L. Marcus Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... Elk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "The last sign on the road to Olkiluoto warns motorists to ‘Beware Of The Elk’." Wish I could find the Finnish text of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER These are very popular among tourists from the continent, Germans especially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Fooey, one of those pictoral signs. Here I was hoping for text. FWIW, the beast in that sign is what North American folks would call a moose, not an elk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I was taught that the English called our moose elk. The animal is called älg in Swedish, so ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK, I remember that now. There is much confusion in the naming of the large northern deer species. The animal USers call "moose", the Europeans call "elk" or variations on that name. The animal USers call "elk" -- also called wapiti -- is another large deer, of which no form appears in Europe. And the animal called reindeer is called caribou in North America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Very tasty animal,the reindeer is, but dim as a ha'penny candle, as they say. And they don't have shiny noses, but rather a preponderance for standing in the middle of roads and being mowed down by cars, busses and logging trailers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Y'know' date=' I am getting tired of having the alarm go off at 0505 four days a week. The term is not quite half over, though.[/quote'] Maybe it could go off at 0500+1D6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That random element that makes life so interesting ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Maybe I should finish that post I started about 10 days ago... What long-term continuity of thought on a board? Unthinkable! Sarcasm? If so noted, and *giggles* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER As opposed to our usual ... ooooooohhhh, shiny!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So it goes when you have a manicure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... What sort of mental disability is "manicure"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Shiny Nails syndrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Found this interesting from a former professor of physics in Canada: “[T]he majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.” – Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture (Literature), 2005 The maintenance of the hierarchical structures that control our lives depends on Pinter’s “vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed.” Therefore the main institutions that embed us into the hierarchy, such as schools, universities, and mass media and entertainment corporations, have a primary function to create and maintain this tapestry. This includes establishment scientists and all service intellectuals in charge of “interpreting” reality. In fact, the scientists and “experts” define reality in order to bring it into conformation with the always-adapting dominant mental tapestry of the moment. They also invent and build new branches of the tapestry that serve specific power groups by providing new avenues of exploitation. These high priests are rewarded with high class status. ~~~ Denis G. Rancourt was a tenured and full professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He was trained as a physicist and practiced physics, Earth sciences, and environmental science, areas in which he was funded by a national agency and ran an internationally recognized laboratory. He published over 100 articles in leading scientific journals. He developed popular activism courses and was an outspoken critic of the university administration and a defender of Palestinian rights. He was fired for his dissidence in 2009 by a president who is a staunch supporter of Israeli policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Though that "high class status" is changing, as the intelligensia has this habit of finding physical phenomena that are proving inconvenient for some very rich and powerful interests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Like what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 28, 2010 Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Though that "high class status" is changing' date=' as the intelligensia has this habit of finding physical phenomena that are proving inconvenient for some very rich and powerful interests.[/quote'] That is very encouraging news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That the intelligencia are going to be rendered into indentured servitude and run through the sausage machine by the tools of the very rich? No, that's not good news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Though that "high class status" is changing' date=' as the intelligentsia has this habit of finding physical phenomena that are proving inconvenient for some very rich and powerful interests.[/quote'] Like what? What physical phenomena? What rich and powerful interests? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Anthropogenic climate change, and the fossil fuel industry, respectively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Anthropogenic climate change' date=' and the fossil fuel industry, respectively.[/quote'] Anthropogenic being a fancy way of saying "Human caused". Which personally I don't buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That the intelligencia are going to be rendered into indentured servitude and run through the sausage machine by the tools of the very rich? No' date=' that's not good news.[/quote'] Oh that is not good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yes, the fizz from soft drink can go up your nose if you are not careful, and sometimes it is a good feeling. I miss it now, I want that fizz. Ps: not painful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Anthropogenic being a fancy way of saying "Human caused". Which personally I don't buy. I haven't made up my mind about it, but the massive amounts of money being spent on preventing any rational discussion of the issue in the public media raises my hackles. It reminds me of the PR rear-guard action fought by Big Tobacco over lung cancer, and as someone who has done cancer epidemiology professionally for a while, that kind of PR campaign is strictly to preserve money and power, and with willful disregard for human life and misery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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