RSQ 20 - Like a hippo in a sh1t house.... its ruined

[G1BTW]

cliff notes

QM deficient in most categories, including ability to speed read

She's not sure if pink=purple, never=ever, Hong Kong=King Kong, Halliwell=Spice Girl, Williams=Take that, Gods=Goddesses, Spirtual=real

Further problems with royal boroughs, indefinite articles in Christmas media, mats and safety platforms, XTC, definitions of songs


The boxing weight category went well though

Although I found this post very funny (and spot on), I did wince a bit about the piss take on my health - it's not funny losing your sight.

Thank you - that is all.

wp Mitchell, my fav bit was the individual/team olympic medal analogy.
Gobsmacked to find post facto that Ealing is not a Royal Borough, at least no evidence of it on interwebs.

Good farce tho!

[thetank]

Just caught up.

QM spot on with the Godesses ruling imo.

This is an excert from Molly Fox's Birthday, a novel by Deirdre Madden which is on the shortlist for the Orange prize this year.

"Molly Fox is an actor, and is generally regarded as one of the finest of her generation. (She insists upon 'actor': If I wrote poems would you call me a poetess?)"



In some contexts, such as the Oscars, the word actor does not include the subset of actresses. That is irrelevant to this question, the word actor only excludes actresses in specific contexts, just as the word God only excludes Godesses in specific contexts.

As far as I see...

Gods can be a catch all term that includes the subsets of male Gods, female Gods and Gods whose gender is unknown or not specified.



Oh, and my google excuse for Hypnos...

http://fightingwithwriting.blogspot.com/2008/06/advice-for-insomniacs.html

[Jon MW]

Just caught up.

QM spot on with the Godesses ruling imo.

This is an excert from Molly Fox's Birthday, a novel by Deirdre Madeden which is on the shortlist for the Orange prize this year.

"Molly Fox is an actor, and is generally regarded as one of the finest of her generation. (She insists upon 'actor': If I wrote poems would you call me a poetess?)"



In some contexts, such as the Oscars, the word actor does not include the subset of actresses. That is irrelevant to this question, the word actor only excludes actresses in specific contexts, just as the word God only excludes Godesses in specific contexts.

As far as I see...

Gods includes the subsets of male Gods, female Gods and Gods whose gender is unknown or not specified.



Oh, and my google excuse for Hypnos...

http://fightingwithwriting.blogspot.com/2008/06/advice-for-insomniacs.html

Good argument

apart from

The actors/actresses analogy is irrelevant - it isn't a comparable analogy.

and "Gods" includes Gods and Goddesses
but the question asked for the name of a "God" which means the male ones.

In summary:

10. Name a Greek God

means a male god

10. Name one of the Greek Gods

means either

[thetank]

Good argument

apart from

The actors/actresses analogy is irrelevant - it isn't a comparable analogy.

and "Gods" includes Gods and Goddesses
but the question asked for the name of a "God" which means the male ones.

In summary:

10. Name a Greek God

means a male god

10. Name one of the Greek Gods

means either

I used the actors analogy because a couple of people mentioned the oscars who were arguing the other side of the issue.

Can't see why see singular/plural of God/Gods changes semantic properties in the way you describe. Please elaborate.

[Jon MW]

Good argument

apart from

The actors/actresses analogy is irrelevant - it isn't a comparable analogy.

and "Gods" includes Gods and Goddesses
but the question asked for the name of a "God" which means the male ones.

In summary:

10. Name a Greek God

means a male god

10. Name one of the Greek Gods

means either

I used the actors analogy because a couple of people mentioned the oscars who were arguing the other side of the issue.

Can't see why see singular/plural of God/Gods changes it's semantic properties in the way you describe. Please elaborate.

The Gods is the collective noun for all the Gods and Goddesses
Actors is the collective noun for all the Actors and Actresses

A God can't be A Goddess, and A Goddess can't be a God
An Actor can't be an Actress, but an Actress can be an Actor

Similar - but different

[thetank]

What then of the case where the gender of a deity is either unknown or not specified?

If you want to talk about just one of them, can you call them a God, or is that word exclusively reserved for male deitys?

[Jon MW]

What then of the case where the gender of a God is either unknown or not specified?

If you want to talk about just one of them, can you call them a God, or is that word exclusively reserved for male deitys?

ffs, I'm making it up as I go along, don't confuse me

[thetank]

lol, fair enough.



While I'm at it, and for the record, the US version of Monopoly is the original. The UK version appeared the following year.

People who answered with the names, rather than the colours, from the UK version should perhaps have failed.

[gatso]

What then of the case where the gender of a deity is either unknown or not specified?

If you want to talk about just one of them, can you call them a God, or is that word exclusively reserved for male deitys?

what religions don't know the gender of their gods?

[thetank]

Christianity.

Male pronouns might be bandied about in the prayer books and hymnals, but I suspect this is for convienence. The religious text says he made man in his own image. This is a translation of course, it's likely that man means mankind
in this sense.

It doesn't say anywhere in Genesis that he is packing meat iirc.

Indeed, because he doesn't have other Gods to mate (supposedly he's the only one, begotten not made) having a gender is wholly unnecessary for the Christian God.

[gatso]

sigh, I was so going to ask you what non monotheistic religions don't know the gender of their gods but decided against it to save time as I assumed it was implicit as the discussion was kinda about the collective noun

[thetank]

sigh, I was so going to ask you what non monotheistic religions don't know the gender of their gods but decided against it to save time as I assumed it was implicit as the discussion was kinda about the collective noun

and Greek ones at that!

[gatso]

so we're agreed then? all gods are female

[Rod Paradise]

so we're agreed then? all gods are female

I think Priapus would be a it upset with that conclusion....

[G1BTW]

so we're agreed then? all gods are female

I think Priapus would be a it upset with that conclusion....

  Outstanding!