Random thought thread

[SirRumpole]

I guess you're only young once, but there are two eyeballs.

A few one eyed people around here grasshopper !

 

[Tisme]

Eyeball tattooing, of of the silliest things to do to your body that I've heard of.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-23/eyeball-tattooing-dangerous-says-tattoo-artist/7193942

I'm guessing there will be a queue of Collingwood supporters lining up.

 

[luutzu]

A few one eyed people around here grasshopper !

Come to think of it, I think Sifu is blind as a bat. And I thought them white eyes of his were result of enlightnment.

Right Sifu?

 

[basilio]

Balls of Steel

Wasn't sure where to put this video so Random Thoughts got the guernsey.

The 3 minutes video shows how the Innuit crawl under the sea ice to get mussels for a feed - while the tide is out.

If that sounds dodgy - wait till you watch the clip. Very sobering stuff


When the tide is out under the ice....

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA

 

[luutzu]

Balls of Steel

Wasn't sure where to put this video so Random Thoughts got the guernsey.

The 3 minutes video shows how the Innuit crawl under the sea ice to get mussels for a feed - while the tide is out.

If that sounds dodgy - wait till you watch the clip. Very sobering stuff


When the tide is out under the ice....

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA

Well that just made our recent cockeling adventure into Lake Illawarra like a dip in the ocean on a warm summer day

We even stopped at a Fish and Chip to have Fish and chips for lunch and I was proud as heck getting a bag of cockles after the initial it's too slippery and muddy and there's no cockle anywhere phase.

 

[Tink]

Interesting map -

 

[explod]

One of the characteristics of an OK life seems to me to be the sense of being in control of that life.

Recently I've found it sad to observe the diminution of an elderly woman who has been deemed unfit to live alone and bundled off into a nursing home, despite her vehement protestations.

She has the financial resources to pay for care at home but, because she has no one to advocate for her, her wishes are being completely ignored and she is helpless to fight the system.

I know this happens frequently. It's the first time, however, that I've ever witnessed the extraordinary distress this woman is experiencing because her autonomy has been removed from her.

Perhaps not quite a random thought, but I'd be interested in how much others value their sense of personal control. Probably not something one thinks about too much when young, as invincibility and a sense of an infinite future are dominant.

At least our Dear Julia was spared the distress and indignity of the elderly woman.


Hope the euthanasia Laws are in for my time.

 

[Tink]

https://www.olympic.org/news

 

[Tink]

in my view.

Australia is a nation.

One Nation Under Almighty God.

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Faith - Family - Truth - Freedom.

 

[Tisme]

Two thoughts:

what is the mystery room and where are the toilets?

 

[PZ99]

Lobby.

Toilets were removed for camera locations

 

[SirRumpole]

What about the Mystery Bathroom ?

For dirty little secrets ?

 

[jbocker]

No Need for a chatbox use this thread.

 

[jbocker]

A.I.

Caution: Actual Intelligence in Use

 

[Darc Knight]

It is Christmas Eve, almost Christmas Day, so I don't wish to cause upset but I think it needs to be said.

It is not my role to police this forum, I am not the owner or a moderator, but the extent to which this thread has morphed into some sort of personal crusade to be "proven right" and reacting aggressively toward alternative views is annoying at best and that is putting it politely.

You don't enjoy the "theatre" of it all Smurf? If you read back a page from you're post you'll see Ann said that her and Sdajii were meeting at Joe's place over Xmas.
I'd say it's odds on Joe is going to be dragging Ann off Sdajii's badly beaten remains

 

[Smurf1976]

You don't enjoy the "theatre" of it all Smurf?

If two others want to argue who was right then that's fine with me. It distracts from the point of the thread but it doesn't really bother me.

Labeling things as "bullsh!t" without reasoned debate is descending too far into the anti-intellectual abyss for me however and is what prompted my comment. I'd personally much rather examine the available evidence and debate the issues in an effort to determine the truth rather than rubbish ideas through name calling.

That opposing views on a wide range of subjects have been freely discussed in a respectful manner with reasoned debate has been the strong point of ASF thus far.

 

[basilio]

Maybe this is the place for this story ?

Is it possible to have a civil, thoughtful discussion on the net on challenging topics ? Yeah CC, Trump, Fun (and gun..) control, and so on .

Apparently there is a place where this happens. Excellent discussion and well worth a visit.

Civil Discourse Exists in This Small Corner of the Internet
The subreddit Change My View is built on the proposition that we’ve at least got to listen to people we disagree with.

Imagine a place on the internet where a post that begins with “I’m not a feminist” is met with comments quoting Virginia Woolf and asking serious, clarifying questions. A place where a conversation about gun-control legislation unfurls into a thread of analogies, statistics, and self-reflection; where a discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of immigration is carried out in a series of building logical arguments. A place where users with radically different political opinions interact productively and politely, where a willingness to participate thoughtfully is the rule rather than the exception, and where people readily admit when their views on a subject have been altered.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...-does-not-allow-rudeness-or-hostility/578566/

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/

 

[basilio]

This is also on the Change My View Reddit site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/antidelta

 

[Skate]

This is also on the Change My View Reddit site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/antidelta

This sums it up nicely (https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/antidelta)
"Satisfying your urge to call someone stupid is like masturbating in public. It may feel good to you, but it looks disgusting to everyone else and it just makes the other person work harder to find ways to disagree with you"

Thank you Basilio for the hyperlink.

Skate.

 

[sptrawler]

Yea true. Maybe I should've just left APT carry on with their attempt at screwing the cash-strapped millennial with "free money", not realising they're the one who's getting it.

But yea, the founders and early investors have certainly done very well for themselves. Soon enough more idiotic fund managers will hop on board and possibly lose their pensioners a few billions.

Absolutely, we have told the next generation you can have what you want, you just have to ask.

The Sharks are circling to supply the money, who is at fault the kids who think all they have to do is ask, or the parents who try to make life better for their kids?

I have a son who was a great saver, married a woman who was a great spender, now they have found something the both want, they find they have no money.
Probably the wrong thread, maybe should be in dump it here