Random Thoughts XII - Floccinaucinihilipilification

[Ferocitus]

Maybe the fish will eventually evolve so as to not eat them.

I'm hoping they evolve to absorb teflon so that we can have non-stick fish instead of non-stick frying pans.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Now again the yearly challenge: What will I gift my dad for Christmas ? I don't even have a random thought.

EDIT: Is there any combo of chocolate and beer? Amazon doesn't really yield anything.

If he likes brandy or various liqueurs, Amazon has those (I don't drink, but I am partial to brandy beans).

Or you could do a search and see if there's a recipe. Chocolates themselves are easy to make, but getting the fillings right can sometimes take a bit of experimentation as I found out when I developed my own recipe for peanut butter cups.

 

[Ferocitus]

I heard that maple syrup drizzled on Coco Pops is very tasty, but that person might have been on drugs.

 

[Samson]

The Samaritans (UK anti suicide charity) is having a campaign to get people to share a cup of tea over the internet sometime in January, to get people to have some human contact. Sounds like a great thing. They are calling it "Brew Monday". Does not everyone instantly think they are talking about beer, from the name at least?

 

[amadeus]

They couldn’t do it on the day after and call it Brewsday? I immediately thought of New Order, not beer.

 

[Gori the Grey]

As long as you see the poster, the cup shape tells you it's tea/coffee. Also cuppa, rather than pinta or mugga.

 

[EnglishEdward]

The Samaritans (UK anti suicide charity) is having a campaign to get people to share a cup of tea over the internet sometime in January, to get people to have some human contact. Sounds like a great thing. They are calling it "Brew Monday". Does not everyone instantly think they are talking about beer, from the name at least?

Made me think of:

for which headphones are essential.

 

[Samson]

As long as you see the poster, the cup shape tells you it's tea/coffee. Also cuppa, rather than pinta or mugga.

It initially came to me as text in a work email, as "The Samaritans [are organising] Brew Monday" and that is when I thought booze.

 

[Kyriakos]

What if we contemplated another person's navel as an aide to meditation? If we specifically contemplated Arakhor's navel it would be Arakhoromhpaloskepsis, but what would be the generic term? Allomphaloskepsis?

@Kyriakos

I haven't seen it locally as "omphaloskepsis", although the variation "omphaloskopesis" (which means focusing on one's own metaphorical navel) is very common and in use. It is derogatory and basically means that you are self-absorbed.
Maybe heteromphaloskopesis would be better-sounding, for what you suggest - although it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, even for non-barbarians.

 

[Gori the Grey]

It initially came to me as text in a work email, as "The Samaritans [are organising] Brew Monday" and that is when I thought booze.

Yeah, if it's only text, then beer is what would pop to my own mind.

 

[Kyriakos]

Eh, the term didn't mean quite the same in ancient greek - although the root did exist; it even appears in the epitaph of Pericles ("[...] philosophoumen aneu malakias" )
Mostly meant weak/sick/soft/feeble.
Apparently the other, modern meaning (the modern use includes those ancient meanings) comes from early christianity, since they chose to use the term to signify (the supposedly sinful) masturbation. So in that meaning it is the same as the English "wanker".

But yes, as noted in the end of the video, it can be used to express different stuff, including admiration or surprise. Probably because the effect was "stupefying" or unexpected from where it came.

 

[The_J]

Just sent it to all my male Greek friends .

 

[Kyriakos]

Just sent it to all my male Greek friends .

Malakia

I like that even a cultist and the Minotaur use the term with the distinct modern dismissive/angry tone, as if it is the 20th century

 

[Takhisis]

The Samaritans (UK anti suicide charity) is having a campaign to get people to share a cup of tea over the internet sometime in January, to get people to have some human contact. Sounds like a great thing. They are calling it "Brew Monday". Does not everyone instantly think they are talking about beer, from the name at least?

Since you started by announcing that it was tea, no, I don't. Danged spoilers!

Also it might have to do with the fact that I do not brew my own beer but I do brew my own tea.

 

[Ferocitus]

Malakia

I like that even a cultist and the Minotaur uses the term with the distinct modern dismissive/angry tone, as if it is the 20th century

There's a statement in an article I read recently
The choking of the global Minotaur
To sustain the insatiable Minotaur, the world built a global labyrinth of ports, ships, more ports, warehouses, storage yards, roads, and rails.
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinio...global-supply-chains-their-extreme-efficiency

I thought that Minos demanded a certain number of young men and women every few years to be fed to the Minotaur.
IM(pedantic)O that doesn't square with it being "insatiable".
Or are there other interpretations of the legend in which it is?

 

[Ferocitus]

As long as you see the poster, the cup shape tells you it's tea/coffee. Also cuppa, rather than pinta or mugga.

I worked with alcoholics in the Public Service in Canberra who drank "fortified" coffee from cups like that.

 

[Gori the Grey]

^^Guy got carried away with his "labyrinth" metaphor. Or lost in it, maybe.

Not a good metaphor for what he wanted in the first place. Ports, ships, etc. are not really a labyrinth. Also, labyrinth wasn't built to "sustain" the Minotaur.

Also, you usually choke when you get too much of stuff, whereas I assume* this article is talking about too little product getting through this "labyrinth" of ports, ships, etc.

*your part of it doesn't come up when I click the link.

 

[Ferocitus]

^^Guy got carried away with his "labyrinth" metaphor. Or lost in it, maybe.

Not a good metaphor for what he wanted in the first place. Ports, ships, etc. are not really a labyrinth.

It was reasonable since he was referring to the The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis, but I agree he got lost up his own labyrinth by the end of the article.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Well, ok. I think I've heard of that book. But just reading a blurb of it, it sounds like Varoufakis' own metaphor was a bit off.

Never build a metaphor off of somebody else's metaphor. You'll get lost in a maze and eaten by a half-bull, half-human monstrosity.

 

[Ferocitus]

Well, ok. I think I've heard of that book. But just reading a blurb of it, it sounds like Varoufakis' own metaphor was a bit off.

Never build a metaphor off of somebody else's metaphor. You'll get lost in a maze and eaten by a half-bull, half-human monstrosity.

Academics do that a lot because they have grad students to clean up the half-bullcrap for them.