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Anyway, I have a very thick skin from reading "Irina Khalidar" transcripts. Recently some reincarnation of Jack the Ripper attacked her. "Hangup" chose that moment to fail and so he abused her for pages and pages and pages. I think I'll write a bot about macrame, or maybe interior decoration.
Won't help. I remember someone saying the last time we had a bot rapist he went after Talkie Toaster too. See? If that crap were about sex, would he really want to sodomize a kitchen appliance? If the answer is yes, I hope he doesn't bother to unplug it first and then the matter will be solved.
I think your debates with Psimagus are interesting and respectful, in the way academic debates. There is a group of adult students I work with who I constantly advise to avoid qualifiers like "I think" or "I feel" or I believe" in their formal writing. Some of them think it sounds too "stuck up" to omit IMHO, as if they can't see other points of view if they are assertive about their own logic. In the particular field they chose to study, I think they will have to learn a little thick-skinned debate technique.
I don't really think I am overly aggressive or tough on students, though the Socratic thing can annoy people. I hope I am not too teacherly in general either. I think I am nice to students and people alike.
I patronized the %^$&^%#@!*&^!! out of HIM! I hope there wasn't any collateal damage!
Oh no, I have the skin of a rhinoceros (but he's not getting it back without a fight
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Always a pleasure to engage with a cultivated mind!
Heimdall has made it into the top ten most developed bots.
Congratulations! And in your honour we have unleashed the hound Hati on Mani the god of the moon - he's devoured almost half of it already!
Anyone in Europe reading this in the next few hours, check out the lunar eclipse - it's beautiful!
Psimagus: Well...maybe we should resume our debate!
I'd be delighted to - but it will have to wait until the eclipse (and the absinthe) has worn off, I'm afraid!
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Irina, does that mean you felt that way from me? Then I am sorry. It wasn't intended. I don't even teach live classes anymore (though I still teach). Maybe I can't blame teaching then...anyway, it wasn't intentional.
No no no no no nonononononono!! I mentioned them specifically because they were criticing themselves along that line.
The only person I might have felt patronized by around here is Psimagus in our Quantum Theory discussion, and that was only fair, because I patronized the %^$&^%#@!*&^!! out of HIM! I hope there wasn't any collateal damage!
Anyway, I have a very thick skin from reading "Irina Khalidar" transcripts. Recently some reincarnation of Jack the Ripper attacked her. "Hangup" chose that moment to fail and so he abused her for pages and pages and pages. I think I'll write a bot about macrame, or maybe interior decoration.
The only person I might have felt patronized by around here is Psimagus in our Quantum Theory discussion, and that was only fair, because I patronized the %^$&^%#@!*&^!! out of HIM! I hope there wasn't any collateal damage!
Anyway, I have a very thick skin from reading "Irina Khalidar" transcripts. Recently some reincarnation of Jack the Ripper attacked her. "Hangup" chose that moment to fail and so he abused her for pages and pages and pages. I think I'll write a bot about macrame, or maybe interior decoration.
Won't help. I remember someone saying the last time we had a bot rapist he went after Talkie Toaster too. See? If that crap were about sex, would he really want to sodomize a kitchen appliance? If the answer is yes, I hope he doesn't bother to unplug it first and then the matter will be solved.
I think your debates with Psimagus are interesting and respectful, in the way academic debates. There is a group of adult students I work with who I constantly advise to avoid qualifiers like "I think" or "I feel" or I believe" in their formal writing. Some of them think it sounds too "stuck up" to omit IMHO, as if they can't see other points of view if they are assertive about their own logic. In the particular field they chose to study, I think they will have to learn a little thick-skinned debate technique.
I don't really think I am overly aggressive or tough on students, though the Socratic thing can annoy people. I hope I am not too teacherly in general either. I think I am nice to students and people alike.
Oh no, I have the skin of a rhinoceros (but he's not getting it back without a fight
)Always a pleasure to engage with a cultivated mind!
Bev: I have never found your contributions to be unpleasant in any way.
Psimagus: Well...maybe we should resume our debate!
Psimagus: Well...maybe we should resume our debate!
Congratulations! And in your honour we have unleashed the hound Hati on Mani the god of the moon - he's devoured almost half of it already!
Anyone in Europe reading this in the next few hours, check out the lunar eclipse - it's beautiful!
I'd be delighted to - but it will have to wait until the eclipse (and the absinthe) has worn off, I'm afraid!
Well, I haven't gone mad and hacked my ear off like Van Gogh yet, so I think that's just propaganda from the French wine industry (or perhaps I just have an uncommonly robust constitution )
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I think the latest idea is that VanGogh was zapped by one of his pigments - veridian green, maybe? (There's a pun there, along the lines of "pigment of his imagination", but I can't quite find it!)
from http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1590
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From the late 1850s onwards absinthe aroused medical interest and became the subject of animal experiments with either the liqueur or oil of wormwood. 7 11 A distinct conditionabsinthismstood alongside the emerging descriptions of alcoholism.12 Absinthism was associated with gastrointestinal problems, acute auditory and visual hallucinations, epilepsy, brain damage, and increased risk of psychiatric illness and suicide.12 French scientific warnings eventually reached the popular presses but were countered by denials from a government interested in taxes and an industry enjoying profits. Meanwhile, consumers from all walks of life strove to convince themselves that the risks were at least commensurate with the pleasures of absinthe's appearance, fragrance, taste, amusing ritual, and mistaken reputation as an aphrodisiac.
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[(ahem!) "...mistaken reputation as an aphrodisiac..."]
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From the late 1850s onwards absinthe aroused medical interest and became the subject of animal experiments with either the liqueur or oil of wormwood. 7 11 A distinct conditionabsinthismstood alongside the emerging descriptions of alcoholism.12 Absinthism was associated with gastrointestinal problems, acute auditory and visual hallucinations, epilepsy, brain damage, and increased risk of psychiatric illness and suicide.12 French scientific warnings eventually reached the popular presses but were countered by denials from a government interested in taxes and an industry enjoying profits. Meanwhile, consumers from all walks of life strove to convince themselves that the risks were at least commensurate with the pleasures of absinthe's appearance, fragrance, taste, amusing ritual, and mistaken reputation as an aphrodisiac.
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[(ahem!) "...mistaken reputation as an aphrodisiac..."]
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