Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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This one for me if I had to choose Guy, but they're all fabulous.

Where were they taken?

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I heard today that if you shuffle a deck of cards, the odds are that no other deck anywhere in the world has ever been shuffled into that particular order.

I have no idea how to work out if this might be true.

Well if you multiply all the hands pokerstars have ever dealt by 1000 and then divide the total permutations of 52 cards by that number what you get is another number with 53 zeroes, so I'd guess that it is true.

Wow! That's pretty amazing.

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Is there a Jewish white poodle tradition?

You catch on quick..

OK. I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the box, but white poodles, really? Why?

Oh and does size matter? Can it be standard, miniature or toy?

I remember you told me you had a dog as a kid. Was that one a white poodle?

Miniature or toy, I can't remember any standard poodles as friend's pets in my youth although I love the breed.

We had a poodle when I was a kid called Marcus or Marcus barkus as I called him  he was a black miniature with a sweet nature, but we inherited him fully trained from some friends of the family who were moving abroad.

Re. the white poodle thing, I think they were very fashionable pets in the 1960's/70's and it became a bit of a Jewish in-joke that when people died they said that they would like to come back as a white poodle with a Jewish family as they were so pampered.

I wonder if the fact that poodles don't shed hair has anything to do with it? (I always imagine Jewish ladies as being very house-proud)

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Thats my favourite too Tom - just amazing given how fast their little wings beat

We got married at a place called "Palm Island" which is a tiny island forming part of "St. Vincent and the Grenadines", so caribbean. For such a tiny island there was a good deal of interesting wildlife (and not too many nasty things)!

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Thats my favourite too Tom - just amazing given how fast their little wings beat

We got married at a place called "Palm Island" which is a tiny island forming part of "St. Vincent and the Grenadines", so caribbean. For such a tiny island there was a good deal of interesting wildlife (and not too many nasty things)!

Sounds idyllic.

Amazingly, a hummingbird's wings don't actually beat up and down, but back and forth, and they produce lift on both strokes.

See, If I was a blue-fronted Amazon parrot, I wouldn't be able to marvel at that.

PS- Ignore the last line Guy. It's an in joke for the regs.

[outragous76]

Thats my favourite too Tom - just amazing given how fast their little wings beat

We got married at a place called "Palm Island" which is a tiny island forming part of "St. Vincent and the Grenadines", so caribbean. For such a tiny island there was a good deal of interesting wildlife (and not too many nasty things)!

Sounds idyllic.

Amazingly, a hummingbird's wings don't actually beat up and down, but back and forth, and they produce lift on both strokes.

See, If I was a blue-fronted Amazon parrot, I wouldn't be able to marvel at that.

PS- Ignore the last line Guy. It's an in joke for the regs.

i cant say i knew the fact, but hopefully the birds "elevation" or maybe "profile" in the photo confirms you are definately correct. They are amazing to watch and they move with such speed, yet when they hovver they have a certain elegance that you just cant describe. There is an amazing amount of energy going through their wings yet they are fairly motionless. Incredible little things!

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They are the only birds capable of flying backwards.

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They are the only birds capable of flying backwards.

Yes.

I was going to do a joke about chilli pepper bird, but I changed my mind.

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More wiildlife photos please, Guy!

Love the humming-bird.

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Seriously though. Do you think the advantages of being able to reason as a human outweigh the disadvantages of being able to reason as a human?

Considering humans are really good at making a mountain out of a molehill at the best of times, I tend to think there aren't that many advantages in the first place.  And let's face it...how many humans these days to you know who truly take the time to appreciate the things you mentioned earlier?

But they do have the option to appreciate those things.

Take a walk around a library, an art gallery, a museum. Humans can make things other than mole hills.

Just playing Devil's advocate here.....

Yes, they have the option.  But how many actually take advantage of it?  As a supposedly superior species goes, we really are wasting our 'gifts'.

Yes, but that's personal choice, and not relevant to the question.

Right so.  I've played willing guinea pig today.  lol  I'm really interested to hear -  what's your take on all of this?

Well first of all, thank you for indulging me.

My take? I honestly don't know.  I'm still wrestling with it.

Today's question Dawn.

If a man goes into the the middle of a forest to speak, and there is no woman around to hear him - Is he still wrong?

[Laxie]

Seriously though. Do you think the advantages of being able to reason as a human outweigh the disadvantages of being able to reason as a human?

Considering humans are really good at making a mountain out of a molehill at the best of times, I tend to think there aren't that many advantages in the first place.  And let's face it...how many humans these days to you know who truly take the time to appreciate the things you mentioned earlier?

But they do have the option to appreciate those things.

Take a walk around a library, an art gallery, a museum. Humans can make things other than mole hills.

Just playing Devil's advocate here.....

Yes, they have the option.  But how many actually take advantage of it?  As a supposedly superior species goes, we really are wasting our 'gifts'.

Yes, but that's personal choice, and not relevant to the question.

Right so.  I've played willing guinea pig today.  lol  I'm really interested to hear -  what's your take on all of this?

Well first of all, thank you for indulging me.

My take? I honestly don't know.  I'm still wrestling with it.

Today's question Dawn.

If a man goes into the the middle of a forest to speak, and there is no woman around to hear him - Is he still wrong?

   Proberly.  But who cares?  Nobody there to argue with him about it.

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If you choke a Smurf, what colour does he turn?

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If you choke a Smurf, what colour does he turn?

Bluer obv 

Geez, come up with something tricky ffs.  Not even needed the first cuppa yet.

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If you choke a Smurf, what colour does he turn?

Bluer obv 

Geez, come up with something tricky ffs.  Not even needed the first cuppa yet.

OK

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