random chitchat

[bonnie]

Random chit-chat can include things that do not exist

So you're saying that existence is a subset of random? I could see if you were saying we shouldn't put random under existence, but I think we're good here.

 

[NigelM]

I could see if you were saying we shouldn't put random under existence...

Then we should move this under the Thank God! thread... :wink:

 

[ElSupreme]

Then we should move this under the Thank God! thread... :wink:

But what if I want to curse him for not having my Model S yet? :scared:

 

[bonnie]

But what if I want to curse him for not having my Model S yet? :scared:

That would go in the 'Don't Thank God!' thread.

 

[mattjs33]

Yes but even in the first "Existence" post there was non-sensical fiction present. Pepsi is in no way "Yummy!", I think he was thinking of "Coca-Cola Classic". :biggrin:

1. Funny you should mention that. I am drinking a Coca-Cola Classic right now. It is also yummy. Remember I specified opinions on things that exist, so non-sensical it is not.

2. I shot a 40 at golf yesterday, and I am not very good, so that was cool.

3. I also prefer "Existence", but you can figure that I would.

 

[NigelM]

2. I shot a 40 at golf yesterday, and I am not very good, so that was cool.

Like life, this is meaningless without context. :wink:

 

[mattjs33]

Like life, this is meaningless without context. :wink:

Now that you point this out, I am no longer so excited about it.

 

[NigelM]

Now that you point this out, I am no longer so excited about it.

If you shot 40 over 18 holes you should be excited; if you shot 40 at the local put-put...not so excited.

 

[daniel]

first-world-problems

Good one!

So you're saying that existence is a subset of random? I could see if you were saying we shouldn't put random under existence, but I think we're good here.

Strictly speaking, existence could fall under random. But the thrust is different. An igloo is a kind of house, but igloos have special requirements and building techniques and don't really belong in a discussion principally devoted to wood houses.

That would go in the 'Don't Thank God!' thread.

At the rate we're going, the mods are going to move Thank God and Don't Thank God and There Is No God To Thank all into random. Pretty soon, there'll be only one thread in the whole forum.

 

[NigelM]

An igloo is a kind of house, but igloos have special requirements and building techniques and don't really belong in a discussion principally devoted to wood houses.

They do if you're an Eskimo looking at alternative housing.

 

[mattjs33]

In theory, Random Chit Chat could be viewed as a subforum of Existence, since there could be some chit chat within Existence, which is not random at all, but rather with clearly defined purpose.

This is fun.

I shot 40 for nine holes at our regular track, par is 35/35. To be fair, we played the easier nine, but I was putting out of my mind; made a few 35-footers. Conditions here are pretty bad at the moment, we have not had rain in several weeks. All the grass is brown. What is nice though is that with the ground so hard, I can top the ball about 180 yards.

 

[NigelM]

Oxford English Dictionary:

"Having no definite aim or purpose; not sent or guided in a particular direction; made, done, occurring, etc., without method or conscious choice; haphazard."

So by definition a post (conscious choice) can't be random?

www.physicsforums.com:

It could be that what appears as randomness to the limited human mind could very well be a extremely complex ordered state that just appears as chaos to us humans who at this point are incapable of seeing the deeply hidden organization.

Or we just can't see it as anything else....

Nice golf score BTW Matt.

 

[TEG]

Word association football.

 

[NigelM]

Mornington Crescent

 

[bonnie]

Oxford English Dictionary:



So by definition a post (conscious choice) can't be random?

www.physicsforums.com:



Or we just can't see it as anything else....

Nice golf score BTW Matt.

Consider that the randomness comes from the fact you cannot predict what others will post. Yes, you can control your own posts. That's not random. But when I look at this thread, it is the very definition of random.

 

[NigelM]

But when I look at this thread, it is the very definition of random.

^ Try a game of Mornington Crescent (I posted it above) then tell me that this thread is the definition of random. :smile:

 

[smoothoperator]

And the All Star game was great. The NL won. It was not very entertaining after the top of the first however.

Why did verlander get the start is my question? Ron Washington made sure all his players got in the game which made it boring.

 

[daniel]

I shot 40 for nine holes...

Hell, that's nothing. I bet I could shoot close to two hundred. Maybe three.

 

[bonnie]

^ Try a game of Mornington Crescent (I posted it above) then tell me that this thread is the definition of random. :smile:

There cannot be more than one definition?

 

[brianman]

132
orange
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salty
bluebonnet

Random enough for ya?