Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

Maybe the spider isn't all that young either

Quote from: tt92 on 2014-02-05, 07:39:49

What are the two columns to the left of the forum list?

Far left column are topic icons If you look at the bottom of the board page you will see descriptions of their meanings. The adjacent one displays message icons, default is standard but it can be changed by the poster.

Quote from: tt92 on 2014-02-05, 07:39:49

Why does this one have a thumb down?

When you start a new thread (or reply to one) you have the option of inserting a message icon and I guess Jimbro3738 decided that this topic deserved a thumb down.

The answer to this is simple - everybody needs language, but hardly anyone is engineer. People come up with different terms for the same thing, and this must be allowed. A computer language may be precise according to your definition, but it would also be too limited, whereas natural languages handle with ease all the imaginable and even unimaginable complexities of real life. So, endless ways of expressing the same thing are not redundant after all, but rather necessary and inevitable.

Usually (I mean in the 80's when I used to visit Russia more often) they just have holes in the floor. No walls, no barriers, just a sh*tty dark hall with a sh*tload of sh*tholes. Knowing Russian mentality, I assumed that central Moscow would have more civilised toilets, but no, the same sh*tty format even in the main railway station facing the West - and that I saw around the turn of the millennium last time.

When you enter that kind of hall of sh*t, you immediately get the impression that under the sh*tty floor is another hall as large, entirely consisting of pure sh*t. That's the right impression, btw. You also begin to wonder if the floor of the hall of sh*t will hold or maybe you fall and land into pure sh*t. Well, the floor never failed when I was visiting those places. Be brave! And don't fall through those holes.

Quote from: string on 2014-02-04, 16:55:21

The Queen grants an audience to the Pope

Now what?
If Freddy Mercury met Pope - that would've been something...

Faust? :p

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Faust returns to his rooms, and the dog follows him. Faust translates the Gospel of John, which presents difficulties, as Faust cannot determine the sense of the first sentence (specifically, the word Logos – In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God., currently translated as The Word). Eventually he settles upon translating it with the very one meaning Λὀγος does not have, writing "In the beginning was the deed".

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Probably for the same reason as the quote in the OP.

Quote from: tt92 on 2014-01-28, 21:45:28

Quote from: string on 2014-01-24, 16:59:32

We have several countries represented here, each with its own approach to this matter, so there should be lots of views on it. Maybe you agree with the approach in your country or maybe you don't.

The question is;

When can a Death Sentence be appropriate punishment?

I think you may have begged the question when you referred to it as "punishment".

Hi tt - you mean in the sense that it might not be a punishment? For suicidal criminals with a fetish for exhibitionism I suppose! 

We have several countries represented here, each with its own approach to this matter, so there should be lots of views on it. Maybe you agree with the approach in your country or maybe you don't.

The question is;

When can a Death Sentence be appropriate punishment?