Leonardo

My first pc was a Pentium II.

It lasted 13 years.

Ric Olié asked:

Have you asked Jay about a name change?

RicOlie_2 said:

No, I haven't. I'm not too enthusiastic about the idea of changing my name at this point. Also, I don't have a clue what I would change it to. I sort of lied about regretting it ever since as well. :) I didn't regret it until I started posting in Off Topic, and then I stopped regretting it recently. I'm OK with it as it is unless someone can think of a better name.

 I hereby propose a thread where we think of a new name for RicOlie_2. It won't matter wether the admins change it or not, we'll just have fun choosing one.

RicOlie_2 said:

No, I haven't. I'm not too enthusiastic about the idea of changing my name at this point. Also, I don't have a clue what I would change it to. I sort of lied about regretting it ever since as well. :) I didn't regret it until I started posting in Off Topic, and then I stopped regretting it recently. I'm OK with it as it is unless someone can think of a better name.

 I hereby propose a thread where we think of a new name for RicOlie_2. It won't matter wether the admins change it or not, we'll just have fun choosing one.

RicOlie_2 said:

No, I haven't. I'm not too enthusiastic about the idea of changing my name at this point. Also, I don't have a clue what I would change it to. I sort of lied about regretting it ever since as well. :) I didn't regret it until I started posting in Off Topic, and then I stopped regretting it recently. I'm OK with it as it is unless someone can think of a better name.

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To the New Thread Thread!!

Warb, if all else fails, try giving the case a good whack. Can't beat the old methods!

Thread title. It was the shop teacher's (forced) catchphrase.

Ok, I'm the only one to defend Blazing Saddles. No big deal.

There are a couple of things that make me turn my head when I'm watching tv, and one is the visual of a needle going in. Blood I have no problem with.

My mother loves "Bones" but in every episode there's at least a scene where I have to turn away, and if you've seen the show you know what I'm talking about. I don't know what it is, I have no problems (I think) with rotting corpses, but somehow the ones on "Bones" really bother me.

South Park reference?

I'd just like to say one thing in favour of fart jokes, yes, they are cheap most of the time, but: the bean eating scene in "Blazing Saddles". You can't not laugh at that, IMHO. Yes, farts are juvenile, but the scene reminds me that you see cowboys eating beans in many westerns, yet the obvious consequences are never heard on screen. :P

Oooohhh, a reunion! Always nice to see new Python. :)

Good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind', we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened.

Oooohhh, a reunion! Always nice to see new Python. :)

Good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind', we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened.

Oooohhh, a reunion! Always nice to see new Python. :)

Good evening. Tonight on 'It's the Mind', we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened...

[Ctrl] [+] ought to work in most browsers. [Ctrl] [-] will decrease, obviously. [Ctrl] [0] will reset the zoom.

I've been able to also use [Ctrl] and the mouse scroll wheel.

If it doesn't seem to have any effect, the text could be inside a frame. Click first inside the frame.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

You can call me _,,,^..^,,,_ as well - BTW, how can I pronounce it?!? (^^,)

Kilroy.

and all of them are "look over there".

WE HEARD YOU!

 ;P

SilverWook said:

Because of Python, it was hard to take the monotonous public access talk shows I had to slave on back in college very seriously.

How I longed for something silly to happen, or a large weight to drop from the studio ceiling.

 I'll have the blow on the head!

the Architect sketch is brilliant, with John Cleese's abattoir and his following tirade. The words "philistine pig ignorance" and "squeezing blackheads" will always resound in my head.

Holy Thread Bump With Awesome Nod In A Comic, Batman!

RicOlie_2 said:

Leonardo said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Using that logic, it's pretty easy to realise that since Angels are impossible, there are hundreds of possible explanations.

Except that there is absolutely no way to determine whether Angels are impossible.

 Yeah, same for mermaids, leprechauns, and unicorns. People claim to have seen them.

Oh, but they're not real!

There's a difference between saying something is not real and saying it is impossible.

Potato potato. (really doesn't work in writing ;P )

Alright, impossible. Angels are supposed to be supernatural beings, right? No such thing as the supernatural. There. Impossible.

RicOlie_2 said:

What I meant was "how can this be explained if there is no God."

Simple: this is the story of a dumbass mechanic who almost got crushed to death by a truck. Luckily for him, medical personnel worked their asses off to make him live.

There. Imagine reading this same story on the news, but without his testimony, without hearing his angle on it. Imagine no journalists ever gave him a microphone. All of a sudden it sounds like a pretty mundane story, one you hear hundreds of times.

I've heard miracle stories hundreds of times.

So have I, but so what? The fact that many people tell bullshit stories doesn't validate said stories. They're still bullshit.

At least when a fisherman makes an exaggerated account about a huge trout that just escaped him, we can at least suppose he saw a fish and maybe drank a few beers.

Superstition, on the other hand, has no grounding in reality.

He didn't say "Those doctors and surgeons were useless--they didn't think I would survive, but thank goodness God was there to heal me, otherwise I wouldn't have made it," but rather omitted recognition of the doctors' work.

I'm not sure about this. Replay the video and watch out for what he says. He said that his pain went away, just as he screamed "Lord help me". He seems to be making a connection between the two things. Then, he remarks about the arteries, and how the doctors told him no one had survived after such damage. Right, now he's implying divine intervention. Finally, the thing he says about this mysterious man putting a hand to his forehead and giving him a shock. The next thing he says is "my intestines were already growing back".

This isn't merely omitting recognition, this is blatantly mistaking something for something else, or dicks for beaks as they say round these parts.

So, you're totally ok with a man of faith basically saying to his doctor:

- "hey, fuck you, you did nothing for me, the Lord saved me with a miracle!"

- "but we healed you, we put you back together, we gave you iv drips.."

- "magical man came and gave me a shock in the forehead, and my intestines grew back. and no thanks to you!!"

If I was the doctor in question I would fight really hard against my instincts to punch him in the kisser!

 I am absolutely not OK with someone saying that. That man didn't say anything like that. He didn't deny the doctors' role, but instead just didn't mention it. Let's use an analogy of the opposite scenario (someone being killed in ancient times). King Example orders the death of Joe. Executioner Bob kills Joel. Would you say King Example or Executioner Bob was responsible for Joe's death? One of Joe's friends later talks about how wrong King Example was to kill Joe. Would you say Joe's friend isn't giving Executioner Bob enough credit for Joe's death?

Bad analogy, I know, but hopefully it is good enough that you can grasp the gist of what I'm trying to say.

 I don't understand your analogy, sorry.

Yeah, I don't think they teach that rule anymore. There are too many exceptions.

RicOlie_2 said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Using that logic, it's pretty easy to realise that since Angels are impossible, there are hundreds of possible explanations.

Except that there is absolutely no way to determine whether Angels are impossible.

 Yeah, same for mermaids, leprechauns, and unicorns. People claim to have seen them.

Oh, but they're not real!

RicOlie_2 said:

What I meant was "how can this be explained if there is no God."

Simple: this is the story of a dumbass mechanic who almost got crushed to death by a truck. Luckily for him, medical personnel worked their asses off to make him live.

There. Imagine reading this same story on the news, but without his testimony, without hearing his angle on it. Imagine no journalists ever gave him a microphone. All of a sudden it sounds like a pretty mundane story, one you hear hundreds of times.

Perhaps he may be disrespectful from an atheist standpoint, but from a Christian point of view, this is not the case. That being said, the doctors did play a major part. Without them, the man would have died, and I think he should have credited them (maybe he did in his book).

 What are you talking about? In that last part you do make sense, but the first sentence is pure madness! "Disrespectful from an atheist standpoint"??? Dude, what about common sense, we're talking about basic human respect, you do acknowledge that surgeons saved his life but you say he wasn't disrespectful?

So, you're totally ok with a man of faith basically saying to his doctor:

- "hey, fuck you, you did nothing for me, the Lord saved me with a miracle!"

- "but we healed you, we put you back together, we gave you iv drips.."

- "magical man came and gave me a shock in the forehead, and my intestines grew back. and no thanks to you!!"

If I was the doctor in question I would fight really hard against my instincts to punch him in the kisser!

For "atheist explanation", you mean "unbiased by religion and only based on fact", right? I'm just saying because the way you asked sounded akin to asking the opinion of a sect or anything that's organized. Atheists are individuals.

My own personal hypothesis is that the story he's telling us (remember, this is the account of one man, no other people in that video told us they saw the angels there, this is all based on his testimony) is how his brain tried to cope with what was happening. It was obviously a traumatic experience, psychologically and most importantly physically. The man was being crushed beneath a truck, and was losing conscience due to the intense pain.

Let's bear in mind that he's not telling us this story 5 minutes, 10 minutes, an hour after the fact. Months have passed. He's had time to "reconstruct" the event in his mind, and to "interpret" things the way a man of faith would.

In the few minutes spent trying to write this answer I actually found this rather interesting analysis, I would insist that you read it. If the sardonic remarks about God in it offend you, you can ignore them, I feel the thing in itself is worthy of attention and thought.

http://www.freethunk.net/freethunk-news-bites/bruce-van-natta-grows-intestines-say-what-2949

Final thoughts: medical science saved Mr Van Natta. Just because he claims it's a miracle, and God helped him, doesn't mean it is. I feel what he claims is very disrespectful to all the doctors and surgeons responsible for him being alive today. Not a word of gratitude is spent towards them in the video and I feel that's a real shame.

Looking forward to the future thread about Past Cods. If only there were some kind of thread to announce new threads in.

bot probably.

Poor old thirsty kitty.  :(

SilverWook said:

D Cells, (or the British equivalent) C Cells would look pretty tiny hanging off of Mr. Prowse's backside. ;)

My scale must be off then. You're right, those must be bigger than I thought, Mr. Prowse is a tall bloke.

As an aside, I'm surprised they still make C cells. There don't seem to be many gadgets or toys that use them today. (AA's or smaller are dominant.)

We have a Kienzle wall clock from the mid 80's in our kitchen and it's the only thing in the house that uses a C cell.  :)

I have an old handheld electronic game from the 80's that requires two C's plus a nine volt!

I hate to go off-topic, but may I ask what is it? (reply via pm if you so prefer)