I prefer the extra space, it gives me more room to breathe. — Metaphysician Undercover

If it was on the top I would not mind, extra head spaces is always good. But at the end??? No use at all.

A garage door is a garage wall; if proportion is the issue. — Shamshir

Who mentioned size? How can size be an issue when the size of the DOOR is adjust to the size of the object passing through it. Do you not open your big garage door to drive your car out. Next time try driving through the wall as they are the same thing right.

And there are doorflaps within doorflaps. — Shamshir

Those little flats are just smaller doors set into larger ones so that you do not have to open the big one. Try to imagine a warehouse door being opened ever time a person wants to enter or leave, that is why they install smaller "people" size doors in them .

A door is a door and will all ways be a door.
A wall is a wall and until you can show me one that can be opened and closed you are wrong.

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I vote for Hanover's suggestion, only without the extra space. — S

:chin: ?

And thus - we come around again, do you open the wall or the passage? — Shamshir

'Tis you. dear sir, that is spinning in circles. A wall just stands there, it cannot be opened in the sense that a door or portal would be. THAT is why they install doors in them, so that one can traverse through the wall without having to disintegrate your self and pass the molecules between those of the wall material.

Hey, you guys have taken a deeply meaningful and, frankly, moving thread about new names for the forum and turned it into a dumb-ass discussion about dumb-ass rules of punctuation. I applaud your efforts. — T Clark

Don't pick on the lady, it is not her fault. Hanover started it with some dumb-assed idea that a double space would make the place seem more classy.
First of all, we as a group are as classy as we need to be and there is no reason to try and make us look any better. You cannot improve upon perfection. :wink:
Secondly, his idea is so far out of date the the Mayans dropped it before the Spanish arrived. :down:

Let's call the place Master Minds, with capital letter M's, so that Hanover will think he is in a classy place.
We can then all be M&M's. :cool:

It should be universal. — Christopher

Should being the key word there, as intelligence supposedly should be able to be measured without the use of any language.

Did you find a test yet?

OOKK, BBuutt II bbeett II ccoouulldd ddoouubbllee uupp aannyy cchhaarraacctteerr,, aanndd oonnllyy tthhee ssppaacceess wwoouulldd bbee eeddiitteedd.. — Metaphysician Undercover

:rofl:

True, probable because the people that designed the editing software figured that an educated person would only leave double spaces by accident and that everything else they wrote was because that was what they wanted to say.

Do you see any foundational difference between a wall and a barricade? A wall isn't immovable, merely stationary. — Shamshir

Look up the definition of barricade, door, cover and then wall. Which is meant to be movable and which is meant to be permanent? A wall is not immovable, but it is a bitch to close it again after you open it.

I was thinking empirically valid tests, such as WAIS or Stanford-Binet, ect. — Christopher

Not sure how many people here have had the opportunity to do those tests. There are quite a few that might have done them in their mother tongue, not English. Would, do you think, this make any significant difference?

Show us a good test on the web that we can all take and then compare the results.

I learned in school to leave a double space after a period. — Metaphysician Undercover

What kind of school did you go to?

It's not like it's a huge waste of valuable space or anything. — Metaphysician Undercover

It is in a forum, spaces count the same as any other character. That means that for every sentence there is an extra character. over several thousand sentences that adds up to a lot of extra space on the server drive and extra download time for the people viewing the thread. There are some people that have limited data mobile services so every byte counts.

It does, in the sense that opening the door references the opening of said portal, and not the removal of the cover; not directly anyway, as the removal is just an assumed step that's not mentioned.

An easier way to convey the door as the barricade would be to reference its hinges; though considering this cover is more or less part of the passage, when you reference the cover you inadvertently reference the passage — Shamshir

A barricade, cover, door are not the same as a wall, and never will be. All of them are removable, can you remove a wall?

No Memes Land

The Rock of psalter. At least for the religion section

A thousand and one shytes.

Dummies guide to a good life.

When you say 'open the door' - are you opening up the barricade and inspecting its insides or are you moving the barricade and opening up a passage? — Shamshir

You are removing the cover of a portal between one place and another. I makes no difference what is on either side of the portal.

A cat with no arms or legs isn't a snake. It's a doorstop. — Hanover

I have yet to see a cat with arms, so it is difficult to imagine on without them. :chin:

Oh, the irony in telling us you can speak in all tongues. Y'all (not ya'll) is a contraction of you all. It is the Southern American informal plural of "you." It would therefore be "y'all're (y'all are) wrong, not y'alls. Yous is the plural of you in northern England (where it sounds like you're from), so perhaps you combined y'all and yous into single mismatched slang. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yous — Hanover

Extraordinary bit of research done there. :clap:

The Bay Islanders way of speaking is influenced by the southern states drawling speech as well as the English settlers from generations ago, but they do actually say ya'll. In Belize, most of the time it sounds like y'll. Language is so much fun.

I can't see where the confusion came from, haha. — ZhouBoTong

I'll lend you my glasses if you want. :cool: Make it easier to see.

Still sounds like a sarcastic atheist to me. — ZhouBoTong

Or is it possibly atheistic sarcasm?

You speak British, an antiquated English, the form spoken prior to the American corrections and perfection. — Hanover

Ya think? Ya'lls wrong on that. I lived in Canada, the USA and several other places around Central America as well as England. The last time I was back there I had trouble understanding them and they thought I was a foreigner.

I have the bad habit of picking up other peoples way of speaking when I am around them for a while. I was in Belize and the Bay Islands for work and my father used to laugh when he heard me speaking after returning from a trip.

Found this vid of Michael doing his cockney thing. You'll notice he's a bit vertically challenged but a charming fella' nonetheless. — Baden

:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

Hopefully, as I'm a native English speaker. — Hanover

That makes three of us, you and me too. Unless Manchester managed to gain its independence from England without me knowing.

