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From: James Jolley on 20 Apr 2010 07:26 On 2010-04-20 10:44:40 +0100, real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) said: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > >>> Cornwall has great roads to get to it. They are completely over spoiled >>> with them. We have just got over the trans-somerset highway opening >>> again. >> >> One of the people I follow on Twitter was oh-so-proud of driving from >> Newquay to Guildford in 2:39, including 2 stops. Fair enough, nice >> drive, but boasting about it in a public forum seemed a bit blythe. > > Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a magnificent > contribution to civilisation's achievements. > > Daniele For a philosopher it's a closed minded attitude. It's not my sort of thing, but it's implications for new media are not even half realised. Journalists now have a different way of interacting with the stories around them, twitter certainly has given the election stories new legs and so on. I personally think it's pointless, but I respect that it really depends on who you follow.
From: Elliott Roper on 20 Apr 2010 11:39 In article <ds0rs5ppg6f5od53kf1m5d176k1n7anrc2(a)4ax.com>, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:34:51 +0100, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> > wrote: > <snip> > >> > >> Ooh, hang on, your pedant points are in the balance: the OED2 says - > > > >Surely one loses pedant points for consulting a dictionary? > > Yep, nil points for me. Yes, you need to be more indepedant. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: zoara on 19 Apr 2010 12:26 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:15:04 +0100, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> > wrote: > > >or if she's living in close proximity with another woman and their > >cycles become synchronised. > > This is apparently a myth, btw. > It's some kind of psychological trick to do with the human mind noticing the convergence of two people on slightly different cycles more than they notice the divergence. Or, to put it another way, "Last month we were 20 days apart but this month we're only 19 days apart!" -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Peter Ceresole on 20 Apr 2010 12:26 Nancy <me10(a)privacy.com> wrote: > I have to say, it's really quite entertaining to see all of these men > talking about a possible phenomenon that occurs for women with out > having any direct experience! "Well I heard this, IIRC" and "Studies > say this", LOL! Well it is the only reliable way to know, whether it is men or women doing the research. Feminism doesn't mean being daft. > The lot of you sound like a group of hens in a hen coop! Well of course; this is Usenet. But why? Do hens synchronise their ovulation? -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 20 Apr 2010 12:26
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a magnificent > contribution to civilisation's achievements. Oh yes. Deffo. But sometimes I do wonder what happens on there. Not enough to try it, mind you. But then Facebook makes me feel queasy too. -- Peter |