in other words, WRONG) side of the aisle. I waited briefly for him to get on the correct side of the road, thinking that he'd just taken a too-wide turn, but he kept creeping down the aisle on a collision course toward me. So I gave him a little honk, but he just honked back at me as if I were the one being stupid and reckless and driving on the wrong side of the road! >:/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 People who know crem and speak authoritatively (had to check the spelling, to be honest). Like this commenter on the article about African elephants being born tuskless due to poachers: Quote Miss Scientist, you say " a ellephant with out tusks is a crippled ellephant" I say a ellephant with out tusks is a live ellephant. sure the ellephants that cross dry lanes will have harder times digging water up and tuberculs but harder does not mean imposible. If any thing this obstacle of tusklessness will only trigger othet mutations in the species to overcome it thus another step in their evolution. That's... that's not how evolution works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 8 minutes ago, Ookla the Sunrise Watcher said: People who know crem and speak authoritatively (had to check the spelling, to be honest). Like this commenter on the article about African elephants being born tuskless due to poachers: That's... that's not how evolution works. It's not how spelling works, either, Anonymous Internet Commenter. *eye twitch* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird she/her Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 @Ookla the Sunrise Watcher Oh boy. Someone who still thinks Lamarckian evolution is a real thing. *eyeroll* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 12 minutes ago, Ookla the Flighty said: @Ookla the Sunrise Watcher Oh boy. Someone who still thinks Lamarckian evolution is a real thing. *eyeroll* I think he just really, really misunderstood how evolution works. Nobody teaches Lamarckian, right? This is supported by his talking of mutations, he seems to understand that evolution is about mutations; but then he doesn't understand that you can't "trigger" a mutation (radioactivity and similar cases aside) and the change of environment does not make things evolve, it just kills off (or decreases offspring of) those without some mutation helpful in that situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird she/her Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 5 minutes ago, Ookla the Sunrise Watcher said: I think he just really, really misunderstood how evolution works. Nobody teaches Lamarckian, right? This is supported by his talking of mutations, he seems to understand that evolution is about mutations; but then he doesn't understand that you can't "trigger" a mutation (radioactivity and similar cases aside) and the change of environment does not make things evolve, it just kills off (or decreases offspring of) those without some mutation helpful in that situation. My biology teachers taught us about how Lamarck thought evolution worked and then explained that he was wrong. Lamarck would have said that cutting off the elephants' tusks will make them bear offspring that are born without tusks, or that clipping a bird's wings to keep it from flying will make its future eggs hatch flightless chicks. We know that's not how it works because those changes don't affect the underlying genetics--and it's only a "mutation" if the genes change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 1 minute ago, Ookla the Flighty said: My biology teachers taught us about how Lamarck thought evolution worked and then explained that he was wrong. Lamarck would have said that cutting off the elephants' tusks will make them bear offspring that are born without tusks, or that clipping a bird's wings to keep it from flying will make its future eggs hatch flightless chicks. We know that's not how it works because those changes don't affect the underlying genetics--and it's only a "mutation" if the genes change. Yeah, I meant it's 'not taught' as it's always said to be wrong: Lamarck's model assumes that changes to phenotype cause changes to genotype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird she/her Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 1 minute ago, Ookla the Sunrise Watcher said: Yeah, I meant it's 'not taught' as it's always said to be wrong: Lamarck's model assumes that changes to phenotype cause changes to genotype. Ah, okay. Yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdGen Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 I thought learning biology would mean my children knew it too, but I was off Lamarck. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth she/her Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 8 minutes ago, The Ooklent One said: I thought learning biology would mean my children knew it too, but I was off Lamarck. Ha. Found you, T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant he/him Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 Mesa like big stick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird she/her Posted November 27, 2016 Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 2 hours ago, The Ooklent One said: I thought learning biology would mean my children knew it too, but I was off Lamarck. I see your pun and raise you this memefication of it: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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