I say it means she's been a wife for 64 years. — Hanover

Without trying to be mean or anything, but does anyone really care what you say. :wink:

But in the context of the article you are right, as Baden explained.

That she is 64 years old, it is very rare that marriages last that long.

So now you know our origins. True story. I don't believe I could be clearer. — Hanover

Holy fuck!!!! That's how history is made(up).

You should have posted a copy in the creative thread.

Am I wrong? — Teller

No your are not. Just because it is a fad, and will pass, does not make it any less ugly and degrading.

Dancing has always been a mating ritual but twerking and the music videos that promote it seem more like sales than romance. Yesterday was carnival day where I live, not Notting Hill, I was struck by the number of very young kids twerking to reggaeton music while their dumbass parents stood by with their cell phones uploading photos and videos of their little ones performing what would be classed as public sex acts in some places.

My parents bitched about rock and roll being perverse but today's idiotic breeders seem to think it is normal for a young girl to rub her ass against a boy's dick.

May Murphy have pity on us in the future.

Experimentation

Experience

20 years of trying to do it right, experiencementation. :chin:

Electric automated doors have no knobs. But that does not stop it from being a door nor convert it into a wall. A barrier maybe but not a wall.

I would have said, no actually the gnostic is atheist, hence the sarcastic "is god a coward?" — ZhouBoTong

Before you can state that a god is a coward, or anything else for that matter, unless you have first proven that the god you are talking about is real then you are talking through your ass.

I thought the entire gnostic religion was playing off sarcasm — ZhouBoTong

I thought all religions were in the comedy genre. But religions have to have a super being or something to worship, so the gnostic cannot be atheist as you stated before. Or are you confused about it.

Half my teef are falshe. I got implants in my old country, a one-time communist country. It's dirt cheap there, compared to the local prices where I reside. — god must be atheist

I am going to have to have a small bridge, no fucking way I am going to have implants. They are cheap here too, but I am too scared. A friend had one done and it went wrong, did he ever suffer.

Funny you mention that. I have an appointment to get a molar pulled tomorrow morning. — Noah Te Stroete

I am half way through 8 appointments that I should have gone to 6 years ago when it was 3 appointments for emergency work to be done.

I paid the dentist up front so I have to go now or lose the money. :lol:

Haha! You sound cool. — Noah Te Stroete

That reminds me of what the doctor who sewed up my back said. "You don't have to act cool around here, I know this fucking well hurts" He would not believe that I could not feel a thing. I have always had weird reactions to anesthetics, they either work too well or not at all. Hence my fear terror of dentists.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? — S

But pinheads do!! :wink:

I never felt more alive than when I got a fistful of rings in the eye or the time someone smashed a beer glass in my face. I went off both times. — Noah Te Stroete

Ahh, the good old days. :cool:
Busted and scarred lips, nose, eye brows and knuckles. A 2x4 on the back of the head, a bottle on the back and a boot in the balls. And I never came out the loser. Except when they ripped my new suit, that made me cry.
Manchester in the 60/70's was the place to be.

Cowardly, silent absentee gods are not worthy gods. — Gnostic Christian Bishop

Before anyone can make these claims, they must prove the existence of these gods.

Otherwise they are giving credence to the believers' ideas they are trying to demolish.

If you were really interested in seeing men fighting them you should start a broad sword fighting club and let them whack away at each other.

Seriously, how can anyone think it is fun and worth paying to see 2 men clobber each other in a ring and then cry blue murder about barbaric behaviour when they do the same thing in front of the pub?

Any kind of sport is OK for physical fitness but to put 2 guys in a ring to beat the shit out of each other for money is on the same level as dog fights.

Come on BC, there has got to be more options than that.

#1 applies more to cats than dogs.
#2 compared to or in contrast to their owners?
#3 my dogs don't like plastic stuff, but they will tear anything made of wood and beer cans to pieces.

What about;
My dog is as smart as I have taught him to be. Or as stupid.
My dog does things that I cannot explain, he must have figured them out by himself.

One of my dogs, mostly German shepherd, spend most of her time plotting a new escape. She has search out every weak part of the fence to make holes. She has systematically dug around the base of the fence to find a place to dig her tunnel. She has done running jump tests on every section of the fence to find places where it will support her when she climbs it. She never tries to escape when someone is at home.

Does anyone want to adopt her?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=rubaiyat+omar+khayam&ul_noapp=true

http://www.omarkhayyamrubaiyat.com/text.htm

:cry:

Cute and nice. — S

The question is about you, not what that dead cat in your basement used to be like.

I didn't write any positive personality traits not because I don't want to toot my horn, but because I have a hard time seeing the positive in me. I'm sure I do have some positive traits, I just can't identify them right now. — Purple Pond

You are honest.

No takers? I guess I was mistaken in thinking people would open up about their personality to online strangers. Oh, well. — Purple Pond

Not many can be objectively honest about themselves, if they were they would probably not like themselves very much.

I doubt that I would call myself obsessed, dedicated maybe to getting things done.

I have given up anxiety and become a Murphiest. If it is going to happen it will, at the wrong moment.

I got over sensibility as well. I don't give a shit now what anyone says.

I can still see yesterdays beer can sitting on my desk, but it is stopping some papers I use for taking notes and planning being blown away by the fan that got stuck in one place about a month ago and is waiting to be repaired, when I can find the plan I made to fix things around the house. So I guess I could call myself organized chaos.

Apart from that I am a happy, loving guy that gets along with most people. :cool:

One question really. Why do you forsake me? — Hanover

She did not forsake, she avoiding you! :smirk: