okay, i do recall it but if i translate it the mods might be after meWise guy eh?
Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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It’s bonfire weekend here. Lots of fireworks going off and pet owners comforting their mogs and woofers.
My dog was never bothered by fireworks, luckily, and the cat was more bothered by a beer can opening, especially if it had a widget, but I know plenty others are having a bad time of it tonight.
I’m not sure that I’m comfortable with the sale of fireworks to individuals, but I’m also not comfortable with an outright ban either.
My dog was never bothered by fireworks, luckily, and the cat was more bothered by a beer can opening, especially if it had a widget, but I know plenty others are having a bad time of it tonight.
I’m not sure that I’m comfortable with the sale of fireworks to individuals, but I’m also not comfortable with an outright ban either.
Here's a random thought
What did people call the days in time we now know as BC ?
For instance, I was born in 1960 AD but someone born 100 years before Christ would be 100 BC but he or she wouldn't know of the future existence of Christ or the fact his birth would be used as a watershed in defining history.
So what would Julius Caesar eg have called the date of his birth ?
Does that make sense to you ?
What did people call the days in time we now know as BC ?
For instance, I was born in 1960 AD but someone born 100 years before Christ would be 100 BC but he or she wouldn't know of the future existence of Christ or the fact his birth would be used as a watershed in defining history.
So what would Julius Caesar eg have called the date of his birth ?
Does that make sense to you ?
julius caesar is easy: 654 ab urbe condita (= after founding the city)
fred flintstone however ...
julius caesar is easy: 654 ab urbe condita (= after founding the city)
fred flintstone however ...
How about 13.8 billion years ABB?
ABB = After Big Bang...
fred would know that how exactly?
Fred is a cartoon character, a parody, he knows and does a lot of things that are comically anachronistic.
as i don't know their names i used fred as a stand-in for random stoneage people - i considered that to be obvious
I received a letter today that made me want to face palm Picard style. My local council/government are still looking for our 'help' to let them know how to improve their services.
A five minute 'satisfaction survey' and buttering up the clientele with the chance to 'win' shopping vouchers isn't going to fix their company wide problem. Especially, not after the way they mishandled the antisocial problems in my street over a two and a half year period. (Where they chose to edit the truth, ignore my long term health, and harass me with unwanted phone calls.) I never received an apology from them.
It's been one of those Grr! Argh! days.
A five minute 'satisfaction survey' and buttering up the clientele with the chance to 'win' shopping vouchers isn't going to fix their company wide problem. Especially, not after the way they mishandled the antisocial problems in my street over a two and a half year period. (Where they chose to edit the truth, ignore my long term health, and harass me with unwanted phone calls.) I never received an apology from them.
It's been one of those Grr! Argh! days.
Fred Flinstone has a pet dinosaur. Do you really think that people have actually met living dinosaurs?
We always had to sedate our dog around this time of the year
She'd been a rescue dog who had been hit by a car before we adopted her and loud noises tended to bother her (Unless she thought said noise was a threat to the family or especially me)
sorry, but i think you don't get it - try not taking hanna-barbera literally.
i used fred flintstone as substitute for some random dude living in the stoneage - this was supossed to be an analogon to julius caesar, some well known dude living at the end of the roman republic. the reason for that is that we don't know the names of any real stoneage dudes.
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i really wasn't talking about that cartoon - i just needed a recognizable mr stoneage - i've done it exactly that way in at least two dozen radio pieces / newspaper articles and nobody ever took it literally.
I never think of accuracy when I am watching a commercial.
Have you had your "humerus bone" removed or is it a natural condition?
Just to nip this in the bud, let’s please remember to not get personal. Post, not poster.
(And yes, I know this is mildsauce; I just don’t want to see an escalation.)
Understood.
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And, as an aside I have always loved our friends in The Great White North, and I'm sorry but I could not resist an SCTV reference.
Anyway...
Just as we have a Kelvin scale for temperatures, I think we could have something similar for dates... So far we only have been able to date the Big Bang with a margin of error of fifty million years but it's not impossible that in a near future we could be able to pinpoint it more precisely, perhaps with great precision even. We could then have a calendar with only positive dates, just as there aren't negative Kelvin temperatures. Of course, it wouldn't be very practical as the current year would be something like 13,789,145,929!!
That would definitely take some getting used to.
Just as we have a Kelvin scale for temperatures, I think we could have something similar for dates... So far we only have been able to date the Big Bang with a margin of error of fifty million years but it's not impossible that in a near future we could be able to pinpoint it more precisely, perhaps with great precision even. We could then have a calendar with only positive dates, just as there aren't negative Kelvin temperatures. Of course, it wouldn't be very practical as the current year would be something like 13,789,145,929!!
That would definitely take some getting used to.
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