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'Necessity is the mother of invention' - since Rome ruled the known world and had the strongest military force perhaps they didn't feel much need to innovate any further. One might think that better medicine would have been an incentive, but they probably believed their fate to be in the lap of the gods.
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https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/06/22/keep-cat-out-dating-profile-colorado-state-university-researchers-warn-men/
really cries out for another equally ridiculous study where men rate pictures of women with and without cats or dogs.
to control for possible subliminal arousal of participants and particiskirts, I suggest only faces and shoulders of subjects be shown, with cat or dog visible only on shoulders. maybe have the male and female subjects draped in a way that conceals breast size ?
cheers, Bill
p.s. i'm getting a cat soon, but this study has nought to do with it (my mug's repugnant as is); it's to deal with a mice fibonacci population problem: they eat my white t-shirts. and, while i like dogs, i love cats !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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If this is science I will patent the title King...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Does this really surprise anyone?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Conversely, it's a great filter. If a woman doesn't like cats, I don't want anything to do with her!
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Some women like to own Pit bulls; that's a filter too.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Then again, you probably do want to filter out the crazy cat ladies...
If she owns more than 3, then unless she lives on a farm...
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That's simple.
A man with a cat already has a master.
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You can't use the term master anymore.
He has a Maine Coon
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Jacquers wrote: Maine Coon
and technically you can't use the word Coon (short for Racoon) anymore as that is a highly offensive term for a person of African heritage.
So, that cat name/type will have to be changed to something else. Perhaps, Maine Lobster Cat.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: A man with a cat already has a master. Which makes him a bachelor.
Strange. Usually it goes in the other direction.
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"Time spent with cats is never wasted." This quote is wrongly attributed to Sigmund Freud, but whoever said it was an astute person.
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Issat so?
Now that's finally a reason to get married. And then I would get some mice to watch her catch them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I wanna see that Grand Pyrenees draped over your shoulders.
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Chipper fabricated it with UART and LEDS. (10)
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Don't see how it means "chipper", but ... STRIDULATE? (Anagram of IT UART LEDS)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yay! Anagrams are always solved!
Chipper is defined as a buzz/chirp/chirping/chirrup/tweet sound in about 50% of the English dictionaries. When solving these puzzles you should probably check multiple definition sources.
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I have Chambers and Concise Oxford, and neither of them contains your definition. So I suspect you are actually referring to American dictionaries.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: So I suspect you are actually referring to American dictionaries
Somehow I just can't comprehend that they have dictionaries in the US.
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Wow,
musefan wrote: Somehow I just can't comprehend that they have dictionaries in the US. This is the first time I have ever been offended here on codeproject. That statement seems a bit over the top in my opinion.
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I am sorry if I have offended you, but why would you take offence to that comment, are you the person responsible for "American English"?
My point was, Americans had a language (English) but just decided to completely ignore how words were supposed to be spelled and wrote them however they wanted. Which kind of suggests they either never had dictionaries, or didn't care to use them.
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Well, the opinion of someone who has never been able solve one (my excuse is the time difference): If the words don't appear on tiktok or FaceStuff or InstaIdiot, they should not be allowed.
I have an ethnic dictionary with all the words but they are not in alphabetic order. Takes me a while to look up OG's tomes.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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musefan wrote: Americans had a language (English) but just decided to completely ignore how words were supposed to be spelled and wrote them however they wanted
The irony is that many of the spellings and grammar that are used in the UK date from the 18th and 19th century and those used in American English more closely resemble the common English of the 17th century; so one could argue that American English is purer than British English. However, all languages evolve; I don't think that anyone here would seriously suggest we go back to pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon or the English of Chaucer or Shakespeare (who used many variants of spellings and freely invented new words as he wrote). Even in the UK we have local dialects, lingos etc.
I like finding out about new words (both in my 'home' language and in other country's versions of the language). As we say, here, vive la différence.
The quote variously attributed to George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Winston Churchill sums it up nicely : We are two nations divided by a common language.
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No doubt. I would never claim to know anything about the history of language, it really isn't an area I have any knowledge. My original comment was just a joke, and then I ended up trying to explain the joke. Although on reflection I can see how the explanation I gave is probably making it sound less like it was meant to be a joke
The absurdity of my suggestion that they don't have dictionaries in American should have been enough to know I wasn't being serious.
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