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| Re: Absolutely clueless [message #47143 is a reply to message #47142 ] |
Tue, 27 December 2011 20:50   |
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Your reaction to cats in boxes was pretty much my reaction to cats in boxes when I first heard about it. I mean, we all know the best cat trap is a box in the middle of a room, so clearly they [i]like[/] boxes -- but shutting them in one? There's generally less like. Especially if they're 50% dead.
That t-shirt does crack me up, though.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Absolutely clueless [message #47148 is a reply to message #47142 ] |
Wed, 28 December 2011 01:50 |
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 danceswithpahis
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THIS IS NOT HOW A CAT IN A BOX BEHAVES.
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This quote (the whole post, actually), had me painfully stifling loud guffaws of laughter, the kind where I couldn't breathe for awhile (and then one of the cousins who was theoretically sleeping -- hence the attempt at quiet -- came in and had the paragraph read to her as well, although I could barely get it out. Thank you for the dose of reality and common sense. Some scientists do a great job of taking into account the reality of The Way Things Work, but when they don't, when they propose lofty theories about life that are unrealistic and ridiculous, I can't see that it helps advance science that much (other than the occasional simplified example that the author recognizes is simplified for the purpose of demonstrating a single point).
As to the young man going great speeds, my immediate reaction (based on my own nephews) was that he was riding a bike at you downhill. Of course, the example doesn't mention this (would the bike make up part of the 50 lbs?), but it's the only way I know of that a coordinated, small-for-his-age boy who is 50 lbs (or 40 plus a 10 lb bike, or whatever) could safely go 20 mph without a combustible motor. Of course, it's obvious that he's NOT in fact going 20 mph safely if he's running into you (this is why I do not stand at the bottoms of hills in front of my speeding biking nephews, although I don't think they generally get going that fast), but perhaps his brakes failed on the way down and he's too terrified to throw himself off the bike, and you are self-sacrificingly slowing the impact of his crash by letting him run into you so he doesn't end up in a broken heap. I'm sure there are better ways to stop him, but maybe you're too terrified (for his safety) to think of them right then.
"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"
-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")
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| Re: Absolutely clueless [message #47151 is a reply to message #47148 ] |
Wed, 28 December 2011 11:19 |
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Maren
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| danceswithpahis wrote on Wed, 28 December 2011 01:50 |
As to the young man going great speeds, my immediate reaction (based on my own nephews) was that he was riding a bike at you downhill. Of course, the example doesn't mention this (would the bike make up part of the 50 lbs?), but it's the only way I know of that a coordinated, small-for-his-age boy who is 50 lbs (or 40 plus a 10 lb bike, or whatever) could safely go 20 mph without a combustible motor. Of course, it's obvious that he's NOT in fact going 20 mph safely if he's running into you (this is why I do not stand at the bottoms of hills in front of my speeding biking nephews, although I don't think they generally get going that fast), but perhaps his brakes failed on the way down and he's too terrified to throw himself off the bike, and you are self-sacrificingly slowing the impact of his crash by letting him run into you so he doesn't end up in a broken heap. I'm sure there are better ways to stop him, but maybe you're too terrified (for his safety) to think of them right then.
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I was just thinking catapult... 
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