Apathetic Echidna

3 hours ago, ladyasym said:

fish-egg water treated with bleach

eww. what even is that? I have no idea and it still sounds super gross. 

You are all lucky to have so much water around that doesn't come out of a tap.

I would rather swim with seals than get married. Seals are cute so it would be fun, but around here seal colonies come with big sharks

1 hour ago, James White said:

I only know I've crossed the r/s boundary when it happens, but that act sets off my romance-repulsion.

I think having romance repulsion is basically like being blind in a room full of furniture (for alloromantics I guess it is like being blind in a bouncy castle), it hurts or is scary when you bump into it. I guess bumping into stuff to find the edges of your repulsion is the best way to navigate the dark room of life? are my metaphors getting to weird? if you feel repulsion getting away is probably the best thing (unlike staying still and trying to ignore it to the point of having a panic flight and physically ill reaction), you can always try to identify stuff in hindsight

On 29/11/2017 at 6:16 AM, DeltaV said:

For the classical geocentric models that would be right, but if you'd do a complete transformation of the all the movements to the coordinate system which moves with the Earth (so Earth is at rest in this coordinate system), there is no such contradiction.

wait wait, are you saying that the points I noted could occur if a complete transformation of the coordinate system was done. So the trajectory and images could be explained in a geocentric system? 

and yeah, I was sort of trying to ignore the general relativity, which seems to me the sort of thing like the argued definition of greysexuality by Kristina Gupta based on the Foucault work on sexual orientation labelling ultimately being a harmful form form of social control and limitation of a fluid experience. 

29 minutes ago, sarcastic kitten said:

Nichijou TV. This will be simple : there is No. Fucking. Storyline.Or.Plot.At.All. Well, it primarily focuses on the daily lives of a trio of childhood friends, whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto.  You never know what’s going to happen next, be it a humorous dialogue scene, a fast paced action sequence, an amusing random still image or a hilarious but completely unrelated skit. This show is my jam when i'm depressed.

OMG yes!

I have this sitting on my shelf. I loved it. So many log cakes. It is like a sweeter less insane version of Excel Saga (which I saw first so I compare everything to Excel Saga). 

and there is a plot! sort of. She want to go to school, she starts going to school!

4 hours ago, Holmbo said:

I'm just worried this will make them feel like outcasts.

WARNING this following advice is probably not helpful at all: You could relate it to the LGBT+ experience. They have to keep quiet and 'in the closet' about their beliefs or risk possible persecution. < yeah, totally not helpful. Don't say that. 

4 hours ago, Holmbo said:

Hopefully they will teenage rebel by reading Charles Darwin or something.

We can only hope!

@DeltaV I was just meaning all calculations for the flight paths were based on a heliocentric model with a basically unmoving sun mass. Also contact was not significantly and unexplainably blocked at any point in the Voyager probe communications, which would have happened if the sun was passing between the probe and Earth. Light values would have also fluctuated on the photographed planets and moons if the sun had been swinging around the earth - but they didn't. Light values diminished steadily as if the sun was in a fixed place. 

@DeltaV I think that is the conspiracy theories our lizard overlords want us to think is the truth ^{no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.}

15 hours ago, DeltaV said:

really convinced of a gigantic conspiracy of scientist on this issue

yeah, how would the conspiracy theorists explain the outer solar system probes (the Pioneers and Voyager probes)? some theory about 1970s photoshop?

D: 

I have to find someone with the initials Y.W. now? that is evil 

Yu Wang

The kids will probably be fine, they will feel confused and left out in science class when it comes up, especially if they speak up. They will also probably fail all the tests associated with the solar system, so maybe they will have to choose between grades and inflexable beliefs. Hopefully whatever school they go to has an effective anti-bullying system if they do get targeted if they do speak out. If that sort of thing happens and you still have contact with the family I guess reassuring them that the targeting is not because they are Muslim, but because they are ignoring science, which is a highly regarded collection of information in ALL western countries. I'm fairly sure most religions (Christianity, Judaism, Chinese folk religion/Taoism, the ancient Indo-European Religions such as the Roman and Greek Pantheons, Ancient Egyptian, Hinduism) had Earth as a fixed presence with the sum moving above. Really I even think the celebrated Islamic scientists of the 13th century, or before then, had the planetary orbits around the sun worked out, far before the Mediterranean and European cultures stopped punishing people for saying it. 

I don't know how you could help them see it differently. They would have to want to scientifically educate themselves. Change cannot be forced upon the religious, they get even more steadfast if they feel their beliefs are being undermined.  

I guess the main point is that, to them, their beliefs are their knowledge, they know this stuff to be true. They may understand differently in the future, but for now maybe tell them that their knowledge is different from your, and the majority population of Sweden, knowledge. And your reaction, however inadequate or bad you think your reaction was, it is probably the standard reaction they will get from other Swedish people on this topic. If the family is accepting (or at least tolerant) of different religions having a differing viewpoint shouldn't really be an issue between you as long as they understand that their view is not common (or even particularly tolerated) where they are now. 

Sarah Wynter

YMBAI you cannot, due to lack of motivation or finesse, write romance in a story setting. 

Sam Worthington

(getting W for you is getting hard!)

still haven't seen it but I know of some fairly amazing fan art so I have put it on my 'to watch' list

@sarcastic kitten kudos for using a portrait of Light 

M. Night Shyamalan Edition:

Ghost doesn't see ghosts



 

Family starts wearing tin-foil hats



 

Men who are opposites meet



 

An elevator gets stuck



 

Romans



 

Lawn dogs exist and are called Scrunts



 

Blind girl gets engaged



 

An orienteering trek



 

Kids make a documentary



 

1 hour and 31 minutes of nihilism



 

23 people live together

@Zorcodtoa and don't forget The Internet to the fans:

Robin Williams

6 hours ago, cute kitty Meow! Mewo! said:

apparently making out means more than what I mean it to mean? idk..

what do you think it means?

I always thought of making out as including hands, tongues and generally a support surface. Other stuff gets other words. Am I also off on my definition? I seem to be a bit skewed in a few of my understandings before, and I have no idea how them young folks is using them words now-a-days 'cause I'm a 90s child living in a technological black hole. 

3 hours ago, IceHurricane said:

 

Poutine  French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy. One of Canada's signature foods. 

 

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wow. I have never heard of anything like that before. Looks tasty, and I love curds. 

@IceHurricane what is that bowl of stuff in the top left corner?

5 hours ago, bobertsonsinclair said:

I'd rather proceed to live in isolation for the remainder of my life within a library than get married.

I would agree with you unless the library you mean is The Library infested with Vashta Nerada from the Doctor Who episodes Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.

I would let a Greek gypsy woman organise my wedding rather than be eaten by microscopic shadow piranhas. 

I would rather watch every Nicholas Cage movie there is than get married though. ......I would watch all those movies in slow motion than be eaten by microscopic shadow piranhas.....

2 hours ago, NullVector said:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Bacon

I see this as an epic zoo documentary. 

Martial arts edition part 2:

Shaolin Bacon

Bacon of Fury

The Chinese Bacon

Bacon Fu Hustle

Flying Bacon of Dragon Gate

House of Flying Bacon

Bacon of Assassins

Banned for being too edgy!

I'm offended you think I would. I was theoretically proposing the supposed uncomfortability

I would rather have a bubble bath than get married