Seasons

take therefore no thought for the morrow My favorite all time quote.
gyrates with Prob *now happily dancing to Zorba the Greek, while smashing glasses into the fireplace*
write words apart you just have to love some of the interpretations the AI engine comes up with! Truth is I never am sure if such words are one or two. I really should have paid more attention in school! If only the spell check had grammer check.

Yes the AI engine is innovative, I wonder who is right, the AI engine or Devia?

Devia: You are a real douchebag.
Astrid: Do you want me to do anything to the fact that I am a real douche bag?
Devia: No, I don't want you to do anything to the fact that you are a real douche bag.

"crookedly Ngymraeg"? You broke my Babel fish!

yn + Cymraeg = "in" + "Welsh". Initial "C" becomes "Ng" after "n", thus "yn Ngymraeg"<-2>1<0><0>.
I can't account for y pysgod mabel<-2>2<0><0> - perhaps it wants its water changing?

"Crooked" isn't in my dictionary (Geddes & Grosset), but according to geriadur.net there are 8 possibilities according the the sense (none of them being "yn", so I don't know where that came from) - I guess most people here would use "crwca" (from "crwc": "crook, criminal") even for the other senses. An awful lot of English words get mingled with the Welsh down here (Swansea's predominantly English speaking.)
North Walians (where it's firmly the first language,) would use anunion, gwyrgam, lledwyr, etc. as appropriate.
I'd recognize gwyr/gwyrgam if someone said eg: a wall had been built crookedly, but the others are less familiar to me without a context.

<-1>1 - conceivably that ought to be "yng Gymraeg", but having picked up an incomplete understanding of the morphology purely by ear, I can't be sure (the pronunciation would be hard to differentiate.) It looks wrong to me though. Or it might be "yn Nghymraeg" - you can go mad thinking too much about mutations!

2 - Babel fish. possibly ought to be spelt pysgod mhabel in "proper" Welsh.<0>

"My heartfelt congratulations to prob123 for taking the ethical problem seriously and facing it instead of trying to wriggle out of it! Good for you!"

In making light of the proposal via my betentacled proxy, I wasn't trying to wiggle out of it, but refusing to take it seriously. Extreme "moral dilemmas" like this might serve as counterexamples to absolute moral systems, but not to general principles. If I were a hedonist, I might argue that the knowledge of causing a bunch of kids to suffer would hurt me personally and should therefore be avoided, or I might argue that my general rule of hedonism was subject to extreme exceptions which nevertheless were highly unlikely to ever occur. If actually placed in such a situation, if I had some reason to believe the choice was real, I'd take the black pill. It's a no-brainer. Choosing to be a martyr like that is very easy. Making non-selfish choices in everyday life is much harder.

On further reflection, it would depend on whether the black pill tasted like licorice, and whether there was salt available.

EM, I don't think Irina meant that as a comment on Fizzy's answer. (Sorry for talking for you Irina, please correct me if I am wrong). The last time we discussed moral dilemmas and "lesser or two evil" choices, I accused Prob123 of trying to change the fact pattern in the question instead of facing the choice it intended. Some may Say Prob was right not to accept the limits placed on the situation by others (which star fleet captain was it the reprogrammed the computer at the Academy so he would never have to face the test of loosing his crew? Was it Kirk?). Anyway, I think Irina was referring to our other discussion and not slighting Fizzy (or even Spikebot, though he was being snarky in his way).

It was Kirk.

*turns the white pill black, mixes it in with the black ones, and offers them to the angel*

*Replaces pills with jelly beans* *Ties angel's shoelaces together and sticks bubble gum in it's wings*

*Replaces pills with jelly beans*

*cheers plan - we'll jab pitilessly*

heartfelt congratulations to prob123 My first choice was as Bildgesmythe, to eat the angel and have a beer. So I can't take the congratulations

Ruthie would have cheered Bildgesmythe, but she could teach the supernatural experimenter a thing or two about giving a pill to a hundred kindergarteners. There is not an Angel of Doom or manifestation of Mara that is a match for a multitude of angry 5 year olds having a group tantrum and chaotically acting out. Such an angels is lucky if Ruthie gets to to him before the others attack en mass.