Questions of a weird mind

[Story Time]

And to write songs about.

That...is kind of cool...

I wouldn't have the courage to post it, though, I think.

[Elemental]

The Mayans are still around, several millions of them in fact.

I apologise for my oversight and stand corrected.
Still doesn't change the fact that knowledge of Mayan history and science is sketchy at best.

Only fragments of four books of their's survive to this day, one of which is a calendar I believe. The others, not so sure.

[Artemis97]

Speaking to the Mayan calendar stuff, in my Mayan archaeology class, the question about the world ending inevitably came up. My professor, who's been to Central America and spoken to actual living Mayans, told us it was complete bunk. It's no different than the way our calendar stops and starts over each new year, really. It's just their calendar was built on a much longer timescale.

Also relavent comic is relevant.

[pffh]

Speaking to the Mayan calendar stuff, in my Mayan archaeology class, the question about the world ending inevitably came up. My professor, who's been to Central America and spoken to actual living Mayans, told us it was complete bunk. It's no different than the way our calendar stops and starts over each new year, really. It's just their calendar was built on a much longer timescale.

Also relavent comic is relevant.

Of course it's bull****. It's just another apocalypse prophecy and we get a half a dozen of those a year because some people can't come to terms that, shock and bloody horror, the world will continue without them and therefore the world MUST end in their lifetime because they are bloody special or some [REDACTED].

[captainspazam]

If you asked santa for coal for christmas, what would he give you if you were naughty?

[Anarion]

If you asked santa for coal for christmas, what would he give you if you were naughty?

Depends on your purpose. If you're just that pitiful, you wouldn't be naughty and Santa would give you what you wanted plus a bonus.

If coal is a critical component in your scheme for world-domination, I would expect Santa to be ironic and give you toys that you dislike.

[captainspazam]

Depends on your purpose. If you're just that pitiful, you wouldn't be naughty and Santa would give you what you wanted plus a bonus.

If coal is a critical component in your scheme for world-domination, I would expect Santa to be ironic and give you toys that you dislike.

Well there goes my plan for world-domination via evil super trains.

[Karoht]

If you asked santa for coal for christmas, what would he give you if you were naughty?

Poorly made action figures. Wait, those come from sweatshops which Santa would never support. K, disregard.

He would give you a bottle of clean air. Yeup, that's my guess.
Or he'd give you a loaf of thick heavy rye bread or pumpernickle. Why? All the other kids have christmas pudding or roasts, you get thick dry heavy bread.

[Brother Oni]

Actually, I would say the definition of a chicken egg is something that hatches into a chicken. If we took a chicken and surgically switched it's ovaries with, say, a duck, and somehow got them working, would what be laid be called a chicken egg?
I say no.

Again depends on the wording of the question. The various legal and regulatory definitions of a chicken egg includes the condition that it is an egg that is laid by a chicken.

Your recombinant DNA Frankensteinian/chimerian duck-chicken (Ducken? Chiduck?) wouldn't be classed as a chicken by the above standards, so it's moot to the argument.

Do you think we're spending far too much time debating this?

[Ravens_cry]

Again depends on the wording of the question. The various legal and regulatory definitions of a chicken egg includes the condition that it is an egg that is laid by a chicken.

Your recombinant DNA Frankensteinian/chimerian duck-chicken (Ducken? Chiduck?) wouldn't be classed as a chicken by the above standards, so it's moot to the argument.

Do you think we're spending far too much time debating this?

Damn, that's a good point.
It's been debated for the past thousands years or some variation on it, so I think we can debate it a little longer.

[captainspazam]

Poorly made action figures. Wait, those come from sweatshops which Santa would never support. K, disregard.

He would give you a bottle of clean air. Yeup, that's my guess.
Or he'd give you a loaf of thick heavy rye bread or pumpernickle. Why? All the other kids have christmas pudding or roasts, you get thick dry heavy bread.

Actually, Santa does have like a million elves working for him 365 days a year for little to no pay. Actually, come to think about it...what DOES Santa pay his elves in? Candy? Shelter? Reindeer meat?

[pffh]

Actually, Santa does have like a million elves working for him 365 days a year for little to no pay. Actually, come to think about it...what DOES Santa pay his elves in? Candy? Shelter? Reindeer meat?

Why should he pay them at all? I've always figured them to be slaves, sure some earn their freedom one way or another like slaves tend to do but most of them remain slaves.

[captainspazam]

Why should he pay them at all? I've always figured them to be slaves, sure some earn their freedom one way or another like slaves tend to do but most of them remain slaves.

Santa doesn't really seem jolly anymore...

[captainspazam]

If you tell your pokemon to use air cutter, does that count as "breaking wind"?

[Yora]

What's the correct pronounciation of μ?

English speakers can't pronounce anything correctly and the german spelling my results in something that I don't think is even close to correct either.

[pffh]

It's miu. Short i long u.

[Elemental]

Actually, Santa does have like a million elves working for him 365 days a year for little to no pay. Actually, come to think about it...what DOES Santa pay his elves in? Candy? Shelter? Reindeer meat?

I'm pretty sure that each Elf is bound in servitude for a period of ten years because of a treaty between the Fae Court and Santa in exchange for his educating them in various trades and encouraging the illusion that Elves are harmless and nothing to be feared.

[Brother Oni]

It's miu. Short i long u.

If it helps, it rhymes with dew.

[Matthias2207]

If it helps, it rhymes with dew.

It also rhymes with ν.
But it's a single letter, it's just an M sound. So nothing with the i and the u. Just m. (In words.)
The problem is; I learned it as mu, but with a Dutch u sound, and English doesn't have anything like that (I think). So I think it also depends on your language, although the Greek pronunciation would be the best one.
The normal (Latin) alphabet has the same problem. The way we pronounce the various vowels and digraphs is very different from the Greek and English ways.
The Greek oe sounds like our eu and the Greek eu sounds like our ui. English oo sounds like our oe. English g sounds like our zj (that we never use), our g sounds like somebody with a sore throat. Stuff like that. So it's impossible to say how something should be pronounced.

[Scuzzball]

So I finally left Gaming(Other) for the first time, and here I am.

Why do some believe good and evil exist outside the eyes of the beholder?
First time outside Gaming other and already mangling quotes for my own purposes...

[Ravens_cry]

That's a rather loaded question now ain't it?

[Grinner]

Why do some believe good and evil exist outside the eyes of the beholder?
First time outside Gaming other and already mangling quotes for my own purposes...

Well...a belief in objective good and evil for one...Sort of a non-answer, but there you go.

Also, beholders don't believe in morality.

[ForzaFiori]

I'm pretty sure that each Elf is bound in servitude for a period of ten years because of a treaty between the Fae Court and Santa in exchange for his educating them in various trades and encouraging the illusion that Elves are harmless and nothing to be feared.

So the elves are apprenticed to Santa, then go back to the Fae Court with the excellent knowledge of how to make cheep children's toys? Why wouldn't the Fae Court (and Santa, for that reason) not just outsource that labor to China and India like everyone else?

[Elemental]

So the elves are apprenticed to Santa, then go back to the Fae Court with the excellent knowledge of how to make cheep children's toys? Why wouldn't the Fae Court (and Santa, for that reason) not just outsource that labor to China and India like everyone else?

They spend most of the year making wondrous examples of various crafts, and then mass produce heaps of toys in the couple of months before Christmas.
This, of course, tricks everyone into believing Santa is not real, and by extension the Elves.
It's an elaborately crafted deception.

[Grinner]

Can a eunuch be correctly referred to as a male("a him")?

Likewise, can a neutered cat also be referred to a male?

[Ravens_cry]

Can a eunuch be correctly referred to as a male("a him")?

Likewise, can a neutered cat also be referred to a male?

Well,the cat and the eunuch still has the chromosomes and likely most of the equipment, they still have to urinate after all, so . . .yes unless they ask otherwise.

[Grinner]

Well,the cat and the eunuch still has the chromosomes and likely most of the equipment, they still have to urinate after all, so . . .yes unless they ask otherwise.

Fair enough.

For the sake of technical correctness, I should point out that nothing more than the urinary tract is required for a man to urinate. The rest is...superfluous.

[absolmorph]

Fair enough.

For the sake of technical correctness, I should point out that nothing more than the urinary tract is required for a man to urinate. The rest is...superfluous.

And only the bladder is required to generate a need to pee...

Also, if the eunuch says "I'm a guy", I would say he's a him. If the eunuch says "I'm a girl", I would say she's a her. If the eunuch says "I'm an apple", I would see how the apple tastes.
But, biologically, they're male, and the question of pronouns is one of gender, not biology.

[Elemental]

I just thought of something, and I was wondering if anyone knew the answer.

How aware are plants of their surroundings?
I know that they are aware of the heat of the sun and some can feel their surroundings...
But do any of them have other senses?

[Yora]

It's not so much a sense, but a chemical reaction. But you could say that about animal senses as well.